Although this website was
never intended to be a political statement because of the events of September
11, 2001 I feel it is important for all Americans to exercise their right of
freedom of speech and let their views be known.
As a wife of a Veteran who
carries both the physical and emotional scars of the war in Viet Nam, some people believe we should be
against America
going to war.And like all peace loving
Americans, we don’t want a war but, we realize there are times when you have to
fight to protect the rights we hold so dear.As Native Americans we know better than most, the necessity to protect
our home land.As Native Americans we
understand the ideology of protecting the holy land of Mecca.After all, we too have struggled to protect our sacred historical
sites.But even though we may understand
the ideology we condemn the methods.If
Osama Ben Laden truly loves his people, and Ala
as he professes he would turn himself in to the UN and force the United States
to prove his guilt.Our laws are based
upon the presumption of innocence. But I
don’t believe his motives are religious but rather an attempt to rule the world
using Ala and
the religious teachings to control and brainwash people as surely as any other
cult leader.The most dangerous person
in the world is a person who believes he is acting on behalf of his “God”, and
his actions will bring him the eternal reward in heaven.There is no fear when you believe you have an
express elevator straight to the right hand of God.This is not a religious war but an attempt by
Ben Laden to set himself up as the World Dictator.
In 1993 after the first attack
on the WorldTradeCenter
my thoughts were “what a brilliant way to bring down the world economy”.As we have seen in the last few weeks, Ben
Laden has brought the world economy to it’s knees.Each day that we live in fear, each day we
are forced to shut down our airways and our National Monuments, he has
accomplished his goal.Each drop in the
stock market only furthers his goals.And yet in this time of uncertainty we must protect our freedom as much
as our security.We also must not repeat
the inequities of World War II where we relocated Japanese American’s to
internment camps, and at the same time we must bring those responsible to
justice.How do we separate those
exercising their freedom of speech from those attempting to overthrow the
government?We are in a precarious
situation and must shift our paradigm of our thinking.We truly are one world.
We can no longer afford to hate
based upon the color of a person’s skin, nationality, religion, dress, language
or even sexual orientation.As Timothy
McVeigh proved terrorism is not distinguishable by color, race, religion or
even place of birth but rather is a mentality.The same mentality that brought the acts of Tim McVeigh is the same type
of mentality that brought the acts of violence from the KKK, the Nazi Party and
any other organization or persons who perpetrate hate crimes.I fear that this will be the next step in our
cultural evolution and I urge each of you to look beyond the façade of a
person’s appearance and get to know the real person.There is good and evil in all people.
Terrorism’s purpose is not just destruction but fear and disruption of normal
life.Terrorism feeds on mistrust fear
and hatred.We have choices to
make.Do we become victims or
survivors?Are we part of the solution
or part of the problem.We all have
choices to make.Now, more than ever,
the choices make effect not only our future, our children’s future for the end
of all times but the future of the world.
