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Daschle Says Americans Need More Than Duct Tape

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Posted by Steve White 2003-02-13 09:47 am|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Civil Defense has been non-existent in this country since the Left ridiculed it out of business in the 1960s. Luddite anti-nuclear propaganda required that the American people be as vulnerable as possible. With the full support of the Hollywood/Madison Avenue Cultural Axis, various luddites and other power-seekers have convinced two generations of Americans that personal survival in a WMD attack is impossible or even undesirable. For Kultural Konformist sheep, "Survivalist" is a synonym for "deranged camo-clad gun-loon" and the word of mediatarian elites outweighs any possible combination of fact, logic, or even the survival instinct itself. It is outrageous to see Dash-hole and Byrd-brain, bought-and-paid-for allies of the luddite Hollywoodistas, now decrying our lack of survival preparedness.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2003-02-13 02:52:31|| [www.nuclearspace.com] 2003-02-13 02:52:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Of course 'talkin tom, the people's friend!' has no actual suggestions himself as to what needs to be done, he's just sure that what ever is being done is not good enough for him.

Of course 'the left', headed by 'talkin tom' would be the first to cry out that preparations for a disaster would only 'inflame the situation'.

lead, follow or get out of the way.

Posted by Frank Martin 2003-02-13 03:37:31|| [varifrank.blogspot.com] 2003-02-13 03:37:31|| Front Page Top

#3 And WHO, precisely, was opposed to the formation of the Homeland Security Department?

Posted by Ptah 2003-02-13 06:39:24|| 2003-02-13 06:39:24|| Front Page Top

#4 up ptah, the admin was oppposed for several months. The dems were NOT opposed. They did dispute the proposed labor rules for the new dept - whatever you think of that (and there are reasonable arguments both ways) its unfair to imply they opposed the new dept.

Dont know of any positive suggestions by Daschle, and the knock on Byrd about boon doggles is weel, hard to take issue with, but you dont have to be an idiotarian to be concerned with the admin failing to provide enough funds for local civil defense, and increased security expenditures, and for public health.

To atomic - the derogation of civil defense was in context of a nuclear attack by the USSR, not a chem-biol attack by terrorists - while it may have been overdone, that probably had a lot to do with the elite being physically concentrated in places where civil defense would have been useless (like manhattan) rather than in rural areas. (celeb movement to montana, etc is more recent and is mainly hollywood, not newsies IIUC)

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-02-13 07:51:20|| 2003-02-13 07:51:20|| Front Page Top

#5 At this point, a few wraps of duct tape around Daschle's mouth and Byrd's mouth would be doing them a favor. For every American that has purchased duct tape this week, there are probably 20 Americans that would just as soon have the press find someone else to cover. If these are serious issues for the Democrats, then the Demorcats need to find people with better reputations to voice them. The baron of Bush bashing and the prince of pork are not good choices.

Posted by Tom 2003-02-13 10:40:31|| 2003-02-13 10:40:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Typical Dims. We've got to do SOMETHING! What, they don't mention. Maybe they can find a rathole to throw more money down. That solves everything.

Posted by tu3031 2003-02-13 13:44:29|| 2003-02-13 13:44:29|| Front Page Top

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