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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LPS5 who wrote (7037)	6/16/2004 10:16:38 AM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20039

Yes, 9/11 proved that the government has it's priorities all screwed up. We're prepared for an attack from North Korea against South Korea, but apparently not for one against our most important cities?!? It's high time the U.S. started pulling troops out of the 100+ countries we have them stationed in and started concentrating on defending our own country.

To: LPS5 who wrote (7037)	6/21/2004 8:19:47 AM
From: LPS5	Respond to of 20039

I'd previously mentioned the peril caused by the government's effective monopoly on personal/property defense and its direct role in the success of the al Qaeda hijackers on September 11th, 2001. Another writer expresses the same sentiment, with a satirical lilt to it. *** The Way It Should Have Been** by Bob Wallace June 21, 2004 Hijacker: This is a hijacking! I have a boxcutter! Grandma: I have a .45! Now reach for the sky, or I'll put a hole in your pointy little head! Hijacker: What? Americans are not allowed to carry handguns on airplanes! I thought the liberals took away your firearms and your gonads! Grandma: What alternate universe do you live in? This is America, land of the free and home of the brave! And the armed! Bureaucrat: Everyone put away your handguns and surrender! Do what they tell you! There won't be any trouble if you just act like sheep! Grandma: Shut you, you worthless idjit! (Smacks bureaucrat on top of his head, which causes him to cry like a girl.) Anyone who listens to anything said by anyone from the government deserves exactly what they get! Hijacker: Surrender! We are going to fly these planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the White House! Grandma: Bringing a knife to a gunfight, huh! Hijacker: My faith will protect me! Grandma: (BLAM!) Oh yeah? Hijacker: AIEEEE!! The 72 virgins await me! (Topples over, exits.) Other hijackers: Look! Everyone on the plane has handguns pointed at us! We surrender! Passengers: (chorus): Oh, really? Osama bin Laden: Dang. My plan to draw the US into a war so the entire Islamic world will hate them just fell apart! Now I'll have to find another way to get America to bleed itself dry of blood and treasure! Drats! My nefarious plans foiled! (Looks pensive.) But then, on the other hand, I'm not going to end up a pile of squashed bones under a mountain in Afghanistan! George Bush: Ah, shoot. Now I'll go down in history as a mediocre president who presided over a miniscule tax cut and some minor deregulation. (Looks pensive.) Well, I guess that's better than being known as a fool who fell into Osama bin Laden's trap and started World War III! Neocons: Dang! Our insane leftist plans to conquer the Middle East just went up in smoke! (Looks pensive.) On the other hand, at least we're not going to be exposed as the deluded crackpot chickenhawk armchair general cowards that all of us really are! Father: Hi, honey! I'm home from my job at the World Trade Center! Wife: Thank goodness! A bunch of nuts tried to hijack four planes and fly them right into the building where you work! The passengers shot a bunch of them and the rest surrendered! Father: Wow! I would have been killed! Good thing those passengers were armed! Why, 3000 people could have been killed had the hijackers succeeded! Daughter: Daddy! You're home! Father: Yep, honey, safe and sound, thanks to the brave citizens of this wonderful country, who understand how utterly foolish and worthless the government really is. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, right honey? Daughter: Yay for America, and real Americans! Bob Wallace is the author of "I Write What I See." lewrockwell.com ***** LPS5