Wolf
Posted on 03/16/2006 11:57:00 AM PST by WatchingInAmazement
I like this. see what you think
The Globalises follow a false god.
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
1Titus 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
The catch-all phrase "global trade", applied here indiscriminately to a transaction with patent national security implications, is part of the problem. It is not really surprising that your supposedly ignorant American public properly viewed the application of that phrase to the port deal as a fundamental non-sequitur.
Gotta have a crisis, dontcha know? I suspect a sizeable number of folks in government are realizing that between doing nothing about border security and illegal immigration, speeding the pace of outsourcing and H1-Bs, and selling ports to countries where there is concern about links to nefarious dudes, that people are starting to wonder if the WOT is being taken seriously,or as an opportunity to power grab ( i.e., the steroid version of Clinton's 'its for the children' ).
Combine this with other data points such as Kelo and the pace of eminent domain seizures, the NAIS business, and other intrusions that would have had this forum screaming if it were being done during the Clinton years--it has all the makings of a very angry populace.
This might explain why all the renewed talk about gun control is popping up.
You have me mixed up with someone else. I don't do that and have never done it.
Great article.
This ports deal could very well be "the straw that broke the camel's back."
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The public was frightened into siding with those who fear brown-skinned people.
Tea? LOL
You chalk up opposition to the port deal as fear of "brown-skinned people"? My goodness. That's a level of mendacity not even the water-carriers for "arab-phobia" were willing to stoop to.
It is precisely this kind of un-serious, indeed perfectly frivolous, argumentation that has won the proponents of the port deal the scorn of the so-called "little people."
The little people were stampeded; not a word is said about the ports that are managed by Saudi companies, or even the Chinese.
That's why I maintain that the public is both stupid and hypocritical.
Do you have evidence that DPW has ever, or will ever, endanger the security of any port?
Talk about a Golden Oldie- you used to have to buy a copy of The Progressive or some other hard left rag to see race-baiting like you're using.
You *know* the Ds and MSM make up lies to get public support for their BS.
Congress legislating against a private business deal with no evidence of security risks is a decidedly liberal power grab.
Do you have proof it would not? How could either of us know. I prefer to error on the side of caution.
There is evidence that there would be no danger, yes.
DPW has operated ports around the world and never once been accused of risking port security.
UAE is a trusted ally (albeit not perfect). That is evidence that they are on our side, and that it is not in their interests to allow our ports to be endangered.
And besides -- it was *liberals* who claimed that evidence doesn't matter, it was the seriousness of the accusation.
Conservatives are *suppose* to make decisions based on evidence. Not just support policies proposed by Schumer and Hilly.
Ya'll have been had by the MSM.
Not nearly enough IMHO. No Arab government should have that kind of accesssin a US port in this day and time.
Just because they are Arabs?
What if the evidence shows that these particular Arabs would not in any way be a danger to us?
And, what about the Saudis? And the Chicoms? Do you propose throwing them out of the exact same deals that they currently occupy?
True. Nowadays, however, a 12-year-old can light-off a firecracker in a garbage can, or someone eating a taco can run-over a squirrel, and FReepers openly speculate about Muslims and Mexicans.
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