stop the fucking madness - Page 2

dankie · #11 10-31-2007, 09:13 AM

The terrorists have invaded our imaginations!

Kant · #12 10-31-2007, 09:15 AM

i think we as a country need to stop being so damn simplistic. we're so egear to put everything uner one nice neat label. take terrorism. everyone we don't like or does something bad is automaticly a terrorist. the problem is becuase everyone is under the same label, we don't know who we're dealing with. for example drug cartels. this money that's going back overseas....it's going to fund BUSINESSES. sure some money might fund terrorism but most is going to fund the cartels. cartels aren't terrorists. they're businesses, evil and violent but still businesses. they don't profit from chaos and disorder. and they certainly don't profit from blowing up buildings in countries they do lots of business in. terrorist acts like 9/11 only hurt cartels. the tighter customs control means they have to invest a lot more money and take a lot larger risks to reach the same market. We can't label everyone the same and treat them the same because it won't work, and it hasn't worked.

fdd2blk · #13 10-31-2007, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Kant

i think we as a country need to stop being so damn simplistic. we're so egear to put everything uner one nice neat label. take terrorism. everyone we don't like or does something bad is automaticly a terrorist. the problem is becuase everyone is under the same label, we don't know who we're dealing with. for example drug cartels. this money that's going back overseas....it's going to fund BUSINESSES. sure some money might fund terrorism but most is going to fund the cartels. cartels aren't terrorists. they're businesses, evil and violent but still businesses. they don't profit from chaos and disorder. and they certainly don't profit from blowing up buildings in countries they do lots of business in. terrorist acts like 9/11 only hurt cartels. the tighter customs control means they have to invest a lot more money and take a lot larger risks to reach the same market. We can't label everyone the same and treat them the same because it won't work, and it hasn't worked.

oh it works. it works for the collectors of the funds that go to stop all these "terrorists.