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Ever desperate for an excuse to bear arms, new groups of US citizens have
been not only congregating to discuss concerns about illegal immigrants crossing
their borders, they are actually taking it upon themselves to patrol the
borders. They say they are worried about drugs, and especially about terrorists.
They have been guarding the Mexican border for a while now, and as can be
expected, have been subject to accusations of racism. Now a group is prepared to
do the same at the Washington border to Canada, and have already begun to wander
the nearby woodlands looking for those possible twenty or so per annum that
might sneak across that way. It's a leisurely past-time, just them and
their gun accomplishing very little, but walking off the pent up aggression over
their loss of American Way of Life, which once included respect for Americans
from Canada, I guess.
Personally, I think they'd be far more effective if they were to patrol the
White House or Dubya's ranch for dangerous terrorists, but the collective
hive mind cannot permit the possibility that the patriarchal hero of 9/11
has created for them the most dangerous time in America. They fail to grasp
that the collective subconscious can only sustain an ego by projecting onto
those who disagree with their warring minds the intent of harm.
As was interestingly demonstrated by Prof. McMurtry of Guelph University
Philosophy Department, the US tends to accuse other nations of evils that they
themselves are currently or are about to unleash upon the accused. Best recent
example is, of course, Iraq's alleged intent to use WMD, and the resultant
release of same by US forces upon the people of Iraq.
Yesterday, London England was host to 60 countries for the biannual
Defense Systems & Equipment International exhibition. A little one-stop
shopping to help feed the $trillion plus per annum industry. Included
guests were China, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Columbia, Iraq, Israel...all of whom
have questionable human rights records. (I believe this is the one Prince Andrew
was involved with two years ago.) So here is Britain, sanctioning these events
under the guise of counterterrorism and defense technologies for both
governments and corporations, and crying horror and amazement over the
recent bombings.
Then we received the Ft.Worth Star Telegram report about US 2003
international arms sales, which stated that 20 out of the top 25 of the US best
clients were either from undemocratic regimes or from governments with major
human rights abuses. We all know the US leads in world arms sales. Can't stop
manufacturing WMD. Can't find enough nations to accuse of building them either.
If ever there was a nation so full of guilt, waiting to unload it onto
others, it is America. The fear will only escalate if it continues to find
profit in war. Deep down, they all know what these weapons do to others. At
the moment, America's only saving grace may be Katrina's direct hit to the
infrastructure. With it, the illusion of terrorism being the nation's number one
concern is exposed as little more than an excuse for profit for a few.
Natalia Kuzmyn
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