Suddenly everything is out of whack. The light came on today.

There is a lead story here about some kids who threw a rock off an overpass and killed a woman in a van. Someone suggested that we should now add fences to every overpass in the state to prevent this from happening. That did not pass because it would bankrupt the state and in the end, likely stop little or nothing from happening. Yet people were saying “you can’t put a price on life” as though fences on overpasses would actually keep them alive somehow.

After 9-11 I wanted to kill and kill and kill in very painful ways, everyone responsible. I thought going into Afghanistan made sense. Like many I don’t see why we are in Iraq, but, we are.

Today we have the President’s budget for this nation that gives lots more money to fight terrorism, which has somehow become Iraq and a lot of other things, and domestic services are all slashed. We are spending heaps more money on the military to “fight terrorism” and cutting the funds to care for our elderly, sick, unemployed, etc.

When I think of stopping terrorism, I think of more resources for the CIA, FBI and various other agencies who gather intelligence and try to uncover plots. I do not see how more aircraft and National Guard troops is fighting terrorism.

And that’s when I saw something terrible. What have terrorists done? A bomb in the World Trade center. Destroyed the World Trade Center and badly damaged the Pentagon while crashing planes and killing people. And we are now spending billions of dollars to make the military bigger at the expense of our own citizens and welfare.

That’s insane. It’s the actions of the paranoid. We have made this enemy bigger than the Soviet Union ever was, and the reality is, it’s smaller than Crawford Texas! But the fact that it’s unknown allows us to make it bigger than we can imagine. And it allows us to be lead by the President to give up our good living to throw money at a boogieman. Bankrupt the country fighting an illusion.

There is a threat. There is a possibilty. But putting fences around every overpass is just throwing away money and in the end won’t stop anyone who wants to from tossing a rock over that fence or some other stupid act.

But putting up those fences will bankrupt the state. Do we let what two dumb kids did destroy our state out of paranoia?

I hope not.