Comments on: A Global Struggle for Security and Progress http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2008/05/28/a-global-struggle-for-security-and-progress/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2008/05/28/a-global-struggle-for-security-and-progress/#comment-17839 Bob Fri, 30 May 2008 15:38:38 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/?p=1629#comment-17839 The point I'm trying to make is that, yeah, okay, words are important but they don't mean anything if people can't hear them or understand them or even care enough to really give them a listen. All we do is talk. Nobody does anything constructive or proactive anymore. The public today just whines and complains about everything and then rolls over to continue wallowing in the mud of our own affluence. Do something! Make your life better even if it's just a few little things. Actions speak(say it with me now)louder than words. I think it was Shakespeare, who, on the subject of words, said "it doesn't matter what you call a flower if it stinks". Or something like that. That's deep man. Think about it. The point I’m trying to make is that, yeah, okay, words are important but they don’t mean anything if people can’t hear them or understand them or even care enough to really give them a listen. All we do is talk. Nobody does anything constructive or proactive anymore. The public today just whines and complains about everything and then rolls over to continue wallowing in the mud of our own affluence.

Do something! Make your life better even if it’s just a few little things. Actions speak(say it with me now)louder than words.

I think it was Shakespeare, who, on the subject of words, said “it doesn’t matter what you call a flower if it stinks”. Or something like that. That’s deep man. Think about it.

]]> By: Bob http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2008/05/28/a-global-struggle-for-security-and-progress/#comment-17838 Bob Fri, 30 May 2008 15:01:07 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/?p=1629#comment-17838 Aye, Lasse, we need a war on traffic. Or a struggle. Either way. You start. And don't just talk about it, I wanna see something happening. I'll support you all the way. Aye, Lasse, we need a war on traffic. Or a struggle. Either way.

You start.
And don’t just talk about it, I wanna see something happening. I’ll support you all the way.

]]> By: Michael Hampton http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2008/05/28/a-global-struggle-for-security-and-progress/#comment-17837 Michael Hampton Thu, 29 May 2008 15:11:32 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/?p=1629#comment-17837 Related to this, yesterday President Bush called the war on terror a <a href="https://myaccount.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=/2008/05/29/washington/29speech.html&OQ=_rQ3D5Q26partnerQ3DrssnytQ26emcQ3Drss&REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR" rel="nofollow">great struggle</a> during a <a href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/05/20080528-2.html" rel="nofollow">speech</a> at the Air Force Academy. Related to this, yesterday President Bush called the war on terror a great struggle during a speech at the Air Force Academy.

]]> By: Ray http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2008/05/28/a-global-struggle-for-security-and-progress/#comment-17836 Ray Thu, 29 May 2008 12:39:17 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/?p=1629#comment-17836 Sounds a lot like recasting the Korean War as a "Police Action". The government hate to admit that we have a war at least if it is a war. We had the war on poverty, and we still have poverty and even more of it, and we now have the war on drugs, and we have even more of these. So I guess that recasting it might not be such a bad idea. War seems to be unsuccessful ;-) Sounds a lot like recasting the Korean War as a “Police Action”. The government hate to admit that we have a war at least if it is a war. We had the war on poverty, and we still have poverty and even more of it, and we now have the war on drugs, and we have even more of these.

So I guess that recasting it might not be such a bad idea. War seems to be unsuccessful ;-)

]]> By: Lasse http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2008/05/28/a-global-struggle-for-security-and-progress/#comment-17835 Lasse Thu, 29 May 2008 09:03:11 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/?p=1629#comment-17835 Nobody says that you have to give up the struggle for liberty, but if anytihng has cost the U.S. its liberty, it's the "War on Terror". Terrorists are not a threat to liberty. They are a threat to safety. Only ones own government, running around like headless chickens, can then take away liberty. Being reminded about "newspeak" isn't new. That's what I've been thinking since I first heard of the "War on Terror" (which took over from the "War on Drugs"). "We've always been at war with Eastasia." Language do matter, and language like "War on Terror", "Axis of Evil" and similar simplistic Bush'isms, do nothing to solve the comlpex problem they are addressing. Force cannot stop terrorism, short of becoming totalitarism, and there goes liberty out the window. Merely changing "War" to "Struggle" removes the association that one can win by beating the opponent. So I welcome a change of terminology that doesn't antagonize people that can help, and the doesn't paint a complex problem into simple black and white. With that, the problem might actually be addressed. On top of that, keep striving for liberty. Just don't forget who the enemy of that is, for it is not the terrorists (although they are likely clapping their hands with every legislative initiative). And donøy forget that traffic kills more people than terrorism, and the money spent on the "War on Terror" could have saved more lives if spent on the real causes of death in a modern society. It's a poster war, anyway. Nobody says that you have to give up the struggle for liberty, but if anytihng has cost the U.S. its liberty, it’s the “War on Terror”.

Terrorists are not a threat to liberty. They are a threat to safety. Only ones own government, running around like headless chickens, can then take away liberty.

Being reminded about “newspeak” isn’t new. That’s what I’ve been thinking since I first heard of the “War on Terror” (which took over from the “War on Drugs”). “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.”
Language do matter, and language like “War on Terror”, “Axis of Evil” and similar simplistic Bush’isms, do nothing to solve the comlpex problem they are addressing. Force cannot stop terrorism, short of becoming totalitarism, and there goes liberty out the window. Merely changing “War” to “Struggle” removes the association that one can win by beating the opponent.

So I welcome a change of terminology that doesn’t antagonize people that can help, and the doesn’t paint a complex problem into simple black and white. With that, the problem might actually be addressed.

On top of that, keep striving for liberty. Just don’t forget who the enemy of that is, for it is not the terrorists (although they are likely clapping their hands with every legislative initiative).

And donøy forget that traffic kills more people than terrorism, and the money spent on the “War on Terror” could have saved more lives if spent on the real causes of death in a modern society.
It’s a poster war, anyway.

]]> By: Mike http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2008/05/28/a-global-struggle-for-security-and-progress/#comment-17834 Mike Wed, 28 May 2008 14:31:30 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/?p=1629#comment-17834 <cite>Forget such outmoded concepts as liberty, the memo urges.</cite> As unsurprising as this is, coming from government, it's still shockingly blatant! Digg this story: Forget such outmoded concepts as liberty, the memo urges.
As unsurprising as this is, coming from government, it’s still shockingly blatant!

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