My, How The War On Terror Has Failed

The recent terror attacks should only help to solidify the notion that the war on terror has been nothing more than an embarrassment and a failure in it's objective to try and keep people safe and eliminate any threat. We are over a decade into this fight and we have spent trillions of dollars, all of us are being spied on in an unprecedented phishing expedition that violates basic civil liberties on a scale never seen before.

And if we take account of what has been accomplished, it looks like it's been even more warfare, violence, and fear, a few getting rich, and a lot more restrictions to personal liberty being implemented.

The GCHQ and the NSA have demonstrated nothing but incompetence with their data collection, as far as their ability to efficiently prevent these terror events. The reason that we are all conned into submitting to the violation of our liberty is because we are promised that this invisible prison that lawmakers have intended to build around us, that it will keep us safe. That all of the spying and the blue-glove touching, and the cameras on every corner, it's all for our own good and it's all to help catch the bad guys.

Apparently not. Despite the decade+ war and the trillions that has been spent, the millions of people that have lost their lives in this battle. Over one million innocent lives lost because of this war on terror nonsense. And just this week there have been how many killed in terror attacks? And the media is telling you that you need to live in fear every single day because there could be a threat waiting just outside for you.

People are posting “this needs to stop!” and “this needs to end!” and I understand their frustration, any civilized person would be appalled by such a senseless attack and violation of personal property rights. But bad things do happen in the world, it's been that way for thousands of years, and there is no way that any government or politician could ever craft an environment where they could deliver on the promise of nothing bad ever taking place.

When it comes to innocent people having violence initiated against them, let's not forget those included in all of the wars that are going on today which our political representatives have authorized.

What about the children being trafficked tonight? That needs to stop. And the people who are spending time behind bars because of victimless crimes, where they never violated anyone else or their property, that too needs to stop. The trillions of dollars that is being wasted on unconstitutional and unjustified wars, can that stop sometime soon? Could the media stop lying and misleading the public? I'd like that to stop.

Thousands of people today died around the world from heart disease or cancer, but that doesn't make for as interesting a headline as the current story.

It's a shame to consider the amount of resources that have been wasted on a failing initiative that isn't coming to an end anytime soon.

Criminologists have been studying for decades about how society could go about reducing or preventing crime, this includes terrorism. And many different criminal justice programs have been implemented in an effort to try and deter crime and promote rehabilitation with offenders. One thing that doesn't work for certain, is requiring that innocent people sacrifice their own liberty in order to go about punishing those who do commit an offense. An environment where your basic civil liberties are violated, under any pretense, is not going to be a safe environment for you.

When terror attacks occur, most of us should already know that the best solution certainly isn't to afford the state with even more power than they already have. The answer is NEVER to suspend due process for anyone.

Perhaps one day the majority of political representatives around the world who engage in these never ending wars, will consider the concept of blowback and they'll stop using our money in order to engage in conflicts that only make us less safe, creating enemies and destabilization around the globe.

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Sources:
https://mic.com/articles/50333/gchq-the-british-are-spying-on-us-more-than-the-nsa-is#.cupQQkhxt
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2017/jun/03/london-bridge-closed-after-serious-police-incident-live
http://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-40147014
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/theresa-may-internet-conservatives-government-a7744176.html
https://www.rt.com/uk/390207-terrorist-internment-camps-police/