spree -- you gotta admit it was mighty convenient how the strategic assets, the carriers, were all somehow out cruising around that morning -- and if you've read as much as you claim you have, you know damn well that for some time we'd been choking off strategic raw materials and energy supplies as much we could, making a Japanese attack inevitable -- believe what you like, you have no proof and no knowledge that it was a surprise -- conspiracies are possible and can be (and often enough have been) true -- there is absolutely no inherent ontological bias whatsoever against it not having been a surprise, or for it having been a surprise -- it is as fair for us to demand proof from you as it is for you to demand proof from us -- you can bluster all you want, but you certainly have no more basis for your belief Pearl Harbor was a surprise (I'd say far less) than tpbbls and I have for believing it was not
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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