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» pink101 - We Are Inundated

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As a national society, we are inundated in violence. It is constantly knocking on our doors.
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The number one top role model for all citizens in the United States proclaims violence as the righteously legitimate way of settling political disputes in the world. I have read that approximately forty percent of our national budget is allocated for military violence as a way of dealing with our "enemies" in the world--people who "hate our way of life".
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What surprizes me is that there is not more of what happened yesterday on the campus at Virginia Tech. I expect it will grow if we do not change our ways on the world scene.
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I am very sad to say.
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Turn on the tv, go to a movies, read a newspaper or magazine, drive into that depressing part of town you are not familiar with.
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Pandemic is the word.
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-- posted by pink101

» _Boanerges_ - We Are Inundated

In response to We Are Inundated posted by pink101:
The Brotherhood of man is alive and well, ey?...

-- posted by _Boanerges_

» Brian Tubbs - Really?

In response to We Are Inundated posted by pink101:

The number one top role model for all citizens in the United States proclaims violence as the righteously legitimate way of settling political disputes in the world.

First, I question the statement that the President of the United States is the "number one top role model for all citizens in the United States." (It's obvious that's who you are referring to). Second, I am unaware of Mr. Bush saying that violence should be used to settle "political disputes" in the world.

Setting aside Iraq, were we just "settling a political dispute" when we attacked and helped overthrow the Taliban in Afghanistan after 9/11/01? Was it just a "political dispute" that the Taliban were sheltering and aiding Al Qaeda, a known terrorist group that is directly responsible for taking the lives of thousands of American citizens - not just the Trade Towers, but the Embassy bombings in Africa, the USS Cole, and so on? And even if you disagree with our policy in Iraq (and I know you do), I would hardly characterize the disagreement between Iraq's Saddam Hussein regime and the United States as merely a "political dispute."

Is it possible - remotely possible - that you and others can witness a tragedy without blaming it somehow on George W. Bush???

» Migisi - We Are Inundated

In response to We Are Inundated posted by pink101:
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"Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle." (Psalm 144:1)
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We praise the Lord as we pass out ammunition. Pride is our necklace, and we clothe ourselves in violence. But the trouble we cause recoils on us, our violence comes down on our own heads.

-- posted by Migisi