From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 00:03:58 MST
> What kills me is that we are making "these times" much scarier
> times than they are or need to be. We take one or a handfull of
> actual terrorist incidents and blow them up to terrorist hiding
> behind every woodpile! We take these few incidents and start
> living our lifes out of deep Fear and in reaction.
>
> Our dreams, our lives, our hopes cannot be served by such
> reaction. It is not news in the least that information and
> knowledge can be used for bad purposes as well as for good. We
> don't stop living, working, sharing, communicating just because
> someone somehwere might do something terrible with what we
> contribute. That way is the way of death. That way is the way
> that the terrorists would have us walk. If we go that way then
> the terrorists win.
>
> I am not in at all afraid of terrorism. I am afraid of the deep
> and needless fear that threatens to crush our hopes and dreams
> at the very moment of their birth.
>
> - samantha
I was thinking something like this as I watched the towers fall. I also
remember thinking "shit, now the US is going to tear the world a new
arsehole".
I really really wish I was wrong.
Emlyn
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