Posted on 07/05/2005 7:37:24 AM PDT by Democracy In Iraq
Recently, while enjoying some interesting discussion on a non-political Web site, I came across a poster found it necessary to interrupt the conversation with some worn far-left tripe about how the Bush Administration is using fear to control the brainwashed masses and take away our liberties. You know, because there's nothing else to do when you're President.
Of course, once someone goes down that road, the inevitable "9/11 was staged" and "al Qaeda is run by the CIA" assertions come out (as this individual did), leaving you wondering when the individual will get around to alien abductions and Bigfoot.
Then it occurred to me: the reason why these sorts of individuals sound so much like the alien abduction crowd is precisely the same reason they use to accuse the sane majority for believing in silly things like terrorists really wanting to kill us and the idea that evil exists and all that. The reason: fear.
These people live in fear. They are afraid some black-suited government agent is going to show up at their and take away their liberties. They are afraid that little cameras have been planted all over their house and that their phones were bugged while they were out toiling for their evil masters at the local McDonalds.
It's the same thing that motivates beliefs in UFO abductions and Bigfoot. Authors write books about these things and exploit fears among those who worry about being abducted by an alien craft or hauled into the woods by a hungry Sasquatch.
Perhaps worst of all, they fear that America is truly great, that its people are heroic, and that we may actually succeed in bringing stable democracies to the Middle East.
And they should fear this, as it would destroy their entire intellectual foundation. It would leave them needing to re-evaluate everything. And who has time for that?
So, in the end, these people are guilty of the very thing they accuse the rest of us of: giving in to fear and becoming vulnerable to greedy people who want to exploit us.
The antidote is courage. It takes courage to accept and confront the evil that visited us on 9/11--the evil that went unanswered and unchallenged for so long because we feared what might happen if we did confront it.
Now that's just silly.
Everybody knows The Illuminati did it.
*fnord*
" They are afraid some black-suited government agent is going to show up at their and take away their liberties."
If Supreme Court justices wore suits instead of robes, "they" would be correct here.
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