Reply #97: When TPTB [View All]

[LWolf]

care enough about the threats here at home to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to:

ensure the safety of every American in every neighborhood.

ensure that every American has adequate, safe shelter, food, health care, education, and employment opportunities

ensure that every american's voice is equally heard and counts equally.

Why the fuck should I be serious about what the rest of the world might do, when Americans aren't fucking serious about protecting their own here at home? Why is what someone "out there" wants to do with an airplane a bigger crisis than whether every american citizen can walk down any street, in any neighborhood, without fear of mugging, driveby shooting, or any other act of violence perpetrated on americans, by americans, every damned day of the week?

Or is it that, when it's a terrorist attack, it's more likely to affect more of the "haves" than our own home-grown domestic violence does?