.... Osama may be dead, but he is winning.

Quote:The Senate today passed a measure temporary extending the federal government’s borrowing authority through May. The president is expected to sign it and the U.S. government is expected to keep borrowing. The U.S. debt clock has the national debt approaching $16.5 trillion and the federal government spends about two dollars for every dollar it receives. The path doesn’t seem sustainable at all, and once again talk of default fills the air in Washington. And as Al-Qaeda makes its latest threat against America, it’s worth rewinding to a bin Laden tape released in 2004. From a CNN article dated November 2, 2004:
The Arabic-language network Al-Jazeera released a full transcript Monday of the most recent videotape from Osama bin Laden in which the head of al Qaeda said his group's goal is to force America into bankruptcy…

"We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah," bin Laden said in the transcript.

http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/31/debt-l...ssed-is-os

Force us into bankruptcy - check.
Make us scared of our own shadow - check.
Make us give up our "freedoms" - check.
Make the rest of the world hate us more for our militarism - check.

(02-01-2013 11:37 AM)BlazerFan11 Wrote:  Force us into bankruptcy - check.
Make us scared of our own shadow - check.
Make us give up our "freedoms" - check.
Make the rest of the world hate us more for our militarism - check.

Quote: Why Socialism Always Results in Tyrannical Rule
By Adrian Krieg
WAKE-UP CALL AMERICA - 1998

The Controlling Elite Love Socialism for the People-Control Properties of the System, But for the Average Citizen the Results Have Always Been Disastrous.

In the 20th century there have been numerous political systems, but in the latter half of the century there were only two survivors, Socialism and Capitalism. So we have at this time in the Western world, which for all practical purposes controls the world, two opposing political systems. (I have already previously stated that there is no basic difference between socialists and communists. There are, however, some very important factors relating to socialism of which you should be aware. Socialism will not work in a free market economy and, as a consequence it invariably deteriorates into a totalitarian state. Anyone wishing to argue that point is asked to point to one single instance where this was not the result).

It therefore behooves us to remember who the worst despotic governments of this century were: Nazis in Germany, Fascists in Italy, Communists in the USSR, [Romania, East Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Cuba, North Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc.] and China - each and every one of them a paragon of socialist endeavor. Their leaders; Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin [Ceausescu, Tito, Pol Pot, etc.] and Mao Tse Tung. The outstanding legacy of these individuals is that they each tried to out-do the others in the total number of their own citizens which they murdered. It is a fact that each of these men killed more of their own civilian citizens than they lost in military conflict.

The reason for this is inherent to socialism. It promises things that it cannot possibly deliver. When socialist politicians in power come to the realization that it is impossible to deliver on their promises and political unrest develops, they have two options if they plan to stay in power. First, they must locate a scapegoat on whom they can blame their inability to deliver. Any Jew can tell you who that was for the Germans and the Russians. The second is to develop, and rapidly so, a state security apparatus to keep them in office - the SS, the KGB, [Securitate, Stasi] etc.

The basic tenets of socialism are:
1. Seduce the populace into accepting the government as the arbitrator of all problems; government from cradle-to-grave
2. Begin delivering on those services to make the citizens dependent
3. Take away the citizens' guns
4. Increase taxes on all services while destroying any free market alternative services
5. Blame the chosen scapegoat for the inability to meet demand for services
6. Have the centralized national police force round up any dissidents

http://www.orthodoxnet.com/news/WhySocia...ranny.html