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I've given the issue some thought, and my conclusion is that most Muslims are peaceful people and would not resort to terrorism against "infidels". However, their nonviolence is due to personal squeamishnes rather than a moral constraints; they have no real objection to killing infidels per se...

An appreciable EMP pulse is only produced if a strategic-grade nuclear weapon is detonated at high altitude; in this scenario, we have a tactical-grade nuclear weapon detonated on the ground. While the damage from such a detonation would be severe, it would by no means completely obliterate NYC...

Not quite. The choices are more like: 1. Invade Japanese home islands. Millions of American soldiers dead and the entire Japanese race well-nigh wiped out because it believes in the idea of "death before dishonor" and will therefore not surrender no matter how suicidal the odds against it...

I suspect the other protesters you mention were not arrested because they obtained the appropriate permits and hence were not breaking the law.

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I don't have a car.

The 5150 is supposed to be used only when a person is a danger to himself or others. Some police departments won't touch them with a six-foot pole; others issue them willy-nilly.

Not at a psychiatric hospital, at a regular hospital. It's clearly spelled out in my EMT textbooks, and we had three 5150 patients brought in by the Glendale PD when I was in the ER for my clinical rotations during EMT training.

Police and psychologists can place a patient under a 5150, which is a 72-hour psych hold. That's a temporary psychiatric detention at hospital for people who are a danger to themselves or others; it can be extended beyond 72 hours if necessary, but only by court order.

Hell yes. Any attempt by unqualified personnell to administer a drug like thorazine is potentially deadly; do you really think Officer Joe Friday knows all of the contraindications for thorazine, much less how to calculate the dosage required for your age and weight? I would *definitely* go to...

All in all, everything would have been much simpler if they'd just ordered the Marines to take no prisoners. Then you don't get terrorist scumbags being defended by equally contemptible anti-war/anti-America activists.

I strongly doubt it -- they don't even let EMTs administer thorazine, and EMTs have a lot more medical training than cops do.

It's because Marines are badasses and everyone knows it.

I've been very fortunate thus far; the only negative encounter I've had with a cop was a couple weeks ago when I pulled over at a car crash on the freeway. A CHP motorcycle officer was on scene and *very* angrily demanded that I leave immedately; he did get out of my face once I until I...

I don't mean to be rude, but EMTs do a *hell* of a lot more than that. Defend your profession all you want, but don't slam other people in the process, okay? You may have to deal with criminal scum every day, and I have the utmost respect for that, but that doesn't give you the right to look...

That's not true! :mad: Horses look *much* nicer than Kerry does.

The only other comparable style is Systema, but that's rarer in the US because it's a Commie style developed by and for the Spetsnaz.

The concept of an airmobile light tank is sound, but the Stryker's a billion-dollar piece of toilet paper: (1) The Strkyer is not transportable via C-130 except on paper. Only paper-pushers think you can actually fit a 107-inch wide vehicle into a 112-inch wide cargo bay. During the Army's...

Don't be silly. They're not trying to take ammunition from Achmed's corpse while exchanging fire with Abdul and Ibrahim; they're picking up all the dead bad guys' ammo after they've cleared the cave because there's another thirty guys in the next cave and they can't exactly carry fifty magazines...

I agree with you, but I'm probably going to be more conservative in applying deadly force with a stranger's life on the line as opposed to someone I care about. Ergo, if the criminal is threatening a third party I would probably wait until the criminal actually attacked, wheras if he was...