The Truth About Terrorism, and the U.S. Government
by Scott Lazarowitz
My writing this was inspired by Paul Craig Roberts’s great
article The
War on Terror, in which he tells the truth about what’s really going
on, and I wanted to expand more on this terrorism subject.
There are many reasons why the U.S. government needs to place itself on
the Terrorist Watch List, but since there isn’t enough space to include
all that here, I’ll just touch on the most important points.
To begin, millions of Americans report their income and employment status
to the U.S. government out of fear, and for no other reason. It certainly
isn’t out of the goodness of their hearts (except for the most naïve
amongst us). Most Americans who are required to pay a certain percentage
of their income to the feds aren’t really paying – it is being
taken from them under the threat of various intrusions, such as
garnishing their wages or putting a lien on their homes (like a lien on
one’s home really matters anymore now in the time of
ForeclosureGate). For many Americans, the taking is automatic,
directly from their paychecks. So employers as well as workers must
submit to the threat of brute force if they don’t comply with the demand
for information on employment status and payment. Millions of Americans
are terrorized by the federal government, not only for what might happen
to them if they don’t comply with the demands, but if a mistake is made.
There have been horror stories told by many Americans of what happened to
them because a mistake was made – including mistakes made by the
government.
And many owners of businesses, especially of small businesses, are
terrified that they will be persecuted by some government bureaucrat for
not following one of the many thousands of regulations that businesses
must obey, regulations that exist for no good reason – only to protect
larger businesses’ profits. (Thanks,
Herr
Lincoln.) And especially because of the unstable economic environment
now, millions of businesses are afraid to take risks, make any new
investments, or hire new workers because they don’t know what the
situation will be for them even months from now, let alone years. And
Congress won’t even let people know whether or not the Bush tax cuts will
be extended or allowed to expire after January 1st, 2011. No
one knows what to do. (I’m sure businesses and workers all across America
would prosper, if we could only abolish Congress.)
Regarding the War on Terrorism and the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA), I am now terrified of flying. This is not because a
terrorist might hijack the plane, but because of the intrusiveness of
what people now have to endure when going through security checkpoints:
the pornographic X-rays, the frisking and groping, the searching of my
clothing and belongings, the harsh interrogations. Out of their
blind faith in the
State, the American sheeple have assumed that there should be no
alternative to the State’s monopoly in
territorial protection, and
have passively accepted the constantly growing intrusions by the State
against the people and their Liberty. As an experienced
pilot
has suggested, the airlines should be responsible for their security,
not the government. And
arm the pilots
as well. And arm the passengers as well. In the meantime, I won’t fly.
And then there are the anti-civil liberties, anti-Due Process
presidential powers that the Bush Administration had usurped, and that
the Obama Administration seems to enjoy having, of
apprehending and detaining individuals without actual suspicion, of
extraordinary rendition, torture, even presidentially-directed
assassinations of individuals deemed by the president and his agents
to be "terrorists" without
due process or trial. And, given that the whole world, including U.S.
territory, is considered to be part of the Global Battlefield in the
Global War on Terror, and given that Homeland Security secretary Janet
Napolitano has issued
warnings against "right-wing extremists," essentially those
who disagree with Obama’s policies, and given that I happen to be one who
disagrees with just about all of Obama’s policies from his war crimes to
his communist social policies, then obviously no place in America is
safe, and it really is terrifying now.
And regarding the federal government’s intrusions into Americans’ private
health matters, I know someone who has said that, because of the new
ObamaCare medical intrusions, he will not have his follow-up medical
procedures as long as ObamaCare is in place. He just doesn’t want his
medical details being scrutinized by
government officials. And I
also have some health situations for which I rely very much on OTC
vitamins and supplements. But, because the Obama FDA wants to
crack
down on OTC supplement makers, that really is a direct threat to me.
I am literally terrified that these bureaucratic misfits in Washington
want to take away my only real means of keeping me in (somewhat) good
health, and all on behalf of
Big Pharma. It’s disgusting how so many people in various federal
agencies are on the boards of large pharmaceutical industries, and the
cahoots between
Big
Pharma and Big Government, with lobbyists and campaign donations to
legislators to vote Big Pharma’s way, is downright scary.
Also, because the U.S. government has done nothing but
provoke Muslims in Middle Eastern countries to act against Americans,
I am terrified of another major terrorist attack in the U.S. It would be
solely because of what the U.S. government has been doing, especially
since 1990. The U.S.
government’s actions of terrorism against innocents in Iraq, Afghanistan,
Pakistan and other parts of the Middle East, and its intrusions into just
about every aspect of daily life, have been making me less safe,
as well as all other Americans.
Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Bush’s father
George H.W. Bush actually should all be tried for war crimes and
terrorism, especially against Muslims in the Middle East. The IRS, the
FDA, the TSA, and other extensions of the federal Leviathan also need to
be held accountable for their actions. If we can’t have that, then at the
very least, the U.S. government must place itself on the Terror Watch
List, as it is the one organization that has been most responsible for
terrorizing the most people, ever.
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