WHAT I BELIEVE

You call us criminals.  We sell drugs, we tap your phones, We hack your computers.  But what have we done wrong?  How Do we endanger society?  Compared to you who control the state and strive to herd us like sheep, we are saints.  You drop bombs, you wage war, you control the masses, what we hear, what we see.  You are the ones that have killed in the names of justice and democracy.  Not us.  So I ask you, who of us is the bigger threat to society?  We are who we are, not who you want us to be.  And these are words to live by. We strive to learn all I can in this so-called "Age of Information."  But who are you to decide what knowledge is for we "plebeians" who put you into office ?  Fear is all you have over us, no longer is it respect.  You fear for your way of life, and we fear for our lives and livelihood.  You rule in this supposed land of freedom and you are slowly taking away our rights, choices, and our privileges.  But for every freedom you deny us, the anger and resentment we have for you builds.  We all - even you - know that there will be an uprising of the masses.  No more will we stand by and be complacent to your every whim.  We will fight against you and retake our lives back. All you pigs of the state may think of these words as just annoying, pathetic ramblings of a lunatic or child.  But they are not.  Look back upon the last fifty years.  Even you must admit that crime and violence has become more common and extreme.  So you treat us like we are children.  You spank us and you ground us and you take away more of our rights.  But you cannot realize that we are like grains of sand slipping from your grasp.  The more you put pressure on us to behave and conform to your ideals, the more we slip through the fingers of control.  One of these days, when the last grain of sand has fallen - we will strike back and regain our lives.