You Might Be a Terrorist if......

Yes, but you can't say that, it'll upset the liberals.

I'm liberal but I won't deny there's a lot of similarities to us and Germany Pre WW2, we're even basically in an economic crisis that, some leader could blame on some race. But realistically it's not a particularly unique situation, then again, genocide is really a lot more common that we like to acknowledge. Sadly, it reminds me more of a country that ended up fighting a world war 70 years. Just not another country, too bad 70 year's is just long enough for most of the Japanese Americans who remember being in interment camps to have passed.

Knoodleknight18, it's a shame that the people that remember the oppression of the 40s are passing away. We need to remember those things because I see the possibility of it happening now. This generation, and even my generation, have no concept of the horrors that happened because of politics and fear. If somehow we the people could insist on some common sense in our government and restore it to something that serves the people instead of itself, a crisis could be avoided and order and sanity restored.

I'd be done with calling it terrorism and call it what it is, guerrilla warfare.

Guerrilla warfare is attacks against military targets, terrorism is attacks against civilians with the intent of causing terror among the population. Guerrilla warfare has a military objective and an end in victory or defeat. Terrorism is ongoing and has no end point.

Thank you for those finer points in defining the two. I used the term guerrilla warfare because I see it as a war, and those jihadists IN OUR COUNTRY at this very minute are viewing it as a war as well. I think we need to wake up and realize our government is NOT using the Patriot Act to protect us, they are using it to demoralize us and enslave us, it has NOTHING to do with finding, stopping or prosecuting jihadists. Otherwise why the complete neglect of our southern border, lawsuits against states trying to police the border in their state? Why is it we have sent billions to the Muslim Brotherhood when THEY were on the terror watch list? And even employed and appointed Muslims with direct ties to the Muslim Brotherhood to the very agency that is suppose to PROTECT us from jihadist, Homeland Security? Yet Americans, including infants, toddlers and the very elderly continue to get groped by this agency. Why is the media (reportedly ordered by the WH) not calling the Ft. Hood shooter, who spoke with Alwalaki as his mentor, a terrorist? Why is the CIA and FBI sending reports to Homeland Security and law enforcement agencies that call returning vets, supporters of Pro Life groups, members of the NRA, and evangelical Christians more dangerous to America as 'terrorists'? We are at war. Our elected officials are complacent to this all, either through ignorance or outright agreement with it.

When you go into the sun, you put sun screen on. When you go out in the woods you put insect repellent on. When you go out in the rain, you carry an umbrella. SOOOO, if you plan on taking people's rights away......?

Some people would say it (Patriot Act) was never about keeping terrorist out and was nothing more than a shameless grab at civil liberties. What's that phrase "never let a good crisis go to waste". After all the best way to keep terrorism from happening is to not let suspected terrorist in the country to begin with. It's not just this administration either, the push to erase our borders with Mexico has been going on a lot longer than NAFTA and the Clinton administration. Although that had the greatest economic impact on this country since the Japanese Auto/Industrial invasion. Things like Ruby Ridge and Waco made the government wake up to the idea that not everyone was too happy with the system. Add on top of that the reform party and the percentage of the vote they got during Ross Perot's campaign for president and I firmly believe both parties felt a bit threatened. Neither would ever let any third party rise to power and would be willing to do anything including violate civil rights to keep it from happening.

I understand that the push to disolve the borders goes back quite far and I have read extensively on Waco and Ruby Ridge, which I believe were merely an act to see just how much the American people would put up with along with sending the message that 'right wing extemeists' were the danger. As time goes by, as I read more, see more, study more, I'm beginning to believe that NOTHING that's happened in the years since FDR has been a mistake or an accident.

What I want to find out, is how we went from keeping jihadists from entering the country, to describing Americans as terrorists? When did the focus change?

I take it a bit further, if he's elected again we're finished as a Constitutional Republic.

How old are you netsbridge? I'm 56 and up until about 19990s I never worried, no did I ever hear my parents worry about anyone being a 'terrorist'. Especially IN America. And NO ONE imagined 9/11 or the hostages taken by Iran, or the bombs set off on USS Cole, etc.