Maybe you are, maybe you aren't. Frankly, I don't care. You, conversely, seem to care a very great deal, and get very defensive when the similarity of your behavior to what you accuse me of is noticed.
The point is, I'm Private Citizen "Don Joe" today, very unhappy at a lot of the crap I see being promulgated -- and particularly unhappy at being paged BACK to a thread I announded I was through with. Typically trollish behavior, Mr. Anonymous Expert. VERY trollish behavior on your part.
Interesting.
You were the first to post to me, and were the first to page me back to a thread I thought I was done with. You were the first to launch insults; you were the first to accuse me of nefarious motives; and, for the finale, you accuse me of trolling--after behaving as a textbook example of a troll.
Gotta keep stirring the pot, doncha. Can't leave the chance that someone might look at the evidence and form their OWN conclusions, can you. Gotta keep hammering away, to make sure they ONLY form the "right" opinions.
Actually, with your naked hostility to anything (indeed, to any person) that disagrees with your opinion, your constant barrage of accusations against those who disagree with you, you seem to be the one intent on making sure that others form ONLY the opinions you deem to be "right."
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Translation: "Don Joe has absolutely no substantive counterargument to the points made about Red Mercury as described by Don Joe's authoritative source, Sam Cohen, and stipulates those arguments as fact."
As for the discussion of an alleged Russian nuclear weapon being shipped via FedEx to Los Alamos for testing...
If that actually did happen as described, the U.S. national security community is so FUBAR'd that there's nothing that can be done to fix it, anyway.
I still believe that the primary worry is theft or other acquisition of a tactical nuclear weapon, or pieces thereof, from a storage or maintenance depot, because it seems to me that governments around the world are relying more on the appearance of tight security than on the fact.
I guess we simply disagree, and that's that.
Well, I think that sort of thing happens far more often than we'd like to think. I remember my law school experience 25 years ago. We studied a case of a long tubular package shipped via FEDEX that contained cocaine. The truck operator accidentally broke the container and some "product" spilled out. The driver, being a good citizen, alerted the authorities who set up a sting. At the trial the defense asserted that the driver of the FEDEX truck had violated the 4th Amendment protections of the coke dealer.
USSC held that NO that is not true. No private citizen, especially one engaged in the act of lawful commerce can violate the US Constitution, only the government can violate civil rights. How often do you think coke or heroin gets shipped that way today? Sure I'll be that FEDEX got some safeguards to preclude this...but still....