Now THERE’S a crock of shit I’ve WAY too many damned times already. Try to get it through your thick liberal skull, Jon, WE are not responsible for what those horrid, ugly bastards did to us. Shit, if it was not for the oil the west buys from the mid-east those turds would still be hopping from oasis to oasis on their camels and spending their nights picking each other clean of sand fleas! Can they appreciate what we’ve done for them? Not one damned bit. They see fit to envoke the name of their child-molester prophet to justify killing our children, women and old people. They didn’t have the balls to say right up front “We hate you and we’re coming after you.” (Shades of Pearl Harbor, 1941). No Jon, you can take that “Oh, it’s all our fault” idiocy and stick it right up your backside. We’re not the bad guys here and I’ll stand up and challenge you every time you try to assert it.

The only thing that changed that day is the realization that people really hate our government and us outside of our limited perceptions. They hated us previous to that day, and that has remained constant since as well. The only thing that changed is that they had some success. And the hysteria and paranoia created by that success makes them even more succesfull then just killing a few hundred people. We as a people and the government have played into the hands of the conspirators of the acts of 9/11. I have stated in the past, that I would rather die at the hands of a terrorist attack then to live without the freedoms I have been taught that we have in this country. And I am still willing to do such to this date. Damn public safety if it means that we have to give up any freedoms in this society. I am willing to sacrifice my life for these freedoms.

Freedom has never been free. Many have died so we can have it. Many are fighting today because they believe in it, in Afghanistan and locally. There is, and always will be a price for our freedoms, and it will never be measured in Dollars or Euros.

During my college years I spent my junior year at the Free University in West Berlin. During a visit in East Berlin, I started to photograph a bombed out building which had trees growing in the interior and through some of the windows. Up came a plainclothes secret police officer who demanded to see my passport, and then advised me it was forbidden to photograph the building. I thought when I got home to Wisconsin, such fascist nonsense was behind me. Guess I was wrong.

“Hey, what are you doing?”

“I’m keeping terrorists away.”

“What? Stop taking pictures. It is not allowed here.”

“I can’t do that. As long as I keep photographing this building, it will keep chasing the terrorists away. ”

“What are talking about?”

“Have there been any terrorists attacks while I’ve been here? No. See? It works.”

and my take on it:
http://blog.monkeymetal.com/2009/12/story-in-the-isthmus/

Would they pay particular attention to someone sketching from right-to-left as it might indicate a person with Arabic influences?