[Jerrek]

Originally Posted by Damien

1) Why should you allow people to carry automatic arms? What on earth is this going to achive? You already have soaring gun crime and making more powerful weapons avaible is stupid?

Lets not drag this into a gun debate. Guns don't cause crime anymore than games cause crime. See this thread: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=15505 Individuals make a decision to commit a crime. A gun can assist, but so can a knife or a baseball bat.

Likewise I can also ask: why should you allow people to [do this] or [do that] or [own this]?

I will tell you why. Our fundamental belief is freedom and liberty. That is why.

2) You said that it is up to state goverment for education. Isn't the idea of giving more power to indivdual states rather than central goverment historically a Democratic idea.?

No it isn't. Democrats tend to favor a centralized government.

Back to the original argument, yes: no federal funds should be spent on education. It is the jurisdiction and responsibility of the States.

3) Why are the left 'nastys' and what is wrong with clinton who did a lot under this two terms and so on?

That is a very, very loaded question, quote beyond the scope of the threat. If you do look for an answer, I could summarize what I believe and what reasoning is used.

Let us just say that the fundamental difference, to me, between the classic left and classic right is altruism. The left tend to be altruistic. I'm not.

While George W Bush has made america unpopluar and taken you into a war for which there was no need?

The popularity concept is quite unimportant to me. I do not care what people think of me. Neither do I really care what people think of my country. Someone once said: a leader is a person who doesn't care what people think of him.

I don't want to live in 90% of the world because the conditions and environment is appalling. Why should it bother me if they dislike me? Obviously we're doing something right and they are doing something wrong, and if they dislike me for that, who cares?

This is not a popularity contest.

I support the removal of saddam and still support the war. But Blair had to force G.W Bush to even try to go though the United Nation, if it was up to bush he would have gone in right away.

Yes. The United Nations are quite irrelevant and unimportant. Honestly, did it make a difference?