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Sep. 19th, 2002 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petermarcusI love politics, just for the sheer insanity of it all.
This implies that the government knew about bits and pieces of 9/11 and should have tried to stop it.
These protesters imply that the government shouldn't be so hasty to do anything, militarily, with Iraq.
This implies that the government is shrugging off its responsibility to protect cyberspace by taking a hands-off attitude.
This implies that the government is too hands-on in its measures to secure America.
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This is politics in America -- one twisted paradox. And we wonder why our leaders look into our eyes and lie to us? Even with a 70% approval rating, Bush is attacked from all sides in a damned if you do, damned if you don't struggle. Clinton, for many different reasons, had the same problem. As did Bush I and Reagan and Carter and Ford.... Everyone was annoyed at Nixon at the end, one of the last nearly unanimous political environments and the sleazy weasel had to go and do the right thing and resign on us.
The really twisted thing of it all is that it's a really great system. We should pester leaders who want to march us off to war. Is this really about WMD, or is it oil? We should pester our leaders about what allowed an attack on our soil. Was it an intelligence breakdown or was it inevitable? We should demand security, while monitoring that it doesn't go too far. Government may have internal checks and balances, but it has no external ones outside its civilians. Who will stop a CEO that steals money from a company and its stockholders? The government, through the process of law. Who will stop a government that steps on the Constitution in the name of protection?
This implies that the government knew about bits and pieces of 9/11 and should have tried to stop it.
These protesters imply that the government shouldn't be so hasty to do anything, militarily, with Iraq.
This implies that the government is shrugging off its responsibility to protect cyberspace by taking a hands-off attitude.
This implies that the government is too hands-on in its measures to secure America.
----
This is politics in America -- one twisted paradox. And we wonder why our leaders look into our eyes and lie to us? Even with a 70% approval rating, Bush is attacked from all sides in a damned if you do, damned if you don't struggle. Clinton, for many different reasons, had the same problem. As did Bush I and Reagan and Carter and Ford.... Everyone was annoyed at Nixon at the end, one of the last nearly unanimous political environments and the sleazy weasel had to go and do the right thing and resign on us.
The really twisted thing of it all is that it's a really great system. We should pester leaders who want to march us off to war. Is this really about WMD, or is it oil? We should pester our leaders about what allowed an attack on our soil. Was it an intelligence breakdown or was it inevitable? We should demand security, while monitoring that it doesn't go too far. Government may have internal checks and balances, but it has no external ones outside its civilians. Who will stop a CEO that steals money from a company and its stockholders? The government, through the process of law. Who will stop a government that steps on the Constitution in the name of protection?
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You don't know me....
Date: 2002-09-19 07:04 pm (UTC)Seriously though, you are so right, and I fear that far too many people are afraid to ask questions because they are afraid of being branded unpatriotic, but I can honestly not think of anything more patriotic than asking questions in times of great turmoil.
Re: You don't know me....
Date: 2002-09-19 08:38 pm (UTC)But, that doesn't mean Bush II & Co. have to be so gleeful about it, or that they think they have a public mandate to take care of it any way they want to.
IMHO ;)