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Posted April 22, 2002
No American Government
Thank you for [Ron Paul's] ... speech about the Founding Fathers and the Constitution. Everyone in our Nation needs to read this information, which is, of course, readily available to anyone with an interest!
We no longer have an American Government! We the people have allowed, through our apathy, our American Government to be unlawfully supplanted by a corrupt U.S. Corporation controlled, absolutely, by interests not to the benefit of We the People of these United States of America. We allow an unelected President to sit in the White House. We allow government propaganda to 'lead' us through a controlled media and a belief system that is, in its essence, false.
We turn to organized religion whose message is the epitome of the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on this Planet, the teaching of a belief in 'separation between Man and God.' We are told that we are the greatest nation in this world, another fraud. All nations are equal despite the myths; prejudices, positions and etc. There is only one race of Beings on this Planet, this is the Human Race. As long as a belief in separation is taught we will have what we have, constant warfare, hunger, genocide, greed, corruption and the like. Peace is the only answer because in Peace, there is no separation.
I had four trips to Viet Nam so I feel I have some life experience. It was between my third and fourth trip, when I was stationed in Central America, that I began "waking up," a little. After I retired from the military I began questing and studying alternative history and media and discovered I had accepted untruth as truth, without question, from an early age. As I have grown in the previous 24 years; I realize that I am neither for or against anyone or anything. I left behind the "either/or mentality." We have all of Creation so this idea that "it has to be my way or no way" is ludicrous. We as a people, as a nation must grow and be personally responsible for our actions. We must also hold government accountable for to do otherwise is what we witness today.
Tr-rzm
Thought I'd better finally actually look it up and see what this terrorism thing everyone's been on about actually is.
What I got from dictionary.com was:
"ter·ror·ism -- Pronunciation Key (tr-rzm) n. The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
"Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
"terrorism -- \Ter"ror*ism\, n. [Cf. F. terrorisme.] The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.
"Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
"terrorism
-- n : the systematic use of violence as a means to intimidate or coerce
societies or governments
"Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University"
So
it would seem that war, intervention, invasion, occupation, annexation,
police action, skirmishing, harassment, combat patrol, peace enforcement
and all other forms of "military field operation" are by definition
all forms of terrorism? Has there been a military venture you know
of, from Troy to Jenin, that doesn't meet this definition? Everyone from
Gilgamesh to Arthur Bomber Harris, it would appear, is a terrorist.
No need to quibble over use of the word "unlawful" -- between states, nations, tribes, armies or whatever, the use force is always lawful to the user, and unlawful to those it is used on.
Terrorism, as I now understand it, is militarism. Militarism is terrorism. The War on Terror is, therefore, the War on War Itself. We're going to need triplethink to cope with this one.
~ Adam White, Australia (Remember Canberra, November '75)
Honesty
I
am the author of the 'Backtalk' article that you entitled 'Hope
In Venezuela' (posted April 18, 2002). I deduced that the 'J.D.' credit
at the end of the article must stand for John Doe; I am sure I included
my name with the letter when I emailed it. My name is Heath Honesty.
No hoax, my name has been that since the day I was born, and my surname
happens to be centuries old. I thought I'd clear that up before the same
mistake is made on my next letter-to-the-editor. Thanks. You guys are
doing a bang-up job; keep up the good work!
By the way, thanks for editing my first draft for me. I woke up Sunday;
heard the news of Chavez's return,and began a daily journal entry on the
subject, which I felt 'gelled' my viewpoint fairly well. In hoping that
the story would not be squashed, I felt compelled to send out these thoughts.
I am so happy to see that now, four days later, that the story is not
disappearing. Quite the opposite, the US has been forced to come out and
spread more lies defending itself, saying repeatedly that the US government
had no involvement with the coup. Ha ha ha ha ha!
~ Heath Allen Honesty
Google Rules
One reason Google currently works better than Lexis-Nexis is that many freelance articles were pulled from LN after the recent Supreme Court ruling. The New Republic should realize that a negative search on LN means nothing now.
Cheap Trick
I read your web site and I find it very interesting seeing the objective reporting on the world's events.
Your link, "Entire Dutch Government Resigns Over Srebrenica" ["Dutch Government quits over Srebrenica," BBC News, April 16], is interesting but the figures that they give out are absolutely not true. No 8,000 men and boys got slaughtered by Serbs. Imagine, if they had been we would be still watching it 24/7 on CNN. Cheap propaganda trick. How about the 200,000 Bosnian Serbs who had to leave Sarajevo ... ? How come no reports of 900,000 ethnically-cleansed native Serbs in Krajina, silence on that. Most unimaginable: ... 200,000 native Serbs from their cradle Kosovo. Where is the tribunal there?
[The] ... media, politicians, ... so called Human Watch, blame Slobodan Milosevic for 200,000 people killed. No Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian leader or general or anyone else gets the blame ... even though he has been in jail (wrongfully) for over six months, just two months ago the figure went to 300,000. By the end of the year he will probably be blamed for wiping out all the Chinese. Its amazing what Slobo can do behind bars!
Some people want to blame him for all the wrong reasons. How about Ms. Albright? ... she purposely gave an unacceptable ultimatum, so Serbia gets bombed. How about Clinton? ... Where were he and Ms. ... Albright in Rwanda, where over 6,000,000 people got killed? Not a word was said or anything done to stop it.... So much for his and Albrights moral rights.
Milosevic just like any president had the right to defend his country from same people that Mr. Bush is [defending the US from] ... now. In fact, if we had helped him we might have not seen 9/11. In Afghanistan we helped and supported the wrong people and twenty years later they attacked us. Same mistake in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia....
Good luck with your balanced and objective coverage and please don't believe those fake, false reports. They are just fabricated and manipulated in order to justify NATO's attacks on small nation.
~ John J.Spirit of Banning
In
the name of terror prevention, the US votes to ban visitors from Cuba,
Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan and North Korea unless they are entering
as immigrants. And here I was thinking that 9/11 was the work of Saudis.
Once in the spirit of banning, oil from Iraq is no longer welcome in the
US either; a few weeks after Iraq had turned off the flow, but hey, you
can't have it all. Actually, you can, because this ban came after Powell
ensured US oil stability with the King of -- Saudi Arabia.
Occupying Power
I am writing this in response to a statement in ... [Justin Raimondo's column of April 19, "Agents of Influence":]
"But is America really analogous to an occupying power..."
I think the answer is absolutely yes. The current policies of Israel's government seem eerily similar to those of the United States during the 1800s regarding Native Americans. The US Government forcibly removed the natives from there homelands and opened them to white settlement, killing hundreds of thousands in the process. The Americans then believed it was their divine right to occupy the continent from sea to shining sea. The natives were seen as savages with no civility and were certainly children of the devil. So they had no problem at all sending in militias to exterminate men, women, and children. Would actions such as these be regarded as terrorism today? I am not surprised at all that the current officials in our government support the actions of Israel. After all the US set the standard for these actions such as these over 200 years ago.
~ John Brown, Stillwater, Oklahoma