With all due respect, you are, categorically, wrong.

I'm sorry to say such an inadequate word, and speak so inarticulately, yet it is in my opinion and, not alone, the opinion of billions-with-a-'B' other informed, studious, considerate, analytical, understanding humankind souls, to say you are wrong.

There is no threat.  No danger.  None.

To 'us' from the peoples of the world. There is no 'them,' no 'they' who are gonna getcha!

There are criminals and malevolent individuals and demented and violently greedy, self-consumed people, alive and abroad in the land, this is true, BUT they are not 'they.'  There is no 'they' who are gonna getcha or get 'us.'

A twisted or mistaken view of other people is a learned condition.  Is a baby born 'gonna getcha'?  No.  All babies, all races, all cultures, are loving and to be loved.  In birth. 

Sometimes, rare, there is a born anatomical anomaly, in a pathological frailty, and are born sociopaths or psychopaths or neuropaths, perhaps 'congenital liars,' so to speak -- and these cases are medical conditions.  Not political.  Not nationalistic.  Not ethnic.  Do not fear them.  Help them, and raise them.  There is accommodation and remediation and amelioration.

Almost all births are normative, and each baby unique just like everybody else.  Then they are made, taught, twisted on purpose to hate.  But that does not make the 'threat' or 'danger' exist; it only makes an individual who hates, hates the feeling that there is omnipresent danger.  The danger is not there, does not exist.  The absence of an object to hate, the vacuum where the messed mind does 'project' danger is or 'should be,' but nobody to hate, actually sucks the mind into the absence and swells the misbegotten hate, with the frustration of not understanding what to do with the learned hate and no object for it, to 'take it out on.'

The threat in the world is zero.  Powermad and absolutely corrupted figures and characters, souls in self-torment, (and Bushbutcher is about the least of the beast; it is greed and pride and envy of people who 'have a job,' 'have a position,' 'are successful,' 'got a life,' in brief: the military-industrial complex; those people whose lives are as they are because the atom bomb was invented and if the atom bomb had not been invented they would live in different condition by different means for different ends, and the lifestyle that maintains them in today's hate-teaching and danger-teaching compos mentis would not exist), all of them say the threat in the world is ten.

Then you come along and say that 'ten' is too extreme, somewhat unbelievable, so let's 'split the difference' and call the threat in the world a five.

Yet, the threat in the world is zero. 

Compared to that truth, your 'five' is wrong.  'Four' is wrong.  'Two' is wrong.  Even that we all are born and we all are going to die our own deaths in our own day, is not a 'threat' to us in the world, not a 'one' -- no matter how much a person fears death.  The threat in the world is zero.

Try this mental exercise, asking yourself:  What are the chances you are going to feel that you are born to attack Canada, or Mexico, barehanded and take over that land?

Or, if you live in Pennsylvania, do you ever wake up in the morning seething, coveting, to invade New York State or Ohio or Maryland, and eradicate all those people and have that land, which is duly and rightfully yours as you apperceive it?

Who do you hate and live to annihilate, because you deserve and they do not deserve to live?

The answer to all three 'exercise' questions is the same one answer:  No, on no day, nobody.

So grant that other people in the world, all humankind, is, thinks, and feels, just like you.

The threat in the world is equal to the threat in you at the world.  Zero.

Everything else you find as information rattling around in your mind, is and has been a lie taught to you.

The truth is we are all people.  The people we put in power get sick-brain from it, same as people we put in a radiation chamber get diseased, and we should not leave them in 'office' too long.  Some have a lower, or compromised, immunity to power-sickness, powermad-ness.  They should not be in strong power offices at all.  Even the most immune should not be in office without a termination clause, although the most immune are actually able to remove themselves, like George Washington, before corruption rots their mind, and character, and self-sense composure.  Today's Supreme Court Justices are corrupted to madness; O'Connor resigned, Blackmum resigned, very few do.  People are better than that, and we can do better.

Still, the threat in the world is zero.  The threat in ourselves is everything and all of it.

by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 25 diaries, 495 comments) on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 5:26:44 PM
 

There is no "security risk"

There are people who feel insecure.

by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 25 diaries, 495 comments) on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 5:28:20 PM
 

Will respond later.

My son is using my computer right now, however, I will respond later in detail. I disagree and will explain why, but in short, Iran's President is extremely similar to our own. Most of us DO believe that Bush presents a threat, and if you look at it in parallel and forget the loathing of Bush most of us have, me included, and it is the leadership of a nation that poses a risk - almost never the people themselves. Most people throughout the world would prefer to live in peace, or at least that's my belief. Wars are almost never, if ever, started by any country's "people", but rather their leadership who usually have an entire different agenda than the people themselves.

If the "people" in the US had their way, we wouldn't be at war right now, but in most regards, because of a cowardly Congress and complicit MSM, there we are whether we like it or not. Any real opposition is shouted down as unpatriotic, even when we know the war was started on lies and misconceptions. Again, it is not the people but the few in leadership that account for almost, if not all wars, and this situation is no different except that Bush is now relying on the fear of other Arab nations to further his agenda. Left to their own devices, they would likely settle the problems themselves, maybe not to our satisfaction, but to be honest, no one in the Middle-East really cares, nor should they, "what" the US wants or needs. The Middle-East belongs to them, not us, but we are bound and determined to make it something that is correct in our eyes, not those who are the true keepers (or should be) of their land and destiny.

William Cormier 

by William Cormier (127 articles, 7 quicklinks, 17 diaries, 307 comments) on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 5:57:25 PM
 

I am hoping for introspection, not explication.

William, not necessary to respond, as in rebuttal.

"Wars are almost never, if ever, started by any country's "people", but rather their leadership ..." -- that's what I'm trying to say.  There actually, in truth, really really really, is NO threat.  No material menace.  No physical danger.  No 'thing' to fear, or retaliate against. 

And holding fear (of an imagined 'psyop' virtual 'thing') without a veritable object (which can be removed to remove the fear), then is fear bottled up inside with nothing to strike against, then is fear morphed into hate inside individuals, prejudiced, bigotry, irrational.

It all is made up, fearmongered, by leaders, and power-holders.  They make it up to 'make work' for themselves, implant fear in you and me for wage-job 'security' for them.  USA does NOT need a Pentagon, does NOT need a Def.Dept., does NOT need a military army.  There is NO object for it.  No offense against which militarism is a defense.

USA does need to change 'office holders' and change 'power-holders' and void the budget of Def.Dept. and void the budget of CIA and void the budget of FBI and void the budget of militarism -- those psychopaths in-house are the physical danger to Americans.  Fire them all, not merely the stooges propped in seats of authority, (but fire them, too).

You and me say the same thing:  NO 'thing' exists being a real, an actual, 'security risk.'  We are not 'overlooking' any 'security risk' (being distracted by Bushbutcher) -- we cannot 'overlook' something which does not exist.

All there ever is, is powercrazed 'figures' making up 'security risk' hallucinations.

Like when 'authority' used to say there is an edge of the ocean where you fall off if you sail over it.  And monsters were 'out there.'  All those 'security risks.'  Does.  NOT.  exist.

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By the way, William, in the Iran government, Ahmadinejad has very little influence.  Anything he says is disempowered, and irrelevant.  McCain and fascist fearmongering Republicans do not know, but they say their ignorance on TV.  Which might be where most people get their false hallucinations of 'risks' to our security.  Our only security, and true security, is this right here with you and me talking to each other.  As long as we do, and can, then we are secure.

McCain clearly has a pattern of getting the basic facts wrong. McCain insisted that ultimate political authority in Iran rests with Ahmadinejad -- even mocking [reporter Joe] Klein when he challenged him on it. In fact, according to the CIA's World Factbook, ultimate political authority in Iran rests with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, not the president.

MCCAIN: I mean, the fact is he's the acknowledged leader of that country and ... I think if you asked any average American who the leader of Iran is, I think they'd know.

On top of that as Klein points out, the President's job is to educate the public [in true facts] on questions of policy. So if the "average American" thinks that Ahmadinejad is the ultimate leader of Iran, it's up to the President to dissuade them of this [false, untrue] notion - not reinforce it.

by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 25 diaries, 495 comments) on Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 11:22:19 AM
 

I am hoping for introspection, not explication.

William, not necessary to respond, as in rebuttal.

"Wars are almost never, if ever, started by any country's "people", but rather their leadership ..." -- that's what I'm trying to say.  There actually, in truth, really really really, is NO threat.  No material menace.  No physical danger.  No 'thing' to fear, or retaliate against. 

And holding fear (of an imagined 'psyop' virtual 'thing') without a veritable object (which can be removed to remove the fear), then is fear bottled up inside with nothing to strike against, then is fear morphed into hate inside individuals, prejudiced, bigotry, irrational.

It all is made up, fearmongered, by leaders, and power-holders.  They make it up to 'make work' for themselves, implant fear in you and me for wage-job 'security' for them.  USA does NOT need a Pentagon, does NOT need a Def.Dept., does NOT need a military army.  There is NO object for it.  No offense against which militarism is a defense.

USA does need to change 'office holders' and change 'power-holders' and void the budget of Def.Dept. and void the budget of CIA and void the budget of FBI and void the budget of militarism -- those psychopaths in-house are the physical danger to Americans.  Fire them all, not merely the stooges propped in seats of authority, (but fire them, too).

You and me say the same thing:  NO 'thing' exists being a real, an actual, 'security risk.'  We are not 'overlooking' any 'security risk' (being distracted by Bushbutcher) -- we cannot 'overlook' something which does not exist.

All there ever is, is powercrazed 'figures' making up 'security risk' hallucinations.

Like when 'authority' used to say there is an edge of the ocean where you fall off if you sail over it.  And monsters were 'out there.'  All those 'security risks.'  Does.  NOT.  exist.

---

By the way, William, in the Iran government, Ahmadinejad has very little influence.  Anything he says is disempowered, and irrelevant.  McCain and fascist fearmongering Republicans do not know, but they say their ignorance on TV.  Which might be where most people get their false hallucinations of 'risks' to our security.  Our only security, and true security, is this right here with you and me talking to each other.  As long as we do, and can, then we are secure.

McCain clearly has a pattern of getting the basic facts wrong. McCain insisted that ultimate political authority in Iran rests with Ahmadinejad -- even mocking [reporter Joe] Klein when he challenged him on it. In fact, according to the CIA's World Factbook, ultimate political authority in Iran rests with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, not the president.

MCCAIN: I mean, the fact is he's the acknowledged leader of that country and ... I think if you asked any average American who the leader of Iran is, I think they'd know.

On top of that as Klein points out, the President's job is to educate the public [in true facts] on questions of policy. So if the "average American" thinks that Ahmadinejad is the ultimate leader of Iran, it's up to the President to dissuade them of this [false, untrue] notion - not reinforce it.

by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 25 diaries, 495 comments) on Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 11:22:55 AM
 

I am hoping for introspection, not explication.

William, not necessary to respond, as in rebuttal.

"Wars are almost never, if ever, started by any country's "people", but rather their leadership ..." -- that's what I'm trying to say.  There actually, in truth, really really really, is NO threat.  No material menace.  No physical danger.  No 'thing' to fear, or retaliate against. 

And holding fear (of an imagined 'psyop' virtual 'thing') without a veritable object (which can be removed to remove the fear), then is fear bottled up inside with nothing to strike against, then is fear morphed into hate inside individuals, prejudiced, bigotry, irrational.

It all is made up, fearmongered, by leaders, and power-holders.  They make it up to 'make work' for themselves, implant fear in you and me for wage-job 'security' for them.  USA does NOT need a Pentagon, does NOT need a Def.Dept., does NOT need a military army.  There is NO object for it.  No offense against which militarism is a defense.

USA does need to change 'office holders' and change 'power-holders' and void the budget of Def.Dept. and void the budget of CIA and void the budget of FBI and void the budget of militarism -- those psychopaths in-house are the physical danger to Americans.  Fire them all, not merely the stooges propped in seats of authority, (but fire them, too).

You and me say the same thing:  NO 'thing' exists being a real, an actual, 'security risk.'  We are not 'overlooking' any 'security risk' (being distracted by Bushbutcher) -- we cannot 'overlook' something which does not exist.

All there ever is, is powercrazed 'figures' making up 'security risk' hallucinations.

Like when 'authority' used to say there is an edge of the ocean where you fall off if you sail over it.  And monsters were 'out there.'  All those 'security risks.'  Does.  NOT.  exist.

---

By the way, William, in the Iran government, Ahmadinejad has very little influence.  Anything he says is disempowered, and irrelevant.  McCain and fascist fearmongering Republicans do not know, but they say their ignorance on TV.  Which might be where most people get their false hallucinations of 'risks' to our security.  Our only security, and true security, is this right here with you and me talking to each other.  As long as we do, and can, then we are secure.  All our 'security risk' is those who do not talk with us and who we cannot talk with, the TopSecret FearMongers, them.  Any one in government authority holding 'Secrets':  Remove them. 

The only security risks are 'undisclosed locations' and 'noncommunicating stupidity.'

McCain clearly has a pattern of getting the basic facts wrong. McCain insisted that ultimate political authority in Iran rests with Ahmadinejad -- even mocking [reporter Joe] Klein when he challenged him on it. In fact, according to the CIA's World Factbook, ultimate political authority in Iran rests with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, not the president.

MCCAIN: I mean, the fact is he's the acknowledged leader of that country and ... I think if you asked any average American who the leader of Iran is, I think they'd know.

On top of that as Klein points out, the President's job is to educate the public [in true facts] on questions of policy. So if the "average American" thinks that Ahmadinejad is the ultimate leader of Iran, it's up to the President to dissuade them of this [false, untrue] notion - not reinforce it.

by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 25 diaries, 495 comments) on Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 11:32:15 AM
 

Oooops. Sorry for multiple copies. The third one's IT.

The website is erratic ... especially whenever my comment says Abolish the CIA and Abolish the FBI and Decommission the Military.

Strange how that 'Website Don't Work' coincidence seems to happen every time.

by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 25 diaries, 495 comments) on Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 11:36:55 AM