A new campaign by Downsize DC is encouraging people to demand sanity in the war on terror. Terror is the main weapon of terrorists… as such, the best thing we as Americans can do is to refuse to be terrified. Politicians and pundits do us no favors with their terrible stories of what might happen, in fact their actions help those we are supposedly fighting.
They encourage us to send the following message to politicians, and the media:
I am not afraid of terrorism, and I want you to stop being afraid on my behalf. Please start scaling back the official government war on terror. Please replace it with a smaller, more focused anti-terrorist police effort in keeping with the rule of law. Please stop overreacting. I understand that it will not be possible to stop all terrorist acts. I accept that. I am not afraid.
Sign their petition to send this message to your representatives.
start by refusing to use that ridiculous term. It isn’t a war.
It’s one of the stupidest terms ever coined in modern statesmanship. You’ll never have sanity in the war on terror as long as it remains “a war on terror”.
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“The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We need a “war on ridiculous terms”
Lasthorseman fully endorses living dangerously. I care not for “security”, I want the Stasi out of mine and my family’s face. The basement lab is gearing up for cheap devices to fry implantable mark of the beast microchips and the search for lasers that permanently fry survellance camera CCD chips is ongoing. News of a tazer proof clothing is promising and research into GPS jamming devices continues.
In combatting the “war of terra” it is getting increasingly easy to point out obvious conflicting interests such as the North American Union and the NASCO corridor as proof that our “dear leaders” value global/financial interests far above yours.
Security is not the intent here, indoctrination is. You citizen MUST COMPLY and not question authority.
A War on Polemic Excess?
The War on Aberrant Appellations?
The Global Struggle Against Indefensible Unambiguousness?
the petition and even added some apropos quotes from the First Inaugural Address of FDR regarding fear — “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
That cannot alter the fact that the outfit sponsoring this effort, the petition and all, is obviously a right-wing reactionary group which aims to dismantle government in the name of quote freedom unquote.
Is DownsizeDC Libertarian? Yes.
Are they right wing? I’m not so certain.
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http://bexhuff.com
Of COURSE you can trust the US Government! Just ask the Indians.
One always has to remember that the desired goal isn’t really the weight loss itself but the benefits it brings.
If weight loss was truly the only valid goal in and of itself, amputating one’s legs or taking up recreational heroin use would be demonstrably faster, far more effective and have a much lower relapse rate than, say, dieting and exercise.
People get obsessed with downsizing as if it were itself somehow a valid goal. It’s simply one method of achieving a goal, and not always the best.
“The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer