Just say "no" to Terrorists

I saw a commercial last night. It was an anti-drug commercial and it went like this: Face shot of a young woman. She speaks to the camera. "Last night my friends and I went out to a club, did some drugs and helped bomb a crowded restaurant." The voiceover then states that doing drugs helps fund terrorist organizations. I felt like retching. Tying the two together to get kids to stop doing drugs is ludicrous. Our government is going to overplay this terrorist thing and in the process they will trivialize it. You can't say all social ills are tied to terrorism, the message will loose its punch after a while.

My girlfriend asked me what I would write to the ad agency that did that commercial. I responded, rather than get into an argument with them about how they might be wrong, or how they might be giving some unstable individuals out there ideas about blowing up crowded restaurants, I would tell them the thing that would hurt them the most and that is that they lack creativity. That ad showed no brainpower behind it and they should be ashamed to generate such dribble. I say the same to Attorney General John Ashcroft. John, you can take away our rights left and right in the name of combating terrorism but the fact is the Feds are incapable of stopping idiots from doing idiotic things either by the FBI/CIA's own shortcomings or because it's just too easy to walk onboard a commercial airliner with a sharpened pencil and take out a flight attendant. Rather than take away our freedoms, how about using some brainpower. And if you don't have the gray cells (and we all know you don't) how about stepping aside and let someone with an IQ above 100 take over?

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