Helter Skelter
I'm For: My new X-box 360, my parents in London for a week, the Zags sweet recruiting classes for the next three years, Watching 2 out of 3 Rockies v Cubs games this weekend
I'm Against: My Shitty TV not featuring the full graphics of X-box 360, Britain to U.S. travel scares, Zags lack of depth the first half of next season, no bitches.
The terrorists have won again. They have fucked up our minds, our travel plans, and our color coded terrorist alert system. While we freak out about our maximum security Periwinkle alert, the terrorists get to sit back and watch/read our overreactions.
It's an unfair bullshit system, they can strike anywhere and any time without regard to target, objective or scale and they win. They don't even have to be successful, all they have to do is look like they are going to do something and within hours the entire country will be inundated with articles and news stories from every possible source. In turn every possible government source is going to get involved to "FIGHT TERRORISM." The result is we have a bunch of armed people at our airports with no clear objectives, hassling people to look busy for their superiors and our "security."
Yes I realize that we have to do something if people were trying to walk on planes and blow them up with liquid explosives. However, hassling moms in Kansas about their kids apple juice and pearberry lotion from bath and body works is probably not the best way to do it. I can understand if you ask me, a single male to get rid of my contact solution, but a fucking mom with a two year old isn't exactly terrorist material. This is America's way we find out something could have happened to us and we create paranoia for ourselves. The thing is that this war against Terrorism is fucked up, but I went to Gonzaga so of course I have a solution.
The best solution would have been to not fuck with the crazy ass motherfuckers in the first place. Their whole reason they are fucking with us is because we have been fucking with their way of life for decades. We provide Israel with bombs, we aid coups for "more pro freedom/democracy" dictators. People in the middle east keep on getting fucked and they want some kind of revenge to let us know how it feels. Do I agree with their methods? Hell no, these people are crazy and fucked up, but in actuality it probably isn't that different than what has been happening to them for most of their lives, which our government is in some way responsible. So now what do we do now?
I propose the little brother act of tolerence. It's a brilliant battle strategy that mom's and dad's everywhere employ. What is it you ask?
--Remember when you were in the back seat of the car and your brother or sister started to poke or hit you. At first you wanted no part of it, but eventually you got pissed off and hit him back. Somebody ended up crying and telling mom. This is exactly what they wanted, mom would tell you to pipe down but moments later they would be back with another assult. After you complain again, Mom shouts, "JUST IGNORE HIM, YOUR THE OLDER ONE ACT LIKE IT!" At first you don't listen and continue to fight back. After a while though you take her advice, he pokes you a few more times but when he realizes he's not getting a rise out of you or anyone else he stops and finds something else to do.
I propose America adopts the policy of Little Brother Act of Tolerence.
--It won't be easy and there will be casualties but I think if we really stick to it we can get rid of this fucking terrorist problem. It all starts with the media, we cannot overreact to anything. If we ignore or barely pay attention to any acts/potential acts of terrorism the terrorists will not know how they are doing. They have no intelligence, all their intelligence dies on suicide missions or gets arrested. The only way they can gauge the effectiveness of thier "attacks" is through our reaction through the media. If we simply ignore their acts/threats then they will eventually get tired of plotting with no glory and move on.
This will not be easy and their probably will be a few casualties, but only a few. If we still have the same military intelligence and counterterrorism efforts without all the bells and whistles there probably won't be too many successful strikes. Even if they have one or two, Air Travel is still pretty safe. Think about the ratio of people dying on airplanes compared to car accidents. Even with 9/11 the total of Flight Related Deaths is dwarfed by the number of auto-related deaths each year. There are terrorists everywhere in the form of drunk drivers, murderers, and rapists, those are far more prevalent then people trying to blow up your plane. The only way these things win is by ruining our lives with paranoia. Most of that is due to our media. The local news is full of this shit every day, yes it is good to know that it happens but do you think the media actually cares or does anything to stop these horrible acts? Nope, they just capitalize on our fear and paranoia.
Get rid of the media and paranoia and we have won half of the battle. Terrorism sucks, but so does not living a free life because of fear. Bush is going to take credit for saving the people who love freedom, meanwhile his congress will pass more laws to restrict our liberty.
They win either way, I say we lose my way.
I'm Against: My Shitty TV not featuring the full graphics of X-box 360, Britain to U.S. travel scares, Zags lack of depth the first half of next season, no bitches.
The terrorists have won again. They have fucked up our minds, our travel plans, and our color coded terrorist alert system. While we freak out about our maximum security Periwinkle alert, the terrorists get to sit back and watch/read our overreactions.
It's an unfair bullshit system, they can strike anywhere and any time without regard to target, objective or scale and they win. They don't even have to be successful, all they have to do is look like they are going to do something and within hours the entire country will be inundated with articles and news stories from every possible source. In turn every possible government source is going to get involved to "FIGHT TERRORISM." The result is we have a bunch of armed people at our airports with no clear objectives, hassling people to look busy for their superiors and our "security."
Yes I realize that we have to do something if people were trying to walk on planes and blow them up with liquid explosives. However, hassling moms in Kansas about their kids apple juice and pearberry lotion from bath and body works is probably not the best way to do it. I can understand if you ask me, a single male to get rid of my contact solution, but a fucking mom with a two year old isn't exactly terrorist material. This is America's way we find out something could have happened to us and we create paranoia for ourselves. The thing is that this war against Terrorism is fucked up, but I went to Gonzaga so of course I have a solution.
The best solution would have been to not fuck with the crazy ass motherfuckers in the first place. Their whole reason they are fucking with us is because we have been fucking with their way of life for decades. We provide Israel with bombs, we aid coups for "more pro freedom/democracy" dictators. People in the middle east keep on getting fucked and they want some kind of revenge to let us know how it feels. Do I agree with their methods? Hell no, these people are crazy and fucked up, but in actuality it probably isn't that different than what has been happening to them for most of their lives, which our government is in some way responsible. So now what do we do now?
I propose the little brother act of tolerence. It's a brilliant battle strategy that mom's and dad's everywhere employ. What is it you ask?
--Remember when you were in the back seat of the car and your brother or sister started to poke or hit you. At first you wanted no part of it, but eventually you got pissed off and hit him back. Somebody ended up crying and telling mom. This is exactly what they wanted, mom would tell you to pipe down but moments later they would be back with another assult. After you complain again, Mom shouts, "JUST IGNORE HIM, YOUR THE OLDER ONE ACT LIKE IT!" At first you don't listen and continue to fight back. After a while though you take her advice, he pokes you a few more times but when he realizes he's not getting a rise out of you or anyone else he stops and finds something else to do.
I propose America adopts the policy of Little Brother Act of Tolerence.
--It won't be easy and there will be casualties but I think if we really stick to it we can get rid of this fucking terrorist problem. It all starts with the media, we cannot overreact to anything. If we ignore or barely pay attention to any acts/potential acts of terrorism the terrorists will not know how they are doing. They have no intelligence, all their intelligence dies on suicide missions or gets arrested. The only way they can gauge the effectiveness of thier "attacks" is through our reaction through the media. If we simply ignore their acts/threats then they will eventually get tired of plotting with no glory and move on.
This will not be easy and their probably will be a few casualties, but only a few. If we still have the same military intelligence and counterterrorism efforts without all the bells and whistles there probably won't be too many successful strikes. Even if they have one or two, Air Travel is still pretty safe. Think about the ratio of people dying on airplanes compared to car accidents. Even with 9/11 the total of Flight Related Deaths is dwarfed by the number of auto-related deaths each year. There are terrorists everywhere in the form of drunk drivers, murderers, and rapists, those are far more prevalent then people trying to blow up your plane. The only way these things win is by ruining our lives with paranoia. Most of that is due to our media. The local news is full of this shit every day, yes it is good to know that it happens but do you think the media actually cares or does anything to stop these horrible acts? Nope, they just capitalize on our fear and paranoia.
Get rid of the media and paranoia and we have won half of the battle. Terrorism sucks, but so does not living a free life because of fear. Bush is going to take credit for saving the people who love freedom, meanwhile his congress will pass more laws to restrict our liberty.
They win either way, I say we lose my way.
posted by IrishZag at 8:09 PM
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