We are tipping over

Don't our leaders get it? We have PASSED the tipping point!

When the design is to put the Freedom Tower on a 200 foot concrete pedestal, it becomes the Fear Tower.

When police in a "civilized" nation adopt a policy of shoot-to-kill based on suspicion, we have lost an essential charactersitic of liberty.

Of course it is UNDERSTANDABLE! I know why it is happening. It is to protect us from terrorists. That is my point. We are circling the wagons and we have "them" both inside the circle and out. Frightening, isn't it?!

You see, the question of who wins and who loses is paramount in the minds of both groups, "us" and "them". And they know what we do to the losers from the long history of our treatment of aboriginal populations.

We should have learned from the adventures of the West in China and India. In some cases it really is best to let the other group win early on, so they can become an equal partner in our world. But no, we have to control the oil, don't we? Because what would happen to our standard of living if we didn't? Who would be rich and who would be poor then?

What is being done in our (yours and mine, the people's) name?

This from the following article in today's (Wednesday, July 27, 2005)Washinton Post:

In Britain, a Divide Over Racial Profiling
Mistaken Killing by Police Sets Off Debate
By Glenn Frankel and Tamara Jones
Washington Post Foreign Service

LONDON, July 26

Yet after facing two coordinated bombing attacks on the city's transit system -- one of which killed 56 people, including the bombers, and injured 700 -- many people say they understand the reasons for the policy. "Shoot-to-kill keeps us secure, and I feel protected, but at the same time I'm scared," said Angel Henry, 22, an airline employee who is part Jamaican and says that at times she feels singled out for having black features. "It's a Catch-22 situation. We've got to just ride it out."

We are tipping over and "We've got to just ride it out."

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Note: Read Dora Graham's article in the Authers Den entitled,

"England My England!"

http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=18906