there is no terrorist threat!

vindication! a friend of mine mentioned an unrelated bit of trivia that led me to michael moore's website - while there, I was shocked to see my own words staring me in the face! for more than a year, I've repeatedly used the phrase, "there is no terrorist threat" to convey the point that we've been manipulated by our government officials and by the news media to believe that there is danger where in fact there is not - this has allowed us to be manipulated by fear and has had a devastating impact on the quality of life of most americans. the threat from terrorists to an average american is so minuscule compared to virtually all other dangers that it hardly bears attention or concern at all, and yet many of us have been convinced that this is a major issue and concern and justifies gigantic expenditures for defense and homeland security. the truth of course is that if terrorists wanted to attack us again, they could find any number of ways to do so no matter how diligent the efforts of homeland security are. the only conclusion that can be made is that there is in fact no (or at least only an extremely small) terrorist threat here in the u.s.

so anyway I was very gratified to read the heading "there is no terrorist threat" leading to this article from michael moore's website. clearly I'm not entirely alone and there are others who seem to see through the smokescreen.

by the way, I've been busy lately and haven't made any "fear monger" portraits, but recent winners that I'll try to get to soon are hillary clinton, who keeps talking about how we need somebody with experience in office as president because we are in such danger from the terrorists - grrr, democratic fear mongering! and that blond lady from the view - which I happened to watch recently, what's scary is that that program is where countless american women turn for their political information... i just don't have a solution for that one... I guess we need an alternate morning talk show with women who remember political events beyond the past few days media manipulations and propaganda - even barbara walters seems to go out of her way to confound and confuse the simplest of issues - grrr again.