Path paved with good intentions

But while the 5-3 decision on the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay may have thrown the president off his stride, his Senate allies soon showed they were prepared to leap hurdles to support him.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Court opens new front in War on Terror

It seems its an always never ending cycle of good intentions meant to provide us with a safe and secure life.  Remember security is the operative word here.  These people are always trying to make things safer, but do they not see that freedom is at stake?  Yes I do, these are the kinds of people that feel that freedom is a word and idea to toss around at their election campaign speeches.  Or when our men die far from home for something that doesn't matter to them, since it is freedom that is a direct threat to security.

Men with power always seek to sustain that power, even at greater and greater costs.  Looking at the images of Guantanamo only reminds me of our past treatment of other undesirables and suspicious characters.  Not that I'm saying these people are innocent and should be freed, but that we should uphold both our freedom and do the same for others, irregardless of where they come from.  We should have the sense that all humans deserve the freedom we say we have, and stop being the hypocrites we have become.

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Self Destructive Forces

I've always have been a bit of a drama queen, though it was only a way to make my life a bit more exciting, to squeeze just a bit more juice out of each event.  So this can lead to me exaggerating a bit at times, but that is different from being completely self destructive.  Different from saying and doing things that only lead down a dark road.

Seems I've been on this path for sometime, and just didn't know it.  As it goes for most.  This then culminated in an event that left me feeling degraded, fifthly, and low.  Talk about walking in the darker side of life, for it truly was.  The stench that followed me made me stick, I couldn't believe what I just did.

As to what happened, well I'm not sure I'd ever be ready to tell anyone.  Though I've made the choice to wage war with that part of myself, well no longer part of myself, that pushed me this way.  I've talked of him before, the dark self, in only that he contains undesired traits.  I'm not one to but my faith in the absolute of good and evil, but its an easy to understand, but just as easily abused analogy.

He shall be purged, though I know he will never be gone.  Primal emotions are always a base components of our complex behavior, so they will never be truly gone.  That is his origin, the source of his power over me.  But I do have faith in the human mind(spirit/soul) to stand above its own physical limitations.

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Fears

Its certain things in the news that just makes me aware of the dangerous forces at play currently. Call it a some kind of sense, but its just something that I know will happen. Its not whats going to happen that makes me afraid, but its the not knowing if we will be prepared. The honest fact is that humanity will not live forever, but that doesn't mean I want to see it end. Its my faith in our spirit, that I know that some will survive, that keeps me from just freaking out(haha). Though I'm not the type to let things to really bother me for long, so I'll more then likely forget this by tonight.

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