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Originally Posted by memason
Seems to me, that if the objective of terrorist's is to disrupt our way of life, they have already succeeded. If we are living in fear of attack or afraid to go out, then they have accomplished their mission.
Terrorist activity is dominating the news cycle, which is what they want. One of our politicians is using that fear to also dominate the news cycle.
I'm sure there are lots of folks that will not agree with me, but I refuse to live my life in fear of some foreign [or domestic] terrorist. That just lets them win!
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My 224 613 Project has been about taking control of your life over fear. It has been trying to get practical information for survivors/victims of crimes into libraries of all kinds or accessible through libraries. I have been near a mud slide in Davis Creek in Washoe Valley during the Memorial Day weekend of 1983; had an uncle who cleaned up after the worst US air line disaster near O'Hare as he was the Itasca Fire Chief
American Airlines Flight 191 still haunts - Chicago Tribune ; my BD is the date when my then remedial English teacher's daughter Michelle Mitchell was murdered near Reno, Nevada on 2-24-1976; had a friend Tom Snow from the University of Nevada, Reno Philosophy Department who was stabbed about six times in the chest area for trying to pick up a married woman near Mustang Ranch no less; had a stalker Gale P., for almost a whole academic year 1989-1990 while I worked a reference desk at the U of MN Law Library; my father was a catastrophe manager for a major insurance company and handled things like the Harvey's Wagon Wheel bombing, Hurricane Andrew, various CA wild fires and earthquakes; and I could go on like with the friend from the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management who was/is (?) from the University of Mosul, Iraq; etc.
Anyway with a history like this I should just stay in bed and let the world pass by. I do not as I have been fighting to get practical materials into libraries of all kinds since January 1991 for survivors/victims of crimes. Mainly because I feel that with all these experiences I can walk in their shoes. And it allows me to handle bullies a little better even though once in a while it has been wiser to just leave town because of them and hope that their followers wake up to what they are really like.
I am a little worried about being swallowed by a sinkhole here in Florida as that is something that has not happened yet.
I had a neighbor Ron Bath in Reno, Nevada who probably flew some of the flights that bombed targets in Iraq in 1991. He was lawyer/pilot/law professor and sometime Pentagon Air Force General. I will bet for all his macho swagger he sometimes exhibited he was scared as well.
We should not let fear control us in any way but take control of it. I also have a fear of public speaking but would just make some joke when called on at the U of MN Law School or look otherwise pre-occupied. I was not much of a favorite of the Law Professors at the U of MN Law School as I refused to play the Socratic Method game they played. An "I don't know" also worked a lot but would sure **** off the professors. I was actually introduced as a Professor by the Law School Dean in the Fall of 1989 to the then entering Law School Class of 1992. You should have seen some of the Faculty's faces. Priceless. I was the WESTLAW cataloger so they allowed me to stay on at the University of Minnesota Law Library after I graduated in 1989 from their Law School.
I am still hard at work on the 224 613 Project and its seems to have become really big unless I am not reading the signs correctly.