"Wait, aren't you scared?"

[HawkerHurricane]

This blogger calls it dead on...

http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/08/wait-arent-you-scared.html

Quote 1
"I am just not going to wet my pants every time some guys get arrested in a terror plot. I will do my best to stay informed. I will support the necessary law enforcement agencies. I will take whatever reasonable precautions seem, um, reasonable. But I will not be terrorized. I assume that the terror-ists would like me to be terror-ized, as that is what is says on their nametag, rather than, say, wanting me to surrender to ennui or negative body image, and they're just coming the long way around."

Quote 2

"Maybe it's just, I cast my eyes back on the last century ...

FDR: Oh, I'm sorry, was wiping out our entire Pacific fleet supposed to intimidate us? We have nothing to fear but fear itself, and right now we're coming to kick your ass with brand new destroyers riveted by waitresses. How's that going to feel?

CHURCHILL: Yeah, you keep bombing us. We'll be in the pub, flipping you off. I'm slapping Rolls-Royce engines into untested flying coffins to knock you out of the skies, and then I'm sending angry Welshmen to burn your country from the Rhine to the Polish border.

US. NOW: BE AFRAID!! Oh God, the Brown Bad people could strike any moment! They could strike ... NOW!! AHHHH. Okay, how about .. NOW!! AAGAGAHAHAHHAG! Quick, do whatever we tell you, and believe whatever we tell you, or YOU WILL BE KILLED BY BROWN PEOPLE!! PUT DOWN THAT SIPPY CUP!!"

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. Love it, HH!

Thanks for the post!

[gaspee]

2. Exactly! (NT)

[tjwash]

3. I love that FDR quote.

nt

[niyad]

4. this blogger is absolutely right. I have refused to dwell in fear ever--

and that includes since sept 11, 2001. I refuse to surrender to those who would circumscribe our lives, destroy our liberties, surround us with darkness--and I don't care WHOSE side they profess to be on--including those bastards in the maladministration.

[Jade Fox]

5. It's amazing how people have forgotten....

that there was lots terrorist-style activity and arrests made previous to 9/11--just mostly not in the U.S.

And you're still like a million times more likely to die in an auto accident.

[Zan_of_Texas]

34. The US has had plenty of terrorists.

White, home-grown ones.

If you're black and lived in the South, you probably know this. James Byrd's family knows this (the man who was dragged by a chain behind a pickup truck in Jasper, Texas).

If you're gay in Wyoming, you probably know this. Matthew Shepard's family knows this.

If you work at an abortion clinic or Planned Parenthood, you probably know this.

Now, the powers that be want us to hate Muslims and immigrants.

Keeping us divided keeps our attentions off the real criminals, who are stealing our peace of mind, our health, our jobs, our elections, and our communities, not to mention resources, peace, fair jobs, health, etc. in countries around the world.

[Lost-in-FL]

6. Being "scarred" is a Republican value

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! **Freeper runs for his life, gives all his private life info to the GOP Gestapo in order to save his life**

[JohMunich99]

7. It's not that being scarred is a Republican value

It's scarring those they think are beneath them so they can maintain office. My two cents anyway.

[kineneb]

8. my new motto: "Be afraid of bad motorists, not terrorists!"

More killed by cars every year than terrorists. 'Nuf said.

[many a good man]

9. Americans keeping a flabby upper lip

Boo!

[RagAss]

21. HAHAHaaaaaaa........classic !!!!

[elehhhhna]

10. 4th rec! And proud to do it. Brilliant, Hawk.

[Elidor]

11. Spot on

Spot fucking on. :thumbsup: K&R

[Mist]

12. That's priceless. Thanks for the direct to the blog, which looks good. nt

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. I've said it before. Republicans have made us look like we're the world's

biggest pussies.

[scarletwoman]

14. k&r -- I'm delighted to know that someone else here reads kung fu monkey!

I'm so glad you posted this, I had just visited kfmonkey earlier today and read this.

Your monkey's Kung Fu is not strong ...

sw

[annabanana]

15. This is the message we should be getting out..

The Repugs shat themselves on 9/11 and have never gotten out of the crapper since.

[sgxnk]

16. brilliant

if i read one more silly conspiracy thread i was gonna vomit

this is great stuff

ty so much

[Boomer]

17. Speak for yourself -- I'm VERY scared...

Every day I commute to work on I-81, which means taking my life in my hands twice a day, five times a week.

Now THAT is true terror -- I've lost count of the times I've come thisclose to being smooshed by a semi going 85 miles an hour as I tried to merge into the "slow" lane before hitting the bridge, where there's isn't any verge to escape being run over.

Terrorists? Hah! They can't hold a candle to a truck driver for inspiring fear!

[KittyWampus]

18. Hawker, this is a great post.

[PleadTheFirst]

19. K&R

[Kindigger]

20. End of last line.....exactly!

"I am absolutely buffaloed by the people who insist I man up and take it in the teeth for the great Clash of Civilizations -- "Come ON, people, this is the EPIC LAST WAR!! You just don't have the stones to face that fact head-on!" -- who at the whiff of an actual terror plot will, with no apparent sense of irony, transform and run around shrieking, eyes rolling and Hello Kitty panties flashing like Japanese schoolgirls who have just realized that the call is coming from inside the house!"

[NMDemDist2]

24. hey dragn, can I borrow that avatar??

it's too cool!

[DinahMoeHum]

22. "suck my insouciance" indeed!

:evilgrin:

[RagAss]

23. Bravo...personally, I'd rather die than hear those scared bastards..

for another two years.....

[globalvillage]

25. I'm flying Monday and I'm afraid.

If they lose my freaking checked luggage (aaarrrgh) and I have no hair gel, I'm afraid my hair is going to look like crap.
Otherwise, I'm just pissed.

[pitohui]

26. woo hoo great blog, great post EOm

.

[Straight Shooter]

27. There is no yellow in the American flag.

FUGWB.

[ArbustoBuster]

28. Kicked and recommended

That writer, it seems to me, has it exactly right.

[renate]

32. aww.... sweet picture!

Sorry to be OT, but it really is nice!

[mhatrw]

29. Big Kung Fu Monkey Kick n/t

[dweller]

30. hell no i'm not

i'm going to write Cheeney and tell him to shut the fuck up. . . and the cronies he rides on.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1888498#1888744

dp

[Laurab]

31. The only thing I'm scared of

is this administration. They'll stop at nothing, and that's a bit terrifying, but I'm NOT scared of the things they want me to be scared about.

[EstimatedProphet]

33. Yes! Very true!

Dead on!