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 Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject: What US Citizens Can Do To Stop Terrorism |
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What US Citizens Can Do To Stop Terrorism
By James Rothenberg
02/17/05 "Information Clearing House"
President George says we have to go after the terrorists wherever they are -- find them and sniff them out or something like that. A really big clue to finding them is to follow the money, the money trail, so-called.
I want to be a good citizen so I've been doing my own sniffing around. And I think I've found something. Like a lot of other things that at first
aren't obvious and then you realize it was right under your nose. And do
you know who I found at the start of this trail? You! And me!
Every year we send off some of our money to Washington. Half a dollar out of every dollar ends up on the nose of a cruise missile, in the stinking
exhaust of a B-2 bomber, in the burning heat of an incendiary
napalm-equivalent bomb, in the deformities of the not yet born from toxic
depleted uranium payloads, in the blown and rotting, pussy flesh of those
we did not intentionally "target" with our smart weapons, paid for with
our dumb dollars. And that any honest person will tell you is terrorism,
pure and simple, because these weapons don't care who they hit and it is
understood in advance that they will inevitably hit the old and the young,
the first-borns and the last-borns and everyone in between. Everyone under
this sophistication of weaponry will be scared stiff -- shocked and awed
in the preferred state terminology.
But Washington's terrorism does not count. I mean it really does not
count! Because our official state definition of terrorism restricts it to
the subnational level. So by our definition the US cannot commit terrorist
acts, an interesting reversal of the word's original meaning -- Oxford
English Dictionary, "government by intimidation". It's as simple as this:
terrorism is what "they" do to "us", not what "we" do to "them".
In the beginning of the second paragraph of the Declaration of
Independence, there are some interesting thoughts about the signers
recognizing the equality of all men and certain unalienable rights that
they are endowed with, specifically mentioning Life, Liberty, and the
pursuit of Happiness, but it is by no means "self-evident" that this
government takes this idea seriously. What kind of a Life does a child
born into abject poverty have ahead of it? Maybe one without a roof. How
much Liberty do you really have when you haven't enough to eat? And what
is the right to pursue Happiness worth to an individual without adequate
shelter, clothing, food, and healthcare? Is our government securing these
unalienable rights for its people when it spends over half of every dollar
of its income on weapons of mass destruction, leaving millions upon
millions poor and hungry and without healthcare in this the richest
country in the world?
Our government is not putting its money where its mouth is. Its mouth is
always on fine words -- democracy, freedom, peace -- but listen to Peter
Tosh sing, "but there will be no peace til man gets equal rights and
justice", and even here at home we are nowhere near these things. Our
government puts its money into militarism, and justifies it by claiming
that it will buy our security. Everything points to the contrary. Look at
Israel and the ultra security-state it has become, increasingly becoming
less and less secure. Security is an interaction, depending not solely
upon what one side does, but on the mutuality of opposing sides. It can't
be bought and it can't be bludgeoned.
Americans have been frightened into uncritical acceptance of our country's
aggressive, militaristic agenda. We were frightened by the looming, Soviet
menace for decades. Now, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act and
declassified documents, we learn that the threat was intentionally
exaggerated to provide support from the home population for our further
military buildup. Now the threat is terrorism, international terrorism,
Islamic terrorism, again intentionally exaggerated for the usual state
purposes.
How much safer the world, including us, would be if we began to lay down
our weapons! And got our military out of everyone's country! How much
safer and better the lives of our own people would be if we put our
nation's wealth to those very same ideals that the crafters of the
Declaration of Independence thought self-evident!
James Rothenberg - Email <jrothenberg@taconic.net>
Copyright: James Rothenberg. All rights reserved. You may republish under
the following conditions: An active link to the original publication must
be provided. You must not alter, edit or remove any text within the
article, including this copyright notice.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| Let's see...what can we do to stop terrorism....Mind our own friggin business???? |
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Ferre
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| Slide wrote: |
| Let's see...what can we do to stop terrorism....Mind our own friggin business???? |
I gues collectively tell the administration to mind their own busyness, specially to mind the health of the children and the weak instead of using the people's money to kill children and the weak all over the world.
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Yes,
I do that quite often. That peace geek is a good thing!
That may be why I get searched everytime I get near an airport  |
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