Carl F. Worden

YOU WON, OSAMA!

Fri Dec 6 17:11:13 2002
204.189.23.213

Ladies & gentlemen:

>From the very beginning, Osama bin Laden predicted America would never again
enjoy the same level of freedom as before the attacks of 9/11/01, and his
prophesy has been fulfilled beyond even his most ambitious hopes.

When the tail wags the dog, it is only because the dog allows it. Here is a
little note I received from a party I will allow to remain anonymous. This
writer is typical of the American fool who is willing to give up basic
freedoms in return for the mere illusion of security and safety, for an
illusion is all it is, and ever will be. Here goes:

"Let me tell you something man. Osama bin Laden is not the sole
enemy. Don't you know that by now? If you think that the enemy has
won, before the war is even over, then that is pretty weak if you ask
me. Do you have any idea about what our great nation faces in this day
and age? What if the government didn't put in place new powers for our
national security? Then people would say the government isn't doing
enough. Frankly they can't win for loosing. I am not happy at the
thought of abuse of such new powers. I can just pray that those in
authority will be wise, and fair. Osama is a creepy, stupid, devil man,
and he can't really win, you see. He was right though. We are fighting
a Holy war. It is a fight between good and evil. And of course, the
good will, and I mean will win, but it won't be easy."

How pathetic. Every drop of blood spilled by every American patriot, from
the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, to both world wars, was spilled in
vain for the writer of that paragraph. The writer has no knowledge of world
or American history, or of human nature, and the vast majority of the
citizens now populating this nation think just like her. That is why little
Osama was able to wag the entirety of the United States of America.

You won, Osama! You won, and you didn't use a single gun or fire a single
gunshot, and you took America down from what she was to what none of us ever
wanted her to be. Without you, Osama, we'd never have a "parallel legal
system" to deny the most basic constitutional rights to American citizens
merely suspected of being terrorists. Without your efforts, Osama, no
legislator would ever dream of voting for the so-called "Patriot Act" that
allows cops and government agents to arrest and detain people for
photographing a building in downtown Denver. Without you, Osama, there is
no way the new Office of Homeland Security would have ever had a chance to
see the light of day, let alone become a reality.

You did it all by yourself, Osama, and whether you live or die, America will
never be the same. We will always have a parallel legal system from this
day forward. The Patriot Act will never be repealed. The Office of
Homeland Security will never be dismantled. It will only get worse, once
John Poindexter perfects his TIA, the Total Information Awareness program
designed to look at all the intimate financial and travel affairs of every
American citizen to see if any possibility of a threat lurks there.

But Osama, you couldn't have done it without us, the weak and soft and
spoiled American people, and we couldn't have done it without a president
and an administration that was willing to exploit our weaknesses with his
lust for unlimited and unfettered power. It was a perfect combination for
you to exploit, Osama, and I must grudgingly congratulate you on an
operation executed with perfection and complete success.

Carl F. Worden
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CONSEQUENCES
(Many Times Unintended)

By Don Stott © 2001
http://www.ak.lp.org/conseq/conseq00.htm

Preface

All actions have reactions, a basic law of physics. Addictions are actions, usually enjoyable at first, with virtually 100% of them having disastrous unintended consequences or reactions, after the addiction has taken hold. It is easy to observe an addiction's consequences, especially to the non-addicted. I am told that alcohol addiction is resplendent in the beginning, as are addictions to drugs, nicotine, runaway credit card spending, gambling, and even over-eating.

The consequences of addictions can have elephantine after effects on an entire nation, as an example, the importation of Africans as slaves over three hundred years ago. Slaves doing hard field work, and not having to pay them a salary, was an addictive disaster for slave holders in the north as well as the south for a 150 year period. While it may not have been easy to raise a crop without slaves, there have always been tasks and occupations difficult to perform that would be far easier with slave labor. Slavery, and the brief, well publicized addiction to it, is a blot on our history, and the consequences of it are unmistakable.

The addiction of acquiring handouts from government, with no immediately observable consequences, has destroyed America, and will be one of the main themes of this book. Like other addictions, it seems just too good to be true...at first. We now have a government handing out money to virtually anyone who needs or desires it. Will wonders never cease? They have. The consequences of this munificence have unfortunately not become obvious to Republicans and Democrats. There are alcoholics, gamblers, over-eaters, and many other types of "anonymous" organizations and convocations, which may help those who have slipped into the dreamy world of addictions, but so far, no one has come up with a "Government Handouts Anonymous," which an entire nation could join, to get us out of the consequences of our collective addiction.

Some consequences of actions are positive, progressive, or inevitable, and a change isn’t desirous or necessary. Inventions have yielded extraordinary consequences, most of which have been superb. The consequences of actions by bureaucrats and politicians holed up in Babylon-on-the-Potomac, especially over the past sixty five years, have headed America on the road to total decay, the same road uniformly trod by 100% of past civilizations. We may have gone so far down that road, it is too late even for deathbed redemption. Governmental and political actions, with their consequences, have far overshadowed wonderful changes brought about by invention and technical advances.

Gibbon wrote of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, long after it happened, in great part due to senseless moves by ancient Roman Caesars and their governments, egged on by thoughtless constituencies, who threatened not to re-elect them unless their demands were met. I see a great many similarities in 2001. Julius Caesar was hooked on power, just as are the D.C. snipes.
INTRODUCTION

"Most Americans remain pessimistic about the direction of the country, and deeply mistrustful of the federal government's ability to solve problems that most concern them, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. The survey found that 57% of those interviewed said the country was headed in the wrong direction. Three out of four say they don’t trust the government or its leaders to do what is right; a view shared even by those who have prospered the most over the past four years." - The Washington Post - August 29, 1997
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