I'm Not Terrified, Did I Miss Something?
Author: Stephen
DeVoy
Eleven activists have been arrested on terrorism charges. Given the
FBI's history of framing dissidents and activists, I don't believe a word of the
indictment. Nonetheless, I am confused about something. You see, the
media and the FBI are telling me that the list of events in the indictment
constitute a reign of terror. I don't know about you, but I was unaware of
most of these events and after reading about them, I can tell you with no doubt
that I do not feel terrorized in the least by them.
This leads me to an old observation with a new twist. If an empty
government building used to oppress horses burns in the forest and no one is
there to see it, was anyone terrorized? If terrorism is an act of violence
against a civilian population with the aim of forcing or coercing political
change, I cannot imagine how burning empty government buildings in remote forest
areas could possibly be imagined to achieve such goals. If the arson of a
lumberyard is terrorism while blowing up civilian houses in Pakistan by CIA
launched missiles is not terrorism, then is Bush a genius and Einstein a moron?
When our children go to bed at night, do you think they shutter in their beds
afraid that some green anarchist boogieman will burn down a remote and empty
forestry building in rural Oregon? My guess is that the average American
child is more anxious about not being left behind when the rest are sent to Iraq
or Afghanistan or Iran to die in another senseless war. I'm more terrified
of Karl Rove's corrupt mind than I am of the Earth Liberation Front. If
the allegations against ELF are true, Donald Rumsfeld has killed more human
beings than ELF has killed lumber splinters. If ALF freed as many animals
as Rumsfeld has murdered humans, there would be a monkey swinging from every
tree.
I don't buy it. Even if the absurd allegations were true, burning down
empty buildings in the middle of forests is not terrorism. I'm waiting for
our president to get a grip and stop pissing in his panties every time a spark
of fire bursts somewhere. The rest of us have real lives to live and do
not profit from hysteria the same way the dry-drunk ex-coke-addict spoiled brat
frat-boy crook in the Whitehouse does. Stop whining to us Mr.
Fuck-Head-In-Chief and get a real job.
The War Against Terror, TWAT® needs to be fed.
this is terror
Slumping building
a leaking housing bubble
interests rates are creeping up
over extended credit
a period of sliding wage scales
mortgages payment failure
loans being called in
homelessness
cold
hunger
sickness
ALF and Earth First! are to blame.