Liberalpro: Has anyone noticed the neocon incursions into our homes? Has anyone noticed the glamorizati0n of the military, law enforcement agencies and any other governmental organizatation that carries a weapon. The perpatrator is eight times out of ten, a male, with a middle eastern accent, or a black man who was "left out of the system" and in one case out of ten, an average white guy, just to keep the scales of justice right, and to add some suspence to a show.
Look at the shows on the networks. We have "The Unit" which actually promotes the military breaking the law and ripping the constitution into tiny little pieces. We have a million CSI's and I myself have witnessed more autopsies than the average doctor. We have Hi-Tech this and that on the History Channel, we have NCIS, Cops, America's most Wanted, and more everyday. We have movies coming out of Iraq at an average of two a month. The networks are saturated with plots against the US, Government Agencies run amok, and the star of almost every one of these shows is the agent with the biggest weapon.
In reality, I don't care what people watch. When I was younger and more impressionable, we had shows like M*A*S*H and All in The Family and other shows that were anti killing and death. Now we have shows on television and the movies that make the case that if you kill somebody who disagrees with you, well then, it's OK. So when this generation grows up and weapons sales quadruple, don't blame it on the family that has both the mother and father working to pay for the basic nessesities of life, blame it on whomever is glorifying the right to shoot people that disagree with the government. Blame it on this whole American mindset towards violence. Remember, this is coming from a man who spent a career in the military, so get that notion of liberal pacifist, tree-hugger out of your mind.
The terrorists that blew up the World Trade Center did much more than kill almost three thousand people and wipe out some good real estate for a few years. They forgot the old maxim that violence begets violence. They also turned this nation into what is rapidly becoming "Nazi America". This is something that we as Americans can stop from happening. This is the biggest threat we face at this time. We are a nation that is founded on the principles that are written into the American Constitution. When we drift away from that, we become just another country, in a maze of countries that are fighting for supremacy, as if that notion really existed.