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November 11, 2004

Terrorism is Wrong

Here's news: Paris Hilton is bad for kids! this comes from none other than Sharon Osbourne, mother of kids more wholesome than the Olsen twins. Well, any (cum)shot against against that Hilton girl is a shot for sanity. Get her outta there.

How much more are we going to take in the name of "security"? I think that this is an outrage. It's a strip search for everyone, without all the hassle. What will we put up with? Do they do random cavity searches? Will people allow random home searches, or passing of personal information just because you blogged about how much you hate some government people? What will it take?

Actually, I mentioned something like this to someone. You know the end of the movie Fight Club? I'd like something like that to happen, but on a much bigger scale. The thing is that no one is willing to put an end to the things that really hurt them, or even annoy them. And here is where I begin to sound like a terrorist.

There seem to be only two things that could ever really make us get behind something these days. If the world were invaded by aliens intent on killing most of us and enslaving most of the rest, then yes, we would be united (more or less) in fighting that menace. Surely there would be some that would profit from this, but just as likely there would not be enough influence from these powerful people to keep us in our places. If it came down to this, those who would benefit from our enslavement would be removed from power by any means necessary. We simply wouldn't take it.

But if the big threat is more terrestrial, then we simply sit back and say that things are good enough, or that it isn't really happening. We whine and complain for another day, but do nothing. Maybe I am guilty of doing just that right now. In Canada and the US, and likely everywhere else in the "have" countries, we bitch and whine about things such as money-wasting scandals, gay marriage or some blowjob in the Oval Office. Others, meanwhile, in the "have not" countries sit quietly trying to scrape by enough to eat while not even having a pot to piss in. More specifically, as long as we have our running water, cable, hockey, football and Oprah, it's all pretty much all right. Everything else is gravy, so let the overlords do whatever they want. If some freak minority group is having problems, that's terrible. But we sure as hell are not going to do nothing about it. We might make them feel as though they are getting somewhere, though. We might make them feel special, but when they need us, fuck 'em.

So if a person or group sees no other way to get from under what they see as oppression, does it come as that much of a surprise when some of them start advocating extreme measures? That they seek to destroy that which seeks to destroy them? Some pro-lifers feel that they need to kill abortionists. It's wrong on all levels, but some believe that it is necessary. They may be more sane than you think. Blacks were (?) systematically classed as and treated as second-class citizens. If that were still the case today, or if I were born a long time ago, I can't say that I would not be part of a terrorist group that did extreme things if we could get sufficiently organized.

Hmm. I went from X-ray scans to me as a would-be terrorist. Just to be clear, Terrorism is Wrong, and I don't know any terrorists.

Posted by JonasParker at November 11, 2004 1:36 PM

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First, about the x-ray machine: whatever. Does anyone really care that some airport employee is going to see a black and white grainy photo of you naked? It's insecurity (hah) at its most absurd.

As for the third world (I prefer the term "under developed"), those countries that you say are just quietly scraping by... what voice do they have? They certainly don't have massive newspaper conglomerates. They aren't in the public eye. But that doesn't mean they are quiet. It means we aren't listening.

Honestly, it is pretty good here. Our officials fuck up, and are crooked but we can still hold them accountable. That doesn't happen in say... Sudan or Yemen.

Posted by: Elizabeth at November 11, 2004 2:01 PM

But we don't hold them accountable. Not nearly as much as we should. And when we do? Either little happens, or something happens because someone got a blowjob somewhere.

Posted by: JonasParker at November 11, 2004 2:05 PM

Oh? And what would you suggest we do? Humiliate them at every turn? We do. Protest peacefully? We do. Protest violently? How would that make us different from them?

There is a wide, turbulent gulf between should and possibility.

Posted by: Elizabeth at November 11, 2004 2:11 PM

I would suggest throwing some of them in jail for reasonable lengths of time and giving them real fines for starters. (Stealing $10 million with worth more than peddling pot with $50 000, with a black economic effect of $500 000, for example.) That's exactly what they would do to most of us. And violent protests? Well, it may have to come to that. It wouldn't surprise me if at some point people feel as though they have no other option. And even jail or death will not stop them, as we have seen. When this behaviour reaches more of the middle class (as in being the perpetrators). then perhaps certain things may be addressed, whatever those may be. It would not be the first that many have died for justice. The problem is that the concept of justice is no longer clear. There could be many reasons for this, which are too in depth to go into here, I imagine.

Posted by: JonasParker at November 11, 2004 2:21 PM