September 20, 2001

  • The Use of Force


    Terror which is allowed to perpetrate itself is cold and deadly and unrelenting.

    Terror turned back upon itself screams effusively with the ultimate terror as it itself is extinguished. Like matter and anti-matter meeting--a final flurry, then gone.

    Terror in the world today is intended as a means to our end. We must recursively realign it through counter-terrorism to serve only as a means to its own end.

    Firemen in forests, at times, fight fire with fire when they torch a firewall.



    Are they arsonists?  If you think so, I hope you do not live close to a forest with no firefighters (who at times --by means--must be firestarters ) to protect you.


    Do we need to oversee the use of fire, the use of force? 


    Yes, of course.  Lest we fall into a situation like we did earlier this year where government-sponsored "preventative burnoffs" led to actual raging, uncontrolled wildfires out west.


    But if we dispense with fire to fight fire altogether because we fear that we ourselves may go to excess, then we are fools with one less tool to pummel the fiery maelstrom.


    You can't both empower a fireman and frisk him/her down for matches.

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