Bush started his so I'm starting mine... All stops are out

5 to 6 years ago the Ruler of the most dominant Empire of our current age began a war. He over threw a relatively minor player in a media beat up. A media beat up that I admit I was sucked in by at the time. I still shake my head when I think of myself back then.
What have we come to in this messed up world when a simple overthrow of one man has turned into 90,000 + verified irrefutable civilian deaths with realistic estimates putting the body count at over 700,000 (taking into account those simply not found and not able to be accounted for)?
This ruler I speak of called his war a war on terror. It's kind of a Clayton's war if you like. The kind of war you have when you don't have a real enemy but you need a scapegoat.
Yes it makes you angry doesn't it? So I submit to you an alternative war. The WAR ON TERRIFIC. It's a kind of antiwar if you like. Just a type of vision, a type of purpose to oppose all that which sets itself to commit war. In my image above I have singled out the concept of Empire of course because through the ages Empires have been the prime movers of war and oppression of the weak/poor/less fortunate.
This idea/proposition of antiwar is not an easy concept to grasp and is infinitely more difficult to act out. It brings to mind the idea of beating swords and shields into ploughsheers (or warheads and Abrams tanks into Windmills and water wells). It expects love for one's enemy. At the same time it begins with the smallest and simplest acts of kindness acting as small mustard seeds in the unterror movement. It looks for simple ways to find alternatives to violence and hatred in all forms beginning where it is closest and spreading ideas like yeast through bread.
It also proposes that the insatiable greed of the dominant empires of today require intense doses of 'slowing down' and 'evening out'. Drawing down from the accelerated fortunes of the rich so that all wealth can be spread more evenly and every person can have enough for their need because there isn't enough for everyones greed.
This idea identifies what empire desires - those things that are perfect, beautiful, rich, successful, sexy, powerful and well...TERRIFIC. It seeks to undermine these concepts as they present a false guarantee of happiness and fulfillment.
So I encourage those who have such desire to think on it and act on it in their own measure and begin their own war on Terrific and subvert the dominant Empire today!

Todays blog was inspired by a tag from my more subversive sister Heather.
(See Subversive Blog Award Above)

Special mention must be made to Geoff McQuilkin the instigator of the Subversive Blogger Award.

Here are some tagged persons I nominate for this award:

1. Simon
2.Jarrod
3.Chris
4.Danielle
5.Heather coz I've run out of people Okayy?!?! :)