Fear and Terror
The threat of terrorism is real and it is present and it is ongoing. What terrorizes people? An end to their complacency, the hideous thought that their safety and security, their very lives, let alone the institutions under which they live and thrive are threatened. That the threats are borne out by real, not imagined attacks that take place elsewhere with the slaughter of innocents does not mean it cannot happen here.
In fact, groups and individuals who have decided to become an integral part of the Islamist jihadist movement despite that they are Canadian citizens, born in Canada, educated in Canada, live and work and raise their families in Canada, do exist. And they do reveal themselves - inadvertently, when their plots have been detected and they are apprehended by Canadian security services - to be a real and present threat.
After the first incendiary, murderous assaults on Western targets - mostly American - before the deadly attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on that unforgettable September 2001 date, the message was clear and unambiguous; the intention was to target freedom and capitalism, infidels and their corrupted form of society. Christians and Jews thrown in for good measure.
The initial reaction to 9/11 was for shell-shocked governments to institute draconian new laws meant to unearth the presence of potential jihadists wherever they were, but particularly those ensconced within society in the West, and to apprehend the potential for further vicious attacks. This was, understandably, costly in terms of our own freedoms, and our treasury.
Funding that should have gone to civil infrastructure renewal and social programs and to keeping countries wealthy and successful as social and economic powerhouses went instead to arming themselves, to instituting interfering new measures, to complicating the lives and aspirations of their populations. The 'progressives' within society were appalled at the assault on civil liberties.
The cost-conscious were all too aware of money spent freely to offer protection and avoid future destruction and death, and that what it mostly represented was an assuaging of fear and dread of the unknown, but which would be largely ineffective against the determined onslaught of those who invited death rather than avoiding it. Achieving the joy of martyrdom for themselves and the triumph of mass death delivered unto others.
It has been revealed that since 9/11 Canada alone has spent $92-billion on national security, on building organizations and organizational skills and introducing new methods and self-protective implements to succeed in security measures to protect itself and its population and its critical infrastructures - all of which would be targeted and were indeed meant to be targeted by plots that failed.
By this accounting alone, and the fact that Canada is planning to spend $34-billion on national security this year alone, the inescapable truth is that the terrorists have won hugely - if not in entirely overcoming resistance to their violent upheaval intentions, then in instilling cost-crippling care and caution born of fear and terror.
In fact, groups and individuals who have decided to become an integral part of the Islamist jihadist movement despite that they are Canadian citizens, born in Canada, educated in Canada, live and work and raise their families in Canada, do exist. And they do reveal themselves - inadvertently, when their plots have been detected and they are apprehended by Canadian security services - to be a real and present threat.
After the first incendiary, murderous assaults on Western targets - mostly American - before the deadly attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on that unforgettable September 2001 date, the message was clear and unambiguous; the intention was to target freedom and capitalism, infidels and their corrupted form of society. Christians and Jews thrown in for good measure.
The initial reaction to 9/11 was for shell-shocked governments to institute draconian new laws meant to unearth the presence of potential jihadists wherever they were, but particularly those ensconced within society in the West, and to apprehend the potential for further vicious attacks. This was, understandably, costly in terms of our own freedoms, and our treasury.
Funding that should have gone to civil infrastructure renewal and social programs and to keeping countries wealthy and successful as social and economic powerhouses went instead to arming themselves, to instituting interfering new measures, to complicating the lives and aspirations of their populations. The 'progressives' within society were appalled at the assault on civil liberties.
The cost-conscious were all too aware of money spent freely to offer protection and avoid future destruction and death, and that what it mostly represented was an assuaging of fear and dread of the unknown, but which would be largely ineffective against the determined onslaught of those who invited death rather than avoiding it. Achieving the joy of martyrdom for themselves and the triumph of mass death delivered unto others.
It has been revealed that since 9/11 Canada alone has spent $92-billion on national security, on building organizations and organizational skills and introducing new methods and self-protective implements to succeed in security measures to protect itself and its population and its critical infrastructures - all of which would be targeted and were indeed meant to be targeted by plots that failed.
By this accounting alone, and the fact that Canada is planning to spend $34-billion on national security this year alone, the inescapable truth is that the terrorists have won hugely - if not in entirely overcoming resistance to their violent upheaval intentions, then in instilling cost-crippling care and caution born of fear and terror.
Labels: Crisis Politics, Government of Canada, Terrorism
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