america, we love you. i am sitting in a terminal, watching peoples faces and the orange signs... apparently one is at a high risk flying, for there is an elevated fear of a terrorist attack. i wonder why the airport officials don't tell us why. luckily, fort lauderdale hollywood airport offers free wireless. i trekked to the US homeland security website to try to discover why. Apparently "[t]he National Intelligence Estimate cited heightened activity overseas and [theyre] mindful of the recent arrests in Europe. There has also been an upward trend in propaganda tapes ad messages coming from Al Qaeda and affiliated networks over the past year." Has there been? Why don't we hear about it? Well, the media is backed by the government. I relish in the name of the committee, "the National Intelligence Estimate." I think that such heightened awareness of "the Other" contributes to feeling of discrimination and danger in the atmosphere of an airport. Is it more likely that a little dark-haired "typical" teenager is a terrorist or a Hasidic Jew? Sometimes I feel like finding George Orwell's grave, waking his bones, and letting him know that he is right. I think it would be much safer to not live in America. I think it would be safer to support a politician who advocates hope and change. I think the White House needs to make a serious change before more countries begin to harbor pure hatred toward us. I don't think it is easy to be an American these days. I don't think it ever was easy to be an American. We have had such a problematic existence. We have made our homes on the land of those who look and behave differently. I don't think that our actions from a few hundred years ago differ from our actions today.
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