"last i heard, censorship can happen before or after the publication, for if they arrest him after his first cartoon, that is "before" any subsequent cartoons he would have written."

not only is it censorship after the publication for the reason you listed, but also because the arrest sets a precedence that discourages other people from writing/drawing similar things. the minor 1 euro settlement is because they didnt have anything solid on him, but this is being used by the government to discourage others because even though what they writ3 isnt illegal, people like him can expect to be arrested in a large show of force with an excessive amount of officers and have your computer, sketches, CDs, DVDs and telephone siezed along with your home's privacy being invaded and being trashed and you to spend a night in jail.

*yawn*

you forgot all the people that died from hurricane katrina because of Bush's horrible response to the event.

and republican control of congress was killed because of him too.

"trust me, if i could do that without so much over spending and do it easily..i would've a long time ago"

wait a sec, i thought this was for a "friend"?

"It's really too bad, b/c this is the start of another unravelling of European democracy and freedom."

democracy is an abomination and freedom is a illusion. maybe europeans are ahead of the curve on this.

> Simon wrote:

> I don't know if you're a building inspector and don't really care either. I find it very strange that you think people should know about you on a generally accepted anonymous environment like the internet. You don't need to be a building inspector to say "I don't know" or simply leave the question to someone else.

the chances of someone here being qualified to accurately answer that question is very small. so small, it would make sense to first ask if anyone is a building inspector in a seismically active area in a first world country. because most people wont say "i dont know" they'll give you a bs answer pretending that they know.

"avogadro i got a tag point thats how

Try helping ppl in ic u might get one:)"

i got a tag point once, i had to create a new account to get rid of it

4000 families is a pretty pathetic minority. it has no sway in a democratic government with 300mil people.

there are americans that give a damn, but the working class of america is more concerned with providing for their families in this shit economy then the death of 4,000 people or what the world thinks of them.

the one problem is if global warming does exist, and theres gobal temperature variations in the future it can effect which land is farmable and would most likely drastically reduce the amount of food we're able to produce.

wrong forum jackass

i hate chess, once you get to a point, you just start memorizing variations, its not fun.

i quit playing when NAPs were made official. galactic events were also pretty bad. the build limit on planets was pretty bad, the deterioration of resources other then food was pretty bad.

i like risk. you gotta manipulate enemies to go after each other while deceiving them into thinking you're weaker then you actually are.

there were chinese people in these forums... maybe they died

*crosses fingers*

of the 3 candidates its hard to decide which one is most likely to be assasinated.... i think Obama is the least at risk. Conservatives really hate McCain because he pretends to be a conservative and damages their image, and they really Hate Hillary for a number of reasons, while Obama is like every other democrat other then he's black, and racism isnt that common...