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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

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Do we really need to pay a price to get a good democracy and real freedom?

September 11th 2001 changed many things in the interpersonal relationships.

New fears nobody thought about before. Some of these fears are real and some of them are definitely .... not.

We assisted to so many episodes of intolerance where articulate hands moves the puppets of our fears is such a subtle way we loose the sense of the reality and the objectivity of it.

Before 9/11 we lived in a status of stable instability in which we accepted the possibility of an air crash or a battle in the Basque region or in the Northern Ireland because it made part of an historical process of research of stability.

But after 9/11 we now live in a status of unstable stability. In this new world people passively accept to give up their personal freedom putting in charge someone else to manage our personal ambitions, travels, religion choices and even tastes in music to listen to and movies to watch.


  • This is the era of the scape goats, CD burning, wars of conquest, religious fanatism, religious intolerance.
  • This is the era of men masquerade by Gods.
  • This is the era in which people are so scared of the administration of their own country that more than the 50% of the population believes that there are different conspiracy theories behind 9/11.
  • This is the era of the Patriot Act and the telephone espionage.
  • This is the era of Gitmo and Abu Grahib and many other CIA prisons as admitted today by President George W. Bush himself to "save innocent lives". (http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/06/bush.speech/index.html).
  • This is the era of changing the constitution to classify citizens who have the same duties (especially in paying taxes) but certainly not the same rights.
  • This is the era in which a cartoon of Mohammed can put upside down the entire world and in which people can create contests to have fun of the holocaust.
  • This is the era in which kids die in car bombing, missile attacks or just hunged because of their sexuality.
  • This is the era of go "naked" on a plane or drink your own brest milk to test you are not a terrorist.
  • This is the era of Prime Ministers who call "morons" the population of an entire country and Presidents who believe that God is at their side both in the east and in the west worlds.
  • This is the era in which diplomacy is considered a "bad joke".
  • This is the era in which suddenly you discover to have 11 and more million illegal immigrants in your country and you need to buid up a 2000 mile "great wall" as an extended version of the "Berlin wall".
  • This is the era in which AIDS in Africa in less important than oil power.
  • This is an era in which people in Darfur can be decimated like locusts and women raped by soldiers.
  • This is the era in which is much better to send a poor ignorant teenager to war and be sure he will hate the "enemy" because he's been instructed like this while keeping home the teenagers of the Senators and the Congressmen well far from the war.
  • This is an era of intelligent music phobia (Dixie Chicks).
  • This is an era in which being a xenophobe, a non-infedel (in any religion) and an homophobe has to be rewarded rather than being sent to a therapist.
  • This is the era of the return to the temporal power of the church well before the Vatican Coucil I.
  • This is the era in which celibacy and pedophilia mix their roots together but the scape goats are gays and lesbians.
  • This is the era in which we don't study new languages because we need to have only one: the language of the strongest.
  • This is the era in which an hurricane can humiliate an entire nation.
  • this is an era in which weapons kill kids, AIDS kills kids, missiles are signed by kids and countries are deafeated by civil aircrafts full of kids inside.

So, this is the post 9/11 world in which we lost at least 200 centuries of civil, human and diplomatic victories plus 3000 people in the towers, several hundred thousands in this and that war and several millions for AIDS all around the world.

I'm still a believer theat the world "before 9/11" is the real one and that this world is just a big nightmare and one day we will finally wake up and understand that all these ghosts were just an illusion.

Even if it's not true ...
I HAVE TO BELIEVE IT TO SAVE MY INTEGRITY!


Follows hereafter the story of an outrageous incident at the JFK airport. How a t-shirt can become a "very distructive weapon of mass distruction".

I went to JFK in the morning to catch my Jet Blue plane to California. I
reached Terminal 6 at around 7:15 am, issued a boarding pass, and
checked all my bags in, and then walked to the security checkpoint. For
the first time in my life, I was taken to a secondary search . My shoes
were searched, and I was asked for my boarding pass and ID. After
passing the security, I walked to check where gate 16 was, then I went
to get something to eat. I got some cheese and grapes with some orange
juice and I went back to Gate 16 and sat down in the boarding area
enjoying my breakfast and some sunshine.
At around 8:30, two men approached me while I was checking my phone. One
of them asked me if I had a minute and he showed me his badge, I said:
"sure". We walked some few steps and stood in front of the boarding
counter where I found out that they were accompanied by another person,
a woman from Jet Blue.
One of the two men who approached me first, Inspector Harris, asked for
my id card and boarding pass. I gave him my boarding pass and driver's
license. He said "people are feeling offended because of your t-shirt".
I looked at my t-shirt: I was wearing my shirt which states in both
Arabic and English "we will not be silent". You can take a look at it in
this picture taken during our Jordan meetings with Iraqi MPs. I said "I
am very sorry if I offended anyone, I didnt know that this t-shirt will
be offensive". He asked me if I had any other T-shirts to put on, and I
told him that I had checked in all of my bags and I asked him "why do
you want me to take off my t-shirt? Isn't it my constitutional right to
express myself in this way?" The second man in a greenish suit
interfered and said "people here in the US don't understand these things
about constitutional rights". So I answered him "I live in the US, and I
understand it is my right to wear this t-shirt".
Then I once again asked the three of them : "How come you are asking me
to change my t-shirt? Isn't this my constitutional right to wear it? I
am ready to change it if you tell me why I should. Do you have an order
against Arabic t-shirts? Is there such a law against Arabic script?" so
inspector Harris answered "you can't wear a t-shirt with Arabic script
and come to an airport. It is like wearing a t-shirt that reads "I am a
robber" and going to a bank". I said "but the message on my t-shirt is
not offensive, it just says "we will not be silent". I got this t-shirt
from Washington DC. There are more than a 1000 t-shirts printed with the
same slogan, you can google them or email them at
mailto:wewillnotbesilent@gmail.com

<http://us.f546.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=wewillnotbesilent%40gmail.com>.
It is printed in many other languages:
Arabic, Farsi, Spanish, English, etc." Inspector Harris said: "We cant
make sure that your t-shirt means we will not be silent, we don't have a
translator. Maybe it means something else". I said: "But as you can see,
the statement is in both Arabic and English". He said "maybe it is not
the same message". So based on the fact that Jet Blue doesn't have a
translator, anything in Arabic is suspicious because maybe it'll mean
something bad!
Meanwhile, a third man walked in our direction. He stood with us without
introducing himself, and he looked at inspector Harris's notes and asks
him: "is that his information?", inspector Harris answered "yes". The
third man, Mr. Harmon, asks inspector Harris : "can I copy this
information?", and inspector Harris says "yes, sure".
inspector Harris said: "You don't have to take of your t-shirt, just put
it on inside-out". I refused to put on my shirt inside-out. So the woman
interfered and said "let's reach a compromise. I will buy you a new
t-shirt and you can put it on on top of this one". I said "I want to
keep this t-shirt on". Both inspector Harris and Mr. Harmon said "No, we
can't let you get on that airplane with your t-shirt". I said "I am
ready to put on another t-shirt if you tell me what is the law that
requires such a thing. I want to talk to your supervisor". Inspector
Harris said "You don't have to talk to anyone. Many people called and
complained about your t-shirt. Jetblue customers were calling before you
reached the checkpoint, and costumers called when you were waiting here
in the boarding area".
it was then that I realized that my t-shirt was the reason why I had
been taken to the secondary checking.
I asked the four people again to let me talk to any supervisor, and they
refused.
The Jet Blue woman was asking me again to end this problem by just
putting on a new t-shirt, and I felt threatened by Mr. Harmon's remarks
as in "Let's end this the nice way". Taking in consideration what
happens to other Arabs and Muslims in US airports, and realizing that I
will miss my flight unless I covered the Arabic script on my t-shirt as
I was told by the four agents, I asked the Jet Blue woman to buy me a
t-shirt and I said "I don't want to miss my flight."
She asked, what kind of t-shirts do you like. Should I get you an "I
heart new york t-shirt?". So Mr. Harmon said "No, we shouldn't ask him
to go from one extreme to another". I asked mr. harmon why does he
assume I hate new york if I had some Arabic script on my t-shirt, but he
didn't answer.
The woman went away for 3 minutes, and she came back with a gray t-shirt
reading "new york". I put the t-shirt on and removed the price tag. I
told the four people who were involved in the conversation: "I feel very
sad that my personal freedom was taken away like this. I grew up under
authoritarian governments in the Middle East, and one of the reasons I
chose to move to the US was that I don't want an officer to make me
change my t-shirt. I will pursue this incident today through a
Constitutional rights organization, and I am sure we will meet soon".
Everyone said okay and left, and I went back to my seat.
At 8:50 I was called again by a fourth young man, standing with the same
jetblue woman. He asked for my boarding pass, so I gave it to him, and
stood in front of the boarding counter. I asked the woman: "is
everything okay?", she responded: "Yes, sure. We just have to change
your seat". I said: "but I want this seat, that's why I chose it online
4 weeks ago", the fourth man said " there is a lady with a toddler
sitting there. We need the seat."
Then they re-issued me a small boarding pass for seat 24a, instead of
seat 3a. They said that I can go to the airplane now. I was the first
person who entered the airplane, and I was really annoyed about being
assigned this seat in the back of the airplane too. It smelled like the
bathrooms, which is why I had originally chosen a seat which would be
far from that area.

It sucks to be an Arab/Muslim living in the US these days. When you go
to the middle east, you are a US tax-payer destroying people's houses
with your money, and when you come back to the US, you are a suspected
terrorist and plane hijacker.

< http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/21/1348224#transcript>to hear more.

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