We actually misnamed the war on terror. It ought to be [called] the struggle against ideological extremists who do not believe in free societies and who happen to use terror as a weapon to try to shake the conscience of the free world.
Today I’m in a mood to make my Director’s Blog more bloggy. Most of my site is comprised of information that comes my way that’s serious and relevant enough to immigrants’ rights to compel me to take the time away from production, fundraising and activism to sit down and post.
But a Director’s Blog ought to be a freer kind of discourse, that informally, gradually clues the interested few into why a man sets out on producing a documentary showing how the U.S. government lashes out against non-white communities in times of fear.
So though it’s basically a form of procrastination, I’ve been checking out Michelle Malkin’s blog as she tries to spread her gospel of racial profiling. In the above-linked piece she mostly sticks to points that make sense. But all her opinions on profiling are moot because she has no idea what’s happening today to immigrant communities.
Despite her repeated, strident claims of being a “journalist,” Malkin’s knowledge of post-9/11 profiling doesn’t extend beyond skimming the top news stories. Otherwise she’d know the extent to which her dreams are already being carried out on immigrants — policies that are draconian, abusive and utterly useless in the misnamed “War on Terror.”
But serendipitously on her site I found a link to an article by Daniel Pipes, “Naming the Enemy. In it he quotes George W. Bush:
“We actually misnamed the war on terror. It ought to be [called] the struggle against ideological extremists who do not believe in free societies and who happen to use terror as a weapon to try to shake the conscience of the free world.”
Beyond being stunned at the coherence of that remark, I take it as an invitation to rename the “War on Terror.” It’s been renamed as the “War on Immigrants,” the “War on Freedom,” the “War on Terra” and other epithets I’m sure. I sat down because I’m thinking of a title for a short I’m currently directing in collaboration with Third World Newsreel as part of their Call For Change project. In it I tell the stories of South Asian families facing deportation as a result of Special Registration and update where the U.S. government targeting of immigrants has brought us to today.
War of Error
War Using Terror
Error for Terror
Era of Terror
Era of Error
Era of War
Help me out, somebody.
