9-11-2001 Part Two (Written on 11-11-01; Updated on 4-30-04) By S. Wolf Britain As the quote I've quoted before says, "The majority is usually wrong"! (Robert A. Heinlein from his great book, Stranger in a Strange Land.) The alleged majority that supposedly is in favor of a major war against Iraq is wrong! Look at how many people from many very different "walks of life", including many "conservatives", are already carrying out anti-war protests clear across our allegedly "free country", and all over the world (millions of people world-wide), against this "new" war; and how the Office of Homeland Security (DHS) has been created, like something right out of George Orwell's also great book, 1984, and right out of a totalitarian police state! We are living in a time when the majority of "Americans" think "it can't happen here", and "the minority can't be right"; but the so-called majority is wrong about what is happening, AND about what is coming! Most people need to get a true and quick education on what true freedom is, and wake up, if it isn't too late, before "we" destroy ourselves! I've long been saying that the U.S.A. is becoming more and more of an "authoritarian police state"; and I was so right! Look up the word, 'authoritarian', in the dictionary; as the definition reads like a prediction that has already come true! Believe me, there's no ego involved in this on my part; I didn't make most of the correct predictions concerning what's now happening in our country and world; they were already made by others', in many cases long before me! If it were possible for "America's" True founding-fathers to turn over in their graves, they would have done so many times already! Thomas Jefferson, and others', said we must not let our government get too big and out of control; and the U.S. government has been much too big and out of control for a long time; and now the majority of Americans are blindly willing to give up their civil liberties in order to supposedly and completely destroy what we cannot possibly completely destroy, the extremists, terrorists and all those who are "evil" of this very crazy, insane, and bizarre world! By supporting this "new" war, "we" are playing right into the hands of what our government "leaders" have wanted for a long time, more control over We, The People, those ONLY for True Freedom, who are supposed to be the ONLY ones who are running this country! Think about this with the deepest part(s) of your heart(s), instead of with your "follower" mind(s), wake up, stand up only for True Freedom, and stand up against ALL threats to that True Freedom!! LOVE ONLY TRUE AMERICA, NOT MURDER FOR MURDER, TWO WRONGS SUPPOSEDLY MAKING ONE RIGHT, THE ENDS SUPPOSEDLY JUSTIFYING MOST MEANS, RETALIATION(S), AND REVENGE!! THAT IS NOT TRUE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND/OR FREEDOM AT ALL!! Let's hope, and pray if we do so, that we don't end up in WW3; because that's where this entire situation is heading; and G.W. Bush and others should truly decide that "we" are truly NOT (going to be) at war with Islam and its nations! He hypocritically claims that "we" are not at war against Islam; but WE ARE; and, very sadly, the cooler heads are not prevailing! We, the "American" people and our allies, are being manipulated into letting our emotions control us, and running headlong into a full-scale war that "the powers that be" want us to be in for "the love of war", "a war economy", to protect economic interests, and to do away with more of "American's" civil liberties, and world-citizens' human rights; and, like all of the wars that the U.S. has had a hand in starting and/or ending, the majority of people, who are usually wrong, are being convinced that two wrongs supposedly make one right, and that the ends supposedly justify the means, both of which are not true at all! Truly look at, consider and realize how inhuman and inexcusable United States, and/or support of allied, actions were in Mexico, Cuba, Hawaii, Samoa, Taiwan, the Philippines, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Chile, East Timor, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Libya, Iraq, Sudan, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Columbia, West Papua (New Guinea), and other places (not necessarily in that order), and the slaughter, devastation and havoc they wreaked, and are continuing to wreak, for decades and generations of offspring thereafter, and to come! Consider the fact that many, if not all, of these military actions were carried out by the United States and/or its allies in violation of international law(s); and consider the minority who warned us that "America" and its people would be very sorry if they got involved in those atrocities, and who were so very right! Wake up, "America", and all of the Allied Governments, before it is too late; for, if we don't do so, "we" will very likely bring nuclear missiles down upon ourselves as "we" continue to seek further and further vengeance against "our enemies"; as vengeance just breeds more and more vengeance, in a vicious, unending cycle! God, or some Higher Power other than evil, please help us ALL!!!!! It bears repeating, "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord. Therefore if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink: for in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." (Romans 12:19-21; in fact, read the entire chapter!) Once more, it is NOT humankind's responsibility to seek or obtain revenge; and it is COMPLETELY against God's will for humankind to do so!! It is ONLY God's responsibility to seek and get revenge; and VERY SOON He WILL get revenge against ALL those who violate, or have violated, His will, including self-righteous "America" and "Americans"!! So we must leave it up to Him; and not take it upon ourselves IN ANY WAY AT ALL!! The "anti-war doves" are far from an extinct species; and we aren't simply a few that have "risen from the ashes"! There are many of us; and those of us, like myself, who protest violence, non-violently, are the minority that is right, compared to the majority which is wrong about virtually everything! People in favor of vengeance and retaliation accuse people like me of being "alarmists" who can't be right; but throughout history, people like me have been right many, many times; and most others' found out too late that such was the case! We are giving people like yourself warning after warning that you should heed; but, do you? No, you "mock" us to your, and the majority's, grave detriment! "If we mock what we do not understand, we may learn when it's too late that the penalty for such arrogance is annihilation." (Author Unknown.) Maybe you'll stop bitching about those who "bitch" about so-called Americans who are allegedly a threat to our very Freedoms, when those Freedoms no longer exist; but then it will be too late! Wake up, BEFORE it's too late!! It is not about WHO is right, but about WHAT is Truly Right!! I believe that everyone has a right to their opinion(s); and I truly believe in Freedom of Speech; but, the problem is, most non-pacifists act like pacifists don't have just as much right(s) to Freedom of Speech, or just as much right(s) to their opinion(s), as they do! The non-pacifists act like they have a right to their opinion(s), and that they have Freedom of Speech, but that pacifists don't have any of those rights at all; when we pacifists have just as much right(s) to Freedom of Speech and our opinion(s) as non-pacifists do; and, thank God, we will not allow our True Freedoms to be taken away without standing up and being heard against it, without sitting idly by while they are abrogated with impunity! There have to be voices of "reason" who stand up against all wars and excessive government, to be a "check and balance" on potential threats to Freedom, and to protect True Freedom(s)! The majority falsely believe that "Americans" are superior to everyone else on this Earth, which is the ultimate in bigotry! Remember, our own Declaration of Independence says, "ALL men (and women) are created equal"; and that includes every other person on the face of this globe! The "great" ego-centric U.S. has brought a lot of what happened on September 11th, 2001 on themselves by what "we" have done to provoke the extremists of the world; now we are reaping what we've sown; and we're going to make it worse by running in and getting revenge and retaliation(s)! “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man (or woman) sows, that will (they) also reap....” (Luke 11:52.) If "we" continue to seek retaliation(s) and revenge against such "powers", like the extremists and terrorists who carried out the unconscionable and inexcusable attacks of September 11th, 2001, they will get even more revenge and retaliation(s) against us, and seriously harm us much more than we have already been harmed; therefore, "we" should completely stop all provocation(s) of them, before we bring any more irreparable harm down upon ourselves than we already have; as there is no more excuse for "our" returning evil for evil, than there is for their doing so!! We must end the vicious cycle of violence before it escalates out of control any more than it already has!!!!! At the same time, though we have been amply warned against it, "we" are giving "our" government free license to be able to control us like NO government should EVER be allowed to do! The blindness and ignorance of the majority is exactly what "the powers that be" want; because the only people they want to have any true freedom and/or power, are the lover's of money, the root of all evil(s), and those who blindly do their bidding! We are hearing a great deal of war-mongering rhetoric right now; and most of what we're hearing in the "American" media is the U.S. government's promotion of, and support for, the so-called "War Against Terrorism" and "Operation Enduring Freedom"; but what they really mean is, 'The War of Terrorism Against Terrorism', and 'Operation Endure Their Version and/or Definition of What Freedom Supposedly Is'! "Our" government and mainstream media definitions and/or versions of "freedom" and "justice" are retaliation(s) and revenge(s), terms that are NOT synonymous with eachother, and don't go together AT ALL! We The People, and the rest of the world, are being heavily propagandized to support more and more violence, revenge and retaliation(s), all of which are against what True Freedom and True Democracy, our True American Democracy, stand(s) for, or is supposed to stand for! Because of "our" government's claim that we "must" propagandize the world with escalating propaganda to convince more people in other countries, particularly Afghanistan and Pakistan, to be in favor of this "war" and support it, we are being falsely and fraudulently convinced that such evil propaganda is supposedly okay, a "good" thing, and a "necessity"; but ALL such evil propaganda is evil brainwashing, and is also contrary to True Democracy and Freedom! Many Americans, and citizens of countries in other places of the world, are very much against this new "war"; and the percentage(s) of "Americans" claimed to be in favor of this "war" are inflated! In fact, even a high percentage of New Yorkers are very much against it; but do we hear about that on the mainstream media?! No!! Most non-extremist Middle Easterners are against it, too; but do we hear that in the mainstream media?! No!! And millions of people in England and many other countries are very much against this war, also, and have carried out huge mass protests against it; but do we hear about that in the mainstream media much, if at all?! No!! "We" are also being told by "our" government and media to go back to living our "normal" lives; but, since the atrocity on September 11th, 2001, nothing will ever be truly "normal" or the same again! In fact, in this highly evil world, nothing has ever been truly normal since humankind fell from Grace in the Garden of Eden! What "our" government really wants is for "us" to go back to burying our heads in the sand, so they can perpetrate further wars of aggression, violations of human rights, and abrogations of our civil liberties, right under our noses, without our even realizing and/or really caring if it's happening! We must not go back into denial and allow this to happen without standing up against it in any way we can, to slow down the trend towards eradication of human rights and freedoms, in the U.S. and all over the world!! And what about the great many innocent men, women, children, and little babies that are being murdered by the "American" government, right now, in Afghanistan; what is "normal" about that; and how can we go about leading our "normal" lives while this is going on, without standing up against it?! Are we hearing much, if anything, about that in the mainstream media?! No!! Please don't allow yourself to be evily propagandized, and thereby your conscience to be quieted and/or silenced about ANY such violations of human rights!! The United States government is NOW violating many international human rights laws by murdering these innocent people in Afghanistan; and it must not be allowed to continue!!!!! Believe me, I well-know that what appears obvious that we should do, seems so right; but, "It is written....", "(t)hus says the Lord (God)", "Enter in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto (L)ife, and few there be that find it." (Matthew 4:4; Exodus 4:22; and Matthew 7:12-13.) In other words, the obvious way usually isn't the right way; and the "narrow" way is usually the right way. Most people choose the "wide" way and destruction; and the minority are the only ones who choose the harder, more difficult way and avoid destruction. "But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first." (Matthew 19:30; 20:16; Mark 9:35; 10:31; and Luke 13:30.) "(Wake up and get your lives totally right with God), for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matthew 4:17); quit following along with the majority; and quit, if you do, supporting this "new" war!!!!! "You have heard that it has been said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth': But I (Jesus the Christ) say unto you, That you resist not evil: but whoever will smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man (or woman) will sue you at the law, and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. And whoever will compel you to go a mile, go with him two. Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not away. You have heard that it has been said, 'You will love your neighbor, and hate your enemy'. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you, and persecute you; That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for He makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love them which love you, what reward have you? Do not even the publicans the same? And if you salute your brothers only, what do you more than others? Do not even the publicans so? Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." (Matthew 5:38-48.) The foregoing makes VERY CLEAR that when Jesus the Christ walked this Earth, HE COMPLETELY DID AWAY WITH "AN EYE FOR AN EYE"! And yet we constantly hear a misinterpretation of those verses, which I quoted the entire context of above! He said, "(RETALIATE) NOT (AGAINST) EVIL: BUT WHOEVER WILL SMITE YOU ON YOUR RIGHT CHEEK, TURN TO HIM YOUR OTHER (CHEEK) ALSO.... LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, BLESS THEM THAT CURSE YOU, DO GOOD TO THEM THAT HATE YOU, AND PRAY FOR THEM WHICH DESPITEFULLY USE YOU, AND PERSECUTE YOU"! So, obviously, the opposite is also true: 'DO NOT RETALIATE FOR BEING HIT ON THE RIGHT CHEEK, BUT LET THEM STRIKE US ON THE OTHER CHEEK TOO IF THEY WANT TO; DO NOT HATE OUR ENEMIES; AND DO NOT DO BAD TO THEM WHO HATE US'! BUT DO THE OPPOSITE AND CARRY OUT PEACEFUL SOLUTIONS!!!!! What might some peaceful solutions be? Go to our enemies and apologize to them for all the millions of innocent people that the U.S. government has falsely and hypocritically murdered all over the world in the name(s) of God, "freedom", "democracy", "justice", money, and corporate interests; apologize for "our" being so egotistical as to think that "our" country and people are better than any other country and people on the face of the Earth; make, as much as possible, complete reparations for all of the injustices and violations of human rights that "we" have committed; and NEVER do so again in ANY way, shape or form WHATSOEVER!!!!! That is what we should do; but, believe me, I have no illusions that we will do it!! As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "I have a dream...."; and there is nothing wrong with having a dream for a better society, hoping for and seeking after complete respect for all human rights, all over the world; as, like I've said before, it is the Duty of EVERY PERSON to do, even if it may appear hopeless to do so!!!!! Keep in mind that it is NEVER a waste of time to stand up against the evils of this world, or to stand up for NOTHING but what is right!!!!! "....Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, 'With men (without truly having God in their lives) this is impossible; but with God all things are possible'"! (Matthew 19:26; and Mark 9:23, 10:27 and 14:36.) [Added on 1-11-02: National Public Radio (N.P.R.) so rightfully says, calling one of their programs that 'tells it like it is' by this name, True "Democracy (is now) In Exile", and calling Afghanistan, which is and has been at the time of this writing, and for the previous several months, "the second ground zero"! We, as "Americans", very wrongly tend not to exert, or even consider exerting, much if any compassion, even "simple" expressions of same, for the many thousands of innocent men, women, children, and little babies in Afghanistan who are being murdered by the U.S. government, and, if they haven't already died, that are suffering untold degrees of suffering due to starvation, disease and frostbite in the middle of winter there, or are yet to die from continued "American" bombing! This is totally inexcusable! The Americans, and those from several other allied nations, who died in the World Trade Center Towers, and in the Pentagon, are no better than, or in any way superior to, our fellow -men, -women, -children, and -little babies who are dying in droves in Afghanistan and elsewhere! No man, woman or child, whether impoverished, uneducated or condemned, and no matter the color of their skin, is in any way inferior to ANY American(s); nor is there ANY excuse for their extermination! Please scroll down and read excerpts of the writings of True-American experts on the U.S. government foreign policy that has been carried out in racist extermination of millions of innocent people all over the Earth for well over five decades, and is continuing to be carried out in several countries by the U.S. government, in ways that we don't hear much if anything about in the mainstream media! Thank you again for all of your time and Truly-thoughtful consideration with all of YOUR True-heart(s)!] [Copyright (c) 2001-2004 in the U.S.A. and Internationally by S. Wolf Britain. All rights are reserved.]

EDWARD W. SAID ON THE "APOCALYPSE NOW" by Edward W. Said (Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, and a former member of the Palestine National Council) from Acts of Aggression, Policing "Rogue" States, Copyright © 1999 by Edward W. Said, Noam Chomsky and Ramsey Clark "It would be a mistake, I think, to reduce what is happening between Iraq and the United States simply to an assertion of Arab will and sovereignty versus American imperialism, (the latter of) which undoubtedly plays a central role in all this. However misguided, Saddam Hussein's cleverness is not that he is splitting America from its allies {which he has not really succeeded in doing for any practical purpose} but that he is exploiting the astonishing clumsiness and failures of U.S. foreign policy. Very few people, least of all Saddam himself, can be fooled into believing him to be the innocent victim of American bullying; most of what is happening to his unfortunate people who are undergoing the most dreadful and unacknowledged suffering is due in considerable degree to his callous cynicism... Be that as it may, U.S. vindictiveness ([re]vengefulness), whose sources I shall look at in a moment, has exacerbated the situation by imposing a regime of sanctions which, as Sandy Berger, the (then) American national security advisor (under Clinton) has proudly said, is unprecedented for its severity in the whole of world history. It is believed that (more than) 567,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the Gulf War, mostly as a result of disease, malnutrition and deplorably poor medical care. Agriculture and industry are at a total standstill. This is unconscionable of course, and for this the brazen inhumanity of American policy makers is also very much to blame. But we must not forget that Saddam is feeding that inhumanity quite deliberately in order to dramatize the opposition between the United States and the rest of the Arab world; having provoked a crisis with the United States {or the United Nations dominated by the United States} he at first dramatized the unfairness of the sanctions. But by continuing it, the issue has changed and has become his non-compliance, and the terrible effects of the sanctions have been marginalized. Still the underlying causes of an Arab/U.S. crisis remain. A careful analysis of that crisis is imperative. The United States has always opposed any sign of Arab nationalism or independence, partly for its own imperial reasons and partly because its unconditional support for Israel requires it to do so... Arab policy was never backed up with coordination, or collective pressure, or fully agreed upon goals (except for the recent 'appearances' of same) on Israel (that they without a doubt know the U.S. 'secretly' leads them to believe they can ignore with impunity). The more extreme Israeli policy becomes the more likely the United States has been to support it. And the less respect it has for the large mass of Arab peoples whose future and well-being are mortgaged to illusory hopes embodied, for instance, in the Oslo accords. "Moreover, a deep gulf separates Arab culture and civilization from the United States, and in the absence of any collective Arab information and cultural policy, the notion of an Arab people with traditions, cultures and identities of their own is simply inadmissible in the United States. Arabs are dehumanized, they are seen as violent irrational terrorists always on the look out for murder and bombing outrages. The only Arabs worth doing business with for the United States are compliant leaders, businessmen, and military people whose arms purchases {the highest per capita in the world(!)} are helping the American economy keep afloat. Beyond that there is no feeling at all, for instance, for the dreadful suffering of the Iraqi people (and now the Afghani people except for appearances) whose identity and existence have simply been lost sight of in the present situation. This morbid, obsessional fear and hatred of the Arabs has been a constant theme in U.S. foreign policy since World War Two. In some way also, anything positive about the Arabs is seen in the United States as a threat to Israel. In this respect pro-Israeli American Jews, traditional Orientalists, and military hawks have a played a devastating role. Moral opprobrium is heaped on Arab states as it is on no others. Turkey, for example, has been conducting a campaign against the Kurds for several years, yet nothing is heard about this in the United States. Israel occupies territory illegally for thirty years, it violates the Geneva conventions at will, conducts invasions, terrorist attacks and assassinations against Arabs, and still, the United States vetoes every sanction against it in the United Nations. Syria, Sudan, Libya, Iraq are classified as "rogue" states. Sanctions against them are far harsher than against any other countries in the history of U.S. foreign policy. And still the United States expects that its own foreign policy agenda ought to prevail ... despite its hostility to the collective Arab agenda. In the case of Iraq (and now Afghanistan) a number of further extenuations make the United States even more repressive. Burning in the collective American unconscious is a puritanical zeal decreeing the sternest possible attitude towards anyone deemed to be an unregenerate sinner. This clearly guided American policy towards the native American Indians, who were first demonized, then portrayed as wasteful savages, then exterminated, their tiny remnant confined to reservations and concentration camps. This almost religious anger fuels a judgmental attitude that has no place at all in international politics, but for the United States it is a central tenet of its worldwide behavior (for decades). Second, punishment is conceived in apocalyptic terms (for all those who do not bow to the United States government's misguided and inhuman will)(!) During the Vietnam war a leading general advocated---and almost achieved---the goal of bombing the (so-called) enemy into the stone age. The same view prevailed during the Gulf War in 1991 (and now prevails in the so-called Afghan War, and the "War Against Terrorism" to be carried out all over the world)(!) Sinners are meant to be condemned terminally, with the utmost cruelty regardless of whether or not they suffer the cruelest agonies. The notion of "justified" punishment for Iraq (and now the terrorists) is now uppermost in the minds of most American consumers of news, and with that goes an almost orgiastic delight in the power used to confront Iraq in the Gulf (and the terrorists in Afghanistan, and wherever they and their supporters are). "Pictures of immense U.S. warships steaming virtuously away punctuate breathless news bulletins about Saddam's (and the terrorists) defiance, and the (furthering) crisis. President Clinton (and now President Bush) announce(d) that (they and the American people cannot) tolerate (their) threat(s) to use biological warfare even though {this is unmentioned} it is clear from the United Nations Special Committee {UNSCOM} reports that (Saddam) neither has the missile capacity, nor the chemical arms, nor the nuclear arsenal, nor in fact the anthrax bombs that he is alleged to be brandishing(.) Forgotten in all this is that the United States has all the terror weapons known to humankind, is the only country to have used a nuclear bomb on civilians, and as recently as (1991) dropped 66,000 tons of bombs on Iraq. (How many tons of bombs have we now dropped on Afghanistan? It probably surmounts, or soon will, the number dropped on Iraq in 1991!) As the only country involved in this crisis that has never had to fight a war on its own soil, it is (much too) easy for the United States and its mostly brain-washed citizens to speak in apocalyptic terms(!) A report out of Australia on Sunday, November 16 (1998?) suggests that Israel and the United States (were) thinking about a neutron bomb on Baghdad(!) Unfortunately, the dictates of raw power are very severe and, for a weak state like Iraq, overwhelming (and devastating)(!) Certainly U.S. misuse of the sanctions to strip Iraq of everything, including any possibility for security, is monstrously sadistic(!) The so-called U.N. 661 Committee created to oversee the sanctions is composed of fifteen member states {including the United States} each of which has a veto. Every time Iraq passe(d) this committee a request to sell oil for medicines, trucks, meat, etc., any member of the committee can block these requests by saying that a given item may have military purposes {tires, for example, or ambulances}. In addition, the United States and its clients---e.g., the unpleasant and racist Richard Butler, who says openly that Arabs have a different notion of truth than the rest of the world---have made it clear that even if Iraq is completely reduced militarily to the point where it is no longer a threat to its neighbors {which is now the case} the real goal of the sanctions is to topple Saddam Hussein's government (now that the U.S. government has finished using him as a CIA agent for its own purpose(s) and advantage(s), much like it used Manuel Noriega before it kidnapped him from Panama, tried him in an illegal U.S. court, railroaded and convicted him, and threw him in a U.S. federal prison)(!) According to the American government, very little that Iraq can do short of Saddam's resignation or death will produce a lifting of sanctions (and there is no guarantee that even one of those events will bring the lifting of sanctions about)(!)... Moreover, the increase in military expenditure for new investments in electronic "smart" weaponry, more sophisticated aircraft, mobile forces for the world-wide protection of American power are perfectly suited for display and use in the Gulf (and Afghanistan), where the likelihood of visible casualties {actually suffering... civilians} is extremely small, and where the new military technology can be put through its paces most attractively (to our corrupt and evil government leaders and allies, and the brainwashed majority of "Americans")(!) For reasons that need restating here, the media is particularly happy to go along with the government in bringing home to domestic customers the wonderful excitement of American self-righteousness, and proud flag-waving, the "feel-good" sense that "we" are facing down a monstrous (enemy). Far from analysis and calm reflection, the media exists mainly to derive its mission from the government, not to produce a corrective or any dissent. The media, in short, is an extension of the war(s) against Iraq (and the terrorists)(!) "The saddest aspect of the whole thing is that Iraqi (and Afghani as well as other) civilians seem condemned to additional suffering and protracted agony. Neither their government(s) nor that of the United States is inclined to ease the daily pressure(s) on them, and the probability that only they will pay for the crisis is extremely high. At least---and it isn't very much---there seems to be no enthusiasm among Arab governments for American military action(s), but beyond that there is no coordinated Arab position, not even on the extremely grave humanitarian question(s). It is unfortunate that, according to the news, there is rising popular support for Saddam (and bin Laden) in the Arab world, as if the old lessons of defiance without real power have still not been learned (and "bombing them into the stone age" is not going to stop them from seeking greater and greater revenge against us for our revenge against them; as we cannot scare them out of it)(!) Undoubtedly the United States has manipulated the United Nations to its own ends, a rather shameful exercise given at the same time that the Congress once again (in 1998?) struck down a motion to pay a billion dollars in arrears to the world organization. The major priority for Arabs, Europeans, Muslims and Americans is to push to the fore the issue of sanctions and the terrible suffering imposed on innocent Iraqi (and Afghani) civilians. Taking the case to the International Court in the Hague strikes me as a perfectly viable possibility, but what is needed is a concerted will on behalf of Arabs who have suffered the U.S.'s egregious blows for too long without adequate response." (And now the Arab-terrorist attacks on the U.S., perpetrated by a minority of Arab extremists, are being used by the U.S. government and its allies to supposedly justify more covert and open oppression(s) of the Arab world; and I predict that we will see even more egregious violations of the Arab countries international human rights in favor of U.S. government tyranny, imperialism and multi-national corporation interests that they are inseparable from.) [({Words and/or emphasis added by me.})]

NOAM CHOMSKY ON "ROGUE STATES" by Noam Chomsky (activist, writer, and professor of linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology [M.I.T.], where he has taught since 1955) from Acts of Aggression, Policing "Rogue" States, Copyright © 1999 by Edward W. Said, Noam Chomsky and Ramsey Clark "The concept of "rogue states" plays a pre-eminent role today in policy planning and analysis... But discussion (has been and continues to be) kept within rigid bounds that exclude(d) the obvious answer: the United States and Britain should act in accord with their laws and treaty obligations(!) "The relevant legal framework is formulated in the Charter of the United Nations, a "solemn treaty" recognized as the foundation of international law and world order, and (is,) under the U.S. Constitution, "the supreme law of the land(!)" "The Charter states that(,) "The (U.N.) Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression, and shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42," which detail the preferred "measures NOT involving the use of armed force" and permit the Security Council to take further action if IT finds such measures necessary to maintain international peace and security(!)" Apart from these exceptions, member states "shall REFRAIN in their international relations from the threat or use of force(!)" "There are legitimate ways to react to the many threats to world peace. If Iraq's neighbors feel threatened, they can approach the Security Council to authorize appropriate measures to respond to the threat. If the United States and Britain feel threatened, they can do the same. BUT NO STATE HAS THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE ITS OWN DETERMINATIONS ON THESE MATTERS AND TO ACT AS IT CHOOSES; the United States and Britain would have NO such authority even if their hands were clean, (which is) hardly the case(!) "Outlaw states do not accept these conditions: Saddam's Iraq, for example, OR THE UNITED STATES(!)... The Security Council unanimously endorsed (U.N. Secretary-General Kofi) Annan's agreement, rejecting U.S./U.K. demands that it authorize their use of force in the event of non-compliance. The resolution warned of the "severest consequences," but with no further specification(s). In the crucial final paragraph, the Council "decides, in accordance with its responsibilities under the (U.N.) Charter, to remain actively seized of the matter, in order to ensure implementation of this resolution and to ensure peace and security in the (Middle-Eastern) area." The Council, NO ONE ELSE; in accordance with the Charter(!) "The facts were (very) clear and unambiguous(!)... "It HAS to be the Security Council who determines when to use armed force," the Ambassador of Costa Rica declared, expressing the position of the Security Council(!)... "And the other nations of the world have NOT assigned Washington (D.C.) the right to decide when, where and how their interests should be served {Ronald Steel}(!)" "The Constitution (of the United States) DOES happen to provide such mechanisms, namely, by declaring valid treaties "the supreme law of the land," particularly the most fundamental of them, the U.N. Charter(!) It further authorizes (the U.S.) Congress to "define and punish... offenses against the law of nations," UNDERGIRDED BY THE CHARTER IN THE CONTEMPORARY ERA(!). It is, furthermore, a bit of an understatement to say that other nations "have not assigned Washington the right"; THEY HAVE FORCEFULLY DENIED IT THAT RIGHT, following the {at least rhetorical} lead of Washington, which largely crafted the Charter(!).... "Contempt for the rule of law is deeply rooted in U.S. practice and intellectual culture(!)... The open contempt for Article 51 (of the U.N. Charter, and the "creative interpretation of [same]" to supposedly justify the U.S.'s unilateral decisions to exercise armed force against other nations) is particularly revealing(!)... The United States proceeded to define "aggression" to include "political warfare, or subversion" {by someone else, that is (even though the U.S. does it all the time, and has done so for decades---it's supposedly okay for them to do; but it is definitely not okay for any other country to do, which is a gross and intolerable double standard)}(!).... "The record lends considerable support to the concern widely voiced about "rogue states" that are dedicated to the rule of force, acting in the "national interest" as defined by domestic power; MOST OMINOUSLY, ROGUE STATES THAT ANOINT THEMSELVES GLOBAL JUDGE AND EXECUTIONER (LIKE THE UNITED STATES)(!).... "....A secret 1995 study of the Strategic Command, which is responsible for the strategic nuclear arsenal, outlines the basic thinking (of the United States government at the present time). Released through the Freedom of Information Act, the study, Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence, "shows how the United States shifted its deterrent strategy from the defunct Soviet Union to so-called rogue states such as Iraq, Libya, Cuba and North Korea," A(ssociated) P(ress) reports. The study advocates that the United States exploit its nuclear arsenal to portray itself as "irrational and vindictive ([re]vengeful) if its vital interests are attacked." That "should be a part of the national persona we project to all adversaries," particularly the "rogue states." "It hurts to portray ourselves as too fully rational and coolheaded," let alone committed to such silliness as international law and treaty obligations. "The fact that some elements" of the U.S. government "may appear to be potentially 'out of control' can be beneficial to creating and reinforcing fears and doubts within the minds of an adversary's decision makers." (But it isn't working, is it?!) The report resurrects Nixon's "madman theory": our enemies should recognize that we are crazed and unpredictable, with extraordinary destructive force at out command, so they will bend to our will in fear. The concept was apparently devised in Israel in the 1950s by the governing Labor Party, whose leaders "preached in favor of acts of madness," Prime Minister Moshe Sharett records in his diary, warning that "we will go crazy" {"nishtagea"} if crossed, a "secret weapon" aimed in part against the United States, not considered sufficiently reliable at the time. In the hands of the world's sole superpower, which regards itself as an outlaw state and is subject to few constraints from elites within, that stance poses no small problem for the world(!).... "The criteria are fairly clear: a "rogue state" is not simply a criminal state, but one that defies the orders of the powerful (like the U.S. government does)---who are, of course, (supposedly) exempt(!).... "These are tendencies of considerable import, relating to the background concerns that motivate U.S. policy in the (Arab) region: its insistence, since World War II, on controlling the world's major energy reserves (at the expense of virtually every other nation in the world)(!) As many have observed, in the Arab world there is growing (remember, this was written in 1998, three years before the Arab-terrorist attacks on the U.S.) fear and resentment of the long-standing Israel-Turkey(-United States) alliance (and others)... now greatly strengthened (as well as other issues which have built resentment among the greater Arab "world", and brought about the attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001)(!).... "The respite (since the Iraq affair[s]) is temporary(!) (How's that for a prophetic statement on the part of Noam Chomsky that things were going to get worse as they have?!) It offers (offered?) opportunities to citizens of the warrior states (including the U.S. in particular) to bring about changes of consciousness and commitment that could make a difference in the not too distant future(!)" (Of course, Mr. Chomsky did NOT mean changes in consciousness and commitment in the wrong direction(s), leading to the U.S. further provoking and bringing 9-11-01 on themselves and our country; but what he DID mean was changes in consciousness and commitment in the right direction(s), that very well could have prevented the terrible events that occurred then, and will no doubt continue to occur as the U.S. government continues to escalate their provocations of the Middle East and the world at large!) [({Words and/or emphasis added by me.})] [Further notes by me: Please get a hold of and read this publication for yourself, to take notice of the many flagrant examples of human rights abuses by the United States government for over fifty years! The U.S. government subverts democracy all over the world, including in the U.S., while claiming to "Americans" that it is murdering millions of innocent people all over the world for the sake of preserving our democracy! What a load of crap! Please don't believe it! The U.S. government is not justified in doing whatever it pleases without the authorization(s) of the United Nations General Assembly, the U.N. Security Council, and/or the World Court! The Truth is, the U.S. government is taking away U.S. citizens' inalienable right(s) to think for themselves, and to speak out against their tyranny(ies), which it is our God-given right and duty to do!]

RAMSEY CLARK "ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS" by Ramsey Clark (attorney, teacher, writer, former Attorney General during the Johnson Administration, and founder of the activist organization, International Action Center, founded in 1991 to protest U.S. military aggression and foreign policy[ies]) from the Appendix of Acts of Aggression, Policing "Rogue" States, Copyright © 1999 by Edward W. Said, Noam Chomsky and Ramsey Clark ""The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing." So observed Abraham Lincoln at, for him, the darkest moment of the American Civil War. He had just received reports of the massacre of 800 Union soldiers, former slaves whose ancestors were brought from Africa in chains. They were the first such unit to be engaged in combat. Caught and overwhelmed at Ft. Pillow, Tennessee on the Mississippi River by a much larger Confederate cavalry force under Nathan Bedford Forrest, every man was killed. Forrest reported the river ran red for hundreds of yards. After the war Forrest was a founder of the Ku Klux Klan and engaged in racist violence for two decades. "Four score and four years (eighty-four years) after the Ft. Pillow massacre, in the Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948, the U(nited) N(ations) General Assembly found "a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance," and proclaimed its declaration in order to provide "a good definition." "The Universal Declaration was dominated by the experience, concerns, interests and values of a narrow segment of the "people of the United Nations," primarily the United States, England and France. It emphasized political rights developed over centuries from their histories with little concern for economic, social and cultural rights. Still it was and remains an important contribution in the continuing struggle for justice. "In the fifth paragraph of its preamble the Declaration notes the United Nations has affirmed "... the dignity and worth of the human person and the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom." Article 1 provides "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." Article 5 states, "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Article 25 declares, "(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care...." "The United States government pays lip service to the Declaration, but its courts have consistently refused to enforce its provisions reasoning it is (supposedly) not a legally binding treaty, or contract, but (allegedly) only a declaration. This ignores the fact that international law recognizes the provisions of the Declaration as being incorporated into customary international law which is binding on all nations. "The most fundamental, dangerous and harmful violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on its fiftieth birthday is economic sanctions imposed on entire populations. The United States alone blockades eleven million Cubans in the face of the most recent General Assembly resolutions approved by 157 nations condemning the blockade, with only the Unites States and Israel in opposition. The entire population of Cuba and every Cuban has had the "right to a standard of living adequate for health and well being... including food, clothing, housing and medical care" deliberately violated by the United States blockade. "Security Council sanctions against Iraq, which are forced by the United States, have devastated the entire nation, taking the lives of more than 1,500,000 people, mostly infants, children, chronically ill and elderly, and harming millions more by hunger, sickness and sorrow. The sanctions destroy the "dignity and rights" of the people of Iraq and are the most extreme form of "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment," which are prohibited by the Declaration. "Despite the cruelest destruction of the most basic human rights and liberties of all the people in Iraq, including rights to medicine, safe drinking water and sufficient food, the United States government, with the major mass media in near perfect harmony, proclaims itself the world's champion of liberty and human rights. The problem as Lincoln surely knew is not merely one of definitions. It is a problem of power, will and accountability. The United States intends to have its way and serve its own interests with Iraq, Cuba, Libya, Iran, the Sudan and many other countries whatever the consequences to the liberties and rights of those who live there. "The United States control over and its concerted action with the mass media enables it to demonize such countries, its victims, for "terrorism," threats to world peace and human rights violations at the very time it rains Tomahawk cruise missiles on them and motivates and finances armed insurrections and violence against them. At the same time the United States increases its own staggeringly large prison industry, with more than a million persons confined, including 40 percent of all African-American males between 17 and 27 years old in the State of California. Simultaneously the United States spends more on its military than the ten largest military budgets of other nations combined, sells most of the arms and sophisticated weapons still increasing worldwide while rejecting an international convention to prohibit land mines and an international court of criminal justice. And the United States maintains and deploys the great majority of all weapons of mass destruction existent on Earth, nuclear, chemical, biological and the most deadly of all---economic sanctions. "It is imperative that clear definitions of all fundamental rights of people, be clearly inscribed in international law, including economic rights which are most basic to human need and on which all other rights are dependent, and rights to freedom from military aggression by a superpower or its surrogates. "But without a passionate commitment by the people of the United States and other major powers to stop their own governments from violating those definitions of human rights, hold them accountable for their acts and to prevent their own media from seducing them into acceptance or complacency, there will be no protection for the poor and powerless and no correspondence between the words of rich and powerful nations and their deeds. "We can be thankful for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but together the people of the world must do better to define and protect the humanity of the people." [{(Words and/or emphasis added by me.)}] [Further notes by me: Now do you see why the Arab peoples justifiably hate the United States and Americans so much, and want to hurt us so badly as they allegedly did on 9-11-01?! There is of course no justification for evil for evil, as I stated earlier; but the inhuman United States government is responsible for bringing terrorism to our very shores, and for bringing what has already happened, and any further terrorist acts perpetrated in our country by international terrorists, upon us! The real Truth is inescapable, except for those who continue to live in denial, fall for the propaganda perpetrated by the U.S. government and mainstream media, in virtually complete concert with one-another, and who blindly follow the false, so-called "patriotic" support for the corrupt U.S. government and it's corrupt allied governments, like most so-called "Americans" do!]

MY "TAKE" ON "PRESIDENT" BUSH'S 1-20-04 "STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS" (Written on 9 February 2004) By S. Wolf Britain In "President" Bush's 2004 "State of the Union Address", one of the first lies of a speech that was virtually all lies was stated when Bush claimed "our" armed forces are "....delivering hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent". But this lie has to be one of the sickest and most evil lies ever told; for the U.S. military has delivered complete hopelessness to the, what is now estimated to be, over 40,000 Iraqi citizens that they unconscionably and mercilessly murdered, as well as to the thousands upon thousands of Iraqis who were seriously injured and/or maimed for the rest of their lives, in the second Iraq war alone. In addition, U.S. armed forces have NOT delivered True Justice, either to the Iraqis or to themselves; as True Justice does NOT embrace, by any stretch of the lying imagination, murdering tens of thousands of innocent people, including people who were doing nothing but exercising their right(s), and duty(ies), to defend their sovereignty, as ALL countries have the right(s) and duty(ies) to do; NOR did "our" military AT ALL hold THEMSELVES accountable for, in the first place, the COMPLETE ILLEGALITY of that second Iraq war, or for THEIR OWN excessively violent, exceedingly criminal, atrocities that they committed in the process of carrying through that COMPLETELY ILLEGAL war. And the very fact that such a "war of aggression", as clearly defined by several international laws, IS AND WAS completely illegal, makes EVERY SINGLE act of aggression carried out by U.S. armed forces, including EVERY SINGLE support action that made it both possible and a reality, TOTALLY UNJUST! So where is the Justice for the "American" violence, for which ALL Americans should be completely shocked, revolted and repulsed?! Next, Bush adds further to the lies that overflow from him on a constant basis, by stating that, "(i)n their efforts, their enterprise, and their character, the American people are showing that the state of our union is confident and strong", when the polls have shown that the American people are very nearly divided right down the middle over both Iraq and policy(ies) threatening civil liberties BOTH abroad and at home, making the Truth of the matter that, when our country is so divided, the state of our union CANNOT possibly be so confident and strong! And more and more Americans ARE waking up to what is really going on, and standing up against it; especially those fully true Americans who are daily putting the very liberty, as well as the very safety, of their actual persons, on the line "for Truth, (True) Justice, and the (True) American way"; and the other half of "Americans" who are wrongly toeing the party line, are so at odds with those who are totally, non-violently and peacefully standing up for True Freedom, and nothing but the protection of our True Democracy and Liberties, that they are fraudulently claiming the latter are supposedly being traitors to, committing treason against, and betraying the United States, when it is those false accusers who are the ones thereby betraying, committing treason against, and being traitors to the omnipresent civil liberties and duties of freedom of speech and dissent to be a check and balance upon the abuse(s) of power by the U.S. government! So how, short of the true traitors violently turning on the True Patriots, perpetrated both by the civilians and "law enforcement authorities", that has already begun to occur in the latter, and the conflagration of both that is very soon to occur, can we be any more divided, and our "union" any more insecure and weak?! The next grossly-false lie that emanates from "Dubya" in this so-called "State of the Union" speech, is that the American people "....need to renew the Patriot Act", an act so egregiously against, in violation of, and so seriously abrogating the very, MOST IMPORTANT, freedoms for which "America" stands, or for which "America" is supposed to stand, including but not limited to the freedom(s) of dissent and speech embodied in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, that the country is being threatened, and is already having carried out against it to some extent from within, by the false patriots named above, the complete suspension of these civil liberties, the very foundation and bedrock of our democracy which, without the FULL respect for and upholding of same, will lead to the COMPLETE AND TOTAL collapse and destruction of ANY True Democracy in the United States, to FULL AND COMPLETE chaos, and to the imprisonment and murder of millions of innocent Americans for "daring" to exercise those foundational liberties of our very society! And with such social collapse, "America" will cease to AT ALL, or any longer, be a Truly Free country, and will then be nothing but a COMPLETELY totalitarian police state! This is what Bush and his cohorts really want; and they are already stopping at nothing to bring it about! So where is the greater and greater alarm, the True Strength, True Resolve, and the True Self-Determination that we as citizens of this country Truly Need in order to stem this black tide of destruction before it is forever too late?! Where is our Backbone and Willpower, and our True Courage to ONLY defend REAL Freedom(s) and Liberty(ies), and FULLY stand AGAINST ALL such threats to our TRUE Liberty(ies) and Freedom(s), NO MATTER WHAT BEFALLS US IN THE PROCESS?! Ever more serious lies go on and on with Bush's further fraudulent assertion that "....the people of Iraq are free", while it is more than obvious that they are NOT free, and that, while they are being ruled, and while they will continue to be ruled behind the scenes, by the usurper-government of the United States, which illegally, aggressively and mercilessly attacked, invaded, conquered, and subjugated their sovereign country, they will continue to NOT be free! And Bush then adds insulting lie to injurious lie by stating that "....the United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins", and that "(t)he killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom". But the U.S. government, and its military, are instead, and will continue to be, the greater thugs and assassins; and yet "our" thuggery and assassination of tens of thousands of innocent people are supposedly okay and right! What a great, big, huge bunch of "smoke and mirrors", and a gigantic "crock of bull"! The "AMERICAN" killers are not failing; and, again, the Iraqi people will NOT live in freedom from the oppression and repression of the United States government, unless of course the "American" murderers are stopped by an act of God, and/or by their own people and government coming to their sense's and putting a stop to it; otherwise, the repression and oppression of the U.S. government will only increase and get worse and worse as the "Bush junta" already plans to do, and IS presently seeking to make a reality! The "American people" were promised "endless war"; and endless war they are getting! Yet still, half of the "American" populace is "bloodthirstilly" lusting (sic) after the blood of millions of innocent people, all in the name of so-called "freedom", or so it would seem! What's it going to be, people?! Are you going to continue to support endless murder, mayhem and bloodshed in the name of the so-called "freest country on earth"?! From the overflowing pot of lies gushing from "Dictator-Bush's" mouth, the next most-grievous lie streaming endlessly therefrom is that "....America is committed to keeping the world's most dangerous weapons out of the hands of the most dangerous regimes"; but, of course, he is NOT keeping the world's most dangerous weapons out of the hands of the world's MOST dangerous regime, the United States, or out of his own hands and the hands of HIS regime! To repeat it again because it needs to be repeated, the U.S. possesses MORE of the most dangerous weapons in the world than ALL of the other countries which possess them combined! In other words, that makes the United States the GREATEST threat to world peace, and to the safety and liberty of the rest of the world, than ALL of the other countries in the entire world combined! And don't say "America" isn't using, or won't use, them; because THEY ARE, and on a greater and greater scale; and they want to use more and more of those most dangerous weapons in further and further aggressive, illegal wars against other defenseless nations, without end! "Our" government has admitted such to us, very clearly! For Bush further states, among many other such lies and/or admissions that his regime has made, "....(t)he terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States, and war they got"; yet the "Bush regime" is terrorizing the U.S. and the world with threat upon threat, and is continuously declaring war on the U.S. and the world over and over again, both to, and against, our safety and our liberty(ies)! But neither the vast majority of Afghani people, the previous Iraqi government as a whole, the Iraqi people as a whole, or the vast majority of the "American" citizenry declared war on the U.S., attacked the Pentagon, and/or destroyed the World Trade Center Towers! And, therefore, the "American" people and the rest of the world have more to fear from the "Bush junta", and the out of control U.S. shadow government, than from Osama bin Laden or al Q'aeda! So where is the backbone in the vast majority of our People and our government minority, to put a stop to all of this out of control terrorizing of, and declaring of war against, the "American" people and the rest of the world?! Bush and Company have again admitted, in very serious violation of international law(s), that they will not seek the authorization of the highest international world-governing body, the United Nations Security Council, to carry out wars of aggression against defenseless "third-world" countries, by additionally stating in the 2004 "State of the Union Address", that "....America will never seek a permission slip to (supposedly) defend the security of our country"; but, once again, Iraq did not attack us, OR HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH 9-11; therefore, the United States was NOT defending the security of our country when it made its unprovoked attack on, and invasion of, Iraq in 2003! Iraq had been very effectively disarmed during the previous total of ten years of weapons inspections and twelve years of sanctions, was little or no threat to us, we had little or nothing to fear from them, and Iraq was almost totally defenseless, particularly when compared to the military-might of the U.S. government; but, as is coming out more and more, "we" were sold a fraudulent "bill of goods", of lie after lie after lie supposedly justifying such a war of aggression, and such a war only previously perpetrated out in the open by the likes of Wilhelm's and Hitler's Germany, at least in relatively recent history; and Bush's junta sold it to "us" much like Hitler's regime did! On his lies unrelated to war, at least directly and/or obviously, Bush goes on to falsely claim in his speech that his administration will supposedly make us "....less dependent on foreign sources of energy"; in other words, less dependent on oil and natural gas; while at the same time he is making this spurious claim, the U.S. government, and its all-powerful military, are in the very process of taking over Middle Eastern oil reserves on a huge scale; such that there couldn't be any bigger lie on this subject than his making that seriously-fraudulent claim! Concerning the recently passed Medicare Prescription Drug Bill, Bush falsely alleges that it will provide great prescription drug benefits to the elderly and the disabled (of course, the disabled aren't mentioned at all in this regard, or anywhere in the speech); but the so-called benefits of this prescription drug plan are "shot full of holes"; and many, if not most, of the disabled and senior citizens have become aware of just how terribly flawed, and primarily favoring the pharmaceutical conglomerates, the "benefit" really is, and that it will NOT benefit them much, if at all! Bush also claimed that "America's" system of medicine is the best in the world; but he very conveniently failed to mention that it's also the most expensive medical system in the world, that he and his administration are in the process of making it much more expensive than it already is, by the passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill and other destructive actions on their, and the Republicans and "Republicrats", part(s), and that the vast majority of "Americans" cannot afford "America's" "great health care system"! With "regard" to Bush's so-called "faith-based initiative" to fund religious organizations with huge amounts of government money(ies) in order to ostensibly provide "social services" to needy "American" people, Bush again makes very clear that his, and the far religious right's, attack on the Constitutional "separation of church and state" is being carried out "at every turn", "right and left", and is an "all-out" attack on another one of the greatest protections against despotism within the United States system of government; thereby leading to soon-to-be-instituted religious despotism in the U.S., and one-world religiously despotic governance of the entire world, of and by the U.S. government, that I have warned of elsewhere! Don't doubt it! The signs of its fast-approaching preparation and reality, as with Bush's plan to give government financial support to "faith-based" organizations, are all around us! What was palpably absent from this "State of the Union Address" of "Dubya's" was any mention of, or allusion to, dissent and/or the dissidents, making it very clear that he and his regime have chosen to stop talking about it for the most part, and instead are taking more and more decisive actions behind the scenes against the dissidents and his other critics, and to (completely?) curb and stifle freedom of dissent and speech, thereby overturning the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights and bringing about Orwellian police-state control of the entire country very soon, and the imprisonment and/or murder of many dissenters! In the "Republicrats" response(s) to Bush's speech this time around, except for making clear that the Bush administration is NOT ensuring the security of the state of our union, their responses were almost as lacking as Bush's, and were just as bad by also falsely claiming, along with the Bushites and the Republicans, that the state of our union IS supposedly secure, in spite of the Bush administration, and giving the false hope that the "Republicrats" will in any way actually correct and/or improve the deplorable condition that our "union" is in at the present time; thereby making it very clear that the epidemic of "Ostrich Syndrome" is now even more pandemic, that the infection is even more severe and out of control than ever before, that the distrust of all politicians is even more of a prerequisite now than ever before, and that Murphy's Law that whatever can go wrong will go wrong is becoming more and more true every day! The True Patriots against Bush-fascism, through having had war declared upon them thereby, have been issued a challenge by Bush and Company, one of the highest challenges ever given to True Americans, to wage non-violent, peaceful "war" against ALL of the threats to "....Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness (and/or Equality)" for ALL people, both in the United States and the world-over, without flinching and without stopping, NO MATTER WHAT; and millions of True American- and World- Citizens are rising to meet that challenge; but more True American and World Patriots must NOW be Truly Courageous, rise up, and join the swelling ranks of those standing up against U.S. corporate-military-industrial fascism! With God's help you CAN do it; so DO IT, and DO IT NOW! There is no time to put off doing your part in ANY, EVERY, and ALL ways YOU CAN! PLEASE DO IT NOW; AND WE WELCOME YOU TO OUR "ARMY"! END CORPORATISM! END CORPORATE-FASCISM! END CORPORATISM! END CORPORATE-FASCISM! END CORPORATISM NOW! THANK YOU! [Copyright (c) 2004 in the U.S.A. and Internationally by S. Wolf Britain. All rights are reserved.]

MY RESPONSE TO "PRESIDENT" BUSH'S 1-29-03 "STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS" (Written on 20 April 2003) By S. Wolf Britain In "'President'-by-Coup" George W. Bush's 2003 "State of the Union" speech, he claims, "Our Union is strong...."; but the Union is NOT strong when human rights and civil liberties are being abrogated right and left, in violation of both the U.S. Constitution and True Democracy, and "first-strike", "preemptive" wars for empire are being waged against virtually defenseless nations for the sake(s) of the corporate-military-industrial-government complex! It proves that Bush is lying through his teeth more than ever, and that the vast majority of "Americans" are believing those lies because of the typical rhetoric that keeps emanating from the present, "non-democracy", White House these days! Therefore, what hope do we Truly have that True Democracy is going to prevail in this administration?! The answer is, NONE!! And I cannot over-repeat that it behooves ALL True-Americans to stand up against it!! Bush states that his previous tax cuts were "the largest tax relief in history"; but it begs the question, who do those, and his presently-proposed, "tax relief" actions really benefit?! The answer is, THE RICH, of course!! The average "American" citizen got, and/or will get, a few hundred dollars in tax "relief" at best, while far too many Americans languish in disease, poverty, homelessness, unemployment, and poor education, with much of the social relief programs being drastically cut to support Bush and Company's imperialistic war-machine and the rich "administrators" in the White House, which is casting the entire world into fear, disgust, hatred, vindictiveness, and lack of safety and peace!! Virtually the only people in the entire world who support the United States present bid for world domination, except for some other oppressive governments, are those, including about seventy-percent of "Americans", who don't truly understand what is really going on, and what it is leading to! The majority of individual, non-elitist citizens all over the globe are against the foreign policies and actions of the United States, and a huge percentage of those worldwide who are against it are stridently protesting against it, in a peaceful, non-violent fashion, in numbers that are unprecedented in world history, while the United States arrogantly ignores this and proceeds to "discriminatorily" and criminally murder innocent sovereign people(s) the world-over! Bush talked about relief for senior citizens in the U.S.; but, yet again, he said nothing about relief for the millions of disabled Americans and veterans! The disabled and veterans in the United States are constantly left out, inadequately cared for, are expected to survive on below-poverty-line government insurance and/or V.A. veterans pensions, and are having their benefits drastically cut in the names of "Freedom" and ever-increasing military and corporate profits from the U.S. government, at the expense of the suffering American people who are the vast majority of the U.S. populace, suffering in the poverty, disease, etcetera, that I named above! Where is the relief for the veterans and the disabled, the ones who are not seniors, and are probably in a much greater majority than the seniors?! Where is their all-powerful lobby and voice(s) in the Senate and the Congress; and when will they receive the relief that they should be receiving just as much of as senior citizens in a country that is supposed to be based on equal rights?! The Truth is, before or after the present administration in the White House, they probably never truly will!! And senior citizens, as well as veterans, are NOT receiving the relief benefits that they should be receiving, and they probably never truly will, either!! In watching and listening to Bush's January 2003 "State of the Union Address" on P.B.S. (the "American" Public Broadcasting System [PBS]), it was striking that PBS, or whatever mainstream media outlet that provided the camera coverage to PBS, intentionally caused their cameras to highlight the Republicans' side of isle during the applause, barely if at all showing the Democrats' side of the isle, in order to largely avoid showing that during much of the applause and/or standing-ovations, the Democrats didn't applaud or stand at all! Yet now the Democrats have lost virtually all of their backbone and are blindly supporting "Bush and company", and granting him and the Executive Branch of government power(s) that it is a violation of the United States Constitution to grant him, namely to allow the President to declare war, when it is only the U.S. Congress that is authorized to do so! First he was not elected, and now he, as one man virtually unanswerable to anyone, can declare war at will, without having to honor this premiere "check and balance" on Presidential abuse of power in the United States! In his speech he spoke of "American justice", but American justice, particularly that so-called "justice" being carried out by the United States right now, is NOT just! He, a multi-millionaire oil-man, claims that he will seek to bring about the advent of "hydrogen automobiles"; but such is very unlikely to be brought about by him or the likes of him! He then speaks of "the fatherless" due to HIV/AIDS in Africa, and providing U.S. aid to only two-million out of thirty-million victims of HIV/AIDS there, and this while cutting social programs "at home" and thereby failing to sufficiently aid the fatherless here! Then he claims that America stands between enemies and protecting the people of the world, while "bombing into the Stone Age", with so-called "shock and awe" warfare tactics that should better be called "shock and disgust", thousands of innocent men, women, children, and little babies, and maiming thousands of others' for life, in both Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as several other places worldwide! Bush then goes on to speak "ad nauseum" about disarming other "dangerous" countries, and getting them to turn from their nuclear "threat(s)"; but when are we, the so-called almighty United States, the most dangerous country in the entire world, going to turn from our nuclear DOMINANCE?! Probably never, of our own accord at least; so what right, that isn't hypocritical, do "we" have to keep other sovereign nations from nuclear deterrence, particularly in the face of the extremely unrighteous, hypocritical, dangerous threat that the U.S. poses to them?! Bush claims Iraq hid, moved and sanitized weapons-of-mass-destruction (WMD) sites, but he gave absolutely NO proof WHATSOEVER to back up that claim, nor did Colin Powell, to the United Nations (UN) and the American people, nor has ANY proof WHATSOEVER been truthfully discovered in the process and aftermath of invading, conquering, occupying, and controlling Iraq! Bush further spoke of the tortures committed by Saddam Hussein's regime; but what about the "tortures" the U.S. government and military have inflicted, and continue to inflict, on innocent, Iraqi, Afghani and other civilians worldwide, through the dropping of thousands of bombs and missiles, many of which were tipped with "Spent-Uranium" that sent radioactive shrapnel into defenseless victims, and that has and will continue to poison their environment with cancer-causing radiation, not to mention the radiation exposure(s) also inflicted on unknowing "American" military victims?! Thousands of these victims on both sides have already died from the radiation exposure from the first Gulf War, as well as chemical and biological weapons exposures from the huge amounts of such weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that we also used on Iraq at that time!! "We" have additionally used many more tons of such WMD on Afghanistan, and on Iraq in the second Gulf War, and many more of same than we used the first time around; so how many thousands of people are yet to die from the above-named exposures from the war on Afghanistan and the second Gulf War?! And then Bush had the nerve to further, blatantly lie in claiming that the U.S. military will spare the innocent in every way they can!! Bush also claims the United States is "honorable in the use of (its) strength", yet another huge, blatant lie! How can the U.S. be honorable in the use of it's strength when it bombs hospitals, "mows-down" innocent men, women and children, admits that it's missiles are grossly inaccurate and must therefore launch several at the same target in order to more-likely hit the target, and inflicts many thousands of people with radiation exposure(s) and cancer(s), not to mention many other atrocities that the "American" corporate-military-industrial-government media has not reported to us in the names of "National Security" and "sanitizing" the war?! How can the U.S. government and military be honorable in the use of their "strength" when they commit all of this insanity?! There is ABSOLUTELY NO TRUE HONOR WHATSOEVER in such insanity; and there NEVER CAN BE ANY TRUE HONOR WHATSOEVER in such insanity!! Yet the majority of the "American" people are duped into believing these disgusting lies, and into supporting an insane, primarilly war-oriented, government!! Bush goes on to falsely claim "(t)his nation seeks for peace....", and makes it more than clear that he is one of the worst of many warmongers of U.S. foreign policy(ies) and action(s) that insanely equate(s) "our" invasion, conquering and occupation of sovereign countries, and the slaughter of thousands of innocent people, with "peace"! He further lies in stating that "(w)e strive for peace....", in the process of carrying out illegal "preemptive", "first-strike" wars in violation of International Law(s)! And he then adds insult to injury by also fraudulently claiming, "America is a strong country, and uses restraint in the use of it's strength...."! But "America" is NOT a strong country when it is in so many ways violating it's own principles of democracy to a such highly-extreme degree! Bush speaks proudly of the killing(s) of "our enemies"; and, to him and most "Americans", killing is "justice"; but they ALL make "America" weaker by their arrogance, hatred, vengefulness, and killing! Bush then lies yet again by claiming that "(f)ree people will set the course of history"; but "America" and "Americans" are NOT free while they commit unbridled violence against "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", and human rights violations, at home and abroad! "Americans", and all people, are ONLY Truly Free when they do NOT exercise such unGodly and evil violence against True Freedom, Democracy, Peace, and Justice; and they will NEVER be Truly Free as long as they support and carry out such violations of human and civil rights! Bush continues by stating, "We call on the United Nations to fulfill it's Charter...."; but the U.S. government again and again violates the U.N. Charter! He virtually admits that contradiction by then saying, "The course of this nation does not depend on the decision of others'" (speaking primarily of the United Nations), further proving his arrogance against, and contempt for, International Law(s)! And he has the nerve to "call on" the U.N. to follow it's own laws, when he and all of the rest of the "war-hawks" refuse to follow their own laws OR the laws of the United Nations! Then he has the further temerity to claim Saddam Hussein "shows utter contempt for the United Nations", when the U.S. government itself shows utter contempt for the U.N. and the Iraqi people by causing the deaths of thousands of them and others' in the name of "freeing" them! Surely, the United Nations is no angel either, having been responsible, with the then-consent of the United States, given whenever the U.N. does what the U.S. government wants, for the million and a half deaths of the Iraqi people by starvation and disease as a result of the economic sanctions against, and the embargo of food to, Iraq for the previous twelve years, a third of them children and little babies! The United Nations also did the bidding of the United States by approving the first war on Iraq in 1991, and the attack on Afghanistan that began in 2001; but, thank God, though the U.S. government and military went ahead and did it anyway, the U.N. refused to approve this latest "first-strike", "preemptive" war against Iraq, because such wars are a violation of the United Nations Charter! Yet what is the U.N. doing, that has "teeth", about what the U.S. has unilaterally done in violation of International Law(s), NOTHING?! In addition, Bush states, "The only reasons Saddam Hussein could have for seeking to possess nuclear weapons is to dominate, intimidate or attack...."; but that is exactly why the United States possesses more of them than any other country in the world! In one of the worst hypocritical double-standards in this world, it is supposedly okay for the U.S. to dominate the world with WMD (weapons of mass destruction); but it is supposedly not okay for other sovereign nations to possess them for deterrence as "we" do! And, it is supposedly okay for the United States to preemptively attack those other nations; but it is supposedly not okay for those nations to preemptively attack us! What arrogance and folly that will NEVER be accepted or completely destroyed, that makes "America" and "Americans" much less safe from terrorism, and that will probably make us suffer greater atrocities at home! How many thousands of needless deaths will happen at home and abroad before most Americans stand up against it and put a stop to it, by peaceful means, not by violence; because it certainly appears that most "Americans" will always support and carry out such travesties and injustice?! The U.S. can supposedly bring horrors upon the rest of the world with impunity, but will supposedly not allow similar horrors to be brought upon ourselves, though "we" already have! Bush is now, more heavily than ever before, by any President before him, playing upon the fears of "Americans" to get their support for the "endless war" that Donald Rumsfeld said "America" will now long be involved in! If the United States even threatened to attack North Korea the way "we" have now threatened and conquered Iraq, "we" would bring nuclear holocaust upon "ourselves"! Iraq is believed by the U.S. corporate-military-industrial-government complex to be a nation "we" can get away with attacking and conquering; but there will probably be terrible repercussions for "America" at home, and the deaths of many more Americans, all because of the arrogance of an axis of extremely evil so-called "Americans" who in truth have little, if any, conscience about the deaths of so many innocent people, in the name of their corporate greed, not freedom, and not in truly protecting "America"! They only know how to line their own pockets; and the sacrifice of thousands of innocent lives is acceptable to them in order to do so! How can "we" allow such psychotic people to lead us; and how can we continually allow them to murder so many innocent people in our name(s)?! In order to "....confound the designs of evil men"...., as Bush further stated, he and his cohorts in crime would have to confound themselves and their own evil designs! They would first have to stop themselves from at all continuing to perpetrate their own evil designs at the very-extreme expense of both the U.S. and the world; and they would have to set the example to the world of disarmament and peace, concurrent with the PEACEFUL disarmament of the rest of the world; otherwise, their hypocrisy(ies) only serve to continue to promote and extend greater and greater arming of many of the world's countries, and the promotion and extension of greater and greater threats and realities of violence, death and self-destruction the world-over! The great political scientist, historian and linguist, Noam Chomsky, predicted twenty-years ago that the United States and Israeli governments' war-policies would bring on "Armageddon" (in THE FATEFUL TRIANGLE, The U.S., Israel and the Palestinians [1983]), a prediction that Bush and company, and the corporate-military-industrial-government complex is likely to fulfill if they continue on the path that they are presently headed on! But we True American Patriots must hope, pray and "(b)e the change (we) wish to see in the world" (Mahatma Gandhi)! War for alleged "peace" is an insane lie; but one of Bush's "crowning" lies has to be that "America" fights reluctantly! This, at least in-part, used to be the case until World War II; but ever since then the United States has been involved in one war after another with virtually no, if any, break! And another of Bush's crowning lies, and probably his ultimate one, must be his claim that the U.S. "exercises power without conquest"; when, about a month after that, the U.S. government and military literally conquered Iraq! Bush's lies go on and on and on; and the majority of "Americans" believe them without ANY proof, especially when they are couched in hypocritical religious rhetoric as his speech was ended with! But thank God that a growing number of a great many Americans, and millions of other citizens of the world, are not so gullible, and are not falling for his lies! MS-NBC and several of the other television networks, and most "Americans", believe the President is supposedly every Americans' "Commander-in-Chief"; but the President is ONLY the Commander-in-Chief of THE MILITARY, NOT OF "THE PEOPLE" AS A WHOLE; and we must NOT bow to him! After Bush's speech the "talking-heads" and so-called "pundits" of the networks correctly stated that there were not enough specifics in his speech! But when Gary Locke and the Democrats gave their public response to Bush's speech, they too failed to speak of protecting disabled people as well as senior citizens! No wonder most of "America's" doctors don't like the majority of poor and disabled patients, when Medicare pays so little of skyrocketing health care costs! All in all, "President-by-Coup" Bush's "State of the Union Address" made it abundantly clear that he is a President "of the (rich), by the (rich), for the (rich)", NOT for the majority of impoverished and suffering Americans, and that he doesn't really care about Americans, the Iraqis, OR the other oppressed people(s) of the world! He also made it excessively clear that all he really cares about is making as much profit(s) for the rich as he can, and that he will do virtually ANYTHING to do so! How do "Americans" again and again tolerate U.S. Presidents with war agendas, tolerate so many years of the way(s) U.S. foreign policy is, and tolerate the "gutting and cutting" of social programs, at the expense of so many innocent lives?! What is it going to take, a nuclear attack on U.S. soil, before "Americans" wake up, take their government back, and Truly Make It A Country "of the People, by the People, for the People"?! Require and obtain the Truth from your government, People, or don't believe it, support it or love it, even if it claims to be serving God and carrying out His will!! Don't believe ANY lies or false claims!! You CAN love your country IMMENSELY without loving your government!! Don't bow down to any man, law(s) or government, but only to God, especially if to do so you have to violate God's Higher Law(s): For, "(i)t is written, thus says the Lord...." "....You will worship the Lord your God, and Him ONLY will you serve (or bow down to)"!! [Deuteronomy 6:13 (Matthew 4:10; Luke 4:8). Emphasis added by me.] [Copyright (c) 2003-2004 in the U.S.A. and Internationally by S. Wolf Britain. All rights are reserved.]

2-11-2002 MY RESPONSE TO "PRESIDENT" BUSH'S 1-29-02 "STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS" (Updated on 4-19-04.) By S. Wolf Britain "Only by cutting through the darkness of ignorance and prejudice, can we achieve true justice."(Author Unknown.) [PREFACE TO MAIN BODY OF TEXT: I realize that the "Founding Fathers" were far from faultless themselves, that they were a majority of rich businessmen, that most of them sought to protect the interests of land- and slave- holders when they wrote the Constitution, that one of the things they were primarily concerned about was revolts of the majority of poor people who wanted more personal representation in the new government then they were getting from, or received as a result of, the Constitution, and that most of them did not EVER want to really see True "liberty and justice for all". When I speak of the "True" Founding Fathers, I mean those among them who were more concerned, at least somewhat, with protecting the rights of all of The People than their own monetary interests, and who were against the "big government" that the majority of them wanted to see immediately instituted, but certainly did not want to see rage out of control as it did less than one-hundred years after the Constitution was written, or to the very dangerous and grave extent that it has escalated out of control today! But perhaps, like most "Americans", I give the Founding Fathers more credit than they deserve. I also realize that the United Nations is in Truth an agent of the globalist-imperialist/corporate-elitist monopoly over "freedom", though its ideals, as outlined in its public Charter, are certainly much closer to what the entire world and all people of True Peace should stand for and live up to, with the exception of supporting war under some circumstances, that it was instituted to do the latter's bidding in the guise of humanitarianism, and that behind the scenes the U.N. primarily promotes and assures that the corporate-elitist/globalist imperialist "machine" will continue to be able to exploit the entire world, murder millions of innocent people, rape the land, and destroy the environment at will, in their pursuit of the profit to be had from the natural resources of the whole planet; otherwise the United States government could not get away with flagrantly, and with impunity, as well as immunity from the prosecution in the "World Court" that just about any other country would have to face, with the exception of England in particular, for violating the "international human rights" of sovereign countries all over the world as the U.S. government does! I further realize that the "Royal Family", a very important primary ally of the United States government (a disgusting irony), has for centuries been a major part of the evil global conspiracy; and, as will be brought out later via Dr. Leonard Horowitz's very enlightening writings, is a major moving-force behind the genocidal program to eradicate half of the Earth's population, that is presently being carried out world-wide with the thorough support of the United States government, the global military-industrial complex, and families like the Bush's! In addition, I also realize "democracy" and "civil rights" in the U.S. are almost completely a myth, and have been since the Founding Fathers first instituted them. These so-called rights and freedoms only just appear to exist; and a great big lie has been foisted upon us leading us to believe that they truly exist. But, as they are written, they should exist in total reality; so we should, indeed must, stand up for them and seek to bring about their actual and complete existence in reality. The mental and emotional conditioning we have undergone since we began being indoctrinated by the first people we came into contact with, and all through our schooling, has taught us to "accept the status quo", "don't make waves", "give in", and "you can't fight city hall"; but these are the actual myths; and these are the myths that we must fight and fully break away from. In fact, aside from our need to totally surrender our lives to our Creator, this is the next most important requirement of our entire lives; and as much as we will be persecuted for fighting for our true freedoms and rights by those who are part of that lie, and tempted to give up, we must persevere.] BEGINNING OF MAIN BODY OF TEXT: In his "State of the Union" address on January 29th, 2002 at 7:00 p.m. (M.S.T.), "President" George W. Bush said, "....'Our' cause is just...." in the present, so-called "War Against Terrorism"; but he is a liar, and "our" cause is NOT just! The State of the Union is appalling; as freedom of press and freedom of speech are literally being controlled and curtailed to the point that the mass media has primarily become a propaganda arm of a U.S. government that has run amuck, which is now withholding many very important news items from The People; e.g., information about several anti-war protests that have been, and are, taking place all over "our" country and the world; and not least of all, many thousands of innocent people are now being intentionally slaughtered for United States interests abroad, and have been for over one-hundred years! But now, violations of human rights and freedoms by the U.S. government, both domestically and internationally, by arresting and imprisoning many innocent people, including Americans, without providing them access to due process safeguards or their families, without informing the American people much if any details about why they are incarcerated, other than unproven generalities like they're allegedly being "terror suspects", and are occurring in ways never seen before, or perpetrated with such an extreme disregard for those violations of freedom and human rights! "President" Bush promised that Constitutional rights, the foundation of our democracy, would not be abrogated in any way; but, again, he has lied by allowing several Amendments of the U.S. Constitution to be habitually violated in the name of war and "freedom", thereby seriously threatening our democracy in many untold ways! George W. Bush and his administration are the ones' who are the most extreme threat to our democracy. Many of our government officials, the ones who are truly interested in protecting freedom(s) and democracy, are very concerned about the abrogation(s) of democracy and freedom which the former are presently perpetrating, thus far, with impunity! They are standing up against all of those threats to our freedom(s) and democracy as never before; for they realize that same is leading to a complete curtailment of human and civil rights, by the institution of "Martial Law", in this country. They will not sit idly by and allow it to happen without exercising their democratic DUTY(IES) to prevent same from happening; otherwise, thousands if not millions more innocent Americans will be falsely imprisoned and/or murdered when Martial Law is instituted; and they know that they must do everything in their power(s) to prevent it! It is also the ultimate in hypocrisy for G.W. Bush to go on to say in the above-referenced "State of the Union" address that we, the United States, "....stand(s) for limits on the power of the State", when "our" own terrorist government is out of control and taking away more and more freedoms of Americans and other citizens all over the world! He and "our" government limit the powers of international States; but not "our" own government's powers! Instead, the U.S. government exercises more and more centralized, authoritarian and imperialistic powers, and abuses them to greater and greater extents! In the name of so-called "freedom", true freedom is being taken away in droves; and the United States is acting the part of the dictator to the world, setting True Democracy back in both the United States and the world by over two-hundred years! The Muslim extremists by and large let the U.S. and Americans alone; until, after years and years of abuses of their freedoms at the hands of the United States government, they were provoked beyond the point of tolerating it anymore; and now, though everyone should be against revenge, they are getting the revenge against "America" that the U.S. government has been pushing the Muslim world towards for decade upon decade! They're "mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore"; and "we" continue to provoke them by threatening and attempting to destroy not only their freedoms, but by threatening and destroying their very lives! Did "we" stupidly think they were never going to do anything about our endless provocations?! It is absolutely absurd, and another ultimate hypocrisy, for the United States to expect, and try to force, other countries not to produce and build up biological and chemical weapons, and other weapons of mass-destruction, when the U.S. continues to genetically engineer more and more such lethal weapons, and possesses more of them than any other country(ies) in the world! What is really going on is something that's been going on for thousands of years, the elitists seeking to gain all of the profit, wealth, power, and control! They claim they do, but they don't really care about the poor, the poor countries of the world, or the average "American" citizens, except to exploit them, brainwash them, keep them down, and fool them into supporting the aims of the smallest percentage of the population, the rich! The entire Bush family has been, and continues to be, a huge part of an "axis of evil" for generations, much worse than the patsies and scapegoats G.W. Bush claims are such; and he has further said, "....Let's also ask what benefits the American people"; but he and the other evil power-brokers of this country and world are NOT truly concerned about the "American" people AT ALL! He, and they, are ONLY concerned about the rich, and the people who operate and run the multi-national corporations! Yet most "Americans" are fooled by "President" George W. Bush's lies, and love him for them! A prime example of how little the evil elitists that run this world care about the poor and Americans in general is the fact that the projected cost of the "War Against Terrorism" for the first year alone is thirty (30) BILLION dollars, and Bush is seeking a combined budget of TRILLIONS of dollars when this country is already trillions of dollars in debt, thousands of people are still homeless, and children are dying from hunger and malnutrition in the United States of America! Obviously, this thirty (30) billion dollars ought to be spent on programs to feed and care for the starving multitudes of the U.S. and the world; but, instead, they are to be used to murder innocent men, women, children, and little babies the world over! In addition, the present Bush administration, and its international Allies, say Saddam Hussein, who was an ally of the previous Bush administration prior to the latter turning against him, is "dangerous"; but G.W. Bush himself, as well as his administration, is EXTREMELY dangerous, ESPECIALLY TO TRUE DEMOCRACY!! He and his administration, including the Allies, have already undermined True Democracy in many untold and/or obvious ways, and, as I said before, have set back such democracy by hundreds of years; and the "American people" are going along with it like cattle or sheep to the slaughter!! All true Americans, who don't accept and bow down to this unconscionable situation, speak up with the real Truth against it; and very, very soon, with the direction things are heading, true Americans will be locked up, and/or murdered, in much greater numbers for standing up for that Truth, and against ALL of the tyranny(ies) existent today in the U.S. government! But we must not stand by and allow such tyranny to continue and escalate even more out of control than it already is, even if the consequences include losing even more of our individual, personal freedoms, and/or our very lives! 'Love your country, not your government'! All governments are artificial entities, and by their very nature are corrupt and not to be trusted, particularly the bigger and more out of control they get, as the government of the United States has become; and, as it is spelled out in the Declaration of Independence, it is incumbent upon The People to "abolish" and "throw off" such corrupt government, especially in "America": "....(A)ccordingly all experience (has shown), that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils (such as what is taking place in the U.S. right now) are sufferable, than to right themselves by ABOLISHING the forms of government to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariable the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, IT IS THEIR DUTY, to THROW OFF such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security(!)...." (The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 [Emphasis added by me].) The foregoing is the situation that The People of the United States of America find themselves in at the present time; as "Despotism", in the guise of the person and administration of George W. Bush, is unquestionably seeking "to reduce them under absolute Despotism"; and We, The People MUST "throw (it) off" and "abolish" it before it is forever too late! [Copyright (c) 2002-2004 in the U.S.A. and Internationally by S. Wolf Britain. All rights are reserved.]

CAPITALIST IMPERIALISM (Written on or about 3-11-02; Updated on 4-16-04) By S. Wolf Britain ".... As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it ... watching the beginning of the American industrial system: 'Things are in the saddle and ride mankind(!)' The protection of corporate property is deemed more important than the protection of human life(!) Indeed, the (U.S.) Supreme Court decided in the late nineteenth century that a corporation was 'a person' and so protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, more protected, in fact, than black people, for whom that amendment was originally written ...."! [Note by me: This is the insanity we live under, but much worse today, in the U.S.A.; and what is most insane of all is that most of "us" think it (capitalism, materialism, selfishness, self-centeredness, greed, love of money, and/or love of "things" more than fellow human beings) is wonderful, "normal", and to be greatly sought after and prized! That is the ultimate in absolute insanity, no matter how normal it is thought to be by the insane majority!](Copyright © 1999 by Howard Zinn {1922- }, author, historian, activist, and emeritus professor at Boston University.) When the British monarchy carried out a stranglehold of imperialistic power and control on both its own people and many of the people(s) of the world, including the American colonies, as the U.S. government is committing against its own people and many people(s) of the world today, The People of the colonies justly revolted, revolutionized the colonies, and brought about the existence of the United States of America. So today The People must revolt against the extremely oppressive imperialism of George W. Bush and his cohorts, take their government back, and restore True Freedom! It is no wonder that England and the majority of its corrupt government, including the "royal" family, are presently in support of "President" Bush and the U.S. government's 'reign of terror against terror', retaliation(s) and revenge for terror against the United States and its Allies which their own governments have instigated with their own terror for over half a century; as the British government has been "for" such imperialism for hundreds and hundreds of years. British historians are probably laughing, or ought to be, at the irony of the U.S. government's actions at the present time, an effort to subjugate the "American" people and the so-called "backward" countries of the world to "American" imperialism and domination, just as the British government sought to do with their form of imperialism and world domination! Such an "effort" has largely been successful, because the majority of "The People" are now blindly in support of it and allowing it to happen, and have been allowing it to happen for over a hundred years! Read the true history, by such great author / historian / political scientist / professors as Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, of what big-business interests and the United States government have been guilty of perpetrating by way of their foreign policies and actions just in the twentieth century alone, and you will be amazed at how little of the real Truth you were taught in history classes all through your schooling, at least short of college, if you were so blessed as to have attended a college that had professors like Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, etcetera, and/or others who tell it like it is, and to have understood them, about True History! The slaughtering victors have long been wrongly glorified as heroes, while the very large numbers of innocent victims have always been de-emphasized to the point of being nearly, if not completely, very conveniently and very sadly, forgotten and/or put out of mind; but we must totally stop glorifying the trained professional murderers, and never forget any of the many innocent victims that we know of! The True victims, and True compassion for them and all people, give us conscience; but, if we put the victims out of our minds, we deaden our consciences; and if we make a habit of doing so, as most people do, we will deaden our consciences completely, until we have little if any conscience left at all! This is a great tragedy, and travesty; and you must not allow it to happen to you; or, if it has already happened to you, and you can recognize it and face it, you must attempt to revive and/or reanimate your conscience and face the truth of all of the evil elitist / capitalist / imperialist globalization (rich / corporate / political, global exploitation / conquest / domination), and autocratic / authoritarian / police-State injustice, in the United States and the world, and take a total stand against it! Otherwise, those who passively acquiesce to it indirectly support its many pervasive wrongs, and are ultimately just as responsible and/or accountable for its exceedingly grave harm to all mankind, just as we all will be held accountable and responsible for all wrongs that we go along with and don't take a stand against; for each and every one of us has the Duty to stand up against as much oppression and tyranny as we are able to do within our largest possible sphere of influence! Corporations are NOT people, no matter what the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a hundred or so years ago, and no matter that newer federal case law precedent has not overturned it! Since elitist-corporate interests rule the entire world, it is not surprising that it has not been overturned; as the whole United States government caters to its interests ahead of those of true people! In fact, "our" entire government is run by "men" and "women" who are part and parcel of corporate interests; i.e., "President" G.W. Bush is an oil "magnate/baron" who bought his way into office with his billions! Those who are not part of "the global economy", and/or fully in favor of it, would either not become President of the U.S. in the first place, or would be assassinated soon after entering office! Ninety-five percent (95%) of the real "American people", the so-called "lower classes", who are supposed to run their own government, do not run it AT ALL! All of it is run by "well-to-do" elitists and lawyers who could really care less about the majority of the population; and they live by the lies of their minority! "It is written...." "Thus says the Lord (God)...." "(They) are of (their) father the devil, and the lusts of (their) father (they)... do(!) He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him(!) When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it(!)" "Wherefore put away LYING, speak every man TRUTH with his neighbor: for we are members one of another(!) Be angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil(!)" (Matthew 4:4; Malachi 1:4; John 8:44; and Ephesians 4:25-27.) "And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and LYING wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the TRUTH, that they might be saved(!) And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a LIE: That they all might be damned who believed not the TRUTH, but had pleasure in unrighteousness(!)" (2 Thessalonians 2:8-12.) "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, AND ALL LIARS, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death(!)" "And there shall in no way enter into (heaven) any thing that defiles, neither whatever works abomination, or makes a LIE: but (ONLY) they which are written in the Lamb's Book of Life(!)" "Blessed are they that (obey God's) commandments, that they may have (a) right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in through the gates of the city (of heaven)(!) For (outside of heaven) are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, whoever loves and makes... LIES(!)" (Revelation 21:8; 21:27; and 22:14-15 [The Word(s) of God]; emphasis added by me.) Many of the oppressive monarchs of the old British empire, and/or their spokesmen, spoke out of both sides of their faces, claiming they cared about "the people", while all the while they kept the poor impoverished, and assassinated government officials and citizens who did not go along with their tyranny(ies)! This two-facedness and keeping the poor oppressed is just what the current "President" Bush is perpetrating, while instituting more and more of a police-State that is given greater and greater free-reign to arrest people without Miranda Rights, detain without charges, legal counsel and/or speedy-trial, and to hold same under such tyrannous and shameful conditions indefinitely; and we're being led to believe that such treatment is limited to suspected Middle-Eastern terrorists operating in the U.S.; but very, very soon those same "free-reign" laws will be applied, if they haven't already, to many citizens born in this country who are speaking out against these destructions of True-Democracy! "We" also have government officials today, like Attorney General John Ashcroft, as well as G.W. Bush, and his family and proponents, who are bringing FALSE religion into the "American" government, and thereby undermining separation of church and State, leading to what I and many others have warned, in earlier writings, and continue to warn, will occur as a result, the setting up of a false, so-called "Christian" government in the United States that will not be Truly-Christian AT ALL; for Christianity is ONLY True if it is COMPLETELY Christian, and it is NOT Truly-Christian AT ALL if it carries out ANY hypocritical act(s) such as murder in the name of war, the death penalty, abortion, etcetera; and, if we look all through history, which is often repeated, every single religious government, without exception, was autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, authoritarian, oppressive, and tyrannous, abolished True Freedom(s) and was directly responsible for the deaths of millions upon millions of their people in many ignominious, disgraceful and disgusting ways that words are highly inadequate to do justice for! If We The People of "America" allow the aforesaid subversion(s) of True Democracy and Freedom to continue to happen in the U.S., anymore than they already have, we deserve everything that will befall "us" as a result, which will be absolutely atrocious; and ONLY those who do not support same IN ANY WAY, will be spared the ultimate destruction for it! So each and every one of us has the Responsibility and Duty to stand up against ANYONE and ANYTHING that will help to bring it about, even if it includes standing up against the President of the United States, his entire cabinet, and/or the government as a whole; for this is being a True American; and if we don't actively try to help to save our government, we are NOT True Americans AT ALL! What is "our President", and what are ALL of our legal representatives, supposed to be anyway? They are supposed to be ONLY our REPRESENTATIVES! They are supposed to ONLY represent our highest ideals of freedom and democracy, which were designed and outlined for us by our Creator and our True Founding Fathers, not anything else; and, if they "represent" anything else, such as the sabotage and overthrow of True Democracy and Freedom IN ANY WAY(S), they are "our" representatives in name only, are our enemy(ies), and should and must be removed from office, not be followed or obeyed in any fashion, and must not be allowed to continue to subvert True Freedom and Democracy in any form whatsoever, within and without our borders! As Lord Byron so aptly said, and as I've quoted elsewhere, Tyranny "is the worst of treasons(!)"; and we are now hearing irresponsibly-stated right and left these days that we are supposedly "giving aid and comfort to the enemy", aiding the terrorists, are ourselves enemies of democracy, freedom and our country, the United States government, and supposedly committing treason, if we say anything against our current "leaders", and speak against the oppression being exercised to such a colossally-gross extent at the present time by the current administration! In other words, if WE exercise our rights, duties and freedoms to be True Americans and speak the Truth against THEIR tyrannical treasons, WE are allegedly committing treason; and, if that were so, which it most definitely is NOT, our Founding Fathers were committing treason against the tyranny of England! It is Truly impossible to commit treason against tyranny, or treason against treason; and that false accusation, character assassination and slander is the ultimate antithesis of True Freedom and Democracy, and is a declaration of "war" against those of us who stand for NOTHING BUT True Freedom! We must not, we cannot, sit back and allow this great threat to escalate any further out of control, and bring about the soon-imprisonment of many True Americans; and it is our God-given duty to stand up against it in any and all NON-VIOLENT ways that we can! Violence only gives "our" evil leaders the supposed justification to do what they want, to wipe us out! Remember the many millions of innocent North American Indians, African-Americans, Mexicans, Cubans, Hawaiians, Samoans, Taiwanese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians, Chileans, East Timorese, Guatemalans, Hondurans, Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, Panamanians, Libyans, Iraqis, Sudanese, Serbians, Czechs, Slovakians, Albanians, Yugoslavians, Bosnians, Afghans, Kurds, Colombians, "Americans", and other fellow human beings that were and are being slaughtered by the U.S. government and/or its allies (not necessarily in that order), many of the former of whom were patriotic freedom fighters seeking True Democracy and Independence for their own countries, like we Americans sought for and achieved by the American Revolution! They did not completely die in vain; because, if nothing else, they serve as a huge reminder of the dishonorable, primarily greed-oriented, tyrannical, treasonous, oppressive, excessive, out of control, and murderous nature of the United States government, that it has not gotten better, but is much worse than ever before, that it has already carried out and is capable of the most---and will carry out even worse if we don't stop it from happening---heinous crimes against humanity, that it is much too great a waste of life to try to stand up violently against the U.S. government war machine, and that "we" too would just be heinously slaughtered for doing so! At the very end of the Declaration of Independence it clearly states, "....(W)ith a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor". (Id., July 4, 1776.) It is therefore a matter of sacred Honor that we sacrifice all, including our money, and our lives if need be, to fulfill our duty(ies) to Divine Providence, better known as God, and to our True country, to seek the redress or correction of the grievous violations of our Independence from the tyrannical control being unjustly inflicted upon us at this time by the treasonous United States government, which has usurped or taken away government control from The True People, and must Declare ourselves Independent of same, and ONLY standing for True "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"; for there is no other recourse, and "....(n)either is there (True) salvation in any other (than the Lord Jesus the Christ): for there is no other Name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be (Truly) Saved"! (Acts 4:12.) Wherefore, fully stand up ONLY for True Freedom, and don't be fooled by the murderous intent and actions of the fraudulent U.S. government and its corporate-elitist war machine, seeking imperialist world domination ONLY for the sake of its god, money, with NO True Care for its fellow -men, -women and -children, but ONLY to slaughter anyone and everyone it believes to be standing in its way, all falsely in the names of God, almighty-"America" and almighty-"Americans", liberty, freedom, democracy, justice, and corporate interests; and completely stand up against ALL of this blatant hypocrisy, insufferable "white-collar" criminality, and intolerable INjustice! [Unless otherwise noted, copyright (c) 2002-2004 in the U.S.A. and Internationally by S. Wolf Britain. All rights are reserved.]