Terrorism

We do not face a global jihadist "movement" but a series of disparate ethnic and religious conflicts involving Muslim populations, each of which remains fundamentally regional in nature and almost all of which long predate the existence of al-Qaeda.

Osama bin Laden and his disciples are small men and secondary threats whose shadows are made large by our fears.

Poppycock! This is clearly an Al Qaeda plant, trying to talk us out of voting Republican so Osama Bin Laden can nuke all of our cities and then convert the survivors to Islam.

Karl Rove has just left some hints about the Republican's strategy for the 2008 elections will be.

“Do they or do they not want our intelligence officials to be listening in on terrorists’ conversations in the Middle East who may … be plotting to hurt America?” Rove said.

Rove argued that the Republican candidate must show the electorate “that they understand the surge is working.” Rove said the candidate should get firmly behind the war effort, painting the Democratic nominee as “defeatist.”

I hope this strategy works out as well for them this year as it did in 2006. The only way Democrats can lose this one is if they buy into Rove's BS again and become scared of their own shadows again.

Keith Olbermann called out Michael Chertoff's "gut feeling" regarding the "maybe possible potential terrorist attacks" that Chertoff "feels" may happen.

Lots of quotes for lots of bullshit.

2 years ago this week marked the "Last Chance" Americans had to combat the Real ID, had we wanted to.

Here is an excerpt from the article (linked above) written by current Presidential hopeful, Ron Paul. Sure doesn't sound like a Republican to me.

Well, our government's "War on Americans" keeps on going and going.

Here's an interesting Post article...

How far will it go, I wonder?

October 18th, 2004, Arther Shelton murdered his friend and roommate, Larry Hooper, because he believed that Mr. Hooper was the devil, and even claimed to have seen smoke and fire come from Larry's eyes, which is when he knew Larry was the devil.
The prosecution was asking for full on 1st degree murder, 25-45 years. The defense pleaded, both during the verdict and the sentencing, for a not guilty by reason of insanity.
Mr. Shelton, 50 years old at the time, was found guilty of second-degree murder with mental illness and sentenced to 25-45 years of prison time, and wouldn't be eligible for parole for 25 years.

And it gets worse from there. At the trial, the family of Shelton proved that they are just as crazy as their guilty relative.

It's been said in the past that 9/11 (and many other events the current administration have existed through / caused / been party to) was allowed simply to gain complete control over this country. I have to say, the more and more I read, the more unsure of anything I am. There is no doubt in my mind that the official 9/11 story is bullshit. The question, though, is what is the truth? If you think that everything we're fed is truth, then I pity you. I'm not saying that any or every conspiracy theorist is right, but you have to question some of the things we're told. It's unfortunate that this country has been so dumbed-down that we're ready to believe everything on the TV screen. It's no wonder that they took advantage of that fact. What do those in power always want? More power.

Here's a list of "American Taliban" as the article calls them.

I think that's going a little far, because... Well, come the fuck on. These people are just as bad, though.

"Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
- George W. Bush

"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."
- Jerry Falwell

"I'm an old-fashioned woman. Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women today, we wouldn't have to vote."
- Kay O'Connor (Kansas Senate Republican)

"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different...More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history."
- Pat Robertson

Amazing.

The article says it all, but it doesn't take care of the problem. The action must start here. We must be doing so much more up in arms over cases like this. Fascist mindset? In America? Not in the America I grew up in. Not in Washington's, Jefferson's, Kennedy's, or even in Reagan's America. Why isn't 'our president' being impeached? I, most of my life, have been very patriotic. It gets difficult though, when those in control betray everything you thought we ever stood for. How can we be proud of this, when it's stuff like this that the world sees? Pride? No. Maybe one day soon. When we have Democrats running the place. But not now. I can only hope on hope that this will end, so that I may finally be proud to say, 'I'm an American!'.