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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 09 2019, @05:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the R.I.P. dept.

Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, has Died at age 89:

Billionaire, philanthropist and former presidential candidate Ross Perot has died, CBS News has confirmed. He was 89.

Perot died in Texas, the state where he was born, surrounded by family.

[...] In 1992, Perot made a name for himself when he became the most successful non-major party presidential candidate in 80 years, amassing 19 percent of the popular vote, running against President George H.W. Bush and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton.

As a boy in Texarkana, Texas, Perot delivered newspapers from the back of a pony. He earned his billions in a more modern way, however — by building Electronic Data Systems Corp., which helped other companies manage their computer networks.

Yet the most famous event in his career didn't involve sales and earnings; he financed a private commando raid in 1979 to free two EDS employees who were being held in a prison in Iran. The tale was turned into a book and a movie.

Perot first became known to Americans outside of business circles by claiming that the U.S. government left behind hundreds of American soldiers who were missing or imprisoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Perot fanned the issue at home and discussed it privately with Vietnamese officials in the 1980s, angering the Reagan administration, which was formally negotiating with Vietnam's government.


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  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday July 10 2019, @04:10PM (3 children)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 10 2019, @04:10PM (#865415) Journal

    "Your honor this whole trial is an ad hominem you refuse to refute my arguments about my very correct gun cleaning ettiequette and insist on focusing on my personal character"

    Again, it doesn't matter what hypotheticals you pose, while you're defending concentration camps. There's no negotiation with that on details. Either you change or you have to literally die for their to be justice. The only options.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @05:13PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @05:13PM (#865430)

    Again, it doesn't matter what hypotheticals you pose, while you're defending concentration camps.

    They are concentration camps in the same way the Ryker's Island or San Quentin are concentration camps. Only idiots compare Nazi extermination camps to Federal detention facilities. If you break the law, you can expect to be detained.

    Either you change or you have to literally die for their to be justice. The only options.

    Are you threatening me? You are beyond crazy. You want death on those who would disagree with you. Do you believe that people who come to this country, uninvited, and cross the border illegally have greater rights than someone who was born here, has done nothing illegal and wants our laws to be upheld? You would wish death on me but not ask foreigners to obey our laws. You are the poster child for TDS.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @05:34PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @05:34PM (#865436)

      Idiots like people who went through such camps? Historians pointing out the similarities?

      News flash you evil fuck, concentration camps do not require gas chambers to be concentration camps. Mass genocide is not required. Inhumane concentration camps are still inhumane.

      You accept the excuses given with zero critical thought. I think the only solution is to put you trumptards into these camps and treat your families accordingly. That seems to be the only way you'll get a clue, first hand experience of being ripped from your families, imprisoned and brutalized.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @06:43PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @06:43PM (#865459)

        Idiots like people who went through such camps? Historians pointing out the similarities?

        Citation?

        I think the only solution is to put you trumptards into these camps and treat your families accordingly. That seems to be the only way you'll get a clue, first hand experience of being ripped from your families, imprisoned and brutalized.

        I accept your terms. Next time I get caught sneaking across a sovereign country's border, feel free to put me in one of those US Federal detention centers until my economic asylum request can be heard.