The War on Terror is Lost

Published on September 22, 2005 By Champas Socialist In Current Events

It’s been coming for a while, slowly but surely. And finally they have won. According to Tony Blair, the aim of the terrorists is to bring an end to “our way of life”. According to George Bush, the terrorists are opposed to our Freedom. They have won.

It started with little things. Changes to our laws. Increased powers for our spies. Increased restrictions on our freedom of speech. Accusations of unpatriotism. But now the line has been crossed.

An innocent civilian in Britain was shot. Dead. Not by terrorists, but by us*. By our police. The people who are paid to protect citizens on British soil shot and killed an innocent civilian. The death penalty by firing squad was carried out as punishment on a tourist. The crime it seems was being late for a train and overdressing. The punishment was irreversible and extremist.

The gravity of this news shocks me far more than the attacks on the WTC, the London underground and the Bali nightclub. There was a genuine, planned agenda with a purpose to those attacks. I don’t agree with the attacks, but the perpetrators had a reason for doing what they did. The police had nothing. No evidence on the man. No suggestion of guilt beyond his attire and his tardiness (and there are suggestions they didn't even have that!). And so they did the job of the terrorists. They stole a citizen’s freedom and sent a message to the rest of us.

I now seriously live in fear for my life. I am an innocent citizen. I sometimes run for trains and I wear a backpack. Sometimes I make inappropriate jokes. I criticise the Government and have occasionally expressed an understanding of where “the enemy” is coming from. The expression of those views may very well soon become illegal. I don’t have an agreement with the “terrorists”, just an understanding and even a little compassion. And I worry now. I worry that some keystone cop is going to think nothing of blowing eight bullets into me if I put a step slightly out of place. I don’t feel free to express myself. I don’t feel free to do the things I want to do. I don’t feel free. Their objective has been achieved. I don’t feel free. I am scared.

*By us, I mean members of the Coalition of the Willing.

Comments (Page 2)

kingbee

on Sep 27, 2005

i hope ali g ain't into milk bombs.

Rightwinger

on Sep 27, 2005

So's the war on poverty....that's the American Left's fault, too.

Champas Socialist

on Sep 27, 2005

hee hee kingbee...I was beginning to think no one could see the cartoon. Thanks for commenting.

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