Others may appreciate what you comprehend as offensive. Think of the things you do like. Could another person possibly consider it offensive to them? How would you feel if they said you can no longer read a book, view a piece of art or talk to this person based on their subjective opinion?
How soon will it be before we trade away our feelings and emotions in the name of security? How long before words like love, hurt or I’m sorry are just residual words in our children’s vocabulary for something they have never been allowed to experience?
How soon before our individuality is replaced with conformity? Sometime soon we will all live identical cookie cutter lives.
Bit by bit our rights are slowly being taken away from us. As a people, a city, a state, and as a nation, by our own Governments. How did it come to this you ask? We gave it to them! Through our own innate fears and those created by the self-same government who seeks to “protect” us.
Now I know the events of 9/11 were tragic, but those same events caused We The People to give up some, if not most, of our ‘Inalienable Rights’. Fueled by the media, our fear and panic spread quickly.
What are our Inalienable Rights you may ask?
The Pursuit of Happiness? Sure if someone doesn’t see what makes you happy as being offensive!
Life? – Such that it is now! As we are viewed through the lenses of thousands of surveillance cameras and facial recognition programs roughly 200 times a day, 24/7.
Liberty? Just what is Liberty anyway? Simply put, it is the Freedom to do what we please, when we please, where we please and how we please. Guess what? That one has been gone for decades we just won’t admit it.
And the big one – PRIVACY!? We gave that up when We The People were told that the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) would detect, prepare for, prevent, protect against, respond to, and help us recover from terrorist attacks within the United States. It is comprised of 22 separate entities such as FEMA, The National Communications System, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (?), the Coast Guard and the Secret Service to name just a few.
Guess what that means? We The People gave the DHS and the U.S. Gov’t Carte Blanche to keep tabs on OUR private lives. Why? Because we did not speak up and simply say, NO!
We The People did not grant permission to the DHS or U.S. Gov’t to infiltrate our private communications, monitor what we read, watch, or peruse on the Internet, who we chose to interact with, or to watch us in our home with any of a variety of specialized equipment.
Then President Bush promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. He launches a special project in the name of national security. At first, it's believed to be a search for certain ‘terrorists’ and weapons of mass destruction, and it is pursued without regard to its human or monetary cost.
Sometime later, several terrorists are captured, tried, and found guilty. A memorial is built to honor their victims, but the end result, the true genius of the plan, was the fear those terrorists incited. Fear became the ultimate tool of our government, and through it, our rights were infringed upon, and another politician was appointed to the newly created position of Director of Homeland Security. The rest, as they say, is history...
Wisdom comes from anticipating the consequences of your actions!
Wisdom comes from anticipating the consequences of your actions!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
These two of my favorite sayings in closing.
1) “If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.”
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
These two of my favorite sayings in closing.
1) “If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.”
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
