never mind

N/M i'm out

Wrong thread.

Second line.

I think the reason that the government is so eager to portray certain acts as terrorism and others, as in this case, as something else, stems from the fact that they do want to strike fear into Americans about terrorism to garner support for military actions, but they also want to portray to the American people that the military is strong, and that terrorism could never happen or reach one of their installations from the inside.

Something like that anyway is what I am thinking this may be about. But even that doesn't make all that much sense to be honest. It could simply be what it seems like, which is the government would have to spend more money if they took the other route. Classification of things like this should never be based on money. I mean the military gets FIFTY PERCENT, roughly, of all tax dollars collected. THAT is simply crazy. And we wonder why other countries have free health care.

And some will say "ya but our military is the reason we are still a country," and they would be wrong. First of all, the reason we are still a country is because of the regular American and their willingness to die for democracy, which we barely are hanging onto now. Those who gained independence for us were not a military that was financed, or barely financed. And secondly, how many times has America been attacked and forced into a war? Let's see...There was the War for Independence, the War of 1812, and WWII...That is the 3 times we have actually had to go to war. Some may also include the Mexican-American War and WWI as well, and that is fair I would say. The Civil War does not count imo since the Southern states were never recognized as a sovereign nation, so that war took place between Americans and had nothing to do with a foreign country.

But so many of the conflicts that our military has engaged in and won were not necessary for the preservation of the USA. So why is half of America's income being spent on our military? It is just ridiculous. So that we can spill the blood of young American men for the sake of corporate profits? For the likes of companies like Haliburton, and others that the political elite and financial elite are a part of? Why should we both die for their benefit, as well as turn around and GIVE them half of our tax dollars as well? The military industrial complex is run by politicians, and like it or not, it will eventually come to a head. So do not give up your guns, or let them regulate or dictate any more on an issue they have no right to mess with. Constitutionally I mean, they have no legal basis to alter our right to bear arms in any way.