we have to start making the connections or we're all fucked.

as one student told teen vogue: “how could you not feel a little bit terrified 
knowing that it happens so randomly and so often?” 
and she’s not exaggerating. 
more than 150,000 students in the u.s. have experienced a shooting on campus 
since the 1999 columbine high school massacre, considered the first modern mass school shooting.
and in such anticipatory anxiety,american students have much in common 
with victims of drone warfare.

speaking to researchers from stanford university, haroon quddoos, a pakistani taxi driver who survived two u.s. drone strikes, explained it this way:

“no matter what we are doing, that fear is always inculcated in us. 

because whether we are driving a car, 

or we are working on a farm, 

or we are sitting home playing... cards 

-- no matter what we are doing, we are always thinking the drone will strike us. 

so we are scared to do anything, no matter what.”

(allegra harpootlian, tomdispatch)

we live in a terror state and we live in a state of terror. we manufacture terror for export, we practice terror in the homeland. arms sales are at an all time high. the military industrial complex and the n.r.a are having an infinite orgy of death and destruction in their tax free conning towers, living large, bullet-proof lives.