tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post3877393591737702243..comments2024-01-26T17:20:23.015-06:00Comments on The Great Change: The 2012 Presidential Election: Fruitcake or War Criminal?Albert Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17627996921976501534noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-17011931230944469712012-01-04T13:34:26.453-06:002012-01-04T13:34:26.453-06:00Whew! I had no idea the president had just legally...Whew! I had no idea the president had just legally acquired such expanded dictatorial and deadly power over US citizens. Drastic stuff indeed. However, doesn't that merely give legal sanction against future potential challenges to the practice of torture and murder by the executive which has been there all along? When I saw the movie Wag The Dog years ago, I was deeply shocked until I realized that the CIA by its fundamental nature has the power of life and death over anyone, so it's at least understandable the president does also. <br />The Usonian encounter with the poor nations' version of the nuclear bomb, the suicide bomber, has so demoralized us that we have willingly traded our most elementary civil rights for the sake of an illusory security. Having been raised in a very different culture, when I returned to the US, I noticed that Usonians are very brave and aggressive as long as they are behind a high tech weapon - a gun - but otherwise, they are cowards, with the coward's propensity to use violence to eliminate even a minor threat. This I think is not an issue of racial or "national character", but simply a consequence of high tech weapons being available everywhere. Having guns and missiles make cowards of us all.<br /><br />F. Michaelsolarsmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16295077683353414126noreply@blogger.com