George W Bush Vigilante War on Common Sense
Bush's war on terror made sense to some at the beginning. However, with the invasion of Iraq, it seemed that the purpose of Bush's "war on terror" quickly became a war on common sense. That is for the person on the street. If you are a multinational oil company and George H Bush, George W's dad happens to sit on the board, hmmm, it didn't take long to put two and two together.
However it seems that the rest of the republican party has expanded the war to include a war on minorities, a war on free thinkers, in fact it seems that the United States of America has become the new Soviet-style dictatorship. In the larger urban centers of America the FBI has posted spies in Boyscout troops, in even the small church's knitting clubs cause you never know where the "terrorist" are eh?
Companies that gave money to muslim charities all of a sudden became "potential" terrorist, and labeled as supporting "insurgents". In a way, 2001 was the year when the CIA became obsolete, and the White House started to invents its own "spies". That is basically if you get the White House Spokesman to chant the same line over and over again the world's media will eventually repeat it. On CNN it is not uncommon now to hear the word insurgency blamed for perhaps cases where muslims retaliate for the US Military illegal actions in Iraq. Shooting unarmed civilians will sometimes encourage Iraqi's to join the so called insurgents.
In a way it is sad, because now the west it seems has joined this new War on Common Sense. You are seeing the resurgence of a new Manifest Destiny if you will, the mentality that white people have to save the world from itself. What are the reprocussions of being saved?
I wonder if the war on common sense will go down in history labelled inproperly, when it should have been labeled as a bunch of Vigilante White Men out to defeat the evil minorities. George W Bush and his "coalition" of white world leaders would indeed look comfortable wearing KKK robes and burning crosses. The only difference is they get enlisted servicemen who fly billion dollar planes to drop bombs on the minorities, or get enlisted servicemen to shoot them up in the streets.
However it seems that the rest of the republican party has expanded the war to include a war on minorities, a war on free thinkers, in fact it seems that the United States of America has become the new Soviet-style dictatorship. In the larger urban centers of America the FBI has posted spies in Boyscout troops, in even the small church's knitting clubs cause you never know where the "terrorist" are eh?
Companies that gave money to muslim charities all of a sudden became "potential" terrorist, and labeled as supporting "insurgents". In a way, 2001 was the year when the CIA became obsolete, and the White House started to invents its own "spies". That is basically if you get the White House Spokesman to chant the same line over and over again the world's media will eventually repeat it. On CNN it is not uncommon now to hear the word insurgency blamed for perhaps cases where muslims retaliate for the US Military illegal actions in Iraq. Shooting unarmed civilians will sometimes encourage Iraqi's to join the so called insurgents.
In a way it is sad, because now the west it seems has joined this new War on Common Sense. You are seeing the resurgence of a new Manifest Destiny if you will, the mentality that white people have to save the world from itself. What are the reprocussions of being saved?
I wonder if the war on common sense will go down in history labelled inproperly, when it should have been labeled as a bunch of Vigilante White Men out to defeat the evil minorities. George W Bush and his "coalition" of white world leaders would indeed look comfortable wearing KKK robes and burning crosses. The only difference is they get enlisted servicemen who fly billion dollar planes to drop bombs on the minorities, or get enlisted servicemen to shoot them up in the streets.
posted by joshie mitsima at
3:22 p.m.
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