Favorite place in the US?

Tough question.

San Francisco is my favorite city, but Oregon is my favorite state.

San Fran is so diverse and full of life, all the people there are really friendly and liberal, and they have awesome restaurants.

I've been all over Oregon though. The beaches tend to be pretty chilly and windy but on clear days they're really nice--in the summer the highs tend to be in the 60's and the lows are 40's-50's. Some areas are REALLY good for fishing. There's also lots of crabs running around.

Oregon has a lot of mountains, since the Cascades pass right through it. Lots and lots of mountains, and the hills there make the hills in Austin look really, really flat. Great biking area.

One of my aunts actually has a summer home on one of the mountains there (black butte) and you can see all the mountains surrounding you very clearly, it's a very cool place. This summer when I went, there was a huge fire before so lots and lots of trees were dead.

Oregon also has a TON of forests, with VERY tall trees. I went hiking in Silver Falls once, I literally felt like I was walking through a fairy tale or fantasy movie like Princess Mononoke or something. It was surreal, and gorgeous.

The must-see site in Oregon is by FAR Crater Lake. This summer I went there, and it was the most beautiful thing I've seen in my entire life. If you think photographs of it look cool, just see the real deal in PERSON. Absolutely. Magical. Photographs will nevereverever do the lake justice. At the very top of this post is a picture I took of Crater Lake.

Crater lake is actually an old volcano that collapsed and water collected inside the "crater", forming a lake. Along side crater lake, life thrives--again, it felt like walking through the movie Princess Mononoke--green forests, springs, and a TON of these orange butterflies zooming by all in one direction--and I mean a TON. There must have been hundreds of thousands of them. 

There's also these funky rock formations called the Pinnacles--some are several stories tall, and are just columns of rock, a bit like stalagmites.

Yeah, I'm about done with my rant here.

Terrorism

Terrorism is a very confusing and complex topic.

What is a terrorist anyway?

"insurgent or freedom fighter: a rebel"

"one who utilizes the systematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve political objectives, while disguised as a civilian non-combatant"

and so on.

Terrorists also tend to be the made up scapegoat for the United States to go to war with Iraq--the real reasons behind our activity over there have to do with two things: oil, and most of all, Israel. I'll go into detail about that later.

warning: before you continue, make sure you're open-minded enough to not hear "conspiracy" and think "crazy ufo-seeing idiots", and actually try to understand a different view point. thanks.

So let's take 9/11 for example.

http://nogw.com is an AWESOME website for information, especially for those interested in picking apart details. This webpage covers almost everything.

http://911proof.com is a great website to check out, just throwing that out there.

I also recommend watching Terror Storm and Zeitgeist (they can get a bit extreme, especially Zeitgeist but they really make you question everything and doubt everything, it gives you a nice  reality check) 

Conspiracy has happened before.

One of the most famous (or infamous, rather) examples of this is when Adolf Hitler dressed up one of his prisoners as a Polish soldier, and had him shot and killed on German soil. This made it look like the Polish were up to something, and they had an excuse to invade Poland.

In another Hitler-related case, the Nazis set fire to their OWN governmental building, and blamed it on others.

This is called a false-flag operation, and is a common technique for conspirers. 

It's crazy, right? But it's 100% real. In the case of the US though, they needed something more... something like Pearl Harbor. Something that is BIG.

"Terrorism is the best political weapon, for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death." -Adolf Hitler

"The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened." --Josef Stalin

Now here's another point I'd like to drive hard into everyone's skulls:

when it comes to politics, EVERYONE is the "bad guy"

Comparing the US to a communist or national socialist country may be a bit "extreme," but what we're looking at is the corruption of the government, and there is a LOT of that in the modern-day United States of America.

AMERICA HAS TAKEN PART IN FALSE FLAG OPERATIONS IN THE PAST.

take a look here:

http://deeperpolitics.gnn.tv/blogs/7329/Examples_of_documented_False_Flag_Terrorism

it explains everything. many of these incidents have been actually been ADMITTED to.

Post 9/11, George Bush signed UNCONSTITUTIONAL acts such as the Patriot Act.

Basically, we're being manipulated by fear, which works extremely well as stated earlier.

What is the Patriot Act and how does it infringe on our rights?

Many Americans just let this go, saying "well it's for our safety", so tell me,

which would you rather sacrifice for the other, liberty or safety?

Personally, I'd rather be free than safe. I don't feel safe if I'm not free, frankly.

How it infringes  your constitutional rights:

1. Freedom of Speech

2. Search and Seizure

             This is the big one. Today, if you are suspected, even if for NO REASON AT ALL, to be a "terrorist", you can be searched, which is a violation of privacy. The Patriot Act allows this in airports and even taps in on your phone calls!

3. Self-Incrimination

Instead of having a judge in a court, with the Patriot Act the FBI, CIA, etc, can pretty much step in and do whatever they want. So if the Attorney General deems you a threat to national security, you can be put in prison for life without a trial, no questions asked. Which leads us the the next right violated.

4. Right to a speedy and public trial

The above explains it all already pretty much. Now you may never get a trial ever, at all.

5. Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Hey, it's not like the Patriot Act changes much anyway. There are already prisoners in the custody of the US already being tortured.

6. Punishment Without Conviction

Explained above.

Now the FBI and CIA have access to all your files without any evidence that you may be subject to investigation. Soon we will have a law called "domestic terrorism", so any political protesters can be arrested, which is already starting to go on, as the government is starting to create special areas for protestors and they can't protest anywhere else--this way, no one will have to pay attention to anything they say so it's like they're not even there!

Bye bye constitution, let's all go to jail.

So just why is 9/11 an illogical event?

God, if only I could possibly list all the reasons.

1. PEOPLE THAT WERE ACTUALLY INSIDE THE BUILDING AT THE TIME said that they felt an explosion in the basement. There were a few witnesses that were actually IN the basement, and they said that a few seconds before the airplane crash, they felt an explosion and were thrown way across the room. 

2. The National Institute for Standards and Technology ADMITS that the collapse of the twin towers via plane crash is IMPOSSIBLE ( http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2007/161007_nist_admits.htm

http://guardian.150m.com/wtc/how-hot.htm)

The temperature at which steel melts is between 1400 and 1540 degrees celcius, depending on the type of steel. A Boeing 767 is capable of carrying 23,980 gallons of jet fuel, which can burn around only 257 degrees celcius in the situation of the twin towers. There is NO WAY for this puny airplane to burn through STEEL like that, much less make the ENTIRE BUILDING, over 110 stories tall, pancake PERFECTLY, leaving not a SINGLE chunk of steel or ANYTHING left.

3. If you didn't understand 2, I'll sum it up in a very simple way via analogy:

if a lumberjack swings an axe at a tree, what happens? Does the tree implode into billions and trillions of dust particles? No, thats ridiculous. Now let's apply this, along with the scenario explained in 2, to the Twin Towers. There is NO WAY that this could have POSSIBLY occurred.

4. Then there is the argument of the possibility of fire. When I watched the twin towers collapse so long ago, I knew something was missing. There was NEVER a single time in HISTORY where a building collapsed due to fire. Ever. Burning down doesn't mean collapsing, by the way. Fire also definitely does NOT make a building magically implode, either. And again, a fire occurring on ONE story of a 110 story building, COULD NOT MAKE A BUILDING LIKE THAT PANCAKE. No. That thing just BAM! imploded in a few seconds, so perfectly. How a plane crash could cause THAT is way beyond me.

Okay I could rant on literally into all of eternity about 9/11, so I'll just leave it at the basics.

I'm not saying terrorists don't exist. Sure, they do. I just don't think 17 or 19 or something terrorists armed with box cutters and FAKE explosives could hi-jack 4 international airlines and accomplish a plan like that. Just no way.

So how is 9/11 and the war in Iraq linked with Israel?

Israel is like the friend that is just using you and controlling you. And America's the puppet.

Please, please, please look at this website, it is incredibly informative and will really change your views, giving you the side that your television and your peers and parents and newspapers and books and teachers NEVER gave you:

http://www.nogw.com/warforisrael.html

Some good points that site brought up:

-Israel is THE ONLY nuclear-enabled country in all of the middle east

-Israel benefits ENORMOUSLY by the US's reshaping of the middle east by controlling the oil reserves, creating cheap oil for Israel in order for their economy to not just survive, but flourish

-After WWII, many Jewish people wanted to return to the "holy land", Israel. Since the United States was with the allied forces, they had to help them, right? So they conquered and STOLE land, and America let them get away with it--America HELPED them get away with it. Because of the huge tensity between Arab countries and Israel--differences in religion, language, politics, ESPECIALLY with the whole Israel-expansion idea going on, the Arabic countries had a right to be upset with them. Some Israel extremists even believe that Israel extends from the Nile River from the Euphrates in the east, through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.

-Israel's army is the 4th largest in the world

-Israel has the ability to take out every major city in Europe

-Iran and other Arabic countries are creating nuclear power plants so they can feel SECURE with this obviously HUGE threat RIGHT NEXT TO THEM I MEAN COME ON

-Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel from 2001-2006, said himself, 

"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that... I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."

This is no joke either. They control us through the Federal Reserve and central banks ("Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.") and also have control over England, Germany, and Australia.

Overview:

I don't believe that any terrorists from the Middle East have ever landed an attack on America.

I believe in questioning ALL beliefs. Questiong what I am telling you right now, even.

Anyone could be lying to you, even your country.

Have a nice day.