Dennis, your intended message is a good one, and we should all take heed.
Just to be fair here.......
It's far more accurate to say that very, very, very few Muslims are
terrorists. The recent crop of terrorists aren't Muslims, they're Muslim
Extremists. There's a big difference between the two, and the latter do not
base their anger and aggression on the teachings of their religion. Nor do
they have the support of Muslim leaders. This is not to say that Americans
are popular with Muslims. Many aspects of the American way of life, love of
equality, love of political freedom, ability to love money, these things
are not "kosher" with their beliefs. They have Avery right to hate us, and
many of them do, but their leaders are not encouraging them to kill
Americans, that is purely the domain of extremists who make up a very, very
small percentage of the Muslim population.
Up until 9/11, the most deadly act of terrorism ever perpetrated on American
soil was by Timothy McVeigh. We all blamed foreign religious groups right
away, and I remember being shocked that an American had destroyed the Alfred
P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. I haven't forgotten that jolt,
and won't be so short sighted again.
But that's not what you were trying to say in your post. Please don't
misunderstand me, I'm not trying to berate you for anything. I just wanted
to bring attention to a tendency we (myself included at times) have of being
suspicious of anyone with a "towel" on their head. The media has not helped.
Dan Kitching
Everything I know about Muslims I learned on TV (Thank God that's not
true)
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> I am truly amazed how easily you boys are willing to surrender your
freedom
> in the name of "security." What possible "security" are we talking about.
Can
> your toy do any damage to his plane? Can you even reach it? Are you in
his
> flight path or even within miles of it? Can you carry anything as a
payload worth
> the effort to be reasonably able to pose a threat? Is anything and every
> thing some nitwit in Washington dreams up now a threat to real aircraft?
(I had a
> conversation with a buffoon from the FAA who "flew model planes as a child
and
> understood just how dangerous they were." That was his rational for
closing a
> field that had been used for years for model flying).
>
> There comes a time when you have to pull your head out and just say
"enough
> is enough," this is just too stupid to put up with anymore. There are
millions
> of Moslems out there that hate and detest "infidels" and nobody will ever
be
> 100% safe from them all. Yes, I know not all Moslems are terrorists but it
> seems a pretty good bet that nearly all the latest crop of terrorists have
been
> Moslems. It's a pretty sure bet that we can't stop them all and that they
have
> also been here all along so isn't it time to just face reality and concede
a
> little danger is inevitable? We have to be smarter than them not dumber.
Smart
> precautions not stupid ones need to be implemented. We have to trust each
other
> a little more and be willing to accept responsibility and not just dumbly
> hand it over to unqualified people just because they are in positions of
> authority.
>
> Now that the secret service has decided to "ask nicely" for you to stop
> playing with your plastic toy plane instead of shooting you down it's all
OK is it?
> For the record, there is no such thing as "asking nicely"! The implied
power
> and oppression of the government is behind them. Refuse and they will
carry it
> to whatever end they can justify. These tactics can be implemented only
when
> out of the of public scrutiny. Most cannot stand the light of day.
Publicize
> them and they melt away. Ridicule is a powerful tool when applied
selectively,
> and I mean by name, down to the local level. Any reasonably intelligent
person
> should be able to assess the threat level of a model plane as opposed to a
> missile and take the appropriate action. Each time they get away with it
another
> precedent is set and more freedom is eroded away.
>
> On a certain level I could almost understand the hysteria when they closed
> the 30 mile circle around Salt Lake City airport during the Olympics. It
being
> right after 911 and so nearly everyone went along with it but it set the
> precedent. Now, little by little, we are handing the security types our
freedom. Is
> it because of some misguided sense of duty or is it just plan out and out
> fear. I'm sorry, but I cannot sit quietly by and watch it go down the
toilet. I
> did not spend 24 years of my life protecting this country to see it handed
away
> by liberal yuppies so afraid to loose their little area of interest that
they
> are willing to give up mine for what they perceive as "security." You eat
the
> elephant one little bite at a time and you surrender your freedoms the
same
> way. It worked in Germany, Russia, China, Cuba, England, Australia and
every
> other country that "needed" more security than freedom. Can't happen here?
You
> had better take a look at what "homeland security" has already cost you.
> Motherland and Fatherland were already in use, it seems. Maybe we really
are a
> "Nation of Cowards" as the book title suggests. Dennis Karoleski, NH, USA
Sorry
> about the length but not the content. 8-(>
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