Community weekly poll: Which do you think is the biggest security threat?
- 3/14/06 3:13 PM
Interesting
by Honey Wool - 4/21/06 1:12 PM In reply to: Our Insecurity by carolinabell1860I want to ask the same question all the time. How in the world can so many educated Americans be such idiots when it comes to politics and understanding the world? However, the last time I checked Bush was spying on people who were grave national security risks, not Democrats who want us to ''negotiate'' with a terrorist country attempting to construct a nuclear bomb.
Bush Spying on Americans
by carolinabell1860 - 6/24/06 10:17 PM In reply to: Interesting by Honey WoolThe "last time you checked"? Give me a break, you have no clue as to whom Bush is spying on or why. You are just another nit witted sheeple. All the education in the world can't teach one common sense. Now, isn't that interesting? By the way , please check again for me. The last time I checked Bush declared his traitor activities "classified", and won't let me find out anything. Since you can, do you mind passing some info my way? Thank you.
Really off the wall
by jayRwv - 3/14/06 6:30 PM In reply to: White House!! by needforspeedskierI hate to waste a comment because this is not worthy of any thought-out comment. Ridiculous, totally.
the White House
by drugpeaceman2 - 3/14/06 6:56 PM In reply to: Really off the wall by jayRwvNo one, not one thinking person would think there is a greater threat to the security of this country, our technology or the world more insidious than the current administration. To some extent you are right, however misguided you may be. If 40% of the American public is in such a state of perpetual fear, I guess they have enough problems without being burdened by individual thought!
A man can seldom -- very, very seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. For many a year -- perhaps always -- the training of the two nations (the US and the UK) had been dead against independence in political thought, persistently inhospitable toward patriotism manufactured on a man’s own premises, patriotism reasoned out in the man’s own head and fire-assayed and tested and proved in his own conscience. The resulting patriotism was a shopworn product procured at second hand. The patriot did not know just how or when or where he got his opinions, neither did he care, so long as he was with what seemed the majority -- which was the main thing, the safe thing, the comfortable thing. Does the reader believe he knows three men who have actual reasons for their pattern of patriotism -- and can furnish them? Let him not examine, unless he wants to be disappointed. He will be likely to find that his men got their patriotism at the public trough, and had no hand in its preparation themselves.
-Mark Twain
I agree
by lassean1 - 3/14/06 6:57 PM In reply to: Really off the wall by jayRwvNot worth the thought out comment at all.
Not really.... just think
by mpmacal - 3/14/06 7:28 PM In reply to: Really off the wall by jayRwvOK... lets think about security...
As a citizen of the US, my primary concern is FREEDOM, a history of democratic principles, and the welfare of my fellow citizens.
Now, let's see how the White House fairs...
1. Are my communications secure? Nope... we now eavesdrop on citizens.
2. Democratic principles? Heck no. The leader of a one-party government stamps out dissent, uses the FCC as a threat to free airwaves, rehearses staged "interviews" with our soldiers in Iraq, and tries to fool citizens with programs like prescription drug plans that cost users more, and "No Child Left Behind" programs with LESS funding than before the program started.
3. Welfare of my fellow citizens? As a New Yorker who lost my first cousin in the World Trade Center I now watch a nearly equal number of young men and women, get slaughtered for "freedom" in a country thousands of miles away.
CNet may not be the right place for this commentary, but they asked, you whined, so here it is.
Ugh.. please
by mikkdc - 3/15/06 3:52 AM In reply to: Not really.... just think by mpmacalWell, my condolences go out to anybody that lost a family member in the Trade centre disaster, but..
With regard to losses in the wars of recent years it makes me wonder if the guys and girls who sign up to join 'A Military Force' actually realise they may be called into a war zone and there is a possibility that they may lose their lives.
I was in the British Army for a short period and I was fortunate that it was not during any conflict. However if it had been then my purpose was to risk my life following orders. This is the Army.
When I see images of US family saying Bush killed our son it really niggles me to think they should be pointing the finger at themselves, they allowed their child to join, they allowed the risk to be taken, they were aware of what happens if there is a conflict concerning your country.
Unlike the British Army during the Second world war and a number of current countries it is not obligitory to join the Military.
WAKE UP AMERICA AND SMELL THE COFFEE !!
People join the Army to protect their country and risk their lives doing so. Casualty is inevitable.
Compare the losses on both sides, not everybody in iraq is a terrorist or a member of the Taliban no matter what you may think, the same as not all Americans are egotistical and ignorant.
~D
If I sign up to protect my country...
by mantrepid - 3/18/06 10:39 PM In reply to: Ugh.. please by mikkdc... I do it to protect my country, and not just to start trouble for unknown reasons on a false pretense.
True
by Honey Wool - 4/21/06 1:17 PM In reply to: Ugh.. please by mikkdcWhen people sign up to join the military they are joining an organization dedicated to protecting and serving their country. If their country calls them to fight in a war that they don't agree with then so be it. If they die fighting for it, then they have given their lives for their country.
You can't be serious???
by thegurns - 3/15/06 5:50 AM In reply to: Not really.... just think by mpmacal1. Are my communications secure?
- NO, they are not secure if your friends are known terrorists.
2. Democratic principles? <
- <<insert liberal talking points here >>>
3. Welfare of my fellow citizens?
- I am sorry about your loss, but if your buddy Clinton would have taken out Bin Laden when he had the chance (twice), things would not have played out as they did.
We can go around and around, but it won't matter, since blaming Bush will solve everything, right??? I can't say all of Bush's decisions have been 100% corrrect, but he's doing a much better job than Kerry would have done... that I do know 100%.
Dead Right
by Honey Wool - 4/21/06 1:21 PM In reply to: You can't be serious??? by thegurnsBush is not a perfect man and I will never say that he is. He has made decisions that I don't agree with, but I believe that he desires to do what is best for this country. I can say with absolute certainty that this country is safer because of the actions that he has taken. I would be terrified if Kerry, Clinton, or Gore were President.
Canadians shake their heads.
by nevido - 8/30/06 5:17 AM In reply to: You can't be serious??? by thegurnsWe have lots of American friends. We like them and think they are great people. Then they elect politicians to represent them who betray the principles they believe. Who lie to them and wage war in foriegn countries for greed and what do our friends do about it? Nothing!
Oh yes Clinton lied about having sex and how many millions were spent trying to impeach him. But GW lies about WMD and al-Qaeda in Iraq and who says Boo? We will continue to like our American friends but despair that they can't elect a leader as great as they are.
Off the wall indeed!!
by kiki2005 - 3/14/06 10:01 PM In reply to: Really off the wall by jayRwvRidiculous indeed!!!
The Government Is Not The Enemy!
by 9100107 - 3/14/06 7:52 PM In reply to: White House!! by needforspeedskierPlease, don't think that the government is the enemy. First of all, imagine what life would be like without the government protecting us. Terrorists would be everywhere, communicating without fear of being caught and prosecuted. Secondly, the government needs a warrant to do pretty much anything. Next on the list is the fact that if you aren't doing anything illegal, you have nothing to fear, and you probably won't be prosecuted even if you are doing something minorly illegal. Do you think the federal government really cares about your private emails? Do you think anyone cares? I think that you are overly paranoid, and pessimistic. We need to look at the government as a friend, and the world will be a better place.
Enemy?
by bea581 - 3/14/06 7:55 PM In reply to: The Government Is Not The Enemy! by 9100107Spoken like a true follower! Ever read 1984?
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