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"We must not let our rulers leave us with perpetual
debt, or profusion and servitude."
-Thomas Jefferson
Return of Terrorism
"We must not let our rulers leave us with perpetual debt,
or profusion and servitude."
-Thomas Jefferson
"Every revolution, will in time, put on the robes of the
tyrant it deposed.”-Barbara Tuckman
The sad story of decline of America resembles that of a merchant
who lost its valuable assents instead of using them as stepping stone for more real progress. The perpetual 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 slaves. First and foremost we have to admit that we have a problem, but we will never do that
we are intimidated by the arrogant extremists.
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, or '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.”
The good news is that the
era of awakening is dawning in America and with that assault of extremists on freedom and democracy is coming to an end at
a rate that is not possible in any other country. It is hard to believe that so many Americans are questioning the direction
of America. Philosophically speaking the economic downturn is a blessing in that it is pinching the public to wonder why the
extremists created the bubble economy with deceiving facade such as:
Educating less and spending more even with
fancy names like “Education Czar” and “No child left behind. ” Protecting our assets when
they were 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. Combatting substance abuse by appointing “drug czars”
and ignoring the simple rule of supply and demand-as long as there is increasing demand that is on the rise. 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. 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 even 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! It is inconceivable to deny the basic goodness of humankind and taking the whole world as hostage for the crime of
a few-even if that is true. Have we forgotten that all civilizations solved this problem by apprehending, imprisoning and
even executing the few criminals than taking their whole empire as hostage?
Is
our failure to apprehend a terrorist after ten 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 are about to learn that 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 thought that other nations
are naïve enough to believe that we intend to help them when we do not even care about America. We are also beginning
to 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 than 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 the knowledge to turn the wildest beasts into our best friends, 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. As Albert Einstein
said, 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? Freedom of thoughts, expression and travel are basic human rights. As we make and break puppets and call
them anti freedom we deny the fact that even the dictators like Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and the rest, not only loved to
be free, but everyone else's freedom to do what they wanted.
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 can still save us 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 our lives.
Time is running out frous and dark alleys of ignorance, arrogance and greed that are choking this nation
and the world.
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