The
Tower of Babel did in fact exist: it was a seven-stage ziggurat (stepped
pyramid) with a temple to the god Marduk at the top. It was 'the temple of
the platform between heaven and earth', and was built in the city of
Babylon (modern day Iraq), sometime during the 6th or 7th century BC.
Today as we approach the seventh year of the Decider, we have created a
pit in its place, a black hole that is half-way to a very real and
intensifying hell-on-earth.
Over time the term
"Babel" has come to stand for that 'confusion of tongues' that
leads to complete chaos - anywhere that this occurs.
"War is Peace, Freedom is
Slavery, and Lies are Truth."
In the New World Order, their
language for world-wide-empire has come from pure 'Babel.' Around the
world the meaning of critical words and time honored phrases have been
eroded or destroyed in an effort to control everything, including
disasters both natural and man-made. Most recently there are the events of
911, the core-facts of which too many still refuse to accept. Any argument
that begins with the premise that 911 was carried out by 19 hijackers, and
concludes with the idea that this was an attack by foreign terrorists - is
evidence of the failure by the writer or the speaker, to face the facts of
both the events themselves and what will be the ultimate judgment of
history.
Because of this huge disconnect,
what passes for political discourse in the United States is largely
meaningless. This is true because virtually everything that this nation
has done in the world and here in the ruins of the USA-since 911-has been
based on a set of mega-lies that has revealed a massive crime that still
remains unthinkable to the public.
The United States government has
come to believe that this nation has the right to invade any nation it
regards as "potentially dangerous" to the corporate interests of
USA incorporated. We have further stated that the laws of the Geneva
Conventions, The Rules of War, The decisions of the World Court, as well
as the articles of the United Nations no longer apply to us: Wherever
global corporate business interests are somehow threatened, by the
positions taken by others, that have either resources or territory that
the international corporatocracy deems necessary for its expanding control
over the new global empire.
The situation in Baghdad today
summarizes the lengths to which we have gone as the illegal occupying
force in that country, and we have ignored the international laws that
require us to provide even the basic necessities for those under our
theoretical 'protection.' (1)
In every area of life today,
language is being destroyed, to give maximum advantages to those who
believe in pillage and plunder over diplomacy, in war & chaos over
prosperity and balance: so that virtually everywhere the whirling standard
of madness is beginning to take hold. The US is being torn apart by Babel
on every topic from the illegal and undeclared wars, to health-care and
the fraudulent obscenity of medical insurance that has yet to even be
discussed-despite the clarity of the problems as outlined in the recent
film Sicko by Michael Moore.
Politicians speak in riddles and
lie in almost everything they say, especially about everything they
"promise." No sane person can any longer believe in anything,
given the last nearly seven years of this farce that has bankrupted so
much of how we try to live within our daily lives. We have been at war now
for longer than we were entangled in World War Two, and yet the public has
yet to be given anything definitive about the status of that war, beyond
the fact that those we sent to fight for corporate profits are dying.
Financially, militarily, morally and now even literally: we have wasted
all that time and money ($12 billion a month) and uncountable human lives
- chasing a fantasy of empire that was hatched by people that do not
contain even the most basic components required to be part of the human
race. Just look at the background for this charade and draw your own
conclusions. (2)
Nothing now makes any sense. The
Babel from these self-appointed leaders is filled with denial and riddled
with excuses for not fulfilling their responsibilities at home. When
disasters "happen" there is no help, no money, and no acceptance
of any responsibility: as all blame is shuffled off onto lesser
participants. In the Bridge collapse last week, as in Katrina, the States
were burdened with what was and is, still a federal problem. The States
are broken, and these problems were federal in nature-yet were not
addressed when it came time to act on the federal level. The National
Guard is not at home to help with any of these emergencies-just as they
are not here to help the states protect their citizens from an
out-of-control federal government should the Decider decide to just round
us all up, the next time there is another bogus attack.
Neither is there any help or hope
in political solutions-as there is no longer a political opposition to the
policies of plunder and greed. The interstate Highway system, the public
property of the people of the United States is being sold-off in a
privatization scheme that would shame anyone with a brain-yet there is no
call to stop even this additional and blatant obscenity. (3)
The Iraqi parliament has left
their chambers: as has the Congress of the USA; but not without leaving us
with this bit of additional terror: "This bill would grant the
attorney general the ability to wiretap anybody, any place, any time
without court review, without any checks and balances," said Rep. Zoe
Lofgren, D-Calif., during the debate preceding the vote. "I think
this unwarranted, unprecedented measure would simply eviscerate the 4th
Amendment," which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures."
(4)
Amid the dog-days of summer heat
the Decider's answer to these problems has been only another arms race and
more weapons for everyone led by a huge increase in arms for Israel. This
serves to reinforce the threats of "lots more war" that linger
over every nation in the Middle East. We need to boycott Israel, rather
than further arm our pet-bully in the region. We need to begin to talk to
those that want to end this nightmare, but most of all America needs to
remember who we thought we were, before this nightmare became our daily
way of life!
With knowledge of even a little
history, it is clear that every time this kind of 'power-grab' has
happened before: there has always been a backlash. Despite the fact that
these tyrants thought that they had successfully dumbed down the public to
the point where there could be no reaction - It is still no different now,
except that the goal is universal and is not limited to a single nation
state, or king, or dictator. The numbers of people affected are now
larger, but that just means that the backlash will be far more powerful
than anything the world has seen before.
How many more times shall we
allow this self-appointed regime to move the goalposts without results?
How many more times will we allow them to claim victory only to be told
that we must wait longer and shed more blood, while we pour more money
into that unseen hell that we've created for so many millions of people?
Americans used to think about how
we spent our money, about who we killed, and about why we apparently chose
to do those things: now it appears that we are content to remain inside
our private lives and leave the decisions to those to whom we gave the
power of life and death - over all of us.
Jim Kirwan
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