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jscrick
at Sun Jan 24 10:38:13 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jscrick ]
The way I see it, it started after 9/11. So much of our National energy, resources, and focus has been on "Homeland Security" since then.
With everything going to more efficient and more invasive means and methods of/for monitoring the public, as we forfeit more and more of our rights and freedoms in the name of security.
That, along with the "War on Terrorism", those ill-advised and poorly managed unfunded Foreign Military Campaigns bordering on Colonialism. It has been said, "War is good business", and I'd have to agree...for some. Leaving the rest of us in a recession. Just can't let go of that Tar Baby now.
Let's not forget the Unfunded Federal Mandates, Carve-outs, Pork Barrel Projects, Cronyism, Sweetheart Deals, Bail-outs.
As our country moves further and further into the realm of Fascism, where the philosophy of "Whats good for the Corporate Military Industrial Complex is good for the Country"...with our ever growing Governmental Oversight, our individual rights and freedoms go by the wayside in the name of "Homeland Security" and "The War on Terrorism". Not to mention the systematic destruction of the Middle Class, leaving a greater and greater gap between the very few Ultra-rich/Uber-wealthy and the ever growing Ultra-poor. The disparity gap becomes larger and larger, while the poor become a greater and greater proportion of the population. I sometimes wonder if Marie Antoinette incarnate isn't running the country.
Their argument is that the Python and the large Constrictors are the enemy of our environment, our natural resources, our natural heritage, along with Humanity in general of course. And it has been said that those same animals should be regulated and or eliminated for the protection of "First Responders" in the name of Homeland Security and Public Safety. Where ignorance is the engine and fear is the fuel, that's what's driving this train.
It's just the same old "Lets Build More Prisons" and the "Third Strike" mentality run a muck. Knee-jerk reaction without much thought.
That's just the way I see it.
jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer
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RE: The perfect storm - jscrick, Sun Jan 24 10:38:13 2010