Pardon me if I offend: Part 2, The Fearining

America is a nation of cowards and it is not all our fault but the fault does lie somewhere. I am placing said fault on various evils that have taken, mostly human form. First I must point my finger at you, mister or miss local news director. God how you sicken me with your fear mongering ways, making your desk crew tell us stories about the dangers of bird flu, or how we would all be wiped out by mad cow disease. You do all of this in hopes of achieving your dream, standing at a podium in a conference room at some road side Holiday Inn and recieving your local emmy, so for that year you can gloat over all the other local news directors, the shiniest turd on the dung heap. I could blame the anchor men or field reporters but ultimately, the guy who decides what goes on the air is you, the news director. Every time you see a news blurb and they say something to the effect of,"tonight at eleven, we show you how toast could kill a loved one and Jean will have an update on those cases of spontaneous herpes", the news director is to blame. Shame on you for trying to scare people like that, just so your ratings points won't fall. How many diseases are floating around this world that could kill us at any moment? literally millions. All you need is some virus, that only pigs or cows seem to get, to decide it wants to be a real virus and boom, the next small pox. The bird flu is one they were keeping our eyes on for just this reason, waiting for pigs to catch it and then it would, naturally jump to humans. So the media has us all worried about the viral leap and all the people it is gonna kill. I really don't plan on worrying until the pig pox outbreak hits. Another blame taker in fear mongering is, of course, our own government. If you are one of those people that thinks our government has our best wishes in mind, you are crazy. The purpose of a democratic government is to mediate the will of the people, people, being inherently corruptible, have trouble pulling off said mediation over a large area, so they create government, government is made up of people elected by the masses. Since government is made up of people and people are inherently corruptible, why do people so thoroughly believe that our government has our best wishes in mind. Governments tend to be made up of a body of men and women from priveleged families, who have gone to expensive schools, that are nothing like and have nothing in common with, the regular every day working class people, who, for some odd reason, elected them. These people are used to structure and cannot handle chaos so it is in their best interests to make sure the masses stay in line. Scared people are easier to control than, well, not scared people, so using fear mongering, for them is a sound business decision. Give us terror alerts that don't really have a definition, or go by a color grid that looks like a GLBT float at a Saint Patricks Day parade and makes about as much sense. Keep on telling us how you are making us safer from a world full of terrorists and hurricanes and hurricanes that are controlled by terrorists. Tell us about all the things that will kill us on our planet so we can be scared of it. Do not, by any means let us know the real story or facts of any kind, we just couldn't handle that. If you are given all the facts about something, you can familiarize yourself with it, thereby, becoming less worried about it. If you are given massive amounts of conjecture about something and no real facts, just mountains of what if's and could be's, that thing tends to get stuck in your mind and worries you even more, face it that is a fact. Finally today I want to have a go at the fear mongerers who want me to stop eating meat. You people can go straight to hell! Meat causes cancer, meat causes heart disease, meat causes mad cow disease...Etc...Etc...adnausium. Here is something for you to ponder you dirty vegies. I am a meat eater, a carnivore, yes I eat vegetables too but my passion is flesh, I am drooling right now thinking about it. Red blood dripping onto my plate, seared on the outside to hold in the flavor, the shear joy I get when I take, as it were, my pound of flesh. You dirty hippies try to scare my kind away from the meat that makes us strong and full of irony goodness, telling us stories of blocked bowels and expanding prostates, here is what you miss. Every humans physiology is different from every others, different blood types, various acid contents, so many variables in our bodies. What I am saying is some people do not need meat to feel healthy and fit, but some people do and if you take our meat away from us and this may be fear mongering from me, we will find a way to get more meat, we will find a new source. It seems to me that I wouldn't like to be the buffalo that wanders in to the lions den, I think you get my gist there vegies, you know, let's hope you don't crash in the Andeas with me on your plane. In a game of survival of the fittest, mabye your lifestyle will keep you alive longer in a nice safe part of the world but I wouldn't want to be in the shoes of the free range human that took away my cow meat, corn fed is corn fed. I think you understand me.