To all those burning US Embassies

It is abundantly clear that you have lived under one form or another of totalitarian rule (whether secular or sacred) for many centuries, that most of you now protesting have not known anything else for your whole lives.  You obviously expect a government to tell you how to live, what to say, who to worhip and so on.  Hence your seeming cluelessness about the US - your idea of freedom is terribly immature.  Your behavior evidences your unpreparedness for real freedom - as with many of our own conservatives here, your under-developed idea of freedom begins and ends at what you want, not what others may do.  The freedom to be me and, quite frankly, fuck with you.  I know you might say that you are not so different than those zealots who shoot physicians or bomb their clinics for religious reasons.  I'd like to disagree, but....

I would like to let you in on a secret (it's not really secret, but you - and like minded folks here - don't seem to get it).  Our government here in the US does not tell us what we can say or what religion to practice  or God to pray to (even though some of our own people do not seem to realize this either and frequently seem to bemoan it).  We are free to piss each other off and do so on a regular basis.  Fortunately only a few crazies kill each other over it.  Here in America, any asshole with a camera and a few bucks and a desire to start shit can make any piece of shit film he wants (please note that this looks like it was made by a 5 year old with a video camera - this is not our best work!) and put it on the web.  The government does not control this nor does it censor the web.  I am not sure what is sadder - that jackasses do this or you look at it and think it is art.

To be honest, some of those making such films want nothing more than to cause trouble, create chaos and further their own ends - I am sure they appreciate you joining in their cause by fulfilling their image of you and your religion.  They want you to act just as you are, in a way that most civilized people find abhorrent, to act out their pre-conceived notions and unflattering images.  It may be that the real violence is not your doing, that you are merely content to burn home-made American flags and throw bottles, write catchy slogans on walls, and hang up black banners.  But the violence being done in the name of your outrage does you discredit, just as the bull shit being said in ours does to us.