Who are the Terrorists?

A thought occours.

The UK Governement is busy removing our rights in the name of keeping us safe. Two of the biggest governments in the West are waging a war. A war on an idea.

Ever since George W. Bush instigated his War on Terror, we have marched into a country on the off-chance that they had some Wepons of Mass Destruction(WMD’s). They didn’t. Of course, this was in response to someone dring a couple of planes into the Twin Towers by way of protest against what the Americans had done during the Gulf War, and their continued presence in Saudi Arabia.

These large Governements, with state of the art war machines, with hundreds of soldiers, with tanks are going to war aginst… Terror. Against the idea that we might be afriad to walk down the street. In case we are afraid. As was pointed out to me by a friend, V for Vendetta walked along a similar premis. How far from the truth is this fiction?

The things that scare me is the idea that I become a criminal by enjoying myself with my Fiance. That should we enjoy, as most couples do, a little light Bondage, and I take a photograph, I’m a criminal. The idea that the way I think is now illegal. That’s a terrifying thought.

This war is meant to make us feel safe. I don’t. Not while the Governemnt is no-longer listen to me. While the Government thinks that it can do what it likes. While the Government becomes all the things that it’s meant to be fighting against.

Precisely what are we meant to be afraid of? There are some vauge ideas about Al-Queda, who belives that the West should live by their ideas of Law. Of course, their laws are a little… insane, at least compared to what we have… wait, what we HAD.

These people are going to wage war on us with some home-made bombs, and a few vaugue notions that blowing themselfs up will get them laid. We’ve been here before. We spent 25 years trying to convince some of the Irish that blowing us up wasn’t going to get them anywhere. Unlike the IRA, this army is not being funded by the USA. It’s not as organised, and it’s goals are not as clear-cut.

So, these two Superpowers are running scared of a group of disorganised anarchists. A small group of terrorirsts who have so far managed one big attack (on America), and several attacks on the UK. In the UK they managed to set off a few bombs on London Transport. There were injuries, people were scared, but the following day, indeed, by later on the same day, London was back as it used to be, complaining about the fact that some idiot had made their train a few minits late.

The Governemnt made all the right noises about keeping us safe, but they missed. They tightned their stranglehold on those of us that are following the spirit of the law on the off-chance that they could catch a few extremists. They scared their own people. They became what they claim they were fighting agains.

Who are we now more afraid of?

Black Xanthus