[Fwd: Re: Anti-Anti-Nader]

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Subject: Re: [ballistichelmet] Anti-Anti-Nader
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:01:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: [email protected]

Adam suggested I send this.  I know it's a bit dated since the announcement to 
be on the lookout for seven terrorists but here it is:

Ok, we are now to look out for 7 possible terrorists that are inside our 
country plotting an attack sometime in the coming months.

First, how did they get in the US in the first place?! I can understand one or 
two slipping in but we spent millions setting up this Homeland Security and 
seven internationally known terrorists somehow got in. Now we are supposed to 
be vigilant and keep shopping. Most have been on a watch list for years. Who 
was watching them if we can't find them? The same happened with 9/11. They 
were on watch lists too and somehow we lost them. Ridiculous.

Second, this attack could be today. It could be in July. Who knows because no 
one is telling us where and when this could happen. But Tom Ridge said that we 
should "get out and have some fun". We are just supposed to again be vigilant 
and keep shopping. It's just like the CIA after reviewing a Bin Laden, Zaqawi 
or someone else's tape. All they can say (with the zillions of dollars they 
get a year) is it is likely him. Likely? Hell give me millions of dollars and 
I can say the same thing.

Not to mention, hardly any local fire and rescue have received the hazmat gear 
they were promised. I am almost certain the next attack will be chemical or 
biological. What will happen if we can't even get to the area to clean it up 
or at least contain it because the area is too hot and we don't have enough 
equipment? Basically because of this, we as a nation have said that all the 
police, firemen and rescue who died on 9/11 died in vain but hey at least they 
got a mention in Bush's campaign ad.

I just read an article in Rolling Stone about Global Warming and how it's 
already here. Remember Paris last year? The heat wave sent 1000's to the 
hospitals that overflowed capacity. Now if that happened in the US we would 
really be screwed. Just look at the overburden the hospitals took on 9/11. 
Remember, 9/11 could have been a whole lot worse. Normally, 50,000 people 
could have been there at any given time. The largest loss of life on American 
soil on one day was Antietam at 20,000 (and that was from both sides losses). 
If something similiar happened be it natural or an attack that caused tens of 
thousands of casualties, the system couldn't hold it.

But again, we are told to be vigilant and keep shopping. For what? For our 
prosperity? No for corporate america. The same corporate america who raped us 
last year and got away with it(Enron, WorldCom etc). Are any of you 
prospering? Show of hands, whose squeaking by paycheck to paycheck. And most 
of you, like me, are not shall we say youthful anymore. When do you expect to 
retire? I can't even fathom that timetable as I might have a $1000 in savings. 
And I'm 34!

Now I also hear that we are running out of fossil fuels. Saudi Arabia has 
totally overestimated their supply. The UAE has already started to move their 
national industries away from oil production to tourism because they are 
running short. And Bush wants to drill in Alaska. Don't forget gas is at an 
all time high. And no one is taking concrete steps to open up alternative energy.

All this and Kerry can't seem to get ahead in the polls (not that I am a big 
fan of him but he's better than Bush). Kerry should be way ahead of Bush. Why 
isn't he? Is it his campaign? Partly but there are bigger elements at work here.

Bush is a major cause of all of the above and with Iraq and Afghanistan we 
should have him thrown out on his butt but he's in there and will remain there 
because of two things. He's in bed with Corporate America and also radical 
christians. I watched Frontline's The Jesus Factor about Bush's beliefs and 
how they run his daily affairs. During the Reagan campaign Bush 2 realized 
that he did not have to reach out to any other group to win the White House 
other than the Christians. Before this, no president was elected in modern 
times without getting the Catholic vote. And in the Christians eyes Bush can 
do no wrong because they think the way he does. They'll never turn on him no 
matter what he does.

So now Corporate America has control over everything. Media, politics and 
industry. And they cater to the whim of these Christian fanatics by tossing 
them a bone every once in a while to take away attention overseas and this 
terrible domestic economy ("the world hates us but here keep yourself busy 
with gay marriages and steroids in baseball"). These are the same people who 
didn't want civil rights, the ERA, interracial marriage, sex education or 
condom distribution in schools during the onslaught of AIDS, abortion rights 
and truly believed that rock music drove teens to suicide with hidden 
messages. 20 years from now their stance on gay marriage will make them look 
just as out of touch with reality as the above mentioned topics.

But the hardcore christians eat this stuff up and through it mobilizes them 
for the republican machine. Go to a Nascar race and play "Proud to be an 
American" and see how many ignorant people cry because they think America is 
the best place on earth and yet have never been outside their state nevermind 
their country. And until the Christians stop believing they are better than 
everyone else who isn't a Christian (they say they accept all but you are 
still going to hell if you don't believe their way) and stop holding on to the 
false belief that the Kingdom of Israel has to be rebuilt for the messiah (who 
isn't coming back people!), we will continue to anger the rest of the world 
and keep spawning Bin Laden's for decades.

Now one might think I am against christians. Nothing could be further from the 
truth. I accept everyone as they are. Those who know me, know this to be true. 
But when a group imposes their belief system on the populace or start 
censoring free speech, they lose my support for them. Plus, we are supposed to 
have a separation of church and state and that has been eroding dramatically 
over the past three years.

One also might think I am not patriotic or love America. They are wrong. I 
love America by definition but we no longer live in it. We never have really. 
Read the Declaration of Independance and try to tell me we do. Do we as a 
country consider all men created equal? Really? Then explain why there is 
still rampant racism, sexism and poverty in the "best country in the world?" 
And we wonder why other countries find us hypocritical. That's your starting 
point, folks, and this is what echoes globally.

But don't listen to me. Be vigilant and keep shopping.
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