TERRORISTS

TERRORISTS

By

Fay E.A. Reid

Terrorists are not unique to any particular country or region on Earth.  They come in all shapes and sizes. Some produce manifestos. Some have declared policies. All of them flout the Rules of Law written by civilized societies. None of the terrorist groups are civilized by any stretch of the imagination and none of them are “good”.

So, why are they tolerated? In some areas, such as the middle east, they have Countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia. Syria, and Turkey who financially support them. In others, like the USA, they have political parties, billionaires, and religion to support them. In some countries, like Russia they have government support.

A lone terrorist, such as the Uni-bomber, can hide unseen for years.  He was mentally ill, and unfortunately relatively intelligent. But he in no way is representative of our terrorist groups.

But we have many terrorist groups.

The Earth Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front, and Weathermen, were “eco-terrorists”.  A bunch of semi-educated kids, who claimed they were ‘saving the environment’ by blowing things up and doing a whole bunch of damage. As much as anything they were spoiled brats who needed to have their knickers pulled down and given a good hard spanking.  They, and their deluded families should have had to pay for all the damage they did. They probably would have benefited from a long-lasting community service penalty too. As far as I remember, they didn’t kill any people or animals, just destroyed property.  While I am not a strong advocate of property rights, I do believe that what legally belongs to you is not public property and should be respected as yours.

However, we have more than our share of other terrorist groups who are truly evil. Most fall under the general heading of white supremacists. To name a few of these criminal groups: The Neo-Nazis, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Skinheads, White Supremacists, and lots of militias.

Our problem in America, we are a country of laws. This only works so long as most of us believe in obeying the law. And that is where we are today. What do we do when the person breaking the law is the Governor of your own State, Or worse yet, the President of the whole damned Country?

What do we do when the sitting President of United States enlists the help of his favorite terrorist groups to help him fulfill the felony crime of interfering with a lawful, legal, act of Congress?

Nothing is written in the Constitution to tell us what to do.  The Framers of the Constitution could not foresee or imagine a selfish, greedy, self-centered, ego maniac like trump even being elected to the highest position in the Country. Let alone trying to undo 247 years of working to perfect a representative republic working with democratic theories and turn us into a fascist dictatorship.

Nor could they imagine one governor fancying himself as dictator, prevent teachers from teaching facts to children in favor of his own bigoted ideals. Or other governors, willfully preventing lawful voters from casting their vote. Or passing laws diametrically opposed by the citizens of their State.

This is why the arm of the law has been moving so slowly. It doesn’t know what to do. Personally, I think we should just follow the Constitution as it is written.  They don’t want to follow Amendment 14, Section 3. Fine follow Section 5 and give us the legislation needed to finalize.  This legislation doesn’t have to originate in the House of Representatives, it just says in Congress. Well, the Senate is the other House of Congress.

There is even less excuse for allowing the do nothings to shut down the Government, both Article 6, Section 1 AND Amendment 14, Section 4, state very clearly, we will pay our debts.  This redundancy must have been important, so do it.

Nor could they imagine a bunch of thugs armed with military grade automatic weapons marching down a street, unimpeded and shooting law abiding citizens marching and demonstrating against the unlawful President.

Since terrorists of any type have no place in any civilized society they should be condemned worldwide, forbidden to assemble any where in public and arrested on sight for breaking the new laws forbidding terrorists and acts of terrorism. If the Country is unwilling to rid itself of terrorists, or finances terrorism in any other country, There should be such extreme sanctions on that country’s exports and imports that is plunged into poverty. 

Every nation in the world should be welcomed into the United Nations.  The UN should have to give up the single veto rule, requiring a simple majority vote to pass international legislation. Any country, no matter how wealthy or poor, large or small, should be subject to the sanction rules.  If we could do this, we might finally have the peaceful cooperative world that Woodrow Wilson dreamed of achieving. Even Russia and China would not be able to survive long if they could neither export nor import goods from anywhere except each other. 

That’s one thing, probably the only decent thing the greedy oligarchs gave us, a global economy interdependent on all other economies.

We can work with other countries whether they are dictatorships, monarchies, republics like our own, or theocracies.  If that’s what their citizens prefer, that, like religion, is on them.

We don’t need sameness. We just need respect.

We don ‘t need terrorists, even the ecoological variety. We need mutual respect. Somethings you cannot have under any circumstance – live with it.  You cannot have people of different skin colors more valuable than any other Homo sapiens.  You can not have more. More of anything than anyone else, more money, more property, more women, servants, wealth. You want to be the richest man in the world? Tough patooties.

You want more power? Ain’t gonna happen. Live with it.  There are 9 billion or so Homo sapiens on this planet give or take.  Some will acquire more wealth than others, that’s ok, they will pay more money to help support the very environment that allowed them to accumulate that wealth.

Some will be more intelligent, more artistic, skilled. That’s ok too, with 9 billion and counting who cares?

The point is you are still a Homo sapiens. You cannot change into a cat, dog or horse. But you can be the best Homo sapiens you are capable of being, that should be enough.