Being Pragmatic in Securing Our Homeland

Most Americans learn the truth about our government & what it does to others in our names the hard way: After losing a loved one through an act of terr0r. 

When it happened to my family, I could no longer accept the standard description by talking heads covering these events as "attacks on innocent civilians". Because in a democracy, we are the government. We elect our leaders. We put them into office. What they do to others in other nations, they do with the awesome power of the US military that we have given them. 

Our government has overthrown democratically elected governments in other countries and installed dictators who have brutalized & enslaved their people for the benefit of US (and now transnational) corporations. Most Americans live in blissful ig.nor.ance of these facts that are known by others around the world. 

I have little doubt that if terr0r!sts could get to our leaders instead of us, they would. But Obama (and Bush-Cheney before him) don't fly commercial. As we're the ones that terr0rists can get to (& since We the People are ultimately the ones, theoretically, with the power in a democratic republic to change the policy & leadership), we become the targets.

The only reason that Bush-Cheney did anything after 9/11 was because of the effect 9/11 had on commerce.  If you'll recall, within the first week, Bush told us that what We The People could do was "Go shopping."  The purpose of attacking Afghanistan was to lend the illusion to the American people (and foreign nationals traveling to the US) that the US government was doing something about 9/11.  As soon as Bush could feasibly do so, he dropped the hunt for Osama Bin Laden and used 9/11 as an opportunity to attack & occupy Iraq, and funnel taxpayers' resources into the pockets of defense contractors.  

For those who aren't aware, Tom Carper is a card-carrying member of the DLC (the Republican wing of the Democratic Party); he's as 'Vichy' (collaborative) as it gets.  He should be at the top of Democratic voters' 'Retire ASAP'-list (if we want a government that works for the People and not the transnational corporations).
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