Santorum was on the Sean Hannidy radio show last week discussing ...or should I say repeatedly evading questions about weapons in Iraq....what is there...was there....and what we have not moved out yet. I am trying to get a transcript.....he was squirming.....it was quite interesting to listen to......too bad he is in this situation due to actions…oh never mind about that.
So...all of these people who know what really has gone down here....are they worse people for not saying anything to preserve others dignity than those who know the truth but spread lies for their own political gain ?
Do not take that to mean I believe the current administration or the US at all instigated any of the horrific acts perpetrated on the US and its friends over the past 40 years. I know the US did not instigate any of the attacks. That does not mean that once things were in motion the government did not know what was happening. That does not mean that people scattered throughout the government knew nothing about the people who planned and/or committed these horrific acts. That does not mean they could do anything about it......sometimes the solution is worse than the problem.
The simple fact that in the United States VERY few people could have before 9/11 even conceive of someone committing such acts against innocent civilians who were doing nothing wrong except going to work that morning or boarding the wrong plane.
There needs to be a distinction made between knowing what is happening and committing the act ones self.
Whether we like it or not (I personally like it), we in the US can not arrest someone for not liking us, we can not apprehend them for thinking bad thoughts, we can not arrest them for talking to bad people (we may track there actions afterwards though), we are a free people. If no law has been broken you can do what ever you want.
So, until these people hijacked those four planes, if they were in the US legally. Barring someone having first hand knowledge of the conspiracy, the most the government could have done was track the people under suspicion of conspiracy to commit federal offences.
Yes, we may live in the most powerful country on earth right now. But, the government is not God. The government does not know everything everyone will do.
If the government could do half the things people accuse them of, we would not be in the situation we are with terrorism. We would not still be in Iraq three years later, we would not be concerned about North Korea, and we would not be concerned about Iran.
So...all of these people who know what really has gone down here....are they worse people for not saying anything to preserve others dignity than those who know the truth but spread lies for their own political gain ?
Do not take that to mean I believe the current administration or the US at all instigated any of the horrific acts perpetrated on the US and its friends over the past 40 years. I know the US did not instigate any of the attacks. That does not mean that once things were in motion the government did not know what was happening. That does not mean that people scattered throughout the government knew nothing about the people who planned and/or committed these horrific acts. That does not mean they could do anything about it......sometimes the solution is worse than the problem.
The simple fact that in the United States VERY few people could have before 9/11 even conceive of someone committing such acts against innocent civilians who were doing nothing wrong except going to work that morning or boarding the wrong plane.
There needs to be a distinction made between knowing what is happening and committing the act ones self.
Whether we like it or not (I personally like it), we in the US can not arrest someone for not liking us, we can not apprehend them for thinking bad thoughts, we can not arrest them for talking to bad people (we may track there actions afterwards though), we are a free people. If no law has been broken you can do what ever you want.
So, until these people hijacked those four planes, if they were in the US legally. Barring someone having first hand knowledge of the conspiracy, the most the government could have done was track the people under suspicion of conspiracy to commit federal offences.
Yes, we may live in the most powerful country on earth right now. But, the government is not God. The government does not know everything everyone will do.
If the government could do half the things people accuse them of, we would not be in the situation we are with terrorism. We would not still be in Iraq three years later, we would not be concerned about North Korea, and we would not be concerned about Iran.
posted by Monster Cat | 10:28 AM
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