Dear reader - thanks for your comments! I appreciate your point of view and your willingness to engage in dialogue, and in the continuing spirit of a lively and open exchange of ideas....
no offense m'friend, but if your attitude is "just sit back and abide" then you're no more free than the Iraqis were under Saddam. To not question the actions of OUR elected government, especially when they increasingly surround their actions and policies in a cloak of secrecy and "national security," is to allow the ruination of our free and open way of life. Hopefully one day you and other good hearted citizens out there will wake up and realize that such a hands-off philosophy is little more than building a jail for yourself to live in, and in the end being a self-centered slave to authority and fear. Authority is, by it's very nature, anti-freedom.
I'm not suggesting chaos - I believe in the rule of law - but only when strongly checked by underlying and unmovable freedoms and protections for ALL individuals and groups and freedom of expression and ideas. Our ancestors (and also our current soldiers) fought and died for these freedoms. If we choose safety at the expense of freedom (and there can never be absolute safety if we are to enjoy any modicum of freedom), we are belittling the unlimate sacrifice our fellow citizens have and continue to make for us.
Do you really think that, no matter how much money we spend, we will ever be able to prevent all acts of terrorism? The idea that these terrorists simplisticly "hate America" or "hate freedom" is absolutely absurd. They hate our government and the foreign policy actions of our government. So perhaps we should be examining how as a nation we might treat our fellow humans and nations better rather than viewing everyone as a potential terrorist.
In my view it comes down to the issue of trust. We can live our lives in fear and stress and distrust (and inevitably mass-scale violence and suppression of diversity), or we can open our eyes and live life in peace, always striving for openness, truth, harmony, inclusiveness and a shared humanity, and with a basic trust in the goodness of the majority of our fellow homo sapiens. And in the end, it's up to each individual to make their own choice in this. Regardless of anyone else, I choose freedom, truth, trust, peace and harmony...
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I know --I agree with you 100% --but what are ya gonna do? --just wait till shit starts happening here like it did in London ---say you (or anyone) were to give the border guards or ANY police a hard time --you could end up cuffed and stuffed --and then spend long hot hours waiting in a court house (only to be invited back in 3 weeks)! --trouble sucks --court sucks ---how's that song go? --"I FOUGHT THE LAW AND THE... law broke my jaw" ---that's what I mean --you can't win --sit back and obide ---this whole world is fucked --the only way you'll be truly free --is if you joined some deep jungle african negro tribe who are oblivious to modern man --
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