A glyph found in a stone plaque of what looks to the time past document another of where the Human development it is still under the great armadillo archadil‘logist Barrow A. Dillo a translation of thought is still in formative stage, and a apology to the author who ever out there in this great universal cosmos we all share a great thank you.
AN ODE TO THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They consumed blue cheese dressing and never
bothered to get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby
cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no
childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, and when we
rode our bikes, we had no helmets. And then later, there were the
risks we took while hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags, and
riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special
treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. We shared
one soft drink with four friends from one bottle, and no one actually
died.
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it,
but we weren't overweight, because we were always outside...
playing. We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long
as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to
reach us all day, because we had no cell phones. And we were all O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps, and then
ride down the hill, only to find we had forgotten the brakes. After
running into the bushes a few times, we learned how to solve the
problem.
We didn't have Play stations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at
all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound,
no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat
rooms. . . we had friends, and we went outside and found them. We
rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or
rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth, and amazingly,
no lawsuits resulted from our actions. We made up games with sticks
and tennis .balls, and ate worms. And although we were told it would
happen, we didn't put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.
Little league had tryouts, and not everyone made the team. Those who
didn't, had to learn to deal with it. Imagine that. The idea of a
parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They
actually sided with the law.
This generation produced some of the world's best risk-takers, problem
solvers and inventors. The past 50 years have been an explosion of
innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
how to deal with it. And you are among the survivors.
Congratulations.
Sunday, January 30, 2005
A armadillo ponders a glyph of human thought of horses and hope.
The greed of man selling off citizens public lands and killing wild horses
Horses, trees, and grazing have gone on for years. As long as we have laws that permit rider bills to be placed in other bills, we will always have the problem of keeping Washington honest. Lobbyists wouldn't have it any other way. I don't believe we will every be able to send a person to Washington who will not be corrupted.
Answer
I just keep hope in my heart and the thought there is always the chance no matter even in my 71 years I will keep on moving by being a part of the search for the betterment of our human lot.
Be kind and gentle with yourselves in all things for it is the way to blow with the winds of time and the light of truth of being You will find a armadillo mind mill with all in the universe.
The greed of man selling off citizens public lands and killing wild horses
Horses, trees, and grazing have gone on for years. As long as we have laws that permit rider bills to be placed in other bills, we will always have the problem of keeping Washington honest. Lobbyists wouldn't have it any other way. I don't believe we will every be able to send a person to Washington who will not be corrupted.
Answer
I just keep hope in my heart and the thought there is always the chance no matter even in my 71 years I will keep on moving by being a part of the search for the betterment of our human lot.
Be kind and gentle with yourselves in all things for it is the way to blow with the winds of time and the light of truth of being You will find a armadillo mind mill with all in the universe.
Any armadillo with a small IQ would see the “ fish story” in the glyphs and so called sound bites as they were called and issue a call to action.
Just keep the faith, and get people active with a group, or letters to ed. or get a group to start showing up at the city council meetings, Google the folks that are raising taxes and on narrow in on who is building what for the Real-estate banker developer gang that is in office along with new city manager,
Make your self aware of the real issues talk to the senior group, any body on SS and fixed income, along with students and there families every one is going to pay, the right wing church evangelicals have forgot the meaning of the word which means good news not prayer clothes to get rich, vitamins, prayer scrolls and blessings from touching a TV set and the idea the more you tithe the richer you'll get adinfinum.
Get mad and stand up for the people show them where to see how they are being Public Relation till chaos sets the mind a whirl and truth is lost in a whirlwind of a nowhere land added to the misdirection and Photo OP by the Bush and his corporate rats or the next thing China will call the mortgage on the national debt and foreclose on everyone remember it is a communist nation and could nationalize all business in China close its boarder and tell us all to stick it
The only business that they would let here would be Wal-mart They would just change the name two of which come to mind "Commie-Mart' or "Red_Mart"?
enough said don't let your self be Terrorized by this gang in the Bushville Follies Gang Of spend thrifts any resemblance to balancing the books and helping people are totally out of the question>
Just keep the faith, and get people active with a group, or letters to ed. or get a group to start showing up at the city council meetings, Google the folks that are raising taxes and on narrow in on who is building what for the Real-estate banker developer gang that is in office along with new city manager,
Make your self aware of the real issues talk to the senior group, any body on SS and fixed income, along with students and there families every one is going to pay, the right wing church evangelicals have forgot the meaning of the word which means good news not prayer clothes to get rich, vitamins, prayer scrolls and blessings from touching a TV set and the idea the more you tithe the richer you'll get adinfinum.
Get mad and stand up for the people show them where to see how they are being Public Relation till chaos sets the mind a whirl and truth is lost in a whirlwind of a nowhere land added to the misdirection and Photo OP by the Bush and his corporate rats or the next thing China will call the mortgage on the national debt and foreclose on everyone remember it is a communist nation and could nationalize all business in China close its boarder and tell us all to stick it
The only business that they would let here would be Wal-mart They would just change the name two of which come to mind "Commie-Mart' or "Red_Mart"?
enough said don't let your self be Terrorized by this gang in the Bushville Follies Gang Of spend thrifts any resemblance to balancing the books and helping people are totally out of the question>
The Great armadillo found a great in tact Glyph from a speech which the translation makes an interesting concept with a light of truth as they say.
Rather long but one must think about it sort of a way to balance order.
So take some quite time to let the gray matter work and read it through and chalange your self
What If (It Was All a Big Mistake)?
By Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
Wednesday 26 January 2005
Delivered to the U.S. House of Representatives.
America's policy of foreign intervention, while still debated in the early 20th century, is today accepted as conventional wisdom by both political parties. But what if the overall policy is a colossal mistake, a major error in judgment? Not just bad judgment regarding when and where to impose ourselves, but the entire premise that we have a moral right to meddle in the affairs of others? Think of the untold harm done by years of fighting - hundreds of thousands of American casualties, hundreds of thousands of foreign civilian casualties, and unbelievable human and economic costs. What if it was all needlessly borne by the American people? If we do conclude that grave foreign policy errors have been made, a very serious question must be asked: What would it take to change our policy to one more compatible with a true republic's goal of peace, commerce, and friendship with all nations? Is it not possible that Washington's admonition to avoid entangling alliances is sound advice even today?
In medicine mistakes are made - man is fallible. Misdiagnoses are made, incorrect treatments are given, and experimental trials of medicines are advocated. A good physician understands the imperfections in medical care, advises close follow-ups, and double-checks the diagnosis, treatment, and medication. Adjustments are made to assure the best results. But what if a doctor never checks the success or failure of a treatment, or ignores bad results and assumes his omnipotence - refusing to concede that the initial course of treatment was a mistake? Let me assure you, the results would not be good. Litigation and the loss of reputation in the medical community place restraints on this type of bullheaded behavior.
Sadly, though, when governments, politicians, and bureaucrats make mistakes and refuse to reexamine them, there is little the victims can do to correct things. Since the bully pulpit and the media propaganda machine are instrumental in government cover-ups and deception, the final truth emerges slowly, and only after much suffering. The arrogance of some politicians, regulators, and diplomats actually causes them to become even more aggressive and more determined to prove themselves right, to prove their power is not to be messed with by never admitting a mistake. Truly, power corrupts!
The unwillingness to ever reconsider our policy of foreign intervention, despite obvious failures and shortcomings over the last 50 years, has brought great harm to our country and our liberty. Historically, financial realities are the ultimate check on nations bent on empire. Economic laws ultimately prevail over bad judgment. But tragically, the greater the wealth of a country, the longer the flawed policy lasts. We'll probably not be any different.
We are still a wealthy nation, and our currency is still trusted by the world, yet we are vulnerable to some harsh realities about our true wealth and the burden of our future commitments. Overwhelming debt and the precarious nature of the dollar should serve to restrain our determined leaders, yet they show little concern for deficits. Rest assured, though, the limitations of our endless foreign adventurism and spending will become apparent to everyone at some point in time.
Since 9/11, a lot of energy and money have gone into efforts ostensibly designed to make us safer. Many laws have been passed and many dollars have been spent. Whether or not we're better off is another question.
Today we occupy two countries in the Middle East. We have suffered over 20,000 casualties, and caused possibly 100,000 civilian casualties in Iraq. We have spent over $200 billion in these occupations, as well as hundreds of billions of dollars here at home hoping to be safer. We've created the Department of Homeland Security, passed the Patriot Act, and created a new super CIA agency.
Our government now is permitted to monitor the Internet, to read our mail, to search us without proper search warrants, to develop a national ID card, and to investigate what people are reading in libraries. Ironically, illegal aliens flow into our country and qualify for driving licenses and welfare benefits with little restraint.
These issues are discussed, but nothing has been as highly visible to us as the authoritarianism we accept at the airport. The creation of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has intruded on the privacy of all airline travelers, and there is little evidence that we are safer for it. Driven by fear, we have succumbed to the age-old temptation to sacrifice liberty on the pretense of obtaining security. Love of security, unfortunately, all too often vanquishes love of liberty.
Unchecked fear of another 9/11-type attack constantly preoccupies our leaders and most of our citizens, and drives the legislative attack on our civil liberties. It's frightening to see us doing to ourselves what even bin Laden never dreamed he could accomplish with his suicide bombers.
We don't understand the difference between a vague threat of terrorism and the danger of a guerilla war. One prompts us to expand and nationalize domestic law enforcement while limiting the freedoms of all Americans. The other deals with understanding terrorists like bin Laden, who declared war against us in 1998. Not understanding the difference makes it virtually impossible to deal with the real threats. We are obsessed with passing new laws to make our country safe from a terrorist attack. This confusion about the cause of the 9/11 attacks, the fear they engendered, and the willingness to sacrifice liberty prompts many to declare their satisfaction with the inconveniences and even humiliation at our nation's airports.
There are always those in government who are anxious to increase its power and authority over the people. Strict adherence to personal privacy annoys those who promote a centralized state.
It's no surprise to learn that many of the new laws passed in the aftermath of 9/11 had been proposed long before that date. The attacks merely provided an excuse to do many things previously proposed by dedicated strategists.
All too often government acts perversely, professing to advance liberty while actually doing the opposite. Dozens of new bills passed since 9/11 promise to protect our freedoms and our security. In time we will realize there is little chance our security will be enhanced or our liberties protected.
The powerful and intrusive TSA certainly will not solve our problems. Without a full discussion, greater understanding, and ultimately a change in the foreign policy that incites those who declared war against us, no amount of pat-downs at airports will suffice. Imagine the harm done, the staggering costs, and the loss of liberty if the next 20 years pass and airplanes are never employed by terrorists. Even if there is a possibility that airplanes will be used to terrorize us, TSA's bullying will do little to prevent it. Patting down old women and little kids in airports cannot possibly make us safer!
TSA cannot protect us from another attack and it is not the solution. It serves only to make us all more obedient and complacent toward government intrusions into our lives.
The airport mess has been compounded by other problems, which we fail to recognize. Most assume the government has the greatest responsibility for making private aircraft travel safe. But this assumption only ignores mistakes made before 9/11, when the government taught us to not resist, taught us that airline personnel could not carry guns, and that the government would be in charge of security. Airline owners became complacent and dependent upon the government.
After 9/11 we moved in the wrong direction by allowing total government control and a political takeover by the TSA - which was completely contrary to the proposition that private owners have the ultimate responsibility to protect their customers.
Discrimination laws passed during the last 40 years ostensibly fuel the Transportation Secretary's near obsession with avoiding the appearance of discrimination toward young Muslim males. Instead TSA seemingly targets white children and old women. We have failed to recognize that a safety policy by a private airline is quite a different thing from government agents blindly obeying anti-discrimination laws.
Governments do not have a right to use blanket discrimination, such as that which led to incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II. However, local law-enforcement agencies should be able to target their searches if the description of a suspect is narrowed by sex, race, or religion.
We are dealing with an entirely different matter when it comes to safety on airplanes. The federal government should not be involved in local law enforcement, and has no right to discriminate. Airlines, on the other hand, should be permitted to do whatever is necessary to provide safety. Private firms - long denied the right - should have a right to discriminate. Fine restaurants, for example, can require that shoes and shirts be worn for service in their establishments. The logic of this remaining property right should permit more sensible security checks at airports. The airlines should be responsible for the safety of their property, and liable for it as well. This is not only the responsibility of the airlines, but it is a civil right that has long been denied them and other private companies.
The present situation requires the government to punish some by targeting those individuals who clearly offer no threat. Any airline that tries to make travel safer and happens to question a larger number of young Muslim males than the government deems appropriate can be assessed huge fines. To add insult to injury, the fines collected from airlines are used for forced sensitivity training of pilots who do their very best, under the circumstances, to make flying safer by restricting the travel of some individuals. We have embarked on a process that serves no logical purpose. While airline safety suffers, personal liberty is diminished and costs skyrocket.
If we're willing to consider a different foreign policy, we should ask ourselves a few questions:
1. What if the policies of foreign intervention, entangling alliances, policing the world, nation building, and spreading our values through force are deeply flawed?
2. What if it is true that Saddam Hussein never had weapons of mass destruction?
3. What if it is true that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were never allies?
4. What if it is true that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein did nothing to enhance our national security?
5. What if our current policy in the Middle East leads to the overthrow of our client oil states in the region?
6. What if the American people really knew that more than 20,000 American troops have suffered serious casualties or died in the Iraq war, and 9% of our forces already have been made incapable of returning to battle?
7. What if it turns out there are many more guerrilla fighters in Iraq than our government admits?
8. What if there really have been 100,000 civilian Iraqi casualties, as some claim, and what is an acceptable price for "doing good?"
9. What if Rumsfeld is replaced for the wrong reasons, and things become worse under a Defense Secretary who demands more troops and an expansion of the war?
10. What if we discover that, when they do vote, the overwhelming majority of Iraqis support Islamic (Sharia) law over western secular law, and want our troops removed?
11. What if those who correctly warned of the disaster awaiting us in Iraq are never asked for their opinion of what should be done now?
12. What if the only solution for Iraq is to divide the country into three separate regions, recognizing the principle of self-determination while rejecting the artificial boundaries created in 1918 by non-Iraqis?
13. What if it turns out radical Muslims don't hate us for our freedoms, but rather for our policies in the Middle East that directly affected Arabs and Muslims?
14. What if the invasion and occupation of Iraq actually distracted from pursuing and capturing Osama bin Laden?
15. What if we discover that democracy can't be spread with force of arms?
16. What if democracy is deeply flawed, and instead we should be talking about liberty, property rights, free markets, the rule of law, localized government, weak centralized government, and self-determination promoted through persuasion, not force?
17. What if Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda actually welcomed our invasion and occupation of Arab/Muslim Iraq as proof of their accusations against us, and it served as a magnificent recruiting tool for them?
18. What if our policy greatly increased and prolonged our vulnerability to terrorists and guerilla attacks both at home and abroad?
19. What if the Pentagon, as reported by its Defense Science Board, actually recognized the dangers of our policy before the invasion, and their warnings were ignored or denied?
20. What if the argument that by fighting over there, we won't have to fight here, is wrong, and the opposite is true?
21. What if we can never be safer by giving up some of our freedoms?
22. What if the principle of pre-emptive war is adopted by Russia, China, Israel, India, Pakistan, and others, "justified" by current U.S. policy?
23. What if pre-emptive war and pre-emptive guilt stem from the same flawed policy of authoritarianism, though we fail to recognize it?
24. What if Pakistan is not a trustworthy ally, and turns on us when conditions deteriorate?
25. What if plans are being laid to provoke Syria and/or Iran into actions that would be used to justify a military response and pre-emptive war against them?
26. What if our policy of democratization of the Middle East fails, and ends up fueling a Russian-Chinese alliance that we regret - an alliance not achieved even at the height of the Cold War?
27. What if the policy forbidding profiling at our borders and airports is deeply flawed?
28. What if presuming the guilt of a suspected terrorist without a trial leads to the total undermining of constitutional protections for American citizens when arrested?
29. What if we discover the army is too small to continue policies of pre-emption and nation-building? What if a military draft is the only way to mobilize enough troops?
30. What if the "stop-loss" program is actually an egregious violation of trust and a breach of contract between the government and soldiers? What if it actually is a backdoor draft, leading to unbridled cynicism and rebellion against a voluntary army and generating support for a draft of both men and women? Will lying to troops lead to rebellion and anger toward the political leadership running the war?
31. What if the Pentagon's legal task-force opinion that the President is not bound by international or federal law regarding torture stands unchallenged, and sets a precedent which ultimately harms Americans, while totally disregarding the moral, practical, and legal arguments against such a policy?
32. What if the intelligence reform legislation - which gives us bigger, more expensive bureaucracy - doesn't bolster our security, and distracts us from the real problem of revamping our interventionist foreign policy?
33. What if we suddenly discover we are the aggressors, and we are losing an unwinnable guerrilla war?
34. What if we discover, too late, that we can't afford this war - and that our policies have led to a dollar collapse, rampant inflation, high interest rates, and a severe economic downturn?
Why do I believe these are such important questions? Because the #1 function of the federal government - to provide for national security - has been severely undermined. On 9/11 we had a grand total of 14 aircraft in place to protect the entire U.S. mainland, all of which proved useless that day. We have an annual DOD budget of over $400 billion, most of which is spent overseas in over 100 different countries. On 9/11 our Air Force was better positioned to protect Seoul, Tokyo, Berlin, and London than it was to protect Washington D.C. and New York City.
Moreover, our ill-advised presence in the Middle East and our decade-long bombing of Iraq served only to incite the suicidal attacks of 9/11.
Before 9/11 our CIA ineptly pursued bin Laden, whom the Taliban was protecting. At the same time, the Taliban was receiving significant support from Pakistan - our "trusted ally" that received millions of dollars from the United States. We allied ourselves with both bin Laden and Hussein in the 1980s, only to regret it in the 1990s. And it's safe to say we have used billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars in the last 50 years pursuing this contradictory, irrational, foolish, costly, and very dangerous foreign policy.
Policing the world, spreading democracy by force, nation building, and frequent bombing of countries that pose no threat to us - while leaving the homeland and our borders unprotected - result from a foreign policy that is contradictory and not in our self interest.
I hardly expect anyone in Washington to pay much attention to these concerns. If I'm completely wrong in my criticisms, nothing is lost except my time and energy expended in efforts to get others to reconsider our foreign policy.
But the bigger question is:
What if I'm right, or even partially right, and we urgently need to change course in our foreign policy for the sake of our national and economic security, yet no one pays attention?
For that a price will be paid. Is it not worth talking about?
Ron Paul is a Republican Congressman from Texas.
Rather long but one must think about it sort of a way to balance order.
So take some quite time to let the gray matter work and read it through and chalange your self
What If (It Was All a Big Mistake)?
By Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
Wednesday 26 January 2005
Delivered to the U.S. House of Representatives.
America's policy of foreign intervention, while still debated in the early 20th century, is today accepted as conventional wisdom by both political parties. But what if the overall policy is a colossal mistake, a major error in judgment? Not just bad judgment regarding when and where to impose ourselves, but the entire premise that we have a moral right to meddle in the affairs of others? Think of the untold harm done by years of fighting - hundreds of thousands of American casualties, hundreds of thousands of foreign civilian casualties, and unbelievable human and economic costs. What if it was all needlessly borne by the American people? If we do conclude that grave foreign policy errors have been made, a very serious question must be asked: What would it take to change our policy to one more compatible with a true republic's goal of peace, commerce, and friendship with all nations? Is it not possible that Washington's admonition to avoid entangling alliances is sound advice even today?
In medicine mistakes are made - man is fallible. Misdiagnoses are made, incorrect treatments are given, and experimental trials of medicines are advocated. A good physician understands the imperfections in medical care, advises close follow-ups, and double-checks the diagnosis, treatment, and medication. Adjustments are made to assure the best results. But what if a doctor never checks the success or failure of a treatment, or ignores bad results and assumes his omnipotence - refusing to concede that the initial course of treatment was a mistake? Let me assure you, the results would not be good. Litigation and the loss of reputation in the medical community place restraints on this type of bullheaded behavior.
Sadly, though, when governments, politicians, and bureaucrats make mistakes and refuse to reexamine them, there is little the victims can do to correct things. Since the bully pulpit and the media propaganda machine are instrumental in government cover-ups and deception, the final truth emerges slowly, and only after much suffering. The arrogance of some politicians, regulators, and diplomats actually causes them to become even more aggressive and more determined to prove themselves right, to prove their power is not to be messed with by never admitting a mistake. Truly, power corrupts!
The unwillingness to ever reconsider our policy of foreign intervention, despite obvious failures and shortcomings over the last 50 years, has brought great harm to our country and our liberty. Historically, financial realities are the ultimate check on nations bent on empire. Economic laws ultimately prevail over bad judgment. But tragically, the greater the wealth of a country, the longer the flawed policy lasts. We'll probably not be any different.
We are still a wealthy nation, and our currency is still trusted by the world, yet we are vulnerable to some harsh realities about our true wealth and the burden of our future commitments. Overwhelming debt and the precarious nature of the dollar should serve to restrain our determined leaders, yet they show little concern for deficits. Rest assured, though, the limitations of our endless foreign adventurism and spending will become apparent to everyone at some point in time.
Since 9/11, a lot of energy and money have gone into efforts ostensibly designed to make us safer. Many laws have been passed and many dollars have been spent. Whether or not we're better off is another question.
Today we occupy two countries in the Middle East. We have suffered over 20,000 casualties, and caused possibly 100,000 civilian casualties in Iraq. We have spent over $200 billion in these occupations, as well as hundreds of billions of dollars here at home hoping to be safer. We've created the Department of Homeland Security, passed the Patriot Act, and created a new super CIA agency.
Our government now is permitted to monitor the Internet, to read our mail, to search us without proper search warrants, to develop a national ID card, and to investigate what people are reading in libraries. Ironically, illegal aliens flow into our country and qualify for driving licenses and welfare benefits with little restraint.
These issues are discussed, but nothing has been as highly visible to us as the authoritarianism we accept at the airport. The creation of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has intruded on the privacy of all airline travelers, and there is little evidence that we are safer for it. Driven by fear, we have succumbed to the age-old temptation to sacrifice liberty on the pretense of obtaining security. Love of security, unfortunately, all too often vanquishes love of liberty.
Unchecked fear of another 9/11-type attack constantly preoccupies our leaders and most of our citizens, and drives the legislative attack on our civil liberties. It's frightening to see us doing to ourselves what even bin Laden never dreamed he could accomplish with his suicide bombers.
We don't understand the difference between a vague threat of terrorism and the danger of a guerilla war. One prompts us to expand and nationalize domestic law enforcement while limiting the freedoms of all Americans. The other deals with understanding terrorists like bin Laden, who declared war against us in 1998. Not understanding the difference makes it virtually impossible to deal with the real threats. We are obsessed with passing new laws to make our country safe from a terrorist attack. This confusion about the cause of the 9/11 attacks, the fear they engendered, and the willingness to sacrifice liberty prompts many to declare their satisfaction with the inconveniences and even humiliation at our nation's airports.
There are always those in government who are anxious to increase its power and authority over the people. Strict adherence to personal privacy annoys those who promote a centralized state.
It's no surprise to learn that many of the new laws passed in the aftermath of 9/11 had been proposed long before that date. The attacks merely provided an excuse to do many things previously proposed by dedicated strategists.
All too often government acts perversely, professing to advance liberty while actually doing the opposite. Dozens of new bills passed since 9/11 promise to protect our freedoms and our security. In time we will realize there is little chance our security will be enhanced or our liberties protected.
The powerful and intrusive TSA certainly will not solve our problems. Without a full discussion, greater understanding, and ultimately a change in the foreign policy that incites those who declared war against us, no amount of pat-downs at airports will suffice. Imagine the harm done, the staggering costs, and the loss of liberty if the next 20 years pass and airplanes are never employed by terrorists. Even if there is a possibility that airplanes will be used to terrorize us, TSA's bullying will do little to prevent it. Patting down old women and little kids in airports cannot possibly make us safer!
TSA cannot protect us from another attack and it is not the solution. It serves only to make us all more obedient and complacent toward government intrusions into our lives.
The airport mess has been compounded by other problems, which we fail to recognize. Most assume the government has the greatest responsibility for making private aircraft travel safe. But this assumption only ignores mistakes made before 9/11, when the government taught us to not resist, taught us that airline personnel could not carry guns, and that the government would be in charge of security. Airline owners became complacent and dependent upon the government.
After 9/11 we moved in the wrong direction by allowing total government control and a political takeover by the TSA - which was completely contrary to the proposition that private owners have the ultimate responsibility to protect their customers.
Discrimination laws passed during the last 40 years ostensibly fuel the Transportation Secretary's near obsession with avoiding the appearance of discrimination toward young Muslim males. Instead TSA seemingly targets white children and old women. We have failed to recognize that a safety policy by a private airline is quite a different thing from government agents blindly obeying anti-discrimination laws.
Governments do not have a right to use blanket discrimination, such as that which led to incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II. However, local law-enforcement agencies should be able to target their searches if the description of a suspect is narrowed by sex, race, or religion.
We are dealing with an entirely different matter when it comes to safety on airplanes. The federal government should not be involved in local law enforcement, and has no right to discriminate. Airlines, on the other hand, should be permitted to do whatever is necessary to provide safety. Private firms - long denied the right - should have a right to discriminate. Fine restaurants, for example, can require that shoes and shirts be worn for service in their establishments. The logic of this remaining property right should permit more sensible security checks at airports. The airlines should be responsible for the safety of their property, and liable for it as well. This is not only the responsibility of the airlines, but it is a civil right that has long been denied them and other private companies.
The present situation requires the government to punish some by targeting those individuals who clearly offer no threat. Any airline that tries to make travel safer and happens to question a larger number of young Muslim males than the government deems appropriate can be assessed huge fines. To add insult to injury, the fines collected from airlines are used for forced sensitivity training of pilots who do their very best, under the circumstances, to make flying safer by restricting the travel of some individuals. We have embarked on a process that serves no logical purpose. While airline safety suffers, personal liberty is diminished and costs skyrocket.
If we're willing to consider a different foreign policy, we should ask ourselves a few questions:
1. What if the policies of foreign intervention, entangling alliances, policing the world, nation building, and spreading our values through force are deeply flawed?
2. What if it is true that Saddam Hussein never had weapons of mass destruction?
3. What if it is true that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were never allies?
4. What if it is true that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein did nothing to enhance our national security?
5. What if our current policy in the Middle East leads to the overthrow of our client oil states in the region?
6. What if the American people really knew that more than 20,000 American troops have suffered serious casualties or died in the Iraq war, and 9% of our forces already have been made incapable of returning to battle?
7. What if it turns out there are many more guerrilla fighters in Iraq than our government admits?
8. What if there really have been 100,000 civilian Iraqi casualties, as some claim, and what is an acceptable price for "doing good?"
9. What if Rumsfeld is replaced for the wrong reasons, and things become worse under a Defense Secretary who demands more troops and an expansion of the war?
10. What if we discover that, when they do vote, the overwhelming majority of Iraqis support Islamic (Sharia) law over western secular law, and want our troops removed?
11. What if those who correctly warned of the disaster awaiting us in Iraq are never asked for their opinion of what should be done now?
12. What if the only solution for Iraq is to divide the country into three separate regions, recognizing the principle of self-determination while rejecting the artificial boundaries created in 1918 by non-Iraqis?
13. What if it turns out radical Muslims don't hate us for our freedoms, but rather for our policies in the Middle East that directly affected Arabs and Muslims?
14. What if the invasion and occupation of Iraq actually distracted from pursuing and capturing Osama bin Laden?
15. What if we discover that democracy can't be spread with force of arms?
16. What if democracy is deeply flawed, and instead we should be talking about liberty, property rights, free markets, the rule of law, localized government, weak centralized government, and self-determination promoted through persuasion, not force?
17. What if Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda actually welcomed our invasion and occupation of Arab/Muslim Iraq as proof of their accusations against us, and it served as a magnificent recruiting tool for them?
18. What if our policy greatly increased and prolonged our vulnerability to terrorists and guerilla attacks both at home and abroad?
19. What if the Pentagon, as reported by its Defense Science Board, actually recognized the dangers of our policy before the invasion, and their warnings were ignored or denied?
20. What if the argument that by fighting over there, we won't have to fight here, is wrong, and the opposite is true?
21. What if we can never be safer by giving up some of our freedoms?
22. What if the principle of pre-emptive war is adopted by Russia, China, Israel, India, Pakistan, and others, "justified" by current U.S. policy?
23. What if pre-emptive war and pre-emptive guilt stem from the same flawed policy of authoritarianism, though we fail to recognize it?
24. What if Pakistan is not a trustworthy ally, and turns on us when conditions deteriorate?
25. What if plans are being laid to provoke Syria and/or Iran into actions that would be used to justify a military response and pre-emptive war against them?
26. What if our policy of democratization of the Middle East fails, and ends up fueling a Russian-Chinese alliance that we regret - an alliance not achieved even at the height of the Cold War?
27. What if the policy forbidding profiling at our borders and airports is deeply flawed?
28. What if presuming the guilt of a suspected terrorist without a trial leads to the total undermining of constitutional protections for American citizens when arrested?
29. What if we discover the army is too small to continue policies of pre-emption and nation-building? What if a military draft is the only way to mobilize enough troops?
30. What if the "stop-loss" program is actually an egregious violation of trust and a breach of contract between the government and soldiers? What if it actually is a backdoor draft, leading to unbridled cynicism and rebellion against a voluntary army and generating support for a draft of both men and women? Will lying to troops lead to rebellion and anger toward the political leadership running the war?
31. What if the Pentagon's legal task-force opinion that the President is not bound by international or federal law regarding torture stands unchallenged, and sets a precedent which ultimately harms Americans, while totally disregarding the moral, practical, and legal arguments against such a policy?
32. What if the intelligence reform legislation - which gives us bigger, more expensive bureaucracy - doesn't bolster our security, and distracts us from the real problem of revamping our interventionist foreign policy?
33. What if we suddenly discover we are the aggressors, and we are losing an unwinnable guerrilla war?
34. What if we discover, too late, that we can't afford this war - and that our policies have led to a dollar collapse, rampant inflation, high interest rates, and a severe economic downturn?
Why do I believe these are such important questions? Because the #1 function of the federal government - to provide for national security - has been severely undermined. On 9/11 we had a grand total of 14 aircraft in place to protect the entire U.S. mainland, all of which proved useless that day. We have an annual DOD budget of over $400 billion, most of which is spent overseas in over 100 different countries. On 9/11 our Air Force was better positioned to protect Seoul, Tokyo, Berlin, and London than it was to protect Washington D.C. and New York City.
Moreover, our ill-advised presence in the Middle East and our decade-long bombing of Iraq served only to incite the suicidal attacks of 9/11.
Before 9/11 our CIA ineptly pursued bin Laden, whom the Taliban was protecting. At the same time, the Taliban was receiving significant support from Pakistan - our "trusted ally" that received millions of dollars from the United States. We allied ourselves with both bin Laden and Hussein in the 1980s, only to regret it in the 1990s. And it's safe to say we have used billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars in the last 50 years pursuing this contradictory, irrational, foolish, costly, and very dangerous foreign policy.
Policing the world, spreading democracy by force, nation building, and frequent bombing of countries that pose no threat to us - while leaving the homeland and our borders unprotected - result from a foreign policy that is contradictory and not in our self interest.
I hardly expect anyone in Washington to pay much attention to these concerns. If I'm completely wrong in my criticisms, nothing is lost except my time and energy expended in efforts to get others to reconsider our foreign policy.
But the bigger question is:
What if I'm right, or even partially right, and we urgently need to change course in our foreign policy for the sake of our national and economic security, yet no one pays attention?
For that a price will be paid. Is it not worth talking about?
Ron Paul is a Republican Congressman from Texas.
Thursday, January 20, 2005
As a this old armadillo found in some old glyphs of a strange nature put to a picture that is made in a chaotic form and color it stated in strange words.
I live in Texas on a retired fixed income I know that the only way that I can support all is with a blessing and hope that no one will ever give up
being for the people.
The founding fathers created this a democratic republic concept for the people which was paid and built with the hard work an blood of all with free will of citizens that included “the Grand Old Party of Lincoln” and a GOP of men of moderation good will and common sense for all.
Not a GOP based on personal greed and arrogance of power is ownership of all which creates nothing more that a corporate fascist form of a communist nation.
Where we are but slaves to a system not as free people to choose the pursuit of our own paths.
I do have a suggestion or a concept in that the DNC
set up a intelligence and rapid response operation that allows for a central way to monitor and communicate with all DNC unites and allied elements as the law will allow.
This action will allow for their ability to intercede whit a plan of action to answer with debunking or action so as to expose, bring light and truth when these under handed elements that want to make greed the key word to bring down the middle class to being slave labor for the major corporations by owning a administration, congress or state, city and village.
This system needs to be set up so all members can share in a instance any goings on at the national, local and real levels that seem to have a pattern of some PR firm propaganda form of communication guided from the likes of Karl Rove or agent and kind from their special collations attacking social security, medi care, education, or the sell out of this country to Communist China.
Just think of what would happen if China decides to nationalize a said that they now own all business and propriety and also they demand payment of these loans to the federal government or they will come and repossess it with their army.
Maybe India decides to nationalize and says the government owns all the medical, financial files, factories etc.
Just think, who will they sell it to or charge you to get it back?
Just a thought
I live in Texas on a retired fixed income I know that the only way that I can support all is with a blessing and hope that no one will ever give up
being for the people.
The founding fathers created this a democratic republic concept for the people which was paid and built with the hard work an blood of all with free will of citizens that included “the Grand Old Party of Lincoln” and a GOP of men of moderation good will and common sense for all.
Not a GOP based on personal greed and arrogance of power is ownership of all which creates nothing more that a corporate fascist form of a communist nation.
Where we are but slaves to a system not as free people to choose the pursuit of our own paths.
I do have a suggestion or a concept in that the DNC
set up a intelligence and rapid response operation that allows for a central way to monitor and communicate with all DNC unites and allied elements as the law will allow.
This action will allow for their ability to intercede whit a plan of action to answer with debunking or action so as to expose, bring light and truth when these under handed elements that want to make greed the key word to bring down the middle class to being slave labor for the major corporations by owning a administration, congress or state, city and village.
This system needs to be set up so all members can share in a instance any goings on at the national, local and real levels that seem to have a pattern of some PR firm propaganda form of communication guided from the likes of Karl Rove or agent and kind from their special collations attacking social security, medi care, education, or the sell out of this country to Communist China.
Just think of what would happen if China decides to nationalize a said that they now own all business and propriety and also they demand payment of these loans to the federal government or they will come and repossess it with their army.
Maybe India decides to nationalize and says the government owns all the medical, financial files, factories etc.
Just think, who will they sell it to or charge you to get it back?
Just a thought
As all armadillo find these human glyphs are sometime hard to put in a context it does show up their hope in looking at the truth of the earth we all are a part of.
But there are these ugly parts of what is called human emotions that are from the dark side of the human condition one presents itself in the blindness of greed with the scent of which leads into the darkness of self destruction and all that are blinded with the smell to stumble in the chaos of destroying the very element that gives all the essence of being.
The glyphs refer to a observation by a scribe that has a soul for all.
While it is on this misshaped living element called earth which is just one speck in this endless journey in the void of time and space that we must thank them for this attention for the welfare of all. With adieu I bid you check this out for your self ,please go to the source for more light on this stewardship.
The forest for the greed
Tuesday, January 4, 2005
By: Editorial, St. Petersburg Times / Florida
Bush administration rules, forest regulations have been reworded
less accountability to the public.
Polluters helped the Bush administration write its energy policy. The pharmaceutical industry got its way in the Medicare drug law. So why would anyone be surprised that new federal forest regulations favor loggers over the public interest?
The man who oversees the U.S. Forest Service is Mark Rey, a lobbyist for the timber industry before his appointment, and it is clear whose side he is on. Since he has been in the job, the Forest Service has grown increasingly hostile to its own professional staff. One of those was biologist Kristine Shull, who was threatened with pay cuts or firing if she didn't sign off on the sale of 3,000 acres of old-growth trees by stating, falsely, that they were dead, the online magazine Salon reported. She refused and the stress drove her into medical leave, giving her supervisor an opening to approve the sale. Dozens of biologists, botanists and ecologists told similar stories.
We know who will have the most influence under the new regulations - business interests with friends in high places. The timber industry made sure of that by contributing generously to the campaigns of Bush and other Republicans, and even a few Democrats. Three of Bush's elite fundraisers are top timber executives, the Los Angeles Times reported.
You don't have to be a tree-hugger to understand the danger. Clear-cut logging and other development in federal forests threaten not only wildlife but also the quality of human life. Forests help purify water and air and provide a variety of recreational opportunities. When they are logged, taxpayers are the losers because it costs the government more to build logging roads than it receives in payments.
But there are these ugly parts of what is called human emotions that are from the dark side of the human condition one presents itself in the blindness of greed with the scent of which leads into the darkness of self destruction and all that are blinded with the smell to stumble in the chaos of destroying the very element that gives all the essence of being.
The glyphs refer to a observation by a scribe that has a soul for all.
While it is on this misshaped living element called earth which is just one speck in this endless journey in the void of time and space that we must thank them for this attention for the welfare of all. With adieu I bid you check this out for your self ,please go to the source for more light on this stewardship.
The forest for the greed
Tuesday, January 4, 2005
By: Editorial, St. Petersburg Times / Florida
Bush administration rules, forest regulations have been reworded
less accountability to the public.
Polluters helped the Bush administration write its energy policy. The pharmaceutical industry got its way in the Medicare drug law. So why would anyone be surprised that new federal forest regulations favor loggers over the public interest?
The man who oversees the U.S. Forest Service is Mark Rey, a lobbyist for the timber industry before his appointment, and it is clear whose side he is on. Since he has been in the job, the Forest Service has grown increasingly hostile to its own professional staff. One of those was biologist Kristine Shull, who was threatened with pay cuts or firing if she didn't sign off on the sale of 3,000 acres of old-growth trees by stating, falsely, that they were dead, the online magazine Salon reported. She refused and the stress drove her into medical leave, giving her supervisor an opening to approve the sale. Dozens of biologists, botanists and ecologists told similar stories.
We know who will have the most influence under the new regulations - business interests with friends in high places. The timber industry made sure of that by contributing generously to the campaigns of Bush and other Republicans, and even a few Democrats. Three of Bush's elite fundraisers are top timber executives, the Los Angeles Times reported.
You don't have to be a tree-hugger to understand the danger. Clear-cut logging and other development in federal forests threaten not only wildlife but also the quality of human life. Forests help purify water and air and provide a variety of recreational opportunities. When they are logged, taxpayers are the losers because it costs the government more to build logging roads than it receives in payments.
Monday, January 17, 2005
This armadillo has seen a bit of the dark side but this one translated set of glyphs speaks of all the focus groups, manipulations of stats along with misdirected PR storys and terrorizing statements create chaos to hide thievery and schulldurgy thus being able to cover over and take what ever they want?
Truly this is something humans and armadillos need to think about?
Just makes me wonder in light of the payoff to "Williams" for selling a program how many of your tax dollars are paying back those putting the money up for this "PR dog and pony show" are going to get back?
$ billions under the table at this $40 million plus paltry ballroom dinner dance?
I was taught that this was a country for the people A democratic republic NOT a Corporate Communist country with CEO Cheney telling Karl Rove to have the PR boyz create a Resident President Mouth to sing the songs of "screw the people" and a Halliburton ex CEO telling us to
"go .... Ourselves"?
Just check this out?
You know that 24% of the people live on starvation diets, and Red-mart (sorry I mean Wal-mart) will be come the National company store like Gumps was in communist Russia?
washingtonpost.com
Big-Money Contributors Line Up for Inauguration / jan. 17, 05
Truly this is something humans and armadillos need to think about?
Just makes me wonder in light of the payoff to "Williams" for selling a program how many of your tax dollars are paying back those putting the money up for this "PR dog and pony show" are going to get back?
$ billions under the table at this $40 million plus paltry ballroom dinner dance?
I was taught that this was a country for the people A democratic republic NOT a Corporate Communist country with CEO Cheney telling Karl Rove to have the PR boyz create a Resident President Mouth to sing the songs of "screw the people" and a Halliburton ex CEO telling us to
"go .... Ourselves"?
Just check this out?
You know that 24% of the people live on starvation diets, and Red-mart (sorry I mean Wal-mart) will be come the National company store like Gumps was in communist Russia?
washingtonpost.com
Big-Money Contributors Line Up for Inauguration / jan. 17, 05
Sunday, January 16, 2005
Remember it is the wisdom of the great Armadillo shell awareness of phylos’dillogy.
Although I'm just one of the old armadillos in line of many, to me education is the light that leads to a better world ("still a dreamer") lets help light the torch of knowledge for the truth not the greatest destroyer of all human endeavors, that would be blind hate.
I hope that you would take care to check this out and pass it on.
So cut and paste in your browser , who knows?
http://www.ourfuture.org/RealEducationStories.cfm
Although I'm just one of the old armadillos in line of many, to me education is the light that leads to a better world ("still a dreamer") lets help light the torch of knowledge for the truth not the greatest destroyer of all human endeavors, that would be blind hate.
I hope that you would take care to check this out and pass it on.
So cut and paste in your browser , who knows?
http://www.ourfuture.org/RealEducationStories.cfm
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
The Polls of the non-people
What is the reality of presidential lack of truth and misdirection?
Just a Armadillo thought from the diggings 'by Barrow A. Dillo.
Their are more than a canned group of phone numbers
on a list to ask about what's going on?
There happens to be a great nation of over 230 million people not just a few and to assume that you ask a few that this is a truth is truly and arrogant form of the non-think.
When a paid professional demographer employed to ask a psychic slanted and loaded questions that add up some words to get the right numbers for stats, charts and chats.
So lets look at the Who, Where, Why, When the political thieves stole the country and with 4 more years to sell it off to any with a purse that opens and easily pours under the table of greed ?
Lets call the new republicans what they really are?
The New Poll and lack of intelligence Terrorists
The rats of misdirected thought and images created by major rat Karl Rove and the rat right gang.
The writers of the shadow truths that break wind when confronted by an honest question.
The GOP is new rise of a Neo American Nazi fascist party, they are a group that look to the "Christian Right ” and use the basic predigests of looking down on the Poor, children, elderly, disabled, Catholics, Jews, and any lesser religions along with the debasement of all who would oppose them and their right to power and what they think is the best for all of use in their quest for greed, power, for the honor and dark blessings for the image of the buck.
Hitler could not have created a group so well, He would be very happy to see the hate, greed and power at its best with lapel flags on black suits with red ties and dress black jack boots and gray matter non think uniforms.
I know that the real Lincoln republicans are still out there working heard trying to keep family and hearth together even as they are Put on a slot of demographic levels so the PR boyz can create the stage set and photo-op for that 15 minutes of feel good so as to blind the truth of the real world.
Is that the fine men and women that have souls of honor are being murdered, maimed, wounded for this “Wag the dog war” for the oil, drugs, and the uncontrolled spending of tax payers money for the corporate welfare of the "unbidding" and the greed of soulless merchants of special interest few? Along with the Benedict Arnold Corporate outsource rat list and the Great Commie-mart sell out by Wal-Mart Soon your personnel debit and your personal medical information will belong to some other country that you can’t even find.
Every day your freedom is being taken away, not by the terrorists but in the name of righteous greed, desire for power for a personal image and the fear that you might have an idea that would put them out of their jobs if in this process you might discover all the hidden and open lies with the under the table perks.
Enough, I say.
Look all around you and see the real world not a marketing PR spin man with (expert black brief case and title) selling snake oil and telling you its fresh water.
What is the reality of presidential lack of truth and misdirection?
Just a Armadillo thought from the diggings 'by Barrow A. Dillo.
Their are more than a canned group of phone numbers
on a list to ask about what's going on?
There happens to be a great nation of over 230 million people not just a few and to assume that you ask a few that this is a truth is truly and arrogant form of the non-think.
When a paid professional demographer employed to ask a psychic slanted and loaded questions that add up some words to get the right numbers for stats, charts and chats.
So lets look at the Who, Where, Why, When the political thieves stole the country and with 4 more years to sell it off to any with a purse that opens and easily pours under the table of greed ?
Lets call the new republicans what they really are?
The New Poll and lack of intelligence Terrorists
The rats of misdirected thought and images created by major rat Karl Rove and the rat right gang.
The writers of the shadow truths that break wind when confronted by an honest question.
The GOP is new rise of a Neo American Nazi fascist party, they are a group that look to the "Christian Right ” and use the basic predigests of looking down on the Poor, children, elderly, disabled, Catholics, Jews, and any lesser religions along with the debasement of all who would oppose them and their right to power and what they think is the best for all of use in their quest for greed, power, for the honor and dark blessings for the image of the buck.
Hitler could not have created a group so well, He would be very happy to see the hate, greed and power at its best with lapel flags on black suits with red ties and dress black jack boots and gray matter non think uniforms.
I know that the real Lincoln republicans are still out there working heard trying to keep family and hearth together even as they are Put on a slot of demographic levels so the PR boyz can create the stage set and photo-op for that 15 minutes of feel good so as to blind the truth of the real world.
Is that the fine men and women that have souls of honor are being murdered, maimed, wounded for this “Wag the dog war” for the oil, drugs, and the uncontrolled spending of tax payers money for the corporate welfare of the "unbidding" and the greed of soulless merchants of special interest few? Along with the Benedict Arnold Corporate outsource rat list and the Great Commie-mart sell out by Wal-Mart Soon your personnel debit and your personal medical information will belong to some other country that you can’t even find.
Every day your freedom is being taken away, not by the terrorists but in the name of righteous greed, desire for power for a personal image and the fear that you might have an idea that would put them out of their jobs if in this process you might discover all the hidden and open lies with the under the table perks.
Enough, I say.
Look all around you and see the real world not a marketing PR spin man with (expert black brief case and title) selling snake oil and telling you its fresh water.
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