Turn your speakers up, then
click here or on the pic, lol !
Posted on 10/07/2004 6:50:03 PM PDT by Mia T
Guns.
Guns.
Frenchtoast.
Would Kerry close the borders? Of course not.
Thus, this issue is (perhaps only until after the election) effectively off the table.
Zero in on what matters.
Do you want as your next president a weak-knee vacillator, a seditious opportunist, someone who is constitutionally indisposed to preemptive action and American military might, someone who would reflexively cede our sovereignty to the UN?
fyi
NEVER FORGET!
BTTT!!
ping
Whether in Florida, after hurricane devastation, or defending America against terrorism,WASHINGTON - The Education Department has advised school leaders nationwide to watch for people spying on their buildings or buses to help detect any possibility of terrorism like the deadly school siege in Russia.
The warning follows an analysis by the FBI (news - web sites) and the Homeland Security Department of the siege that killed nearly 340 people, many of them students, in the city of Beslan last month.
"The horror of this attack may have created significant anxiety in our own country among parents, students, faculty staff and other community members," Deputy Education Secretary Eugene Hickok said in a letter to schools and education groups.
The safety advice is based on lessons learned from the Russia incident. But there is "no specific information indicating that there is a terrorist threat to any schools or universities in the United States," Hickok said.
Federal law enforcement officials also have encouraged local police to stay in contact with school officials and have encouraged reporting of suspicious activities, the letter says.
In particular, schools were told to watch for activities that may be legitimate on their own &emdash; but may suggest a heightened terrorist threat if many of them occur.
Among those activities:
_ Interest in obtaining site plans for schools, bus routes and attendance lists;
_ Prolonged "static surveillance" by people disguised as panhandlers, shoe shiners, newspaper or flower vendors or street sweepers not previously seen in the area;
_ Observations of security drills;
_ People staring at or quickly looking away from employees or vehicles as they enter or leave parking areas;
_ Foot surveillance of campuses involving individuals working together.
The effort is the latest by the Education Department and other federal agencies to encourage school officials to maintain and practice a plan for responding to emergencies.
After the terrorist takeover of the Russian school, President Bush (news - web sites) asked his top advisers to review their strategies for dealing with hostage situations, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has said.
The federal government is advising schools to take many steps to improve the security of their buildings. Those include installing locks for all doors and windows, having a single entry point into buildings and ensuring they can reach school bus drivers in an emergency.
The Education Department sent its letter by e-mail Wednesday to school police, state school officers, school boards, groups representing principals and many other organizations.
The Homeland Security Department also sent a bulletin Wednesday to federal, state and local emergency officials to provide fresh guidance based on the review of the school siege in Russia.
subject: YOO-HOO! SECURITY MOMS: John Kerry John Kerry "The Bush Administration is so entralled by the idea of preemption and American military might. This is the consequence of the policy that regards legitimacy as largely a product of force and victory as primarily a triump of arms." John Kerry John Kerry George Bush Dick Cheney John Kerry
OUR CHILDREN AND THE KERRY PERIL:
in Kerry's own words
THE TERRORISTS ARE TARGETING YOUR KIDS! (ABC report)
"We were not at war in the 1990s."
(missing the point entirely that
the War on Terror began in earnest
with the bombing of the WTC in 1993
and bin Laden's subsequent repeated (and unanswered)
declarations and acts of war against America
throughout the clinton years).
Democratic presidential debate, January 29, 2004, Greenville, S.C.
COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS , 3 December 2003
acceptance speech, July 29, 2004
State of the Union Address, The U.S. Capitol, January 28, 2003
"I listened to what Senator Kerry had to say in Boston [Kerry acceptance speech], and, with all due respect to the Senator, he views the world as if we had never been attacked on September 11th. The job of the Commander-in-Chief, as he sees it, is to use America's military strength to respond to attacks. But September 11th showed us, as surely as anything can, that we must act against gathering dangers - not wait for to be attacked. That awful day left some 3,000 of our fellow citizens dead, and everything we have learned since tells us the terrorists would do worse if they could, and that they will even use chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons against us if they can. In the world we live in now, responding to attacks is not enough. We must do everything in our power to prevent attacks -- and that includes using military force."
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE ONE:
LEHRER: New question. Two minutes, Senator Kerry.
What is your position on the whole concept of preemptive war?
KERRY: The president always has the right, and always has had the right, for preemptive strike. That was a great doctrine throughout the Cold War. And it was always one of the things we argued about with respect to arms control.... But if and when you do it, Jim, you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons....
LEHRER: Ninety seconds.
BUSH: Let me -- I'm not exactly sure what you mean, "passes the global test," you take preemptive action if you pass a global test.
My attitude is you take preemptive action in order to protect the American people, that you act in order to make this country secure.
Good Morning America
September 29, 2004
JOHN KERRY:
"We should not have gone to war, knowing the information we know today....
DIANE SAWYER:
"So, it was not worth it."
JOHN KERRY:
"You should not -- eh -- it depends on the outcome, ultimately, and that depends on the leadership. And we need better leadership to get the job done successfully. I would not have gone to war knowing there was no imminent threat, weapons of mass destruction, there was no connection with al Qaeda and to Saddam Hussein. The president -- eh -- misled the American people. Plain and simple. Bottom line."
DIANE SAWYER:
"So, if it turns out okay, it was worth it? -- "
JOHN KERRY (interrupts) :
"No."
DIANE SAWYER:
"...but now it wasn -- ?"
JOHN KERRY (interrupts again) :
"It was a mistake to do what he did but we have to succeed now that we've done it.
Good Morning America
September 29, 2004
for discussion, goto:
Diane Sawyer Nails Kerry Peril (PREEMPTION + KERRY'S EX POST FACTO REASONING)
Larry King Live
July 8, 2004
"Well, I haven't been briefed [about the new al Qaeda plans of a large-scale attack on the United States] yet, Larry. They have offered to brief me; I just haven't had time."
Larry King Live, July 8, 2004
(NB: Radio City, July 8, 2004, Nantucket, July 17, 2004)
As my husband put it, "I don't mind having a president who's cocky. Just not one who is spineless."
"security mom" bump.
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hey, hey, watch it now!
I'm hoping your work can be appreciated beyond FR. When you hit a chord in someone (Osama on bicycle), you hit it hard and well and unforgettably. Best to you.
. . . Rush now mentioning the breck girl's 10 min now immortalized primp.
thx :)
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