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I have come to realize something lately. Stupidity has a price. The payment we make for being stupid is with our own social dignity. We as a society in this world rush to make judgements. Judgements about a certian race of people or a certian religoin. We made made this mistake in the begining of WWII with the japanese. It took forty years or more for us as a society to recognize our mistake. Are we as a society so arrgonant and stupid that we are willing to make mistake again.
Are we as a society willing to alienate an entire race and religous belief in the name of security. We have people in certian positions in our government and society who spew hate and discontent towards people who they neither understand nor want to understand. instead of taking the time to investigate these cultures they manufacture and exgerate truths and lies at their will. They package it up and call it news. They do this in the name of power and greed. I will state and be held responsible for the following statement. Our Congress, Our Senate and Our entire Judicial System as well as most of our news orginizations have a great number of CLOSEST RACISTS in them. They have little if any tolerance for any other race except Caucaisan and they have very little tolerance if any for any religion other than Christianity and most have no tolerance for anyone that is not hetrosexual,no matter what the reason.They present us one face in public and yet another when out of the camera's focus. I know this, because at one time I was one. I came to realize through self education, that the only thing that it shows in being a racist, is that as an idividual, or a group of people, or a society we are socially uneducated. It should show the rest of our society that these individuals or groups of people are bully's. They convince the rest of us, or at least they try to convince the rest of us,that this is done in the name of securityand social betterment. The fact that security is an illusion is hard for most people to accept. It is an illusion that has been fostered upon us by our Government and the power brokkers that they are associated with. The question as citizens of this country is this. Do we want a bully or a racist in our government making policy. Be Damned what party or affilation to what party they have. Do we as a society want these people in a position of power to make policy and pass laws without our consent These people work for us, to let any group or Political party shape our society in such manner is sowing the seeds of our own societies destruction. If we claim to be a free society and a just society then we must demand that our leaders enact laws that treat each and every individual the same.
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I often miss a good deal of your program. Even though I'm self-employed the nature of my work isn't conducive to listening to talk radio, unless I am able to run some errands and catch some of the program in the car. I heard the tail end today, when the woman who was picking up kids from school/flight attendant of 20 years was on saying, "I remember 9-11 and people need to suck it up if they want to fly safely." Paraphrased, of course.
This may have come up in the course of today's program, and it is not really an answer as to how to deal with reasonable safety in flying--though I thought your points about how much luggage goes unscreened and how many people die in car accidents each year relative to the losses of 9-11 were good ones. I am nonethless struck by the thought that whoever terrorized the nation on 9-11 clearly was interested in wreaking havoc on our way of life. It seems to me that our responses, as exemplified by TSA methods even before scanners and open palm pat-downs, are more fear based than anything else, probably are not making us much safer, and definitely diminished our overall sense of freedom and safety. If the gal who called in remembers 9-11, and clearly she suffered real personal losses, she seems to have no problem with freedom being another casualty. That's what bothers me in the response, both from the President and the TSA. Somehow our responses all along, from Bush with his bullhorn on the rubble to this, are not, to my way of seeing, those of a brave, proud, or free people. Leadership to steer us from the thing we have to fear, fear itself, seems like the starting point--but that is in very short supply these days.
another "in the end" quote
"and in the end it's the love you take, that's equal to the love you make"
lennon/mc cartney
repblicans act out their agenda globally, democtats nationally, each party moves the line to one world government in imperceptible
lock step increments
not my quote
I thought the thread was more current
Only those ethnicities who fit the profile of terrorist should be profiled eh? Fine. What ethnicity were Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols?
problem solved.
I flew on business for over 38 years and I know how it feels to be at 30,000 feet and realize that you are totally helpless if attacked by some crazy.
If you don't want to go through security, stay at home or take the train!
I should add, that I am against racial profiling, search everybody or nobody.
A friend of mine is a writer and 30 years ago she was stripped searched based only on her ethnicity. She wrote a story about it. "Stripped of More Than My Clothes". It was published in a national newspaper and within 24 hours, officials met and the governments policies regarding racial profiling were changed. Schools of higher education across the country use her story as part of their curriculum now. There are too many people who have forgotten the past.
Re your blog of 11/23/10:
You said: "...in other words, people who don't look like them." Hmmm...well, with respect to ethnicity, what kind of a name is Chaffetz?...or Hoekstra? There was a time when those names would have caused them to suffer discrimination as "furriners".
Jeff McKnight,
Spring Hill, Florida
Some General somewhere said recently that what we need to do in Afghanistan is declare victory and pull out.
If your shooting at me and I'm at home and I have no clear idea why your shooting at me, what the hay can anyone expect me to do save shoot back ?
I want to pass on this thought related to the Hartman show today. It seems that the same people who want airport security to be in the hands of private industry are often the same callers who point to the success of the Israeli screening methods. But that's a government program.
So if you suggest the Israeli approach, government or private is not the real issue here and shouldn't enter into the argument.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow's show segment on charities vs government helping people. I'm always frustrated by conservatives who seem to believe that we don't need government getting involved when we have charities. In Joe Conason's 2003 book, "Big Lies", Joe has a chapter "Faith, Charity and the Mayberry Machiavellis". In that chapter, one paragraph really stood out for me. He wrote, "A simple statistic demonstrates how ridiculous it is to think that private charity can replace the public sector in maintaining the social contract. According to a study prepared several years ago by the Century Foundation, the total assets of America's 34,000 foundations (not the annual income from their endowments) add up to around 10 percent of current government expeditures for social welfare and related programs. There is no reason to believe that ratio has changed much, particularly after plunging equity values decimated the foundation portfolios. Charitable groups lack the resources to sustain the nation's poor at even the most minimal level of survival-let alone to help them escape poverty".
Joe Conason wrote that in 2003 but didn't mention how many years before that the Century Foundation did the study. It would be every interesting to know what has changed in a more up to date study if there is one. I'm betting that charities have much less resources today,
What it comes down to is that many conservatives keep touting charities because they would like to see all public social contracts disappear.
I agree. Also check out Kennedy’s speech to the press club which stated there is a government under the government who is international in its scope and aims are counter to democracy. He was asking for the presses help in uncovering it. It didn't work. Give it a listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZk8ronces&feature=related
Kennedy was not killed by the mafia. They may have helped but they only helped. Let's look under the rocks that Kennedy was pointing to. I am sure we can find information of value about Kings passing, 9-11, and maybe even Paul Wellstone. It is time to take a serious look at what is truly beneath our government
Ever get a feeling that our government is ran by the Keystone cops, except not that well?
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One of the people in The Way of The World was a student from Afghanistan who just shrugged his shoulders when asked about bombings in his country. He replied, "people are always dropping bombs on us."
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