Obama Speaking To Media Soon EDIT: Bin Laden Dead

**googleimage** · Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 1229

I'd say Twang nailed it. After the one major attack, it's just been a stream of nitwits lighting their shoe or their dick on fire. Scary enough, but not exactly the type of work you'd want to put on your terror resume, and certainly not the type of thing that justifies the chasm this "war on terror" has created in the federal budget, much less the added civilian and troop casualties.

It's not rocket science to point out the incompetency of these low-level terrorist-wannabes, but unfortunately the Defense lobby have a vested interest in seeing things differently, so they're certainly not going to present that case. Ditto for the for-profit media - they know that there's no sales and viewership in unafraid people, so what incentive is there to perform their civic duty? By extension, all of their sponsors and advertisers now have a vested interest in sustaining that climate of fear, and they buy off so many spokespeople/politicians/reporters to tenaciously push that fear agenda.
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I'm a huge Marilyn Mason fan. Not of his music (XD), but about what he believes in. He understands that fear is what controls the mainstream public of America, which as Hailz as sad, is extremely embarrassing.

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**Twang** · Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 4:46 am Post subject:

**PiemanLK** · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 4712 Location: /export/home

"I wouldn't say a single word to them. I would listen to what they have to say. That's what no one did."

Those are very very strong words right there. Brilliant words.
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**Twang** · Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 9:01 pm Post subject:

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**jesse0986** · Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 2:35 am Post subject:

Maybe I'm just playing semantics but I don't think "melting pot" works in this case, because that inherently implies assimilation. You'd be hard-pressed to convince me that America has actually yet achieved its vision of total assimilation, and in fact I think we've been actively trying to move away from that in recent decades (see: multiculturalism).

A better term might be the salad bowl, where pockets of people all live within the same borders but exist and go about their lives partially (and in some cases wholly) apart from one another. It's much easier to understand the source of fear and paranoia in this case, since Americans don't even have to look halfway across the world to find something to fear and instead can look within their own borders, states, maybe even their own neighborhoods. Without a common understanding (that naturally comes with assimilation that the melting pot implies), people naturally fear others who don't look and act like them.

Ever seen Do the Right Thing? Basically the same idea.
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