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<body class='hmmessage'>Excellent post, Paul.<BR>
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The reactionary fear of which Paul discusses was reflected very much in the final question posed at yesterday's NSA Candidate's Forum . . .<BR>
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<A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvkg42Aw9c8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvkg42Aw9c8</A><BR>
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Tom Hansen<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:21:01 -0700<BR>> From: godshatter@yahoo.com<BR>> To: chasuk@gmail.com<BR>> CC: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [Bulk] Important Bill Maher Message<BR>> <BR>> I meant to reply to this earlier. This is a very important point. For <BR>> those that haven't watched it or can't watch it, Bill Maher shows some <BR>> of the devastation from the train wreck at Chatsworth and of Hurricane <BR>> Ike. He then makes the point that if this was the result of a terrorist <BR>> attack, we would have freaked as a country (my words).<BR>> <BR>> This is very true, and the point has been made here before. This caused <BR>> me to think about something I've wanted to mention here before, but <BR>> couldn't get the words together for it. Our reaction to 9/11 as a <BR>> country was in a way schizophrenic. We reacted with extreme fear, and <BR>> we reacted with extreme "macho"-ness. Those two reactions seem <BR>> contradictory to me, but I think the one comes from the other. Being <BR>> "macho" is often done because of fear, or as a reaction to a fearful <BR>> situation.<BR>> <BR>> I would have liked us to have been truly macho in our response to 9/11. <BR>> We could have taken the attitude of "You want a piece of me? Come and <BR>> get it!" Instead of taking away liquids, lighters and nail clippers, we <BR>> could have given every person that boards a plane a big Rambo knife. <BR>> Just try to hijack a plane after 9/11 when everyone on board has a big <BR>> knife - even if you happen to have one yourself.<BR>> <BR>> I'm kidding about giving knives out on planes, but you get the idea.<BR>> <BR>> So, instead of being the person that gets shoved by someone who shoves <BR>> back and stands their ground, we were the bully that gets hit, runs off <BR>> crying, and then pounds on some little kid we don't happen to like when <BR>> the opportunity presents itself. We justify it to ourselves because he <BR>> resembled the guy that shoved us, and we got to steal his lunch money.<BR>> <BR>> Thinking that the name Barack Hussein Obama is an insulting name is a <BR>> symptom of that fearful pretend macho-ness that has swept us down the <BR>> path of shamefulness on the world stage. It's time to put our foot back <BR>> on the path we were originally on, don't you think?<BR>> <BR>> Paul<BR>> <BR>> Chasuk wrote:<BR>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmCC_jasq0E<BR>> ><BR>> > =======================================================<BR>> > List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>> > serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>> > http://www.fsr.net <BR>> > mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> > =======================================================<BR>> ><BR>> > <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> =======================================================<BR>> List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>> http://www.fsr.net <BR>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> =======================================================<BR><BR></body>
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