Are you scared?

[Anonymous]

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Anonymous]

I have noticed more loss of civil liberties from companies like Facebook than from the government. I am scared of bad things coming though, and I beg to differ. There is a difference between being scared some events are likely and hoping to prevent them and "living in fear". A vast territory lies between the two.

[Anonymous]

I think if we still were in the Cold War OP would be in a constant state of wetting his pants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed more loss of civil liberties from companies like Facebook than from the government. I am scared of bad things coming though, and I beg to differ. There is a difference between being scared some events are likely and hoping to prevent them and "living in fear". A vast territory lies between the two.

You can choose not to use Facebook. It's pretty well impossible to live off the grid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-king-warns-west-jihadists-next-target-093701543.html

Saudi king warns that the West will be the next target.

Of course he does.

Because what's good for Saudi is good for America.
...................................Israel
...................................South Korea
...................................Germany
...................................Lockheed
...................................Boeing
...................................Mitre

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-king-warns-west-jihadists-next-target-093701543.html

Saudi king warns that the West will be the next target.

Of course he does.

Because what's good for Saudi is good for America.
...................................Israel
...................................South Korea
...................................Germany
...................................Lockheed
...................................Boeing
...................................Mitre

It doesn't mean that what he is saying isn't true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-king-warns-west-jihadists-next-target-093701543.html

Saudi king warns that the West will be the next target.

Of course he does.

Because what's good for Saudi is good for America.
...................................Israel
...................................South Korea
...................................Germany
...................................Lockheed
...................................Boeing
...................................Mitre

It doesn't mean that what he is saying isn't true.

But it means he has a hell of an incentive to say it even if it is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think if we still were in the Cold War OP would be in a constant state of wetting his pants.

OP is a her. Thanks for the jab- so kind.

[Anonymous]

What happened to the people who said
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself?

Conservatives have no backbone. They go to war to prevent threats that might happen one day.

[Anonymous]

The person who said that was Roosevelt. And he took on the Nazis. Any irony for you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The person who said that was Roosevelt. And he took on the Nazis. Any irony for you?

No irony. Roosevelt said that in 1933, about the Depression, not the Nazis. He said "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance"

What you are engaged in is unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes.

Lastly, Roosevelt didn't preemptively bomb Germany because they took the Rhineland in 1936. He didn't attack when they took the Sudetenland in 1938. In 1939, when they invaded Poland, the US declared neutrality. Roosevelt didn't declare war when Germany took France, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, or Estonia. When London was being bombed, and Greece and Yugoslavia fell, he signed the Lend Lease Act, still not going to war. No, it was only in December of 1941, when we were actually attacked, that Roosevelt declared war.

And you think that Syria is a threat to our existence.

Roosevelt had courage. He did not throw us carelessly into war. He tried to avoid it and he bought us five years to deal with our own economic problems back home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The person who said that was Roosevelt. And he took on the Nazis. Any irony for you?

No irony. Roosevelt said that in 1933, about the Depression, not the Nazis. He said "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance"

What you are engaged in is unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes.

Lastly, Roosevelt didn't preemptively bomb Germany because they took the Rhineland in 1936. He didn't attack when they took the Sudetenland in 1938. In 1939, when they invaded Poland, the US declared neutrality. Roosevelt didn't declare war when Germany took France, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, or Estonia. When London was being bombed, and Greece and Yugoslavia fell, he signed the Lend Lease Act, still not going to war. No, it was only in December of 1941, when we were actually attacked, that Roosevelt declared war.

And you think that Syria is a threat to our existence.

Roosevelt had courage. He did not throw us carelessly into war. He tried to avoid it and he bought us five years to deal with our own economic problems back home.

Many, many flaws in this analysis, but the overall point is correct.

[Anonymous]

I'm scared. I have friends at GW, mere blocks from the White House. I commute alone on ppublic transport daily. My husband bikes three miles to get to work. We are all smack in the middle of an explosion waiting to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm scared. I have friends at GW, mere blocks from the White House. I commute alone on ppublic transport daily. My husband bikes three miles to get to work. We are all smack in the middle of an explosion waiting to happen.

And yet, housing prices continue to go up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fiscally conservative, socially liberal, strong national defense American Jew and I'm petrified for our country's safety given the political climate and lack of leadership in the White House.

If you are an Obama supporter, if you are apolitical (hard to reach these people since I'm posting on the politics board, I get it), if you are a strict Liberitarian against involvement abroad, are you scared for our future as a free country? Do you worry about groups like ISIS, Al Quaeda, Hamas, having influence over your life and liberties in the US? It is already happening in Europe.

Honestly I'm not looking for a debate. I'm just having a hard time seeing how things can get better for us under this administration.

Hamas has shown zero interest, evidentially and historically, in doing anything outside of Palestine.

Whatever fobias you are entertaining, Hamas in the U.S. shouldn't be one of them. Why not be afraid of the IRA and the Basque movement, too?