{"id":333,"date":"2002-11-21T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-21T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=333"},"modified":"2002-11-21T02:09:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-21T08:09:00","slug":"political-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Political Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"

recently posted<\/a> a statement<\/a> by “the Idol”, Hillary Clinton. <\/p>\n

She makes a few valid moderate points, towards the end, but only after feeding into the collective irrational fear of terrorism. Yes, terrorism is by its very nature a surprise. So it really could come it any time, at any place. So the solution is to create an office to coordinate the powers that be in response to it? How would firemen, police officers, and increased patroling of our border with those terroristic canadians would have stopped the september 11th attacks? Those attacks were self-limiting, with modern communication technology bumping up the pace of the response. Passengers<\/i>, ie citizens, not police officers, not border patrols, and not firemen stopped the last set of terrorists in that hour, and later, stopped the bomber with the explosive shoes. <\/p>\n

Dangerous terrorists are dangerous because they are smart. Smart terrorists will go where the authorities are not, and act before the authorities can stop them. The terrorists everyone is up in arms about generally die in the process. And am I the only one who noticed that they haven’t attacked us effectively since then? I remain unconvinced that the Anthrax came from the people who brought us the aeronautical urban remodeling. No matter how much power we give the authorities, no matter how many of them we put out on the street, the authorities cannot be relied upon to protect us everywhere, all the time.<\/p>\n

Nor is war exactly effective in eliminating terrorism. Missiles, bombs, and other powerful artillery are not going to stop a terrorist, though they may create a few out of the relatives of those killed. If you doubt me on these points, check out the current status of israeli and palestine. <\/p>\n

Overall, my point would be that empowering the police, and other institutions of authority will not protect citizens. Then there’s bombing the brown people, otherwise known as a hair of the dog that bit you. It will simply be scratching a fresh case of poison ivy. The best first step to eliminating terrorist threats would probably be removing the motivation for the terrorists and their support networks. Another good one might be to strive for improvements in communication technology and the freedom to use it as well as universal self-defense training, ie, the very things that have already worked. But that last one smacks a bit too much of an empowered people, and there is no greater danger the power hungry can imagine than a constituency that no longer needs them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

recently posted a statement by “the Idol”, Hillary Clinton. She makes a few valid moderate points, towards the end, but only after feeding into the collective irrational fear of terrorism. Yes, terrorism is by its very nature a surprise. So it really could come it any time, at any place. So the solution is to … Continue reading “Political Rhetoric”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}