We Have Nothing to Fear But Fear Mongers

By using their public platforms to shout the words “terror”, “terrorist”, and “terrorism” countless times in every form of media, George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Rudy Giuliani turned America from a nation of confident men and women into a cringing and cowardly country in under five years.  We now plead for someone to take care of us, protect us, and deliver us from the bogeymen our government created. We’ve reached such an alarmist state that we refuse to allow transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to federal “supermax” facilities that have never known an escape.  These facilities house, among others, a man who has ripped out and eaten his victims’ brains.  Is he less intimidating than the 19 Guantanamo Uyghurs from Northwest China who are mad at their own government? Besides, don't we have a couple of hundred million guns to protect ourselves?

While irrational fear eats at the soul and undermines the spirit of otherwise rational people, it serves as an easily calibrated control mechanism for those who need us to behave in ways they dictate.  Only six members of the House of Representatives had the courage to oppose the bill prohibiting transfer of Guantanamo prisoners. That’s 1.4% of our national legislators who think they can keep their jobs if they put prisoners in jails from which there is no escape.  Is this reasonable?

We are told to cringe because these masterfully trained instruments of destruction mean to end our way of life.  Yet every training video we see from  terrorist camps shows them dressed in boy burkhas,  swinging on monkey bars as we did at my school in the second grade.  In addition they’re seen climbing a wooden wall that would  be laughed at any Army boot camp.

Cringing and cowardly people will no doubt submit letters in opposition to bringing any “terrorists” into our prison system, thus supporting the effectiveness of the Bush/Cheney/Guiliani mind-control techniques.