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Originally posted by ludaChris
Anyhow, on topic I believe there are groups of people out there who would do us harm if they could.
I dont think the government is involved except to stop them.
Honestly, they whole "the government is doing this to take our rights away" argument has gained no ground and in my opinion has no footing to stand on.
My life has not changed since 9/11. I dont fear terrorists. I dont fear the government(except the IRS). I dont understand how this argument is still used.
Originally posted by Gazrok
On the flip side, hard to do anything diplomatic about it, when the terrorists are the ones in office (as in Lebanon)...so their actions aren't all that surprising.
I still can't believe the US is behind 911. There were plenty of ways to achieve the same goal without crippling industry and the entire economy at the time. I just can't believe that a bunch of fat cats who live and die on interest rates, stock prices, etc. purposefully orchestrated their own reduction of fortunes...c'mon.
That said, sure, after the fact, I have no doubt that some high in power used that influence to get their ties to likely suspects out of dodge in a hurry....but I don't think they orchestrated it.
Thing is, no matter WHAT security measures you try, if there is a concerted effort, eventually it will happen.
For example, any idiot CIA spook could stuff some C-4 in a few lipstick cases, and build a detonator from a personal calculator or even a cell phone, so the idea is ludicrous to keep liquids off planes. Likewise, a false baby formula container could accomplish the same thing. Enough with the ideas though, terrorists will simply have to rely on their own wits.
We're still just biding time folks. Despite your feelings on WHO is behind it, we WILL see another 911 style attack eventually succeed. I wish it wasn't so, and I'm glad it hasn't happened yet, but it is inevitable, and it will be inevitably worse.....
'm sure his mind was elsewhere...but likely not light years ahead of anything, hehe..... We don't need critics to tell he's an idiot, just listen to him. Sorry, but being the leader of the free world for over 5 years, he's kind of out of the learning curve.
Despite his college education, it's fairly obvious his connections, not his intelligence got him through. I'm still cringing from the debates, hehe... Kerry, with the charisma of the average rock, ran circles around him, and that's scary....
Originally posted by jsobecky
As far as sacrificing freedom for safety, I don't personally know anybody who has lost any. And I don't look at it that way; the way I see it, we've given up innocence for caution.
Originally posted by American Madman
Yeah unlike the democrats they have not tried to scare minorities into voting for them saying the other party will take away their civil rights.
I haven't seen it reported that republican staffers were trading crack for votes unlike democrats in 2004...
I haven't seen republicans promise the world through tax subsidized living like the democrats have.
Shall I go on.
Those protested voting districts which were btw run by democrats...
Wanna get dirty. Trust me I think both are really one party and both have issues, but lets not paint the democrats as the people's party or the party of ethics cause they aren't by any means...
One of the democrats largest contributers is the teachers union... Good schools are lacking in which districts and whom do those in the undereducated districts overwhelming vote for... If change took place in those districts who would be fired...
So please... Kerry has more money then god you think he gave a rats ass about you, no more so then bush did..
The democrats are a "do as i say not as I do" people.... you think gore flys commercial or car pools. Do you think kerry sits with ordinary people all the time
and talks to them.
Originally posted by American Madman
It all seems to me to be "bushysteria" if bush is involved everything is taken to the extreme.
BUt I haven't seen what everyone is complaining about. One guy I know was ranting about the police cause they set up a checkpoint near a day worker "illegals" site talking about how this is hitlers germany cause they were checking registration... They checked mine and let me go no problem...
I mean wtf is this the first registration check in USA history... no. But you'd think so if you listened to some people. Plus people forget the police the military is made up of our loved ones and friends in our communities.
They aren't mindless drones. If the gov started to act a fool and started to try to do to us what the taliban was doing to the afghans they would have no armed forces or police.
Besides they have control already anyway. All they do by forcing extreme control is shoot themselves in their own foot. What do they want or need us to do that we don't do already anyway.
Originally posted by df1
Originally posted by American Madman
People were getting murdered there before we went there.
Damn right!
We can't allow iraqis to murder iraqis, these iraqis need to be murdered and raped by americans. What was that "iraqi madman", saddam, thinking?
Originally posted by Mr_Peel
I miss the freedoms to go to a library and check out any book I want, or to go to the bookstore and buy any book I want without thinking about how it might appear to some faceless securocrat.
Britain lowers its terrorist threat level from "critical" to "severe," which indicates an attack is still likely.
Originally posted by In nothing we trust
If you check out, "The anarchist Cookbook", you will be placed on the government's watch list. Personally I own a copy.
pg 98 - Converting a shotgun into a grenade launcher
pg 113 - How to make nitroglycerin
pg 132 - detonators
I think this is an authorized book put out by the CIA, during the height of the cold war.
And I've made and hid copies of the book.
Twenty-three young Muslims are being questioned about an alleged plot to blow up passenger airliners flying between Britain and the United States....
Pakistani police have arrested several men accused of links to the British plot. They include Rashid Rauf, who is related to one of the men detained in Britain and is said to be a key suspect...
Both Rashid Rauf and Matiur Rehman, a senior al-Qa'ida operative in Pakistan, are reported to have been involved. However, security sources are convinced that this is largely a British-based plot controlled by UK citizens alleged to have close al-Qa'ida links.
MI5 and the police are investigating "dozens and dozens" of possible al-Qa'ida-inspired plots to cause mass murder in Britain, counter-terrorism sources have disclosed.
If it was discovered they work for Al Qaeda would that prove that Al Qaeda is actually trying to kill us and therefore could very well have attacked us on 9/11 a well?
Originally posted by johnlear
No. The NWO attacked us on 911 to hasten their agenda. They're just trying to convince us it was Al Qaeda. Even is they have to kill some more of us to prove it. But thanks for asking.
Originally posted by Masisoar
It'll attack itself, kill one of its own people, commit some sort of act, blame it on the P.L.O. or some organization in palestine, and then it gives them reason to start attacking and start an offensive.
Originally posted by American Madman
But at least we aren't deliberatly targerting them like the "freedom fighters"....
quick to blame american troops for anything.