JC
06-10-2002, 07:23 PM
Written by @ at 09 Jun 2002 22:24:45:
>>Having lived through the Cold War, I cannot help but to see the irony in post 9/11 America. Americans have always had an air of arrogance when it came to "freedom." We have asserted, time and again, that no tyrant could quell our lust for independence and liberty. Many a gun owner has declared, since I can remember, that we need the Second Amendment to guarantee our liberty should the state turn against the people and usurp their rights. And now, as we stand before a government that exploits every opportunity, real or imagined, to strip the people of their rights, the gun toting yahoos remain silent. In fact, they nod approvingly of the state's onslaught against all that our culture holds sacred.
The American people have devolved into self centered cowards. Even their rhetoric has mutated from that of arrogant freedom-mongering to the mousy squeak of a people willing to prostrate themselves before a state that has proved it's absolute incompetence in defending its own people in the pathetic hope that life in a zoo will be better than life on the range. Americans have traded their liberty for the illusion of security. They have chosen the path of the organism, seeking nothing more than to eat and to defecate, over the life of an intelligent being with will and dignity.
Each passing day in this fascist "republic" reveals an ever finer focus upon the same bill of goods sold to others before us under new packaging. We have been told that this war, the justification for our slavery, will outlive us. It may outlive our children and their children as well. Is this not the old bill of goods - an imagined utopia - whose ambiguous vision is offered as a reason for self destruction in the hope of a better world - someday? Despite the evidence that failure to detect the assault of 9/11 was the product of individual failures, a new and ominous structure has been proposed. This new structure is architected for tyranny and fails to address a single cause of 9/11.
If our government sought to make the American people safer, it would address the cause of terrorism. Terrorism is the product of desperation. It is a form of war chosen by those whose conditions are intolerable to the point where self destruction is more rewarding than maintenance of the status quo. While our government asserts that deterring terrorism is a matter of security rather than constructing a just foreign policy, there can be no mistake that the intent of our regime is not to protect its people but, instead, to impose its will upon the world.
We have become less than those who, despite living in poverty, have stood up to their oppressors. I speak of the people of Nicaragua and El Salvador; South Africa and Palestine; and all other peoples who live with less and yet have demonstrated the courage to stand against their oppressors. We have become less than couch-potatoes. We have become whipped potatoes.<<
Been awhile since I subjected this forum to political rants....
>>Having lived through the Cold War, I cannot help but to see the irony in post 9/11 America. Americans have always had an air of arrogance when it came to "freedom." We have asserted, time and again, that no tyrant could quell our lust for independence and liberty. Many a gun owner has declared, since I can remember, that we need the Second Amendment to guarantee our liberty should the state turn against the people and usurp their rights. And now, as we stand before a government that exploits every opportunity, real or imagined, to strip the people of their rights, the gun toting yahoos remain silent. In fact, they nod approvingly of the state's onslaught against all that our culture holds sacred.
The American people have devolved into self centered cowards. Even their rhetoric has mutated from that of arrogant freedom-mongering to the mousy squeak of a people willing to prostrate themselves before a state that has proved it's absolute incompetence in defending its own people in the pathetic hope that life in a zoo will be better than life on the range. Americans have traded their liberty for the illusion of security. They have chosen the path of the organism, seeking nothing more than to eat and to defecate, over the life of an intelligent being with will and dignity.
Each passing day in this fascist "republic" reveals an ever finer focus upon the same bill of goods sold to others before us under new packaging. We have been told that this war, the justification for our slavery, will outlive us. It may outlive our children and their children as well. Is this not the old bill of goods - an imagined utopia - whose ambiguous vision is offered as a reason for self destruction in the hope of a better world - someday? Despite the evidence that failure to detect the assault of 9/11 was the product of individual failures, a new and ominous structure has been proposed. This new structure is architected for tyranny and fails to address a single cause of 9/11.
If our government sought to make the American people safer, it would address the cause of terrorism. Terrorism is the product of desperation. It is a form of war chosen by those whose conditions are intolerable to the point where self destruction is more rewarding than maintenance of the status quo. While our government asserts that deterring terrorism is a matter of security rather than constructing a just foreign policy, there can be no mistake that the intent of our regime is not to protect its people but, instead, to impose its will upon the world.
We have become less than those who, despite living in poverty, have stood up to their oppressors. I speak of the people of Nicaragua and El Salvador; South Africa and Palestine; and all other peoples who live with less and yet have demonstrated the courage to stand against their oppressors. We have become less than couch-potatoes. We have become whipped potatoes.<<
Been awhile since I subjected this forum to political rants....