a couple of teenagers on their way to school got robbed by a couple of teen-age criminals this a.m.

[flordehinojos]

one of the parents interviewed by the television crew, said, "we are being infiltrated."

"infiltrated"? by low brow criminals who have always existed but have multiplied recently since the bush administration has caused such economic chaos on our nation?

the level of paranoia seems to be on the rise as well.

[Hydra]

1. Terra terra terra!

The MSM wants us to be afraid and seeking "strong leadership"

Personally, I like the view better from outside the ovens.

[flordehinojos]

4. me too.

O:-)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Yeah.

Teenage crime has been dropping for years and years and years. You wouldn't know it listening to the chickenshits.

[Gman]

3. I had this same conversation today with

a young lady of 23 years. She was remarking about how angry people are now and how crime seems to have gone up so much. I told her these are bad economic times and people have no hope right now. I told her we saw the same thing in the late 80's during the Reagan years.

[flordehinojos]

5. true.

i hope this will all change. soon. i was struck by the 19 year old bhutto boy who, in an interview with the bbc and others today, responded to a question by saying, extremism is fed by dictatorships.
when the u.s. stops feeding dictatorships, the problem of extremism will begin to resolve itself.

i think he is right.

i also think the same logic applies to our current situation. bush, as a fascist dictator, has not been a good stewart for this nation. with poverty on the rise, talk of terror all the time, crime is on the increase. i hope that change will come to the nation next january in the form of job creation, better health care for the people, social security retirement benefits which are not threatened, a withdrawal of troops from iraq, a let other countries govern themselves as they wish, and i think that when people feel secure, comfortable, and hopeful about their future, a lot of this increased crime wave will begin to slack or slow down.

by the way ... they found another policeman who had been assassinated today. they found the body in his own unmarked (or perhaps his own private) car.

these reagan/bush/bush policies are not good for the country.

[Hydra]

6. Exactly right

Society is only accepted when enough people benefit or enough people are kept in lockstep with fear.

There's only 1 problem with the second choice- when hope evaporates, so does the fear. When you have nothing to lose, any risk is acceptable.