I love the Israeli people. Guess what? We are NOT Israel. I just love it when gasoline prices rose drastically and so many would say "Well; Great Britain's gas has been over $5 for years" As if that is supposed to console me and make me feel it is normality? I think not! We are NOT GB, we are not Israel..This is America.
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You are so right. And how has "our" government been doing? Hmmmmm. We have lost far more than we have gained. I hear it far too often.."Well sir, you have the freedom to post on the internet forums" Really? Seriously? The 1st amendment was one of the first to go. I can no longer speak my mind for fear of being charged with a hate crime. My words, not my acts will get me thrown in jail. This is an outrage!
You bet "they" walk among us. "They" started walking among us years ago.
The solutions are NOT what anyone wants. We as free people are supposed to be ..wait for it..[TOLERANT]
Inclined to tolerate the beliefs, practices, or traits of others; forbearing.
Non-sense! Guess what tolerance got us? How about over 3,000 dead and two of our greatest buildings leveled.
Attacked on American soil! Tolerance? This country was founded on Christian principles. 6,000 years ago these principles were well exercised in rooting out all sorts of evil.
Tolerance? Bologna! I am sick to death of how we are all supposed to be tolerant of "other" lifestyles at the cost of American lives.
You asked if we should put out the welcome mat? We did! And look what it got us as well as what we are reaping as a country.
Sure, we have had some domestic terrorism, but not nearly as much as foreign.
This government for years has been unwilling to summon the will to combat these attacks. No more than the so called "war on drugs."
So rather than have the intestinal fortitude to do what is NECESSARY, they restrict the rights of Americans by casting a net so wide that we are ALL caught up in it!
I refuse to allow my rights to be trampled in the name of security. To catch a few by catching millions is not the way to do this.
I will close with one example and MY answer to this problem of terrorism that should have been addressed after 9-1-1.
Every NON- U.S. Citizen of mid east descent must leave the country. Student visa? You are gone! Teaching professors? You are gone!
Let's face it. For terror to be perpetrated, the individual must be visible. One can not cause destruction without moving among the people.
Remove the person, the threat..and you have just eliminated a major problem from a particular people who come from a particular area of the planet that has been and continues to attack us.
"Sorry world, but we have a really big problem now..when we get it under control we will let (some) of you return"
Oh. Too extreme? Not tolerant? Is the idea any more extreme than 3,000 dead? Any more extreme than having the 1st amendment bastardized and molested in that no one can recognize it for what it once was?
How many more Americans must die before we wake up and realize you don't keep putting up fences to keep the wolves from your flock; you kill the wolf.
You don't shoot the wolf when it is in close proximity to your sheep and running wild; you will probably kill too many sheep in the attempt to kill the wolf.
You don't make the fence perimeter smaller so you can see your sheep better; all that does is reduce the grazing area and the sheep suffer.
Combating extreme violence requires extreme measures; something our representatives are unable or unwilling to do for fear of (world) opinion.
Yes, we can defend ourselves. We can stop terrorism on our soil.
All it requires is strength of will and people who have the courage to say (ENOUGH!)
Lastly; domestic terrorism.
We might start by actually enforcing the laws.
Good grief! Our courts will allow 2 and 3 time DUI convicts to regain their drivers license to go out and kill more innocents.
Found guilty of terrorism? No appeal..straight to the gallows..The public gallows!
What can we do? Now you know.
This country has been emasculated. It is time we as a people grow a pair!
Okay, so let's take a look at mass bombings in US history... a list conveniently presented by QK Shooter in another thread. For this discussion, I've highlighted the foreign national responsibility in red:
April 15, 2013: Two bombs explode in the packed streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 140.
Jan. 17, 2011: A backpack bomb is placed along a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, Wash., meant to kill and injure participants in a civil rights march, but is found and disabled before it can explode. White supremacist Kevin Harpham is convicted and sentenced to 32 years in federal prison.
May 1, 2010: Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad leaves an explosives-laden SUV in New York's Times Square, hoping to detonate it on a busy night. Street vendors spot smoke coming from the vehicle and the bomb is disabled. Shahzad is arrested as he tries to leave the country and is sentenced to life in prison.
Dec. 25, 2009: The so-called "underwear bomber," Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is subdued by passengers and crew after trying to blow up an airliner heading from Paris to Detroit using explosives hidden in his undergarments. He's sentenced to life in prison. But note: the flight originated in Paris. He may never have been a resident of the US. (I don't know.)
Sept. 11, 2001: Four commercial jets are hijacked by 19 al-Qaida militants and used as suicide bombs, bringing down the two towers of New York City's World Trade Center and crashing into the Pentagon. Nearly 3,000 people are killed in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
Jan 22, 1998: Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole. He's locked up in the federal Supermax prison in Colorado for killing three people and injuring 23 during a nationwide bombing spree between 1978 and 1995.
July 27, 1996: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta during the Summer Games, killing two people and injuring more than 100. Eric Robert Rudolph is arrested in 2003. He pleads guilty and is sentenced to life in prison.
April 19, 1995: A car bomb parked outside the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City kills 168 people and injures more than 500. It is the deadliest U.S. bombing in 75 years. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are convicted. McVeigh is executed in 2001 and Nichols is sentenced to life in prison.
Feb. 26, 1993: A bomb in a van explodes in the underground World Trade Center garage in New York City, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000. Five extremists are eventually convicted.
Dec. 29, 1975: A bomb hidden in a locker explodes at the TWA terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 75. Palestinian, Puerto Rican and Croatian groups are
suspected, but no arrests are made.
Jan. 29, 1975: The U.S. State Department building in Washington, D.C., is bombed by the radical left group Weather Underground. No one is killed.
Jan. 24, 1975: A bomb goes off at historic Fraunces Tavern in New York City, killing four people. It was one of 49 bombings attributed to the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN between 1974 and 1977 in New York. Were they citizens?
Aug. 6, 1974: A bomb goes off at Los Angeles International Airport, killing three people and injuring 36. Muharem Kurbegovic, a Yugoslavian national who became known as the "Alphabet Bomber," is convicted.
Jan. 27, 1972: A bomb wrecks the New York City office of impresario Sol Hurok, who had been booking Soviet artists. One person is killed and nine are injured, Hurok among them. A caller claiming to represent Soviet Jews claims responsibility, but no arrests are made.
March 1, 1971: The Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., is bombed by the radical left group Weather Underground. No one is killed.
Sept. 16, 1963: Four black girls are killed in a bombing at Birmingham, Ala.'s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Years later, juries convicted three Ku Klux Klansmen and one suspected accomplice died without ever having been charged. One of the four is still in prison and the others are dead.
1951-56: George Metesky, a former Consolidated Edison employee with a grudge against the company, sets off a series of blasts at New York landmarks, including Grand Central station and Radio City Music Hall. No one is killed. Known as The Mad Bomber, Metesky spends 16 years in a mental hospital.
May 18, 1927: 45 people – 38 of them children – are killed when a school district treasurer, Andrew Kehoe, lines the Bath Consolidated School near Lansing, Mich., with hundreds of pounds of dynamite, and blows it up. Investigators say Kehoe, who also died in the blast, thought he would lose his farm because he couldn't pay property taxes used to build the school.
Sept. 16, 1920: A bomb explodes in New York City's Wall Street area, killing 40 and injuring hundreds. Authorities conclude it was the work of "anarchists" and come up with a list of suspects, but all flee to Russia.
Oct. 1, 1910: The Los Angeles Times building is dynamited during a labor dispute, killing 20 people. Two leaders of the ironworkers union plead guilty.
May 4, 1886: A bomb blast during a labor rally at Chicago's Haymarket Square kills 11 people, including seven police officers, and injures more than 100. Eight "anarchists" are tried for inciting riot. Four are hanged, one commits suicide and three win pardons after seven years in prison.
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So, given that there were 21 mass bombings... 2/3 were committed by 'Mericuns... one third (giving the "benefit of the doubt" to the questionable ones) caused by them ferriners. Let's not talk about the murders, mass and otherwise, perpetrated by the Good ol' Boys in the South back in the day.... Proud 'Mericuns all.
Let's not fergit that most of us good ol' white folk have more ferrin blood in us than 'Merican.... after all, we aren't a nation of natives now, are we...
Your arguments simply don't hold water. 'neath the surface, there's a bit of leakage... Perhaps not as bad as the Titanic... but still... those in your boat may soon sink.
