ISIS Getting Closer To West ( Archived) (111)

I suspect that the best solution for ridding the world of terrorists - is to take away the environment in which they thrive. So what does make a person separate from their families and friends and think that they government is a foreign separate thing? What makes young men and women disenfranchised, angry and paranoid?

Home grown terrorist - those that have no meaningful work, who think that their government does not respond to their needs, are isolated and indifferent to those around them. They grow in places that have the media, the family and friends feed them the lies about how the world works.

Our government is not just in Washington - and certainly seems like the Congress politicans is only interested in getting elected again and making money when they leave office or while in office instead of setting policy, to make America better.

However, our government is only a small component of ...... bleet, bleets.

Our government is also teachers, a free public school, and public servants that oversee parents who opt to use charter schools or private schools. Free libraries with Librarians, with books and computers. Those guys that go out and inspect to ensure clean water, pick up your garbage or ensure that someone picks it up, monitors the electricity, food products, drugs, regulate business, and of course fight crime, and provide an attorney to defend you in criminal cases if you can't afford one. The mail delivery. The folk who cut the checks for social security, or disability, ensure that people on the road have driver licenses and insurance coverage for accidents, the park rangers, and fire fighters. The local and state governments buy goods and services from businesses in the communities. The government offers social services and assistance to those that apply and are determined eligible for the elderly, homeless, mentally ill, health services. All of these services must be held to transparency, accountable to show every thing they used tax dollars to support. Tax dollars can't pay for everything - so we have to put people in place to set policy and decide how we do this. They set standards and rules.

Our government is not our enemy, it is us, we are part of it. It is not perfect, it is a flawed as the humans who work in it, for it, with it. If it is not us, it is our sister or brother, or family member or our neighbor. When we accept that we are part of a community together and that our government is not out to get us - we perhaps stop some of the homegrown terror. Everyday in America we work at holding those that are elected or hired in our government accountable. There are checks and balances in place



On another note and more in the thread theme.

It is time for the media to starting singing another song. It is not up to America to solve the world's problems.

One of the reasons America does so well, in one respect, is we do not wait for the world to come to our rescue. We solve our own problems. If we have a corrupt system, we recognize it, expose it to the light. We fix it. We hold people accountable. We set up checks and balances to oversee each other.

It is in a continual effort of adjustment to a dynamic, moving, cyclical system.

..... ok, ok I'm getting off my soapbox now.