What did I say a month ago? More government. More budget. More rhetoric. What the hell is the CIA and FBI and NSA and the other 17 "Homeland Defense" organizations for.
Now the military can't get this guy bin Laden. The Brit populance is unhappy about all this. There are no clear objectives (anyone remember Powell saying what you should have BEFORE starting a war, which is not a declared War, on something nebulous). Where is Bush and all his "We are going to kick their ass", rhetoric. That is all it was, face appearance to drive up the approval ratings. -Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 2:21 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Ashcroft to announce details ofa new terrorist threat.. > > > I'd agree...to a point. While I feel that the government has the duty to > tell us, even more than it is now. I dont feel it was necessary for > Attorney General Ashcroft himself to hold a press conference right in > the middle of the evening news to get the message out. That's a little > overdoing it, if you ask me. So either the threat is very real and very > serious (we will know in a few days...), or more than likely he is > playing politics with the new Director of Homeland Security Mr. > Whatsisface from Pennsylvania. > The Attorney General is usually the chief law enforcement official for > the entire country. With the new Homeland security office taking over > whatever it is they are taking over, they are going to get all of the > glory for any good news in this situation. So in the truest American > tradition, Ashcroft is going to play the, whoever gets on television the > most wins card. > > On kind of a tangent, we got a call on a web site for a company that > makes some device that they are selling to the Homeland Security > department. A whole new government bureaucracy and it took less than a > month to put the red tape in motion. We couldn't get rid of it now even > if we tried. That's one way to get the public spending again in this > economy. Just spend it for them. > > rant rant rant...blah blah blah > > jon > > Angel Stewart wrote: > > >*rolls eyes* > > > >Wait..didn't they say this two weeks ago? And the week before that? > >Weren't these attacks supposed to happen on Halloween? > > > >God I would hate to be living in America now. > >Pretty soon the public is going to get so saturated with these > >'warnings' that they're going to annoy them. > > > >Tell me..what is the PURPOSE of telling the public that there could be a > >massive Terrorist attack in the next week, but we don't know what it is, > >who's going to do it, or where it is going to be ? If that's true then > >people should be FIRED! > >Starting from the TOP of the CIA/FBI and going down, because that is > >bullshit. > > > >All this could be is the widely known "Cover Your Ass" scheme. So if it > >does happen they can say," Hey..we knew about it this time..and we told > >you.." > > > >And hope the public doesn't say, "What the f***? You took away our > >privacy, increased your budget, increased your powers and did away with > >judicial review of many of your procedures, and you STILL can't catch > >these people?" > > > >*mutter* > >*grumble* > > > >Morons in congress..morons running the blasted Defender of the Free > >West. > > > >-Gel > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
