“The one thing I can tell you for sure that is true is that we are now in a real war, and it’s a war for the future. It’s not something our government decided to contrive. It’s something the Islamists won’t give up on.”
I believe the biggest problem this country faces now is deluded citizens. American’s who are embracing socialism in ever increasing numbers. I can’t believe some of the junk that’s being talked about now on basic Constitutional rights. Particularly on the 1st and 2nd Amendments. The general insanity that’s passed off as truth or fact today that’s being swallowed whole. It’s these socialists that threaten me everyday, not some cloudy so-called terrorist threat. I think about the odds, there’s no comparison.
There are so many long time held beliefs and convictions I’ve started to question (not my conservative beliefs but rather the actions of our government). Terrorism is just one of them. This so-called War on Terrorism, well, if I look at it from the perspective of how it’s being fought it doesn’t look like much of a war to me. This WOT has also ushered in real serious privacy questions that at least from what I understand, could bring some really nasty abuses of power. Waco, and many other things, has shown me the government does not mind abusing its power at all or that they give a damn about individual lives.
“But to your central point, I don’t know that “more knowledge” would make it better for you or any of us.”
Whenever world events take place I always find myself asking “What’s really going on?” A case in point was the Chinese blasting one of their satellites into a billion pieces and one of their subs surfacing along side an US aircraft carrier which the US claimed they didn’t know it was there. Then I read an article here on FR that was I believe the first time I felt that I knew what was really going on with these 2 seemingly unrelated events. It was all about Taiwan and a newly elected President who wanted to claim independence from the Chinese. China used the above mentioned events to show the US to stay out of it, among other things. It was quite a nice experience to know what was happening and the reasons behind it.
“...I can’t believe some of the junk that’s being talked about now on basic Constitutional rights. Particularly on the 1st and 2nd Amendments. The general insanity that’s passed off as truth or fact today that’s being swallowed whole. It’s these socialists that threaten me everyday, not some cloudy so-called terrorist threat. I think about the odds, there’s no comparison....”
Well, if you believe the government is more a threat to you than al Qaeda, then you should be happy to vote for Ron Paul who promises to withdraw from all engagement with threats from without. Personally, I hope you always have a reason to believe what you do—even if I don’t. If a day comes that you realize the terrorists are the real threat, it won’t be because I convinced you. They will be the ones to do that. But you might not be choosing among varying degrees of ill-defined “privacy” as unmentioned in the Constitution. It might be more like choosing to burn to death or jump from the 89th floor. I don’t say that to make an argument with you, just as an historical fact.