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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Hi, Just to follow up on the last post... I clipped the following out to indicate the extent that Americans are concerned with their safety. Poll shows most Americans feel more vulnerable By Richard Benedetto, USA TODAY Tue Aug 9, 7:10 AM ET American attitudes toward the war in Iraq continue to sour in the wake of last week's surge in U.S. troop deaths, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows. (Related: Poll results)
[snip] An unprecedented 57% majority say the war has made the USA more vulnerable to terrorism. A new low, 34%, say it has made the country safer. The question is critical because the Bush administration has long argued that the invasion of Iraq was undertaken to make the USA safer from terrorism.
The poll of 1,004 adults, taken Friday through Sunday, also finds that one in three say the United States should withdraw all troops from Iraq - another new high. The proportion that support maintaining troop levels or sending more troops also rose a bit, to 41%. The survey's margin of error is +/-3 percentage points.
G. Terry Madonna, a pollster at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., says support for the war is eroding in large part because the public sees no end to the U.S. military involvement there.
"You can't go month after month with no sign of progress and little evidence that Iraqi troops are able to defend themselves without public attitudes toward the war deteriorating," Madonna says. "It has been seven months since the Iraqi elections, and most of the news since then has been bad."
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Residents of the East Coast were the most likely to say the war hasn't made the United States safer; those in the South were most likely to say it has.
[end]To the right-wing and left-wing groupies who have written me with either joy and outrage... I'm not speakng about the President or the war... I'm speaking of safety and it seems that I'm not the only one who doesn't feel safe. TTFN,
Ken2@BrooklynMemories.com
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Hi, As you may have noticed, I'm having a tough time putting things together these days. I got a lot of pieces partially finished and can't seem to close 'em out. But in the meantime, I received an email that cut to one of the things that's bothering me... the safety of my family and our country, and I thought I'd share. (I must assume that you have not already see the email content but if you had you'd value seeing it again.) You gotta love Robin Williams...... Even if he's kinda nuts! Leave it to Robin to come up with the "perfect" plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador and our government to stand up, deliver the message and then to implement and fully enforce every part of the plan.
Robin Williams' Safety and Peace Plan:
1) "The US will apologize but make no reparations to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know... the affiars of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good ole boys'. We will never "interfere" again but you have to live with the consequences of the US being stand-off-ish.
All the French must immediately learn the German language... which by our "interference" they avoided 60 years ago.
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea, the Middle East, the Philippines, etc. They don't want us there so we can leave and "go home". We can always station troops at our borders to enforce immigration laws already on our books. No one is allowed to sneak through holes in the fence but if they do they will have to pay the consequences. They would be fair game.
3) All illegal aliens have 30 days to get their affairs together and leave our country where they reside and are a net expense. We'll give them a free trip home or at least to the closest country that will accept them.
Children they may have had while residing here, Americans by birth, can go or can stay to be raised in forster care or by adoptors. These children, who are without fault, will be welcomed.
After 30 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are from. They're illegal!... NOT HERE LEGALLY! What is not understood about this? Canada or France will welcome them.
4) All future prospective visitors to our country will be thoroughly checked and only those qualified will be allowed in and and limited to 90 day visits unless given a special permit! NO ONE from a terrorist nation, or one that tolerates or harbors terrorists, will be allowed in.
If you don't like it in your native country, change it there yourself and don't hide here. Asylum will seldom or never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers, gardeners or job-stealers.
5) No foreign "students" over age 21 will be allowed. Older that 21 "students" were, and are, the bombers. If true foreign "students" don't attend classes or don't agree to a tracking devise permanently on them during their "schooling" or if charged with a crime, they get an "F" and it's back to the native land in three days.
6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy-wise. This will include developing non-polluting sources of energy but may require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while. Americans want safety, peace and smaller, fuel efficient cars over "cheap" energy and terror.
7) The US would offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we can go some place else amd they can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up their storage sites should be enough.)
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere". They can pray and plead to whomever for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. We will no longer be a dispised rescue ship that they can taunt and throw rocks and bombs at.
Besides, it seems that most of what we give in relief is stolen or given to the army or local politicos and little of it reaches the people for whom it is intended.
9) The UN Headquarters should be moved out of the US to an isolated island some place. We don't need the spies and the "fair weather friends" here. Besides, the old UN building would make a good homeless shelter or temporary lockup for illegal aliens.
10.) The language of the US is English and it should be used exclusively in public venues, commerce and communications. Learn it...or LEAVE..... Comprende?
Now, isn't that a super Safety and Peace Plan?
Okay, I realize it is sorta extreme but it is an excellent starting position. After a full 10 years of it full and complete enactment and imposition we, the citizenry, could by direct vote, alter one, and only one, of the 10 provisions. We would then wait ten years to make the next change. That's reasonable and shows a democratic approach.
I grew up in Brooklyn in a time of safety and tolerance. My Brooklyn wasn't perfect but I felt safe. I see my grand-children (9, 7, 3 and .5) discouraged from watching news programs so they will feel safe and avoid being traumatized. Something is wrong with what we have allowed to happen and the fear we live in. We have to make a stand sometine and that sometine is NOW!I want my family, friends and national community to be safe and if that involves hard stands and a curtailment of some basic "freedoms" and an avoidance of a "new world order" then that's the way it should be. Just think of how many US soldiers have been killed by cowardly vermin? It is TOO MANY!Let me know what you think. TTFN,
Ken2@BrooklynMemories.com
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