[MD] A President's blog

[Khaled Alkotob]

Hello Dan

Well, peace does not sell. The war machine has to go on.

The dollar is sliding against the world currency, inflation is catching
up, education is left behind, no universal health care and the list go
on.

I live in  town of about 500,000 people. according to the numbers
released by the local PD, we have close to 4,000 gang members of ONE
particular gang, with a support group behind them of 6,000 people.

Well if my math is right that's 2% of the population for one gang, add in
the other gangs and the numbers can be from 3% to 5% of the total
population.

If this average holds nationally, that's 6,000,000 ( six million) gang
members in the US.

According to the story on ABC last year, 50,000 young women get kidnapped
and broken in to serve the prostitution industry in this country, each
year. That's a million over a 20 years period. Talk about terror.

Of course such issues do not get you elected, so no one talks about them.

It's a lot easier to rule by fear than by asking the citizens to think
for themselves.

Khaled









[Dan]
> Hi Khaled
> 
> Thank you for writing. I know only what I've read about the Middle 
> East and 
> now it seems as if there is very little real news on account of the 
> military 
> action. We only hear what "they" want us to hear so I think the blog 
> is a 
> good thing... unfiltered, if you will.
> 
> When you mentioned religious nut jobs you are talking about Iran and 
> we seem 
> to have a quite a religious nut in charge here in the US too. But no 
> matter 
> where we live, we all want the same things, don't we... to live in 
> peace, to 
> prosper, to love and be loved.
> 
> Can you imagine Mr. Bush reading Dr. Ahmadinejad's blog? I cannot. 
> It's 
> unfortunate as it seems they would get on well together. And I would 
> really 
> like to see Mr. Bush's response!
> 
> Thanks for your comments,
>