Ronald Reagan destroyed the American Empire.

I mean long term, during his reign he just fucked over lots of poor people both domestically and abroad. Hes not going to get any plaudits or anything from me.

Here is a series of fun graphs of just how much he fucked over the majority of Americans both then and even more so now!

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010062415/reagan-revolution-home-roost-charts

Gore created the internet, Lieberman wants to destroy it.

It seems since America elected Gore in 2000 but did not have him rule Lieberman has decided the American people, so easily cowed by Bush Cheney do not deserve his running mates' creation. Thus he is pressing ahead with a killswitch for the internet.

I am informed by Jonny, non-resident tech expert, that this would cause untold economic damage for everyone, except probably North Korea. Thus it would seem to be another MAD system or perhaps more accurately a larger scale version of Israel's Samson Option or a tool to force the world to go along with America. The second option is that Lieberman is an out of touch asshole who just loves flaunting America's power.

Either way publically announcing that this could be an option for the president will no doubt spur developments of parallel internets or similar networks especially if it becomes law.

thanks jonny