Posted on 02/06/2002 5:05:45 AM PST by francisandbeans
As for putting your faith in the lord, you are free to do so. I prefer to remember that "God helps them that helps themselves."
As to God helping those who help themselves, I just can't seem to find that in my bible...which version do you have? The pc version, or the liberal "Truth is Relative" version?
~the Mayor's wife
Some Chinese general said roughly the same thing about bombing LA and we in the US went nuts over it, because we took him seriously.
That is absolutely incorrect. The PLA threats were not offhand remarks by some careless general. Those threats to nuke an American city, as well as a clearly stated strategy of war against the U.S., were made in a regularly published journal distributed to all PLA commanders and publicly disseminated. I read one such journal, an exact unedited translation into English. It was circulated by various news scources. In the last three years of the Clinton admistration the PRC published the threat to nuke an American city, unless we backed off of Taiwan, through their communiques to PLA commanders no less than six times. In them they clearly stated that war with the U.S. is inevitable and sooner would be preferable to later.
Ashcroft may not have meant what he said and he may be too naive to realize that his words will definitely set the tone of LEO's around the nation but the Chinese (PRC) were being clear and unequivocal in their threats by sending them to all their army commanders in a long and detailed strategy outline and simultaneously releasing it publicly. Chinese generals don't shoot from the lip. I can just imagine what happens to those who do.
You do the security of this nation an injustice when you revise history like that. (But hey! Our last Pres. sold 'em the means to nuke us so don't feel too bad.)
For the one doing the telling try hrc.
How does she get ashcroft's ear? fbi file.
When he did not contest his defeat in an election that was so illegal that even Stevie Wonder could see through it, it was not because he is a gentleman. He was told not to.
Then he was neurted [sp?] and emasculated during the confirmation hearings.
Is that the new standard now? All a President has to be is better than Clintoon? All an Atty. Gen. has to be is better than Reno? The bar is so low now that no one can possibly get under it. By your reasoning we would have no reason to complain if Skippy the Chimp were Atty. Gen.. He'd be more competent than Reno, who could complain about that?
In response to your remarks, the bar was at its lowest with people like Clinton and Reno. Anyone who is above that bar is better, in my opinion.
As I pointed out, if you consider Ashcroft's past record, he has supported conservative causes often, because he believes that the American people ARE intelligent (despite the Clinton administration's best efforts at dumbing us all down).
So in essence you are confirming what I said. Which was a tongue-in-cheek insult designed to knock you off your pedestal of ignorance but you choose to take it as a validation of your intelligence. Alrighty then!
ROTFLMAO
ps: Smarter brainiacs than you have tried to knock me from my pedestal. It's venus envy.
I don't know if anyone saw an interview with one of the heads of the BATF when he said we won't come after someone's gun unless it is illegal, meaning that if bb guns suddenly become illegal they will come after them with no consideration given to it being a moral action or Constitutional action, just wheather or not there is a new law on the books.
Nothing about this statement denies the right to free and open debate over what does or doesn't constitute a genuine threat to our liberties.....he is simply stating his opinion that those he was addressing were illusions....and as such were tying the hands of the Gov't to fight terrorism. Big deal.
It's not like he said substancial threats to liberty should be dismissed in our war on terrorism.
If find the claim that Ascroft's statement constitutes an attempt to "intimidate into silence those who dare to question him" to be irrational, paranoid and silly.
I couldn't have said it better. Thanks. Your words are worth repeating.
Absolutely! I fear the enemies of freedom from within our government more than I fear foreign terrorists. The feds relentlessly seek to deprive the American people of their freedoms and rights and to destroy our Constitution. Why? Wish I knew.
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