Society Is Under Attack not just from Terrorism: From the Outside, The Inside, The Top, The Bottom!

Thirty-five years ago I saw eventually happening to our society exactly what is happening today. I could see that we were no different from any other society in history and that it was only a matter of time before we went the way of the Roman Empire.
I was hoping that with the advent of this so called war on terror that we would pull our collective selves together to eliminate the threat to our society. After Bush allowed 9/11 to happen in order to bring America behind his so called efforts against terrorism which is in actuality a front in his effort at new societal and world order where America will remain the worlds only super power.
I am of the frame of mind that while we are combating an outside threat that anyone that goes against the accepted norms of society should be treated as the so called terrorists are. That goes for low life's of society whether they are average citizens or low life Politicians.
Instead of coming together and doing the right thing for our society with every passing day and every passing year we as a society are seemingly racing towards obscurity.
Everyday it is one thing or the other from every level of society and not just from within but of course from without as the so called terrorists want to bring us down too.
I wish someone could tell me how much crime has increased under Bush's misguidance. Anyway Big-city murders rose sharply in 2006 as violent crime increased nationally for the second straight year, the FBI reported Monday. Homicides committed in small towns and midsize cities took a dramatic downswing — resulting in an overall 0.3 percent increase in the murder rate across the country, the new preliminary data show.
Year-end totals for murders rose in eight of the nation's 10 largest cities: Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio and San Diego. That contributed to a 6.7 percent murder rate increase in cities with populations over 1 million people.
The new numbers come in the wake of the Bush administration's shifting focus — evidenced by lessening Justice Department grants and FBI investigators — from fighting crime to combating terrorists after the 2001 attacks. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has pledged to devote millions of additional dollars and a surge of federal agents to aid crime-riddled cities. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4860556.html
Rapes, murders and other violent crimes such as workplace and family violence is on the increase it seems unabated.
Much of this is due to the increased stress of trying to survive and thrive under ever worsening conditions. Gonzales to take the pressure of his own indiscretions is blaming it all on gang violence and pledging millions more to be spent on it. I doubt if it will happen and it will do nothing.
Supposedly violent crime is up in every region of the country except for the Northeast, the FBI reported. Western states saw the largest jump in violent crime, by 2.8 percent. I find that hard to believe because the drastic increase in Boston with offers from the FBI to help coupled with New Orleans problems is what compelled me to revisit this last month.I was appalled yesterday whan I heard that a Boston fireman was pummelled by 4 thugs after he responded to a fire. what the heck are we letting happen to our society? We can stop this backslide but we must all get involved.
I don't get the complacency! Today I hear from the corrupt inside. Scooter gets 2 1/2 years for perjury and obstruction of justice for showing no animosity. Guarantee he will drag his feet until Bush gets out and pardons him. A federal grand jury on Monday stepped on Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson As he was indicted on 16 charges relating to a long-running investigation into bribery, racketeering, obstruction of justice and money laundering.
Calling it a "broad range of serious crimes," federal prosecutors called the case one about "greed, power and arrogance." The officials said the investigation spanned from the United States to Africa and alleged it involved a number of occasions of criminal conduct by Jefferson, including bribing businessmen in a congressional building and promising a businessman that he would bribe a Nigerian official.
"The 16-count indictment alleges a pervasive pattern of self dealings, bribery and corruption by Mr. Jefferson, in violation of his oath of office, of his duty to the United States Congress in which he served, and of the duty to the citizens of the United States," said Chuck Rosenberg, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,278080,00.html
After $90,000 was found in his freezer and he thought he should be out of bounds as a Senator I was happy to see him go.
It seems like society is caving in on itself and then we are reminded that we have so called terrorists from inside and outside the country that also want to take us down when I heard this morning that all four who tried to blow up the Jet fuel at New York's Airport which they said would dwarf the twin Towers, were caught.
While all this is going on the most covered issues seem to be Jack Kevorkian and whether or not Paris Hilton kept her hair extensions when she went to jail. I just don't get it. What the hell is wrong with us. Will society wake up? What will it take?

James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: Why Now? Are we supposed to believe this? It's to help Bush and it's dangerous!

Little in the just released confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the presumed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is new. The U.S. government long ago cataloged those alleged crimes based on extensive interrogations of Mohammed and other prisoners held in the CIA's controversial and now liquidated overseas prisons. But the transcripts of Mohammed's hearing — part of proceedings that began last Friday at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — are the first time the U.S. government has made publicly available his personal description of a stunning range of terrorist plots he claims to have had a hand in. These include both the 1993 and 2001 assaults on the World Trade Center, as well as the beheading of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Mohammed boasts he had complete or partial participation in 29 terror plots, some of which were never carried out.

At a time when the Bush Administration is facing stiff criticism in a variety of domestic scandals as well as for its conduct of the Iraq war, Mohammed's confession has quickly become a focus of cable TV and other media coverage, a reminder of America's ongoing battle against international terrorism. But the attention focused on Mohammed, thought to be al-Qaeda's third-ranking leader, also underscores the fact that the terrorist organization's chief, Osama bin Laden, and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, remain at large at a time when their former Taliban protectors in Afghanistan are resurgent.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1599423,00.html
And what about Mullah Omar? I understand that KSM also has taken credit for the Cole bombing, the Bali Bombing, and a myriad of other bombings, murders, and a myriad of failed attempts.
Mohammed portrayed himself as Al Qaeda's most ambitious operational planner in a confession to a U.S. military tribunal that said he planned and supported a series of terrorist attacks including a 2002 shooting on an island off Kuwait that killed a U.S. Marine, according to an account released by the Pentagon.
He listed for the Guantanamo tribunal 28 attacks he claimed to have directly planned or carried out, and another three he supported, including trying to kill Pope John Paul II, President Clinton and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.He also said he planned the 2002 bombing of a Kenya beach resort frequented by Israelis, the failed missile attack on an Israeli passenger jet after it took off from Mombasa, Kenya, and the bombing of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia that killed more than 200.
Other plots he said he was responsible for included planned attacks against the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Empire State Building and New York Stock Exchange in New York City, the Panama Canal, and Big Ben and Heathrow Airport in London — none of which happened. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258907,00.html
We are being handed KSM at a time where it is very benificial time to take the increasing heat off Bush and his misadministration. we are being led to believe that this guy alomst single handedly took on the entire western world and is responsible for most of the death and destriction we have been dealing with.not only does this take the heat of Bush but KSM's misadmission would take the pressure off whoever is out there that really did all this. I hope we ware not stipid enough to let this happen. It coculd be true but I wouldn't believe it for a minute. All of a sudden this guy seems to be the Holy Grail of Al Qaeda and again only for Bush's political games. As I said, what happpened to Bin Laden, Zawahiri, Mullah Omar, and the rest of them? They seem to have dropped off the map?

James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com

Captain America Killed "for Breaking Super Hero Registration Law" Sounds like a warning to me!

When I first heard captain America was assasinated I was thinking, okay so what. Then I thought about it and put it in context and it really concerns me.
One of America's patriotic, greatest superheroes has died today! In an issue that is to have hit the stands today, Marvel comic has killed off its oldest character. I don't assume to know what the political persuasion is of whoever is behind marvel comics or what the ulterior motive is here but this really smacks of intimidation and warning. Some of you I am sure will laugh about this but think about it.
Captain America the former WW2 soldier was gunned down by a sniper's bullet, "a Victim of a so called war on terror. This bothers me because it strikes me as a warning and worse a warning focused at kids. The decision also angered the character's creator, Joe Simon, who told the New York Daily News that the death comes at a time when "we really need him now."
Captain America's death "doesn't mean patriotism is dead," Buckley said, explaining that while the man in the costume died in this latest story, the ideals of Captain America did not. I am concerned and do not like the implications. This is too much of a warning to us. Follow the ridiculous rules or else!
In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Captain America embodied the psyche of the Greatest Generation, standing as a pillar of morality and honesty, and doing the right thing at the right time.
Knowing this and that The storyline pitted superheroes against one another in a war over civil liberties that began with the U.S. government requiring the comic crusaders to register their secret identities.what are we supposed to think? http://www.foxnews.com/...
I just do not get this. Are we being cajoled, warned, and threatened again through a comic hero?

James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com