Either you have not seen the Daniel Pearl video, or else its been awhile and you need to view it again.
Could someone please give Rond the link to Pearl's death video?
Notice the terrible look on his face as his torturers force him to say he is Jewish. Then see his head severed and held up.
Don't you understand??! This is what the terrorists are planning to do to you, to your, dare I say the wicked word, children? To your parents? They want to savagely kill everyone who is Christian and Jewish. The terrorist speak for all of militant Islam, when they say on the Pearl video that terror is coming to us.
Your objection to more security seems vile and sinister to me.
Please watch the Pearl video before you respond to me.
You are SO right.
And I am so glad that many American's fathers and grandfathers thought the same way. They gave their lives, and took lives, for that definition of freedom. It's a little bit of a shame that they died for people willing to piss away freedoms paid for in blood, but on the whole, I'm sure they are glad they did it, and I am extremely grateful to them.
Joyful: I have seen the Pearl video -- saw it before we ever entered into this digital conversation -- and I find it unnecessary to view again, much as I find it unseemly to dwell morbidly on the details of his slaying. Frankly, that's a sick thing to do.
Don't you understand??! This is what the terrorists are planning to do to you, to your, dare I say the wicked word, children? To your parents? They want to savagely kill everyone who is Christian and Jewish. The terrorist speak for all of militant Islam, when they say on the Pearl video that terror is coming to us.
Daniel Pearl was a reporter who was chasing a story. That it led him into dangerous places was not surprising; as a veteran reporter he knew this, and obviously accepted the risk.
Daniel Pearl was not walking the streets of the United States when he was kidnapped and killed. He was not a random victim of faceless terror. He willingly met with people he knew were radicals, potentially dangerous sources who could (and did) backfire. I'm sorry he died. But to make his targeted slaying the touchstone of your "sky-is-falling" level of fear is really quite unnecessary. Unless you're planning on wandering into Pakistan or Afghanistan anytime soon, in search of a story.