When I think of the bombing of the World Trade Center, I still develop goosepimples; why because I saw the planes on tv ramming the towers which then got pulverized going down to the ground. I saw that while I was alone in my small condo unit over and over again. I texted all my relatives and friends there and they replied that they were also watching it.
How could that scene ever occur on this planet? What kind of mind could have planned it without feeling any pangs of guilt over killing thousands of innocent people? Apparently terrorists still think that no one is free to say no to their demands. Everyone must kowtow to how they want the world to be run.
To stop such terroristic ideas is to deal with the mind. I wonder how much of our schoolbooks from Grades 1 up to college, have yearly lessons on democratic procedures? What does it mean when we say we have to listen to other people's views before positing our own? What does it mean when we assert that the government has to take this initiative above all else?
Every corner of our society must have reminders about democracy, the voice of the people. Let us remove all those posters, tarpaulins that remind us all the time how we have to say thank you for building this or that road, lighting up the streets, etcetera. Such signs only make us squirm in terror that our money, the taxes that we paid are being used to glamourize the names of those people we had elected. The people's money is the people's money and must be used for the people's projects. History itself will be the one to thank those who have served, not those elected people forcing the public to thank them. We must only thank them for serving well, and not be reminded all the time --"Hey I am great, here I am doing this." That is their function today. Gratitude will come later at the end of his or her term.
Christian values teach us, "Don't do unto others what you want others to do unto you," but this does not seem to seep through the minds of everyone. We tend to ignore or skim over things that show some people putting one on top of us all the time even through such minute acts of putting up such reminders.
Let us stop being doormats. Let us have a consistent value of being Christian and being democratic. Are they reconcilable? That we must study well and apply. If we do, terrorists will not have a place on this earth at all.
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