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	Chewbacca Defense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chewbacca Defense is a satirical term for any legal strategy or propoganda strategy that seeks to overwhelm its audience with nonsensical arguments, as a way of confusing the audience and drowning out legitimate opposing arguments.
		The term Chewbacca Defense was first used in the South Park episode "Chef Aid," which premiered on October 7, 1998 as the fourteenth episode of the second season.
		Cochran's use of this defense is so successful that the jury finds Chef guilty of "harassing a major record label" and sets his punishment as either a two million dollar fine to be paid within twenty-four hours or, failing that, four years in prison.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chewbacca_Defense (902 words)

	Keeping Presidents in the Nuclear Dark (Episode #1: The Case of the Missing “Permissive Action Links”) - CDI
		Last month I asked Robert McNamara, the secretary of defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, what he believed back in the 1960s was the status of technical locks on the Minuteman intercontinental missiles.
		Defense Department officials maintained that the chances of a U.S. nuclear weapon exploding were “so remote as to be negligible.” (Phelps, 1961) The development of supposedly “fail-safe” designs doubtless bolstered the public credibility of the military’s risk assessment, but confirmation came from other observers as well.
		The committee is chaired by the Secretary of State and includes the Secretaries of Defense, Treasury, and Transportation, the Attorney General, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, the Director of the FBI, and Presidential Assistances for National Security and Domestic Affairs.
	www.cdi.org /blair/permissive-action-links.cfm (8494 words)

	A READER'S EXPERIENCE IN DENVER
		The idiot had tried to preach to the judge and jury much in the same manner that had he tried to preach to the copsters who had arrested us on BOR and what a waste of time as the idiot only dug himself a deeper grave.
		The idiot has no back ground in court or the law, but according to the idiot he knew it all and I could trust him to argue about the gold fringe flag.
		The idiot then posted on his website, which was being closely monitored by the state nazi’s that he would not be taken alive and at this point the idiot invented a imaginary internet militia thinking that this would scare the copsters away.
	www.jpfo.org /denver.htm (4787 words)

	Boston.com / Business / The 'idiot' defense
		Ebbers is expected to say he left all the numbers to Sullivan, who told prosecutors what they wanted to hear when he got in trouble.
		He wasn't just the idiot CEO, he may have been in a coma.
		The idiot CEO strategy may sound risky, but it has been successful elsewhere.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2005/01/18/the_idiot_defense?mode=PF (617 words)

	Super Doomed Planet » Blog Archive » Journalism is Doomed
		article about “Idiot America”—a term used by author Charles P. Pierce to refer to “the breakdown of a consensus that the pursuit of knowledge is a good.” Idiot America doesn’t just devalue the pursuit of knowledge.
		Idiot America is deeply suspicious of knowledge itself.
		Nobody at the New York Times seem to get it: they are one of the mothers of Idiot America, nursing the country on a strange ideal of balance, where every example of expertise is precisely neutralized with a dollop of inanity, which is treated as if it is as equally valuable as the actual facts.
	www.superdoomedplanet.com /blog?p=10 (1962 words)

	Printer friendly output for Exile 2: Crystal Souls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At lest two of the other characters should be soldiers with 5 in defense and every weapon.
		The last one can be a soldier, a priest, or a muscle-bound idiot for bashing doors (20 skill in strength).
		Note: Your mage and doctor both need to be at least 5 intelligence, commander at least 6 intelligence, and the soldiers 2 intelligence.
	www.cheatingdome.com /macintosh/7644p.htm (151 words)

	Encyclopedia: Chewbacca Defense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Chewbacca Defense is a satirical term for any legal strategy that seeks to overwhelm its audience with nonsensical arguments, as a way of confusing the audience and drowning out legitimate opposing arguments.
		Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change.
		In jurisprudence, a Twinkie defense is a criminal defendants claim that some unusual factor entered into the causes or motives of the alleged crime.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chewbacca-Defense (2035 words)

	Hellblazer: The idiot defense
		Judging by the email we received on our Jan. 26 Geopolitical Diary, there is a deep-seated belief -- scatological in some emails -- that Bush and Blair simply lied to justify the war.
		The problem with that theory has always been this: Even assuming that Bush is an idiot -- which some of our readers guarantee us is the case -- Blair isn't.
		Only an idiot would lie about WMD because, once the war was over and no WMD were found, the world would see the lie.
	www.hellblazer.com /archives/2004/01/the_idiot_defense.html (479 words)

	"Al Franken: Proves He's a Big Idiot on Clinton Defense Record" by Jim Sparkman (ChronWatch Founder) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		While it true the administration sought an increase in missile defense funding, those funds were not to be spent until October 1, 2001, weeks after the attacks of September 11.
		The Senate later proposed fencing of some $1 billion in missile defense spending that was set aside for either missile defense programs or other defense projects depending upon the discretion of the president.
		Needless to say, the missile defense funding in 2001 allowed the United States to deploy the Patriot systems of missile defense during Operation Enduring Freedom, savings the lives of scores of Coalition soldiers and Iraqi civilians, as well as the Arrow missile defense in Israel that protected that country and deterred Iraqi attacks.
	www.chronwatch.com /content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=4283 (762 words)

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		It is crucial that Brock have a strong defense and that the principles that come out of this case provide the maximum protection to the exercise of free and open speech as possible.
		He said the project was initiated by the Department of Defense, which wanted a civilian agency to create a national electronic communications certification authority that could be connected to its Defense Messaging System.
		Yin, who works on Defense Messaging Systems applications, said his group has collaborated with "elements of Department of Defense" for the past year, but would not confirm the participation of the National Security Agency, a Department of Defense agency.
	www.was-ist-fido.de /doks/fnews/fido1121.txt (10548 words)

	ABQjournal Opinion
		In the end, former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers' "idiot defense" just didn't cut it.
		The disgraced corporate executive -- an icon of the late-1990s tech boom -- was convicted last week of orchestrating the massive $11 billion fraud that drove WorldCom into Chapter 11.
		Juries are smart enough to see through an "idiot defense." And the boardrooms of corporate America are not beyond the reach of accountability.
	www.abqjournal.com /opinion/2OP3-19.HTM (241 words)

	Portsmouth Herald Local Business News: Corporate ‘idiots’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Definition digression - the "idiot" defense, as I understand it, depends on the assumption that great corporate chiefs lead the company to greatness, become a CEO hero in the press but passively become clueless to the inner workings of their company.
		In an original variation on the idiot theme, Kozlowski and Swartz claim they themselves weren’t idiots but that they were surrounded by idiots who knew of their bonuses, expenses, loans, and stock option benefits.
		Call the Equity Funding tale a prelude to the excesses of Enron and a foreshadowing of the idiot defense.
	www.seacoastonline.com /news/01222005/business/60600.htm (1361 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the issue boils down to behavior, not who governs Iraq.
		One reporter asked him why, then, Bush does not release some of that information to show the world that his threat to make war on Iraq is justified.
		The defense secretary replied that such information is not only classified, it could compromise the safety of U.S. and allied soldiers who are now mobilizing in the Persian Gulf region.
	www.rferl.org /nca/features/2003/01/16012003165143.asp (1078 words)

	Chamber of Secrets - Harry Potter and the Veiled Archway
		Of course, if he did become Defense professor, we'd have to hire a new Potions master, which is easier to find candidates for.
		Her other grades were all 100 or 99 and she had the highest scores of the year, accept for Defense Against Dark Arts, where Harry surpassed her.
		Harry was surprised to see that his defense book was written by Moody and that his Herbology and Charms books were written by his teachers.
	www.cosforums.com /showthread.php?t=27019&page=1 (11377 words)

	SOHH.com Global Forum - As a Green Bay/Favre fan, I...
		Before halftime, he threw away a first down at the 2 yard line and drew a penalty and laughed.
		Defense stepped it up in the second half, I was proud of them.
		Come on man. Even if some of the INT's aren't his 'fault', they are INT's regardless, and he's been throwing them like a madman for years.
	forums.sohh.com /showthread.php?t=535324 (1337 words)

	World Soccer News, Moldy is right, only Shevchenko had any fire in this boring game...
		That one where the goalie from : Inter confronted Milan's Inzaghi after a clash : WITH HIS OWN DEFENSEMEN in the box was : just disgraceful.
		Inzaghi stood there amazed, : and he did the smart thing not belting that : idiot in the face like he deserved and getting : a red.
		One of team mates drew a yellow for : questionning the ref, and the ref was an idiot : for not carding the wheenie-goalie.
	www.wldcup.com /wwwboard/messages/136351.html (308 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Limbaugh would say it is all the defense.
		Limbaugh is not alone in piling on Donovan McNabb during the Eagles' 0-2 start to the 2003 season, but he is, to my knowledge, the first to bring race into the matter.
		During the two-game losing streak, McNabb did what quarterbacks are expected to do: he took responsibility for everything---even the stuff that wasn't his fault.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=5490428&postID=106502929627838182 (1036 words)

	Idiot - InfoIndex.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I tried to read the Penguin Classics version of The Idiot, but the print was too small and the pages were that grubby cheep colour that Penguin tend to use.
		If there is a new idiot on the sports scene, then there is also a new God on the sports scene.
		You made a comment in your "idiot column" about how a lady came up to you and tried to talk to you about child prostitution.
	www.infoindex.org /l/Idiot.htm (939 words)

	SoApBoX » Class Clowns & Village Idiot on Trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lots of hidden potshots at us all, as Defendant/Paralegal for the defense/Village Idiot Joe Utsler found the line "You’re probably not as smart or funny or interesting or insightful as you think you are.
		Defense attorney Jeffrey Zeldman said: "So not every post is a gem.
		Experts predict an easy victory for Zeldman, as he is expected to pull a "Perry Mason-like" surprise, showing evidence that that Jason Kottke has also broken the rules at MetaFilter himself.
	www.ericbrooks.com /soapbox/article.php?p=19 (610 words)

	BigSoccer Boards - is Branko an idiot?
		TM won and thats all it matters for now, but we have to be prepared for the upcoming games, and think of the games in the world cup.
		He is a total idiot if you ask me. You cannot ask an offensive minded team to score 1 goal and then defend till the end by subbing in defenders.
		Nikbakht is another idiot alnog with his club trainers, he been out just one month, he was at least 15lbs lighter when he left Iran.
	www.bigsoccer.com /forum/printthread.php?t=182006 (1599 words)

	L'Idiot du village (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Defense Agency plans to create an integrated missile defense force consisting of a Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis-equipped destroyer and Patriot missile batteries under the Air Self-Defense Force, sources familiar with the plan said Wednesday.
		The plan involves integrating battle management, command, control, communications and intelligence of the two missile defense systems.
		The agency hopes to create the integrated missile defense force as early as 2006 when Japan introduces two U.S. missile defense systems to cope with missile attacks.
	www.lidiotduvillage.com /article.php3?id_article=1016 (109 words)

	Portsmouth Herald Local Business News: Challenging conventional wisdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In particular, I focused on the "idiot" defense some of these former CEOs were using - as in they were idiots for not knowing about the corruption in their midst or hiring idiots who were corrupt to boot.
		It’s an ingenious multi-purpose defense strategy when you think about it, which is why legal commentators were so impressed and couldn’t stop talking about it.
		For the record, my "idiot" commentary provoked one reader from California to berate me for recycling the obvious while another reader from New York thanked me for enlightening the obvious.
	www.seacoastonline.com /news/02192005/business/65566.htm (909 words)

	Emotional Self-Defense
		If you interfere, there is a 100% chance that all the anger and hostility of the argument will be turned on you.
		In two minutes, the bully will be faced with the next idiot and the next.
		It is much better to look like an idiot than to be a victim.
	www.success.org /MA/Emmotional.shtml (544 words)

	Salon.com News \| The rigged missile defense test
		But of course most Americans still don't know why the test functioned so smoothly, because the Defense Week scoop was either buried or ignored by the mainstream media, which had so obediently celebrated the technological breakthrough two weeks earlier.
		In early July, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Defense Department officials asked MIT to confiscate the reclassified report from Postol and to "investigate [his] actions." At first MIT president Charles Vest, no doubt worried about millions of dollars in defense research grants to his university, moved to comply with that request.
		Bogus tests and bullied critics are the hallmarks of a defense establishment that fears facts.
	www.salon.com /news/col/cona/2001/07/31/test (991 words)

	Who Turned This Idiot Loose?
		But a mere apology is not enough to repair the damage wrought by this new deputy under secretary of defense for intelligence.
		Yet Bush's chief lieutenant in the war on terror, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld laughed off reporters questions about the comments late last week, taunting reporters as a "blood-thirsty" bunch when they asked what he thought about Boykin's missives.
		Rumsfeld's misplaced sense of humor aside, Boykin's statements would be comical if they were not so provocative and potentially damaging to international relations.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/1021-08.htm (857 words)

	Defense, Defense, Defense
		Which worked out well for them, you see my cousin told me recently that there was a real band playing behind the curtain while they were out front singing and pretending to play and I felt like an idiot (again) because I never knew that for all these years.
		My parents were not wealthy and they refinanced there year round home to get this place and so were still paying for they're 'real' home till the day my Mom died.
		Back to my defense, it was the dark, the dark that did it all.
	www.imarriedanidiot.com /Defense.html (1264 words)

	HFBoards - Is it just me, or is Bilaletdinov an idiot?
		Sport Express has an interview with him discussing the roster, and when asked about why Brylin wasn't chosen, Bilaletdinovwhatever said that Brylin is a centre and they've already got 4 of those so there's no spot for him.
		ZUBRUS plays just as well defensively, but is much bigger and strong than BRYLIN, while being more skilled as well.
		he's consistenly proven to be one of New Jersey's better defensive forwards, and size obviously hasn't been a factor for him..
	www.hfboards.com /printthread.php?t=81674 (1387 words)

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