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Which is corruption, defined as "the use, usually surreptitious, of organizational funds for unapproved purposes."

I love the offset nosegear. Proves they designed the plane around the GAU-8.

The formula most organizations that are involved in making and spending their own money, as opposed to yours, is "When the cost of enforcement equals the cost of loss through corruption, stop enforcing and tolerate anything below that." Moral? No. But good business.

--New York State representative and senator George Washington Plunkitt, 1905.

Ya know something? There's corruption, racism, slaughter, dispossession, theft, and thuggery in every operation. Far as I'm concerned, the questions are "How much?" and "Is the good the operation is doing worth it?"

Still working on why delivering a 500-lb to a civilian neighborhood by car and detonating it is terrorism, and doing the same by supersonic fighter-bomber is heroic.

Why not? What're they gonna do, Newfie you to death?

Yo, Sar'nt-Major! Do you really think the 2015 election in Gaza would count as "free and fair" by Canadian standards? American standards? German standards? Russian standards? Iranian standards? OK, maybe those last two. . .

Nope.

Possibly. Be damn short one if it is. I'll see your Texas National Guard-issued M4 and raise you an A-10 Thunderbolt. For the google impaired. . . M4 A-10 At what point do you think the ruling class was connected to the peasants?

Dinkum blue!

Unsurprising. That's how it was designed.

The numbers are in my OP. But don't let facts sway you.

Full disclosure.

A "CLASSIFIED" stamp covers so many little messes.

That's not a cite. That's an old guy running his mouth.

Be interesting to see a cite on that.

We have a better system down hereabouts. When La Migra busts a place and deports all the illegals, we replace 'em with refugees.

Well, that's pretty mean. Racist.

I was entirely willing to work through it with you. But yes, easier to just bellow "'Tain't raht!" than to develop a way of analyzing government action vs. individual rights.