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The more I think about it, the more I’m scared. It’s just too big, too easy. And we don’t see it.
What if all this terrorism stuff was just a scam. What if it was just a pretext, a reason, even a mean to get where They wanted to. Maybe They just made it up. One might say : “but what about the 9/11 ? that happened for real!”
What if They just made it happen. There are no proof that the culprits were Arabic. It is just what They gave as a fact. There are no proof of that I believe. And even worse, it could have been Arabic people, but secretly financed/backed up by Them. More likely, They knew that something bad would happen, but they didn’t do anything against it, because it’s part of Their plan. I say, about all this story, where are the profits going to ?

Since then, America has declared war to Afghanistan and Iraq. There has never been any reason to go to Iraq, but because nobody can tell them : “you can’t do that” with actual mean to enforce it, they went. And about Afghanistan, there starts to be some doubts also. It’s just too convenient. Say they wanted to go there, what better way than to have all the planet looking at you after a terrible event with a sad eye “Oh poor them, we need to help them fight the bad terrorists” ? And not just that.

Since then, what else has changed ? security. All kind of security. In the airports, no way to fly from a place to another without being controlled so much that you feel like a terrorist yourself. You can’t even bring your own water with you nowadays, you have to buy it from the airport (that’s funny, isn’t it?). Another flight security tightening has happened also here in Europe. In the EU, one of the best things, is that you can travel around with just your ID card. Nowadays, it’s only if you cross the frontier by other means. It is no longer a fact with planes.
In the USA (and quite probably in some other countries), the government can listen to your calls, ask journalists about their sources, torture starts to be reintroduced in the law (not that they weren’t doing it before anyway, but at least, it wouldn’t need to be a secret anymore, avoiding annoying and time consuming court issues), etc. In the UK, if you “look like” a terrorist, you can be kept by the police as long as they want, and their police has ordered drones for 2010 to fly over the city to keep an eye on the population in the streets.

Finally, while supporting what they think is democracy, many people are actually supporting a growing authoritarianism’s. Many people I talk security with, answered : “Well, I don’t care, I don’t have anything to hide.” Sure, with such reaction, authoritarianism won’t have to much work to do ! Ever heard about privacy ? The more you go with security, the less you have privacy. How long are we going to accept that most of our emails are read/scanned before they are delivered ? Democracy isn’t just about freely choosing leaders. It’s also about freedom. If my freedom is limited, not by other people’s, but “for my own security”, then I’m not longer living in a democracy.
And for those who think : “but I can still choose who I want to be my leader !”, I’d answer : “can you really ? do you really ?”. I personally have strong doubts about the way the last presidential elections went in the USA. That, at the end, everything was depending on Florida results, and Florida was suddenly so slow to give them, or that Florida governor was the brother of the candidate … I’m also quite suspicious about the way it went in France : there was suddenly so many candidates from the left wing, and everything was made for people to be uninterested about the vote. As a result, those who wanted to make a strong statement, either against the usual two main parties, or for extremist ideas (and also because security was the strongest point of the campaign), and who voted for the far-right, represented suddenly more people than the main left wing party. It was then so easy for the main right wing party to win over the second round.
And anyway, when you choose between two candidates, is it still democracy ?

I’d add that it is not the proper of democracy to go to war. It’s usely stronger form of government’s, like dictatorships. But funnily enough, it hasn’t been Iraq declaring war … You would think also that democracies should support democracies in other countries. But USA has been official sponsor of most of South American dictators. UK and France have been supporting dictatorships in Africa. The world’s democracies have been guilty of just closing their eyes. And even lately, in Palestinian territories, when people democratically (or as close to it as it can get there) chose Hamas to lead them, other democracies condemn them for doing so. It seems like Palestinian leaders should be democratically elected by USA and EU leaders, like Iraq’s leader has been democratically elected by Bush.
So what’s gonna happen now ? Police will get more power, more troops. It’s happening already, in the USA, in the UK, in France, in Germany, in Italy, etc. Agencies like CIA will get more power too. Informations that were so far spread in different places will get centralized. And more and more, our freedom of speech will be reduced. We criticize now Russia for their lack of it. I think they are just faster with it.

I know I’m quite negative today, but this story is not that hard to believe. Just look around you. It might just be there. Have a good day.