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What terrorists?! The U.S. is backing Al Qaida in Syria just as in other conflicts. Al Qaida is a C.I.A. asset. It is a C.I.A. creation. It is so discouraging to see so many adults with the critical thinking capacity of 5 year olds buying into such obvious government propaganda.
[quote=”sprite”]What terrorists?! The U.S. is backing Al Qaida in Syria just as in other conflicts. Al Qaida is a C.I.A. asset. It is a C.I.A. creation. It is so discouraging to see so many adults with the critical thinking capacity of 5 year olds buying into such obvious government propaganda.[/quote]
The days of battles with flags and uniforms is over. Now we engage whatever faction is available at the moment to do our dirty work. We train them, arm them, give them a target and set them loose. When we’re done with them we forget them. Friends today, foes tomorrow. The ultimate outsource temp worker…. and tomorrow they’re working for your competition!
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Imxploring”]Of course Uncle Sam doesn’t want to [ban] smoking.[/quote]
But you do, apparently, and yet you are the one complaining – loudly – about encroachments on liberty. I’m curious as to how you reconcile those two sentiments?
[/quote]Wrong again Steve…. I’m simply questioning the true intentions and concerns of a government that claims to be protecting the health, safety, and welfare of it’s citizen’s by spying on them under the pretense of protecting them from some unseen evil threat. Yet at the same time is making massive profits (taxes) from a product that kills and injures more people EACH MONTH than then evil threat of terrorist EVER has!
Much like every dictatorship you need the big bad boggie man to convince the public to give up their rights and freedoms. Hugo had his people believing that the US was days away from invading Venezuela for years…. all while he dismantled the checks and balances to controlling his power as well as taking away their freedoms and ability to speak out against him.
The same game has, and is currently being played all around the world. Leaders like sheep.
In the case of the US… since the cold war is over we needed that Boogie man… so now it’s the faceless terrorist we’re told is out to get us… and the reason that we must give up our freedom and rights.
Nothing new here… same story over and over again…. just the names, faces, and twist in the story change.
Ain’t history a bitch… just keeps repeating over and over! LOL
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Imxploring”]… remind us all why it is that YOU want leave the US?[/quote]
You need a reminder of that already!? It was a mere 2 days ago that I answered that very question on this very message board and in this very topic thread. But OK, if you truly need reminding then you can reread my answer [url=https://www.welovecostarica.com/members/cfmbb/messages.cfm?messageid=B4DC06CC-24E8-5ED2-F12BC62497856E61#B4DC06CC-24E8-5ED2-F12BC62497856E61]here.[/url][/quote]I looked for your reason Steve…
“It’s not that I want to leave the United States but that I want to live in Costa Rica.”
Not really an answer. When one makes a choice of one thing over another there is a reason…. often based on the pros to one and the cons of the other. Why not share them with us. There MUST be some cons to remaining in the US.
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Imxploring”]I’m simply questioning the true intentions and concerns of a government that claims to be protecting the health, safety, and welfare of it’s citizen.. from some [an] unseen evil threat.[/quote]
Governments don’t act in the best interests of their citizens – they do what citizens demand (well, the ones who demand most loudly anyway), whether that turns out to be in their own best interests or not. You don’t seem to have grasped that or you wouldn’t be confused about the government’s stance on the use of tobacco. Tobacco is legal because enough people want it to be.Many of the same people who are (or pretend to be) aghast at what the NSA is up to would utterly crucify those who run the NSA if they decided NOT to do what they’re doing even though it was technologically possible AND completely legal. Now I grant that there is some debate as to how effective this program has been so far, but even if turns out that it didn’t disrupt any terrorist plots [b]so[/b] far, it doesn’t mean that it never will.
The Patriot Act, under which this program was authorized, passed the US Senate by a vote of 98-1 (The one senator who voted against, Russ Feingold, was defeated in his next re-election campaign). The US House voted for it 357-66.
[quote=”Imxploring”]Leaders like sheep.[/quote]
Am I a sheep then? Why do you assume that anyone who disagrees with you is a sheep? It’s more than a little arrogant to assume that there can’t possibly be any other reason someone may have a different view on this.[/quote]Just a couple of quick points.
“Tobacco is legal because enough people want it to be.”
There’s a heck of a lot of people that would like ALL DRUGS to be legal. But remember… like smoking all are addictive and have serious health consequences to the user and others. The issue with smoking is that the GOVERNMENT makes the majority of the profit on a product being sold that KILLS people. Yet they want you to give up your freedoms to protect you from some faceless threat when there’s a much larger one being sold on every corner. It just seems to me to be a MAJOR conflict.
As to the Patriot act… in troubled times serious and sometimes detrimental changes are made in haste that have unanticipated consequences.
You seriously can’t believe that ANY of the politicians that voted for the Patriot Act had ANY, AND I MEAN ANY, idea to what extent this “protection” would be carried out to in spying on the American people… hell Steve when Snowden dropped the news most of Washington was running for cover because what he had to say was news to them too! I’d bet most of those that voted for it didn’t even read it or understand what they were voting for. The same goes for ObamaCare.
How did this get off on this subject? This was supposed to be trying to help me get ideas of how I can get to Costa Rica legally and become part of a community I can enjoy. All of you brought up good points (for another thread) that I would like to weigh in on but that is not helping me or any of the others reading this on creative ways to become a part of a country they love. Again I don’t need any suggestions on why I CAN”T come (costaricafinca) I already know all of those reasons. Let’s get creative here and help each other.
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