A terrorist threat against tunnels along I-95 has prompted closing of said tunnels. Developing....
We'll see, the terrorists like to spread threats. Threats are effective as a tool to upset the population. That is after you actually blow stuff up. Better safe than sorry eh.. In fact I'm so shaken I'm going to go eat and fill up my car or is that just Dave's lunch doing me that way.
Updated: I'm full as a tick and the tunnels have been reopened.
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Howie,
There's a new terror alert every time Bush and company get in a jam. They're playing us like a fiddle.
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at October 18, 2005 12:30 PM (VP+X3)
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Goering, for those unfamiliar with history, was the commander in chief of the Luftwaffe in Nazi Germany during WWII. He said:
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country that determine policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
Hermann Goering
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at October 18, 2005 12:51 PM (VP+X3)
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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such a time as the State can shield people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
Joseph Goebbles, German Minister of Propaganda
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at October 18, 2005 12:57 PM (VP+X3)
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The tunnels have been reopened. False alarm, yet again.
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at October 18, 2005 01:02 PM (VP+X3)
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why ya wanna do me like that greg?
Posted by: Howie at October 18, 2005 01:15 PM (D3+20)
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Mike,
No offense intended. I just call 'em they way I see
it. Nothing personal.
WTF you mean you shit all over your support. The minute my back is turned you go all off. You are supposed to be banned and I let you have an inch you took a mile. Cost me real work time too. In other words when I could have been making progress I was babysitting you.
Posted by: Howie at October 18, 2005 01:33 PM (D3+20)
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It's always ironic when the left comes in decrying the "False alarms" by the Government.
Were they not the ones calling for accountability because President Bush didn't act on the intelligence in the August 6th Memo ("Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S" )
Can't have it both ways, Idiot.
Posted by: dave at October 18, 2005 01:34 PM (CcXvt)
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Goering is a bad analogy to apply here.
"All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,..." We WERE attacked. Several times. It can only be ignored for so long. And Dave's right - damned if you do, damned if you don't. Some people are just never happy. It's easy to pretend as we did for decades. And Goebbles as well -
"It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent,..." No repression going on. As a matter of fact, the dissent is the loudest voice you hear. The state doesn't own the papers as they did in Germany and as they still do in so many other countries.
Why people keep comparing us to pre-war Germany is beyond me. You see parallels. I see dumb people.
Posted by: Oyster at October 18, 2005 02:46 PM (fl6E1)
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"It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent..."
I like the way Oyster dissects the quote down to just a fragment of a sentence to twist the point.
The sentence goes on to read, "...for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
That's kind of an important part of the quote.
Posted by: menenzes' ghost at October 18, 2005 06:20 PM (VP+X3)
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Yep, Greg, the most important part. So when are you going to start telling the truth? That's kinda important to most of us here at the Jawa.
Posted by: jesusland joe at October 18, 2005 08:14 PM (rUyw4)
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Are there people who think this blog needs a daily dose of stupidity? Greg is a fucking moron. There are stark raving mad bums on streetcorners who are far smarter and more articulate than him, and don't have to rely on cut-n-paste to make a statement. Greg, kill yourself, please, for the good of the gene pool, because you're existence is depressing the global IQ by a couple of points.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 18, 2005 08:20 PM (0yYS2)
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Why do we continue to belong to the biggist hide out of terrorists the UN?
Posted by: sandpiper at October 18, 2005 08:38 PM (swaoX)
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