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august953 -> RE: 911: the Road to Tyranny (1/19/2005 10:20:00 AM)
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Hi to you Samizdat,
& may I begin with condolence & offer a thought that may be of little comfort to you, that your loss is everyone's loss. There are no statues nor enough parks to put them in, to celebrate the lives of the ordinary people, just getting on with their lives. Atrocities often take more than a generation to settle, but tyranny's perennial goof is forgetting the ordinary people, be it the firefighter or the guy selling papers, the park keeper, the woman walking the dog, all brutalised, yet all united in the face of such horror. Above all this is a shadow, the shadow that this will happen again...
"That evil may prosper, it is necessary only that good men do nothing"
-Edmund Burke
his statue stands outside Trinity College Dublin, alongside Goldsmith.....
strange bedfellows indeed.... but though Ireland is a good microcosm of adversity, there is a bigger picture. The twist is that the bigger picture is about pictures great & small, & what John Berger called 'Ways Of Seeing'.....
Rewind the tape back to childhood & schooldays. Remember the playground bully?
Remember how that persona defined reality? Recall the terror? 9/11 came from that.
Transferred to my own backyard version of history, there are still many Irish who think the world should run on potatoes. I don't use this analogy lightly; that I'm alive now is as much luck as judgement. Some ate & lived; others did not fare so fortunately. That was a matter of chance, chance & nothing else. There are no heroes greater than need. My Jewish friends tell me how respected elders in Warsaw used their position to abuse schoolgirls, although irony of ironies, the same abusers met the same fate as those whose misfortune they sought to benefit from. The Irish equivalent is Fr. Reilly who grabbed your ass; again it was just chance that I was born tall enough to put Fr. Reilly thru the window. But this is all the playground bully business, all of it.
The collapse of the Ottoman Empire goes back a ways, though not far enough. There will still & always be some clever dick sitting in a cave somewhere, ready & willing to receive 'instructions from god' as to the next Big Excuse. The only thing that stops me from declaring myself the next prophet, or even allah himself/itself is that the entrenched interests have more guns than I have, & seeing as I have none, I better shut up. But I will speak truth to tyranny....
"That evil may prosper, it is necessary only that good men do nothing"....
Islam is like any other religion; a pile of crap. The prophet did nothing for the drowned in Indonesia. Never mind the koran; they'd have done better to read The 3 Little Pigs i.e. how to build a house. Meanwhile we are all expected to dish up vast loads of loot to pack the Swiss bank accounts of the local corrupt officials. Really?
What did floods do before t.v.? You might well ask....
So why is the United States the perceived enemy? In the recent sense it goes no further than perceived interests. The overthrow of Mossadeq in 1953, which installed the Shah, which lead to Ayatollah Cockamamie, & so on..... Similar to the Red Army supressing the Berlin uprising that same year, the very day I was born as happens, which lead to Ulbricht & so on.... then along comes The Beatles......
Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex. Gorbachev sought to disengage it. Robert Kennedy intended to end the Cold War. 2 out of 3 ain't bad......
The playground bully is the historical persona all must beware of, for that is psychopathy personified. Islam is the most horribly perfected version thus far. If the leaders are seen to be un-Islamic, they are no longer Islamic & so are legitimate targets. If the people are seen to be un-Islamic, then they too are legitimate targets.
Islam is a kind of pre-historic Maoism; it's ultimate quest is to render itself surplus to requirement..... after all; if everyone's dead, who needs to shoot anyone.
It is subjective logic taken to the most ludicrous extremes. Madness. Psychosis.
But this does'nt answer the question: why is the U.S. the perceived enemy?
It's the innocence. The whole culture of the United States sails on the notion
"well it sounds impossible, but what the heck; lets give it a try"
that is what the fundies despise; innocence.... the 'why not?' soul
this is anathema to all Islam is about, the very concept of choice.
Yet America too must beware..... fundies in the works.... bad gig.....v. bad gig!
Take a look at 'The Manufacture Of Consent' by Noam Chomsky
read anything by Kurt Vonnegut & John Steinbeck
both demonised by the christian right
& be under no illusions; they are as bad as any variety of Islam.
See 'Brazil', a film by Terry Gilliam, an American based in England
as an example of how wrong it can go......
read anything by Richard Feynman (apart from the physics, which is impossible)
he came out with the best line of all,
in his appendix to the Challenger Inquirey
Nature Will Not Be Fooled
It reads so simply yet contains so much wisdom. I'm pretty sure Tom Butler knew that though he had no thought for anything but doing good for people. It's no comfort I know, but never forget how fortunate you are to have known such a man.
Aus
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ORIGINAL: Samizdat
I am a 9/11 activist/researcher, one of whose main weapons is Alex Jones' excellent film "911: the Road to Tyranny" archived at
http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?id=6061 .
View and discuss.
Fallen Firefighter of the Day, FF. Thomas Butler, Squad 1, FDNY, made the Supreme Sacrifice on 9/11/01. Memorial Service was held on August 17, 2002
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