Posted on 09/24/2001 3:10:00 AM PDT by Ada Coddington
Who the h*ll are "we"?
For that matter, who the h*ll are you?
Following the moderators guidelines, you should be banned for your name alone.
I hate to seem callous to the pain of the families but this is the thing that has haunted me almost from the beginning. The first time I heard the phrase "Our lives will never be the same again" something deep inside started to quiver. As I watched the uniformed soldiers telling people to show their IDs my heart sank. This is not going to turn out well.
Since my state instituted DUI roadblocks, I have rehearsed, in my mind, exactly what I would say should I encounter one and how I would behave. Most of the scenarios don't have me merrily going on my way. So be it, but unless I am, for good cause ( ie. other than being at the wrong place at the wrong time) suspect of a crime, I will not answer "where have you been and where are you going".
Now it seems there may be more checkpoints for me to run mental scenarios on. I flash back to the movie "Hunt for Red October" wherein on of the Soviet officers was amazed that we were free to move from state to state without showing our papers and I wonder how long that will be possible.
As far as I'm concerned, foreign visitors, students, guest workers should be implanted with a chip like a pet's ID chip. However it should have tracking capabilities and maybe even some pain producing device so that if they aren't out of the country by the time they said they would be, they'd wish they were. I don't care what we do to non citizens. I just want to be left alone. I don't want an ID card. I don't want face recognition cameras on every corner. When I found out the technology existed to track cellphones to such a precise degree that they used the victim's phones to locate their bodies in that rubble, I tossed the cellphone.
I know this is war and I understand the willingness to extend the power of the government during times of insecurity. I take that back. I don't understand it because I, too, worry about the powers we give now, to this administration, in the hands of some future administration. Seeing how billyboy used the government to affect those who criticized him ....well that's what's ruining my sleep.
Nope. They just wanted him gone.
There's a big difference between loyalty to country and letting politicians get by with wiping their backsides on the Constitution to cover their own treason.
Wait until the demand for a declaration of war is really pressed in Congress. Part of the deal from the left side of the aisle will be a demand for another Sedition Act as a price for agreement to declaring war. You can bet on that. The traitors will want cover in time of war, when the price of treason is to be paid at the end of a rope. They'll want any criticism of government suppressed so that evidence of what they've done can't be used to get them out of office.
I think I am going to be sick... I voluntarily give some of this info to be liscensed to drive and do other things. MY choice but to be compelled to do so, and include my DNA and relgion? I think I am going to be sick.
Do you know that if cats get in to catmip and eat enough of it the will get diarrhea.
You and your mother?
Oh yes, the words from the article, like sanctimonious, come to mind.
Odd, how hyperbole is dismissed after contemplating the aftermath of Mass Murder, and the enemy is dismissed silently, and presumably as more or less innocent.
Aside from the fact that the overwhelming discussion here has been civil (yes, angry but civil) and insightful, this clymer picks the worst examples of rage as typical Freeper fare, as has the Democratic Underground. Sort of gives me a clue as to where he's coming from.
Human behavior in the past does have a definite relation to how we behave today; and even more so for the Muslim World. Let's look at the main significance of that as it relates to the total silence in the article about it.
All of the Muslim Middle East countries have been aiding indirectly or supporting directly terrorist activities and training camps all over the place; there may be dozens or hundreds of them.
We have been pretending not to notice so long as it was "not too bad" and didn't affect us directly.
They have pretended to forgive us for the mild criticism we do deliver from time to time, and gladly keep their cartel going to generate the millions the terrorists get indirectly from us.
Yeah, let's talk behavior from the past.
But even more insidiously and perfidiously, the current war has been characterized as non-religious when it is plainly so. The daily proclamations from all Muslim countries to "kill Americans" is not imaginary, and to most literate adults plain enough to see. And the muslim population in the U.S. has been totally silent in providing any aid to fellow citizens in this country even after the Mass Murder.
Most Americans also have no difficulty in assessing the odds of 11 000 000 Muslims in the U.S., with hundreds of terrorists operating among them, and actually getting help and aid and comfort among them, all being totally clueless of the plans of the terrorists and their actual acts of Mass Murder.
So then, let's talk about behavior from the past.
When national survival, and our civil liberties are on the line, you bet, Mr. Elkins, that our current rage at the Mass Murder is based on the crystal clarity that past behavior is very indicative of present and future conscious intent by the Muslim community worldwide!
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