I don’t know how many of you saw it, but Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) basically destroyed his career a couple of days ago. He made some remarks about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that were dripping with sarcasm and it pissed off a whole bunch of Jewish people and supporters of Israel. The funny thing is that he didn’t say ONE WORD about Jews nor did he imply anything negative about them. See, these days, it is considered anti-Semitic to say anything negative about the policies of Israel. In fact, the word “Semite” is now a Jewish-only term. Never mind that it represented all of the descendents of the Biblical figure Shem, which includes Arabs, Aramaeans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Chaldeans, Sabaeans and PALESTINIANS. Look it up. Do the research. Don’t accept the word of someone with an ulterior motive.
Then there is this whole Blackwater U.S.A. thing. Basically, Blackwater is a contractor with the United States government who was contracted to operate inside Iraq as a “private military”. In other words, they are effectively mercenaries. It has been shown on video that these people kill Iraqi civilians at random and without provocation. The Iraqi government has now revoked Blackwater’s license to operate within Iraq, or has at least limited it. Hopefully, Blackwater will wind up being disbanded permanently and its owners will be imprisoned as the inhuman piles of excrement that they are. I know that war is nasty and horrible, but to allow innocent people to be murdered with impunity is simply unpardonable.
To make matters in Iraq worse, the Pentagon has now started up a new sport for our troops. It’s sort of like fishing, only without the fish. I guess Iraqis aren’t human, so it’s perfectly o.k. to treat them as anything but. I’m starting to think that the Bush administration has absolutely no intention of bringing Democracy to the Iraqi people. That is unless, of course, their definition of Democracy is DEATH.
I will never cease to find it silly the links to which the Bush administration will go in order to keep us “safe”. I cannot even believe that this question is being asked of anyone. A poll was taken on ABC’s “The Chaser” where people were asked if Muslims in the United States should be required to carry a special form of identification. What’s next, yellow Stars of David for Jews and pink triangles for homosexuals? I thought we had moved past that sort of thing. Wouldn’t this be a form of terrorism? I don’t think that this is necessary. Personally, I’m not that scared of terrorists nor am I that afraid of dying as a result of a terrorist incident. Also, there are over 1.3 BILLION adherents to Islam in the world today and very few acts of terrorism committed by them in relation to their numbers. I’m not positive, but I think that the Ku Klux Klan has perpetrated more terrorist acts by comparison than Muslims have. For that matter, how many abortion clinics have been bombed or burned down and how many doctors who perform abortions have been murdered? I suppose what I am driving at is that we cannot start lumping people into groups because we might be afraid of them. I don’t like people with bad body odor, but I don’t want them rounded up and forced to wear deodorant. Everyone is entitled to smell bad if they want to. Timothy McVeigh brought down the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, so are we going to start rounding up every white, ex-military guy with short hair who has read “The Turner Diaries”? If so, I guess I should start getting my affairs in order because I am all three of those things.
What people need to realize is that this country was not founded by White Christians for White Christians. It was founded by Deists and for everyone who sought freedom from oppression and opportunity for a better life. People also need to understand that freedom does not come with a guarantee like some lawn mower you bought from Wal-Mart. We don’t get to run around screaming about how much we love freedom while denying that freedom to people who may make us feel uncomfortable yet have committed no crime.
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