Jarqui
Jarqui's JournalTerrorism is intended to induce fear
When we look at Paris or back to 9/11 or various other acts of terror, it's pretty frightening stuff. It's bound to induce quite a bit of fear.
And I'm a healthy adult male who can take care of himself. A key part of my concern is the more vulnerable family members I'm supposed to protect and my seeming inability to protect them from something like this. Women, children, the elderly or disabled - they're probably even more frightened,
These terrorists set about to do these evil acts as a means to get something they want through intimidation. They haven't got what they wanted so they carry on. But they've been fairly successful at elevating peoples concern or scaring folks. These acts are horrific.
As well, we see numerous signs that many don't understand this religion. Many of us do not know the middle east or it's people. We do tend to fear or not trust things we do not understand or are not familiar to us. Some of that is the basis for bigotry. And fear.
Longer term, as the terrorist problem is better controlled (if they can ever achieve that) and as people get educated on Islam, etc, people will eventually come around and experience less fear. Short term? It a tough sell.
And so it begins ..
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-france-mobilizes-1500-soldiers-35200087In light of the Paris terror attacks, Poland cannot go ahead with EU decisions on immigration and accept refugees without guarantees of security.
Konrad Szymanski, Poland's prospective minister for European affairs, told reporters that Poland "this is a key condition that today was put under a giant question mark in all of Europe."
Szymanski is in Poland's new conservative government that is to be sworn in Monday. The outgoing government agreed to accept 7,000 refugees from Syria and Eritrea over the next two years.
In comments online, Szymanski said Poland must have "full control" of its borders and migration policy.
One of the Paris attackers reportedly came into the EU through Greece last month.
Obama’s vow to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees under fire after Paris attack
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/14/obama-vow-take-10000-syrian-refugees-under-fire-af/
Cruz, Huckabee and other weigh in
If you're an elected leader and bring in refugees
who turn around and start killing your fellow countrymen like this group did in Paris (while it's undetermined that any of the terrorists in Paris were Syrian refugees), I don't like your future politically.
Having said that, this passport news - even though it hasn't been fully proven, probably killed or severely altered the lives of a bunch of Syrian refugees because folks have to and will be under much more pressure to be more careful.
It may well hurt a bunch of them from ever getting relief
Beyond the horror of what we generally know they did, being associated this won't help either
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11995836/Paris-attacks-who-are-the-victims.html
Miss Wilson, 49, originally from New Orleans, also told how she witnessed the gunmen deliberately targeting concert-goers in wheelchairs. The gunmen hunted down disabled people who were sat in an area specially set aside for wheelchair users.
These terrorists have no limits ..
I said (this part was ok)
"Heard 8 hypocrites were shocked and screaming last night as they confronted their sins and plummeted into the fire of Jahannam"
they said
"They are eight of the mujahideen made a ghost town of paris
And waited more if they didn't let the muslim countries As iraq and syria
(auto translation)
I got profanely rude
Anyone want to tweet a terrorist?
I did.
These folks posted a blurb on why the folks in Paris got attacked:
https://twitter.com/sumral7rab1
https://twitter.com/link_149_
Had an exchange.
Gave them a piece of my mind which I can't post here because it would violate the rules.
They responded. It's like banging your head against a wall but I responded.
Sent the links to Homeland Security to see if they could trace them ...
If you feel like venting and have a twitter account ... might get a word in edgewise and distract them while the authorities try to track them down ...
There are apparently 60-100 hostages in there
four different attack locations
roughly 60 dead so far and that sounds like it will go up ...
horrific
Call the media out for it like Angela (under the article) did.
Bernie has to take Iowa to have a chance. Iowa is probably the best place to fight for him.
I got comments deleted too during the Obama campaigns - I even got banned from some like Jake Tapper's on ABC - for putting them back up. Got a new handle and put them back up again.
It is a way to fight back.
In the 60s, I was kind of independently minded.
At that time, I'm sure one might cite exceptions but generally, Republicans and Democrats were Americans first.
I haven't given it tons of thought but significant trust or faith in government was lost with Watergate and Nixon, Vietnam war, assassinations, etc. It kind of went downhill from there.
Now on many issues, I realize there's always the backdrop of which party is behind whatever stance and what their position is. We can't look at everything in a vacuum.
And when we look at any issue, we might consider the influence of "vast right-wing conspiracy". But when I look at climate change, I'm looking at sea levels, temperatures - scientific facts. I don't give a crap about "vast right-wing conspiracy". Same for the economy, gay marriage, social security, minimum wage, etc, etc, etc. As I look at those things for the facts and sound arguments, I have to cut through the smoke of "death panels","he's a Kenyan", etc, etc.
When the VP of the US reports and Colin Powell and others report stuff like the 9/11 terrorists meeting with Iraqis in Europe, allegations Iraq was funding the terrorists - stuff like that had 68% of Americans thinking Hussein was behind 9/11 (in part at least). Those reports cited were US intelligence = which to me equal the best facts available as we knew them. And there were no credible reports published at the time to contradict those meetings didn't take place for example (even though, as it turns out, Cheney already had the CIA memo that they were BS). Show me the hard evidence that was published for all Americans to see before the war that those reports were BS. You can't because it didn't exist in the media. That was a big part of the scam and why/how they duped 72% of the American public and media.
Now if we have to believe conspiracy theorists, then Obama is really a Kenyan imposter and the 9/11 truther wackos are right. I won't bite on that crap. I need evidence. The only key evidence I got leading up to the war was evidence that justified the war. "vast right-wing conspiracy" remains where to me it belongs: as hearsay - not something I can give much weight to one way or the other. In the wake of what happened, I have to consider it as a possibility more so than ever before because another layer of trust in the executive branch has been eroded. But like many Americans, it was not front and center in my mindset at the time.
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