BAD Reads
What They Call "Security" Will Make Us All LESS Secure
These students get it:
Unfortunately, a lot of other Americans don't seem to get the meaning of this quote.
I hear a lot of people willing to swallow the tripe the White House is now peddling about their wiretapping being necessary to combat terrorism.
What the hell is going on in this country?
This is the United States, folks. The same people who wave the flag on all occasions and regard themselves as the direct heirs of the founding fathers, somehow seem to forget everything that flag stands for whenever the word "terrorism" is inserted into a speech from the DC spin doctors and mouthed by Georgie B!
This country fought in WWII against nations where the citizens traded in their civil rights in exchange for what they thought would be "security."
Our soldiers fought and died in two more wars, supposedly in the name of our "democratic freedoms".
Did all those soldiers die so that now people could cower in their McMansions in the hinterlands, watch Fox News, and nod their heads while things that could effect EVERYONE'S civil liberties are done in the name of "the war on terrorism"?
Sorry for those of you who have heard this part before, but I live within just about walking distance to the Pentagon. And I'm a born and raised New Yorker, with most of my family still living there. As a result, terrorism is something that DOES worry me. Because basically, I live where it's likely to happen.
And it strikes me that the people nodding their heads at the "wiretapping to prevent terrorism" bit are people who live in places far, far, away from the places likely to be in Al Quaeda's strike zone.And they also figure that the trifling with our civil liberties that is being attempted could NEVER effect them or their loved ones.
I hate to burst your smug little bubble. But trampling on the rights of ANY American citizen in the name of "the war on terror, opens the door for more of the same. The power will be used and abused, if it's permitted to do so.
Martin Niemoller, Lutheran pastor and survivor of the Nazi concentration camps had this warning for us:
“First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by then there was no one left to speak up for me.”
It may not be you and yours today, this year. But it could be.
Are you willing to pay for "security" today with the knowledge of the price you and your children and grandchildren might pay for it in the future?
That's not security. It's fear.
And if we give into it, the terrorists have already won..............................................
