I Am Not Afraid

19 Comments

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   NYBri on February 10, 2006 at 12:02 am

   … and we cannot give in to their childish fear. This is America, the land of the free, and the home of the brave.

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   sybil on February 10, 2006 at 12:24 am

   of the possible invasion of Iran

   for people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa

   of radical fundamentalist religions,

   of the destruction of our air and water

   for my grandchildren

   But for you I say:
   “Courage, mon brave!”

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     NYBri on February 10, 2006 at 12:54 am

     Those are challenges to be met and mitigated, and fear will not help us one bit in the process.  

     And certainly Republican generated false fear will win us nothing and only lose us more and more elections.

     We are Democrats.  We are strong.  We can win.  Fear not.

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       sybil on February 10, 2006 at 3:43 am

       Ignore my post, I’m Canadian.

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       rba on February 10, 2006 at 12:00 pm

       We are Democrats.

       We are Americans.

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   James Benjamin on February 10, 2006 at 12:28 am

   

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   Kidspeak on February 10, 2006 at 2:35 am

   And re: your posting of the news release about the Texas study. Yes, repeated, inescapable fear can cause permanent or at least very long lasting changes in the brain. However, the mouse model need not be true of all people. Ordinarily, you have a “fight or flight” response to agression, not a depressive response. In this situation, we have to fight. And the best defense against being overwhelmed by stronger, more powerful enemies is good social support – or fellow fighters, if you will.

   So, I’m not afraid of being afraid. There is courage in tackling what we have to do with other like-minded people.  And we have that.

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   roseeriter on February 10, 2006 at 4:11 am

   Me neither! The worse thing about fear is it causes one to forget things we once knew, like our own personal power and common sense.

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   BrendaStewart on February 10, 2006 at 8:30 am

   I am not afraid, either, of those mentioned above.  However, I am afraid of this loooooonitic that has his finger on the nuclear button, so to speak.  He and his cronies are dangerous.  Their mouths are dangerous to be honest.  They love to stir hate and crap such asd this.  I can not handle things like this without getting angry..and fearful for the whole world.  Hugs today and have a great unafraid day…

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   Alice on February 10, 2006 at 8:51 am

   Thanks Bri – and the Democrats search desperately for a new meme to unite the people behind them.  What a relief a sense of courage would be to those who are cowering in their safe rooms praying and demanding protection.

   Courage!

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   Mnemosyne on February 10, 2006 at 10:56 am

   I ain’t afraid of your Yahweh
   I ain’t afraid of your Allah
   I ain’t afraid of your Jesus
   I’m afraid of what you do in the name of your God

   lyrics by Holly Near. The link dates this at 2000, but I’m sure it antedates that by a number of years.

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     NYBri on February 10, 2006 at 12:09 pm

     I know Holly Near and love her music….

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       Salunga on February 10, 2006 at 12:46 pm

       I need to download that song. I like the lyrics a lot.

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   Damnit Janet on February 10, 2006 at 12:10 pm

   of t-shirts

10. 

    alohaleezy on February 10, 2006 at 12:26 pm

    I too am unafraid of any of the above. What I fear most is apathy of the people.

11. 

    Mara on February 10, 2006 at 3:34 pm

    I’ve been hammering this into every Republican I know.  Chickenshits.  When did the gun totin’, god fearin’ war mongers become such a bunch of scaredy cat bed-wetters?  It’s demeaning to all of us for the world to see so many citizens hiding under the bed, hoping big Daddy would scare the mean old terrorists away.

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    Arcturus on February 10, 2006 at 4:07 pm

    . . .
    I was giddy and sick, and out
    Of my misery I felt rising
    A terrible anger and out
    Of the anger, an absolute vow.
    Today the evil is clean
    And prosperous, but it is
    Everywhere, you don’t have to
    Take a streetcar to find it,
    And it is the same evil.
    And the misery, and the
    Anger, and the vow are the same.

    –Kenneth Rexroth, end lines of “The Bad Old Days,” fr. In Defense of the Earth (1956),  in The Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth (New Directions, 1966), pp. 258-9

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    Street Kid on February 11, 2006 at 2:05 am

    “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”  Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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    supersoling on February 11, 2006 at 1:30 pm

    I’m not afraid to do whatever may be necesarry to regain control of the govt. for Americans of all political stripes. Be it signing petitions and having my IP address visible to more… let’s say…revolutionary tactics.