I am sooo sick of this terror bullshit!! You want to know what terror is?

[Robin Hood]

I have noticed this morning that all the Fake cable news channels are not talking about the bad economic numbers anymore. The numbers got two days of play and now it's back to terror all the time. Why? Because Bushs' numbers on terror are the only numbers that are slightly higher than Kerrys'.

How does terrorism affect me? It does not. What does affect me is losing my job to outsourcing, sitting at my kitchen table frozen with fear wondering when the house will be re-possesed. What does affect me me is losing health insurance, or being denied treatment by some HMO who could care less about my health or the quality of care that they give. What does affect me is having a clean environment that I can safely raise my children in. What does affect me is having a government that will stand up for my vote against the special corporate interests who are out to use and abuse me.

Those are just some of the things that affect me. Issues that this pResident has chosen to do nothing about. Issues that this pResident has chosen to be on the side of those who wish to terrorize me.

I am so sick of this terror war crap. There is a terror war being waged against the American people. Unfortunately the terrorists are our elected leaders and their political contributors.

[mopaul]

1. absolutely, profoundly, exactly correct

i am in terror of america's future, terror attack or not

[Robin Hood]

3. Well said.

In terror of America's future.

[seabeyond]

2. 9 year old focused on tv

and i registered the shrill in voice of news person talking terrorism, shut off volume and no no no baby. lol do not fear. this is bush campaign, be afraid vote for me nov 2. we are going to be hearing it a lot next three months. dont let em suck you in be ware, i say,...lol lol

ya it is sad. that is for sure

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Tell us exactly how yuo feel?

And the terror alerts will continue until they leave on January... What they are waging is a Psy Ops campaign on the American People

[candy]

16. Do you really think that terrorism,and alerts,will stop when Kerry get in?

[Robin Hood]

18. They didn't happen during Clintons presidency.

And he had plenty of opportunity to do so. These terror alerts are stupid. They do nothing to stop terror.

[Parche]

5. war on terra

I cant stand that phrase anymore i want to scream every time i hear it
When the TWA plane was hijacked, or the Lebanon bombings
or the Ok city bombings, this stuff has been around for years
and it will continue, you can try to fight it, but someone
will always be sneaky and do these things.
Nowadays, that is all they talk about, in the news
Bush, everything, that is his whole campaign, Terra
Its a bunch of crap

[Robin Hood]

6. I am trying to get some news right now,

And every freakin channell is war on terror all the time. I think that CNN just said that "coming up, we will have some possible terror scenarios for you". WTF?!!!

How about living off food stamps? There's a terror scenario for you.

[MODemocrat]

26. Bush presidency = Terror.

That's all he has to offer, as he works hand in hand with Al Queda.

[Nite Owl]

7. This concentration on terra

shows that 'they' have really won. No attack is needed, Bush* is doing their job of instilling fear.

[loftycity]

8. Our Fascists leaders at work

I hope the other 50% wakes up to this crap..how long can you be that stupid to say * is great president?

[havocmom]

9. Perfect LTTE! Get it in the mail to your local newspaper editor!

You put it clearly and succinctly.

[Robin Hood]

13. You think so?

That's a good idea. I'll submit it to the Oregonian.

[havocmom]

22. Absolutely!

Sorry took so long to reply, was working away from the 'puter.

Yes, I think we have a lot of talented writers here on the DU. And a lot of good, critical thinking. We need to get our messages out beyond the community here at the DU. Letters to editors are a great way to get the info the media is sweeping under the rug out in the light of day. Not enough people know all the BS that goes on because they get their 'news' from corporate controlled sources with vested interests in pushing certain agendas.

We have made a difference already. Many people (both sides) and media types read the DU. That is good, and helpful. But there are a lot of good folks out there in America who are going with the flow because they are not getting good info. We need to take every avenue we can to get through to them. We need to let them know they are not alone with their troubling doubts about the course our nation is heading. We need to let them know where the resources are for learning more than the corporate media wants them to know.

Write. Write often. Be a resource others can come to for learning and sharing. We are America unless we abdicate our responsibilities. The nation needs for all of us to speak truth to power so power will be responsive to the best interests of America.

[Parche]

23. oregonian

You live in Oregon too?

[Robin Hood]

28. Yes I do.

Portland suburb.

[SuffragetteSal]

10. I saw a bumper sticker the other day

that said 'Firefighters for Bush'. Because of tax cuts Bush is starving the states...less money for police and firemen. But..it appears even some of them listen to the media crap...

If we are truly in such a terror alert and sitting on the edge of our seats waiting...shouldn't there me more money for firemen and police...not less?!

[AmandaRuth]

11. ding ding ding, we have a winner

The real agenda of the right: To destroy the middle class and create a two class system, the very rich, and the very poor. To ensure that the new deal is the dead deal.

[Gregorian]

12. It wasn't terror that caused 911.

It was negligence that allowed it to happen.

I think this so-called war on terror is nothing but a diversion from the illegal stuff that this group of thugs is pulling over on us.

It's like someone who runs a bank, leaves the doors open and lets the robbers just walk in and take everyone's money. It's at that point that they force through new laws requiring more police and security. But why should we do anything? I mean they left the damn doors open. It's not like we need anything new.


One could come up with more analogies. Like the banker's reasons for letting the robbers in. He's really doing something terrible and needed a coverup. Or he wants to start his own security business so he can pull off the biggest heist in history. Or he sends his security forces to other banks to steal their money, instead of going through the proper authorities, to locate the robbers.

[Robin Hood]

15. That is a great analogy.

That is exactly what they have done and what is happening.

[Dem2theMax]

40. Funny you mention a bank.

I was in a Wells Fargo bank last week. They have TV's on all the time, ALWAYS on FAUX. The headline on Faux was screaming 'TERROR THWARTED' and the woman standing next to me in line read it and started freaking out! She was starting to panic 'oh no, have we had another terror warning/attack?' The look on her face - pure fright. It works. People fall for it. I had to explain to her that first off, the story was about Heathrow airport in ENGLAND, not the US of A. This was all part of the outing of the man we had working for us inside al Qaeda. Then I had to explain that the terra lerts we had here in the states, in NYC, were actually based on information that was three to four years old. You should have seen the look on her face. One of those 'whadda you mean they've been lying to us?' looks. You can bet I told her YES.

I never watch FAUX unless it's forced on me while waiting in line at the bank. I've heard of the crap they pull, but seeing it for myself, wow. All they had to do was have that screaming headline up there and people freaked out, without even knowing what was going on. I'm going to send the manager of the bank a copy of 'Outfoxed.' :evilgrin:

[Robin Hood]

42. The freakin YMCA where I work out.

has a bank of TV's in front of the walking machines(machines for walking?). At least one or more of those damn things is always turned to FOX.

I go swimming now just so I wont have to even look towards that propaganda. I have my TV programmed at home to never ever bring in FOX. MSNBC and CNN is about to suffer the same fate.

[JimHarper3]

14. Who is the terrorist, anyway?

I saw the AP report on Bush's "mistake" in his speech last Thursday (perhaps more like Freudian slip?) and had to write a song... Here are the words:

Bushspeak
----------------
Words and Music by Jim Harper

I've heard it now, the truth is out,
August fifth, two thousand and four
The president said without a doubt
That he really knows the score

Chorus:

Said our President, George W. Bush,
"Our enemies never stop thinking,
about new ways to harm our country,
"And, neither," he said, "do we."
And he pledged right then and there,
In front of a crowd of news people,
To "never stop thinking about new ways
to harm our country and our people."...
That's what our President said.


While signing a bill for billions more
To keep up our war machine
He said plain truth for all to hear
As if it really was routine.

The President's spokesman backed it up
Said Scott McClellan of his own volition,
"The American people know this president
Speaks with clarity and conviction."

So now we know it's not the Moslems,
North Korea or the radical left
The ones who are true terrorists
Are sitting at their White House desks



If you would like to hear my other song, "Bush Has Got To Go"
Just go to http://www.jimharpermusic.com/music.html

Please share and enjoy!
Jim Harper

[Robin Hood]

17. Wow!! Great song.

Let me be the first to welcome you to DU.

[newyawker99]

19. Hi JimHarper3!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Gregorian]

21. YAY! (Have you heard this?)

Welcome. Loved your mp3.

I heard this tune, and was absolutely floored. So here it is, with chords and all.

Bush It

words and music by Darryl Cherney

(A)(G)(A) First they went and stole the election
(B) The Supreme Court went and made the selection
(D) The corporations gave the direction
They said (A) "Bush it" (G) (A)

(A) He went and hired his daddy's staff
(B) And few guys from Nixon's just for a laugh
(D) Now the world is his oyster to split in half
(A) Bush it (G) (A)

(A) Now though he'd never been to a foreign land
And a (B) map of the world he'd never understand
(D) Right up his back went the puppeteer's hand
(A) Bush it

(D) Bush it--the old President's son
(B) Bush it--that's the way it's done
(D) Bush it--for all of your friends
(E) Who knows where this whole thing's gonna (A) end (G)(A)

Then someone goes and topples the towers
Took years to build destroyed it in hours
The FBI and CIA said give us more powers
Bush it

Then the puppeteer says hey I got a plan
Though the guys were all Saudis lets bomb Afganistan
Then camp out with our friends in Pakistan
Bush it

But that wasn't the end to these tragic attacks
Some used the U.S. mail to send anthrax
Kinda funny how it went just to Democrats
Bush it

Bush it--The old President's boy
Bush it--He got a brand new toy
Bush it--Down old Texas way
Hey now look at Georgie Junior play

Vice President Cheney meets with Enron of course
On how to manage our oil resource
Give 'em rolling blackouts and a secret task force
We'll Bush it

The Enron goes bankrupt after stealing us blind
But they left a trail of campaign cash behind
But when asked for his records Cheney big time declined
He said Bush it.

Now before 9-1-1 Bush wasn't too bright
Did Osama Bin Laden show him the light?
They're both CIA boys and they know how to fight
They Bush it

Bush it--To the limit and then
Bush it--And Bush it again
Bush it--And make no mistake
There is just so much that we can take

He's got two drunken daughters and a drug addict niece
But that doesn't matter, he'll just call up the police
And say you can keep all the others, but I want their release
Bush it

Now he did booze and coke and he doesn't deny it
But he says that he quit and he's on a new diet
Now he passes out on pretzels--does anyone buy it?
Bush it

Now George is an artist and he's trying to sell it
He's a bit of a devil--doesn't think we can tell it
But it's piled up so high it's hard not to smell it
Bush-it

Bush it--The new President's song
Bush it--You know he can't be wrong
Bush it--Out of the President's way
What more can a real American say?

Bush It! Bush It! Bush It!

[Piperay]

20. It's all phoney

and I think that the general public is finally catching on to it. :think:

[ChaoticSilly]

24. Exactly!

I've been preaching to anybody that will listen about single payer healthcare for years - ever since my mother was almost bankrupted by a kidney stone.

[slojim240]

25. You got it!!

Now what are we going to do about it?

[myomy]

27. ÒHow many evildoers do you have to kill, before you become an evildoer?Ó

That was a line on ÒSix Feet UnderÓ a few weeks ago.

[Avalon Sparks]

29. Well Put!!

I agree with you 100%. You put that so well - way to go, that's exactly how I feel.

I've been so stressed and worried these last couple years about losing my job, and everything I've worked for, I had to go to counseling a couple times.

There is a terror war being waged against the American people indeed.

[Robin Hood]

31. Me too.

I have had to be really creative and flexible in order to adapt to the Bush mis-management. Thank god that i had left over funds from the Clinton years to hold me through the rough spots. Most people are not as lucky as I am, and I have been there back in the poppy Bush admin. Hell, that son of a bitch and Reagan had me homeless.

[genius]

30. Terror: four more years of the dictator

[praxiz]

32. The "What about the children?"-card

Why aren't anyone playing that? Wouldn't this frighten the heebee jeebies out of kids? Whatever happened to optimism and giving the country a sense of security?

[Robin Hood]

43. What about the children only applies to BS like sex.

They want the children to get used to blood and guts. If the children were sensitive to taking life, they wouldn't make good soldiers for the Bush ARMY.

[Kanary]

33. "Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction!" "Homelessness is a weapon of

mass destruction!"

"Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction!"

"Lack of education is a weapon of mass destruction!"

"Inadequate health care is a weapon of mass destruction!"

Ah, the words of Dennis Kucinich were/are so on target!

"Fear ends. Hope begins."

The man knows whereof he speaks.

Kanary

[Robin Hood]

34. It really is to bad that someone like Kucinich does not have a chance

of winning the presidency but someone like bush does. I swear, this country is so damn backward.

[Kanary]

35. Backward. Immature. FUBAR.

It's heartbreaking.

Kanary

[Robin Hood]

36. I dream of moving to Vancouver Canada.

I don't know why I haven't.

[Kanary]

37. wish I could.

I'm stuck here until it kills me.

Kanary

[Robin Hood]

38. lol..

For me it's only a 6-8 hour drive up I-5. I guess that I haven't moved because I am too damn stubborn to let the fascists win.

[Kanary]

39. trade ya places, then

I wasn't laughing when I said "till it kills me".

With the cuts happening, I'm likely to be dead in not too long a time.

I'm old enough and sick enough to be ready for a country that is more humane.

Stubbornness be damned. I'd just like to breathe.

Kanary

[Robin Hood]

41. They're cutting here as well.

Big time.. Oregon is one of the hardest hit States in the Union by Bushs starve the beast agenda. We are broke here. We are forced to lay off police and fire fighters. We have also let criminals go because there isn't enough money to house them.

Our state psychiatric hospital is grossly over crowded.

[WLKjr]

44. Great Post, Liberal_Guerilla

Terrorists come in many different forms. Economic Terrorists are the enemy within.

[hc110]

45. OK. You have 2 choices

Or you vote for Kerry, and keep his feet on the fire. Or you come here in Europe :yourock:


Get Bush in The Hague, impeach Kerry, get democracy back to the people.

CU
Y

[moderate_hero]

46. Nail...head

If we were to sick Ashcroft on these so-called terrorists, they might see what real terror is!

I see a solution to all this. Give us the dots and see if we can connect them. If so, we will know where some "terror threat" is. Otherwise, I will continue to fear that unmarked van that is parked at the end of my street.

[charlie105]

47. Wow!. When you put it that way, it does make one go hmmmmm...

Thanks for the perspective.