Which victims? I'm a resident of the state of Mississippi. And I assure you that most of us are victims of 9/11 as much as the residents of the city of New York. The difference between us is that they suffered the immediate impact; which was horrific and unimaginably painful. The rest of the nation along with NYC residents have suffered the unrelenting fallout of the growing poverty, unemployment, rising costs, homelessness, over-taxing of the poor, and middle-class (now falling into the ranks of the poor, and classified as "the working-poor"). And then there's the
hundreds of thousands of our youth that are enlisted in the military which is situated in every oil-producing or diamond-rich country in the world, excluding their own nation,
leaving their own borders, and their own families defenseless, and unprotected. And of course, last, but not least: If our youth is tomorrows leaders, and their being shot and bombed, and mutilated, their blood spilled out on foriegn soil, who will be left to lead? If our own nation were attacked (again), who would be here to defend it? Now, tell me who the "victims" are, again?
Now that we've settled that, I'd like to address the remark made by the retired CIA agent, that " we would be better off leaving Bin Laden at large." I think that remark is the entire answer to the burning question,"why are our troops in Iraq?"
And the CIA retired agent states that, by "LETTING" him run free (the implication is that they choose NOT to capture him),
because the world might be safer. Hmmm, he might actually have a point there.
Since "9/11", most every law-abiding, tax-paying God-fearing natural-born, legal citizen of the United States has endured full-body searches at airports, plunderings of personal possessions, intrusive scans of person and possessions at most every place of travel. And since 9/11, we all are subject to finger-printing for one lame reason or another. We have been made targets of wire-tapping. We are required to produce so many forms of identification for even the the most minute reasons. We have been finger-printed, documented, valued (or de-valued), questioned, investigated,
and daily warned of imposing threats by means of media-induced "terror-theats."
But who is terrorizing us? Bin Laden has his own agenda at the moment, which of course is to ultimately attempt to annialate us. But in all actuality of the present tense, Bin Laden is NOT terrorizing us. He made his strike, then ran.
For the past six years, it hasn't been Bin Laden nor al-qaida that has been tapping our phones and internet. It hasn't been Bin Laden or al-qaida that has been searching our persons and possessions. They are not interested in invading our privacy. They have not finger-printed and photographed us. They have not documented and catagorized us in their system. They don't even know our names, numbers, social-status, or credit-scores. They could care less. They just want to kill us all and obtain pleasures forevermore. They haven't made their intentions secretive. Quite the contrare! They've made their intentions ABUNDANTLY CLEAR.
So, why is Bin Laden and al-qaida allowed to roam free, spewing out their hatred and blood-thirst for our nation, but we, the nation are being subjected to invasions of privacy, searches, wire-taps, cyber-snoops, finger-printing, lengthy documentations of proofs of ID, residence, social-status, credit-worthiness, birthdates, birth places, names, birthdates, and birthplaces of family members, names addresses and phone numbers of personal and business associates? And this, repeatedly?
Again, I ask, who is terrorizing us? And is this terrorism confined to the residents of NYC? You know, you can put a mask on a leopard and call it whatever face you put on it. But it's still a leopard.
2007-09-09 20:43:00
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answered by Renee E 1
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