h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

EXCELLENT PIECE...THANKS.
SAD REMINDER OF HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF THOUGH,ALL THOSE WHO FEEL WE AS A GLOBAL VILLAGE HAVE TRAVELLED FAR DOWN THE ROAD SINCE ROSA PARKS,REV KING OR MALCOM X SHOULD BE CONGRATULATED ON THEIR OPTIMISM BUT WARNED TO LOOK CLOSELY AT THIS UNSTABLE AND DIVIDED PLANET TODAY.
TRIBALISM IS RAMPANT,U.S. CULTURAL IMPERIALISM MORE AGRESSIVE AND THE MEDIA JUST AS MANIPULATIVE AS BACK THEN.
IT MAY NOT BE ACCEPTABLE TO VOICE EXTREME RACIAL BIGOTRY AND REMAIN MAINSTREAM BUT THIS IS AN ILLUSION.
TO PERSECUTE PEOPLE FOR A RELIGOUS BELIEF IS WORSE...WAGING A CULTURAL WAR ON ISLAAM AND THINLY VEILING IT AS A WAR AGAINST TERROR IS SHORT SIGHTED...EXTREMIST NUTCASES LIKE BIN LINER NEED STOPPING,THERE ATROCITIES OFFEND HUMANITY...BUT TO TAKE SUCH TRAGEDY AND HIJACK IT FOR A POLITICAL CHESSMATCH INVOLVING TOPPLING UNWANTED REGIMES HERE AND BACKING SADIST ALLIANCES THERE AND SACRIFICING THE STANDARDS YOU DEFEND MAKES A MOCKERY OUT OF THE SUFFERING AND DIGNITY DISPLAYED AROUND 9/11.
MALCOM X WAS A GREAT MAN, NOT ONLY BECAUSE HE TOOK HIS WORLD AND TRIED TO SHAPE IT FOR THE BETTER BUT LIKE MLK OR GANDHI HE SEEKED OUT A TRUTH, DECIDED WHAT THAT TRUTH MEANT TO HIM AND THEN LIVED BY IT.ACTED ON THAT TRUTH AND RE-EVALUATED IT ,CHANGED HIS LIFESTYLE AND HIS BELIEFS MORE THAN ONCE BECAUSE OF IT.
IT IS RIGHT AND PROPER THAT WE PAY 2 MINS RESPECT FOR THE VICTIMS OF 9/11 AND REMAIN SILENT IN PRAYER OR REFLECTION.
IT IS NOT RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT ABOUT THE CHAIN OF EVENTS AFTER SEP 11...THE ATROCITIES OF OUR GOVERNMENT BACKED NORTHERN ALLIANCE,THE EXTENSION OF THIS WAR ON TERROR BY ISRAEL TO PALESTINE OR THE THREAT OF A UNILATERAL ACTION BY GLOBOCOP HIMSELF GEORGE DUBYA WITHOUT U.N. SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAQ HOWEVER UNDESIRABLE THE DICTATORIAL MADMAN THEY LEFT BEHIND IN POWER STILL IS.
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE...BETWEEN THE LINES AND AROUND THE EDGES...BUT WILL WE ACT ON IT?