Tuesday, September 28, 2004

 
Parents worried about polls in schools
Parents in the town of Hudson, Mass are worried that polls in public schools are potential terrorist targets and have started a petition to have them move. How scared are people? Hudson, Massachusetts is a terrorist target? Obviously, people are scared witless. The question to me is why are they scared? 9/11? Well that we three years ago, and regardless of if you feel safer or not nothing of that scale, or close to that scale has happen since. No terrorist attacks at the Super Bowl. No terrorist attacks at the Olympics. No terrorist attacks at the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, the Kremlin, or the public schools of Hudson. What keeps us scared? The administration of George W. Bush. And the average American's lack of knowledge about terrorism and world affairs in general.

The President and his handlers have kept the fires of fear burning, but we fan the flames. With illogical panic, with conclusions based on sound bites and incorrect or imcomplete information, with an us-against-them attitude that's only certain to lead to more deaths. When people let themselves be controlled by fear it leads to McCarthy hearings, bomb shelters that never get used, segegration...and letting religious zealots take over your country.
Drink me 1:23 PM