8/24/06 12:08 am
Yeah, So I watched the movie 'V for Vendetta' this evening, and I must say I was impressed. Great movie, and though I do not find it realistic politically, I think it was a great story.
However, What disheartened me was the people I was watching the movie with all came up with the conviction that "Gee, that movie just depicted our government, I wish GWB wasn’t such a hatemonger"
If you are not familiar with the movie, the plot depicts a man on a vendetta against a government that has taken control of Britain by deporting/imprisoning people who they deemed unnecessary, aka Muslims, Jews, the Irish, and Homosexuals. The government created a sense of fear by creating an epidemic, getting them elected, and then vaccinating the public against the epidemic that they created. A great 1984-esq movie, however I am having a hard time making the connection between the movie and the Bush administration.
To start off, I believe that I need to make it clear, that I do not support everything that the Bush administration has done to this point, I think he has done as good of a job as possible with the middle east, I think some of his domestic policies, cough hack wheeze immigration, could have been worked out better, but I do believe he has handled the economy fantastically.
It was quoted that the Bush administration has been going around, singling out Muslims and arresting them, simply for being Muslim. Best example of this is this Dearborn Michigan story of where a man was caught buying hundreds of cell phones for intent of resale, which is a federal law anyways, but let’s overlook that for a moment. The reason why FBI officers got involved was because several cases of this same type of incident happened very close together across the country. In many of the cases, if the perps intent was to resale the phones, why would they throw out the chargers? And then lie about their identities and their plans to do with the phones, even to the extent of providing a false identification to the arresting officers, another federal crime, but we are overlooking that stuff.
I digress, point and case, these guys are guilty, and thus the feds were in the green to arrest them. Its not racial profiling if it’s a crime that you can arrest anybody else on, and they do.
I think its obvious that the government didn’t fly planes into the twin towers, the pentagon and accidentally crash one into a field in PA to stir up anti-Muslim feelings so we could give president bush extra powers so he could become all mighty dictator of America. It’s a disgrace that we funded these people to fight the Russians so many years ago, and some see that as a connection. I do not however. During the Civil War the Union government supplied the weapons which the Confederacy attacked them with, and the same happened during WW2 with the weapons that Japan attacked us with.
Ooh, and the government doesn’t censor the news, If they did, do you think that the New York Times would still be rolling, CNN would be a long lost memory by now. But we don’t, even after the New York Times printed potentially dangerous information, on the front page, that probably got somebody killed, there wasn’t a peep from the Bush Administration. Why? Freedom of the press is a vital part of our nation’s heritage.
America is at a critical point, and in order to stay safe, I believe that a government has the right to protect its citizens with due course. That does not mean you tap peoples phones without a warrant, and it does not mean that we extend the presidents term indefinitely so that he can see us through it. However, something is brewing in the Middle East, and it has been brewing since the 1980 Tehran Hostage Crisis. And I honestly do believe that we are heading into a situation, that all of us may not be comfortable with, a situation like we dealt with in WW2, in which we may have to alter our way of life. I don’t expect anybody to have read this far, it’s me just bitching. But the events of this month prove, we are not out of this yet, and we are not even that deep into it. Extremists are not kidding when they say, "We want to wipe Israel and America off the face of the planet." They will try, and it is up to us to stop them.
Ooh, which brings me to my next point Death to America Chanting is the "cool" thing to do in the Middle East This Lebanon thing proves it. Not even a fucking year ago, and we brokered a deal to get Syria out of there which had been controlling the country for years, and the Lebanese really didn’t like it all that much. And then after the Hezbollah Humanitarian Crew Kidnapped two soldiers and the same humanitarians started shelling Israeli citizens, everybody was on the death to America bandwagon again. Its big in Iran, even though most of the people there have no idea where America is, and cant even remember the last time an American affected there life, and after they finish their death to America rally they go eat at McDonalds wearing their Abercrombie. It’s a fad, one person does it, and it catches on, people are like, whoa man, that’s got to be cool, so many other people are going it, lets blame something on somebody else that I HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT. I love it. That and if you ever watch CNN or read the times you always see some little kid holding a burning American flag. You look at it and you’re like, gee kid, don’t you want like, a ball to play with. BUT NO, everybody else around him is doing it, nobody seems to have an idea why, but they are sort of doing it because well hey, peer pressure, all the cool kids are doing it, don’t you want to be cool too? Its like smoking, because you know, it’s cool when you start, but then after a couple of years you’ll probably do something stupid, and your shit will get ruined like Afghanistan.
And the governments of these countries love it because they are like, gee, well we can’t provide basic services for our people, we are kind of imposing a theocracy on them, but they aren’t even protesting about us? Wow, how lucDEATH TO AMERICA!
Blah, I swear, sometimes I wish we would go back to isolationism, live in our good live and let everybody else figure out that there are actually other things to blame their problems on except America. But then I remember that everybody deserves at least a chance at the same rights that we have today, including the right to burn our flag, chant for our enemies and denounce our nation’s policies to the rest of the world, because that is what America is all about. Perhaps the reason why people in the Middle East protest America is because they are not allowed to protest anything else.
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