Conversation with a friend

[nadinbrzezinski]

well folks there are days I wonder if cowardize is now the middle name of the American People... no, not DU... we are fighting the good fight...

So I went to dinner with a friend and we started talking... and boy she is afraid of making any damn waves becuase she is paranoid the gov'ment will do something to her to get even. Well here I am listening to this in desblief (she is also repeating every damn Repuke talking point and does not listen to the news... and is so jaded that she does not care about ideology or anything like that). Why am I listening to her in desbilief? Given the nature of the testimony of many folks before Congress last Friday, WE are at risk of being spied upon, maybe arrested... yet this person who has made zero waves is AFRAID.

I came home taht night thinking to myself, maybe it is truly over. If a good percentage of folks truly are that afraid... the fascists have won...

Anybody know where I can get a back bone transplant for folks like this?

[NanceGreggs]

1. I live in downtown Toronto, Canada ...

... and take a lot of cabs. So I've gotten to know many of the drivers in the area.

One of my regular cabbies is a Muslim, originally from Egypt. He is married and has two small children, and he and his wife have made several trips 'back home' to show off the babies to their grandparents.

We were talking a while back about how difficult it is to make that flight with two children, and asked why he doesn't fly a direct flight instead of having lengthy lay-overs. (All-told, they're travelling for about twenty-four hours).

He said the only direct flights are from US airports, and he is TERRIFIED to fly into or out of a US airport. He and his wife are both Canadian citizens now, as are their children. They have never been politically active, here or at home; they are very quiet, law-abiding people -- and yet, they are TERRIFIED of even stepping foot in my country, for fear of being arrested on some false charge because of their Muslim names, fear of something happening to their children.

The United States of America, Cradle of Freedom, Beacon of Democracy ... and, under G.W. Bush, a place people are TERRIFIED of, both inside the country and without.

Heck of a job, Bushie!

[sinkingfeeling]

2. So much for the Home of the Brave. People are afraid because all

they hear is "terror, terror, terror."

[katty]

3. Fear is the great paralyzer-if bushco sustains the fear: he wins

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. I know fear is a paralizer

and people are increasingly paralyzed... OTOH, we have just begun to fight

[tanyev]

5. That's why George Bush has to take our freedoms away.

So the terrorists won't hate us anymore!