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Old Jun 8, 2011 | 8:40 pm
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Originally Posted by JakiChan
The reason they won't do it is because they aren't willing to be the person who has to get up and tell the victims families that "excrement happens". And just from their own self interest they are right to do so. When people get killed it always gets used for political leverage. "Well, if President So-and-So hadn't scaled back the TSA and if we were still using the nude-o-scopes this wouldn't have happened!" It's a sad pathetic nightmare.
Is this what we have become? Are we a society that only seeks to say "Why did you not protect me" to our leaders?

What happened to courage and guts? We used to be a society that would take our hits and then punish and destroy those that harmed us. We would do it in honor of those that were hurt or killed. We would imprison criminals that took advantage of our liberty. We would enact swift retribution on our sworn enemies that harmed or killed our citizens.

Yet our only response to such actions now appears to be punishing the leaders that were in charge when it happened. Have we have become a whimpering bunch of spineless drones?
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