- Hi Jeff,
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- Please tell me there is some semblance of common sense
left in Washington, I desperately need the reassurance as I am apparently
not as brave as most Americans. Tom Ridge has just elevated the terrorist
risk to level "orange," just one small step from "Severe
risk."
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- WASHINGTON (AP) - The government on Sunday raised the
national threat level to orange, indicating a high risk of terrorist attack,
and said threat indicators are "perhaps greater now than at any point"
since Sept. 11, 2001, with strikes possible during the holidays.
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- Americans were promised "extensive and considerable
protections" around the country and told to stick to their travel
plans despite intelligence indicating the al-Qaida terrorist network is
seeking again to use planes as weapons and exploit suspected weakness in
U.S. aviation security.
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- Continued:
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- Yet, we are told to go about our affairs (BAU) business
as usual. Whatever we do, don't stop that Christmas shopping, and spending
all that precious money, they?? are going to protect us. Keep those airports,
train stations and bus stations full, keep those city streets and entertainment
venues full to capacity, in other words, provide any potential terrorist
a well populated target source, just don't stop spending that money, feed
that corporate beast, damn the terrorist, full speed ahead.
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- Would it not be wiser to instruct the American people
to put off massive public gatherings such as loaded department stores,
shopping centers and sports arenas until said threat could be verified,
or until the alleged danger has passed? Does this government not have any
regard for the value of the lives of our citizens at all? Either the "fear
factor" alerts are a total fraud to keep the fear element at a high
level throughout the coming election process, or our government seems to
be willfully placing its citizens in harms way by tell us to, "go
about our business as usual." While known terrorist have allegedly
made convincing threats to "do even greater harm and damage than the
WTC, Pentagon and Pennsylvania crash," we are told that we should
place all of our trust in the very people who entirely missed the last
"terrorist" visit, namely 911. This doesn't instill a great deal
of confidence in me, I don't want my head blown off while someone reads
a goat story.
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- We are also told that all law enforcement personnel and
other protection resources will be at our disposal. I'm sure this is reassuring
to anyone who has ever waited for the police to respond to a crime in progress.
Plus, when people become afraid everybody looks suspicious, panic becomes
the rule of the day, else why are some innocent souls sitting in jails
today accused of 911 connections based solely on their skin color?
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- To suggest that we are yielding to the threats of terrorist
by staying home, or practicing our own precautionary measures is a crock.
Any sane person is not going to make themselves a target for disaster simply
to show how brave they are, this indicates how stupid they are. Our leaders
get to sit in their fully contained bunkers underground and shout to the
enemy, "look how brave we American's are," while like so many
sitting ducks we listen to them and go shopping. It would be like standing
on the observation deck of one of the towers and daring the aircraft to
hit you because you are an American and you are brave. Obviously, under
normal conditions and considering that the world is indeed a very dangerous
place today, we do not shut ourselves in and stop functioning, however,
we are talking about supposedly "known and potentially life threatening
evidence here," there is a difference.
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- To most rational people, a warning means to be prepared
to take any action(s) necessary to avoid injury or death. It doesn't mean
go out on the streets and challenge some idiot with a nuke suitcase. If
these "informed" intelligence souls in Washington really had
sound data, and if the same "intelligence souls" had American
lives as their primary interest, I would think they would devise a plan
whereby we might be told how to escape possible death, not how to take
our wallets and checkbooks and go out and meet it head on. This is a fools
game.
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- I am not suggesting that the same people (and they know
who they are, and they may be more well known than we might be prepared
to believe) won't do further damage to our nation as the most opportune
time arrives, but, I am aware that since 911 there has been any number
of opportunities do extensive damage during any number of major events
where massive crowds have gathered for traditional American events, yet
no "terrorist" have taken advantage of these opportunities, thank
God. This alone makes one wonder just who the real terrorist are. Follow
the money and follow the power, who really has the most to gain from these
continued alerts and threats?
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- I certainly pray that nothing happens to further harm
our people, or our nation, the previous attack has already caused irreservable
damage to our constitutional form of government and our rights. One can
almost hear the clanging of the chains from Patriot Acts l & ll, plus
the development of the Fatherland Security.
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- I think it is time for the government to stop crying
"wolf." Stop frightening the American public unless they have
facts, and or proof, something they always seem to come up short on, i.e.,
Iraq. When people become conditioned to hearing "the sky is falling"
time and time again, what happens? They will eventually stop looking up
(believing this crap) and then they are exposed to real danger because
their guard has been neutralized. At this point they will be ripe for extensive
conditioning and subjected to total authoritarian control simply because
they have stopped believing in themselves and self governing and now rely
on an oppressive form of government which will govern (rule) the people.
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- This pagan holiday isn't important enough to me to go
out and spend much needed money, if indeed we are at a serious risk. I'll
let the rich boys in Washington do all the shopping and spending (right)
since they are so brave about this.
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- Washington, give us a break, either prove an immanent
terrorist threat, or stop the fear mongering, the people don't need this
Orwellian conditioning, at least I don't need it.
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- I am still at a loss as to how America was able to get
along with the civilized world for more than two hundred years, give billions
of dollars and aid to poor countries, fight along side oppressed countries
to protect sovereignty and freedoms, and all of a sudden just three short
years ago, during this administration, the entire world is jealous of our
riches and hate us, and want to kill us all, go figure. I am equally puzzled
as to how every country we invade lately "just happens" to be
rich with oil or other commodities of wealth, whether it be minerals or
drugs, yet it isn't about oil. Now we must live with perpetual war for
the sake of perpetual war with elusive "faceless" terrorist all
over the world, in a war with no winners, this doesn't even make sense
to a normal thinking individual. This is contrary to natural human behavior.
This would suggest that everybody in the world is at war with everybody
in the world. Maybe I'm just getting old and things are moving too fast
for me, I can't come up with an answer to these questions.
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- Jerry L. Gardner
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- Comment
- From Michael Hannon
- 12-22-3
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- Another view:
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- This reminds me of the novel by Rene' Daumal, "Mount
Analogue" in which someone in the monestary he is staying is given
the title of "murderer of the day," and no one knows who it is
except the person who is titled so.
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- Everyone in the monestary becomes suspicious of everyone
else, and the rising discomfort and ludicrous climate of such a constructed
paranoia eventually leads the protagonist to
- inform the master of the monestary that he cannot live
there anymore, and leaves.
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- Perhaps it is just that time for some of us, when the
situation is so surreal that it is pointless to follow along with this
insanity simply because it has been so put upon us that we are spending
most of our energies in ways that are literally self-destructive.
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- That what we can do is reach within ourselves for a place
where these things don't exist because the level of their energy isn't
the place came to live, and we need to live elsewhere in our lives.
- Perhaps as well it is that we can find a certain cosmic
humor in the stupidity of the methodology being used against us in a cosmos
where there is so much more that we are capable of, albeit well outside
the oppressive confounding roles put upon us by those doing so. As David
Bohm suggested, we exist in an implicate order of wholeness - where has
it gone? Out of our own perception
- through the distractions running rampant in our minds
from all of this? It certainly hasn't ceased existing.
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- In a way, we are being conditioned to deal with these
painful absurdities in a way which will enable us to exist in them but
not of them as an form of growth of our own being above the turmoil and
into something else born of the ruins of the dessimation of what we are
so habituated to dealing with when things were "normal." We are
facing a test not only of resolve but of creativity in finding the way
out that is in each if us, so that we come out the other side of all this
better human beings, unswerved by such hostile machinations, for the rest
of our lives, because they no longer grip us, as the character in Daumal's
brilliant tale, we have left them behind for life in the real world in
which our roles in the cosmos await. And all we need is to develop the
capacity to step through the door that leads back to that wholeness, that
implicate order, that sacred place, where we were once seeking to become
more than we were..
- Comment
- From Muehlbauer
- 12-22-3
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- Below, is an excerpt taken from the article -Kick That
Fear Level Up A Notch. I, am not challenging the author or the article
for I too think we are being readied for another installment of "By
Way Of Deception." What I am challenging is the misconception insisting
America has always - if ever, militarily involved itself, but only to:
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- "fight along side oppressed countries to protect
sovereignty and freedoms" ...
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- If ever there was (a, national misconception) the above
quote says it all. Can anyone knowledgeable about the history of (America,
at war) find one instance when America as a nation militarily involved
itself to protect the sovereignty and/or freedoms of other peoples not
Americans, even, Americans?
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- I dare say, there is not one instance in all the history
of AMERICA when America did militarily involve itself for anyone or anything
other than for the ultra rich Internationalist Bankers.
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- In fact, since America was incorporated as a nation every
military involvement of America has accomplished exactly the opposite of
what the above quote would have us think. In every instance when America
did involve itself militarily the peoples and the nations have lost, incrementally,
their sovereignty and their freedoms...
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- Muehlbauer
- Orlando, Florida
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