Why I Fear the 'War on Terror"
Because Terror is Not the Only Dangerous Crime
Because Criminal Elements Use Such Wars To Cover Their Crimes
I fear the war on terror because it gets us obsessed with the crime of terrorism, which leaves us vulnerable to crimes that do not fall into the "terrorism" category.
Theft, is a crime that can be non-terroristic. The thief makes no terroristic threats. Then he steals your money. Then he has your money, but still, he is not being a terrorist.
The liar, takes advantage of you by lying to you. He never makes any threats, but still he gets the better of you by lying.
Even the person who murders you, can be a creature that is not a terrorist: meaning, the murderer never threatens you, the murderer just snuffs out your life.
The traitor, can simply betray your country to foreign powers without ever terrorizing you. All of a sudden, your country is under the control of foreign powers, your country is weakened that foreign powers may benefit, but all the while, nobody has been threatened, nobody has been terrorized.
The heretics and the anti-Christs, can do their dirty work without ever terrorizing anyone. All of a sudden, one day you wake up, and what you see and hear in the media and elsewhere is to your surprise all contradictory of the faith; and those who are not heretics or antichrists find it almost impossible to even earn a living--but you can if you are sleepy enough take comfort in the fact that nobody ever terrorized you.
I fear the war on terror, because just as magicians are known to distract the audience so as to secretly perform the trick that astounds the audience, so also, elements connected to the warriors who war on terror, can use the distraction of the war on terror to steal, to lie, to murder, to betray, and to bully.
In the recent war in Lebanon, we saw tanks laying out smokescreens in order to elude the anti-tank rockets. In war, we saw combatants attacking hither so as to distract the enemy's attention from thither. Likewise societies are vulnerable to being distracted by projects such as a "war on terror", while they are undermined in other ways.
It is an old grade-school level trick, that some elements amongst the "warriors on terror" are probably not above committing: distracting society from your own guilt, by accusing others of some crime such as the same crime that you yourself are guilty of.
Any "war on terror", involves terrorism directed against alleged terrorists, terrorism that can be turned against innocents, if necessary using the war on the alleged terrorists as an excuse for the terror directed against innocents.
An obsession with the "terrorist threat" posed by a certain group can be dangerous, because it distracts attention from dangers posed by groups other than the "terrifying" group.
In real life the fact of the matter is, that a society can be undermined, conquered, and enslaved, not just be those who threaten to blow your head off if you do not do something, but also by those who are never perceived as a threat, until one day you wake up to find yourself their slave.
"Terror" is a natural part of law and order:
Rom 13:3-4: For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Those who obsessively fret about "terror" can end up turning society against "terrors" that are good, "terrors" that suppress evils.
@2006 David Virgil Hobbs
Because Criminal Elements Use Such Wars To Cover Their Crimes
I fear the war on terror because it gets us obsessed with the crime of terrorism, which leaves us vulnerable to crimes that do not fall into the "terrorism" category.
Theft, is a crime that can be non-terroristic. The thief makes no terroristic threats. Then he steals your money. Then he has your money, but still, he is not being a terrorist.
The liar, takes advantage of you by lying to you. He never makes any threats, but still he gets the better of you by lying.
Even the person who murders you, can be a creature that is not a terrorist: meaning, the murderer never threatens you, the murderer just snuffs out your life.
The traitor, can simply betray your country to foreign powers without ever terrorizing you. All of a sudden, your country is under the control of foreign powers, your country is weakened that foreign powers may benefit, but all the while, nobody has been threatened, nobody has been terrorized.
The heretics and the anti-Christs, can do their dirty work without ever terrorizing anyone. All of a sudden, one day you wake up, and what you see and hear in the media and elsewhere is to your surprise all contradictory of the faith; and those who are not heretics or antichrists find it almost impossible to even earn a living--but you can if you are sleepy enough take comfort in the fact that nobody ever terrorized you.
I fear the war on terror, because just as magicians are known to distract the audience so as to secretly perform the trick that astounds the audience, so also, elements connected to the warriors who war on terror, can use the distraction of the war on terror to steal, to lie, to murder, to betray, and to bully.
In the recent war in Lebanon, we saw tanks laying out smokescreens in order to elude the anti-tank rockets. In war, we saw combatants attacking hither so as to distract the enemy's attention from thither. Likewise societies are vulnerable to being distracted by projects such as a "war on terror", while they are undermined in other ways.
It is an old grade-school level trick, that some elements amongst the "warriors on terror" are probably not above committing: distracting society from your own guilt, by accusing others of some crime such as the same crime that you yourself are guilty of.
Any "war on terror", involves terrorism directed against alleged terrorists, terrorism that can be turned against innocents, if necessary using the war on the alleged terrorists as an excuse for the terror directed against innocents.
An obsession with the "terrorist threat" posed by a certain group can be dangerous, because it distracts attention from dangers posed by groups other than the "terrifying" group.
In real life the fact of the matter is, that a society can be undermined, conquered, and enslaved, not just be those who threaten to blow your head off if you do not do something, but also by those who are never perceived as a threat, until one day you wake up to find yourself their slave.
"Terror" is a natural part of law and order:
Rom 13:3-4: For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Those who obsessively fret about "terror" can end up turning society against "terrors" that are good, "terrors" that suppress evils.
@2006 David Virgil Hobbs
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