This is a transcript of a section of a Gingrich Speech in New Hampshire. It is several months old but just coming to my attention and definitley worth a read.
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 proactively, 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.
(APPLAUSE)
I love 'em. Her legs are just as squishy. Those plump appendages are guaranteed stress relievers. The trouble is, I can't bring her anywhere without total strangers greedily helping themsleves to her ample flesh. Wether she is attached to me in a sling or strolling in front of me, they grab and poke and pull at her arms and legs. It always startles me. I would never have the gumption to approach someone I didn't know and start fondling their child! She rarely minds and while I don't see the harm in it now, I wonder, when does it stop? At what point do I halt the unsolicited squeeze fest? And how do I do it with diplomacy? Anyone?
We love tacos around here. My husband could eat them every night of the week. He likes them simple - meat and cheese and hot sauce only. I prefer the works: onions, cilantro, lettuce, tomato, salsa, and lots of avocado. 
