Just Looking ...

I recently saw Steven Spielberg's 'War of the Worlds'. At one point in the movie when Tom Cruise is telling his kids what the terror they're running from is, his son says: " Is it terrorists?" to which Tom replies: "No, these guys are from someplace else." His son asks: "What? Like Europe?!" What, like Europe...hmm. It made me think about Bush's "state of Emergency" and his declaration of "The War on Terror." It's obvious to me that the one creating terror for the American people is their dear president George W. - so who's the terrorist exactly? The American people don't want to say anything too loudly for fear of being deemed 'unpatriotic'. (Look what happened to the Dixie Chicks...) It's easier to recognize evil when it's 'foreign'. How terrifying would it be for the US people to collectively admit that they are being governed by a terrorist? The very thing they have been taught to fear the most. What to do when the enemy isn't some far away land whose constructed image bears no relation to the reality of the place? How would American's fully come to terms with the truth: the terrorist is not only among them - he is their president!
I wonder which ethnic group would fill the spot of 'terrorists' if there weren't Islamics? It would have to be people who the American people could tell apart from "them". It would have to be a place far enough away to avoid any truth to interfere with the construction...
A couple of weeks ago on the Colbert Report's 'Threat Down', Colbert lists the top 5 threats to American people. Check out this link. It's completely hilarious and totally successful in bringing out 'the exnominated'....
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_colbert_report/threatdown/threatdown_060806.jhtml
Too bad most of the people watching his show are those who already share his opinions. Like preaching to the choir...the question is, how to get the atheists to come into the church?...