15,000 die in Europe! Joseph Farah assesses new terror attack, why U.S. is next

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, September 11, 2003 | Joseph Farah

[JohnHuang2]

Did you hear about the terrorist attack in Europe that killed 15,000?

I bet you didn't.

It never made a single banner headline here in the U.S.

It didn't lead the television news one day.

In fact, it was treated matter-of-factly because the terrorist attack that victimized Europe was perpetrated by governments we've been conditioned to believe are "compassionate."

I'm talking about what has been described as last month's disastrous heat wave that killed five times as many people as were killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of 2001.

It wasn't really the heat that killed those people – it was the advanced state of socialism that exists across the European continent.

The temperatures never really got all that high – 103, 104. We live with temperatures that high and much higher all summer long in the United States.

The differences?

• Air-conditioning is common throughout the states – both in the workplace and even in low-income homes.

• The best health-care system in the world – a still largely private one – takes care of Americans, especially in emergency situations, without long waits.

That's about it. That's all it took for this disaster to occur in one month this summer.

"There have never been so many deaths in August since the Liberation," declared the front-page headline in France's Le Monde.

But get used to it. This is the future – not only of Europe, but of the United States if we don't change directions, if we don't stop our slippery-slope decline into government control of the economy and health care.

"To listen to the government, everybody is responsible, except the government," explained one politician.

That's the trouble. When government runs everything, everyone is responsible. And when everyone is responsible, no one is responsible.

The Health Surveillance Institute said it did "all that was asked." The department could find no major faults in its system. Nothing could have been done to prevent the disaster this time – or the next time, according to officials.

There's no one to blame. The terrorists in this attack are supposedly well-meaning people. They are not a foreign enemy. They are terrorists within. But, as anyone should be able to see from last month's death toll in Europe, they are every bit as dangerous – even more so – than Osama bin Laden.

The government hasn't even been able to count the deaths with accuracy. It has taken the undertakers to provide the world with the grim reality of an unprecedented disaster.

It may be unprecedented, but it was predictable – and it's merely a glimpse of what the future holds for Europe and the United Stated if we don't get over this compulsion to turn control of our lives over to the government.

What's Europe going to do next?

There isn't even a plan to deal with the next heat wave. There isn't even much pressure on the government. Why? Because there's no political opposition. In Europe, there are only socialists and socialists to choose from.

One idea in France is to force people to work harder and longer to pay for better health care. The elimination of long summer holidays may be necessary.

And that's where we're headed in the U.S., too.

The Republican Party, in control of Congress and the executive branch of government, are spending more on socialist, domestic programs than any previous U.S. government. Where are non-socialists in the U.S. supposed to turn in a two-party system?

And that's why you don't hear alarms being sounded here in the United States about the disaster in Europe. Because those in power don't have any answers.

Government doesn't have the answers. Government only exacerbates the problems.

[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, September 11, 2003

Quote of the Day by ALASKA

[goldstategop]

Ronald Reagan said it best: "Government isn't the solution, Government is the problem." The Republicans in Washington seem bent on taking us towards socialism, albeit at a slower pace than the Democrats. And conservatives acquiesce in stuff they would be up in arms against if a Democrat implemented them. Two centuries ago, Aristotle observed that if every one owned every thing in common, the result would be no one would look after any thing. Two millenia later and the results of the lesson in Europe is all too clear. And yet there are those in this country bent upon taking us down that road. It would help if we conservatives could do more than simply attempt to stand athwart history, and yell, "Stop!" For that doesn't address the way America, against its will, is being made more and more to resemble the worst of the European experience. We will have cause to mourn and fear for more perhaps, on the day American "exceptionalism" finally dies. We have all been warned.

[goldstategop]

Sorry, with Aristotle I meant two millenia ago. Must be the lateness of the hour. LOL!!!

[Terridan]

I just have one question... what did our ancestors do without AC centuries ago? Please, no sympathy here, and no AC either...

[Gil4]

...what did our ancestors do without AC centuries ago?

I imagine they got hot and sweaty, and I bet a small percentage of them died because of the heat - just like Europe today.

[Terridan]

Don't you believe it! My family is from the desert areas and Mediterranean. Grandmother one of 15. All well and lived to 90's and 100's. I think only ones died who didn't hydrate.

[Commie Basher]

Ronald Reagan said it best: "Government isn't the solution, Government is the problem." The Republicans in Washington seem bent on taking us towards socialism, albeit at a slower pace than the Democrats. And conservatives acquiesce in stuff they would be up in arms against if a Democrat implemented them.

Megadittos. Bush has a R before his name, so he walks on water.

[Just mythoughts]

and the lying liberals in this nation want to turn over building Iraq to this bunch who can't take care of their own.

[Warrior Nurse]

Since I will be retiring from the Navy next year how does one position himself to run for Senate here in Florida? I need all the help, answers and votes that I can get.

V/R
Warrior Nurse

[DB]

My bet is many were elderly and near death already. Instead of a more even distribution of elderly deaths they clumped up in the heat wave. I would guess that the death rate will be lower now for several months to come because those who would have died a little later died.

It is hard to know the real significance of this. After a year or so one will be able to better tell if a significant number died that wouldn’t have otherwise over the longer term.

[Gritty]

BTTT

[hobbes1]

No. Bush walks on water, Because he Wins....

Repeatedly, and in the face of Long odds...and against ruthless opposition.

He Wins....

[Tucson]

Contact Jennifer Carroll. She is retired Navy (O-4), ran against Corrine Brown and lost in the 2000 and 2002. She then ran for State Legislature to fill a vacancy and won that election. She can best describe for you the trials and tribulations associated with that effort. Her website on the myflorida.com site is

http://www.myfloridahouse.com/legislatorinfo.aspx?mid=4331

(If the link doesn't work, you can back it down to the parent site and look for the list of reps.) Good luck .....

[michelxiao]

I found your reasoning to be, if not ridiculous, at least naive and conceited at the same time. The name-calling of "socialism" takes such an idealogical partiality that you basically rule out all oppositions, since you can rule anything that tends to care for the well-being on a more general level to be an evil practice of "socialism" whose nature you have prejudged as wrong and dangerous. Such a position, unfortunately, is not too different from the ennemis you supposedly attacked: socialism, as an idea, is a prejudgement on the inequality and lack of humanity in the society you live. That said, you can be a very good promoter of socialism only depending on in which idealogical tradition you have been indoctrinated: in your case, however, I don't see that your mind is equipped with such a flexibility though...

[Warrior Nurse]

Thanks and I will be doing in touch with her. I am another one that left the Democratic plantation a long time ago. Recent events prove that it is not safe to vote Democratic at any time or place.

[Commie Basher]

Okay, Bush wins. But do conservatives?