The Very Idea Of The Word Terrorist

What is a terrorist? Is there such an animal as a terrorist? How can one tell whether or not one is a terrorist? Is the word terrorist an overused word or politically-correct term invented for the current world we live in?

I’ve been asking myself these questions over and over and over and over again lately because I’ve personally have begun to wonder what a real terrorist is and no one seems to know or is able to give me a definite answer.

Are those Middle Easterners really the true bad guys like our honest president indicates they are? Or are they just trying to protect their country from invaders that just happen to come from America and are planning on overstaying their welcome?

Maybe, the real terrorists are those baby boys and girls dressed in blue or black who terrorize us in America morning, noon and night, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You know the people I’m referring to, those little official-looking people that drive around in those official-looking black & white and sometimes blue four-door Mercury, Ford or Dodge cruisers, that go around terrorizing honest citizens for running red lights, loud mufflers, broken taillights, expired license plate stickers, do random & often times illegal searches of cars and homes and racial profiling, just because a person “looks suspicious.”

It’s that same kind of person that conducts business “on the level” and “under the table & through the back door,” the same kind of person that sometimes uses their badge as a weapon of brutality to let you know who is in charge.

I’m talking about cops, man! The pigs! The fuzz! The police! The tough American guy and gal terrorists who pass their work time in hotdog stands and leave their vehicles running for 15 minutes wasting precious gasoline his department paid for with money allotted from the city, kind of like that Evanston copper I saw yesterday afternoon (Wednesday, December 14) who drove up in car number 69, (oh what a coincidence) about 3pm in front of Mustard’s Last Stand while I was scraping off the ice on my windshield during that terrific freezing rainstorm.

Why is it that public servants like that officer who are paid well to guard our streets and patrol our neighborhoods abuse their privileges anyway? Who do these bastard terrorists think they are anyway?

Or…

Maybe the real terrorists were those Yonegi settlers who butchered, raped and pilfered anything or anybody they could when they found that the Native American Indians imposing on their claimed territories, when quite actually it was the opposite!

The Indians never had a chance, in light of the fact that the U. S. Government took away much of their land and broke countless land treaties over the years, so perhaps they are terrorists too. Terrorists! Of all things the United States government to be! After all, that’s who they claim they are fighting are the terrorists! Strange, huh?

So how is one classified to being labeled as a terrorist anyway? Do they have to behave badly in order to be one? Do they have to have a different skin color other than Yonegi (white or off-white)?

Do they have to say terrible things about other countries; threaten its people or make long-winded statements about everything and nothing in reality and everything virtual? Do they make blanket statements about blowing up valuable pieces of properties or attempt to take people hostages or get mad over the smallest of problems?

Do these people sometimes babble on about things that make no sense to you or me and when push comes to shove, they break like an egg? When traffic is bad or someone cuts them off and the situation escalates into possible road rage, does that count too?

When a relationship goes bad between a man and woman or a man and a man or a woman and a woman, do they vow revenge and tell the other that if they can’t have them, no one will?

Are the citizens of this sovereign nation we call America secretly growing or becoming terrorists as we speak? Does television, radio and media, including magazines, music and the Internet influence our decisions to become domestic terrorists whether we realize it or not?

I think so. And that’s a sad, but continuing reality of our world.