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Not afraid but aware, and our government should be vigilant. Meanwhile your racist statement is wholly inaccurate andf only shows that you live in a country that is 90% white with a skewed vision of America.

Yes. I want to be aware if there is a threat, just as I'd want to be aware if there was a fire by the sound of an ALARM or that there is a sexual offender in my neighborhood by the release of an Amber Alert. Knowing is not a BAD THING. Knowing can actually save your life.

If not wanting to ignore the obvious is Republican, maybe I'll just change my stance from independent to Republican. Because by your definition, if I prefer not to be oblivious to the world around me and the dangers, then I have to be a Republican.

Because it was a threat then , has been a threat for 30 years, and will continue to be a threat until we do something about it. To change course now would only serve to empower those that are fighting against "The Great Satan".

It is safer and it is safer for the exact reason I mentioned before. If we elect a president who will repeal the Patriot Act and abandon the current policy by inviting countries that profited from states like Saddam's Iraq to help/take over, our problem is going to get worse.

You call it living in fear, I call it not having the philosophy of "ignore it and it will go away". That never works and Clinton's Presidency is the perfect example of this. He ignored it for 8 years and it cost us too much.

Ignorant and simplistic, but I expect that of you. BTW, excellent job of ignoring 90% of the points I made or the site I posted and just continuing with your talking points that require absolutely no factual basis.:rolleyes:

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I have no idea how that staement was racist. Can we not call people from the middle east "Brown" anymore? Just like Black people are now "coloured" or "Urban" or "African American".

And i highly doubt Canada is 90% white.

If it is, Vancouver has all the blacks, Asians, and hispanics, because they almost outnumber the white people.

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Actually, "colored" stopped becoming a 'proper' term back in the 60's or 70's. Black or African-American is fine.

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Show me where I said "There is no threat"... I said it's a rare occurence... Meaning yes there is a threat... A small one... Well, I guess it would be a big one if we left ourselves completely open ("We can just walk in and blow americans up! (^-^"), but of course we'd never do that, and we weren't doing that before September 11th...

I also said:

"But America has to act big and bad and turn these events that happen once in a blue moon into a long, drawn out ordeal that will be proven to be useless (at least at it's main goal of protecting the US) when there's another terrorist attack on American soil years down the road"...

Meaning I believe terrorists will again slip through the cracks and conduct an attack on US Soil... But it's not like it's gonna happen every year or something... Not even every 2, 3, 4, even 5 years... Of course it's all speculation... And not just the stuff I say...

and if you argue that "Yeah because we're fighting them back WOOO!" Then I'll just go back to my original post where I said BEFORE september 11th, BEFORE we started 'fighting back' these things were a rare occurence on US soil...

So YES there is a threat (they're always plotting ways to hit the US and their interests abroad), but we reduce the risk greatly by just doing things we have always been doing... Which is why I think major pre-emptive strikes on terrorist groups, countries that harbor terrorism, or even Iraq is pointless and a huuuuuuge waste... UNLESS (as I said before) it was in direct retaliation for the rare terrorist attack that does occur on US soil...

And yeah, I wasn't counting Oklahoma City, I meant terrorist attacks on the US from outside sources...

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*doesn't really see what the difference is, but okay*


*shrugs and walks away*

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Well when a terrorist from the US attacks us, we don't respond with bombs... And then set off on a quest around the world to wipe out terrorism...

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Canada.. 90% white?.. definatley not. There is a whole mountain of Asain and Indian people around here. Not to mention that im part Asain. There are a lot of different races living here. and a lot of the black people came to Canada in the 1800's to escape slavery.

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That part was meant to be kind of a joke, using a Canadian Bacon quote as the inspiration. Sorry if you took it literally, I worked in Toronto for a long time and I personally know there is a huge Asian population. I managed a Asian telemarketing campaign.

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Did you listen to their calls and offer helpful tips like "you need to make it sound more conversational, not like you're reading from a script," and "good job on that appointment!" or "I've got to have eight hours out of you!"

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I was never that close to the floor. I handled more of the numbers and compiled statistics and told the floor managers who to work with a whatnot. I rarely monitored calls myself.

Plus, the calls were in Mandarin and Cantonese... how would I even know what they're saying? :D

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Political parties need to be done away with. They divide the country too much. The people now, more than ever need unity. There are a lot of issues that concern us all, but we Americans don't seem to be doing anything about it. If us Americans boycotted oil for the most part, prices would plummel. I know we need oil for our everyday use, but we can use alternative sources and means to accomplish what needs to be done. That is just one example. The people have the power, we are just to lazy to use it and the government knows that.

We act like these presidents are going to become king. They still have other branches. If Kerry is president, and most of Congress is republican things could get messey. Same with Bush being president and most of Congress being democratic. This is just my opinion. I want to see a change in pace.

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Sorry, but doing away with political parties won't do away with people's varying views and opinions on various issues...

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But when you have parties, you have people who focus maybe a little too much on benfitting that party or increasing its power, rather than helping out the nation as a whole.

I guess.


*shrugs and walks away*

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Edwards.

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You can't do away with parties, they form naturally when people of similiar viewpoints come together and try to get their view across to government by getting their candidates elected.