How asfe do you feel? After 8 years of GWB keeping us safe, we should feel safe, yes?

[Deja Q]

Poll question: How asfe do you feel? After 8 years of GWB keeping us safe, we should feel safe, yes?

Pity about this economy, which would seem integral to national defense too, right?

[BlooInBloo]

1. Cops are probably the biggest threat to my well-being...

So yah, I'm a little worried about terrorists.

[Deja Q]

4. I was thinking more about jobs, but it's all good.

What's your issue against cops? I wouldn't want their jobs... more people should. Then they'd get to experience firsthand what they just gripe at cops over.

It's never so easy to complain when you have to live the life of a person one's moaning about.

Except in my case; I'd love to live a fancy, rich life.

But being shunned early on and I've always looked outside-in, you see...

[cabluedem]

12. Cops: Paid, heavily armed terrorists out on our streets. nt

[NYMountaineer]

14. I got a story for the cop haters...

My uncle was a cop for 27 years, and he retired a few years back. Back in the 1980's, he was involved in a lot of undercover drug stings, and during one, he wound up being instrumental in taking down the Mr. Big of the local meth trade.

This capo's underlings weren't too happy about this, and early one morning, my uncle was woken up by the sound of his pickup truck exploding and ripping apart part of his house with it. Other dealers had conspired to murder him and placed a bomb in his truck, which by a great stroke of luck detonated prematurely and my uncle was unharmed, though very startled.

Consider the hazards of the job before you say that cops are good for nothing.

[cabluedem]

16. One story. How about the CHP officer that killed my friends mom and himself?

Your so-called "story" means as much as mine does, got it?

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Safer than when we had the chimp and shooter in charge.

[lapfog_1]

3. "Is it safe yet?"

NOW we know who the republicans really are!

[QueenOfCalifornia]

5. fix that typo...

it's bugging me. :)

[Captain Hilts]

6. It's not something I think about. Fear is crippling. I live in DC and ride the metro, etc. nt

[Drunken Irishman]

7. I never feared another terrorist attack.

It's the domestic assholes here that scare me.

You know, like the Beltway Sniper or a serial killer or a right-wing militant douchebag like Timmy McVeigh.

They're the true people we should fear.

And even then, I don't 'fear' them. I'm aware of them more than anymore.

[L0oniX]

8. Safe from what? Future person health catastrophes? Unemployment?

[Cleita]

9. None of the above. I never feared terrorists because I live in a place that

most terrorists wouldn't bother to attack. I have a bigger fear of earthquakes, brush fires and nuclear plant leaks where I live rather than terrorists. What I have felt with the Bush security measures is a joke at the airports and other venues that are supposed to make us feel safe. Instead I feel like I'm living in a fascist dictatorship that is trying to get as much information about me as it can through fear tactics.

Here's a little story that happened to me many years ago when I was working as a payroll bookkeeper. Back then you could drop in at the local IRS office to pick up forms if you needed them, or even ask questions if you felt like you would get a helpful answer. I was on my way to pick up forms one day at lunch time when I ran into a police barricade and was turned around. That night, when I went home, it was in the news that someone had planted a car bomb in front of the building that the IRS office was housed in. There was also a bank and many other businesses in the same building. The authorities theorized it was the IRS office that was targeted by a disgruntled tax payer. So here's an example of your home grown terrorists probably some white supremacist nut job who "loves his country but fears his government".

Now why airports are such a target of security when containers enter our ports from all over the world with practically no scrutiny doesn't make me feel safe at all.

[pkdu]

10. Pretty asfe :O) n/t

[TheWatcher]

11. Since Bush and His Cabinet were the Terrorists how could you not feel safer now that they are gone?

I mean, now that Obama has taken over is holding them accountable for all of their crimes, we should indeed feel safer.

Oh, Wait.....

[old mark]

13. Our neighbor had the back window on his van shot out. He knows who did it,

and he called the police. He was told that since he didn't SEE the incident and SEE it done, they would not even bother to come to the house to take a statement, because there was no proof of anything.

I think the police should just declare themselves neutral observers who are just waiting for retirement. I am afraid this will get worse.

mark

[cabluedem]

15. They are not nuetral observers where Coal is King. They are cracking skulls out there. nt

[old mark]

17. I don't know which I'd prefer.......nt

[GreenTea]

18. Get real...I'm never going to die at the hands of terrorist even if they came in droves, why

would I....the fucking odds for one thing, this is one big motherfucking country....we spend hundreds and hundreds of billions dollars every few month's on our military...what will they be doing are the dastardly fucks just too clever for us...why would fucking terrorist come to your stupid fucking town, to get you, what will they look like, just like you see on TV and in the movies...would they be rolling in on tanks on on greyhound buses, what would be their motive..."they hate our freedom" you believe this shit, if you believe that shit then you believe if were fighting them there so nothing to worry about here, what would they blow up in your town and why...are they as clever as the guys who hijacked planes with tiny little box-cutters...are you afraid of box cutters too?...what would they accomplish, would they hold us all for ransom? What is their goal they already have better health care than we do......who are the stupid fucks have bought into this fear like their favorite TV show...

[Greyhound]

19. Yeah I'm screwed, but terrorists don't have a thing to do with it.

Our domestic terrorists are the financial industry and their boys in DC, and they are killing us by the thousands with impunity, thanks in no small part to our new fearless leader.