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Originally Posted by joannej
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Thank you, joannej, for posting this link. I was aware of some of the content but I had never seen it so clearly spelled out. And this in a solid, daily newspaper, not some over-the-edge online blog.
I am struck by the potential meaning of the following quote from a previous post: "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." We need to give some thought to who it is who potentially 'would do us harm.' Although it might be, is it necessarily the obvious? When the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City was bombed, many immediately jumped to the conclusion that somehow Islamic terrorists were responsible. Instead, it turned to be good old American, former U.S. Army, Timothy McVeigh, who got off easy via capital punishment instead of rotting in jail and counting his hours and days for the rest of his life.
What will motivate contemporary Americans to turn around from the apathy that's so prevalent today? Every election we hear cries of 'Throw the bums out of office!' and we proceed to reelect the incumbents. I've often said (granted a little cynically) that Americans would take to the streets if somehow television could be turned off nationwide for 72 hours, but somehow I don't think this is what is in mind relating to the article whose link joannej posted....