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Phoenix
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Games: Because the liberties Americans hold dear are being sacrificed in the name of security. A national ID card tramples all over state's rights as well as individual liberties. The US is becoming more and more federalized, more and more centralized as a result. The consolidation of power into a central bureaucracy is exactly the kind of thing the founding fathers of the United States were afraid of. They were more afraid of a tyrannical government at home stripping people of liberty than they were of foreign aggressors. This is all in the Declaration of Independence. This is also the primary reason the Second Amendment to the US Constitution exists, right after the First Amendment. This wasn't by accident, they firmly believed that if the government of a country no longer defended the rights of the people then it ultimately fell to the people to ensure their own rights, by violence if necessary. To repeat a very commonly quoted phrase:
"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin."
That's exactly what people are doing. This can only lead to more and more intrusion, monitoring, and surveilence of the common citizenry by a stronger and less tolerant federal government. A police state is an intolerable solution to a very solvable problem, and that's exactly where this is inching towards. Do not turn a blind eye to the policy of incrementalism. Wild conspiracy theories I treat as suspect, but when you can see some very obviously questionable activities one can only ignore them at their own peril. Here's some food for thought:
The US military is tied up in Iraq, and cannot LEAVE Iraq as long as attacks continue. The attacks continue daily, whereas the country should have been disarmed of insurgents by now. The borders with Iran and Syria are left wide open, so the fight continues without end. If the US pulls out of Iraq, a civil war will result as Iranian-backed Shi'ite guerillas clash with Sunni Baath party loyalists. Iraq will then destabilize the entire region and eventually become another Iran-style Islamic puppet regime. Is this blatant incompetence by the Defense Department, or by design?
California is trying to pass legislation that would make it impossible to own ammunition that is not "micro-serialized" - a technology that doesn't even yet exist. If passed, after a few years it would be illegal to even possess such ammunition within the state. (For the anti-gunners out there who can't see the significance of this, I'll tie this together in just a second).
The US border with Mexico is wide open. Where's Homeland Security on this? If terrorism's such the huge threat that it is, why leave the borders open?
In the last 20 years, nearly all US manufacturing jobs have been transferred offshore. The US is no longer an industrial nation, it is a consumer nation with a service-based economy. The US no longer has the ability to out-manufacture an enemy in a full-scale war like it did in WWII.
The US currency continues to devalue against foreign currency, especially the Euro.
The increasing amount of US reliance on electronics makes it particularly vulnerable to EMP attacks. Concern has recently been raised by a US Congressman about the possibility of Iran, North Korea, or any other rogue state possessing a nuclear device detonating an airburst 200 miles above the North American continent. According to nuclear scientists advising this individual (I don't have his name handy) this would put the US back into the 1900's technologically. To compound this threat, Iran has supposedly testfired a missile that "failed" by exploding 200 miles up. Was it really a failure? Also of concern is a North Korean SCUD missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead can be purchased for as little as $100,000, and launched from a cargo ship offshore of the continental US. This information follows a claim that Iran has reportedly said it wants to take out the US with a single nuclear device. Where's Homeland Security on this threat? If such a nightmare scenario were to occur, the US would be completely defenseless. Any foreign power could launch a full-scale invasion along the California coast and meet little or no resistance, thanks to all the nice happy anti-gunners out there outlawing everything. If the military is knocked out electronically, then what's left but the citizenry, and if the citizenry has no will or means to fight, then they are conquered. Such an invasion isn't even necessary if an EMP were used. How long do you think the population will survive without automobiles, large trucks to ship food, and electricity to refrigerate it? No running water, no heat or cooling, no food... I think you can figure the rest out from there.
Now granted, this is a lot of "worst case" stuff, but if I can think of it you know the enemies of the US can, and surely people within the US government can as well. Why is it then that instead of locking down the borders and taking a zero tolerance stance against Iran and North Korea that, in the event of any nuclear strike on the US, they will suffer full nuclear retaliation regardless of the aggressor, that the US government is choosing to frisk 80 year old wheel-chair bound women at airports, and pass legislation that would require every citizen to submit to a Big Brother-ish computerized identification system? As far as I can tell the leaders within the US Government do not have the country's best interests anywhere at all at heart. I'm not talking about Bush specifically, I'm speaking in a more broader sense. This is not just one politician or figurehead to blame for this. As far as I can tell the United States is being sold down the river by all parties involved - its European allies, its government officials, and its corporate entities. From inside and from without, this country is being stripped of everything that made it strong. The degree to which it's being allowed to happen I can't believe is just coincidental and accidental, not at this point.
Now according to prophecy, the US doesn't figure into events at the end time. Russia does, Israel certainly does, as does Europe, the Orient - China especially, and the Arabs, specifically Persia (Iran), Egypt, Lybia, Syria, but nowhere is the United States found as a major player on the board. I'm watching this country being sold down the river right before my eyes - economically, militarily, morally, politically, and I can't help but think I'm seeing the reasoning for this obvious absense as a result of this. It should be remembered that Rome fell not because it was conquered, but because it was gutted from the inside first. The barbarian hordes only helped bring down what was left after the foundation had already crumbled. Tell me, am I seeing the same thing here? Is history repeating itself yet again? Nobody can dispute the fact that Europe is becoming the central focus of the world, and the US is becoming seen more and more as a burden and an obstruction to a lot of nations, bankers, and corporate interests, and instead of being a light to the world, a shining example of liberty, liberty is being stripped from her people by her own leaders in the name of "security", a false security that protects nothing and endangers everything. Who has America's best interests in mind anymore? Anyone? America has turned its back on God as well, so not even God is left to look after her. Who's left then?
The goal of the Islamic terrorists is twofold - first to remove the US since it is Israel's military and financial backer, and second to remove Israel since it's part of their Jihad. The US is seen by the terrorists as the Great Satan, owing to its lack of morals by their standards and it's support of their sworn enemy. If the US becomes a police state by stripping her people of liberty, the terrorists have won. If the US implodes from the world economies shifting away from the US, the terrorists have won. If the US suffers a catastrophic strike because the leadership has their heads up their asses or (God forbid) by some deliberate participation on their part they enable such a strike to go unchecked, the terrorists again have won. The only path to victory is to remain strong and free, and neither seem to be the current goal of those in power. Regardless of what may happen, or what is probably going to happen, just consider how things are right now. When people live in fear but are powerless to act, and their leadership fails them or betrays them, then their enemies have surely won.
So you see Games, terrorism has everything to do with this. It makes a very nice excuse to get away with things you never could otherwise.
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