Reverse terrorism? Renegade controllers manipulating air safety for a better life
In THE AGE today, the breaking news was about how a Qantas flight was jeapordised by the irresponsible acts of a group of traffic air controllers. The controllers are acting to push ahead their agenda “to an industrial campaign for big wage rises”.
While the Western world wage a war against terror, it has failed to observe how its very system expounds and encourages rebellion as a means to achieve goals. Additionally, this very version of proving a point is rewarded through the acceptance or awareness of organized protests.
How can the human race fight terrorism in countries far flung, strange and misunderstood, when the very acts of terrorism are happening within our familiar environments? While some renegades fight for the very survival of being able to walk down a street without the threat of being gunned down or for the right to practice and celebrate their humanistic differences, societies higher up the Maslow pyramid are displaying the most basic of flaws- greed, selfishness and sheer stupidity.
