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    Attacks on American soil..awakening the sleeping giant

    "Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, and in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor, as saying after his attack on Pearl Harbor, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
    According to Wikipedia, this was line is in question, however, it is part of our history, which we accpet as having been said, in reference to Yamamotos feelings that Japan had just made a grave error in attacking the United States of America.

    Americans, after Pearl Harbor, were awakened from a slumber of general peace and bliss, assuming we would always be safe and happy in our own nation.

    On 2001, we were again awakened, but it seems although most were awakened, many slipped back into the mesmerized slumber of our electronic and padded lives, you could call it "comotose".

    I even found myself, after a while, sighing some relief, thinking we would be alright again.

    I found myself then awaken by the insult of the invasion of our nation, by people who's desire for what we possessed (America and all of it's resources), so blinded them into an attitude of entitlement, which has sparked a movement of lies and deceptions of the truth behind history.

    Again, we have been attacked. Will we finally be that awaken sleeping giant again? Or will we go back to sleep and keep allowing those who would take from us, and attempt to destroy us (now from within) to simply go forward in their plans? Or will we at last, as in 1941, be ignited as one large fire, and say enough?

    We need to stop the political correctness that has allowed these kinds of events, and vote out the people in our government, who have allowed our nation to be overrun, invaded and hurt, who have been so corrupted by money and power, that they no longer care and can only see what they are told by their special interests to see.
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    Re: Attacks on American soil..awakening the sleeping giant

    Quote Originally Posted by AmericanElizabeth
    "Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, and in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor, as saying after his attack on Pearl Harbor, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
    According to Wikipedia, this was line is in question, however, it is part of our history, which we accpet as having been said, in reference to Yamamotos feelings that Japan had just made a grave error in attacking the United States of America.

    Americans, after Pearl Harbor, were awakened from a slumber of general peace and bliss, assuming we would always be safe and happy in our own nation.

    On 2001, we were again awakened, but it seems although most were awakened, many slipped back into the mesmerized slumber of our electronic and padded lives, you could call it "comotose".

    I even found myself, after a while, sighing some relief, thinking we would be alright again.

    I found myself then awaken by the insult of the invasion of our nation, by people who's desire for what we possessed (America and all of it's resources), so blinded them into an attitude of entitlement, which has sparked a movement of lies and deceptions of the truth behind history.

    Again, we have been attacked. Will we finally be that awaken sleeping giant again? Or will we go back to sleep and keep allowing those who would take from us, and attempt to destroy us (now from within) to simply go forward in their plans? Or will we at last, as in 1941, be ignited as one large fire, and say enough?

    We need to stop the political correctness that has allowed these kinds of events, and vote out the people in our government, who have allowed our nation to be overrun, invaded and hurt, who have been so corrupted by money and power, that they no longer care and can only see what they are told by their special interests to see.
    I looked out my window and saw my neighbors, this is what they all said:


    "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
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    The trouble is that so many Americans have been overwhelmed the last few years by just trying to hang onto their lifestyles and homes. They don't have time to notice the underlying problems to their woes and many have gotten to the point that they can't worry about much more than trying to survive and hold on to what was the American dream for citizens.
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    I guess where we have been, financially and where we live, there has been little of the "American dream". Although I would LOVE to have some property of my own, and be out of town, having not been there and simply surviving day to day, not worrying about something we do not have, has allowed me to see that I never will if this all continues.

    Americans will have to realize, the future as things are heading, is far worse than simply losing the American dream, it will become a nightmare.

    I'd rather live uncomfortably now, and fight, then live better later, knowing it was within real security (which is not what we have right now).

    Cayla, yep, of course my neighbors are mainly illegal aliens and they are utterly clueless and simply live for themselves and the promotion of another nation, not this one.
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    Even owning property these days is no guarantee that it cannot be taken away (See Kelo vs. New London Supreme Court decision: Waterfront property owners were basically thrown out of their older homes as the city decided the waterfront was more valuable as a commercial development. They pulled eminent domain and the court agreed. After that the private developer, whom the sold the land to, went belly-up, and last year I read that nothing has been developed at all.)
    I would love to have a half-acre somewhere safe, but where that could be is a serious question these days.
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    For us it would be east of the Cascade mountain range. Open spaces, very small population (majority of Oregons population is west of the Cascades which runs north to south, diving the state into the 1/3 wet western part, and the 2/3 high desert/mountainous part).

    Out there, is very little development, which is fine with me. Cattle ranches, wheat, hay, alfalfa and timber.

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