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LWR
Cognitive Dissonance
Menlo Park, Ca, USA 224 posts, Apr 2001
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posted 08-17-2002 08:04 AM
I WILL NOT FORGET................ I sat in a movie theater watching "Schindler's List," and asked myself, "Why didn't the Jews fight back?" Now I know why. I sat in a movie theater, watching "Pearl Harbor and asked myself, "Why weren't we prepared?" Now I know why.
Civilized people cannot fathom, much less predict, the actions of evil people.
On September 11, dozens of capable airplane passengers allowed themselves to be overpowered by a handful of poorly armed terrorists because they did not comprehend the depth of hatred that motivated their captors.
On September 11, thousands of innocent people were murdered because too many Americans naively reject the reality that some nations are dedicated to the dominance of others. Many political pundits, pacifists and media personnel want us to forget the carnage.
They say we must focus on the bravery of the rescuers and ignore the cowardice of the killers. They implore us to understand the motivation of the perpetrators. Major television stations have announced they will assist the healing process by not replaying devastating footage of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers.
I will not be manipulated.
I will not pretend to understand.
I will not forget.
I will not forget the liberal media who abused freedom of the press to kick our country when it was vulnerable and hurting.
I will not forget that CBS anchor Dan Rather preceded President Bush's address to the nation with the snide remark, "No matter how you feel about him, he is still our president."
I will not forget that ABC TV anchor Peter Jennings questioned President Bush's motives for not returning immediately to Washington, DC and commented, "We're all pretty skeptical and cynical about Washington."
And I will not forget that ABC's Mark Halperin warned if reporters weren't informed of every little detail of this war, they aren't "likely -- nor should they be expected -- to show deference."
I will not isolate myself from my fellow Americans by pretending an attack on the USS Cole in Yemen was not an attack on the United States of America.
I will not forget the Clinton administration equipped Islamic terrorists and their supporters with the world's most sophisticated telecommunications equipment and encryption technology, thereby compromising America's ability to trace terrorist radio, cell phone, land lines, faxes and modem communications.
I will not be appeased with pointless, quick retaliatory strikes like those perfected by the previous administration.
I will not be comforted by "feel-good, do nothing" regulations like the silly "Have your bags been under your control?" question at the airport.
I will not be influenced by so called,"antiwar demonstrators" who exploit the right of statement to chant anti-American obscenities.
I will not forget the moral victory handed the North Vietnamese by American war protesters who reviled and spat upon the returning soldiers, airmen, sailors and Marines.
I will not be softened by the wishful thinking of pacifists who chose reassurance over reality.
I will embrace the wise words of Prime Minister Tony Blair who told Labor Party conference, "They have no moral inhibition on the slaughter of the innocent. If they could have murdered not 7,000 but 70,000, does anyone doubt they would have done so and rejoiced in it?
There is no compromise possible with such people, no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must!"
I will force myself to: -hear the weeping -feel the helplessness -imagine the terror -sense the panic -smell the burning flesh -experience the loss -remember the hatred.
I sat in a movie theater, watching "Private Ryan" and asked myself, "Where did they find the courage?" Now I know.
We have no choice. Living without liberty is not living.
Please Forward to All Red Blooded Americans !!!!

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Alpha-Theta
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posted 08-17-2002 09:00 AM
quote: On September 11, dozens of capable airplane passengers allowed themselves to be overpowered by a handful of poorly armed terrorists because they did not comprehend the depth of hatred that motivated their captors
Be that as it may, there weren't any terrorist on any of those planes, unless the US command was on them. If you really want to comprehend the 'depth' of it you should accept the truth that this country, our country, is the biggest and most elaborate active terrorist regime. What we saw on 9 11 01 was simply a plight of social engineering by the Bush sect, to give George Walker unlimited say and power throughout the process of the 'war on terrorism', which will last as long as 'he' wants it to. Why didn't the people on the planes fight back? Arrogance. Ignorance. Lack of Independence. Stupidity. Apathy. North Americans are the most egotistical and grandiose humans on the planet. Until YOU can learn to accept that you will be nothing more then 'one of them', the sheeple. It's not the hatred of the perpetrators that is at question, for they hate the same thing that 'anyone' who is awake hates. The question is the state of being of the sheeple. Had they taken responsibility for themselves many deaths could have been prevented. I think it's just plain ludicrous to attempt to blame their failure on the hatred of their oppressors. The attack of OBL and Al Queada did not target the civilian population or mass destruction. The attack was initiated on the financial headquarters of the world, which is ingenius, and the military headquarters of the Super Duper United States of America. If they really hated the American people they could have easily used dirty bombs or biological warfare. quote: Civilized people cannot fathom, much less predict, the actions of evil people
I disagree. People are too busy worrying about their superficial social lives. They waste time investing their faith and yielding their lives to the invisible deity of the most hypocritical religion ever. I can fathom everything OUR government is doing and I can see peoples ignorance and denial with frightening clarity. It's not hard for me to comprehend, however that doesn't make me evil. It makes me an independent thinker and it makes me open minded. quote: On September 11, thousands of innocent people were murdered because too many Americans naively reject the reality that some nations are dedicated to the dominance of others. Many political pundits, pacifists and media personnel want us to forget the carnage
True in a very ironic sense. The main nation that is dedicated to the 'dominance of others' is the United States of America. Wake up. It wasn't the middle eastern state of Afghanastain that was tryin to impose restrictions on our way of life, it was vice versa. And now you want to sit here and claim that they are trying to dominate us? You're mistaken. They were/are trying to escape us. They are trying to survive US. We are the Evil. Bush is the Evil. Blair is the Evil. quote: I will not forget the Clinton administration equipped Islamic terrorists and their supporters with the world's most sophisticated telecommunications equipment and encryption technology, thereby compromising America's ability to trace terrorist radio, cell phone, land lines, faxes and modem communications
The gist of this statement is true, the US did help and fund many of the same factions we have since blown to bits. But that was during the end of the cold war and they all served their purpose as our pawns. And now you call them 'islamic terrorists'. Again you are mistaken. They are just people who are trying to go about their own beliefs, but continously find 'christian terrorists' or 'zionist terrorists' imposing unwarranted restrictions and regulations on them. I for one will not blame anyone for growing anger and resent towards those who would attempt to suppress and control them. quote: I will not be softened by the wishful thinking of pacifists who chose reassurance over reality.
let's just work on reality for now.  quote: I will not forget the moral victory handed the North Vietnamese by American war protesters who reviled and spat upon the returning soldiers, airmen, sailors and Marines
I agree with that. It's truly an outrage that they would take it out on the soldiers who were forced to go fight. I really feel bad for anyone who had to endure that war. If the protestors were to spit and harrass anyone it should have been the administration and the executive branch i.e. politicians and bureaucrats. I don't think it gave the North Viets a 'win' so much as it gave the integrity of the American people a 'lose'. quote: I will embrace the wise words of Prime Minister Tony Blair
In all honesty all I can say is 'DON'T'. Don't buy into a damn word that that fool says. Wake up. quote: There is no compromise possible with such people, no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror
I don't know if that statement fits the so called 'terrorists', but it certainly describes the United States DoD and friends. quote: defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must!"
Those are words that should be spoken by the victim. Again, Iraq and Afghainastan are not coming onto our property and imposing rules and regulations. We are going to theres. As ironic is it may be I think that is EXACTLY what OBL and Al Quaeda were thinking when they attacked the WTC and Septagon. Defeat or be defeated. quote: Living without liberty is not living
Then none of us have EVER lived. LWR, sorry if I come across as abrasive but honesty is my policy no matter how brutal. I really am not trying to piss you off. I just don't feel you have a good overview of things how they really are, and accordingly I think you've made a numbper of misconceptions. Just my opinion though. Please keep an open mind and consider what i've said.
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LWR
Cognitive Dissonance
Menlo Park, Ca, USA 224 posts, Apr 2001
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posted 08-17-2002 09:24 AM
I did not write it, it is floating around unsigned. You have not got the coherence to piss me off. Your reply is disjointed and contradicts itself. In the first paragraph you say there were no terrorists on the planes, in the 2nd to the last you say there were. At any rate we are entitled to our own opinions and I feel Bush is doing as good a job on the war front as can be expected. Certainly he gives me a lot more confidence than Algump would have had he been in the White House. If you do not like the direction we are going, passports are under 100 bucks or you can run for office and do something about it once you find enough votes to support your views. Of course your ideas of an agenda may not be too popular. On 9-11, if they could have, they would glad have killed 280,000 of us instead of 2800. Had any of your friends or family been killed on that day would you still be singing the same song?

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Alpha-Theta
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posted 08-17-2002 09:43 AM
I know who my enemies are. They are primarily domestic, regardless of what you may believe. The perpetrators that were on those planes are perceived by the general populous to be 'terrorist'. However, I would say that they believed themselves to be 'freedom fighters'. Oh and thanks but I don't need a passport. I was born in this country and I will stand my ground here. No matter how many ignorant people like yourselfs insinuate that I leave or that I am somehow a threat to their well being. I don't suffer from terminal stupidity. That is only the fate of close minded and arrogant souls like yourself. Hey LWR, I understand... why think for yourself when you can just rely on what Bush and Blair tells ya. I wish you the best of luck and trust me you will need it. quote: if they could have, they would glad have killed 280,000 of us instead of 2800.
Oh yeah, and this is nothing but typical media hype. the same disinformation that CNN feeds it's loyal viewers on a regular basis. good job. What's so hard to understand? Instead of getting a fisa to come college and study aviation they could've just studied chemical engineering or microbiology. Then they could have easily wiped out much more than 280,000, especially with their concerted and tactical effort and clever thinking. They didn't attack the American People. They attacked the 'NWO'. Perhaps you are willing to die for the NWO or your porcelain Hee-Zeuss. That's your own ignorance and your own business. I'm done with ya.
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LWR
Cognitive Dissonance
Menlo Park, Ca, USA 224 posts, Apr 2001
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posted 08-17-2002 10:18 AM
Let load http://www.politicsandprotest.org/ 
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emfx13
Moderator

Hayward Ca.U.S.A. 784 posts, May 2002
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posted 08-17-2002 12:45 PM
I'll take what you both said into consideration,without sacrificeing my own veiw's.......A TRUE OPEN MIND WOULD!!
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increase 1776
Senior Member

Oregon 532 posts, Oct 2000
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posted 08-17-2002 03:24 PM
LWR;Good topic and going in the right direction,fighting to defend our country is fine ,,just as long as you know who the enemy is. Bombing Agfganistan is like closing the barn door after the horses are all out.Tony Blair is an asshole, so is president Bush,if he had any religon he would resign from office to save the people and their country from the real terror that these two are bring home to their respective countries. If the president and the V.P. really gave a rats ass about this country they would both resign and appologize to the whole world then ask their higher power to forgive them. But this ain't going to happen. Keep up the fight,and thanks for the input. increase 1776
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LWR
Cognitive Dissonance
Menlo Park, Ca, USA 224 posts, Apr 2001
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posted 08-17-2002 07:37 PM
Thanks Increase, I love my country but not my Government, either party. John Ashcroft scares the living Bejesus out of me and the so called liberal Democrats think I should work harder so I make more money for them to give away in massive social engineering experiments. There are no choices that will ever be offered to us who would truly make a difference. Thomas Jefferson was 100% correct and forward looking when he said that we should change Governments every 20 years. What to do about it? Start threads like this, talk about it, try to raise the awareness level, point out just how goddamn funny it would be if it was not so true. Again, thanks for having enough insight to see what I was trying to do and where I was going. 
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theseeker
One moon circles
Damnit...I'm a doctor jim 3403 posts, Jul 2000
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posted 08-18-2002 04:14 AM
some of the biggest protesters of government are those who do not even participate in it...if you don't vote you don't count.... there is nothing wrong with our system... it is the envy of the world... there is everything wrong with people and there always will be until we are all gone... changing government is not the answer....even stevie wonder can see that..and jefferson could too...if he was still alive... dig ------------------ T/S 
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LWR
Cognitive Dissonance
Menlo Park, Ca, USA 224 posts, Apr 2001
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posted 08-18-2002 10:18 AM
Maybe I was not clear enough, I think Jefferson meant that we should clean out lifetime career politicians, not neccesarily change from a republic to something else. I have been in 15 countries, lived in some of them as well, we are not the envy of the world, laughing stock maybe. They envy our ability to have great sports stars...in everything but Formula 1 and, until this year, soccer, the only 2 sports that count in the worlds eye. They envy the "easy money we seem to acquire so easily. Our form of republic is not envied in many of the progressive and free countries that I have been in and know people from. Simply voting will get us nowhere fast, just more of the few choices the powers that be allow us to have in order to make us feel good about our system. I do vote by the way, I write to editors, I take on causes that I feel strongly about. I have been both in the military and at the other end of a rifle butt when I protested an unjust and stupid war. While you may be called the Seeker, I quit seeking long ago. I could be called the Changealator if I wanted a name that described what I try and do. However that would be silly and would distract. As for your statement that there is something wrong with people, what do you suggest we do about your perception? What do you do? Why should all people be gone to fix what is broken? 
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Alpha-Theta
Superior

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posted 08-18-2002 11:26 AM
quote: Why should all people be gone to fix what is broken?
Well, because a lot of people are just like Seeker: Stupid Arrogant and Gullable And these people can't be 'fixed'. So what we have to do is endure their dumb asses.  p.s. I voted for Gore, as did most Americans. Didn't seem to matter now did it? Not that it was a win either way. It's simply a matter of picking the lesser of two evils. Perhaps if an honest, decent, and moral individual were to run for presidency more people would 'participate'. Quite frankly most intelligent people can see right through this system known as 'democracy'.
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Jeanie
Senior Member
North East U.S.A. 525 posts, Nov 2001
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posted 08-18-2002 04:16 PM
LWR:::Alpha Theta pretty much has said it all and quite realistically. LWR you might want ask yourself, just how loyal is the government to those they are supposed to be governing. People of this grand country are being terrorized and sickened by their damn CHEM-TRAILS and HAARP as well as the people of a great number of other nations around the world. What many see is traitorous acts rather than even a hint of loyality to the citizen tax payers and military of this country. What do you think of a government who experiments on the young men and women in their military?Here is something for you to ponder over: American Servicemen Used As Guinea Pigs - Tests Revealed DOD Releases Project SHAD Fact Sheets From American Patriot Friends Network APFN@apfn.org 6-27-2 Project SHAD Project SHAD, an acronym for Shipboard Hazard and Defense, was part of the joint service chemical and biological warfare test program conducted during the 1960s. Project SHAD encompassed tests designed to identify US warships' vulnerabilities to attacks with chemical or biological warfare agents and to develop procedures to respond to such attacks while maintaining a war-fighting capability. Although classified, the Department of Defense has been actively pursuing declassification of relevant medical information. To date twelve SHAD projects have been evaluated and released for your review. The Department of Defense continues to search and declassify documents associated with this project, and will post additional information as it becomes available. http://deploymentlink.osd.mil/current_issues/shad/shad_intro.shtml American Servicemen used as Guinea Pigs JimCast@infowars.net (Last update) June 27, 2002 "Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense" (SHAD), was a program started in the early 1960's, to learn the vulnerabilities of US warships, during chemical or biological warfare attacks. Under "Project SHAD" were 113 different "Operations" or tests. US Naval crews and Marine personnel were sprayed with various biological and chemical germ warfare agents, and simulants. Some ships, and Marine personnel were sprayed from overflying aircraft, while other tests on ships were being sprayed by aircraft carriers, which were upwind. While some high ranking personnel may have had knowledge of what was happening, most of the ships crews did not. Project SHAD was controlled by The US Army Deseret Test Center, later to be known as Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah. For over 35 years, The Department of Defense said, "there was NO Project SHAD". Today the DoD admits that it tested the deadly nerve agent Sarin, known as VX, or biological toxins on American Servicemen, but said the information was "classified". Lately the DoD agreed to declassify all of the 113 "Operations" and inform the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of the findings. Presently 12 of the 113 have been declassified, although the information being released is very limited. The Department of Defense is not releasing ALL the information needed by the Veteran, which would allow him to apply for treatment in a VA facility and to file a claim for service connected disability compensation. Only about 600 veterans of the estimated tens of thousands of those exposed to warfare agents have been notified they could be suffering from related dangerous health effects, according to VA and Pentagon officials. A study by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs completed in September of 2001, but never released to the public or the affected veterans, suggests that Veterans, who participated in "Project SHAD", may be at increased risk for cerebrovascular diseases and respiratory diseases. That they are three (3) times more likely to die of respiratory and vascular brain diseases than the general population. Steve Robinson, executive director of the National Gulf War Resources Center, said: "These veterans could be dying at a rate three times greater than the general population from diseases that could be related to their military service." "We have a moral responsibility to set the record straight and that seems to be a problem for both the leaders in the Department of Defense, and the entrenched bureaucrats of the Department of Veterans Affairs." Agents and decontaminants used, different ones in different tests are: Bacillus globigii (BG), Coxiella burnetii, Pasteurella tularensis, Zinc Cadmium Sulfide, Beta-propriolactone, Sarin, VX, Escherichia Coli (EC), Serratia Marcescens (SM), Sodium Hydroxide, Peracetic acid, Potassium hydroxide, Sodium hypochlorite, "tracer amounts" of radioactivity and asbestos, Methylacetoacetate. Senator Bill Nelson (D) of Florida, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Rep. Mike Thompson (D) of California plan to introduce legislation in their respective chambers next week, urging the Pentagon to reveal more information about the tests, known as "Project SHAD". Eleven other members of Congress have signed the request from Thompson. They have attached a provision on to Senate bill, S-2514, known as the National Defense Authorization Act, to fund the declassification of Project SHAD. The President has vowed to veto the bill. The tests involved substances that the military believed at the time to be harmless. But evidence now shows that some could be harmful. The Secretary of veterans affairs, Anthony Principi, urged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to declassify more of the tests "as quickly as possible". Anyone that believes they were part of the SHAD tests, should contact: Vietnam Veterans of America 8605 Cameron Street, Suite 400 Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 301-585-4000, Fax 301-585-0519, 1-800-VVA-1316 The SHAD helpline is at 1-800-749-8387 or contact VA by e-mail at shadhelpline@vba.va.gov All known SHAD operations, dates of operations, the agents sprayed, and the ships and Marine personnel involved, in no particular order, are: Operation Dates, Agent Sprayed and Ships involved: 'Copper Head' Jan 24-Feb 25, 1965 Bacillus globigii Zinc Cadmium Sulfide (FP-fluorescent particle) * USS Power 'Shady Grove' Jan 22-Apr. 9, 1965 Bacillus globigii, Coxiella burnetii (OU), Staphylococcal enterotoxin (Type B _PG2) Uranine dye (sodium fluorescein) * USS Granville S.Hall 'Autumn Gold' May 3-31-1963 Bacillus globiggi (BG) * USS Navarro (LPA-215) * USS Tioga County (LST-1158) * USS Carpenter * USS Hoel (DDG13) * USS Granville S. Hall (Yag-40) * Marine Air group 13, First Marine Brigade 'Purple Sage' Jan & Feb 1966 Methylacetoacetate * USS Herbert J. Thomas (DD-833) 'Eager Belle I' Jan-Mar 1963 Bacillus globiggi (BG) * USS George Eastman (yag39) 'Eager Belle II' Feb-Mar 1963 Bacillus globiggi (BG) * USS George Eastman (yag39) * USS Granville S. Hall (yag40) * USS Carpenter (DD-825) * USS Navarro (LPA-215) * USS Tioga County(LST-1158) 'Scarlet Sage' Feb 9,1966-Mar 4, 1966 Bacillus globiggi (BG) * USS Herbert J. Thomas (DD-833) (Army tugs manned by naval personnel) An article at www.tugboatsF.com/1t2080Frame1 LT-2080, LT-2081, LT-2085 source1.htm, lists the following agents as being used: LT-2086, LT-2087, LT-2088 Tularamia, anthrax, parrot fever, Q fever, botulism, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. 'Fearless Johnny' Aug-Sep 1965 VX nerve agent Diethylphthlate * USS George Eastman (yag-39), * USS Granville S. Hall (yag-40) * Two light tugs (not identified) * VC-1 Utility squadron One, * Blue Aiis Squadron (Blue Warriors) * Patrol Squadron Six (PATRON SIX) * Flight Wing Two, * Covered lighter (barge) YFN-811 * US Navy Tug, ATF-105 'Flower Drum I' Feb-Apr Sarin nerve agent * USS George Eastman (yag-39), Aug-Sep 1964 Sulphur dioxide, Methylacetoacetate * USS Granville S. Hall (yag-40) 'Flower Drum II' Nov & Dec 1964 VX nerve gas * US Navy Barge YFN-811 Phosphorous 32 * US Navy Tug, ATF-105 Bis (2 ethyl-hexyl) hydrogen phosphite DTC Test 69-32 Apr 30-Jun 28, 1969 Serratia * USS Granville S. Hall (yag-40), Marcensen, Escherichia coli, Five Army light tugs, (manned Bacillus subtilis var. by naval personnel). niger (BG), DTC Test 68-50 Sep-Oct 1968 Bacillus globiggi (BG) * USS Granville S. Hall (YAG-40) Staphylococcal enterotoxin, Type B (PG2), Uranine dye (sodium fluorescein). used on: * 4533rd Tactical Test Squadron * 33rd Tactical Fighter Wing (F-4E aircraft) * Marine Air Group 13, First Marine Brigade 'Half Note' 'Red Beva' 'Night Train' 'Big Tom' 101 Others to come (Hopefully). Karl Theis Video Field Reporter RealityExpander Channel 10 TimeWarner Austin,Texas cell 512 297-9875 k_t723@yahoo.com IF THEY DID THIS THEN...WHAT ARE THEY DOING NOW? DoD News, the official news of the Department of Defense, HA! http://www.defenselink.mil/news/dodnews.html http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2002/b05232002_bt264-02.html Email This Article
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Molliani
Senior Member
Illinois 420 posts, Mar 2001
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posted 08-18-2002 05:30 PM
Another point of view:From a speech by retired USMC General Hawley. "Since the attack, I have seen, heard, and read thoughts of such surpassing stupidity that they must be addressed. You've heard them too. Here they are:" 1) "We're not good, they're not evil, everything is relative." "Listen carefully: We're good, they're evil, nothing is relative. Say it with me now and free yourselves. You see, folks, saying 'We're good' doesn't mean, 'We're perfect.' Okay? The only perfect being is the bearded guy on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The plain fact is that our country has, with all our mistakes and blunders, always been and always will be, the greatest beacon of freedom, charity, opportunity, and affection in history. If you need proof, open all the borders on Earth and see what happens. In about half a day, the entire world would be a ghost town, and the United States would look like one giant line to see 'The Producers.'" 2) "Violence only leads to more violence." "This one is so stupid you usually have to be the president of an Ivy League university to say it. Here's the truth, which you know in your heads and hearts already: Ineffective, unfocused violence leads to more violence. Limp, panicky, half-measures lead to more violence. However, complete, fully thought through, professional, well-executed violence never leads to more violence because, you see, afterwards, the other guys are all dead. That's right, dead. Not 'on trial,' not 'reeducated,' not 'nurtured back into the bosom of love.' Dead. D-E-Well, you get the idea." 3) "The CIA and the rest of our intelligence community has failed us." "For 25 years we have chained our spies like dogs to a stake in the ground, and now that the house has been robbed, we yell at them for not protecting us. Starting in the late seventies, under Carter appointee Stansfield Turner, the giant brains who get these giant ideas decided that the best way to gather international intelligence was to use spy satellites. 'After all,' they reasoned, 'you can see a license plate from 200 miles away.' This is very helpful if you've been attacked by a license plate. Unfortunately, we were attacked by humans. Finding humans is not possible with satellites. You have to use other humans. When we bought all our satellites, we fired all our humans, and here's the really stupid part. It takes years, decades to infiltrate new humans into the worst places of the world. You can't just have a guy who looks like Gary Busey in a Spring Break '93 sweatshirt plop himself down in a coffee shop in Kabul and say 'Hi ya, boys. Gee, I sure would like to meet that bin Laden fella.' Well, you can, but all you'd be doing is giving the bad guys a story they'll be telling for years." 4) "These people are poor and helpless, and that's why they're angry at us." "Uh-huh, and Jeffrey Dahmer's frozen head collection was just a desperate cry for help. The terrorists and their backers are richer than Elton John and, ironically, a good deal less annoying. The poor helpless people, you see, are the villagers they tortured and murdered to stay in power. Mohamed Atta, one of the evil scumbags who steered those planes into the killing grounds (I'm sorry, one of the 'alleged hijackers,' according to CNN. They stopped using the word 'terrorist,' you know), is the son of a Cairo surgeon. But you knew this, too. In the sixties and seventies, all the pinheads marching against the war were upper-middle-class college kids who grabbed any cause they could think of to get out of their final papers and spend more time drinking. At least, that was my excuse. It's the same today. Take the Anti-Global-Warming (or is it World Trade? Oh-who-knows-what-the-hell-they-want) demonstrators. They all charged their black outfits and plane tickets on dad's credit card(!) before driving to the airport in their SUV's." 5) "Any profiling is racial profiling." " Who's killing us here, the Norwegians? Just days after the attack, the New York Times had an article saying dozens of extended members of the gazillionaire bin Laden family living in America were afraid of reprisals and left in a huff, never to return to studying at Harvard and using too much Drakkar. I'm crushed. I think we're all crushed. Please come back. With a cherry on top? Why don't they just change their names, anyway? It's happened in the past. Think about it. How many Adolfs do you run into these days? Shortly after that, I remember watching TV with my jaw on the floor as a government official actually said, 'That little old grandmother from Sioux city could be carrying something.' Okay, how about this: No, she couldn't. It would never be the grandmother from Sioux City. Is it even possible? What are the odds? Winning a hundred Powerball lotteries in a row? A thousand? A million? And now a Secret Service guy has been tossed off a plane and we're all supposed to cry about it because he's an Arab? Didn't it have the tiniest bit to do with the fact that he filled out his forms incorrectly three times? And then left an Arab history book on his seat as he strolled off the plane? And came back? Armed? Let's please all stop singing 'We Are the World' for a minute and think practically. I don't want to be sitting on the floor in the back of a plane four seconds away from hitting Mt. Rushmore and turn, grinning, to the guy next to me to say, 'Well, at least we didn't offend them.'" "SO HERE'S what I resolve for the New Year: Never to forget our murdered brothers and sisters. Never to let the relativists get away with their immoral thinking. After all, no matter what your daughter's political science professor says, we didn't start this. Have you seen that bumper sticker that says, 'No More Hiroshima's?' I wish I had one that says, "You First. No More Pearl Harbors.'" "Semper Fi!" 
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Alpha-Theta
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posted 08-18-2002 06:35 PM
Thanks Molliani. By posting that in contrast I believe it is even more clear which perspective is holding the water. And it's definitely NOT the biased opinions of a fomer Marine. You can ask a co-conspirator if there is a conspiracy, but it's just plain dumb. 
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Molliani
Senior Member
Illinois 420 posts, Mar 2001
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posted 08-18-2002 11:17 PM
Alpha-Theta Maybe you're in need of some meaningful sleep.Sorry, but this is just too funny. Oxymoron Alert ! ! ....................................................................... quote: p.s. I voted for Gore, as did most Americans. .......................................................................... quote: It makes me an independent thinker and it makes me open minded. ......................................................................... 
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theseeker
One moon circles
Damnit...I'm a doctor jim 3403 posts, Jul 2000
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posted 08-19-2002 01:02 AM
thanks for the humor molliani...I sometimes wonder if "oxymoron" would not be a better screen name for A/T...lol....lwr, you actually posed relevant conversation without derisive comments...a road not traveled by many...thanks you.... Maybe I was not clear enough, I think Jefferson meant that we should clean out lifetime career politicians, not neccesarily change from a republic to something else. term limits...the problem with that is seniority...and there are some who do an exceptional job in our congress...some... I have been in 15 countries, lived in some of them as well, we are not the envy of the world, laughing stock maybe. They envy our ability to have great sports stars...in everything but Formula 1 and, until this year, soccer, the only 2 sports that count in the worlds eye. They envy the "easy money we seem to acquire so easily. Our form of republic is not envied in many of the progressive and free countries that I have been in and know people from. I would disagree, and say that you are placing value in my point, that this country is money....where the envy resides, no where else in the world can a man attain the same wealth and stature as here in the U.S...that's why they come from mexico...and canada...the orient...cuba...some by foot and on boats...and some mothers with their son who die on the trip to a new country, only to have that country send her boy back...my point is yes there's some wrong, but what's right out weighs what's wrong.... Simply voting will get us nowhere fast, just more of the few choices the powers that be allow us to have in order to make us feel good about our system. I do vote by the way, I write to editors, I take on causes that I feel strongly about. I have been both in the military and at the other end of a rifle butt when I protested an unjust and stupid war. you sound a lot like me...sans the military experience...I have an authority problem.... While you may be called the Seeker, I quit seeking long ago. I could be called the Changealator if I wanted a name that described what I try and do. However that would be silly and would distract. words don't mean that much it's action that counts..."the seeker" loosely translated in spanish is "el buscador"....the finder.... As for your statement that there is something wrong with people, what do you suggest we do about your perception? What do you do? Why should all people be gone to fix what is broken? perception is not the problem...it's as simple as good and evil...which were here before us and will be long after we are dust... there's no fixing it...only fighting it...a never ending battle, of purpose...in the short term... you asked and I told you...IMO... thanks again for the uptown reply and humor fellas... ------------------ T/S
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Alpha-Theta
Superior

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posted 08-19-2002 01:14 AM
Molliani your antagonistic comments are only indicative of your lack of argument. There is nothing contradictory about my statements. And Seeker attempting to defame me... read through the threads. It's obvious I have picked his little mind apart with ease. So laugh all you want with your antagonistic and petty comments. Maybe I would be slightly concerned if anyone intelligent shared your ridiculous views. All you have done is taken two sentences and excluded them from their paragraphs, effectively taking them out of context simply to push my buttons. I can see right through your lameness.In order to comprehend the meaning of my statements it's imperative that you read them all. quote: p.s. I voted for Gore, as did most Americans. Didn't seem to matter now did it? Not that it was a win either way. It's simply a matter of picking the lesser of two evils. Perhaps if an honest, decent, and moral individual were to run for presidency more people would 'participate'. Quite frankly most intelligent people can see right through this system known as 'democracy'.

Seeker,
get a dictionary look up the word gullable then look in the mirror
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Molliani
Senior Member
Illinois 420 posts, Mar 2001
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posted 08-19-2002 03:18 AM
Alpha Theta I did preface my remark with sorry .... As far as screen names go - Seeker thought Oxymoron would be good for you. Well maybe ............ but I like Alpha The Pompous ..... edit: Hmmm ... that was a strange slip up in spelling Alpha. Thank's for the correction. I'm glad I didn't go with the a and add a double s. Oh well, a rose by any other name .....as the story goes.
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Alpha-Theta
Superior

ª×µ»ƒ³²² 694 posts, May 2002
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posted 08-19-2002 03:34 AM
More quality 3rd grade banter. Good Job.  transparent.
quote: but I like Alpha The Pompus.
Hmm interesting. Pompus eh? wow. You're a smart one aren't you? p o m p o u s You've got the 3rd grade wit but you lack the 3rd grade spelling. Sorry. 
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Lulu
ice behaving badly
right here 2553 posts, Dec 2000
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posted 08-19-2002 09:20 AM
quote: In order to comprehend the meaning of my statements it's imperative that you read them all.
Is that a threat A/T? LOL! Good posts LWR...especially "I will not be manipulated."

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Alpha-Theta
Superior

ª×µ»ƒ³²² 694 posts, May 2002
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posted 08-19-2002 10:44 AM
Hey lulu i'm sure your proud of your buddies antagonism. Makes you feel important doesn't it. You are equally as transparent. Always have been. Oh and Lulu, who was it that took this thread off topic??
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