The presentation in class tonight really freaked me out. I don't like this whole homegrown terrorism thing. It is scary to think that any group that speaks their mind or protests anything in this country will be monitered as if they were "terrorists". I don't even know who we are suppossed to think are terrorists anymore. Are they "the enemies" (like Bush likes to repeat so often) of whom I'm not sure, or is it our current government status that is enforcing new regulations that slowly dwindle our civil liberties by slapping a name on it that makes us feel superficially protected?
Also, if here in our country we can torture random people with no proof of their wrongdoing except higher-uppers believing that they are terrorists, and keep these people in jail for life without trial, why are we being told to be scared of terrorists from other countries? The definition of terrorism according to dictionary.com is
1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
3. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government
Hmmm.. isn't our government using scare tactics to intimidate us and others? Aren't they breaking laws and torturing people themselves? Why is the U.S only concerned with other government's torturing and killing? Isn't all torturing and killing wrong. Isn't that one of the reasons why we were getting Hussein out of the picture because of his lawlessness and violence? And why can laws be broken by politicians and people with money, but not by poor people. Why are americans torturing people in Guantanamo Bay without trial, what is the point of all this? It seems like the more our country tries to "protect" us, the more they take away our freedoms and also turn future generations of people from other countries who weren't our enemies in the first place, into our enemies in the future.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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