If you have some type of fixed philosophy or strict religion that rules your behavior then you are a terrorist. You do not kill people in nightclubs with an attack rifle but you do do violence to yourself. Freedom is not one answer to terrorism it is the only answer. History has recorded for us so many different messages defining the meaning of life that we can at last be sure that there is no one tried and true fixed meaning. The only thing that is born from real freedom is love and terrorism and violence are creatures of abject slavery.
The terrorists are right that America is their enemy. We got rid long ago of the petty nationalistic and religious structures that have turned them into rabid animals. We are for all people and against all structures of any kind that limit people. We are a people in a country united only by one sacred document. The American Constitution of 1790 does not allow us by law to ever live in a nation with the restrictions of national customs, national languages and national religions. It condemns us to be politically free and if the sacred words and spirit of the document had not been perverted many times over many years it might have created a country where freedom within and outside ourselves is not just an idea but a reality. We might none of us have made ourselves terrorists by clinging fanatically to a fictitious formula we invented to rule ourselves by making some vibrant and bullying form of egotism a phoney substitute for freedom.
Daniel McNeill
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Daniel McNeill’s novella The End of All Beginnings is available at
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Also available as a book for $5.99.
A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between
a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother
46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five
In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right
from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it
can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected
and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards
one liberating ending to all its beginnings.
Daniel McNeill
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