One quick thought

I've been positively buried under schoolwork this weekend because I still haven't gotten myself onto a study schedule since getting my new job. As a result I've had to hit the books pretty hard these last couple of days and hadn't been able to write anything for this blog. However, I wanted to take five minutes and post one quick thought: what constitutes a terrorist nation? I propose that a terrorist nation is one that uses fear to intimidate, control or otherwise direct the beliefs and actions of its citizens, a nation that frightens people into supporting its goals through threats (whether overt or implied). Is this a reasonable definition? If so, then by this definition the United States is a terrorist nation. The US has used propaganda and scare tactics against its own citizens to get us to go along with their trumped-up war-for-oil, and so we'd quietly stand aside as our own government robbed us of the civil liberties that the founders of this country fought and died to give us. I floated this theory in one of my classes and it was quite well accepted, which gives me hope that the next generation may be brave enough to take up the banner and fight to restore our liberties. But we cannot leave the fight to them; we must do our part, we must walk our talk, otherwise we don't deserve liberty. If we don't participate in the struggle to regain the rights that were granted to us in the Constitution, then we deserve to keep wearing the shackles of fear that we willingly put on when we accept propaganda as truth.

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but we must never fail to protest it." Elie Wiesel

Later,
AuntieM