Remote controlled terror

(IsraelNN.com) Fresh evidence unearthed late last week by investigators in India indicated that the Mumbai attacks were directed from at least two Pakistani cities by leaders of the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, according to the Associated Press. Indian and American intelligence officials have already identified a Lashkar operative, who goes by the name Yusuf Muzammil, as a mastermind of the attacks. On Thursday, Indian investigators named one of the most well-known senior figures in Lashkar, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi. The names of both men came from the interrogations of the one surviving attacker, Muhammad Ajmal Kasab, 21, according to police officials in Mumbai. IsraelNN.com

I like being able to instantly communicate around the world and next door. Though, I do not really know my next door neighbours. There are only a few people in this world I really want to keep in touch with on an instant basis. The rest of the people out there can stay at arms length. That sounds cold. It is not cold. It is just the truth. The simple fact is, if someone who runs a bread business can talk to a distributor, then terrorists can do the same with their contacts.

What does it say in the bible about a death heard instantly around the world? We are beyond that. We are past that.

Someone sitting in Virginia can fire a shot from a toy plane flying over an enemy thousands of miles away. Hit them. Kill them and make it home for dinner. Someone can sit in Pakistan with a satellite phone guiding the decisions of an attacking force a few hundred miles away or farther with precision.

Communication is more potent than nuclear weapons. People should protest AT&T for giving people the freedom to communicate. They should protest the media for giving them a voice to protest. They should shut up and be glad that they wield a more powerful weapon than nuclear weapons.

The protesters should be afraid that this weapon will be whittled from their grasp over the next life time. Little by little the ability to communicate will be controlled in the future. Not stopped, because that would prevent the powers that be from knowing what is going on in the world they wish to control. This world that every one has some control over. What people forget is that no one will ever control all of it. If they did, it would fall apart and not be worth controlling.

Not all Muslims want Islam to dominate the world. Not all Christians want Christianity to dominate the world. Some of each do. Not all members of government think that the collective that we call government to dominate the world. Some, however, think the government knows best. They forget it is made of people. Everyone wants to be the one in charge. That is how government works.

This comes back to my old argument that government and religion server the same purpose. That purpose is to control people's actions. They have different means. We, as a collective, need control. We need guidance. We need the village it takes to raise children. We have too many things to learn in too short a lifetime. We cannot be left to our own devices because those devices do not help the collective.

Pick a side. Stick with it. Be loyal. And don't get in the way of the side I pick.