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"We must not let our rulers leave us with perpetual
debt, or profusion and servitude."
-Thomas Jefferson
Return of Terrorism
“Every revolution,
will in time, put on the robes of the tyrant it deposed.”-Barbara Tuckman
The
War on Terror is breaking this nation as sure as the American Revolution made it. Millions of
decent and truth-loving Americans are aware of this, but so far they have not been able to outdo the extremists who benefit
more from the wars by misinforming the public. In short, America whose claim to fame was once, “the truth made
us free” has now reached a point where falsehood is making it slave.
First and foremost we have to admit that we have a problem, but we will never admit that unless we are far less arrogant.
I have developed this website in response to the call of conscience to perform my civic duties and not
to glamorize what is wrong with America. I am sure there are those who would use “America, love it or leave
it” phrase, but my response has always been, 'America, love it and fix it.' I believe
more in lighting a candle than blaming the darkness, 'if it is to be, it is up to me'!
As Bill Clinton said, “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be fixed with what is right with it.”
To really stop terrorism , we have to spawn an informed public that understands the depth and breadth
of the major issues we have addressed inadequately or not at all.
Most people tend to forget
the unique intent of the founders of America to motivate the people through effective public education
to become informed citizens and reduce the chances of being emotionally exploited by the extremists. A
few examples of how the public has been misled:
Extremists have destroyed our
public education system by spending more and educating less. Resorting to fancy
titles like “Education Czar” and “No child left behind” and
making them fail by not allocating enough funds or even allocating the funds and making sure that
the fund is misused. Public education system has always been a tug of war between those who
prefer ignorant public that can be manipulated and the dedicated teachers, parents and civic minded people
who preferred otherwise, but were shortchanged because their shallow knowledge was not a match
for massive prevailing power of bureaucracy that blocked their view of truth and the ideals of this nation.
Thus the vacuum created by deterioration of public education led the public to believe anything.
Here are some examples:
Protecting our assets when they are wasting
it and encouraging us to do the same by borrowing and buying what we do not need and we can
do without. Heaven forbid if this game of Russian Roulette and illusion of wealth with printed money with
no backing is adopted by all other countries.
Falsely claiming that we are the richest nation instead of the most debtor nation on earth by
creating a bubble economy With only the illusion of wealth. With abandonment of
ethics we have also contributed to our own unprecedented moral poverty. We can no longer blame
the foreign terrorist for this setback and bankruptcy.
Combatting substance abuse by appointing “drug czars”, spending our resources
to fight drug lords and ignoring the simple law of supply and demand-as long as there
is increasing demand inside America for drugs there is no way to stop the supply. Alienation from their
government has much to do with the fact that the Americans are the heaviest substance abusers in the world
and wrongly thinking that drugs are their best refuge from facing the the runaway hypocrisy and
harsh realities of life such as lack of transparency in their government's domestic and global
overt and covert operations in the back of the people.
Pretending
to promote peace, but demonizing other peoples and religions and in effect resorting to
more Crusades and the archaic colonial 'divide and conquer' policies. Fighting undeclared wars
by the Congress and invading other countries that is even abandoned by the dictatorial regimes that have
long since they have switched to winning hearts and minds of the people.
Conducting War on Terror while breeding more terrorism by bullying other countries who do not submit
to our colonial mentality, thus betraying the advice of all founders of America and
contributing to our insecurity. How would we react if another country used our territory in pursuit
of of their real or imaginary enemies? What is the United Nations for and why don't we use our clout to
make it more efficient instead of eroding our prestige to bully other nations directly and taking the law
into our own hands?
Saving American jobs while they are encouraging
job outsourcing by not educating the public to live with less and competing for jobs with foreign
workers who do.
Protecting America from disasters by allocating
more money for disaster relief and knowingly and unknowingly making it fail so that their cronies reap
the benefits.
Denying the basic decency of human beings and practically
taking the whole world as hostage to justify trampling on the rule of law both domestically and globally.
Worse yet, this is done in a country whose scientific advancement is capable of educating the wildest beasts
to become our best friends, protectors and friends! Who could ever believe that some human
beings would not even be accorded the dignity of the animals? Much less, in America!
Using our resources to give green light to the extremist Zionists in tiny state of Israel to commit
all kinds of atrocities to a vast majority of Palestinians against the opposition of decent Israeli
public and intellectuals who are against that perpetual conflict that actually destabilizes the
region for maximum exploitation, ironically under the disguise of New World Order! Jews, Moslems and Christians
had started to live in relative peace and harmony after the end of Crusades because continuation of that
trend became a threat to the greedy warmongers.
Finally, where is
Osama Ben Ladin and how long are we going to hold the whole world hostage and continue bankrupting America
to capture this allegedly master terrorist? I recall our defense department's claim many years
ago about the most sophisticated surveillance capability of detecting a cigaret box from several miles
above the ground. Why haven't we used that old technology to detect and capture a terrorist out in the
boonies some six years after 9/11? Also how valid were the thirty second sound bites in 1998 presidential
election in which the candidates were to say how quick they would respond to terrorist attack if awakened
at 3 A.M!
Is our failure to apprehend a terrorist after six years due to
the weakness of our military or a make-believe scheme to justify a perpetual war on terror and keep the
world hostage forever?
We have failed in being the policeman of the world because in global arena we act as a
teacher who breaks the rules and lets a few our favorite students do the same, and when the rest of the class asks him why,
his best arrogant answer is “just do as I say, not as I do!”
It is difficult to believe
that a nation that was a haven for the rule of law revert to being outlaw and from 'you are innocent
unless proven guilty' to 'you are guilty unless proven innocent' and wonder why the world is reluctant to believe
that we are 'promoting freedom and democracy'. We arrogantly think that other nations are naïve enough
to believe that we intend to help them when we do not even care about America. Why can't we understand that
if we are a good example we can win the hearts and minds, regain our moral authority, save ourselves and the world?
The only way to avoid the stress of what is done to this nation seems to be watching comic shows like Jon Stewart,
Jay Leno's Jaywalk and others that can make you laugh when you really need to cry. Or, think of Judge Judy's book
title, “Don't Pee On My Lap And Say It's Raining!”
We can easily utilize our sophisticated
technology to educate not only our public, but also the entire world with a cost that would be a pittance as compared with
what we spend on amassing weapons of mass destruction that is already sufficient to annihilate the world several times over.
Why don't we want to admit that most of the world population is young and thirsty for education and
the best way to win their heart and mine is to meet their needs. If America takes the initiative to quench their thirst they
would willingly support America with all their might as effective as or even more thqn the American citizens would. If the
extremist warmongers ever had the insight they would know that an enlightened world would, in the long run can bring them
more profit than from selling weapons of mass destruction. Have we become an upside-down nation by being more scared
of education than ignorance? While we lay all blames on Corporate America, we do not want to admit that an
educated public with more sophisticated demand would give rise to more corporations with human face that would concentrate
on the real needs rather than wants of the people. What we need is more corporations such as Microsoft and
less of AIG.
All we have to do is to revive the American Ideals from further derailing by
those who do not believe in enormous potential of human beings to do more good than evil . Ironically if
we have proved this to be true with wild beasts, why don't we extend it to humans?
By not aspiring to
build on the hard-earned ideals of the founders of America we are reverting back to the reign of terror as practiced
by all repressive regimes such as those of Pharos of Egypt that did not subscribe to government of the people. We
are, in effect taking the humanity back to stone age. Don't we have better things to do than creating conflicts
and justifying wars?
Page Summary: Revive the American Ideals. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, “Enlighten
people and tyranny of body and mind will disappear like evil spirit in the dawn of a a day.”The foundation
of America was so solid that may still be repaired after about two centuries of cumulative assault by the forces of evil upon
the forces of good within it. It all boils down to finishing an unfinished journey of the founders and other universal human
rights advocates and of the by letting the light of education illuminate the dangerous and dark alleys of ignorance, arrogance
and greed that are choking this nation and the world. End of page 4
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