While I don't have the energy to do as much research, and watch as many video's as Matt, and while I don't very often even agree with him on some matters. I do find it astonishing that some people will buy anything the goverment and news media puts out.
After 911 and such things as the invasion of Iraq, the Patriot Act and several other things, I began to realize that I wasn't as paranoid as I believed some people thought I was.
Example; 19 terrorist, all trained (if memory serves me correct) in Afganistan, funded by Saudi Arabia, most of them Saudies, none of them Iraqies. Solution? Invade Iraq?
Example; The Patriot Act. I go to the bank to by a new Peterbilt, and have to sign a form labeled Patriot Act, which acknowleges the fact that the goverment is making damm sure I am spending the money on a new Peterbilt. Never mind, that I am an American, and never mind, that I have always been an American, and never mind that I borrowed the money from the same bank, on three other occasions to buy three other Peterbilts, and paid the IRS on the profit from them. What the hell did the Patriot Act accomplish here?
Now it made sense to invade Afganistan, that's where the terrorist were trained. It made sense to invade Saudi Arabia, that's who paid for the training. Wait a minute! We didn't invade Saudi Arabia, did we? Hmmmm
The Patriot Act. Wasn't it already against the law to fund terrorism? Wasn't it already against the law to hi-jack planes and fly them into anything? Including another country, much less a building.
And didn't it use to be against the law to invade an American citizen's pesonal and and business life. Didn't you use to have to have a search warrant to go into someones house, and sieze property? And didn't you have to provide them with a copy of the search warrant, and didn't you have to tell them that you searched their home, in the cases where they weren't at home when it was searched? As a 20 year veteran Police Officer (retired) , yes, I believe you did. Not anymore.
I watched U.S. Representative Ron Paul speak yesterday about the Iraq war. He's a Republican so you Republicans relax, and no I am not a Democrat either. I'm a fed up American. He provided the statistic that in the first 45 months of the Iraq war we have had more soldiers killed, than in the first 45 months of the Viet Nam war. Another stat is that over 70% of America no longer agrees with the Iraq war, and that it was started under false pretenses. That I believe I got off of Fox news, the fair and balance one they say. Bagdad is in civil war, the Congress wants out, and GW says hell no, we're staying. What I wonder is how we got to a place where ONE MAN can decide on a country (dictatorships excluded) going to war without congressional approval i.e. a vote. Now some of you guy are going to say I don't support the troops. Don't even go there. I have a Son who is a Sgt. in the 82nd whom has been to Afganistan, & Iraq, and after being back stateside less than 2 weeks is now Back in Iraq, and you can bet your ass I support him and every other mother's son who is there now. I just don't think I am as stupid as Uncle Sam thinks I am. As for Matt's idea. I haven't a clue. I just know that since 911, we all have fewer rights than we did before 911, and the Constitution and Bill of Rights is a joke in Washington D.C., and that our sons and daughters are pawns on a political chess board, and its getting them killed. Like the words say in a song that Merle Haggard sings. Politicians do all the talking, and the soldiers pay the dues.JM2CW