After the arrests of the alleged Islamic supremacist terrorists in southern Ontario recently, a few people decided to do something positive as a response to it. They took a page from the very successful blog We’re Not Afraid by Alfie Dennen and friends. At one point it was getting 4 million visitors A DAY, and has received more than 10,000 photos from people around the world showing pictures of themselves, family, friends and pets with the message We’re Not Afraid.
I’ve blogged about it before here, here, here, here, here, and here. Can you tell I thought it was a good idea:)
Blogger Warren Kinsella, along with Dennis Mills and Senator Jerry Grafstein, who organized the Rolling Stones SARS concert and others have created a website I Am Not Afraid, and a blog as a Canadian response.
Here’s their message.
We are people – from all walks of life, from every region – who love this country, and who want to help send a message to the world, and to other Canadians.
That message is this: “I am not afraid.” To those misguided few who choose violence – who choose to terrorize others – we simply say: it won’t work. If your plan is to scare Canadians, your plan won’t work. We are not afraid
They hope to do 3 things.
* One, to use this web site as a forum for people to post their own personal ways of saying “I am not afraid.”
* Two, for those in and around Toronto, to organize a rally, march and attendance at a Blue Jays game in the next few weeks – because the Jays play in an area that was allegedly targeted.
* Three, to get Canadians to reclaim public spaces across Canada – to go to restaurants, theatres, schools and any place where people gather – and show that they aren’t afraid, either.
Here’s how you can help them.
* Post your own “I Am Not Afraid” message here. We’ll have a message board up soon. In the meantime, send us stuff at iamnotafraid@gmail.com. Photos, artwork and colourful messages are welcome. Be creative and positive.
* Come out to our rally and march – come out to the ball game! Check back soon for details
* If you can’t make it to Toronto for the rally and game, organize an iamnotafraid.ca event in your hometown!
I think it’s a brilliant idea. The purpose of terrorism is to create fear in civilian populations for political purposes. Terrorism needs fear as its fuel source, and murders innocent civilians in the hope of creating that fear. So let’s deny the narcissistic psychopaths their fuel.
As I mentioned before, participating in something like this a lot more productive than:
1. Feeling afraid, helpless and paralysed. Feeling that many media outlets are trying to create, since for many media companies, marketing fear, helplessness and anxiety is a business model.
2. Cursing the darkness impotently, or doing what the terrorist want you to do, attack innocent Muslims so Osama Bin Laden can get more recruits for his cause.
3. Or just feeling useless and fatalistic, i.e., there’s nothing I can do.
next post will be on my thoughts on the attempted terrorist attacks on my country by the islamofascists.