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Too Many Warnings - Too Little Time!
February 28, 2003
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"BEWARE- the lean and hungry
lion: For in the dusky shadows of success, where ambitions seeds no longer
grow - hunger will conceive the deeds that shall succeed - from that
self-same place where challenge died!"
"Beware the Ides of
March" because it looks as though we are headed for a re-run of that
ancient Fall of Rome. It's fascinating that the Outlaws have finally fallen
victim to their own PR. Believing now, wholeheartedly, that this will be a
simple little task and an overwhelmingly successful little war. Well -
"WHY NOT!" they scream at all the unbelievers.
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The answer is so simple that it makes
the adults among us cry. Because we say; -the world's a fragile living
thing, an interactive and dependent place that cannot stand so many military
movements, the hate, the fear, the ever-increasing 'security-consciousness.'
We've sown the whirlwind and now we'll reap the wrath and ravages of all our
worst ambitions.
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The innocent will die in overwhelming
numbers. The petty vicious outlaws will also die - but the price for all of
this will be borne by the entire world - for many, many generations.
According to the World Food Bank,
there are now 800 million people that are starving, and our 'leaders' first
thoughts were of more war. That's an unbalanced approach to life, and it's a
criminal act against humanity. We are treating 'the future' as though it was
1918 with the grim demeanor our Thief-in-Chief proclaiming, that we shall
"Seek out and Destroy Terrorism" as if we could kill the inbred
hatred of the last 50 years with bullshit, lies and bullets. This entire
administration needs to be rounded-up and confined to a mental institution
for the rest of their natural lives. To legally execute these twisted
wannabes would be far too kind.
The problem here is that it does
not matter what they do. They can cheat to win elections in broad daylight.
They can sell the same arms to Saddam that they are now bitching about. They
can destroy the Constitution and the Bill of Rights - right before our eyes
- while they give tax cuts to the filthy rich right even as two-thirds of
the states are overdrawn. They can stop freedom of speech and imprison the
innocent - and on and on. None of this matters, because Americans have no
moral stomach for the most part. The sickness in America is that we are filled with self-hatred from the
'have and have not society' we've created.
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Most of Dubya's supporters have deep
layers of inadequacy buried deep in the festering and cancerous core of
hatred, which is their stock in trade. If one looks closely - at what is the
best way for this kind of person to feel good, it's that IG (instant
gratification-takes-too-long) that is their answer? Hate someone now, or something
else - that is their solution.
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And since attention spans have been
abbreviated by intellectual laziness, we must now look for relief in instant
minutia that can get us through this bout of self-despisal and close that
little window that will lead us back to 'normal' once again.
But the bottom line is - the
Outlaws could set up a line of innocent people before a firing squad on CNN,
and if the story was spun that these people are bad because well, 'we just
know they are,' then Americans will believe them. This information is out
there everywhere - the crimes are out there everywhere. The day the trade
centers fell, it was clear for all to see. The orchestrated collapse of
those towers, the obviously controlled demolition of the buildings, even the
one that wasn't hit with a plane. The U.S. fighter aircraft, that never
arrived. The way they immediately said it was bin Laden. This is not
difficult stuff and especially when the government continues to block all
investigations into any of the events before or after 9-11. All-in-all,
there are too many clues and too much fear!
If only we could turn back the
pages of time for just a few hours - but that's a total fantasy. It is
obviously part of our task now - to deal with all this political garbage
that we've created and dumped upon the world. It's interesting that one
needs to be very careful not to become what we have come to hate. While that
becomes more trying by the hour - those of us who live in the 'wilderness'
have survived too long to cave-in to that particular temptation now.
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At times like these there is a
temptation to wish for more of us - many more of us - but help only arrives
at the last moment in tacky films. In life the good guys usually finish
last. Most of us don't tend to 'count' the success or failures in our lives
- most just try to live it in the best way that we can. Oh but to have a
different agenda for this world right now - a new dawn rising as they say;
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Yet this national obsession with war is what we've all been dealt, and this
must be - what's next. In the Wilderness, one learns to
sometimes loathe what must be done and yet, as individuals we straggle in,
to try again to do what is by nature more than difficult. But throughout
these days and nights we are reminded:
"That whenever thoughts are
heightened, by a stomach clawing at the backbone - the vibrations of the
mind are more susceptible to truth."
And: Whenever reason is suppressed
in some headlong rush to completely still the voice of opposition - there
will always be resistance. The neo-Nazis who now call themselves Americans
would do well to discover this oft forgotten truth. The coming global
darkness will soon know the gnashing of teeth, and the world will hear again
the nearing cry of scavengers, as the Jackals-of-War begin to ravage
everything we thought we cherished. But this time we've added nuclear to the
mix so now it will not only be the innocent, or the armies of the enemy who
will die in the coming onslaught - America will leave many of its own on
foreign soil, both on the deserts in Iraq, and elsewhere. This will be a
part of the price we'll have to pay for the belligerence and greed of these
contemptible Outlaws who planned these days so very long ago - way back in
the 1970s. These men and women political failures all - both then and now -
are idiots who pride themselves on their designs for new and unrelenting
total power. This is a farce because the world will never kneel to the Stars
and Stripes! Only fools could believe that this will happen.
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This War-on-Freedom was begun to stop
terror in its tracks, and we have failed. Afghanistan is reverting to
pre-American days. Osama and Omar are still out-there somewhere. Bush and
Ashcroft have done what no enemy has ever been able to do - they have
stripped us of our individuality, of our right to speak, of our rights to
be, and of our Constitution.
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If Terror 's goal was to
destroy this nation's economy - Bush fulfilled their wildest dreams. If
our enemies wanted to see us crushed by our own fears, destroyed by our
own greed, and punished by our own political corruption (a corruption that
has brought so much hate and pain to so many in the wider world) - then
this administration has seen to it that all of this is now in progress -
and in only two years time!
But there's a far more precious
thing that's been stolen from America than just our economy. We've stood
by and watched our politicians and our judges while they presided over the
theft of this country. And in that process trust became the first and
foremost casualty. Throughout all the political maneuvers, as each
compact, treaty, or public understanding was broken before our eyes - each
was preceded by yet another blow against the public's trust.
This planet is in trouble, and
what's needed are adults - to deal with the gathering storms. It's not
just the military adventurer's whose guns won't alter the human condition,
except to make things worse. Just as bullets can never stop the ideas that
our aggressions have created. No - Wars only create new legions of
terrorists. Our armies of military and security people only amplify our
failures - in the open and global forums where concepts can be nourished,
and new ideas are born.
Once we were free and proud, and
now we skulk about in failure and disgrace - knowing that we have become
the new nightmare for the world at large. Since January of 2000, we have
chosen capitulation over challenge, compliance over resistance and mostly
silence over the need for careful questions. We have received exactly what
we were unwilling to oppose - welcome to the new dictatorship of total
control - control that gives not a damn about anything but itself!
We have failed to understand. We
have failed to face our problems- or even to begin to solve them with open
eyes. And we still refuse to even learn from the bloody sands of history's
hourglass: Bullets and bombs solve nothing, they only breed misery,
despair, and far more rebels than we can now imagine.
As a friend recently confided:
"Saddam has won because now any and all vestiges of the democratic
process will be destroyed the moment our troops start the invasion. Under
the guise of security, the Patriot Act will be used to haul anyone off to
the Ashcroft Hilton who dares to have an idea differing from the party
line. The dumb herd that will be left behind will be given a crust of
bread and a six-pack and told to shut up or they won't even get that. It
will be the dead governing the dead. A wasteland inhabited by a biomass of
human look-alikes without soul, without heart, without spirit."
Is this what we chose to leave to
the next generation - and is this the best we can do in the face of a
leadership grown fat on Treason?
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