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Originally posted by nukunuku
Originally posted by Watchman77
IF the government has lied to us in so many areas how are we to trust anything they have told us?
Trust the government? Are you completely bonkers
People shouldnt trust governments, they should beat them with sticks all the time and cross check everythiing they do. Thats why we have free media...only now the media is corrupt as well and works along the government...well with few exeptions
Never trust the ones with power, becouse power corrupts the mind
Originally posted by rstrik
Can anybody honestly who actually lives in the US post something they have had taken away from them? I hear this crap on ATS all the time and nobody can provide me with a freedom you "lost". I've been living my same normal life for the last 5 years and can't find one thing I am or have to do differently than I did in the past. The only people who are affected by these laws being passed are the ones who deserve to be. I know many many people and can honestly say never heard one person say " I just lost the right to ......" or "I can't do this because of that stupid terrorist act that just passed".
Originally posted by Watchman77
All this is only true IF you believe the "official" reports. I DON'T. I don't believe much of anything this government or the mainstream media tell us, there are to many reasons not to.
Originally posted by junglejake
whsky, you will most likely be ridiclued for that. I agree with you completely, though. Don't let people's insults and opinions of you change what you believe, though. Glad to see you're taking a stand
Originally posted by rstrik
I'm sorry but the conspiracy theories revolving around these large scale incidents just don't make sense to me. If there was one slight mistake in such a plan and it was revealed this country would be turned upside down in anarchy. The risk vs reward just don't match up for me.
Originally posted by redmage
Originally posted by rstrik
I'm sorry but the conspiracy theories revolving around these large scale incidents just don't make sense to me. If there was one slight mistake in such a plan and it was revealed this country would be turned upside down in anarchy. The risk vs reward just don't match up for me.
There in lies the catch 22.
Even those non "Bush administration supporters" who might be in the know could never use this against them because they are either too concerned with their own agendas or, deep down, they still do love this country and realize what it would do to America if this came to light. It would be chaos if these actions were proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Riots and bloodshed on a national scale, in short, anarchy.
So instead they play the game, passing legislation to quiet whomever they wish in hopes of saving what country we have left, or, to cling to the status they still maintain as the privileged "upper crust".
[edit on 23/9/05 by redmage]
Originally posted by Danie
why dont you all just shut up and instead of argueing about this crap do something to help our country out. Oh yea "gas prices" and "we cant fly without nailclippers " WHO CARES! Once you come up to me and say i was in a firefight and my buddy took a bullet, then ill listen to you, when you say my brother died trying to save 20 civilians from a suicide bomber then ill listen, when you say this kind of stuff ill listen because i know what it feels like. im sick and tired of this crap, a bunch of people crying about worthless stuff, yea what would you say if you see your 2 best buddies walkin out to do a patrol and you dont know if youll ever see them agian, why dont you wake up and look at reality. Reality is that we never complain no matter what we see or why we are were we are, miles from home fighting , People dont understand why we do it, and they never will.
why dont you all just shut up and instead of argueing about this crap do something to help our country out.
Oh yea "gas prices" and "we cant fly without nailclippers " WHO CARES!
Once you come up to me and say i was in a firefight and my buddy took a bullet, then ill listen to you, when you say my brother died trying to save 20 civilians from a suicide bomber then ill listen, when you say this kind of stuff ill listen because i know what it feels like.
im sick and tired of this crap, a bunch of people crying about worthless stuff, yea what would you say if you see your 2 best buddies walkin out to do a patrol and you dont know if youll ever see them agian, why dont you wake up and look at reality.
Reality is that we never complain no matter what we see or why we are were we are
Originally posted by nukunuku
Never trust the ones with power, becouse power corrupts the mind
Originally posted by Danie
do me a favor and watch black hawk down, and really pay attention to the soilders, maybe youll understand what i dont, its not about politics, its about your buddies,theyre family, dont tell you dont know why were over here, when you watch a suicide bomber blow himself up and kill civilians, yea theyres oil and other crap but why dont you look at the positive, and youre right soilders do complain, but not as much as civilians cuz *gasp* gas prices.
Originally posted by lilblam
Originally posted by Danie
do me a favor and watch black hawk down, and really pay attention to the soilders, maybe youll understand what i dont, its not about politics, its about your buddies,theyre family, dont tell you dont know why were over here, when you watch a suicide bomber blow himself up and kill civilians, yea theyres oil and other crap but why dont you look at the positive, and youre right soilders do complain, but not as much as civilians cuz *gasp* gas prices.
Many more civilians have been killed by the US army in Iraq now than all the suicide bombers combined. That and, you don't know who is responsible for the suicide bombers - for all you know, our government is responsible to create the necessary excuse to invade. So why assume that the government's version of who those people are and why they do what they do is the truth just because they say so?