http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/10/1328590/-My-fellow-Americans-please-stop-being-idiots?detail=email
There's a poll out showing that Americans are scared:
The nation is on edge in the wake of brutal beheadings of journalists by Islamic extremists — with more Americans saying the United States is less safe now than at any point since 9/11, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll shows.
You know what that poll shows, Americans? It shows that the terrorists won. You are giving them everything they wanted. You are terrorized.
Look, I've said it before and I still believe every word. ISIS represents no threat to the United States. None.
Are there terrorists in this world who would like to give us a bloody nose? Absolutely. You know what? You've already surrendered an astounding amount of your personal privacy in the name of enabling agencies to reduce that threat. Stop being so eager to bend over and give the little that remains.
You're already going through ridiculous rituals at airports and government offices and museums and bus stations and football stadiums and probably at the local Gymboree, all designed to give you the illusion of safety at an immense cost in both time and money. You've already given up everything from the privacy of your phone calls and emails to the ability to take some shampoo on the road. Don't get out the checkbook to buy more nonsense.
And hey, you've already left more Americans on the battlefield created by our shaking-in-our-boots cowardice than any terrorists might have hoped. You've already built a momument to our fear that's measured in a mound of bodies on both sides that would dwarf the Great Pyramid. Stop making our service people, and innocents on the ground, sacrifices to your ill-defined "they're out to get me"-it is.
You people have all been in the internet for awhile now. Haven't you learned the first lesson? Don't feed the trolls. That's what a terrorist is at heart, an asshole playing you for a reaction. Someone who gets off, not on the things he is doing, but on seeing how badly those things upset you. And what does a troll do when you react? Something worse.
So why are you in such a hurry to give them exactly what they want? Beating your chests and threatening to spend a billion-trillion-zillion dollars? That's not scaring terrorists. That's empowering them by treating them like a much more serious threat than they actually represent. Threatening to drop more Americans right there where they can be killed by the thousands? Please. You're making them drool.
Understand, they don't care if they lose on the battlefield. Winning the battle means nothing. Khe Sahn was a battlefield victory. Hell, every battle of the Iraq invasion was a victory. How'd that work out for you? Going to war in this situation only shows that you've surrendered the only thing that is an actual weapon against terrorists: reason.
my only regret in posting this is I didn't write it. my greatest hope coming from this article, that it will be taken seriously and we are able to look at ourselves and correct before we wreck ourselves. sure we need to keep security measures in place but we also need to stop listening to republicans, they took us into this abyss with lies and greed now they are still saber rattling and calling for more of our sons and daughters to die because of their pursuit of money which in republican means power, but read a paper look at something other than Fox go back over my post that pursuit does not include anything for "WE THE PEOPLE" we are collateral damage,
all of us including those who vote for them recognize there are no friends on that side of the street just those who tell you you are not safe but keep in mind the only attack on this soil came on their watch and warnings ignored by their leaders, than after assuring us of vengeance they go about trying to steal oil from Iraq in the name of democracy and freedom neither of which do they allow here in America. wake up everybody!!!!
