Like every other half-alert American citizen, I am following the latest terrorism news from France. Local radio reports that a group headed by a benevolent physician of the Muslim faith will soon demonstrate outside the Providence Journal building. The group supports FREE SPEECH rights everywhere. And so does the newspaper -within the limits of sound business considerations, of course.
But is real life all about phrase mongering? Do real life human beings become terrorists just because the damned majority do not insist that "God is great!" every minute of the day?
We are reducing these terrorists to comic book images. All the better to continue to wage an Orwellian war against perceived enemies of the American Way of Life everywhere? Will our obtuse arrogance end this eternal war?
Did not Marx make a good point when he suggested that eating, working, producing and reproducing were the fundamentals of human society? The human struggle for existence pre-dates any holy texts– secular or religious.
Our own Just Judges sit in judgment on these pathetic terrorists as if they never read a word of Marx or Darwin or Freud.
To: letters@providencejournal.com
But is real life all about phrase mongering? Do real life human beings become terrorists just because the damned majority do not insist that "God is great!" every minute of the day?
We are reducing these terrorists to comic book images. All the better to continue to wage an Orwellian war against perceived enemies of the American Way of Life everywhere? Will our obtuse arrogance end this eternal war?
Did not Marx make a good point when he suggested that eating, working, producing and reproducing were the fundamentals of human society? The human struggle for existence pre-dates any holy texts– secular or religious.
To: letters@providencejournal.com
