DIVERTOM
03-04-2007, 06:15 AM
SOME PEOPLE MAY NOT LIKE THE MAN, BUT HIS WORDS MAKE A LOT OF SENSE.
We better start talking about the shape of the table now because
this country doesn't have the stomach to face what is coming!
Gingrich Speech in New Hampshire. Apparently it is causing a
firestorm.
NEWT GINGRICH: The third thing I want to talk about very briefly is
the genuine danger of terrorism, in particular terrorists using
weapons of mass destruction and weapons of mass murder, nuclear and
biological weapons. And I want to suggest to you that right now we
should be impaneling people to look seriously at a level of
supervision that we would never dream of if it weren't for the
scale of threat.
Let me give you two examples. When the British this summer arrested
people who were planning to blow up ten airliners in one day, they
arrested a couple who were going to use their six month old baby in
order to hide the bomb as baby milk.
Now, if I come to you tonight and say that there are people on the
planet who hate you, and they are 15-25 year old males who are
willing to die as long as they get to kill you, I've simply
described the warrior culture which has been true historically for
6 or 7 thousand years.
But, if I come to you and say that there is a couple that hates you
so much that they will kill their six month old baby in order to
kill you, I am describing a level of ferocity, and a level of
savagery beyond anything we have tried to deal with.
And, what is truly frightening about the British experience is they
are arresting British citizens, born in Britain, speaking English,
who went to British schools, live in British housing, and have good
jobs.
This is a serious long term war, and it will inevitably lead us to
want to know what is said in every suspect place in the country,
that will lead us to learn how to close down every website that is
dangerous, and it will lead us to a very severe approach to people
who advocate the killing of Americans and advocate the use of
nuclear or biological weapons.
And, my prediction to you is that either before we lose a city, or
if we are truly stupid, after we lose a city, we will adopt rules
of engagement that use every technology we can find to break up
their capacity to use the Internet, to break up their capacity to
use free speech, and to go after people who want to kill us to stop
them from recruiting people before they get to reach out and
convince young people to destroy their lives while destroying us.
This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about
the first amendment, but I think that the national security threat
of losing an American city to a nuclear weapon, or losing several
million Americans to a biological attack is so real that we need to
pro actively, now, develop the appropriate rules of engagement.
And, I further think that we should propose a Geneva convention for
fighting terrorism which makes very clear that those who would
fight outside the rules of law, those who would use weapons of mass
destruction, and those who would target civilians are in fact
subject to a totally different set of rules that allow us to
protect civilization by defeating barbarism before it gains so much
strength that it is truly horrendous.
This is a sober topic, but I think it is a topic we need a national
dialogue about, and we need to get ahead of the curve rather than
wait until actually we literary lose a city which could literally
happen within the next decade if we are unfortunate. So
This is a very sober description of the Islamic terrorist threat we
are faced with. We are NOW at war with a culture that wants, not to
take over our land, but to KILL us.
We better start talking about the shape of the table now because
this country doesn't have the stomach to face what is coming!
Gingrich Speech in New Hampshire. Apparently it is causing a
firestorm.
NEWT GINGRICH: The third thing I want to talk about very briefly is
the genuine danger of terrorism, in particular terrorists using
weapons of mass destruction and weapons of mass murder, nuclear and
biological weapons. And I want to suggest to you that right now we
should be impaneling people to look seriously at a level of
supervision that we would never dream of if it weren't for the
scale of threat.
Let me give you two examples. When the British this summer arrested
people who were planning to blow up ten airliners in one day, they
arrested a couple who were going to use their six month old baby in
order to hide the bomb as baby milk.
Now, if I come to you tonight and say that there are people on the
planet who hate you, and they are 15-25 year old males who are
willing to die as long as they get to kill you, I've simply
described the warrior culture which has been true historically for
6 or 7 thousand years.
But, if I come to you and say that there is a couple that hates you
so much that they will kill their six month old baby in order to
kill you, I am describing a level of ferocity, and a level of
savagery beyond anything we have tried to deal with.
And, what is truly frightening about the British experience is they
are arresting British citizens, born in Britain, speaking English,
who went to British schools, live in British housing, and have good
jobs.
This is a serious long term war, and it will inevitably lead us to
want to know what is said in every suspect place in the country,
that will lead us to learn how to close down every website that is
dangerous, and it will lead us to a very severe approach to people
who advocate the killing of Americans and advocate the use of
nuclear or biological weapons.
And, my prediction to you is that either before we lose a city, or
if we are truly stupid, after we lose a city, we will adopt rules
of engagement that use every technology we can find to break up
their capacity to use the Internet, to break up their capacity to
use free speech, and to go after people who want to kill us to stop
them from recruiting people before they get to reach out and
convince young people to destroy their lives while destroying us.
This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about
the first amendment, but I think that the national security threat
of losing an American city to a nuclear weapon, or losing several
million Americans to a biological attack is so real that we need to
pro actively, now, develop the appropriate rules of engagement.
And, I further think that we should propose a Geneva convention for
fighting terrorism which makes very clear that those who would
fight outside the rules of law, those who would use weapons of mass
destruction, and those who would target civilians are in fact
subject to a totally different set of rules that allow us to
protect civilization by defeating barbarism before it gains so much
strength that it is truly horrendous.
This is a sober topic, but I think it is a topic we need a national
dialogue about, and we need to get ahead of the curve rather than
wait until actually we literary lose a city which could literally
happen within the next decade if we are unfortunate. So
This is a very sober description of the Islamic terrorist threat we
are faced with. We are NOW at war with a culture that wants, not to
take over our land, but to KILL us.