Just an observation!

The other day I was watching a program which was recounting an event and I made an observation.It seems now that terrorists are the new bogeymen.Everything is being blamed on terror.The media has now become lazy and fearful to question the Governments in fear of being labeled.They no longer investigate but regurgitate whatever government censors tell them.It has become easier and patriotic to blame everything on terrorism.In the USA signs of a decaying infrastructure are everywhere.Bridges collapsing, levies giving way but it won't be soon until terrorism is used as a scapegoat for the agencies who are responsible for the upkeep of such structures.

What has not been done is scrutinize the origins of these groups and see where they really started.Who funded their earlier wars and armed them?I saw a piece on Sierra Leone about the rebels during their conflict and a statement was made that was meant to be ominous and dramatic but not entirely truthful.The claim was that the rebels sold diamonds to a certain terrorist organization for weapons.When anyway who followed the conflict knows that the rebels dealt directly with international arms dealers.Dealing with a terrorist organization would be dealing with a middlemen when you have a direct link right on your soil.The whole diamond industry help fund that war so that some guy far away could spend a month's salary to indulge his wife to be.

It is easier to blame the bogeyman than to come to grips with our own misgivings.Yes there are religious fundamentalist out there trying to instill terror and alter our way of life.But by government using tactics to increase our fears instead of making us ever vigilant,aids them.Keeping the masses in constant fear so that they could get away with whatever they want.Feeding us misinformation.It seems that the terrorists are right in our halls of democracy.They are helping these organization instill terror in us through their propaganda.

We should never let our guards down, and fight against anything or anyone, foreign or domestic that wants to impose their will upon us through terror.Any entity that wants to destroy our fundamental beliefs is an enemy.Any government that wants to rule in fear is tyrannical and should be resisted.It doesn't matter if they do not impose the fear directly.

One of the pillars of Western civilization constructed by the Greeks is "freedom".Can one be free by living in fear?Paraphrasing Franklin Roosevelt ,what we should be fearful about is fear itself.