Are You Sufficiently Terrified?
I don’t know about you but I’m getting fed up with the so called “war on terror’. In fact I would go so far as to say it is a farce and yet another lie perpetrated to frighten the public into surrendering their rights and freedoms so that a corrupt and greedy regime can start wars, invade weaker countries and steal natural resources while creating misery along the way.
It is said that we should be scared of terrorists attacking us and causing havoc in our homes. So what’s new? Our great and powerful allay has been doing this to others for over fifty years. Like the old saying goes “turn about is fair play” and none of this should be a surprise to anyone in the white, Anglo-Saxon, English speaking world. As it says in the Bible “as ye sow so shall ye reap” and indeed we have done a lot of naughty things to your fellow human beings. We must also remember that ignorance of what our country has done in our name is no excuse for personal culpability. Therefore we must be willing to recognise our mistakes of the past and make reparations.
We have been lazy in practicing our democracy until it is almost too late to recover what has been lost. However, it is never too late to demand its return and now is the time to make that demand. That is the task of the men and women of goodwill today and they will not rest until democracy is back in the safe keeping of the people. This is not a demand for something new and unaffordable; it is a demand for the return of something precious that has been stolen from us through a campaign of fear.
Personally, I have no fear of Osama bin Laden or Al Oaeda. I have never seen any proof of this so-called terrorist organisation. But what I have seen is the way my government has used this as wedge to frighten an ignorant electorate into surrendering their rights and freedoms for what so far has turned out too be a pack of lies. Yet the lies keep going on perpetuated by a corrupt and controlled media that is in no way unaccountable to the public and a virtual law unto themselves.
Yesterday the federal Attorney-General, Phillip Ruddock, called on Parliament to pass even more draconian anti terrorist legislation which would give ASIO (Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation) even greater power to arrest and hold citizens merely on suspicion, without charge or right of legal representation. ASIO already has the power to do this for up to seven days and to interrogate persons for up to eight hours at a time. With this kind of legislation one must conclude the people who are really terrified are the people who make up the government. The question is: What have they to be afraid of? Why are they frightened of the people?
Before our present government came to power in 1996 we had no enemies. We had good relations with our neighbours and were a leading promoter of human rights in the world. Alas, today, because of the policies of this government we apparently have enemies coming out of the woodwork. Like many other Australians I don’t buy this tough guy behaviour our government has taken. Rather I much prefer the foreign policy of the Greens that is predicated on the idea of “Treating others as you would have them treat you”. To me this sounds a lot more sensible than a war on terror where the world becomes our enemy.
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