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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (7844)	8/26/2007 9:47:16 PM
From: Joe Sixer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

you "choose" to avoid a direct answer to my direct question... you can copy and paste all day and night, if you can't put it into your own words, then maybe you too do not understand it... OK, I’ll bite and participate in this effort in futility. If you are unable to comprehend what the Congressman says, I don’t know why I should be any different. clearly you have no interest in educating me... I have tried by directing you to the Congressman’s statements as I would assume you would prefer to read his words rather than mine given he is much more eloquent and qualified to address your question. It would appear that your prejudices blind you to his logic on these issues, but far be it from me not to try and educate you. Good luck, again read carefully. His policy is one of nonintervention, therefore, it would mean withdrawal of our military forces. And I'm sure that it would be an orderly withdrawal over a period of time. 1. In lieu of proactive military intervention letters of marque and reprisal would be issued to mercenary operations, which would: a. Enhance the chances of the capture of Osama bin Laden and others. b. Remove the risk of American military being wounded and killed. c. Decrease the risk of a larger war developing. d. Reduce the number of civilians killed. e. Reduce dramatically the cost of aid due to military operations f. Reduce the cost of active U.S. military operations. 2. Increase military defense budgets and initiatives. 3. Restrict immigration by denying aliens from nations sponsoring terrorism the opportunity to immigrate including the restriction of student visas from the same countries. 4. Secure the borders with refined documentation procedures and physical security. 5. Improve and streamline intelligence gathering among various agencies to coordinate anti-terrorism efforts. 6. Implement harsher criminal penalties and eliminate the statue of limitations for terrorist acts and terrorists. 7. Clarify all federal criminal statutes to insure that so-called "extralegal" preferences for criminal terrorist suspects are eliminated. 8. Arm airline pilots as a defense against hijacking attempts. Guessing he would restructure or disband homeland security because he never agreed with it. And very likely many more that I don’t remember at this time. So, what is Rudy going to do? Another cut & paste for your edification: The 9-11 Commission Charade The 9-11 Commission report, released late last month, has disrupted the normally quiet Washington August. Various congressional committees are holding hearings on the report this week, even though Congress is not in session, in an attempt to show the government is “doing something” about terrorism in an election year. The Commission recommendations themselves have been accepted reverently and without question, as if handed down from on high. But what exactly is going on here? These hearings amount to nothing more than current government officials meeting with former government officials, many of whom now lobby government officials, and agreeing that we need more government! The current and past architects of the very bureaucracy that failed Americans so badly on September 11th three years ago are now meeting to recommend more bureaucracy. Why on earth do we assume that former government officials, some of whom are self-interested government lobbyists, suddenly become wise, benevolent, and politically neutral when they retire? Why do we look to former bureaucrats to address a bureaucratic failure? The 9-11 Commission report is several hundred pages worth of recommendations to make government larger and more intrusive. Does this surprise anyone? It was written by people who cannot imagine any solution not coming from government. One thing you definitely will not see in the Commission report is a single critique of our interventionist foreign policy, which is the real source of most anti-American feelings around the globe. The Commissioners recommend the government spend billions of dollars spreading pro-US propaganda overseas, as if that will convince the world to love us. What we have forgotten in the years since the end of the Cold War is that actions speak louder than words. The US didn't need propaganda in the captive nations of Eastern Europe during the Cold War because people knew us by our deeds. They could see the difference between the United States and their Soviet overlords. That is why, given the first chance, they chose freedom. Yet everything we have done in response to the 9-11 attacks, from the Patriot Act to the war in Iraq, has reduced freedom in America. Spending more money abroad or restricting liberties at home will do nothing to deter terrorists, yet this is exactly what the 9-11 Commission recommends. Our nation will be safer only when government does less, not more. Rather than asking ourselves what Congress or the president should be doing about terrorism, we ought to ask what government should stop doing. It should stop spending trillions of dollars on unconstitutional programs that detract from basic government functions like national defense and border security. It should stop meddling in the internal affairs of foreign nations, but instead demonstrate by example the superiority of freedom, capitalism, and an open society. It should stop engaging in nation-building, and stop trying to create democratic societies through military force. It should stop militarizing future enemies, as we did by supplying money and weapons to characters like Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. It should stop entangling the American people in unholy alliances like the UN and NATO, and pledge that our armed forces will never serve under foreign command. It should stop committing American troops to useless, expensive, and troublesome assignments overseas, and instead commit the Department of Defense to actually defending America. It should stop interfering with the 2nd amendment rights of private citizens and businesses seeking to defend themselves. More than anything, our federal government should stop deluding us that more government is the answer. We have far more to fear from an unaccountable government at home than from any foreign terrorist.