Even though I once
negotiated in nearly 50 countries over 30 years -- including in SYRIA for a
Texas mom whose 12 year old daughter was taken without her consent to a city
near Damascus -- the most dangerous place I have encountered was right here in
the USA.
Despite flying into coups
and traveling around war zones (documented in my book “Better Times Ahead April
Fool”), the only crime that ever happened to me was when I was personally
kidnapped in East Texas, by a white man. Ironically, I even knew the person,
which makes it even more strange.
As an American who has
negotiated in nearly 50 countries, people often have asked me “what is the most
dangerous country you have been in?” I
have to say …the USA. Why is that?
Why is that we fear a
foreign terrorist when our own domestic terror is so much GREATER?
Even murder of little kids
at schools like Sandy Hook hasn’t bothered America as much as two losers in California
killing co-workers. The term “postal” is old hat in America. (And if its true that a co-worker did that “My
religion is better than yours” crap, then I can see why they became the targets
instead of a mall. The whole problem is the “My religion is better than yours”
crap going on by all sides).
In 2015, 14 people were
horribly gunned down by two Muslims and people lost their minds. That demeans
the deaths of the other 30,000 people who were gunned down in the U.S. by our
own killers with easy access to the most lethal of firepower with the minimum
of thought.
We should not ignore those
30,000 deaths as less important. ISIS
cannot bring us down any more than Al Capone or the drug lords could bring down
our nation. We can fear ourselves to
death and hide under our desks, but ISIS is not an existential threat.
Planetary suicide from
runaway carbon emissions is. A dead planet doesn’t have an economy. So on the
priority scale Climate change should rank No. 1 and terrorism No. 3 after our
economy (No. 2).
We need to elect a
president in 2016 that doesn’t make the situation worse. We need a Congress to
match. Under those standards, Mr. Trump is disqualified to be president but
would make a great Nazi
bully-sexist-racist-disgusting-rich-bastard-that-is-screwing-people-like-his-supporters!
Stay tuned…
Michael Fjetland
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