Who Is The Government Protecting Us From?
Other than 9/11 who have been the terrorists in the United States? Before I answer I admit that I am not afraid of terrorists. I am busy living my life, worrying about our family, money, teaching my classes - trying to do the best I can relative to those that I love and those who need me.
Muslim terrorists are not marching on to high school and college campuses and gunning down students; they appear to Americans. Americans that have access to guns and are so troubled that the people around them don't seem to notice.
The Bush administration wants to provide immunity for the telecoms so that we can be protected from the terrorists. How many people in Illinois did the recently expired bill save? None. I know I am talking about foreign versus domestic situations, apples to oranges so to speak, but I think the Senate and the Bushies are blinded by all the that political money the telecoms throw their way.
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Oh Mathman, I have not been here in a long time and then I am treated this this great post on a most tragic subject.
The work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung on the shadow provides many answers for our personal and societal ills.
It is so much easier and yet completely unhealthy and unproductive to not integrate our own sense of darkness or evil. Rather we take it and project it out onto others. This is of course my comment-sized gross oversimplification, but I think you know what I mean.
It has been done since the dawn of time and will continue to be done. And it is sick and pathetic.
That is why the Bush admin, quite like any other fascist organization, likes to direct our attention to the external and ignore the evil that lies within.
This infuriates me.
Thanks for putting this thought provoking piece up.
As young people were sprayed with bullets as they sat in a geology lecture hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University, they were hardly protected by George Bush's spying eyes or ears.
The FISA bill is nothing but a measure to once again subvert the Constitution, thus rendering just another old piece of paper and an outdated concept.
The shame is ours.
All of you guys are right, a smokescreen, not wanting to deal with our own demons - one being mental illness, still the red-headed stepchild of human problems - toss in some good ole-fashioned fear mongering and money, et voilà, rampant idiocy masked by blinders.
Good job, America.
Hey look, a guy with a gun! Oh, he's white. Nevermind. Boom.
You are dead on the money Mathman.
In the words of Pogo-- We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Another group of terrorists in this country are anti-choice extremists, and they are better organized than the school shooters.
Thanks for the comments.
Fran - fear is much easier to cultivate.
Dcup - Constitution?
Randal - I can hear you but that pink smoke is blurring might sight.
DVM - Thanks
Bubs - Makes it tough to look over my shoulder.
libhom - point well taken and I think you are correct.
I want the government doing more to protect me from other white people.
Terrorists?
Ironically, they only bomb the "Blue States" where all the people live.
What would they bomb in Mississippi, and more importantly, who would notice?
The telecoms ? Cheney/Bush ripped off so much money with Halliburton contracts alone they had to move the company out of the country so the fruits of their theft could not be confiscated !
Contract fraud : 'war' profits. Telecoms are a drop in the bucket. Thieving their intel to shrivel political opposition is another application. If it occured to me, you can be sure it did to them.
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