Why does the BushCO/neoCON regime threaten you?

[Just Me]

What does this cabal threaten, compelling you to fight?

You must name the threat if you are going to successfully defeat it.

Name this regime's threat.

[proud patriot]

1. Because I love America and they are killing it

[marmar]

2. That's it in a nutshell...

Disastrous economic policies and bad trade deals that are going to sink us in a sea of debt...
Constant social interference that threatens to turn this into a theocracy...
Attempts to destroy free speech and civil liberties in order to get everyone to fall in line...
A global domination philosophy that's going to leave us with no allies and hostile enemies...
A constant-war mentality that's going to destroy our military.
In short, Rome is burning!

:scared: :mad: :grr: :cry:

[Just Me]

4. I'll assume you mean that nation which was created by BREAKING ranks,...

with those who exploited people. I'll assume you are talking about a nation created by folks who demanded that "the people" will NEVER EVER be exploited, again. You are talking about THAT "America",...I assume.

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

49. Succinct and totally correct

The neocons are destroying the very core of what America stands for. The USA at its inception was a beacon for free peoples with an anti-imperialist bent, and even with the rather disgusting counterexamples of the Mexican and Indian Wars and the Spanish-American War, America still retained an anti-imperialistic, anti-militaristic inclination. WWI set us on the path to ruin (it was that mad Wilsonianism that the neocons emulate), but after WWII the US embraced the Marshall Plan-- and hastened the demise of the British and French Empires-- true to its founding premise.

The neocons are all about raw power, in contrast. They are in favor of everything the Framers were against. They want the US to control the world's oil, to launch endless wars to control natural resources, to prop up US allies for expansionist aims, to ring the world with military bases, and to bankrupt the US while turning it into a police state. They have no notion of the worth and importance of humans as individuals, seeing us only as pawns and cannon fodder in their grand plans. The neoconservatives would actually welcome a second terrorist attack on US soil, since they figure they could falsely blame it on Iran and Syria and thus start up a new unjustified war, maybe even with a draft to supply a cannon fodder.

The neocons are, in short, manipulative, bloodthirsty, warmongering (though they themselves always manage to avoid the battles), vicious, scheming bastards who control the US foreign policy establishment as well as the op-ed pages of America's major newspapers. They're massive trouble in every possible respect.

[Initech]

3. Because I dont support the invasion of a country for no apparent reason

[undergroundpanther]

5. I don't want to live

in a"communitarian" kind of corporatist feudalism, a christian or "moonie"theocracy,a technocracy, or an oligarchy or any combination of it.
That is not America,and people fighting or supporting theocracy oligarchy or controlling communitarian ism or the might makes right bullshit,and all is basically a traitor to the bill of rights and the founding ideals of America.

That is why I hate the bully boy neocon assholes they are NOT about democracy ,rule of law,protecting the commonwealth, or freedom or diversity(pluralism) because they are not Americans.

[Just Me]

9. They protect nothing associated with the ideals they "spout".

They exploit,...that's all they do is exploit.

They are not "leaders" of the "free world". They spend humanity,...for profit and power.

[Initech]

38. Another good point!

I dont support Bush, Frist, or Santorum trying to turn this country into a theocracy, much less one supporting the "values" they get from Christianity.

[bearfan454]

6. They threaten freedom for all of us.

Fuck them. People over profits.

[Lecky]

7. because I'll never advocate murdering for my economy

Which really conflicts with the message of democracy we are supposed to be sending out.

[JohnnyBoots]

8. Wife's in the Navy

[Just Me]

13. Damn tough having family being exploited,...HUH!!!

Pisses me off that people ignore the choices between a rock and a hard place: Kevin & Monica will have a damn hard life because of their choices. He's going to military prison for 15 months just 'cause he refused to participate in an aggressive war.

[JohnnyBoots]

40. It is rough indeed, family for you I guess? It is easy for the

powers that be to gamble with house money. Only many of us are all in, in a game we never wanted to play.

[KarenInMA]

10. They do not threaten me personally.

I'm a well educated, straight, non-draftable, relatively successful white woman in the bluest little blue state.

But if I was only concerned about myself, I'd be a Republican.

[ScamUSA.Com]

12. you can't be serious

[KarenInMA]

16. huh?

What do you mean?

He doesn't threaten me personally. He just doesn't.

[ScamUSA.Com]

34. having trouble following your logic

"I'm a well educated, straight, non-draftable, relatively successful white woman in the bluest little blue state."

OK, so if some of the terrorists grown in Iraq blow up a train at Park Street (God forbid) that doesn't affect you? Thats just one example.

[KarenInMA]

37. I'm gonna put on my flame suit and try this.

Ok. of course that would effect me. But the point is, terrorism didn't start and won't end with Bush. I could get into the whole "the US is an imprealistic nation that supports everything Israel does, even when they are in gross violations of human rights," but that's another topic.

The terrorist in Park Street? That's a hypothetical. It's one I live with everyday. But I'd live with it under President Kerry, or President Clark, or whomever.

Now, I hate the man with the heat of 1000 suns. But I honestly can't point out a concrete example where he has hurt me.

[ScamUSA.Com]

39. nah I aint gonna flame ya

Basically the current administration is a serious threat to the health of the country as a whole. Just being part of any community ties you to potential negative impact.

Not feeling threatened sounds like a luxury... possibly just different perspectives on what threatened means.

[Just Me]

18. Lucky you,...to have no children or family to be sacrificed by this cabal.

You avoided the question presented by the OP. Are you driven to fight this cabal? Or not?

[KarenInMA]

20. Of course I'm driven to fight this cabal.

Would I be here if I wasn't?

That wasn't the question. The question was:"How does he threaten you", and he doesn't.

That doesn't mean I won't fight. My point was, Liberals fight for the rights of OTHER people. Even my state would never make abortion illeagle if Roe were overturned, I will fight tooth and nail to see that it doesn't happen.

[ScamUSA.Com]

11. police state

6 year olds getting tazered
mothers getting criminal charges for breast feeding
locking people up for pot
etc

meanwhile profiting off it every step of the way

shouldn't this be obvious?

[quiet.american]

14. Because they hold themselves above the law and get away with it.

Because they're pathologically ignorant and sadistic people who attract to them those in this country who are equally as ignorant and pathologically sadistic, and I didn't know there were so many indecent and insane people in this nation.

Because we can look for this country to descend into brutality, cruelty and horrific violence in the not-too-distant future if the Bush regime continues to be held unaccountable for their many factual crimes against this country.

Because they haven't gotten over the faction of the Founding Fathers that won over the faction they have loyalty to -- the ones who wanted this country to run at the discretion of the aristocracy, the bankers, the corporatists.

Because too many people die at the hands of these cowards in power, and I don't want to be one of them.

Because, I'm starting to be unable to remember what it felt like to live in a free country.

[quiet.american]

23. Dupe

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17. Nice Photoshop. n/t

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[KarenInMA]

24. What, in your opinion, makes one a "real man"?

And why did you waste your time registering to a website where people are discussing things you don't agree with?

Don't you have better things to do w/ your time?

[quiet.american]

25. I'm actually not a man, so I agree, he isn't like me.

By the way, real men testify under oath without their "vice-president" along to hold their hand.

[libnnc]

27. and real men don't feel the need to slaughter

hundreds of thousands of people to make his friends rich.

[KarenInMA]

35. aww...it's gone.

I like messing with trolls.

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28. Cute. n/t

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[KarenInMA]

30. Tell us, Zeta, how would you solve the Social Security crisis?

What would you do about homelessness, crime, undernourished children and the poor schools in our country? How would you protect us from terrorist attacks? Where's Bin Ladin? How do you feel about the 1800 dead soldiers?


If you answer a single one of these questions, with an actual proposal, I'll be impressed.

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[KarenInMA]

33. Would you start with Jesus?

Oh, and if you came near me, I'd shoot you. I'm a liberal with a gun.

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[Cleita]

32. Now that I have reached old age, they want

to throw me out to fend for myself along with the generations behind me. Never mind I worked all my life and probably paid in taxes for a lot of the good lifestyle they are enjoying today.

[DanCa]

41. I have young onset parkinson's diseases

I need stem cell research and the pro lifers are determined to stop it at all cost. I have been kicked out of my familys, church, been called an embryo farmer, and toddler killer for wanting genetic therapy.

My day "begins" at 4.oo am when I wake with a haking vomit and than and violent sea saw jerk. Then after I clear my throat I go back to bed and wake up stiff as a board around seven. It takes me an hour to move again, and I start by moving just my little pinky.

After a painful morning of painful therapy and disorientation I once again start to freeze. If it's a real good day I can make it too the potty without making a mess

It's about three oclock now I try to take care of my parents house best i can and walk the dog if my hands are working and my legs are stable. Depending on the weather I take a walk around the block.

At bed time my legs run by themselves for about an hour anight before they start to stiffen again and the process repeats itself.
In the mean time my hands tremor and I am ill from the 250 dollar horse pills I gotta take each month.

And on top of it all I now go the sheeple telling me how to live. I got the pro lifers telling me i shouldnt go to thier church, take my zolofft, say prayers, because I violate theier religous beliefs and want stem cell research. They want to take away from my disability insurance because they think am a slacker and say that I am an unchristian because I wont vote for bush co.

So this is how the the President terrorize me every day. Thru the chronic neurologic movement disease known as parkinsons. This is why the Bush administartion has go to go .

[Cleita]

42. Parkinson's is so evil. My heart goes out to you.

My father suffered from it for many years before he died.

[DanCa]

43. Thank you clieta

If it's all right I'll say a prayer for your father.

[Cleita]

45. If it helps you.

I wish I could pray for you, but I don't believe in religion. However, my best thoughts and wishes are for you and I hope this evil regime is once and for all brought to justice so people like you can get the help they need.

[DanCa]

46. Best wishes and peace then :D

Your friendship and well wishes is all I need. And I promise that I will lobby as long as can. :hugs:

[Rex]

44. Obvious ones

It's pretty obvious MY liberty is being threatened by a regime that can take me off to a foreign country and torture me in secret. If the regime can do it to SOMEONE else, they can do it to me, hence a threat.

[hootinholler]

47. Because they are taking my children's birthrights away from them.

They have curtailed rights due all of us by the constitution and broken laws to do it.

-Hoot

[applegrove]

48. They teach lack of compassion. They want all people to not feel 'anything'

for the other. So they can have perpetual wars & perpetual markets and get uber rich.

[mcctatas]

50. How do they threaten me? Let me count the ways..........

First of all, I am a parent of female children who may have their reproductive rights taken away. Secondly, as a student married to a member of the working poor, we could be sinking in a crushing sea of debt, my student loans could be cut and my daycare subsidy so I can finish my education could be eliminated. Finally, and most personally. as a person with MS their fundie neo-con stance on stem-cell research and funding cuts for research in general could put me in a wheel chair before I'm 35. All of this on top of the dangers they present to OUR country and the rest of the world!!! Other than that, they're totally harmless!:grr: :nuke: :rant:

[wli]

51. they want to kill me because I'm an atheist

[Emit]

52. It's the TOTALITARIANISM ...

which encompasses a flavor of fascism and uses theocracy as a tool, that concerns me. That's where I see this regime heading, if it isn't there already, in some regards. Totalitarianism is the antithesis of a free-thinking, democratic Republic; that's where the threat lies. That's what compels me to fight.

[rman]

53. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

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[BedRock]

54. Freedom

.........'nough said.