BUSH REMINDS AMERICANS U.S. IS AT WAR
'WASHINGTON - President Bush used terrorists' own words Tuesday to battle complacency among Americans about the threat of future attack, defending his record as the fall campaign season kicks into high gear.' – MERRILL HARTSON, Associated Press Writer
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OK...hold up....if history repeats itself which it usually does, we can expect to see over the next year, several more "threats" or possible incidents either facilitated by or secretly supported by the administration. I think at this point it's clear that the amount of profit and the amount of people that stand to gain financially from the US being at war is far too great for us not invade, say Iran, or create another situation in which we need to "defend" or invade or KILL more people.
It's certainly debateable that the country is safer now than it was when Bush took office. 9/11 changed everything. It allowed the government to tighten the rope on our liberties, and in my opinion, they keep looking for ways to pull even tighter. The amount of surveillance, checkpoints, security, and violations of civil rights, are increasing with the constant threats and terrorist plots.
I'm actually surprised that we don't have the same amount of surveillance as London. They have a cluster of four or five cameras at every corner. You can move through the streets without being tracked by cameras with powerful face recognition software.
The threat of another attack, or attack itself means that the steps toward a inforcing "Police State" will move forward. During the Republican National Convention, there were more Police and Armed Guard personnel than ever before for such an event. Now granted the beefed up security is to be ready in the event of some terrorist acitivity, right? But it also fits in with the plan of Police State. We lose control, and are told what to do, when to do it, and must comply or we will be arrested. Demonstrators, most of then peaceful, were arrested and locked in an unsafe abandoned warhouse, containing asbestos. Their rights were taken away, and they were treated like prisoners of war.
Just be aware, when we hear news stories about folied terrorist attempts, or close calls, we only know what's being reported, we don't know what's being embellished and what actually happened. War, oil, troops, deployment, weapons, ammunition...It's BIG MONEY...and many people are putting there kids and grand kids through college on that money. You think that's gonna just go away?
If we get attacked, we get attacked. Hopefully that can be prevented. But "warnings" from the Bush administration, only make me think that it's the beginning of getting the american people ready for the next step in losing more freedom. Bush says "the terrorists hate us for our freedom", well we certainly are not gaining anymore freedom, thanks to the current administration. We couldn't even take bottled water on a plane for crying out loud.
I can't help but think of that one expression from George Bush that says it all. It's when he sat there at the Emma T. Booker Elementary School on September 11. When Andrew Card tells the President that the second plane has hit the south tower, the President produced the all too well known guilty look on his face. What I saw specifically in the video, was right after Card whispers the news, the president contorts his mouth and bites the inside, which is typical of either being very confused, or guilty. We have all done that. It's like when the kid put the whoopie cushion under the teacher's chair. When the teacher demands to know who did it, the guilty kid sits in silence, trying to hide any emotion from the teacher as well as the class—and the lips always move—either they pucker slightly, or tighten. That's the behavior and expression I saw from the president. I guess he felt extremely safe at an elementary school, the location of which was public knowledge. Otherwise don't you think he would have left?
