By Glenn Becker Online Journal Contributing Writer
July 6, 2004—What would you do if in the middle of the night a heavily armed and armored goon squad invaded your sanctuary called home and terrorized you and your family with threats and beatings, and maybe even raped the females, killed one of your family members or took them away never to be seen or heard from again?
What would you do if your child was in the backyard playing and suddenly you see his head explode from a psychopathic snipers' bullet?
What would you do if you saw a picture of your best friend lying dead in a partially wrapped body bag and a foreign soldier posing gleefully giving the thumbs up signal?
What would you do if a car full of neighbors drove by and suddenly their car was riddled to pieces by .50 caliber gunfire and the shooters then walked up to the mangled mass of metal and finished off those who managed to survive the unprovoked attack?
What would you do if newborns in your family and community were born with hideous defects as a result of the all the depleted uranium contamination left behind by the spent munitions that liberated you?
What would you do if you had to watch a loved one die a slow agonizing death due radiation poisoning from the same depleted uranium contamination?
What would you do if you had to recant your religious beliefs, or face the possibility of sick and perverted sexual humiliation or a tortuous death?
What would you do if your unwitting child curiously picked up an unexploded cluster bomb and was killed or maimed?
What would you do if you found out your daughter felt she had to become a prostitute in order to help the family afford the basic necessities of life?
What would you do if a local family was having a wedding party and they were torn to pieces by foreign troops firing bullets and bombs, and had no regard as to whether or not they killed innocent men, women or children?
What would you do if foreign corporations came into your country and plundered your natural resources?
What would you do if you were coming home only to find arrogant bullies had demolished it with bulldozers?
What would you do if those who act less than human treated you as if you were less than human?
What would you do if constant fear, suffering and death caused by foreigners, with no end in sight, came to visit your neighborhood and country?
Take a moment or two and try to imagine yourself in these conditions, and then ask yourself, what would you do? That is, if you dare.
