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10 Aug 2003 @ 19:22, by Jenese James
Dear American's
I am writing to give you my support and encouragement in the build up to your 2004 elections. Even though this will be your elections and your opportunity to stand together and create regime change in your own land, realize that millions upon millions of us are praying for you to succeed.
We hear you are facing difficult times we are hearing that tax cuts for the obscenely wealthy and the astronomical costs associated with the war machine, that vast insatiable military complex, are robbing you of much needed welfare, health care, and education. Not to mention the jobs that are need in order to survive. Your once proud nation has fallen from grace, and it is only you who can reclaim it from within.
I and many others pray for you to be successful. You need to realize that many millions of us who inhabit the globe in places you may never have heard of, would love to vote in your elections, would love to see a regime change in your country, for your country holds the fate of the worlds future in its hands. Now I hate to say it, but unfortunately your nation has become known as the most arrogant super power the world has ever known. It has the dubious distinction of being voted, the biggest threat to world peace according to global opinion. By dropping more bombs, and by consequence creating more acts of terrorism, what ever laws are created in your absence usually find their way down here. I have never really figured out why that should be, unless we are an unofficial state without voting rights, but then again that's another story…
Our world leaders are much to nice to be honest, in fact for the most part, our various governing leaders, are very much the same, they lie with a smile, kill with impunity and hide their accountability behind titles of office that it seems no one can touch them, they have become impervious to the laws that you and I are forced to be accountable to. I hear however that you now house 2 million people in your jails, so the legal system is working somewhere along the line, could it be the bottom line ?
The choices your government has made in your name affect us all. Most of you know this I am sure, some of you may not want to admit it, and a lot of you are sticking firmly to your guns, in support of Bush….but the facts are screaming at us to take a good look around our world, our lives and our lifestyles. Because to me, to have done what we have done does not bode well for a race that calls itself humane. Something is terribly out of balance here.
Its not just the wars, it's the environmental degradation of our world, our food source, our water, deforestation. It's the way we consume non renewable resources, with an infantile belief in sustainability. It's the rise in pathological disease, which now claims our children at alarming rates, not to mention the rise in live birth deformities, still birth and miscarriages. This will increase with the influx of returning servicemen and women, contaminated by DU. Hell this war is all over a non renewable, unsustainable resource that is running out.
A race that considers itself humane, that talks of love and peace, yet continues to allow WMD and biological agents to be created, which enviably becomes part of the GDP; A race that incarcerates millions of its populations while itself commits acts of terror and treasonable violence and murder whilst violating the rights of its own citizens, well there is no word for it really, it just has to be stopped. All I can say is that actions speak louder than words ever can.
The notion of weapons of mass destruction. Why are we creating such weapons ? Do we hate and fear each other that much?
Your America is reactivating its nuclear weapons program, now what message is that sending to the rest of the world?
When actions speak louder than words, I have to ask myself, is a race that talks of love, yet allows WMD to be created a race that comes from love? Or even a race that comes from its heart? Or even a race that has any idea of what its doing. Have you gone mad over there or what ? WAKE UP !
You and I are responsible for the world we create, and we do create it, as surely as we allow the creation of WMD, the virus's of biological terror, and the means in which to use them. We are responsible even if we deny that its going on, we are responsible even if we are not aware of what is going on, and we are responsible even more so, knowing what is going on ..becasue this is OUR world…..yours and mine...its not just theirs
If a country like yours, America, decides to re active its nuclear weapons program, what can I take from that, what can the rest of the world make of that? Is it an unrealistic mind jump given your administrations preponderance with pre emptive strikes to see a nuclear war over the horizon? They have already doomed many generations of children to come with deformities from DU dust and for many serving in both Afghanistan and Iraq to a lingering 'mystery' illness. Just because its not you dosnt negate the pain and sorrow others will feel.
John Lennon and many others like him sung about the power of the people uniting together in peace and love. I believe that you as a citizen of a country you love are just as concerned as the rest of us, more so as it is in your name and your reputation that is being trashed around the globe. I want you to know that I, and many millions like me stand steadfastly in support of any changes that you make towards ending this abuse by those currently occuping postions of power and inlfuence in your white house.
Anger is a powerful motivator for change, and our world has been angry, powerfully angry enough to gather together globally no less, and march in our millions in an un precedented pre war NO war protest !
I ask you, did we have a collective gut feeling that this war was just an excuse to grab a sovereign nations OIL ?
Did we have a collective hunch that both the UK and the USA leaders LIED to us about WMD. That this lie, was a fabricated burecratic choice to conceal the oily rich and strategic land of Iraq. And that they have done nothing BUT lie to us and continue the lies even now?
Incidentally the initials UK - USA were said to be United to Kill Us All …by a 60 year old Iraqi man interviewed on Demorcracynow.org in the first days of what was legally an illegal invasion. Basically what this thread poses, is did we intuitively know all along they were lying, and do we inherently know now, in our deepest gut, our heart of hearts that if these PANAC visionists remain in power, they may just take our entire world into a nuclear Armageddon?
You have an incredible responsibility to the rest of the world to right the wrongs done in your names and we for our part, we will continue to stand with you in our perspective countries and do the same as we all did together on Feb 15th when we stood united in our millions, united in our vision for peace. Many more of us, will endeavor to stand up to our governments and get more involved with the day to day running of our country. Never again will we allow such abuse of power to erode, our power and voice as a people.
Our leaders, especially Bush Sharon and Blair, are showing us something. They are showing us a world that could be our future. This isn't the future I want for my yet to be born grandchild, or any child for that matter
I also know that before any change can occur one must first see the need for that change. I believe I am not alone in feeling that that time is now and there has been such a prolonged and consistent abuse of power in your country that a powerful force has taken over, that we will need the energy and support of everyone of you to stand against them and say no more.
Healing doesn't happen in isolation, it occurs when we heal the things that affect our health and the way the world is at the moment just about everything we take for granted in order to live our lifestyles is becoming a threat to our health
It is not my intention to list every thing that makes me angry about what your government is doing in your name, but I cannot conclude this letter if I did not mention the event that polarized and in many cases united us all.
September 11th was a moment in time that changed our world, it was for you a wake up call to what your government has been doing in your name, and the consequence of those actions. Was it really a terrorist action or was it a government plot, which would validate a long standing conspiracy theory? Since the white house has consistently blocked any type of open public enquiry, the answer will probably be left to our gut feelings. Languishing, still under debate at the turn of the next century, if we are lucky enough to have one.
Whatever it was, it shocked the world, the scope and magnitude of it witnessed ad nausem on TV screens around the world. I have to confess, that I and many who may not like to be so open, initially thought, yes, payback time. I mention initially, because when I witnessed people jumping out of windows my heart cried. This act of terrorism either state sponsored or otherwise, changed our world. And in the way that only human suffering and tragedy can do, it bought us together, it briefly united us.
Many of you asked why do they hate us, you honestly had no idea, what was being done around the world in your name, in other countries, to other peoples lives. Some of you knew that your government has been terrorizing many poorer nations, in your name, and have been diligently trying to bring these facts to your consciousness so that you also may know and help end them. Yet for the most part these people have been labeled conspiracy theorists…..however over the past 20 years most of the conspiracy theories I have heard have today become fact. Fact, according to my mini Collins dictionary, means undeniable yet, often unpleasant TRUTH. !
Thus September 11th set the stage for what has since played out. But most importantly what it has done has enabled billions of us to see the need for change. It has enabled us in our anger, shock and horror, to connect with isolated groups around the entire world to link up with a united cause in a united voice. Out of this has come movements for social change, a unity of people from all faiths, all races. A global movement that shows only signs of expanding.
Our worlds future is in our hands, if we leave it and do nothing, then we are basically not taking responsibility for our world. I am tired of watching small groups of people struggling to make the rest of us aware of what is happening to our food; GE, to our children; Cancers, to our education; (induction) our water; Polluted, and our earth;(degraded) and our military complex; (out of control) These people are dotted around the world in small groups all working towards making changes that would benefit all of us. They are often un supported, definitely under reported, trivialized, terrorized and imprisoned, with reputations and credibility defamed. All while warning of us of what lies ahead if we don't make some changes…..red pill anyone? I often marvel at the fact that football stadiums, or in your case basketball statdiums can be full with as much as 35, 000 people who often come from all over the country, and spend vast amounts to get there. Imagine if these same people cared enough about the things that truly affect our world and by consequence our lives, imagine if they came and stood up for GE, for clean water, imgine if they all voted for regime change.
Every event has a choice attached to it, and 9/11 was no different. The US government could have taken the opportunity to make amends for its murderous foreign polices. It could have been 'man' enough to stand up and say that certain actions in the past, have resulted in this tragedy. They could have began dialogue to ensure that this could never happen again. For all their intelligence and past covert history, should have told them that terrorism does not arise in isolation.
The entire world will await your 2004 elections with bated breath, we will all be rooting for you to create regime change in your own land, for until these men are removed from power and true justice is restored in your courts and senates, there will not be peace, rather there will be as your president has already said, endless war. And who I ask you wants to live in a world in perpetual war ? except those who stand to make a profit out of it….and we are all beginning to discover who these men are. Personally we deserve better than this. Our children who we claim to love so much deserve a world that has freedom and the right of expression, a world with clean food, and natural medicine. Our children deserve to have a world of peace not endless war. So in gods name, for gods sake VOTE if not for yourself, then for your children. And if not for them, then could you please caste a vote for me in your name?
Actually we should be able to vote in your elections since most of my country is owned by American corporate interests anyway, not to mention all the American shoot em up and kill em cop shows, along with all the video stores filled to the brim with movies of the bloodywood genre….our culture has become Americanized…but then that's another story.
Best of luck
Jenese@xtra.co.nz
New Zealand
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alley, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears no traitor he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city. He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist."
(Marcus Tullius Cicero) 7, 43 BC
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13 comments
11 Aug 2003 @ 00:34 by : Good Advice
I treasure your concern, Jenese, and hope you will not mind if I share your comments with a number of Yanks to whom I write. OK? (I won't broadcast your email addy though.)
11 Aug 2003 @ 00:59 by waalstraat : Amen!
Glad to hear your voice of caring, about the dream of a better world, again...
Blessings-my pal
11 Aug 2003 @ 06:01 by spiritseek : Great article...
Glad to see your back here in NCN posting. This is an amazing letter you wrote and very inspiring. Peace sister, Marie
11 Aug 2003 @ 15:00 by sharie : Everyone I know wants Bush out...
They didn't want him in in the first place.
There's overwhelming evidence that the election was stolen. Now many people are working to make sure that can't happen again. He is a sick and twisted human being.
Thanks for sharing your concerns so eloquently.
12 Aug 2003 @ 05:09 by : Thanks
for the email, Jenese...and permission to send it out. Here goes!
12 Aug 2003 @ 06:16 by morelove : I'll be sending a few friends a copy as
well, if you don't mind:-) Well said!
Your letter brings to mind a query about a 'world voting system', and that all peoples of earth have the right to have their voice heard when political decisions arise that affect us a global community. Has there been much discussion towards this aim? or am I too hopeful for a world where we can trust government to respond with honest intent when dictated by the greater populace, you can't convince me that this world has neither the technology nor the resources to make this concept a reality.... aroha, Denise
19 Aug 2003 @ 20:27 by : share it round
thankyou all for your supportive comments, actually i posted this letter on information clearing house web site and received over 250 replies only 2 where negative....my 2 mins of fame lol....in my deepest heart i trust the inherent love within humanity as a whole....but despise those who see no value in human life like the leaders of most governments....feel free to share this letter with as many as possible.....thank you all
20 Aug 2003 @ 01:36 by : A Rejected Letter
In a way, one of the replies I got to unity1's letter was this one. Nellie is a friend of mine here in Athens. I've not met her sister Martha, whose letter to the Monterey Herald apparently was rejected because of length. Nellie has encouraged me to distribute this email as widely as possible. She too shares concerns about the "Patriot Act" and how suddenly its effects can descend upon anyone, or loved ones. If you want to respond to this, I'll see that they get your replies.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "nellie and Art Werger"
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 8:11 AM
Subject: [Fwd: Letter to the editor]
> Dear Friends,
> I do not usually forward anything, but this is from my sister, about my
> brother-in-law. Suddenly, to me, this is all very real.
>
> Nellie
>
> They won't print it - it's too long. I needed to write it anyway.
>
> XXXX!
>
> Martha
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martha V Diehl
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 5:28 PM
> To: Monterey Herald
> Subject: Letter to the editor
>
> Dear Monterey County Herald,
>
> I write to you today to share an incident that I find extremely disturbing.
> I just learned about it from my father this morning.
> My brother-in-law, a resident of La Jolla, recently took my father on a
> fishing trip to Baja California to celebrate my father's apparently
> successful treatment for prostate cancer. They had a wonderful time, caught
> many fish and enjoyed themselves enormously. On their return to San Diego,
> the rest of their party passed through immigration without incident. My
> brother-in-law was arrested and removed in handcuffs in front of his
> friends, his father-in-law, his wife and his 4-year-old daughter.
>
> Apparently Charles was guilty of a felony when he was in his teens. Let me
> stress that: he was a minor. I do not know the particulars, except that he
> was in possession of and programming a stolen computer for some reason. None
> of us deny this was a serious matter, nor do we defend it. However, as I
> say, he was arrested at the time, found guilty, and served his complete
> sentence of community service as he was directed to do.
>
> This incident occurred in the '70's, and should clearly have been a closed
> book for a number of reasons. However, after he had spent a night in the San
> Diego jail (during which time his family - and his attorney - tried
> persistently and in vain to contact him and to learn what was going on), it
> became apparent that some sort of recent clerical error had resulted in the
> recordation an erroneous open warrant for his arrest on the previous
> charges. He was entirely unaware of this - and in fact, would have been
> extremely easy to find if indeed anyone had wanted to do so, as he is
> property owner and businessperson, with a valid U.S. passport, who has
> regularly traveled outside the country on business for many years. He is now
> out on bail, and engaged in a legal quest to find someone in Ventura, his
> home jurisdiction, who can tell him what he needs to do to fix the problem.
> So far no one there knows anything about it.
>
> So, here are my concerns. First, how can such a record - a conviction of a
> minor for which the sentence was fully served - be reopened? Second, if it
> can, how does it promote anyone's security? Third, if it IS absolutely
> necessary, why does it need to be secret? Fourth, if it does need to be done
> in secret, who is paying for it? Clearly not the federal government, and I
> seriously doubt that anyone is going to offer to assist the local
> governments in recovering the costs either monetarily or even more
> importantly in resources for dealing with something that is so obviously
> non-essential. And finally, if this is Charles' experience, as a
> well-educated and fairly solvent citizen, how can innocent people who are
> less well supported possibly manage to extricate themselves form such a
> situation? If he hadn't had an empowered family and an excellent attorney,
> he might still be in prison.
>
> I have long held deep concerns about the Patriot Act in particular and about
> the current administration's lack of transparency in government in general.
> However, as always, the personal hits home hardest. I am writing because I
> need for everyone to do their utmost to stop these abuses of our democratic
> system NOW. I have written to my congressional representatives: these sorts
> of efforts do not make us safer, either individually or collectively, and we
> can afford neither their fiscal nor their societal impacts. I write to you
> to ask that everyone give this matter their very best and most serious
> immediate attention. We must repeal the USA Patriot act immediately. Indeed,
> I truly believe that it poses an immediate and dire threat to our way of
> life.
> Law-abiding citizens should not have to be afraid of our own government.
> That is the point of a democratic system. Right now I am more afraid of my
> own government than I am of anything else. This is simply not right, and
> must be stopped immediately.
>
> Martha Diehl
> Garrapata Trout Farm
> 35811 Hwy 1
> Monterey, CA 93940
>
> 831-625-9621 (voice)
> 831-625-1468 (fax)
7 Jun 2006 @ 22:04 by : Yes...
However, you may not be aware that there are many here in America; there are three distinct entities called, by a variety of spellings, the united states). I shant go into why the different spellings are used but the chicanery called the UNITED STATES is a 'for profit' Corporation with jurisdiction (oath speaking) only over Washington D.C. and its' alotted, via the original, organic, Constitution 'for' the people not 'of' the people) territories...
The fraud that has been engeandered against the people of this land was instantiated almost from the get go. In order to understand what the UNITED STATES is as opposed to the united States and United States of America you must study, deeply, the fraud.
The great mistake inherent within the so called 'Constitution' made by those privy to its' making was turning over to Congress the Money Making Power. The real solution to all mankinds woes today is taking back the Money Making Power from Governments everywhere and instantiating a real Private Enterprise System...
Here is a link to get you deeper:
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12 Jun 2006 @ 17:14 by : Sheise!
August of 2003! Duh! Well, better late than never I suppose. So... you don't like the totalitarian state and the way it operates, eh?
Sovereignty is a key and a curse...
Good luck if you are sincere in your endeavors to reach the unreachable and dumbed down 'masses.'
Ah, isn't 'mass' education just dandy? The wonderful tyranny of 'demo-cracy.' Not the same as ''freedom'' I'm afraid. Mobocracy in a nutshell. TaTa
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." -- James Madison (Letter to W.T. Barry, August 4, 1822)
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How the Republic was corrupted
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12 Feb 2009 @ 15:58 by : On and on...
Gaza's Holocaust
By Uri Avnery
1-4-9
Just after midnight, Aljazeera's Arabic channel was reporting on events in Gaza. Suddenly the camera was pointing upwards towards the dark sky. The screen was pitch black. Nothing could be seen, but there was a sound to be heard: the noise of airplanes, a frightening, a terrifying droning.
It was impossible not to think about the tens of thousands of Gazan children who were hearing that sound at that moment, cringing with fright, paralyzed by fear, waiting for the bombs to fall.
"Israel must defend itself against the rockets that are terrorizing our Southern towns," the Israeli spokesmen explained. "Palestinians must respond to the killing of their fighters inside the Gaza Strip," the Hamas spokesmen declared.
As a matter of fact, the cease-fire did not collapse, because there was no real cease-fire to start with. The main requirement for any cease-fire in the Gaza Strip must be the opening of the border crossings. There can be no life in Gaza without a steady flow of supplies. But the crossings were not opened, except for a few hours now and again. The blockade on land, on sea and in the air against a million and a half human beings is an act of war, as much as any dropping of bombs or launching of rockets. It paralyzes life in the Gaza Strip: eliminating most sources of employment, pushing hundreds of thousands to the brink of starvation, stopping most hospitals from functioning, disrupting the supply of electricity and water.
Those who decided to close the crossings under whatever pretext knew that there is no real cease-fire under these conditions.
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22 Jun 2009 @ 07:53 by : For hundreds of years ..
For hundreds of years - thousands even - man has been living in fear for the personal self and national existence... and this will continue and become even more intensified untill man realises that the way to personal and national security - the way to harmony and health - is through attaining some measure of spiritual consciousness.
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