Originally Posted by forester814

Tad, I couldn't agree more. I can't believe how much of our freedom the majority of Americans are gladly willing to part with, all in the name of "safety."

Anyone who thinks we are more safe as a result of our actions in Afghanistan and Iraq is fooling themselves. Bush loves to say that "we are fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here."

There is nothing at all preventing "them" from coming here. Nor is there anything preventing people here, even people who were BORN here, from attacking us.

I was on a plane for work about a month after 9/11. Most everyone told me I was crazy. I have one friend who STILL refuses to fly, because he is convinced it is not safe. People, it will NEVER be completely safe.

Look, I'm 5 foot nothing and 120 pounds fully dressed and soaking wet. If someone wants to hijack my plane, I certainly can't stop them. So why would I stop flying? I have places to go.

For that matter, if some huge guy wants to grab my purse on a street corner here in downtown Chicago, I can't stop that either. But that doesn't keep me from walking down the street.

Life isn't about being safe, it's about LIVING. And I am not about to stop living because of what MIGHT happen.

Nor am I about to stop speaking out against the anti-American policies of the Bush administration. They are NOT working to keep us safe.

They are working to keep us NEUTRALIZED through fear, so they can do whatever they want, in order to follow their profit motive... regardless of how many people they kill, and regardless of whether or not the country survives.