I don’t know how much longer I can take it. The whole thing has become ridiculous. For the past few years I have denied the allegations that George Walker Bush and his ilk were doing anything shady and underhanded. I figured they were just stupid. I tend to ignore conspiracy theories as a general concept, as they are usually simply the products of overactive imaginations, and paranoia. Still, I have to say that I really cannot ignore the simple facts of the situation any longer.
Tom Ridge made an announcement today (the third in the past two months made by some government official associated with national security) to tell us that terrorist want to commit acts of terrorism. Now they don’t know WHICH terrorists, WHERE they want to attack, WHEN they want to attack, or any details of any sort. Still, we know they want to. WE ALREADY KNEW THAT!!! This has become a more frequent event as of late, and just cannot be ignored. It started a while back when a similar announcement was made, along with the unveiling of the mug-shots of eight terrorists we should be on the lookout for.
Of course, that time they did not know any details either, and the pictures showed terrorists who’s pictures had been displayed on the FBI website for over a year. Then it happened again a couple of weeks ago, and now today. This act serves two purposes. First, if there IS an attack, then the people cannot say that Homeland Security was not doing anything about it. Two, it creates a sense of fear. Or rather reinforces the fear that is already there. That seems to be a major key in the Bush administration, keep the people scared.
Let’s face it, before 9/11 his popularity rating was not exactly the best. Then it happened, the people became scared. They were terrified, so who can they turn to for their defense and well being? The president of course. The commander and chief of our armed forces, the man who would be in charge of defending us. People threw their hope into him, regardless of if they should or not, because they were scared.
This is not uncommon at all. When my mother-in-law was eighteen her parents, uncle, and baby brother were all brutally murdered by two armed gunmen, then doused with gasoline and set on fire. She threw her fear, and hope into the cop investigating the case. She needed that sense of security, and protection out of fear. Today she still speaks of the man as if he were flawless, saintly, and could do no wrong. This is all regardless of the fact that for some odd reason the cop never brought up charges on one of the shooters regardless of evidence. Every investigator who has looked at this case since (including the one currently investigating that second shooters own murder) has found it appalling and ridiculous that this man was never charged in this quadruple homicide. Still, she needed to believe that the man on the case was the best, and was flawless.
When my mother’s OBGYN believed my wife and my child, and screwed it up terrible causing head trauma and nerve damage in my son’s arm, my mother would not say an unkind word. I have spoken to other doctors who have called his actions negligent, and yet my mother NEEDS to trust him.
I say it is time to get past this sense that we need to believe in George W. Bush and his cronies for our wellbeing, and protection. He has done nothing to show he is worthy of it. His response to 9/11 was nothing exemplary, in fact, it seemed to be nothing but a great opportunity to advance himself in the public eye. He has lied time and again, used false information, or misrepresented information to fool the people into following him. When his popularity began to dwindle after 9/11, he attacks Iraq? This man has show in no way that he is a great leader, or anything more than a foolish puppet. To be honest, I would rather vote for a cinder block this year than for George W. Bush this year just to see him out of office.
Ruling a county through a combination of fear and nationalism is nothing new, but it does not mean we have to like it.
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