Fearmogers' Five Minutes

„I‘m not sure .. why change a system .. it has worked for the last decades well - with a few disadvantages, yes, but I haven‘t felt them really .. and what comes after? Isn‘t the risk of chaos much more higher then? .. Instability. Maybe a civil war. No. Better keeping the status quo .. our actual system is not the best but it‘s also not the worst .. change brings so much risks with it. Do we want that? .. we have to be grateful for our stability. Let us not shout too loud out against them. The others? Well, that‘s not our cup of tea, we shouldn‘t intervene .. I don‘t know, maybe those protesters are right, but maybe not .. let‘s stay silent, better is, not that everything‘s collapsing .. it‘s their decision, not ours. Better we stay neutral in that case .. oh my God, I‘ve heard they have mass destruction weapons, not that they use them against us one day .. who controls the whole arms they have? Better to see them in the hands of those we know since longer .. two years ago we‘ve spent our holidays there. We hadn‘t any contact to the people, they warned us, poverty, crime rate et cetera. I can‘t tell if a new government will be able to keep up those standards we enjoyed -“

SHUT THE F*** UP A**HOLES!!!

One possibility to argue against the fearmongers. More the emotional than the rational one admittedly.

Let us deconstruct the single lines I‘ve quoted from my memory:

The system worked ,well‘, if you‘re watching it from a certain angle. The one the rulers want you to watch it, for sure. But that doesn‘t speak for your own opinion, more for an unreflected repeating of already formed stereotypes.

Of course there might be the risk of chaos during the reorganization of a former tyranny to a modern transparent civil state. But don‘t make the fault to let appear the worries bigger than the chances.

Obtaining stability is a serious task, not only in modern democracies. Even tyrannies are busy to obtain stability. Their measures are usually brutal repression. If you'e taken in what‘s worth fighting for  - and even to die for if necessary - the risks aren‘t any longer playing a primary role.

Achieving freedom is not keeping a business up. The sacrifices are much more higher. And don‘t forget that many of the protesters out there fighting against their tyrannies are willing to sacrifice their own lives for the next generation‘s better future.

You can be grateful for the freedom your own nation has achieved but don‘t be so arrogant to lay back in your comfortable chairs forgetting or ignoring those who are still fighting for the same rights. In that case your own freedom becomes the bitter taste of double standard.

Staying silent is the worst you can do. Those threatened in their existence won‘t forget who were with them during their fight for freedom and who not. Keep this in mind.

Every regime possesses arms. The argument that their democratic successors aren‘t able to control them is not only wrong, it‘s a clear sign of deep mistrust in political innovation.

And that your last holidays spent in a dictatorship under covering circumstances are remindable doesn‘t speak for your sense of humanity. Better think about your basic attitude towards those you should spend your awareness and not those who keep you in distance from them ..

 

(screenshot taken from an uploaded Youtube video Hama, Syria, 23/01/2012)