Who Needs Terrorists?

Who needs terrorists? We can scare the shit out of ourselves, thank you very much.

We have Bush's wet dream of an End Times scenario where he would like to usher in World War III before, according to him, the Persians, start some trouble in a few years.

We have Rudy Kazootie telling us that untold hoards of dark skinned demons are out to kill us all and we better elect him so he can incinerate them over the next eight years.

We have Michele Malkin, who prefers going house to house to threaten and scare the sneaky wretches who need assistance with exorbitant medical costs. How dare they!

We have the banks and credit card companies that make it easy to borrow and spend and allow people to obtain suspicious loans to buy houses only to discover to their horror that they are in over their heads and will lose everything and be indebted for forever.

Most people are afraid the country is going in the wrong direction. The Republican candidates only seem to care about a certain minority of people who are frightened by the secular world (and who, in turn, frighten the secular world). The Democratic candidates are scarily making no promises to end the Iraq occupation.

These are among the many reasons why foreign terrorist can just sit back and watch us scare the shit out of ourselves and each other. Thank you very much!

Comments

[RogueCowboy]

Bush on Wednesday and Cheney this weekend are prepping the Nation for preemptive strikes on Iran.
They better take another look in Putins eyes to see if they see retribution with over 10,000 Nukes.

[TJTelecaster]

All sycophants blasphemers heretics and fear mongers who never learned what it is to be an American; Richard..

Just like Nazi Germany the bottom feeders have risen to the top...

Speaking of "wet dreams" let's also remember this is all part of David Rockefeller's and Bush's Grandfather's Fascist Wet Dream as well...

Perfect synergy...

Using the Cross and Christ's Sacrifice and John's Revelations as the Myth to propel their fascist agenda just as Hitler promoted the Aryan Mythology..

I know Joseph Campbell would agree..

[Kzb]

Rich the theocrats scare me most. I'm stocking up on abortions.

[swift goat pet for truth]

Regarding the fear we live under, I think about our Founding Fathers, what they had to fight for and how they set up the Constitution. Even King George III (now I have to specify which "King George") had to live with habeus corpus.
The GOP is definitely the party of fear. They would gut the Constitution to save their squirrelly little lives. To which I would respond:

"What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

- Patrick Henry

[darker]

Bush-Cheney need terrorists as their excuse!

BUSHES & PALS are about making lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ by shoveling USTaxpayer money out of USTreasury into their pockets in a FOR PROFIT INVASION of Iraq.

Over maimed, dead bodies of US Troops, iraqis.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!

[spotter]

"We have Rudy Kazootie telling us that untold hoards of dark skinned demons..."

Hoards? Where are they being kept?

Try "hordes" next time if you need to express a command of the English language.

[godlessclif]

http://www.covertactionquarterly.org/timewarp.html
Time warp or warped time?
Belz favorite magazine Covert Action Quarterly
asks you to guess the country. There are 32 clues, but you may not need them all.

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
—Maya Angelou

[libertyreturns]

Well said!

[Aunt Shecky]

Not only a good actor and an entertaining stand-up comic, Richard Belzer knows how to
write a damn good persuasive essay.

Last night's "Real Time" episode brought up this very same topic. It's not so much that
Americans are paranoid, but we're afraid of inappropriate things. We're scared of these
lurking bogeymen skulking somewhere vaguely in the Middle East, we're scared of gays gettin' hitched, and we're scared of animal shelter
people who take back Ellen deGeneres's dogs.
But the things that SHOULD bother us: the fact that 18,000 people per year die from lack of health care, same number who die of "Superbug" staph infections, and the very frightening inroads upon the Constitution -- these things don't frighten us at all!

Again, this was a good essay. "Thank you very much."

[Hugo de Balsac]

i like money.

[mpgarr]

Probably the reason the terrorists have no attacked us since 9/11-they have not had to ---they set the top spinning and our great "leaders" have taken up where the terrorists left off--and of course---"We The People" share much of the responsibilty for the FUBAR situation we now have--"WE" in the name of being safe--have ceeded so many of our freedoms and the like to the powers that be---we are basically gutting ourselves and our vaunted "Amercian Way of Life."
The terrorists only need to do one more well targeted 9/11 type attack and that will be all she wrote for this country because all of the soccer mom types will demand the government "do what is necessary to protect us and especially THE KIDS!!"

[jinjinpinti]

Whaddya mean "WE," Tonto? If I had a dime for every time someone comments on the "responsibility" of "We the People" regarding the current "FUBAR" situation, I'd be funding cures for malaria with Bill Gates. Take a good look. Even when "We the People" voted for the Dems to end the war it was essentially ignored, as was impeachment, etc. Blame the politicians, the media and corporate America, not the poor slob trying to support his family in an increasingly competitive and unrewarding environment.

[Maxbyte]

Or, if you wish, you might say, 'with friends like Bush, who needs enemies?'

But your line is fresh and mine is trite.

Tragically, the World Trade Center disaster now seems distant and obscured by all of the horrors that have followed via George W. Bush and his little shop of Duh?!

And why are we even in Iraq when we and the rest of the world KNEW al-Qaeda of Afghanistan was responsible for all WTC-related killing and destruction? Because George Bush is the driest hole Texas has ever produced.

Bush's brattish veto of SCHIP that was immediately followed by crawling and begging for forgiveness... if only the Democrats will reduce the Bill by a dollar or two so he can save a little 'face'. What face?

Your post hits home, and then some.

[wingnutz]

Mr. Belzer,
Do you have any insight into the real reason most of the Democratic candidates have abandoned their original statements of "ending" the Iraq War quickly? What did this Administration say to them to make them all change so easily? While we're on the subject, "How many Iraqis died in our Civil War?"

[dolphinlikr]

The definition of Terror: Intense overwhelming fear, acts promoted by a group to achieve or maintain supremacy. (sound familiar?) Terrorism: Systematic use of violence, terror, and intimidation to achieve and end. Terrorize: To coerce by intimidation or fear. (sound very familiar?) And while you are at it look up Fascism. By signing statements, controlling information and the ability to make everything classified, the president has neutered congress of power and he can do what he wants, when he wants. That makes him a dictator (or king). I can only hope he doesn't decide to stay for a 3rd term. Nobody could stop him if he did. (Would you argue with Blackwater?) The presidents private army is already in place. 180,000+ troops. (The palace guard?) Be very afraid and controlled or stop letting them take what they want (OIL) and leaving the debt and global debris to you and your kids and their kids and their kids.

[fact finder]

dolphinlikr. Al-Qaeda and the other groups do not have to do anything to keep the American public scared. Fake Noise is doing a great job with the help of the the illegal occupiers of the White House.

[GeoNorth]

True story: In September, 2003, I was flying out of Hartford for Florence, SC. I hadn't flown since 1985. I was pulled from the line to take off my shoes and stand like Jesus for the electronic patdown. I thought this was a little weird...until I looked to my right and saw Jesse Jackson getting the same treatment. We both passed...but my reading glasses were stolen and nobody knew anything. Security.

On the way out from Florence, my plane was being held for me (personally. That's southern hospitality.) While I exchanged my tickets because of the earlier takeoff, my chauffeur took my bags to boarding. When I ran to the security gate, taking my shoes off, the woman at the gate told me to go on ahead. She said my chauffeur said I was okay.

This is our security. Scary, ain't it?

[HBeachbum]

What a total bullshit story. My chauffeur told me so.