Some thoughts to start your week…
on 07/15/2007 at 10:40 PM
Based perhaps on the Marines’ color code for combat action, each color represents a certain specific definition of threat. Each has some specific duties or attitudes one should adopt under the threat condition. I do not find this unreasonable.
However, I do find it sad that so little is done to explain and stir up the people over what those duties are. Just as the communication plan for this war seems to have been used to wrap the trash left over after the initial planning luncheons, right along with the “what do we do with it once we have liberated Iraq and the terrorists start acting like, well, terrorists” plan, the threat level plan was just tossed out into the public with nothing backing it up in the minds of the populace. It has become an anachronism.
Of course, if you read the DHS’ web site, the one thing they (deliberately) skip in the emergency preparedness kit- any type of weapon for self defense. You can herd sheep, but not sheepdogs.
In 2003, Michael Crichton published an essay for the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (http://www.cdfe.org/religion.htm) which draws a parallel between modern environmentalism and organized religion.
While the entire article is a must read for anybody wanting to gain insight to the inner workings of the environmentalist movement, the opening two paragraphs are the real gems of the essay. Crichton gets to the core of the problem in the following two paragraphs:
“I have been asked to talk about what I consider the most important challenge facing mankind, and I have a fundamental answer. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.”
“We must daily decide whether the threats we face are real, whether the solutions we are offered will do any good, whether the problems we’re told exist are in fact real problems, or non-problems. Every one of us has a sense of the world, and we all know that this sense is in part given to us by what other people and society tell us; in part generated by our emotional state, which we project outward; and in part by our genuine perceptions of reality. In short, our struggle to determine what is true is the struggle to decide which of our perceptions are genuine, and which are false because they are handed down, or sold to us, or generated by our own hopes and fears.”
9-11 affected me greatly. While I go about living my life as a father raising three kids in a balanced and happy household, I live my life with an acute sense of awareness just how dangerous the world is and the evilness that exists.
I do not trust the government to be able to recognize and take the correct action to protect the country.
I do not trust either political party to be honest with the American people or put the betterment of the country ahead of their political aspirations.
I do not trust the press to be unbiased in what it reports or what it selects to report.
I do not believe anyone in any society can depend on any individual or any organization to protect their life, liberty and happiness and its up to the individual to defend themselves, their loved ones, their property and preserve their way of life using the least amount of force necessary but prepared to use the ultimate amount of force if required.
The country needs a Ronald Reagan more so now than anytime in the past, but for now we have only candidates that continue to tear apart our social fabric and move the country away from what makes her great.
Sad to say, but there are some people who need the Department of Helpless Stupidity to tell them what to do. Whats worse is that the ones who need it won’t listen to government advice, instead prefering to watch Michael Morons autobiography gone awry.
Frankly, we don’t need the Patriot Act either. We have given up freedom for imaginary security.
I propose a new Patriot Act.
Provision 1. All Citizens shall know by heart the pledge of allegence and recite it daily.
Provision 2. One article or ammendment of The Constitution or Declaration of Independence shall be read several times daily on every radio station and television station so Americans refamiliarize them selves with what being an American IS. No interpretation, no comentary, just the text.
Provision 3. All citizens be taught fire arms safety and marksmanship.Do we need more than that? Allegence to our nation, knowing the what and why that make our nation unique, and knowing how to defend it.
We’re at Orange this week? Uh oh, does this mean I have to get out my duct tape and plastic sheeting again?
I think that the donks planned this all, in the event they failed to cheat their way to victory in 2000. Take the first major event/disaster (in this case 9/11) and then bash Bush forever and forever on that issue. By creating DHS - they have pulled FEMA (which being gov wasn’t perfect, but at least was ok) under DHS - and it was only a matter of time before disaster (in many aspects of the word) happens - and they have another thing to bash Bush with.
Once again, just another way/form for the pre-cradle (don’t forget their sacrament - abortion) to grave control of everyone/everything American. And in the process render any and all who buy into the garbage - useless, helpless and forever dependant.
All to make themselves feel powerful and important. Such sad little lives and people.
07/16/2007 at 06:02 AM
