Amazing rant: "Wait, Aren't You Scared?"

[Rose Siding]

Blogger gold from John Rogers who "started doing stand-up in 1988, got his Physics degree in 1990, began writing television in 1995, writing movies in 1999, and writing comics in 2005. He plainly needs to focus."

A snip-

To be honest, it's not like I'm a brave man. I'm not. At all. It just, well, it doesn't take that much strength of will not to be scared. Who the hell am I supposed to be scared of? Joseph Padilla, dirty bomber who didn't actually know how to build a bomb, had no allies or supplies, and against whom the government case is so weak they're now shuffling him from court to court to avoid the public embarassment of a trial? The fuckwits who were going to take down the Brooklyn Bridge with blowtorches? Richard Reid, the Zeppo of suicide bombers? The great Canadian plot that had organized over the internet, was penetrated by the Mounties on day one, and we were told had a TRUCK FULL OF EXPLOSIVES ... which they had bought from the Mounties in a sting operation but hey let's skip right over that. Or how about the "compound" of Christian cultists in Florida who were planning on blowing up the Sears Tower with ... kung fu?

And now these guys. As the initial "OH SWEET MOTHER OF GOD THEY CAN BLOW US UP WITH SNAPPLE BOTTLES!!" hysteria subsides, we discover that these guys had been under surveillance, completely penetrated, by no less than three major intelligence agencies............

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!!

... and I'm just a little tired of being on the wrong side of that historical arc.

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

[patdem]

1. K&R...this person has to be the GREATEST writer of ALL times

the man must be put together with logic...as he has certainly figured out how logic is MISSING from all the armchair pundits! Greatest EVER!

[Rose Siding]

13. This got lots of traffic so he's linked his older posts on his front page

I couldn't find them before. He added this to the page linked in the OP-

(NOTE: the Second. With all the traffic coming in, threw up a new INDEX PAGE up top. You like the new stuff, you may like the old. Take a look)

It's like liberal porn. About Rove, from June 05-

(snip>
The man who runs the White House, the man who's run every one of the president's campaigns, the man who controls every public and private move of this administration just said -- no, demonstrably, factcheckingly LIED about liberals not wanting to go to war after 9/11 and then implicated that liberals' "motives" are aid and comfort to the enemy. To wit, the colloquial understanding of treason.

Not some internet fundraising group.

Not some unelected film-maker.

Not some fucking BLOGGER.

The guy. Who runs. The White House.

And he didn't just say there were "different approaches" to dealing with terrorism. He lied about liberals' response to 9/11, and then he accused them of treason.

.....That's McCarthyism, pure and goddam simple. Once you drop the T-bomb, you take yourself right out of politics as usual and drop yourself right into the "dangerous pig-eyed fuck who thinks there's too much free-speech" category.

Did you know that the definition of treason is quite specifically defined in the Consititution? Did you know it's the only crime actually spelled out in the Constitution? DO. YOU. KNOW. WHY?

No. Of course you don't. Nobody ever bothers to read the goddam thing.

Because the Founding Fathers had seen the charge of treason used too many times against the political opponents of the British Government. They knew, when the government gets nervous and breaks out the Big Evil Golf Bag of Shutting Up Questions, the first club out is the Treason Charge. They knew the first guy to yell treason was the bastard.

http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/06/im-all-out-of-reasonable.html

From "the rest" catagory" on this page-

http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/08/index-fu-for-august.html

[Sinti]

2. Great rant :)

Maybe in order to get us to want to kill people who aren't really a threat they need to boost our fear level - conversely, in the historical period mentioned here there was a genuine threat, therefore we needed to be brave... just saying

[MrCoffee]

3. KnFnR...thanks for posting!

[calimary]

4. The fifth vote! And put down that sippy cup!

I'm sorry, but I'm deeply embedded here, too. Something just smells. REALLY bad. I can't NOT be utterly skeptical and suspicious IN THE EXTREME about this. What convenient timing, 'eh? As the saying goes ... what a coinky-dink.

[catmandu57]

5. I'm sick and tired of this bullshit

They bust another bunch of infiltrated incomps, and ratchet up the be afraid and while we're at it we to control you a little tighter.
I'm ready to run screaming down the road WAKE THE FUCK UP.

[Sinti]

7. run screaming down the road WAKE THE FUCK UP

They'd just lock you up in "Cherry Lawn" give you shock treatments and force feed you meds through a tube. We need a pamphleteering campaign. Hey, it seems to be working for the religion pushers - it could work for truth pushers too.

[Spazito]

6. Great rant and right on point! Thanks for posting, a MUST READ

for sure! Recommended.

[Exultant Democracy]

8. R&K i found it was easier to do in that order.

[longship]

9. Recommended and kicked.

I'll keep holdin' my sippy cup, thank you.

"...brand new destroyers riveted by waitresses. How's that going to feel?"
Absolutely priceless.

[The Doctor.]

10. Great find!

Thanks for that.

[johnaries]

11. BRILLIANT! I especially loved this part:

"I voted for the guy who believed in securing our ports and fighting terrorism with criminal investigation methods -- which is, if we may remind everybody, how this particular plot was busted."

I think everyone needs to be reminded of this.

[leesa]

12. Very good read. Funny guy. I like the 18 year old scotch offer for

anyone who can define an endpoint to a War on Terror

[txb]

14. Couldn't agree MORE!!

this "be scared, be very VERY SCARED" bullshit is completely anti-american!

I mean think of all the war movies, even the westerns, i mean - do you see any of those heroes freely "giving up some freedom" because they would be scared what happened if the DIDN'T?!?

kudos for the FDR & Churchill "quotes".....it really puts into perspective how anti-american and completely UN-BRAVE this entire country is becoming.

whatever happened to "TAKE THE HILL"....who cares if we're outnumbered 50-1, "TAKE THE F'IN HILL!!"

do you think brave soldiers would give up their freedom without a damn good fight?!

then WHY THE HELL SHOULD WE?!?!