Freedom...NAAA
The world is changing and the idea of anyone talking about anything was once thought to be possible..well at least in some countries and only in certain issues. To name an example would be America...the so-called free country. However, I never once thought that there was anything you can freely rant or talk about without repercussions.
And speaking about repercussions, the recent uproar on the publications of caricatures relating to Prophet Muhammad on some newspapers worldwide including our very own country who, depsite the outrage by Muslims of the affected countries is a fine example to illustrate this point.
Not to mention any names of Newspapers involved but for those of you who are in Malaysia, one of them was told to stop printing and the other asked for an explanation and the newspaper responded with an apology. CASE CLOSED.. Forgottten and everything returns to normal.
Now...why would people do such things despite warning from all quarters and the media. If you would actually think about it if the cartoon drawn was Jesus or anything related to Christianity, I'm sure there would be consequences, first starting from the Vatican mosty likely asking the perpetrators to stop their act or warned and SECOND a possible uproar and disliking from the Christians which would most likely lead to demonstrations or peaceful protests, probably not reaching the stage where there start torching embassies and threatening people. I'm a Christian and I certainly wouldn't want that sort of thing happening. SO if I were to put my shoes into those Muslims, I would understand why they might go to great lengths to prevent a similar incident to repeat itself again.
America, the free country, where human rights is the driving force of the day and by that Americans have the right to do anything which includes dissing their own president on managing the anti-terror campaign and just about anything under the sun just as long as they don't go over the law. Essentially the existence of a law does not allow freedom to exist. Because by definition according to answers.comfreedom is the condition of being free from restraints, meaning nothing would stop you from doing anything.
So..as a conclusion America is still not a very free country after all but by and large it is still considerably free compared ot most other countries. Now, here's the thing America, is a free country and is also a very developed and advance country always at a cutting edge of technology and can be said as the "centre of the world." as we speak but it is soon to be overtaken by China, but that's a story for another day. Still the point is, with the latest in technology at their disposal, government organisations like the CIA and the NSA, whose duty is....hmmm spy and the like and other things..ok but the SPYING PART, pretty sure about that and the ability to eavesdrop into people's conversation and searching through emails and tapping into peoples phone calls is a breeze to undertake. Recently, this act of terrorizing into peoples private lives have increased...WHY?? all in the name of fighting terrorism and to protect the world from future terrorists attacks. You name it, bombing trains , hotels, or maybe chemical weapons, or another possible orchestrated plane missile.
So it goes, people's private lives aren't so private anymore and what's more if there happens to be any form of suspected terroist planning in any of these spying that they do on people, the natural instinctive action would be to arrest the person even without confirmation that it may be a false alarm or a probable terrorist act in future all in the name of terrorism. This has cause unwanted anxiety amongst Americans, whose lives are constantly monitored by the government and scrutinized so that America would be a save country as possible.
The irony is that all that has been done has not exactly result in a safer place to live in. In fact the loss of privacy has sort of prevented people from expressing their ideas which means restricting their thoughts on views and opinions while sharing with others on the Internet. I'm not really good at this but I hope that anyone who reads this understands. It's a funny thiing that they have now become the terrorist to their own fellow Americans who deserve every form of protection from terrorists. So the goverment of America is feeling threatened and the Bush Administration paranoid on getting Osama bin Laden to justice but just before seeing him and maybe torture him. And their world agenda has has always been anti terrorism but recently not so zealous on bringing it into the international forums.
IMAGINE HEARING THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN...."We will not tire...We will not fall...We will not fail....to fight terrorism. And the other politicians, will be saying...Yea Yea Yea...Terrorism and Osama and 9/11... Just take a look at this cartoon.
And the next.....Oh wait as for the growth. That's not acromegaly but BushMegaly. A new medical anomaly. LOLZ
Looking at this, saying that Mr. Bush has not done anything about terrorism would be
erroneous, saying that he has not done much is also untrue, but saying that he has done too much..yea possibly cause he has now transformed the United States into THE TERRORIST. Going to war in Iraq, has been met with much criticism, despite most developed countries against it and the UN also, obviously. Only his good old buddy Blair seems to be really into it with Bush. Looking back at the outcome, well thousands of civilians and soldiers dead, some soldiers now loss a limb or becoming mentally unsound as a result of a stupid war whose purpose seems to border more on gaining profits masked by the objective of arresting Saddam Hussein for his treacherous crime and freeing the country and finally introducing democracy. A noble cause with a hidden agenda.
As I have now deviated from the title, I guess it's time to end this ranting on terrorism, cause there are more interesting matters at hand.
