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America teaching its children to lie, steal - and kill
By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 1-1-04
How you treat a stranger determines how you treat the ones you love.
At first you can't see the connection. After all, how many doors have you slammed in the face of some maddeningly pious Jehovah's Witness, or screamed into the phone at some gentle grandpa trying to raise money for the local fire department? Or, best example of all, how many times have you cussed out a homeless panhandler bugging you for spare change without contemplating the ragged family he may have squirreled away behind some nearby dumpster?
Most of us are too busy to care.
In the self-centered savvy of our synthetic 21st century American lives, we are taught not to realize that how we treat our enemies - or in our haste, those we would categorize as superfluous to our hectic agendas - has a direct and debilitating impact on those who we say are important to us. Our parochial perspectives teach others in our family how to be cruel. We are taught that some people are less deserving than others, that our way of life depends on recognizing and perpetuating these distinctions, and that's the way most of us live.
What happens when those distinctions become blurred? If we hate others on the basis of propaganda lies, how do we decide who we'll love and know the reasons are true?
Most obviously, it is beginning to dawn on many of us that the way America abuses the luckless inhabitants of less-developed lands is beginning to unmistakably resemble the way the U.S. government now roughs up its own citizens, without regard to their rights or their humanity or whatever noble motives they may have, in favor of how big their bank accounts are, and how much they'll pony up to participate in this sleazy scam of corporate conquest and bottom-line tyranny that is now sweeping the planet.
It's as if there's a colossal rush by everyone to buy their way into hell.
Consider, just for a moment, groups of Palestinian children gunned down for sport by bored Israeli stormtroopers, or Afghani families bombed from the sky by hopped-up American airmen just for shooting celebratory rifle shots into the air during a festive wedding. Compare them to white-haired retirees and principled college students assaulted with truncheons and pepper spray by masked Miami police thugs just for protesting the destruction of American prosperity by rich men who give allegiance to no country.
What's the difference? We are all citizens of the world now - all eligible to be jailed without trial, killed without warning by those who have deemed us excess baggage.
It's much like the way we see that vagabond on the west side of Manhattan trying to clean our windshield. Chances are good, in this raging age, that you'll have a chance to experience that as the American economy continues to be propped up by lies, as more families lose their homes and livelihoods. Then you too will see the ugliness of that temporarily affluent man inside the car, racing off to fulfill his endless commitments without seeing his own future waving that squeegee in desperate frustration receding in his rearview mirror.
But beyond the visible parallel of pauperized Americans more and more resembling gang-raped Iraqis as the herding of humans into categories and camps accelerates, there lies the truly nauseating specter of the behavior of contemporary American leaders and its poisonous effects on America's children.
Contemporary political events and the lies that are told to justify them are turning America's children into monsters without consciences willing to kill anyone for cash. Anyone!
Have you noticed the number of kids going to school dressed in military fatigues? The number of video games where the object is simply to kill without reason? Is this why we had children in the first place?
Most parents do their best in leading their children through the labyrinth of regimens and requirements to give them a decent shot at a functional and productive adulthood. But think of what that involves now.
It requires teaching a willingness to believe in the flag-waving lies our leaders tell us. What kind of adults do you suspect that will produce? You are looking at the future of America and the world, and you ought to be scared.
It requires explaining to them how it's OK that America's Secretary of State - Colin Powell, one of the most respected men in the country - can go before representatives of the entire world and deliver a totally fictional scenario, simply so that his bosses - the men who make the weapons - can obliterate an entire country and enable their companies to pull one of the greatest financial scams in history - the robbery of the American people to rebuild a country that they themselves have destroyed. Amid continuing flag-waving, that plan is scheduled to be inflicted on many more countries which can't defend themselves.
It requires explaining to children why American soldiers who come home in a box are to be venerated as having done something good, as having given their lives for a noble purpose. And that requires lying to your children, and overlooking some serious lies that we told to create the situation in the first place. Because the soldiers who are dying in Iraq are dying for lies that so many Americans try to overlook. Pity those parents who give away their children's lives for lies about weapons of mass destruction.
To most of the rest of the world and especially Iraqis, it is Americans who are the terrorists.
The choice left to surviving children whose siblings have squandered their lives in a war based on lies is to support their parents and believe the lies, or go mad.
Our children learn what we teach them. For a majority of American parents, we are teaching our children to overlook the truth, that real justice doesn't really matter if there is a quick profit to be made. As American soldiers come home and become policemen, and treat us in the same way they treated Iraqis, so our children will grow up and behave in the same duplicitous, immoral way our leaders do now. Why? Because that's what we have taught them.
I wonder how many parents are naming their new babies after George Walker Bush or Richard Cheney? And if any are, I wonder what kind of adults those children will turn out to be?
Will they be children who learn how to steal elections? How to destroy the Constitution by bribing their friends to support their lies? To drop diabolical nuclear weapons on innocent foreigners because there is a moneymaking scheme to be carried out that will make them billions of dollars? Will they be men and women who will destroy buildings in their own big cities and kill innumerable numbers of their own countrymen simply to achieve their political objectives?
And perhaps more importantly, how will these children - grown up with the lies of the present political machinery indelibly etched in their own heads - treat the ones they are supposed to love? Perhaps we can see that now. Perhaps we can see, in the behavior of those who return from Iraq, how we treat the ones they love " or used to.
Is this why we raised our children? To believe in lies? To give their lives for lies?
We are teaching our children that it's OK to kill large numbers of innocent people if those people have some valuable commodity that we covet. Just pick up any newspaper. Listen to your president, the man who laughs about people he is about to execute. That's what it's all about.
How we treat strangers determines how we treat the ones we love. If we abuse strangers, we can't help but abuse the ones we love. Not enough people realize this, or don't realize until they're older, after a few divorces, perhaps.
Need proof?
Consider this snippet of conversation between that crusading Idaho dentist Len Horowitz and an interviewer about why it seems everyone in America is sick right now with a bronchial infection no one seems to be able to get rid of.
Horowitz explained: " ... in the contemporary warfare arena, where experts in biological chemical warfare convene and discuss the ways that are ideal to conduct warfare today, to really take an enemy out, you don't want to kill the people. You want to produce people who are chronically ill and become dependent on the state and totally sap the resources of the country. And then you can move in further with your military-medical-industrial complex, your international medical-pharmaceutical cartel. And then you sell these beleaguered and defeated countries all of the pharmaceuticals and chemicals that they need to maintain any semblance of healthy function."
Interviewer: "So you've got a work force that can work, but they're too tired after they finish working to .... "
"That's exactly it," Horowitz exclaimed. "They're completely depleted. They can't put together a military, you create a dependence and thereby you weaken the population, and weakened populations are easily to control. So you've got population control, and you make vast fortunes doing it, versus just blowing up a nuclear weapon and devastating the infrastructure that you own. You and your colleagues own that infrastructure. You want to get rid of the people. You don't want to get rid of infrastructure."
So much for the "why" of this biowarfare now going on that everyone's overlooking. How about for the "who" and the "how," according to Horowitz.
"What you're looking at with this upper respiratory infection is that it is a multi-factorial illness. It's associated with a variety of chemical and biological co-factors. Just like with AIDS, it's not the AIDS virus that ultimately kills, it's co-factor microbes such as the micoplasma ...."
"What you have could be described as an ideal Russian biological cocktail. And I suppose it's called Russian biological cocktail because the Americans likely invented it. What they determined would be the best biological chemical warfare approach was a combination of chemicals and biologicals, so that it would be very difficult to diagnose and then treat the illnesses. Moreover, it would be very difficult to trace where they came from.
"If you've got, say, ethylene dibromide coming out of the jet fuels that is causing immune suppression and weakening your immune system, and then you've got a micoplasma microbe or a fungus that causes an upper respiratory illness, suddenly you develop a secondary bacterial infection. Now you get hit with antibiotics, and the antibiotics cause your body chemistry to go acidic, so now you get rashes and other things, your liver gets full of toxins and comes out through your skin in rashes and they get hyperallergenic reactions associated with the other chemicals.
"So all of a sudden now, you realize that you've got a human being who is completely out of balance and infected by two, three or four microbial co-factors as well as intoxicated by a variety of different chemicals."
There's your human weather forecast from one of the world's foremost medical detectives.
How are you going to teach your children about that - a diabolical conspiracy devised to poison the Russians that has now been turned on the American people themselves?
And are your children, dressed stylishly in their military fatigues, going to think that's a groovy idea, very patriotic?
When we are with our families, we like to assume that everything we do and everything that they do is based on mutual love. Of course, it doesn't always work out that way, but surely that's what we'd like it to be.
We have an understanding that family comes first, that I would do anything to protect and nurture my child under any circumstances, and that my children, if I brought them up right, would feel the same way about me, as I most certainly felt about my parents.
It is an understanding most families reach. I don't know that it holds up, for those families who still support what America's leaders say and do these days, when you have to teach your children that lying, stealing other people's countries and killing large numbers of people for reasons that are lies are OK. Just the way the world works.
In which case, many of these parents could realistically expect their children to kill them for money, because that's what their country taught them. And sometimes that happens.
And after 9/11, in which America's leaders betrayed their people by complicity in an attack on their own country, followed by wars that were blamed on that phony event, the understanding of mutual protection, respect and allegiance between a nation and its people has been shattered. Honest people are very afraid of their dishonest government.
And so has the trust between fathers and sons and mothers and daughters, because some insist on believing the lies that it's OK to kill people you don't know for money, while others - still trying to believe the words of holy men who urge us to love others - won't accept those lies that have torn so many families apart.
The understanding that once was between those who care for each other is no longer what it was. The blame can be squarely placed on an America that has become perverted by its own power, and now threatens the lives, livelihoods and love of every person on Earth.
How long will it be, under this present trend, until we look into the eyes of our children and not know them anymore?
John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a collection of his Internet essays. For more information, or to make a contribution to a writer who otherwise derives no income from these essays, click http://www.johnkaminski.com/
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By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 12-27-03
These are impossible questions, ones which I cannot answer. Perhaps one of you can.
What do we do when the very people supposed to be protecting us are actually harming us? Robbing us, poisoning us, deliberately asphyxiating us, putting things in our water that make us docile, giving us foods and medicines that make us sick, and in general preventing us from living our lives in what we believe is a normal manner.
What do we do when the society in which we live prevents us from being moral? Or from telling the truth as we see it? What do we do when our society encourages us not question statements that we know in our hearts to be lies?
What do we do when our TV and newspapers tell us lies but insist we should regard this information as truth? What do we do when the vast majority of people in our society accepts these lies as truths and ridicules us when we call these statements lies?
What do we do when we have a legitimate grievance and can't get it redressed without bribing somone? What do we do when we can't trust our courts? How are we to respond when we learn that a private company controls all of our money? Or that the government has the right to poison your baby before you take her home from the hospital?
What do we do when the leader of our country, the occupant of the most prestigious office in the world, is a pill-popping psychopath with no discernible personality whose favorite hobby is killing large numbers of people, either by signing death warrants to execute mentally defective miscreants or ordering airstrikes against innocent women and children tens of thousands of miles away?
What do we do when all those around him, including the so-called political opposition, seem to agree with everything he says and does, and otherwise act as if this demented demagogue pathologically predisposed to obliterating the whole world is actually a normal human being?
It used to be the American way dictated if you didn't like the way the government worked, you could go to the polls and vote for an opposition candidate who promised to change things. What do we do when all the candidates who are running for every office are all basically saying the same thing and endorsing all the harmful things that are being done?
What do we do when the concept of one person, one vote has been completely destroyed by computerized voting machines that no one can verify, except the companies that own them, which are themselves owned by rich white men who support the man who got the votes that no independent agency is able to authenticate?
What do we do we when can't trust the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, or the medicines we take to make us well? How are we to regard these efforts to criminalize vitamins and other health foods when the doctors we go to prescribe medicines that are less effective than those beneficial substances they have worked so hard to ban?
What do we do when our nation decides to go into a state of permanent war, choosing hapless countries to attack and then obliterating them, then fleeces its own citizens with devious legislation that funnels billions of dollars to companies to reconstruct what we've just destroyed for reasons we later learn were transparent lies? How are we to regard such a country, such a group of men who would do such a thing to their fellow human beings?
And how are we to regard ourselves for believing and supporting such insane and inhuman policies?
What do we do when the vast majority of American citizens refuses to even recognize that anything is out of whack?
What do we do when government employees tinker with diseases in a laboratory, and then suddenly the whole country is stricken with a new kind of flu, one that kills children in Colorado and keeps everyone coughing indefinitely all across the nation? Why is it when you look up epidemics in history, you find that most of the recent ones occurred after vaccination campaigns? Why do you feel so uneasy when they tell you to get a flu shot? Or if you're in the military, when they tell you to get an anthrax shot?
Why does the American government seem so intent on destroying the lives of its own soldiers? Why do American soldiers seem so willing to shoot innocent women and children? Iraq or Afghanistan were never threats to America. Why do our children so eagerly shoot those people down like dogs? Is that what we really taught them to do in our humble homes? Is it? Are you absolutely sure we didn't? If we didn't, why do they?
What do we do when you can't get any public officials to comment on why there are all these strange cloud markings in the sky " some call them chemtrails " and so many people are sick with respiratory problems? Or perhaps it's the soot in the air, in increased amounts these days because air quality rules have been rolled back by the President who was elected on the basis of votes we were not allowed to recount.
What do we do when they tell us we have to rearrange our lives because of the threat of "terror"? These rearrangements, at least these days, are primarily based on the precedents set by the "terror" attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in which many thousands lost their lives in New York City and Washington, D.C. These "terrorists" have "terrorized" the world ever since, causing us to go to war in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
Who are these "terrorists?" Why has no evidence ever been presented linking them to 9/11? Why was the Afghanistan war planned before 9/11 if it was blamed on 9/11? Why was the war in Iraq blamed on weapons of mass destruction and connection to 9/11 when it was planned long before 9/11? Why didn't the government ever catch those responsible for the anthrax attacks, especially after the trail of suspicion led right back to government employees? Why didn't anybody in Congress read the legislation before voting for the initial Patriot Act?
Why has nobody protested the nullification of our Constitutional rights? Especially when the so-called "terror" threatening our security is clearly a behind-the-scenes construction of our own intelligence agencies.
What do we do when the Vice President brings all the top oilmen in the country to his office to create a new energy policy, then they all fleece the citizens of California of billions of dollars in energy overcharges, the principal energy broker presides over the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history and is not prosecuted, a well-connected actor is elected governor of California to stop efforts to recover this stolen energy money, and the Vice President continues to draw a salary from the same company that receives billions of dollars in lucrative reconstruction contracts for rebuilding Iraq, which is the country we bombed on the basis of lies that were based on the "terror" that caused 9/11, for which they refuse to provide the evidence?
When you wave your American flag today, do you realize it means you are endorsing mass murder and exploitation all over the world? Do you realize the reasons for this demonic behavior are all lies? Do you realize America creates wars to stimulate profits, and has done this consistently for more than a hundred years?
How come so many of our own military servicepeople are returning from Iraq to America with really strange diseases? How come we use radioactive ammunition when we know it has made thousands sick? How come we give soldiers shots to prevent diseases but we won't tell them what is in those shots? How come the military doesn't desert when they learn all these things, and how come parents can be proud when they bury their children who died in a war that fought for reasons we now know to have been lies? What's up with that?
What do we do when America moves all its best jobs overseas because of the cheaper labor? What are Americans supposed to do about that? Start their own businesses and keep their products here at home? Hmmm.
What do we do when we can't trust the cops? Whom do we call for help then? When we see our president committing obvious moral and legal crimes and then lying about them, whom do we call to have him arrested? What do we do when we mention this to opposition candidates and they don't answer us?
We can no longer afford to support a government that does not support its people! But what do we do?
We need to begin meeting with small groups of like-minded people who are as aghast as we are to find out how to begin processes of how to arrest and prosecute our criminal leaders. This will be very difficult.
It's not just a matter of canvassing social clubs and political parties. Both categories are largely brain dead and irrelevant, mindless flag wavers interested more in eating and drinking than in actual freedom. Nor is it productive to stage mass rallies with fractured focuses, where the main message of fading freedom is lost amid a confusing welter of conflicting passions.
No, this requires the creation of new groups, ones devoted to real education and not coopted. Pay particularly attention to the word "coopted," and maybe extend it to "infiltrated." This is a situation that applies to militias and politically oriented environmental groups. Both are now under extreme scrutiny by the feds, who are armed with draconian new laws that permit them to throw you in jail for the most trivial reasons.
But the need to be very careful should not stop you from trying to discern and organize people who are genuinely interested in the principles of freedom, in maintaining the attitudes that could make America what we always hoped it would be, and ending this criminal caricature that it has become.
At some point very soon, we all need to address our public officials, and determine if they are going to side with the people who are being oppressed or with the oppressors who are being bribed to fleece and shackle the people.
These are the questions we need to ask them:
Why are there two sets of laws in this country, one for the poor that guarantees they will continue to live in poverty, and one for the rich, which assures they can get away anything as long as they pay the right person? Why is it that our Attorney General approves of the indefinite incarceration of innocent foreigners without having to present any evidence, yet refuses to investigate charges of treason, obstruction of justice, mega grand theft and mass murder against the rich and powerful men who have seized control of what was once a free country? Who will investigate law enforcement when the law enforcers have turned criminal? Why was Dick Cheney allowed to keep secret the master plan for robbing Californians of $11 billion?
Why have all laws protecting the environment been repealed when we know the infusion of poisons into products is needlessly killing large numbers of people? Why are we deliberately fouling our air with poisonous chemtrails, and why is it no government official will say a thing about this?
Why is there a deliberate obstruction created by Ashcroft to prevent ordinary people from finding out what their government is doing to them? Why are ingredients like flouride and aspartame permitted in what we consume when everyone knows they are poisoning us?
Why are our schools turning out children who can't spell or think for themselves? And why does our government seek to take away money for those schools and give it to self-serving, thought-limiting religious schools, especially when the Constitution that used to be in force expressly prohibits such transparent favoritism?
The police state is here. Your rights have been taken away, one by one. It is now illegal to think for yourself. Just try to examine evidence showing the Germans never willingly gassed anyone during World War II. You can be thrown in jail just for trying. And knowing that, what does that tell you about the original question? Do you see anything wrong with outlawing certain thoughts? If you don't, then you probably don't have any questions about where you went to school, or what church you go to, and you also probably don't see any purpose in any of this I've just written.
Our reliance on mass media has dulled our minds, our reliance on prepackaged foods has anesthetized our senses and atrophied our bodies, and our reliance on establishment religion has shackled our spirits, and made us cogs in a mindless machine rather than the sensitive seeds in the soil we need to be to fulfill our human birthright.
We need to grow our own food, make our own clothes, live in our own houses. We need to break the backs of the bankers who control us with things we don't really need. What do we do with all this time our modern conveniences give us? We seek out more distractions to keep us separate from those we love. All these consumables we covet just make us hate ourselves more, because, deep down, we all know we're not doing what we're supposed to be doing.
What we're supposed to be doing is making a better world, making sure people are not suffering, making sure that we're not destroying the very things that keep us alive. We are not supposed to be increasingly alienating ourselves with false styles and transitory titillations that prevent us from nourishing the very things that nourish us. We are not supposed to be taking pills to make us feel better, we are supposed to be living lives that make us feel better.
The existing political structure in America is rotten to the core, fatally polluted by a private money supply that enables perverted patricians to retain their aristocratic power across the generations. Until this injustice is eliminated, and the power over money is returned to the people, nothing will be fixed, and the unjust wars will proliferate.
Instead of leading a more humane world into a new era of enlightenment, understanding and technological diversity, America is dragging the world backwards into a new Dark Ages where force of plunder is annihilating legitimate efforts toward reciprocal respect and cooperation.
Under present circumstances, there is no alternative to the mass dismissal and prosecution of the entire American government " the administration, the congress, the judiciary all must be indicted for criminal corruption. To do this, a massive campaign of recalibration needs to be undertaken. Starting at the local level, delegates to form a new government need to be chosen, preferably without political campaigns (and certainly without funded campaigns). These local delegates need to congeal at the state level, and begin the arduous task of reconstituting the federal government without political campaigns.
Once a temporary U.S. Senate is chosen by the states, new elections can be held for the House of Representatives, which then would choose a new Senate as a precondition for being able to hold a nationwide election for higher leadership positions. In the interim, a temporary administrative transition team would coordinate the operations of the federal government, once all the Cabinet-level leaders had been jailed. Who would be named to this team, and how it would be named, remain to be seen. Certainly political parties, military and religious leaders, unions, newspapers, bankers, lawyers and doctors should not be involved in this selection process. Or perhaps they all should. The one thing to be avoided is the dominance of any one segment of society over the entire government, as it is now by lawyers masquerading as professional politicians.
The only way to get a truly representative and functional government is to severely regulate the use of mass media in campaigning, enforce strict term limits for all offices, and to radically revise all laws governing banks. Usury must be abolished, and upper limits on income established, now that we are all certain unregulated capitalism is the cause of most of the world's problems.
All the budgets of the world can be balanced by the simple confiscations of most of the fortunes of the world's wealthiest people, like the Rothschild, Bush and Windsor families. Relax, patricians, you'll still be able to buy your way out of trouble. We won't take it all, just most of it. Besides, many members of these families won't need their money if they're all living at Guantanamo, which should probably be renamed Camp Bush.
No more is it a question of trying to get ahead in this society. This society is broken. It is time to forge a new world, not based on domination, exploitation and war. We must stop regarding the idea of revolution as merely an abstract concept, and realize that a functioning, purposeful revolution is the only way most of us are going to survive. Otherwise, the certainty of slavery for 90 percent of the world's population is unavoidable, and that will only perpetuate the same problems that continue to afflict us.
How we can effect these necessary changes absolutely vital to our collective survival are questions that you, dear reader, must now answer. It is essential that your share your conclusions with others, and not just keep them to yourselves.
If you don't see the need for any of these questions I've just posed, let me ask you this:
What will you do when they come for you?
John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a collection of his Internet essays. For more information, or to make a contribution to a writer who otherwise derives no income from these essays, click http://www.johnkaminski.com/ For other samples of his essays, click http://www.rudemacedon.ca/kaminski/kam-index.html
Commentary By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 12-15-3
War is peace, Orwell said. It has never been clearer than now.
The theatrical apprehension of fallen Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from his pathetic hole in the dirt is a prima facie example of how the American vision of life and the world has become totally twisted. It was the culmination of an unjust war against a defenseless people, this ritual roughing up of a tired old man who was never more than a puppet following the orders of the master manipulators who always planned to do him in when it became convenient.
Saddam was never a danger to America, despite all the pre-war rhetoric that has all been proven false.
George W. Bush - and Bill Clinton and the elder Bush before him - killed many times more Iraqis than Saddam ever did. The 20,000 or so Iraqi innocents who perished in the recent bombing of the Cradle of Civilization were at least ten times more than the number of political malcontents who ran afoul of the murderous machismo of Saddam's inflexible rule, and the utter destruction of this functioning nation-state was certainly something Hussein never contemplated.
What the United States has done to Iraq is something far worse than Saddam Hussein ever would or could have done. Saddam was never a danger to his neighbors; that was all Zionist media spin. The only country in that region that was worried about him was Israel, because he represented an inflexible stumbling block to the expansionist aims of the demonic Jewish state.
Americans refuse to confront the ugly facts about this. They refuse to acknowledge that America has become the real evil empire.
The reasons for invading Iraq have been proved beyond any doubt to have been lies. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, nor did it have any connection to 9/11, the two reasons America used to unleash its murderous military might. These have been debunked beyond all question, and still Americans send their sons and daughters to slaughter and be sacrificed for the ugly perpetuation of these lies.
How Americans could continue to support these satanic fictions is something for the historians to contemplate. When you use obvious lies to go to war, then you are the criminals, you are the evil ones. But Americans simply will not or cannot admit this.
Bush's decision to go to war based on lies have already cost some 700 American lives, with more than 5,000 other casualties, and thousands more stricken with a variety of diseases related to vaccines, radioactive weaponry, and other unspecified hazards. Plus there's the nearly $200 billion expended from the Treasury that has not gone to either pay our military for such arduous duty or rebuild the country we have just destroyed.
This money is literally a highway robbery of the American people directed by favored American corporations who have reaped billions virtually without lifting a finger. American corporations who have contributed mightily to George Bush and his fascist associates are overseeing the greatest robbery in history (eclipsing the previous record set by Bush the Elder in his plundering of American banks in the late 1980s).
But the American criminal behavior, you must remember, goes much deeper. For 12 years, America and Britain have bombed Iraq constantly, destroyed its civilian infrastructure, and caused the deaths of a half million children who were deprived adequate medical care and nutrition, all this after more than 100,000 were killed in the first Gulf War, all this after a century of exploitation and mass murder by " who else? " America and Britain.
Americans refuse to see that the war against the Muslim world has been going on for more than a thousand years, and nothing has basically changed. We install leaders who do our bidding, and then when we find a more lucrative way to fleecing that part of the world., we do away with them, just like the Shah of Iran.
Either Americans remain oblivious to the pain we inflict on this part of the world, or worse, we know what we are doing, which makes us sadistic killers in order to maintain our posh (though rapidly deteriorating) lifestyles. This is the real American way " mass murder for money.
War is peace. America is creating a hell on earth. This mission has been accomplished in Iraq and Afghanistan and many other places. And now the criminals who engineer these inhuman scams seem to want to make America itself into the same kind of place, what with arrest without trial, poisoned medicines and medical care you can't trust, the imprisonment of citizens who challenge the banks' warped fictions, and even the end of an authentic voting system.
Even in the obvious onslaught of all these atrocities, most Americans " perhaps brain-damaged by long-term exposure to flouride, radioactivity, food additives and other debilitators " prefer to believe the obvious lies spewed out by TV PR types (there are no legitimate journalists remaining in mainstream media, only paid shills) that America is still the world's last bastion of freedom.
Well, that's a lie, just like war is peace. In reality, America is the new Nazi state, goose-stepping around the world.
Americans are now like what they call "trusties" in the prison of the world. They are like favored lackeys on the plantation of the planet. But soon, as capitalism continues to self-destruct around the world, they too will be tossed into the slave quarters, treated like Iraqis, and consigned to caves like Saddam found, hiding from the mindless might that has been unleased in order to further the fortunes of the elite, and pound and poison cannon fodder like us into nonexistence.
Saddam is not the real criminal here. He didn't destroy his own country. He only offed some political opponents, something that happens very often right here in America.
The real mass murderer is Bush. The corporate TV stations continue to treat Bush as, if not a hero, at least someone who is operating the righteous machinery of democracy.
Democracy is as much of a lie as war is peace. Democracy is the new buzzword for tyranny. There is a robbery going on here which may be too late to stop. The siphoning of money, resources and even water from the people who rightfully own them to the military-backed corporations who wrongfully control them signals a new dark era in human history, a new totalitarianism frequently predicted in the literature of visionaries like Orwell and Huxley, but never actually witnessed, at least on American soil.
Now with all these free-speaking people put in prison for merely trying to accurately describe what is happening - Leonard Peltier, Ernst Zundel, Charles Sell, Rick Stanley, the list has always been endless - we are witnessing the dawn of a new Dark Ages in which you must believe what you hear on television of you will ultimately lose everything you have.
Stay tuned for "red alert," during which you won't be able to leave your houses so they can come around and take you away one by one.
The American dream is now a nightmare from which there is no escape.
John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a collection of his Internet essays. For more information click http://www.johnkaminski.com/ Contributions to the author who otherwise derives no income from these essays and whose only job is to expose this conspiracy to plunder the planet are always gratefully accepted. To read more of Kaminski's essays, click http://www.rudemacedon.ca/kaminski/kam-index.html
Government's 911 Coverup Falling Apart
By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 12-20-3
Even phony Kean commission concedes something wrong with the official story.
"If what I say is right, the whole U.S. government should end up behind bars."
--Andreas von Bulow
To most Americans, the first inkling that something was wrong with the official story of the 9/11 catastrophe occurred about a year after the event, when President Bush resisted setting up a panel to investigate the events of that dark day.
Why would he not want to investigate the greatest crime in American history? many wondered. Then, he badly underfunded it. Then, he tried to name infamous power broker Henry Kissinger to head it. Since then, Bush has stonewalled a committee of his own choosing, one stacked with political functionaries that is ill-equipped to conduct either a police or forensic investigation " and, perhaps most revealing, one that accepted the government's version of who the guilty parties were before they examined any evidence!
To date, there has never been anything revealed to the public about how the U.S. government KNOWS that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda were the actual perpetrators of 9/11.
Today, millions of Americans realize - simply from watching thousands of cop shows on TV - that the one most interested in covering up a crime is the one most likely to have committed it. Many more millions also realize that the foremost beneficiaries of the attacks and mass killings of 9/11 are the same people who are now waging wars that are based on some very suspicious rationalizations, most of which since have been exposed as outright lies.
Shockingly enough, even Thomas Kean, chairman of the committee constructed to cover up this greatest crime in American history, blew the whistle the other day that the attacks could have been prevented. Whether this will develop into a real investigation, or whether Kean's remarks were nothing more than what is called "a limited hangout," remains to be seen. But Kean's comment was evidence that a much larger percentage of the American people is beginning to sense that the "they hate our freedom" rationale uttered by the president is clearly bogus, and there is much more than meets the media eye happening about 9/11.
To a far smaller number of Americans, the official 9/11 story began to smell much earlier than when Bush tried to stall the official investigation.
When top Bush administration officials immediately and in unison denied knowing that jetliners could be used to attack American landmarks right after 9/11, a number of alert reporters immediately pointed out that this very subject had been under government study for almost a decade. And when U.S. officials immediately released a list of the alleged hijackers, the lie was immediately visible to those with eyes to see: how could they deny knowing this possibility of a massive jetliner attack existed, yet be able to name the alleged hijackers almost instantly because these individuals had been under surveillance for months?
If they could name the alleged hijackers, then they couldn't deny knowing the possibility of using planes as weapons existed, could they?
As astonishing events unfolded after the tragedy " the hasty passage of the Patriot Act (approved by Congress despite virtually no one in Congress reading it before voting for it), which nullified large portions of the U.S. Constitution; constant "terror alerts" about which no evidence was ever produced; the war against Afghanistan which was claimed to be a response to 9/11 yet was planned long before 9/11; and the war against Iraq, which was waged because that nation supposedly threatened America with weapons of mass destruction (which have never and will never be found, unless planted) and had ties to that mystery terror group called al-Qaeda (since proven to be lies) " many more millions of Americans began to understand that the new peril they were in was not from some shadowy worldwide terror group but from unscrupulous demagogues in Washington who would invent any story " and kill any number of people " in order to improve the fortunes of the very military/industrial power brokers who illegally brought them to power in the first place.
In the mind of these many more millions of Americans, a new syllogism began to take shape: if they lied about why they went to war in Afghanistan and they lied about why they went to war in Iraq, how stupid would Americans have to be to believe what they said about 9/11?
And yet, through two years of intense flag waving, during which most Americans were too terrified to say anything critical of those who were ostensibly protecting us from this new wave of worldwide terror, the lies became cast in stone. The media, owned by the same shameful specimens who own the weapons making companies, refused to even entertain the notion that the U.S. government could tell blatant lies to its own people, never mind murder thousands of them in one day.
Worse, what passed for the political opposition was afraid to even whisper what was becoming obvious in the minds of so many Americans with functioning brains " that the initial signs of a deliberate air defense standdown, the phony mythology about Muslim hijackers, the funny way all those buildings in New York happened to fall, the tiny hole in the Pentagon that was supposedly caused by a giant airliner, and the curiously comatose behavior of our president when the nation he was supposed to be leading was under dire attack " that 9/11 bore a multitude of evidential suggestions that it was an inside job, executed to give right-wing crazies a better shot at looting the treasury of their own country in a variety of ways. This scenario has now obviously come to pass.
And that is really where we stand today. Shockingly, while millions around the country and billions more around the world are certain that this is what happened, not a single major politician now chirping about irrelevant subjects in order to be permitted to run for the office of president against the world's top mass murderer has uttered even a single syllable that these millions of Americans who believe something is very wrong with the official 9/11 story just might be right.
And in the so-called American free press, our prostituted media continue a total blackout on the subject, as evidenced by the total silence that accompanied the recent filing of a lawsuit by 9/11 widow Ellen Mariani again President Bush for obstruction of justice and treason.
This is a travesty of mind-boggling proportions. Like the entire Congress that goosestepped late at night while it knocked over the U.S. Constitution, here we have the complete political spectrum " every single rich man who has declared his intention to run for president " not daring to admit what millions of Americans know beyond doubt in the sincerest depths of their hearts " that 9/11 was conceived, devised, planned and carried out from the offices of power in the United States, principally Washington, but also New York and Langley, Virginia, and quite possibly Tel Aviv.
You have only to look at the psychologically palsied and putrescent behavior of the official 9/11 investigative body, the Kean commission " as well as the insane and demonic actions of every single functionary in the Bush Administration " to know in your heart that it's true.
And realize the jeopardy we are all in.
Fortunately, there are many scrupulous personalities who haven't bought the shallow lies and who have worked doggedly since that dark day to bring the cynical deceptions to light.
They have analyzed the fall of the WTC towers and concluded they were most likely demolished. Why else would so much of the rubble have turned to powder and the towers themselves exploded at the top? Why else would WTC7 have fallen in the same manner of the others when it was not hit by a plane?
They have talked the Pentagon scenario to death and concluded there was no legitimate trace of jetliner rubble to be found, written that a hole of that small type was most likely made by a missile, and concluded that reports of identifying the DNA of every passenger on Flight 77 in that rubble was simply an impossible lie if the fires were hot enough to have melted virtually every trace of the crashed airliner.
They have concluded beyond doubt that the alleged maneuvers of the Pentagon jet could never have been accomplished by someone who did not do well in a small plane at a jerkwater flight school.
Many people have asked me, what are the best 9/11 sites? This is a sampling of some of them. Study them. Hone your arguments. Talk to people.
http://physics911.org/net/modules/ http://www.serendipity.li/wtc.html#what_actually_happened http://www.serendipity.li/wot/anti-war.htm) http://serendipity.ptpi.net/wot/holmgren/11.htm http://911research.wtc7.net http://wtc7.net http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/wtc7 http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=82574&group=webcast http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4582.htm http://www.radiofreeamerica.tv/video/2003-12-12/911-group.swf http://news.globalfreepress.com/ http://www.911-strike.com/ http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=22004 http://home.comcast.net/~skydrifter/exp.htm http://whatreallyhappened.com/blackmail.html http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=45885;title=APFN http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/oct2001/bond-o05.shtml http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/dayof911.html http://www.media-criticism.com/Baltimore_Sun_911_Letter_09_2003.html http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=44629&group=webcast
(Apologies to the many good ones excluded; I'm only one guy. These are just a few of the ones I happened to have used.)
When you read through these and understand their contents, you will understand beyond question that everything you hear from the mouths of presidential candidates, government officials and TV commentators is a lie. That there is so much evidence to convince you that 9/11 was an inside job, that our leading officials are criminals and mass murderers, that you, as a functioning human being on this earth, have no choice but to try to convince your neighbor that something must done if we are not to go quietly into this police state prison that has been prepared for us.
And yet, with all the comprehensive and inspired research that has been done (really, the Kean commission only needs to read the internet before recommending mass arrests for virtually all of the American government's leadership) there are two glaring areas that continue to delay the search for justice about 9/11.
The first involves the suspicious investments prior to 9/11, in which millions of dollars were made by betting the price of certain airline stocks (and other companies, some of which were located in the WTC towers) would go down. Financial laws guarantee a degree of confidentiality in these transactions, even those these laws principally protect crooks with large amounts of money who are often doing something the law does not permit. Nevertheless, the laws are set up to protect these identities.
Had America a great and honest leader, he (or she) would suspend these laws and name the beneficiaries of these suspicious transactions, reasoning that the greater good was served by tracking down the real perpetrators of the 9/11 mass murder instead of protecting the identities who clearly knew that 9/11 was going to happen before it did happen. Could there be any clearer path to uncovering the real criminals who killed all those people in New York and Washington (and later in Afghanistan and Iraq)? No, there couldn't. Any genuine investigation into the crimes of 9/11 would start (and quite possibly finish) right here.
In addition to releasing the contents of the black boxes that were found in the wreckages of the three disaster venues of 9/11, as well as the contents of the footage taken by the confiscated security cameras near the Pentagon (which could clearly reveal what actually did hit the Pentagon), the names of the investors who profited from insider trading in the days prior to 9/11 would give us a clear look at who the actual perpetrators of this unspeakable crime actually were.
It is a way to solve the crime, and it is clear. Logical people must assume that those who would prevent this method of solving this crime clearly have some involvement in it. This is beyond debate.
The second area most researchers have failed to make any real headway in is the involvement of Israel and its intelligence agency the Mossad in the planning and carrying out of the 9/11 attacks. Sure, Israel was one of those many countries that gave advance warning to the U.S. that something like this was about to happen (you remember, those warnings that Bush and his thugs insist they never got, but fortunately were reliably recorded by the other countries themselves).
The facts are that the evidence for Israeli involvement is substantial. Two workers in an Israeli company located in New York got advance warnings by e-mail two hours before the attacks. Israeli "art students" were shadowing the alleged hijackers for many months during their sojourns in flight schools around the United States. Five Israelis were arrested for dancing in celebration shortly after the planes hit the towers; two had connections to the Mossad. And, perhaps foremost, in the city with the largest Jewish population in the entire world, virtually no Israelis were killed in the 9/11 attacks.
Taken together, these coincidences are too astonishing to ignore. And given Israel's history of "false flag" operations (conducting terror and getting the blame shifted to another country), its involvement throughout history in attacks on its own citizens and Jews around the world to get them to behave in a certain way, its ponderous influence on the American congress and the American media, and the words of former Israeli prime minister Netanyahu, who immediately after the attacks said they were a very good thing for Israel, many millions of people believe that Israel was really the driving force behind 9/11, simply to get the Americans to continue to do their bidding in the Middle East, which as you can see by subsequent events, clearly is continuing to happen.
The withholding of information by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of the names of the men who profited from the suspicious trades in the days before 9/11, and the hidden role of Israeli intelligence in a caper in the biggest Jewish city in the world in a complex owned by Jewish businessmen continue to be the two most significant uninvestigated aspects of 9/11, and the ones most likely to lead to a genuine finding of fact about what really happened on this tragic and significant day.
Unfortunately, the powers that be are doing everything they can to impede investigation into these two areas, as well as into all other areas of information about 9/11.
Thus, it stands to reason, just on the basis of rules established in all those TV detective shows, that the powers that be are the ones who committed these heinous crimes, for the purpose of regimenting society more to their liking, because a regimented society is more profitable, and those under the thumb of a totalitarian capitalist dictatorship, as we are now, are far less likely to solve crimes and discover the perpetrators of the horror of 9/11 that changed the fundamental nature of the nation and the world in which we live.
It's not too much to demand honesty and accountability. Insist your favorite presidential candidate tell you about what he knows about 9/11, the insider trading, and Israel's influence. The answers you receive will tell you exactly what kind of candidate you're supporting.
John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a collection of his Internet essays. For more information, see http://www.johnkaminski.com/ Contributions to the author who otherwise derives no income from these essays are always gratefully accepted. To read more of Kaminski's essays, see http://www.rudemacedon.ca/kaminski/kam-index.html
US Takes War Into Space Levels Of The Game The Deeper You Go, The Darker It Gets
By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 11-30-3
Did you know there's a war game played by Air Force types that posits a situation where the United States in the year 2017 conducts a preemptive first strike on China by using a next-generation space shuttle, which swoops down and annihilates strategic targets before booking back up to the Space Station? This is followed by the total destruction of China by a spaced-based laser, which the Pentagon humorously calls the Death Star.
I learned of this gut-wrenching scenario by watching a video titled "Arsenal of Hypocrisy," a frightening array of future probabilities compiled by Gainesville, Florida filmmaker Randy Atkins ( http://www.cfvs.com ) detailing a shocking portrait of America's militarization of space. This film features the commentary of anti-nuke legend Bruce Gagnon, social critic Noam Chomsky, and former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, as well as former president Dwight Eisenhower, and provides such a chilling view of the future that it simply blew all the current news right out of my brain as my jaw dropped open and stayed that way for a few hours.
I mean, what's the point of speculating about what really happened on 9/11 or the sinister butchery of innocents in Iraq when a plan for total domination of the earth through calculated American violence is already in place and inexorably evolving toward its ugly conclusion?
The game is over. Nobody can oppose this war machine. It doesn't matter if we find out that no planes were actually used in the 9/11 deception, that it was all holograms and film. What court, what cop, is going to act on our discovery? They're all bought and paid for. And so are the "peace-loving" Democrats who are now clamoring to bestow their own version of American totalitarianism on the people of the world.
"Whoever controls space will win all the wars on the earth," says Gagnon in the film. "There is no challenger on this earth able to stand against us.
Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Nuclear Power and Weapons in Space and organizer of many demonstrations at the Kennedy Space Center, goes on: "We have 7500 nuclear missiles, China has 20. We are going to manage China." He explains that the deployment of U.S. forces in Central Asia are principally about encircling China, including "deploying theater missile defense systems off the coast of China."
He concludes: "They don't want the American people to understand the depth of the plans for moving the arms race into the heavens ... we shouldn't have any illusions anymore about our country ... our democracy is under the control of corporations."
At least watching the film took my mind off the depressing load of e-mails I face every day. These e-mails are certainly just as enlightening as Atkins' film, and one from my pal Hazel the other day got me thinking that even the brightest among the people I have come to know and respect on the Internet are still pretty much in the dark as to what is really going on.
The story, now widely circulated ( http://www.rense.com/general45/wh.htm ), involved a fellow named Michael Meiring, who happened to blow his legs off last year while constructing a bomb in the Philippines. The theory is that Meiring, operating under the cover of being a "treasure hunter" (a common CIA occupation), was instantly whisked out the country by American agents to presumably a secure and secret location.
Hazel reported he was "a CIA operative and had spent 10 years on assignment associating with Islamic groups, Abu Sayef, MNLF, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and other Philippine based Islamic groups, supplying them with US counterfeit notes (courtesy of US intelligence) and bomb making materials so that they may create terrorist mayhem within the Philippines, giving the US a pretext to move in and "help," just like in Indonesia " just like nearly everywhere else these Mafia-like thugs can plant their terror and, "protection" racket."
The story set off alarm bells with me. I have long insisted that al-Qaeda is nothing more than a CIA/Mossad strategem, useful in creating havoc when the U.S. military wants to respond to a threat. Got a place you want to invade? Have al-Qaeda blow something up, and we'll respond. It's a policy very much on the order of the Israeli formula, which creates terror to respond to whenever it wants to instill its repression of those whose land it wants to steal.
So now that everytime I hear about al-Qaeda doing some dastardly deed, I simply assume it is U.S.-Israeli operatives committing some "false-flag" operation in order to achieve some other, devilish purpose, just as we saw in Istanbul, Turkey the other day.
I wrote about this earlier ( http://www.worldnewsstand.net/03/John_Kaminski/25.htm ) in a piece called "The perfect enemy" which was widely circulated. The point being, an enemy under your complete control which you can deploy at your own whim is the perfect vehicle to keep the war machine making money, and Meiring is one of the best examples of that formula.
The so-called Muslim insurgency in the Philippines (and in a gaggle of other countries) is nothing more than a false-flag operation provoked by the CIA/Mossad construction named al-Qaeda in order to provide a justification for further military action and expenditures on armaments, not to mention that new cash cow, rebuilding countries the U.S. has destroyed, using American corporations with close ties to the Bush Administration. That's really the growth industry you should be investing in, if you're a murderous pig with absolutely no conscience about who you kill and what you destroy.
Istanbul was the most recent example of one of these false flag operations, as was Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, and, a little while back, the explosion in Bali, meant to exascerbate tensions and repression against Muslims in Indonesia.
Of course the granddaddy of all these provocations was 9/11, where the money men blasted the most famous American corporate landmark, made billions on savvy stock transactions and insurance claims, and created for themselves the perfect pretext to spread their population-reducing and profit-producing mayhem all around the globe, not to mention put all the American people in prison by means of Patriot Act and other repressive legislation.
And speaking of 9/11, I have been involved in the most fascinating round-robin conversation among absolutely the best, most conscientious researchers in the world. I would like to share some of this debate (but not all) with you, to maybe get your opinions on an apparent schism among the group, and also alert you to some very portentous developments.
This debate was essentially triggered by the curious revelations of Mike Ruppert, certainly the most well-known (and deservedly so) of those proposing an alternative view of what happened on 9/11. I term the revelations curious because what should have been page 1 news among the 9/11 research community was buried near the bottom of an otherwise pedestrian column about old JFK news and the issue of when the world's oil supplies will run out.
Ruppert admitted as a person that he believed the WTC towers were not brought down by the jetliners that crashed into them, that he believed the buildings were destroyed by demolition charges. He also said he believed no airliner hit the Pentagon, and that something else was responsible for the death and damage there.
This was a change in his basic policy of reporting, and the curious part of it was that he published his admission so unobtrusively. The admission, however, sent shockwaves through the 9/11 research community, and opened up whole new areas for renewed debate.
Because ... if the so-called top 9/11 researcher anywhere had revised his opinion, and now believed that the towers in New York were NOT felled by airliners, and that the Pentagon was NOT really hit by an airliner, it not only gives all those websites and researchers who have been insisting these very things all along a lot more credibility in the public eye, but it also astronomically increases the chances that the general public will begin to believe that George W. Bush's official version of what happened on 9/11 is an absolute lie, and that our country and the world are in much bigger trouble than most people have been willing to believe.
Ruppert's admission significantly increases the likelihood, in the public mind, that 9/11 was an inside job, meant to create a police state atmosphere within the United States, and also meant to create a pretext for bombing any country Bush says is harboring the terrorists who did 9/11.
BUT ... if the Twin Towers were demolished, and the Pentagon was hit by something other than a hijacked airliner ... well, you have to ask: how could Arabs in a cave in Afghanistan have pulled that off? Hmm? Wouldn't you agree?
And if Arabs in a cave in Afghanistan didn't do the dirty deed, who did?
Of course, the shocking part of contemplating that question is that it can't help but shatter the whole world view of whomever has the courage to confront it. I mean, we're talking about the president of the United States condoning the killing of American citizens, a lot of them, right in the middle of America's biggest city.
It's not an easy assertion to consider, for any of us. Because it means that everything this country has stood for, and been built upon, has been a lie, or at least is now a lie. It means that our leaders were willing to sacrifice thousands of its own citizens simply to facilitate a more aggressive and lucrative geopolitical agenda.
It is perfectly understandable to all how the mind of a loyal American would recoil at that idea, declare it preposterous, and consign advocates of such a theory to the loony bin.
And yet one of the top researchers of 9/11 in the world, Mike Ruppert, has admitted that he has been convinced of the truth that the WTC towers were demolished, and that the Pentagon was not hit by an airliner.
And now the choices are clear for every American. You can either hide your head in the sand, and continue to believe that the government of the good old USA would never do such a thing to its own people, or you can confront the evidence. I think now the choice has come down to confronting the evidence or not taking care of your own life.
Which leads me to the little matter of the schism among 9/11 researchers, precious few of whom (and those who do now fall under a glaring spotlight of suspicion as to their motivations) believe that jetliners felled the WTC towers or that a jetliner hit the Pentagon.
The schism is a matter of what constitutes political realism. Of what is possible under the circumstances.
I have long advocated the immediate arrest, on the basis of probable cause for obstruction of justice, of the president and all his staff and Cabinet. I'd prefer this order extend to most members of Congress as well. More detailed charges of conspiracy to commit mass murder, and conspiracy to commit treason, could be developed after the suspects were incarcerated and not able to do any more damage to innocent people all over the world.
Among 9/11 researchers, I am not in the majority, clearly. Though I'm not alone, either.
What is happening now is that several high-profile investigators want to make a movie about 9/11 and the sham that the official government probe has become. When this was announced, a number of us worried that the film could become another layer of the coverup if the right questions weren't asked.
We seem split into two camps: those who believe the crime must be punished and the perpetrators - whomever they may be - arrested and prosecuted, and those who believe (as Ruppert and others do) that the American government must be maintained, that we must go through channels, work within the system, and achieve the best results we can given the political realities we confront.
So what's your call? Should we let the killers slide in the interest of maintaining the decorous, storied infrastructure of the American hierarchy, or should we really go after the real murderers of all those innocent people with everything we have in our guts?
Next time you read anything about 9/11, or the Patriot Act, or the exterminations now ongoing in Iraq, or government scientists developing the famous 1918 strain of Spanish flu, or white-haired Americans being clubbed by Miami police, try to keep this question in mind.
You do know, my friends, which side I'm on.
John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a collection of his Internet essays. See http://www.johnkaminski.com/ For more of his work, also see http://www.rudemacedon.ca/kaminski/kam-index.html
The Other Shoe America Built A Prison And Put The World On Death Row
By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 11-24-3
My life is like a cage of pain. Oh, I'm healthy enough for my age, though I eat too much junk and don't exercise enough. I talk to the most brilliant people, caring people, the ones most aghast at the way the world has become a slick cistern of vicious lies, where the truth is what powerful men say it is, and the old values like honor and sacrifice are laughed at by teenage boys boogie boarding in the surf and trying to figure out a way to live their lives without working. In this still warm November sunshine, trudging aimlessly along a pristine beach, amid shorebirds scurrying for their next meal, I feel like I am on Death Row.
Of course, I am embarrassed to say this, with my easy life and available contentment all around me. I am shamed by men like Ernst Zundel, who languishes in his tiny prison cell in Canada, abused by callous guards and corrupt judges, who can speak of the noble nature of mankind and how it is time to organize that urge and rise up against the maniacs who enslave us with their jingoistic doublespeak. How can he, who has so little, see so much freedom, and how can I, who have so much, feel so imprisoned?
Sometimes I imagine I am living the life of the world, and try my darnedest to see where it is going, where things are headed. I haven't seen any dolphins this year, all year. Used to be, last year and before, I'd see them everytime I looked out to sea. But red tide's been in all summer. Shouldn't swim in it. Get a sore throat. But usually it doesn't smell like it sometimes does, when it makes you cough. The blight doesn't keep the tourists away. They're happy enough to have escaped the snows of New Jersey. But it miss my dolphins. It's not a good sign.
And I miss other things, too. Yes, of course that girl who lit my life but insisted I was lying. That's probably a lump of coal that will never leave my throat. But I miss my country, too, the one I was taught to believe meant liberty and justice for all. What a joke that was, when you finally get around to reading how George Washington slaughtered Indians in Ohio or American soldiers went around executing peasants in Vietnam without anybody ever hearing about it until 40 years later.
Of course, of course, and about American soldiers murdering innocent families in Iraq. Operation Iraqi Freedom, right? Freedom from life, is what.
I miss my country, the one I was taught I had. I think soon, too, I will miss my planet, given the condition of the fractured ionosphere, the particulated air, the poisoned oceans, and the toxic soil. (A friend put her hands in her garden in a well-heeled Sarasota subdivision recently and came out with chemical burns that took weeks to heel.) This is not to even mention the radioactivity being spread around the planet. You know. It's in the bullets. Oh yes, and also in the sperm of the soldiers who come home in one piece.
In the bright sunshine, dimmed somewhat by those curious chemtrails in the sky, I feel like I am on Death Row. And it's more than the doctrinaire existential dilemma of turning 59. Death from old age would be a comfort to look forward to. It's just that more and more I feel hope is being systematically removed from the world. That a great extermination is about to take place. And, through my inattention to things economic and my willingness to speak about my dreams, I am in the lead phalanx on America's inexorable death march toward Camp Ashcroft.
Others I talk to share my malaise. I hope they have more food in their cupboards than I do. But they, too, will face this moment.
It was compelling to read the other day of the interview in Cigar Aficionado magazine of retired Gen. Tommy Franks saying one more terrorist attack in this country and all Constitutional guarantees will be terminated. It is one of the great satisfactions of my life that ten minutes after the so-called terrorist attacks of 9/11, I exclaimed: "This was an inside job!" It's nice to have been proven right, even though a majority of Americans have yet to catch up with the obvious evidence.
Looking forward to that first Red Alert, where nobody will be allowed to leave their homes, and the military will come around, checking out everybody, house by house, no doubt dragging a few away kicking and screaming. Or, maybe they'll sedate you on the spot.
It was somewhat reassuring today to read a letter from a Wyoming newspaper stating that anybody who would work as hard to prevent an investigation into a crime obviously had something to do with the crime itself. This is a revelation that is slowly dawning on all Americans: that all those people in New York and Washington were murdered, not by Arab terrorists, but by rich businessman and contemptuous bankers, who are all still profiting from the business of mass death.
Yet the realization comes too slow, too late. Not one politician dares even whisper the sentiment. OK, LaRouche.
I am reading increasing signs that the bottom is about to drop out of the American dollar. They're talking bread lines in '04. That will be a great campaign slogan for all those disgusting Democrats who steadfastly refuse to discuss the real issues that are destroying America and the world right before our eyes.
In the meantime, with freedom and the health of the planet precariously hanging in the balance, the needless killing continues: not just in Iraq and Afghanistan, in the Philippines and the Congo ... you know the list " it's long. The needless killing also continues here at home. Did you know that deaths from reactions to properly taken medicines exceeds the totals for auto accidents and cancer? Check out those new designer drug ads on TV and imagine how many extra people they're killing. I love that story about how the death rate goes down when doctors go on strike.
That's the place America has come to, and Americans deserve it, too, because of their sheer, selfish inattention to what has been happening, to what has been done in their names. And as with the extermination of 60 million native Americans that has served as the models for genocides by both Stalin and Sharon, Americans don't really care about who gets killed as long as those sale prices stay low.
It's a sunny day. I feel like I'm on Death Row. I feel like the Earth is on Death Row, and America, George W. Bush in particular, is the executioner.
It feels like the other shoe is about to fall. Will it be an environmental catastrophe, the bursting of the Earth's atmospheric bubble by America's satanic tinkering with the ionosphere, or the collective poison of chloroflourocarbons (or was it fluorochlorocarbons?) denuding our protection from the sun's potentially deadly rays?
Will it be from some designer disease like AIDS or SARS or Ebola suddenly lurching out of control as the American government continues to insist it is tinkering with these poxes only for defensive purposes?
Will it be chemtrails to finally choke the life out of us, or that government-issued bronchitis that everybody seems to have right now? Or will we all die of thirst when all the water supplies are finally privatized and firmly controlled by multinational corporations? Who will make the decision on who will drink and who will not?
Perhaps some new electromagnetic pulse weapon to blow our brains out through our ears in a single, massive moment?
Will we be blown to bits by a suitcase nuke planted by the Mossad and blamed on al-Qaeda? Does everybody know yet that all these explosions all over the world are being carried out by the CIA/Mossad operation known as al-Qaeda? And speaking of that, have you heard anything new out of the official government investigation into 9/11? No, I didn't think so.
Will we be beaten to death, or at least seriously injured like they were on the streets of Miami last week for simply trying to express their First Amendment rights (oops, sorry, we no longer have Constitutional guaranteees) and protest the continuing destruction of the American economy?
Will we be spirited away in the middle of the night for pointing out that all those peasants murdered in Afghanistan and Iraq lost their lives for reasons that were demonstrably untrue? Or that the U.S. government prosecutes poor people for misdemeanors committed trying to stay alive, but doesn't prosecute rich people who kill millions and steal millions? That is truly American justice, and maybe should be codified in the Patriot Act. Hell, maybe it already has been.
Will it be the food that will get us, or the Diet Coke? Or will it be our own children who will kill us, recently arrived back from "police action" in Iraq and joining our local constabulary, and eventually treating their own families just like they did those hapless folks in Iraq?
Or will it be starvation, the worst way of all to go. Many already face this problem; many more are sure to in the next few months when prices rise like they did in Argentina and the money is suddenly worth next to nothing.
The other shoe. It's about to drop. The giant leather sole of a combat boot, about to press down on our very own faces. Be sure and listen carefully when it does, when you see the last light of day snuffed out by the giant jackboot of corporate America smashing down on your face. You will hear "The Star Spangled Banner" playing smartly in the background.
This is what the storied history of America has evolved into. Liberty and justice are gone, and the phrase "under God" is a meaningless campaign slogan to anesthetize churchgoers who refuse to think or listen. America's penchant for building prisons is now a worldwide operation. There is no one to stop it ... except you. What chance do we have? We are all on Death Row.
Except for a certain, chosen few - those who are willing to lie, cheat, steal and kill, and take the money for doing it - we are all Palestinians now.
John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," temporarily unavailable on the web, but available by writing to the e-mail address above. More of his columns, however, are available at http://www.rudemacedon.ca/kaminski/kam-index.html
The Perverting Of Reality A People Gone Bad Cheer An Emperor Gone Mad
By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 10-3-3
"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those that deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and pull tan by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."
-- Ayn Rand (from "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal")
For some reason - perhaps it's just the passing of time - it has now become somewhat fashionable - or at least permissable - to criticize the utterly insane, totally criminal and horrifically inhuman performance by what is known colloquially in Washington these days as the Bush Administration.
Yet because of the eager cheering of the television networks covering up bestial carnage by U.S. troops upon hapless citizens of defenseless countries, and the continuing lawless behavior of those in charge of our nation's laws, nothing significant has yet been accomplished by those throwbacks like you and me still clinging to the faded, prostituted dream of liberty and justice for all upon which our country was ostensibly founded.
True, there has been some tongue-wagging about how America dropped its radioactive torture on Afghanistan and Iraq after telling whoppers of lies that never would have gone unchallenged in an eighth-grade debate class, but nevertheless managed to hold spellbound the entire American populace while these evil massacres took place.
But the identification of the nub of the problem that has turned America from a promising melting pot of financial and social opportunity into a grim gulag of greed and graft is still very far from happening.
And it may never happen. It never has yet. All those famous crimes we all talk about have never been solved. At least no actual perpetrator has ever been charged, though a few convenient patsies have been executed.
The intense flag waving and hyped-up security measures - accompanied by the flaunted but bogus claims of less liberty means more safety - continue to inhibit public debate on these matters, as is evidenced by the focus on irrelevant issues by the current pack of Democratic presidential panderers, who like the rest of the country, are simply too insincere to admit that behind the red, white and blue bunting lies a bloodthirsty beast which is now cannibalizing even its own citizens in its desperate effort to sate the infinite appetites of the trillionaires who run the war machine.
Sure, questions are being asked about the lies used to justify the wars, but the men who do the lying continue to victimize the folks who do the dying, both at home and abroad. No one of any social consequence in the entire world has yet seriously questioned the single, suspicious event that enabled - by the patriotic mobilization of public opinion - America to come out of the closet as a worldwide murder-for-hire operation.
And amid talk of treasonous illegal procedure in the outing of an ambassador's wife who may have been a CIA operative, there still is no discussion of the core issues that have catapulted this relatively trivial matter to the top of the the newscasts. The criminals have yet to be caught, because, unfortunately for everyone, they are the ones who are running the police and the army, not to mention the TV networks and major newspapers.
But foremost among the silently complicit are the brainwashed American people, who accept their watered down news like the prisoners they are, eating pathetic bioengineered gruel from cardboard boxes in their sad towns with abandoned department stores, no decent jobs, and starving senior citizens.
How is it that wide-eyed young journalists can graduate from America's finest colleges (not Harvard; that's an Israeli school now) and know about U.S. troops laughing during target practice on unarmed Iraqi civilians and simply turn their heads away and not write those stories because they accept the perverted propaganda of national security justifying the massacre of innocent civilians?
How is it that churchgoing American parents can let their beloved children put on their proud uniforms when they know - or should know! - that those kids are going to be cursed with lifelong diseases caused by the vaccines they are forced to take and the poisonous ammunition they are commanded to handle?
How is that our most respected statesmen and religious leaders can remain silent when they know that the evidence of the biggest, most horrendous crime in American history was deliberately destroyed without a thorough forensic examination which could have revealed how that crime was committed, can remain silent when their government tells millions of people that their air is safe to breathe when it wasn't, can remain silent when the big pharmaceutical companies give court-ordered vaccinations to children that turn many of them into vegetables, and the grieving parents can't even sue the makers of the poison?
How is it that the American people can have available to them infrared footage of the Waco massacre that shows federal agents putting bullets into the heads of little children, that they can have documented evidence of respected generals explaining how multiple bombs were attached to the stanchions of that building in Oklahoma City, that they can see convincing photographs that prove that none of the three planes that took off full of happy people on that sunny morning of September 11, 2001 were the same planes that hit their bloody targets ... how is it the American people can turn away from these things and not go ... ?
Those well-meaning people around the world who carefully stipulate that it's not the behavior of the American people they object to, but the behavior of the American government that upsets them so ... those people are wrong.
Something has curdled in the American bloodstream.
Honesty and integrity of purpose are now merely historical relics in a seldom-visited museum that now also houses the American Constitution.
Maybe there are too many nuclear power plants reducing the number of brain cells in the typical American cerebellum. Maybe it's the food additives, the antidepressants, the electric power lines, the cellphones, HAARP, subliminal images in advertising, backward masking in the music, the elimination of important historical facts in our school textbooks (anybody know about the Santa Clara decision? most important law change in American history), the childhood immunizations, the flouride in the water ... this list could fill a book.
And everything on this list, from aspartame to phthlates, has had a debilitating effect on the American psyche, warped it in the minds of our soldiers from someone who would protect and defend the people's God-given rights to home and happiness to someone who mistakenly hallucinates real people with kerchiefs and lollipops into lifeless figures in a video game, which become lifeless figures on a forlorn desert roadway quickly forgotten on the way back to camp to get high.
Certainly the schools have something to do with it, and the media as well, as both have altered the American psyche from one of compassionate seeker of justice to self-destructive, self-hating narcissist.
Hmm, sounds like somebody we know, doesn't it? Can you say psycho-anal-y-sis?
And we arrive the big issue, the one they call you an anti-Semite for talking about. Think about it, my friends. All the media, all the schools, all the hospitals, all the movies, the entire nation's phone system. Much, very much of the government.
The American mindset has changed over the past 40 years from live and let live to follow the orders of our leaders, even if we know they are lying. Did you ever wonder why that happened? Did you ever wonder who did that?
Did you ever wonder who is working so hard to turn our teenage daughters into prostitutes on the covers of national magazines and the walkways of our glittering malls? Whom do you suppose owns those magazines, those malls?
In the same way we took worthless land in America and imprisoned our continent's original inhabitants, now in Israel they are building giant walls to quarantine the world's inconvenient people, the ones who used to own that land before it was stolen from them. When these same walls start going up in America, you'll know the game is really over. Right now, all we have are numerous chain-link fence enclosures topped with razor wire ready to contain our own inconvenient people.
The future of the United States is already scrawled in blood-soaked grafitti on the hearts of its cowardly citizenry. Do not resist. There is nothing you can do. Narc on your neighbor.
American Satyricon, the story of an emperor gone mad cheered by a people gone bad, wrapped in the red, white and blue called Old Glory by some, but called something worse, something very much worse by most of the rest of the world.
To be continued - time, the decaying biosphere, and the sadistic government permitting.
John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a collection of his internet essays published by Dandelion Books. To purchase a copy, so the author can continue to eat his canned green beans, click http://www.johnkaminski.com/
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From John Kaminski 10-8-3
Just thought you'd all like to know that I've been getting anonymous threatening phone calls from several people who accuse me of hating Jews. Since I have a cellphone, no one should have access to my number, but Israel controls most of the phones in the U.S. These people never tell me their names. These phone calls are characterized by the foulest language and an unwillingness to dialogue. I've been expecting them, and they're here. This is the way some Jews wish to debate, by smearing and silencing all opposition to their criminal endeavors. Just the way they treat the rest of the world, as dumb cattle who it's OK to rob and murder. Just a reminder of what happened to me when they find me with six .22 slugs in the back of my head. Jewish justice...a threat to everyone in the whole world.
You Can Run, But You Can't Hide - What Will You Do?
John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 10-8-3
"Vivamus, dum licet esse." ("Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.") - Petronius, Roman satirist, A.D. 27-66
Petronius wrote the original "Satyricon," a scathing lampoon of debauched Roman society that still intrigues readers today. The more familiar reference of "Fellini Satyricon" derives from the 1969 movie by the famous Italian director about the same subject.
Petronius was adviser to the emperor Nero (the infamous fiddler) in matters of conspicuous consumption. A high society bon vivant, he was a dilettante of all things luxurious, and known to turn a phrase without regard to whom it might offend.
Nero's court was notorious for its immorality and extravagance. Everyone's primary goal was making lots of money. Life at court was uncertain because Nero was capricious. Literature was used for flattery, personal advancement, and destroying your opponents.
Perhaps Petronius spoke out caustically once too often. In a court intrigue, a rival's jealousy turned Nero against him, and he was forced to commit suicide. However, before his death, he lampooned Nero in his will and sent the emperor a copy.
In Roman days, all it took to mete out capital punishment was for the emperor to order those who offended him to off themselves. The preferred formula was slit veins or proven poisons administered or consumed in the comfort of a hot bath. The big sleep, Roman style.
It seems incredulous to us now in our synthetic age that anyone would accept this fate and actually do the deed as ordered. Most of us fail to remember that two thousand years ago, Rome WAS the world, the entirety of every civilized portion of it, and to think of fleeing the emperor's command was as futile as thinking of escaping Ashcroft's military tribunals or howling that you have a right to a lawyer when you no longer do.
Echoing the same outspoken fears as Petronius, many questions I've received lately come from people fearful of freely speaking their minds, and yearning to flee these United States to escape this integrity-free zone that America has become. At least in matters of unchecked spending and truth telling, the Bush White House is not unlike Nero's court.
As our cities disintegrate into crime and chaos and the government eliminates many of the freedoms we have become accustomed to enjoying, those with sensitivity are checking out " and bolting to " idyllic venues with less fear of how the hysterical propaganda known as the Patriot Act is turning America into a new Soviet Union.
But as in the days of Petronius, there are plenty of places you can run to, but almost nowhere you can really hide.
Still, judging by my e-mails, many enterprising expatriates seem content and successful. I hear from Starguy, living the jungle high life on the Magic River in Malaysia, revelling in the availability of multicolored women and blissful aromatics; from the world-wise Ponz, doing his Paul Revere thing from an exquisite beach near Phuket on the sumptuous coast of the Andaman Sea; from a Canadian refugee firing off insightful essays from his unusual sanctuary in mysterious Tashkent; and from a couple of British escapees who set up their paradise gained at a beach house in Kerala complete with masseuse and cook.
There are definitely delicious niches to be found in out-of-the-way places around the world: teaching tennis in downtown Hong Kong, tutoring English in Guangdoc province; breaking bread among the friendly farmers of Rondonia.
Some have truly found their paradises, however temporarily; others, no matter where they have gone, still look over their shoulders, as we do here in America, constantly paranoid about seeing stressful shadows of the emperor's long and irrational arm.
Like the fishing guide I know in Patagonia, who told me a decade ago about the curious influx of New York Jews. More recent news brings the dispatch that Israeli commandoes have been sighted on a pristine fjord among the snow-capped mountains of southern Chile.
Or the couple from New Jersey who set up shop in remote Guatemala and keep seeing their neighbors winding up dead in the dirt. Or the bureaucrat pushing paper in the filthy cauldron of the Azeris, wondering when the whole scene will collapse and oil wells go up in flames. Or practitioners of permaculture on the shores of British Columbia wondering about those black helicopters beyond the next mountain range.
All made their escape; all still look over their shoulders for the ominous shadow of the emperor. I envy these folks their adventures, but not their shadows, which are similar to the ones that frighten us here.
Some travelers in search of new vistas and safer harbors, however, hear the echoes of Emerson, and the questions of why we are traveling and what road we are on.
The 19th century American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson saw only frustration and futility in traveling because he perceived "the indifference of places" and the ultimate irrelevance of new vistas.
"Traveling is a fool's paradise ... " he wrote. "I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from."
And where your paradise dwells also resides your question: what are you running from, or to? And, is what you found more relevant than what you left behind?
In the case of America 2003, you are undoubtedly running from the capricious oppression that kills people simply because they are in the way of some larger, ugly scheme. There is no real redress of grievances in America anymore, or at least not without huge amounts of money. But is abandoning the struggle for freedom really realistic, or even beneficial, or are you just trading one set of oppressions for another? Especially since it's an illusion that you can actually get away from the ubiquitous toxin that the American capitalist consumption machine has become?
With satellites and computerized bank records, with missiles that reach every corner of the world and money-hungry natives who can be paid to do anything, do you really think there is any place to safely hide on this shrinking sphere called Earth? Answer? Not for very long.
Putting large distances between yourself and your oppressor is a proven way of improving your own safety. Then, of course, there are those who don't escape geographically, but find their way to safer havens through more mental methods of seeing what's going on, by immersing themselves in traditional dogma, investigating UFOs, or following the instructions of mass market manufactured angels.
Inner escapees rather than outer exiles. Candidates for lamaseries, or, in more extreme cases, pursuers of passing comets wearing new sneakers. Those who think the world is all in your mind.
All religions are really posited on the Buddhist model, which convinces its adherents that a special somewhere else is really more important than the actual here and now. Although Buddhism isn't the oldest of the world's extant religions, it nevertheless encapsulates the attitude of all of them that this world is to be endured, but there is a better place to strive for, even if you need an ikonic object like Jesus to focus on.
The Buddha we know (Siddartha Gautama, the Buddha Sakyamuni who lived c. 550 B.C.) taught that ignorance produces desire, unsatisfied desire is the cause of life, and life results in old age, disease and death, i.e., suffering. To overcome suffering, therefore, it is necessary to escape the cycle of life and death; to escape the cycle of life and death, it is necessary to extinguish desire; and to extinguish desire, it is necessary to destroy ignorance.
All too often the magic formula many religious people use involves denigrating someone else as their designated bad guys, infidels, or cattle.
I think that someplace or other in most of the holy books (although the only place I'm certain of it is in the works of Mohammed " peace be upon him) is a recommendation that says other religions unfamiliar to you should be respected. Even Krishna says it: all who pray to any god also pray to him.
Of course, the Western religions that have come down to us have pretty much lost that flavor, as a wrathful Jehovah bellows out his murderous commands that those who don't follow him are no better than grasshoppers (check the popular lists of Jewish names for non-Jews for the definitive glossary in this matter).
Throughout the world religious elitism remains one of the chief causes of murder, mayhem and hatred, even if only used as a pretext for criminal plunder and is not a doctrinal order, as is so often the case with American evangelicals in foreign countries. Fear of the stranger is not relieved by these vicious religious codes so pornographically articulated in the Judeo-Christian Old Testament (also known as the Pentateuch and the Torah), and the killing continues unabated.
Among the enervated rhetoric I hear so often during our troubled times is a noticeable increase in this hateful religious condescension. One only need focus on Belfast, or Ahmedabad, or Ramallah to understand my point. A slight difference in language of the divine description or skin pigmentation is all that is needed to trigger shouts to murder the dirty stranger, even though the actual customs of the enemies are not really very different .
The Jews, of course, are everyone's top target for vilification, and justifiably so for their continuing torture and extermination of the hapless Palestinians (which for a half century has been the world's most egregious atrocity), their perverting of the governments and media of countries not their own, and the growing realization that Jewish influences have fundamentally altered the character of all societies in which they have achieved a significant foothold.
The most regrettable aspect of criticism about the Jews, however, is that most of it comes from other denominations whose own histories are not exactly spotless when it comes to human decency and open-mindedness.
Jewish depredations in the areas of media and government cannot be successfully exposed by those espousing other creeds that may only replace one brand of social manipulation and spiritual coercion with another.
The difference is that Jews don't practice what they preach, as is evidenced in the internal policies of Israel, which are racist in the extreme, contrasted with practices of diversity they champion in other countries. What is becoming obvious in the world is that Jews preach assimilation of minorities in other countries but strictly resist such notions in their own.
One other significant Jewish manifestation in other countries in recent years has been the appearance of "hate" laws. In many countries in Europe, it is a crime to question the official version of the Nazi Holocaust. Why has this clear violation of freedom of speech been permitted?
If Holocaust deniers can't prove what they say, let them be exposed and ridiculed in the court of consensual public opinion. Don't prevent them from speaking their pieces.
Preventing anyone from speaking about anything only reveals that those making such restrictive laws definitely have something to hide, which is exactly the case with their Jews and their pathological passion to hide in their own victimhood as a ruse to conceal their exploitation of others.
So those who seek to escape from the venality and bestiality of our present version of petro politics should stand forewarned that by escaping into religious dogma they run the risk of becoming part of the very problem they wish to flee.
Just as those who flee to foreign lands in search of Shangri-la may encounter something far worse than they might run across in their present, depressed neighborhoods where neighbors will snitch on each other for money.
I myself have need for neither of these crutches, agreeing with Emerson that traveling long distances to romantic destinations only takes us further away from ourselves and our loved ones, and adopting esoteric spiritual practices only takes us further away from the troubled, three-dimensional world right in front of our eyes that desperately needs our compassionate and intelligent help.
One of the great hoaxes of history is that people need holy men to guide them to do what is right. All holy men really do is make money off people's real fears and provide their sacred sanctions to a demonic kaleidoscope of crimes.
This so-called need for spiritual guidance and how humans are essentially spiritual beings reminds me of the recent story from Africa in which a herd of passing elephants freed a collection of antelopes imprisoned in a corral by local farmers who planned on having them for dinner.
All animals have compassion as long as they're not hungry. Hungry animals necessarily kill for food. It's nature's way of maintaining her balance. But kindness and justice are not necessarily human traits. We are only animals trying to make our way through this short journey called life, and we don't want to hurt anybody if we don't have to. Not unless we've been taught to.
People intrepid and ingenious enough to manage to wander around the world in search of their own nirvanas, or those motivated to seek more resonant explanations of why we are all passing through this existence at this time, are both exactly wh