INCOMING: U.S. May Allow Nuke Strikes
You live in Florida. Imagine: your neighbor has a sudden epiphany and decides God talks to him and tells him how to conduct his life. He tells everyone he meets this information and includes that God has told him who is good and who is evil and that everyone who doesn't worship God (his God in fact) is evil. And he can tell if someone is evil by the things that they do and those things that don't look like what he does means that person doing those things is not worshipping the same God and is therefore evil.
He goes on to declare that God has told him to spread this type of God worship around the neighborhood because it will wipe out evil and bring good to everyone. And he also informs everyone that God has told him that he can use a gun to kill people who don't accept his insistence that they join his religion (or at least act like they do).
You live in America with this guy, so you buy a gun to defend yourself. Your neighbor then informs you he is going to shoot you because having bought a gun to defend yourself is proof that you fear him and that only people who have something to hide would fear him hence you are not following his religion (why else would you fear him?) and are therefore evil. So you put up a chain-link fence to keep him out of (and the attack dogs you now own in) your yard. And you put in a house alarm, and buy a few more guns.
Things keep escalating between you until one night one of your dogs barks at a rabbit, the sound flips on the yard alarm lights, the neighbor's guard shoots the dog, you fire at the guard, the neighbor declares you fired at him and in the name of self-defense orders all his guards to blanket your home in arms fire, killing you and terrifying the whole neighborhood, that then in horror falls in line...except for the really big family up the street that calls in all their relatives and their resources--hundreds of them, millions of dollars--to put an end to your neighbor's rogue behavior.
I mean, we can see where this leads and so can Bush. So why aren't we impeaching him now?
He goes on to declare that God has told him to spread this type of God worship around the neighborhood because it will wipe out evil and bring good to everyone. And he also informs everyone that God has told him that he can use a gun to kill people who don't accept his insistence that they join his religion (or at least act like they do).
You live in America with this guy, so you buy a gun to defend yourself. Your neighbor then informs you he is going to shoot you because having bought a gun to defend yourself is proof that you fear him and that only people who have something to hide would fear him hence you are not following his religion (why else would you fear him?) and are therefore evil. So you put up a chain-link fence to keep him out of (and the attack dogs you now own in) your yard. And you put in a house alarm, and buy a few more guns.
Things keep escalating between you until one night one of your dogs barks at a rabbit, the sound flips on the yard alarm lights, the neighbor's guard shoots the dog, you fire at the guard, the neighbor declares you fired at him and in the name of self-defense orders all his guards to blanket your home in arms fire, killing you and terrifying the whole neighborhood, that then in horror falls in line...except for the really big family up the street that calls in all their relatives and their resources--hundreds of them, millions of dollars--to put an end to your neighbor's rogue behavior.
I mean, we can see where this leads and so can Bush. So why aren't we impeaching him now?
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