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"Hobbist or Terrorist?" in Time Magazine

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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard Not real sure there is an single, definitive answer... What I am sure of is every time we change how we live, what we do, how we act, and react to the people around us and the events happenng, we conceed to the terrorist's wishes. After all, what they wanted was world reconigition of their cause and desires, which they got in spades. And sadly, my generation, for the most part, was raised completly un-aware of the cost of our freedom and our civil liberities, to most, we assume they are a given. Yet we daily sit by, and watch as the very same freedoms and liberities are carefully and quitely being removed, our faces glued to the TV, watching the evening news, hoping the "goverment" can somehow keep the sky from falling, all in the name of homeland security. Absurd, and terrifying too. We seem to have forgotten a simple fact, who is going to police the world police? And what will they do, after they have removed our power to curb their power and reach? I jokingly referred to them as ***, but the fact is, the *** kept power precisely because the general populace was afraid to protest their actions and policies, until the ability to protest was gone completly. Starting to sound familar? The powers that be today would have you belive we are fighting a sophisticated and well run axis of evil, but the fact is they pulled off 9/11 with balls, guts and a lot of luck. Box cutters and nailclippers, and the implied threat of a bomb is not the sophistication we are being sold, but thats what they used. And they generated just enough fear in the general public to allow a few fascist radicals to gain a large part in controling our goverment, and curtailing our rights and liberities, all under the absurd concept of homeland security. Homeland, Fatherland, dont sound too far apart, do they? I, for one, dont like living in this culture of fear, or the implied state of terror our goverment is selling. It isnt Osama and crew tapping your phone, you know, or reviewing your taxs, spying on you, detaining and searching you, the American citizen. Its you own goverment, breaking the very laws, violating the very civil rights my Dad and Uncle fought to guarantee for millions in WWII and Korea. I want to live in a open society they fought to preserve, where I can travel coast to coast, with a camera in my bag, without fear of the homeland homies jailing me without charges, holding me for as long as they please. I dont want a internal passport, or a national ID, if the FBI, CIA or the NSA needs my fingerprint, photograph and DNA, let them charge me with a crime first, like our laws say they should. I sure a hell aint going to give it to them beforehand. After all, arent we supposed to be the good guys? If living in the old culture I grew up in means we have to put up with attacks, well, they really were doing so all along, 9/11 just happend to be a bigger more successfull event than the others. But understand this too... Next time, we shouldnt wait one minute to visit wreck and ruin on the country where these jerks come from. No liberation force, no police action, or occupation force, peacekeeping, none of that crap. What we should do is start at the borders of their country, and anything that moves gets blown up, period. Work our way to the center of the country, then back out to the borders. Blow up anything entering or leaving. We've been walking real soft for quite a long time, it may just be time to break out the bigs sticks Teddy was talking about. Make sure the rest of the world, and the rest of the terrorist understand this one simple fact. Yup, you can jack with us, but we will jack right back, and we got more of the bigger, better guns and bombs, and a really huge armed services just waiting for a excuse to try out their new toys. Attack us again, and we will hammer you into the very sand you stand on. These clowns want to live in the third century, fine, lets bomb them right back into it. Ed [/quote] [#ditto][#ditto][#ditto] You read my mind
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