Freedom - Bondage - Fear - Gratitude.
Sep. 27th, 2001 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ayeliennethe taliban shows its true colors by threatening UN workers who are trying to provide food to Afghans. UN states that at least 1 million Afghans are in emminent danger of starvation if they don't get workers back into the country.
They are so intent on maintaining control that they are willing to starve "their own" people - but whether or not the Afghans are truly the taliban's people is up for serious debate.
The taliban rules via fear, intimidation, and propaganda. They keep people ignorant, starving and afraid. The freedoms we have in this country are obviously unacceptable to totalitarian governments.
What do you think that the people of Afghanistan would do if they had access to the simple freedoms granted to us, such as freedom of the press, let alone freedom of speech?
The taliban would not be in power - simple as that. Look at what happened in the Soviet Union when Gorbachev allowed a bit of 'westernization'. Communism fell. People learned they had options.
When people are aware that they have options, they are more likely to make changes. Keeping people ignorant and afraid is the way of cowards, of people who know that others would never stand for the laws imposed on them, if only they knew a different way.
The wisdom and foresight of the founders of our great nation is truly remarkable.
I for one, am so grateful for the freedoms allowed to me as an American.
Thank you, framers of the constitution and the declaration of independence.
They are so intent on maintaining control that they are willing to starve "their own" people - but whether or not the Afghans are truly the taliban's people is up for serious debate.
The taliban rules via fear, intimidation, and propaganda. They keep people ignorant, starving and afraid. The freedoms we have in this country are obviously unacceptable to totalitarian governments.
What do you think that the people of Afghanistan would do if they had access to the simple freedoms granted to us, such as freedom of the press, let alone freedom of speech?
The taliban would not be in power - simple as that. Look at what happened in the Soviet Union when Gorbachev allowed a bit of 'westernization'. Communism fell. People learned they had options.
When people are aware that they have options, they are more likely to make changes. Keeping people ignorant and afraid is the way of cowards, of people who know that others would never stand for the laws imposed on them, if only they knew a different way.
The wisdom and foresight of the founders of our great nation is truly remarkable.
I for one, am so grateful for the freedoms allowed to me as an American.
Thank you, framers of the constitution and the declaration of independence.