Congress, Heros, villians
  If anyone has been monitoring the US Congress (as if) they should have noted a number of rather questionable activities seem to have come to the forefront. Congress tried to block removal of feeding tube from the woman in Florida by issuing a Subpoena.. so once again we see Congress abusing its power... on the other side we see them weighing in on steroid usage,, sure let's have another federal law, which will cause more problems than it solves,,, does anybody care????

  The "Hero" term has become such a widely used term now, that anyone is now a "hero" if they do anything,,, ANYTHING in America which might happen to make the News...
  Where or perhaps when did doing your job make you a "hero"? When did killing, regardless of military service in support of government, become "hero" work? When did creating a new government agency make you a "hero"?
  To be a "hero" prior to the "WAR" one had to actually save somone or a group of people, like a firefighter entering a burning building and saving an elderly person or child... or a police officer saving some trapped motorist from a life threatening situation.. or some every day "Joe or Joesephine" saving someone from something harmful...
  So who are the heros now??? No matter how much the parents of soldiers killed in some war somewhere wish their child called a "hero", the term connotates something more...

  In contrast, the world is now supposedly filled with "villians",,, those who just don't quite fit in to the "normal" outlook of society.. yet who would be a greater villian, the supposed "terrorist" or the ones who quietly corrupt governments from within? One is visible, their damage can be seen and is shown on the News. The other is unseen, hidden, working covertly to acheive private agendas,, yet possible causing more deaths, more destruction, more chaos than the visible.. here the damage is not instant, but long in exposure,,, people get used to the activity, it becomes the "norm"...
  Is the world now a safer place to live in? Hardly....
  Is the United States now safer,,, Hardly, yet billions have been spent,, but where?

  New intrusive Laws become, after time, acceptable, no, the people foget what they lost, just the Law, unquestioned, unpatriotic to do so...
  "Activists" lose their way on the way to acheiving their own goals, side track into oblivion, complacency....
  And the world turns the page to "acceptable containment" called "national security"...
- posted by Maurice @ Saturday, March 19, 2005