David Thomas: “along with everyone else, I support this resolution. However, mentally, I want everyone to know that I will assume it is…”

“along with everyone else, I support this resolution. However, mentally, I want everyone to know that I will assume it is a declaration of war. I believe that from a mental set a declaration of war is what we need. First, it will allow us to use any and all means necessary to strike at any group or government when facts support it and do it in a wartime mentality. Secondly, believing this resolution is a declaration of war I think creates a mental framework which we need as a society. We need to reach out in meaningful ways, in sustaining ways, to aid those who have suffered personal tragedy. We need to strengthen our economy to sustain our people, and understand that property damage can be repaired, that economic strength will be the key not only to carrying out the fight against those who have perpetrated these deeds, but also to make sure that we have available all of our resources. This will not be a short fight. It will be a long and difficult one. We need all of the resources available to us, moral, religious, and economic; and I will be looking at short-term, medium-term, and long-term responses to this. So that from a military point of view, from an economic point of view, and from a sustaining societal and nurturing point of view, we will not just use words against our enemies, we will have real arrows in our quiver.”