Monday, July 11, 2005

Fighting international terrorism for the past millennium

homeland security fighting terrorism since 1492

Terrorism, international terrorism, terrorist attack, terrorist alert, extreme Islam, security, fighting terrorism... Strong words, used to control the people, to make them accept whatever they want to be accepted, to not question or they will suddenly be stamped as the voices of Bin Laden, thus terrorists...

I like to keep things in perspective. If you don't know the history of the humanity for at least the past 2-3 thousand years, you are more or less living from hand to mouth.
So let's go back a few hundred years.

I chose the picture above for liking it. I wouldn't for sure wear that shirt when I'll fly, but I like it for giving a bit more perspective. Go back in the time to 1492. What did the good Europeans do? Stayed in the Americas less than 90 days, did not work...? And after all, they of course did nothing that could be described with the word terror or terrorism. What if the Native Americans would have been able to fight back the way US now is doing that? Go home, you white, religious freakos, and stay in Europe. Don't come to kill us, torture us, make us slaves, die for White diseases, lose our religion, deprive us from our land, cattle and women...

Go back to the same year or century, and follow again these white good guys. If around the parts of the world where you have Israel now there has been fighting and killing for the past few millennia, who knows which was worse, the Europeans doing what their pope and Catholic church asked them to do (steal and deprive them from the treasures and money, I mean to spread the Christian religion) or the people living there? Who after all invented all the fairytales in the original fairytale book about being special, selected people, stories that were later adopted by Christianity and Islam (same God, so why all the hassle?). I think I see these 'selected people' more innocent, simply as they lived there, whereas the Europeans were there for greed (religion, whatever).

Or go back another few centuries... Mediterranean Europe around 900 CE (Common Era). That wasn't far as Christian as most non-Mediterraneans think. It was the Arabic time in the Mediterraneo. Culturally far from barbaric, in arts and architecture and kitchen something amazing, creative ... the Churches were converted when the regions became governed by the Arabs to mosquees, only to be be re-converted back to churches a few hundred years later. How did these transfers from one power, governor, religion and so on happen, peacefully and with no fight? By suddenly the governing Arabs warning the people about the terrorists, starting a war against terrorism - Christianity? The religions and the people were cohabiting in the same cities, so the Jews lived their own way, the Muslims lived their own way, and the various Christians lived their own way. This before the Catholic church split to the reformed versions, before Luther and who ever invented that Jews actually had it wrong and so on. Until then the White people had all its crusades to convert the barbars, locals, to the Christianity (and take care of their treaswure on the same time), and they continued to crusade, to discover new continents (of which the non-White people had been unaware for thousands of years totally unaware - all they needed were the White Europeans to come and tell them that they did exist, and that they were inferior than them).

Once the reforms of the Church had started, they continued to occur on faster pace. Some of them probably went a bit wrong, a bit extreme, to the point of the religious freaks feeling oppressed in Europe. For being weird. So a few centuries after they went on their own crusades, looking for their promised land, to live in peace and sometimes converting the locals too. As Mormons and Amish and [insert a lot of small weird religious groups here] went to the Americas, they were for sure not the most scaring people around, and probably were for peace too. As they felt oppressed and not too welcome to stay in Europe, they didn't have any intent to stay in the continent less than 90 days, and to be just a turist, not working there either. Add groups of several, at least dozens of religious minorities, just an overdose of White people stealing, depriving, religiously converting...

Homeland Security lost its fight against the international terrorism pretty far. Yes there are a few million of Natives left, but compare it to pre-Columbus era, thus before 1492. Millions of people have innocently been killed for the name of God, religion, economical profit, greed. Religions were lost, as these White terrorists brang their own. Histories were rewritten, at least for all the continent, for its millions of Natives and all the tribes.

Just what if the Natives would have had the way to protect themselves? To send the Europeans back to Europe withing their 90 days, to have them transport the Africans back to Africa...

I am nowhere saying that killing is fine in this text. In fact, I don't think killing is acceptable ever.
I don't just think the media or the political powers have been very fair in regards of 9/11. What happened 11 September 2001 in New York or 7 July in London did lead to (a few) thousands (and tens) of innocent people die, but it has as well lead millions of people being terrorized daily, by the fear of the 'terrorist alerts' (just tell me when do you really think the terrorist alert color would go to green?) in the news, by people being terrorized mentally constantly. Terrorists this, terrorists that...

It has not been very nice time for those who are non-Christians, and who are not of White but Mid- or Far Eastern origin. Well, Jesus probably didn't physically look like a French lady, at least I would think it's not very likely he was blond and with the traditional features as he has when presented in the European traditional religious arts and presentations. Genetically, being from those parts of the World, he probably was far closer looking like Osama Bin Laden than a French lady.

People are not terrorists only because and if they happen to be of non-Christian religion. People are not automatically non-terrorists only because they are Christians. In the name of religious tolerance I feel the development has been backwords - as if it was now unacceptable to be a Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, any non-Christian... including the Native religions.