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The Frighteners
We here at littleboxes are frightened. That's right, scared completely out of our wits. Terrified, petrified, mortified by the 9/11 commission. We started out thinking that the 9/11 folks produced an interesting report that, although not perfect, might serve some useful purpose. Sure, we had some complaints about not being aggressive enough against Dear Leader but we really didn't expect anything more/less from those cool cats on the commission.
However, we just read last night that the members of the 9/11 commission are looking for an up or down vote on some of their suggestions. We wanted to provide a link to this article but are no unable to find it online. Anyway...it's not that important. What is important is the frenzy to enact almost everything in the 9/11 commission report before really thinking about it. The same thing happened with the Patriot Act. Time is important when dealing with terrorists but there should be an honest and open public debate (stop laughing) about these issues.
But, good lord! The government is not going to do anything to protect us from terrorism unless the people demand it. Change always come from people not politicians. The civil rights act didn't suddenly occur to Congress and President Johnson. Lincoln didn't wake up one morning with the brilliant and innovative idea of freeing the slaves. Congress didn't legislate the 40 hour work week by consulting with each other. All of these things took enormous amounts of time, effort, blood, sweat and tears by ordinary americans to accomplish.
Yes, changing the way the U.S. is protected will take time but there are also really simple things that are just not being done because of lack of funds and personel. We shouldn't have less police on the street in NYC and our ports should be fully staffed with security personel.
Bottom line: When there are so many simple things that need to be done (i.e. remember the state trooper in Michael Moore's movie who patrols a stretch of the west coast all by himself) why does Congress need to spend so much time and energy arguing back and forth about who can install an intelligence czar more quickly?
However, we just read last night that the members of the 9/11 commission are looking for an up or down vote on some of their suggestions. We wanted to provide a link to this article but are no unable to find it online. Anyway...it's not that important. What is important is the frenzy to enact almost everything in the 9/11 commission report before really thinking about it. The same thing happened with the Patriot Act. Time is important when dealing with terrorists but there should be an honest and open public debate (stop laughing) about these issues.
But, good lord! The government is not going to do anything to protect us from terrorism unless the people demand it. Change always come from people not politicians. The civil rights act didn't suddenly occur to Congress and President Johnson. Lincoln didn't wake up one morning with the brilliant and innovative idea of freeing the slaves. Congress didn't legislate the 40 hour work week by consulting with each other. All of these things took enormous amounts of time, effort, blood, sweat and tears by ordinary americans to accomplish.
Yes, changing the way the U.S. is protected will take time but there are also really simple things that are just not being done because of lack of funds and personel. We shouldn't have less police on the street in NYC and our ports should be fully staffed with security personel.
Bottom line: When there are so many simple things that need to be done (i.e. remember the state trooper in Michael Moore's movie who patrols a stretch of the west coast all by himself) why does Congress need to spend so much time and energy arguing back and forth about who can install an intelligence czar more quickly?
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