Fireduck

2001.09.17.03.01.39

Well, we are fucked. Some jack asses blew up some buildings in NYC. Now congress is in unified destroy civil liberties and bomb other countries to the ground mode...and the populace is behind them completely. Patriotism was resurrected from the ashes of the world trade center.

I hear news agencies jabbering all day about "how could this happen?", "where was out intelegence community?", "How can the FAA let these people on planes?", "Where did they get trained pilots?".
I have several comments about this. First, this shit is easy. If I had a few determined phycos willing to die, I could have done it. It isn't hard. That is the cost of the type of society we live in. You are free to walk down the street. Free to fly across the country. Free to get whatever martial or flight training you can afford. Free to buy box cutters. Free to sit around and plan shit. Free to hate. Free go through an airport without all your shit turned inside out by security.
Sure, we could make it so this shit could never happen ever again. It is easy. But it cannot be done as we are. We would have to have papers to cross state lines. There would be no more warents for search, warents for wire tapping, no more privacy. No more freedom. That our society is unable to completely stop murder is the cost of our society.

What are the lives of 5000 americans worth these days? Enough to kill terrorists? Sure. Enough to flex our military mussles to try to bring them to justice? Certainly. Enough to bomb innocent non-consumer starving civilians? We shall see. Enough to trample the sovern authority of anouther country to enforce our high and mighty revenge? Probably.

And all the american people want is a clearly defined scapegoat and a quick and decisive victory over that scapegoat. Nothing less will quell the blood-thirst. I fear a tiger has been awoken. The world should be frightened with this country is united. We have it all over here, natural resources, industry, military power, arogance, and now finally we have just bloody revenge on our minds. You can't run from this monster.

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