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To: Radioheart, I am still Casey, Kahonek, Liberty Belle
Is Bill Clinton Responsible for September 11?

No, we as a nation are responsible.

Hang on a minute now, and listen.

The terrorists were just being terrorists, doing what comes natural. They had jobs to do--killing Americans and restricting American freedom--and they did those jobs very well.

We as American citizens have an important job too--defending America and preserving American freedom--that we have been practically ignoring for decades.

Americans died on September 11th not because people in this country have too many freedoms, but because we have too few.

For example, we do not have the freedom not to spend our money on foreign aid to enemies of terrorists. The government extorts our money from us and spends it on whatever foreign aid it chooses, without Constitutional authority and without asking our permission. In a Constitutional America, all foreign aid would come from private foundations that would be voluntarily funded by people who wanted to give money to a foreign government. Only the people who funded the foundations pumping money into Israel would be targeted by terrorists, not Americans in general. (I would certainly and enthusiastically be one of those people: but it is unjust to force that responsibility upon people who haven't willingly contracted for it.)

As another example, we do not have the freedom to equip ourselves defend our lives and those of others while we're on airliners--and airline companies don't even have the freedom to give us that freedom.

Americans died on September 11th not because people in this country have too many freedoms, but because we have too few.

Who took those freedoms away? The US government did.

But who let the government take those freedoms away? We did. It is not the government's job to protect the freedoms of Americans. Just like every other government, it is our government's job to take away those freedoms and grow ever larger and more powerful. If those freedoms are to be protected, they must be protected by us, and no one other than us.

So September 11th, when Americans came under attack and had no freedom to prevent the attack, was the culmination of a job very well done by terrorists. It was also the culmination of a job very well done by the government--including Bill Clinton. The only folks who have not been doing a good job, who have been ignoring their responsibilities, who have been shirking their duty--are us. And from the looks of our lukewarm reactions to indications that the government is going to use this crisis to become much more streamlined and efficient at its job...we're continuing to do nothing.

If we had been doing our job preventing the terrorists and the government from doing theirs, then on September 11th at most 19 people would have had to die, and very few feathers would have been ruffled. But because we haven't been doing our job, now the government has to go kill a lot more than 19 people, and most of the Islamic world is going to hate us even more murderously.

No, Bill Clinton is not responsible for September 11th. He was a dishonest, corrupt, contemptible criminal, but he was just doing what came naturally to him. We were the ones who elected him and put him in a place where doing what came naturally could hurt us, and then permitted our representatives to refuse to remove him from it.

20 posted on 09/20/2001 12:34:16 PM PDT by Barak
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To: Barak
Barak ----- Very well stated and bumped!!
21 posted on 09/21/2001 10:37:31 AM PDT by I am still Casey
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To: Barak
We let the media and academia talk us out of doing the right thing for 8 years. What should we do to get rid of the traitors in our midst?
23 posted on 09/28/2001 7:35:37 PM PDT by lds23
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To: Barak
The government extorts our money from us and spends it on whatever foreign aid it chooses, without Constitutional authority and without asking our permission.

The government also extorts our money and spends it on every domestic socialist entitlement program it can think of too. That's what sickens me worse than money spent on foreign aid. We just dole out money to a sect of our society that refuses to work and better themselves. I believe forstering this kind of dependency in government also contributed to the 9-11 attacks. And, thus, Bill Clinton and the Democrats being the biggest proponents of government entitlement spending are ultimately responsible.

Don't you find it sickenly ironic that the Clinton administration spent more money pursuing Bill Gates than they did pursuing world terrorists.

So, is Bill Clinton responsible for the 9-11 terrorists attacks on our great nation. I give an emphatic, HELL YES!!!"

29 posted on 11/25/2001 9:23:31 AM PST by One4Indictment
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