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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
In
a nutshell, 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. In other words America's demise is a businessman's gore that became
complacent enough not to mind his store. 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, 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.”
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 and gambling rather than earning money by hard work. With
abandonment of ethics we have also contributed to our own unprecedented moral poverty.
We can no longer blame only 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 rule 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 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 the dangerous and dark alleys of ignorance, arrogance and greed that are choking this nation and the world.
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