Freak Out! It's NOT a Terrorist!

T-Shirt that says "I am not a terrorist" in Arabic.

From the creator's website:

"I offer this shirt as my response to the ridiculousness of the hysteria...The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. We are reacting badly. Buy a shirt, don't buy a shirt, I don't care. Let's just all calm down."

Tim Murtaugh, the creator, made it:

"After reading about blogger Raed Jarrar's experience at JFK (he was forced to take off a shirt with Arabic writing on it or miss his flight) "


I agree with his assertion that the terrorists are winning right now. Here's why:

The goal of international terrorism is to subvert the government by causing lawmakers to overreact and induce fear in it's citizens (via rediculous laws and anti-terror measures). The media is an accomplice in all the terror ranting, by creating hysteria over potential attacks instead of actual attacks. Since the government is elected by the people of the country, it allows the terrorists to claim that ALL the citizens of a country are responsible for it's foreign policy...and therefore they can attack the citizens. (wtf? I wasn't even born when Ronald Reagan first took office...how am I suddenly implicated in this?)

The more we react to terrorism, the more the terrorists will be encouraged to continue it....didn't any of our lawmakers take any sort of political science course? Gosh! This all seems pretty basic...I really don't understand.

Thanks to Boing Boing for the link