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

There are terrorists on Earth, this is so but who are they that impose dread upon all men? Is it our rival who causes us such fear that our reaction must destroy them, even if it means betraying our principles; do those men labelled terrorists threaten our existence to the point where we must deny the ethics which form the basis of all we hold dear and all which our ancestors bequeathed us? Is that the aspiration of this modernity we have evolved to? Surely the enemy is terror to the ally and the ally is terror to the enemy. Just as certainly the terrorist is the enemy, the common frightener of all men; hating humanity with a vengeance no human can hold towards another. For what they are, such enemies are not men at all, they are not the human beings as we are. Therefore it is wrong that governments, whatever their political or religious persuasion, should seek to label their appointed enemies as terrorists. Real terrorists threaten the security of all men, not a nation or a political doctrine or a faith. Thus an Arab defending his homeland is no more a terrorist than is a Westerner attacking an Arab state in defence of his. Both causes are human perceptions; such rivalries have existed throughout human history. Men always did always do and always shall, nations and creed, dispute one with the other. Harmful for them as this may be it is not terror; destructive it is, but it is not terrorist activity. Hence to use that word, terror, as spurious causes do, not only deceives for support but supports a gross deceit, and doing so hides the terror, which mortally and immortally threatens every single human being; present and future are all men gravely endangered.
Understand…those we name as terrorists are not terrorists at all. Man of Iraq and Iran and all Eastern men, even unto the very least of you, please understand, the Western man is not as far as you think a terrorist, just as all men of common blood are not so dreadful; likewise British man, American man, each and every Western man, the man of the East, whom even now you make war upon, citing them the terrorist foe, these are not terrorists, these men, the same of the disaffected countrymen amongst you, are enemies of your making, the same as they have made enemies of you. Both sides, you all, Eastern, Western, whoever, get a grip! Look at the state of affairs you have brought about between you and be ashamed! Because the real terrorist, that one who will strike real evil into your very hearts, the weak and the strong of you, is winning the war that you, with all human futility and expense wage. Every one of you with a weapon in your hand, ask your self, why is this weapon in my hand, why is my finger on this trigger; upon the button, which will fire this projectile; which will consign my perceived enemy, my fellow human being, to kingdom come… and all for nothing? Why?
For I can tell you that not every single human killer, and every single human killed will not enter into a coming kingdom of everlasting duration; for the terror, current, preparing, making ready to strike down all men, all souls, will too destroy all kingdoms, Earth and Heaven the same. Even now this is under way. It is nurtured among us, here, and there, nearby the wealthy, alongside the poor. At one time or other every one of humanity, the best and the worst, the brightest and the dimmest, great men, and scum; all nations, every peoples, even unto the furthest far flung corners of the Earth, all will be accounted as involved. Because it is the entire resource of this Earth which is being mustered against the race of which we are all embodied souls. Every individual on Earth assists the true terrorist which brings upon us our greatest fear.

TBC.
16/11/04