Fight Terrorism at Home
(What? You can't read Arabic? Well here is the English translation)Citizens and residents of multi-cultural Australia cannot afford to be extremists. We should endeavour to remain moderate and resist the calls from both George Bush and his extremist opponents to take sides in their "global struggle" as it has been narrowly defined.
Australians must remain pluralist, and be free to practice any religion (or no religion) under the rule of our national laws.
However, the world's natural laws must also be obeyed by all nations. The United States and Australia encourage the grossest excesses of Western consumerism. Combined with global over-population, it is placing an intolerable strain on the Earth's natural life-support systems.
Let us not forget that George Bush is an oil man whose rejection of the Kyoto protocol poses a severe threat to millions of people around the world. Poor people everywhere are vulnerable to droughts, floods and massive storms. Afghanistan right now is suffering the worst drought in 25 years, an event predicted by Australia's CSIRO scientists and by their computer models of global warming. Global warming can also be thought of as a form of "terrorism" because it is a powerful, unstoppable, and unfeeling destroyer of human lives.
If Bush wants even grudging support from Australians to defeat alleged terrorist threats, then we should demand that the Australian and US governments will immediately ratify the Kyoto Protocol. (sorry about the "typo" in the Arabic where it says "potocol" - you know what we mean!). Global warming is just as big a threat to the future of human civilization as the threat that Bush perceives in Osama bin Laden.
Impatient young people might understandably wish give the United States a bloody nose because of its corporate excesses, and its unforgivably arrogant attitude in world affairs. Be restrained and counselled by older generations, safe in the knowledge that the Western world's high-energy, resource extracting, environment destroying lifestyle must naturally come to an end within our lifetimes as global warming punishes its creators. George Bush in his arrogant blindness believes that "The American way of life is not negotiable", but the forces of nature are irresistible and inevitable, and will force human civilization to adopt a sustainable lifestyle or die. Christian teaching is that "the meek shall inherit the earth". It is to be hoped that American-led global corporatism will not completely trash the planet before they realise their grievous error, otherwise it will clearly be a case of "the meek shall inherit a wasteland"!!
By radically conserving or boycotting fossil fuels in our daily lives, we are fighting back against the fossil fuel industry and its US corporate owners and controllers. People everywhere should join the fight in this "anti-terrorist" campaign, whether it means using bicycles and public transport, boycotting air travel, installing a solar water heater on your roof, growing vegetables in your back yard, or installing a rain water tank.
Young people around the globe can thus channel their understandable aggression and frustrations directly into creating a better future, while at the same time severely punishing the global fossil fuel industries in a legitimate and legal form of economic warfare.
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