Ask The Ass Mondays - Reflection

Last week Jim or Capcity asked me about my thoughts on the 9/11 Anniversary that just past us. Whenever you mention 9/11 there are many different political and personal takes on the issues that are important. I had to go all the way back to Disney's "The Twilight Zone" to describe my feelings. At the end of this episode, The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, the people of Maple St. are fight among themselves while they try to figure out who among them is an Alien. The Alien sit on a hill above the town watching them fight among themselves, because their way of life was disrupted.

The tradegy on 9/11 is not that 3,000 people died or that 5 years later we are at war, the tradegy is the freedoms we have handed over to the government for the sake of finding terrorist. Americans have made lines at the airports long with many restrictions. Americans have given our government the right to wire tap those suppected of terrorism. Whenever we have a problem we are not asking what we can do, but asking "What is the government going to do about this?"

Politicians know that most people are followers and people will give away their responsiblity to almost anybody, so that they won't be held responsible. 9/11 wasn't the first time Americans have given away their freedom. Another disasterest time was when then Democratic president gave a private company, the Federal Reserve Bank, the right to print "the people's" money (because we were to stupid to do it ourself). Rothchild sumed it up best, "If I control the printing of money I care not who is in office." As history proves itself another event will happen that we will give more responsiblity to our governments.