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gibingus · 08-11-2004, 05:51 PM

by your use of the term "these people," i see you failed to grasp my point. "these people" are everyone on the planet.

everyone is a potential terrorist, including you seaver. you just need to feel isolated enough and get good and pissed and then realize that the only way for you to get your point across is to do something fucked up like kill a bunch of kids at your school, take a gun into the capitol building on a sunny friday afternoon just in time for the evening news, or climb a tower in austin texas and start whacking coeds with a high powered rifle. or you could pull out that old village people indian outfit and dump some tea into a harbor. you don't even need a plane.

the war on terror is a war on everyone with no possible end. from a power standpoint, it is a beautiful creation... just like the cold war, only better because the enemy is so vague and ambiguous. just like the war on drugs, but with more focused impact.

but you need to keep reminding everyone that they are at war... and i have never seen a people who are at war that needed this much reminding. the war on terror is advertised more than coca cola to maintain top of mind awareness. and these alert scales we're discussing here are a highly effective means. the only way we know they make us safer is because we've been told they make us safer. i'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt here, but i am not seeing anyone earn much credibility.

you've lived with the threat of terror all your life, so did your parents and so did theirs. the only difference is now, our leaders have figured out that they can stay in power if they keep scaring the shit out of us. unfortunately for them, you just can't maintain that strategy for long before people develop enough tolerance to not be scared anymore.

and when you aren't scared, you can think for yourself again and start making some decent decisions. like voting for people who don't hire the morons who ran the pentagon when they bought $200 toilet seats, but now work in the private sector so they can spend even more for them. i'd like to see my tax dollars spent on something that won't end up roadside trash in the sand halfway around the planet. like my kids education, a little bit of health care... you know, stooopid-bottom-of-the-maslov-pyramid-type-shit like that. is that evil?

08-11-2004, 05:51 PM	#21 (permalink)
gibingus Insane Location: 38° 51' N 77° 2' W	by your use of the term "these people," i see you failed to grasp my point. "these people" are everyone on the planet. everyone is a potential terrorist, including you seaver. you just need to feel isolated enough and get good and pissed and then realize that the only way for you to get your point across is to do something fucked up like kill a bunch of kids at your school, take a gun into the capitol building on a sunny friday afternoon just in time for the evening news, or climb a tower in austin texas and start whacking coeds with a high powered rifle. or you could pull out that old village people indian outfit and dump some tea into a harbor. you don't even need a plane. the war on terror is a war on everyone with no possible end. from a power standpoint, it is a beautiful creation... just like the cold war, only better because the enemy is so vague and ambiguous. just like the war on drugs, but with more focused impact. but you need to keep reminding everyone that they are at war... and i have never seen a people who are at war that needed this much reminding. the war on terror is advertised more than coca cola to maintain top of mind awareness. and these alert scales we're discussing here are a highly effective means. the only way we know they make us safer is because we've been told they make us safer. i'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt here, but i am not seeing anyone earn much credibility. you've lived with the threat of terror all your life, so did your parents and so did theirs. the only difference is now, our leaders have figured out that they can stay in power if they keep scaring the shit out of us. unfortunately for them, you just can't maintain that strategy for long before people develop enough tolerance to not be scared anymore. and when you aren't scared, you can think for yourself again and start making some decent decisions. like voting for people who don't hire the morons who ran the pentagon when they bought $200 toilet seats, but now work in the private sector so they can spend even more for them. i'd like to see my tax dollars spent on something that won't end up roadside trash in the sand halfway around the planet. like my kids education, a little bit of health care... you know, stooopid-bottom-of-the-maslov-pyramid-type-shit like that. is that evil? __________________ if everyone is thinking alike, chances are no one is thinking. Last edited by gibingus; 08-11-2004 at 05:55 PM..