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 15 Aug 2004 @ 12:31
I'm fully aware that very few people here give a damn about any of this, if the lack of discussion is any indication. People here on NCN would for the most part rather talk their gossip and their trivial nonsense, without the slightest shred of intention to do anything about the world, or to be truly serious in any way.
Rishi and I are fully disgusted with the lack of caringness shown here, and the "light talk" that goes on as though there's nothing better to discuss. You'd think that the state of the world was irrelevant compared to emotionally reassuring one another, and seeing how "clever" our quaint little news logs can be. Well guess what...most of you are not so clever, and you definitely have no concept of social or spiritual responsibility.
We're not saying that this state of affairs at NCN is at all unusual. It isn't...it's the same in almost every forum we know of. However, the whole stated purpose of NCN is more progressive and caring than what is reflected in the nonsense that gets talked about here every day, and toward no particular end.
Perhaps this and other articles will wake you up a little...
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US onslaught on Najaf triggers protests and fighting across Iraq
By Peter Symonds
14 August 2004
A tense standoff in the Iraqi city of Najaf is underway between hundreds of poorly-armed supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and several thousand US troops backed by tanks, attack helicopters and warplanes. The US military has consolidated its cordon around Najaf’s old town centre and the Imam Ali mosque—regarded by Shiites as one of the sect’s most sacred shrines—and is preventing not only armed militants, but also food and other essential supplies from entering the area.
After more than a week of savage fighting, in which hundreds of civilians and militiamen have been killed and injured, the US-installed Iraqi interim regime was negotiating on Friday to convince al-Sadr and his Madhi Army to quit the area. Interior Minister Fallah al-Naqib declared yesterday that the cleric “will not be touched if he leaves the shrine peacefully” but insisted that the military would continue to go after the “criminal elements” in his movement.
Al-Naqib’s comments mark an abrupt change of tone from Tuesday, when Prime Minister Ayad Allawi insisted that he would “teach these criminal outlaws the lesson they deserve... Your government has decided to hit back with an iron fist [against] all these desperate criminals that are attempting to hinder the bright future of the people of Iraq.”
There is no doubt that the real criminals—the US and its Iraqi collaborators—are poised to use their vastly superior military means to finish off the Madhi Army in a massacre. What has forced a temporary pause in the fighting is concern, in Baghdad and Washington, over the political backlash such a bloodbath would cause.
Outrage over the US actions in Najaf has led to a series of public protests as well as open armed conflict in other cities in the predominantly Shiite south of Iraq. Even the loyal defenders of the US occupation have been compelled to acknowledge the extent of public hostility. Saad Jawal, a spokesman for the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), declared yesterday: “The people feel anger. They feel the [Shiite community] has been attacked by American forces.”
On Thursday, about 5,000 protesters took to the streets of the southern city of Basra, demanding the withdrawal of US forces from Najaf and condemning Allawi for working for the US. A Madhi Army commander Sheikh Saad al-Basri warned: “If peaceful demonstrations do not work we will take the path of jihad in defence of our country.”
Protester Hasan Ali Abdul-Wahid told the media: “We condemn the criminal acts done by the occupation forces and the Najaf police against our people in Najaf.” Abed Jassim angrily denounced the prime minister declaring: “Allawi and the governor of Najaf are responsible for this massacre. They provided protection for the Americans to kill the Shiites.”
Basra’s deputy governor Salam Uda al-Maliki condemned the Allawi regime for allowing the US military onslaught in Najaf and called for the formation of a breakaway government in the south. He was joined by al-Sadr’s representative in Nassiriya, Aws al-Khafaji who denounced “the crimes against Iraqis committed by an illegal and unelected government, and occupation forces.” He said: “We have had enough of Baghdad’s brutality. The authorities in Nassiriya will no longer cooperate with Baghdad.”
Protests took place in towns across Iraq on Friday. In Diwaniya, thousands of demonstrators attacked the offices of Prime Minister Allawi’s Iraqi National Accord. At a protest in central Baghdad, a spokesman for al-Sadr urged the thousands of participants to march to Najaf, 160 kilometres to the south, to show their support for the rebel fighters. Another thousand marchers set out from Karbala for Najaf. Al-Sadr representative Sheikh Abdulrazaq al-Nadawi told the media: “We’re going to Najaf to break the siege on our brothers.”
After Friday prayers in Kufa, about 2,000 people marched to Najaf, just 10 kilometres away, pushing through the US and Madhi Army frontlines to reach the Imam Ali shrine. They chanted: “All of us are soldiers of Moqtada Sadr. With our blood and soul, we serve you Ali.”
Demonstrations were not confined to Shiite areas. In Fallujah, the largely Sunni centre of anti-US resistance, around 3,000 protesters marched in the town centre, shouting “Long live Sadr. Fallujah stands by Najaf against America.” They carried pictures of al-Sadr and denounced the US attack on Najaf. In the Sunni town of Samarra, about 100 kilometres north of Baghdad, some 700 demonstrators chanting “Long live al-Sadr!” demanded that US troops leave Najaf.
Angry protests erupted elsewhere in the Middle East yesterday. Thousands marched through the Iranian capital of Tehran carrying banners declaring “Death to the occupiers” and “American democracy = massacre of innocent people”. Demonstrations also took place in other Iranian cities including Qom, Mashad and Isfahan. In the conservative Gulf state of Bahrain, 2,500 protesters marched along a major highway shouting anti-US and anti-Israeli slogans. Protests also took place in Lebanon.
Fighting spreads
Fighting has also erupted in other southern cities. According to Defence Minister Hazem Shaalan, 400 al-Sadr supporters were killed, injured or taken prisoner in fighting in Kut this week. US Special Forces, as well as Iraqi national guardsmen, were rushed to the town on Wednesday after the Madhi Army took over positions in the city. That night US and Iraqi troops, backed by an AC-130 gunship, conducted a series of raids on suspected resistance strongholds. The following night the US carried out a two-hour bombing raid against an alleged al-Sadr militia base.
Clashes with US and Iraqi government troops have also taken place in Amara, Diwaniya and Shia districts in Baghdad, including Sadr City, Shula and parts of the capital’s downtown area. In the city of Hilla, a group of 20 Polish soldiers were surrounded at a police station by several hundred militants loyal to Sadr. According to the Christian Science Monitor, hundreds of militants have been detained by Iraqi police while attempting to join al-Sadr’s fighters in Najaf.
At this stage, there are conflicting reports about the negotiations in Najaf. According to one of al-Sadr’s spokesmen, Sheik Ali Smeisim, the cleric may be prepared to withdraw his fighters from the city if the US does likewise and places the Imam Ali Mosque under the control of religious authorities. Smeisim is also reported as saying that al-Sadr wanted to take part in the country’s “political process”.
However, in a sermon read on his behalf at the Kufa mosque on Friday, al-Sadr defiantly declared that the United States was intent on occupying the whole world. “The presence of [the] occupation in Iraq has made our country an unbearable hell, ” he stated, calling on all Iraqis to rebel “because I will not allow another Saddam-like government again.”
Whatever the outcome of negotiations, it is clear that Washington intends to make an example of al-Sadr, in order to terrorise the Iraqi people as a whole. If the cleric fails to agree to anything less than abject surrender, the US military is preparing to carry out a bloody massacre.
In a chilling statement yesterday, US Secretary of State Colin Powell declared: “Our forces in Najaf are squeezing the city, frankly, to help stabilise the situation and deal with [the] Mahdi army... The violence is being perpetrated by outlaws and by former regime elements and by terrorists who respect no truce, who respect nothing except force.”
The US military is using the temporary break in fighting to tighten its grip around the Iman Ali shrine and to destroy any other pockets of resistance in the city in what a senior military spokesman described as “clearing” operations. On Thursday night, US troops stormed a complex of buildings alleged to be a base for al-Sadr supporters.
The New York Times described the attack: “Backed by American warplanes that pounded the area and unleashed a huge plume of black smoke, a Marine strike force battled through to a house used by Mr Sadr, which the Americans said had been abandoned before the attack, and to a school and a hospital taken by the militiamen. About 50 rebels were inside, said Major David Holahan, second-in-command of the Marine unit involved, and nearly all were killed.”
The situation in Najaf makes a mockery of US claims that its Iraqi “national conference”, due to begin on Sunday, represents a step towards democracy. Those who take part in this stage-managed charade, while American military forces are preparing to annihilate al Sadr and his followers, will be rightly regarded with contempt and revulsion by the vast majority of Iraqis who oppose Washington’s seizure of their country.
Regardless of the immediate outcome of the confrontation in Najaf, the criminal actions of the US and its lackeys will only intensify the resistance to the American occupation and plunder of Iraq.
See Also:
US atrocity in Najaf
[13 August 2004]
US commanders stop troops from protecting Iraqi torture victims
[12 August 2004]
US assault kills hundreds of Iraqis in Najaf
[9 August 2004]
Survey claims 37,000 Iraqi civilians killed in first seven months of war
[5 August 2004] More >
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 10 Aug 2004 @ 19:59
Found the following on the net, complete with commentary.......
This recent article on the ReichLand Security for kids, has the seed elements of Orwellian prophecy. As if there weren't enough incentive for parents to get their children out of the public schools, here's an added motive. Now they're teaching children this fascist filth as part of their mandatory school experience. No doubt there is plenty of politically correct slogans and messages intertwined with this project,
reminiscent of Nazi Youth training in 1940s' Germany.
It's not hard to predict that the next step of this child-brainwashing program will be to, "report your peers or even parents to the authorities" in the case of "suspicious behavior", such as in Orwells' "1984". Just picture your children surrounded by images of "patriotism" such as the communist scare scenarios of the 1950's except 5 times more intense, and you can begin to understand the intentions behind these government actions.
Of course, the first purpose of this move is to get a strong message to adults THROUGH THEIR CHILDREN, to the effect of "you'd better be afraid, and in the politically correct manner", because if your kids can do it, then it ought to be easy for an adult. Never mind that the biggest terrorists of all are those running "Homeland Security" and the current US government in general. Just wave your flags alongside your brainwashed children, get in line and don't ask any questions.
The article admits that this is an effort to "create a movement", (saturated in fascism and fear mongering world supremacy). If you think this is mild, just wait, the worst is yet to come by far.
What you see below is just the writing on the wall. This "movement" includes the issuing of ID cards to those who are politically correct through employers. The Plan is no doubt to ultimately require such ID cards to purchase basic necessities and to gain qualification for government assistence of all kinds. It is also designed to exclude such persons as protestors and other "political dissidents" who, because they disagree with government policy, are to be watched carefully as potential "terrorists".
Those parents who are not entirely stupid as well as naive, will want to pull their children OUT of public schools NOW. Ask yourself; "Do I really want my children to be trained like this as little military robots, or future CIA operatives on behalf of big business?"
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Ad campaign urges employers, families to plan for emergency
Mon Aug 9, 7:01 AM ET
By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY
The Homeland Security Department is enlisting allies in its effort to prepare the nation for another terrorist attack: your kids and your boss.
Starting next month, children in grades 4 though 8 and employers nationwide will be asked to help get families and companies better prepared to respond to a crisis.
In schools, on the Internet and in TV and radio ads, youngsters will be introduced to a new Homeland Security mascot: a dog (an American shepherd) that will be named in a contest. The campaign, using the dog and a set of Ad Council advertisements, will encourage families to develop an emergency plan and talk about where kids should go, who will pick them up and how they will make contact.
For the past year, the Homeland Security Department and groups such as the American Red Cross (news - web sites) have encouraged families to make plans and put together emergency kits.
The kits should include food and water, flashlights, battery-powered radios and anything else needed to get by for up to three days if the power is out, communications are down and it's impossible to leave home.
Officials have promoted these preparations as crucial not just for a terrorist attack but also for hurricanes, earthquakes and other disasters. Polls show four in 10 Americans have followed the advice.
Officials hope to improve those numbers. Among the organizations spreading the word: the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, Salvation Army and U.S. Chamber of Commerce (news - web sites).
"It takes a long time to create a movement," says Susan Neely, who's in charge of the programs at Homeland Security. "Seat belts took 20 years."
Just as children learned to bug their parents to quit smoking and wear seat belts, Homeland Security officials hope grade-school kids will prompt moms and dads to put together emergency plans.
In one radio advertisement, for example, a child asks his mother what to do and where to go if the electricity goes out and telephones don't work.
Employers will be encouraged to develop continuity plans so that they can keep operating through a crisis. They also will be encouraged to give their workers wallet cards with company information and to clearly mark exit routes.
Steven Brill of the non-profit America Prepared Campaign says businesses must do more to prepare for emergencies. "Some are doing a good job, but some aren't." More >
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WSWS : News & Analysis : North America
New York Times offers Bush friendly advice on terror alerts
By David Walsh
7 August 2004
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The editorial response of the New York Times to the police-state measures imposed this week in New York City, Washington and Newark (“The Terror Alerts,” published in the August 5 edition of the Times) is thoroughly dishonest and disingenuous. The Times remains silent on the repressive and sinister character of the actions taken by the authorities, accepts as good coin the Bush administration’s lurid claims of an impending attack, and offers fraternal advice as to how the domestic “war on terror” might be more adroitly conducted.
It is necessary to place the appearance of this editorial within the context of the events unfolding in New York City this past week. Hundreds of “black-clad police armed with assault rifles,” as one press account had it, took up positions in and around key financial institutions in downtown and midtown Manhattan. At police checkpoints, trucks and private vehicles were stopped and searched in random fashion. Truck traffic was banned from certain bridges and tunnels leading into Manhattan.
Police closed off streets surrounding Grand Central Terminal. Armed police were posted on street corners and dispatched to subway stations, trains and buses, randomly demanding identity proofs and going through people’s belongings.
Similar measures were taken in Washington, DC and Newark. Overnight, portions of these major US cities were put under something approaching martial law.
All of this was carried out, according to Homeland Security officials, on the basis of alleged surveillance of buildings by Al Qaeda operatives several years ago. They have admitted to having no serious evidence that the surveillance was pursued or that any attacks were actually planned. Given that the government admits to being entirely in the dark as to the terrorists’ supposed time-table, the measures could remain in effect indefinitely.
Broad layers of the population are skeptical about the government’s claims and angry over the militarization of their cities. They instinctively suspect that political calculations, in the first place, an attempt to influence the presidential election, play a central role in the Bush administration’s actions. They have not forgotten that the clique around Bush lied about the supposed terrorist threat from Iraq to justify an unprovoked war that has already cost nearly 1,000 American lives, tens of thousands of Iraqi lives, and some $200 billion.
This sentiment is not shared by the New York Times. The editors of this leading newspaper, whose elementary responsibility is to treat all government claims critically and uphold the interests of the people by keeping them properly informed, are more than willing to accept as gospel truth the most lurid and unsubstantiated claims of Bush and company.
The newspaper’s August 5 commentary begins with an expression of sympathy for the current resident of the White House: “Our lives have changed so much since Sept. 11, 2001. ... It’s been a tough adjustment for everyone, and the burden on President Bush is especially heavy.” How touching!
The newspaper continues in the same vein: “Given the unprecedented circumstances and the costs of making a mistake, it’s easy to understand why the administration has had so much trouble managing the way it informs the public about potential danger.”
These passages establish the central premise of the editorial: i.e., that the Bush administration is acting in good faith to protect the American people from a terrorist threat, but that it has—perhaps inevitably—taken certain missteps.
“The administration,” the editors assert, “was obviously right to warn the country that Al Qaeda had apparently studied financial institutions in three cities with the idea of a possible attack.” The use of the word “obviously” says everything, given that the government has not provided a shred of evidence that any such terror threat exists.
Just two months ago, the Times felt obliged to publish a public apology for its role in promoting the Bush administration’s claims about Iraq’s supposed stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction—the central pretext for invading and occupying the country. The newspaper’s editors admitted to having failed in their obligation to adopt a critical, independent and vigilant approach to such government assertions, and to undertake their own investigation before rubberstamping the government’s pre-war propaganda.
Adopting a pose of soul-searching repentance, the newspaper wrote: “We have found ...coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been ... In some cases, the information that was controversial then, and seems questionable now, was insufficiently qualified or allowed to stand unchallenged. Looking back, we wish we had been more aggressive in re-examining the claims as new evidence emerged ...or failed to.”
Just how dishonest this mea culpa was is demonstrated by the newspaper’s readiness to do precisely the same thing at the next turn of events.
The Times’ method is cynical and transparent. At the outset the newspaper rules out the possibility that the administration has ulterior, anti-democratic and reactionary motives for its actions. Having excluded this—the most plausible—explanation, the editors proceed to give advice to what they portray as a well-intentioned, but somewhat bumbling government.
They write: “The Bush administration needs to come up with a method of communication that informs the public in a calm, clear way. Perhaps most important, people need to be made totally confident that this critical matter is not being tangled up in the presidential campaign.”
The Times fails to explain the difficulty of such a task. They are silent because they know perfectly well that Bush is having trouble bamboozling the American people precisely because “this critical matter” is so obviously “tangled up in the presidential campaign.”
The administration has no interest in communicating in a “calm, clear way” because the whole purpose of its terror scare is to sow the maximum panic and fear, while offering its dictatorial actions as the only possible deterrent to terrorism.
The Times continues with its pious wish-list: “There is nothing more important for Mr. Bush to do every day until Nov. 2 than to make it clear that he would never hype a terror alert to help his re-election chances. It is a challenge complicated by the fact that he is running on his record against terrorism and is using images of 9/11 and the threat of more attacks to promote his candidacy.”
The above sentence is a gem of sophistry. The Times acknowledges that Bush is “using the threat of more attacks to promote his candidacy”—that is, exploiting a past tragedy to whip up fears of a future tragedy—and then pretends that such a president would never “hype a terror alert to help his re-election chances.” Evidently the gentlemen and ladies of the Times have forgotten the stolen election of 2000, and all that has happened since.
Of course, they have not forgotten. Rather, in covering for the criminal methods of the Bush administration, they are seeking to cover up their own complicity, including their insistence on the “legitimacy” of a president installed through the suppression of votes and the diktat of a right-wing cabal on the Supreme Court.
The editors continue: “The president’s credibility on national security issues was gravely wounded by the way he misled Americans, intentionally or not, about the reasons for invading Iraq—including the suggestion that the war was part of the campaign against Al Qaeda.”
The president’s record of duping the population on the life-and-death question of going to war casts no shadow, in the eyes of the Times, on its present claims about terrorist threats and the need to militarize American cities. After all, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and company may have been lying “unintentionally.”
The editorial concludes: “We have learned since Sept. 11, 2001, to value every day in which nothing terrible happens as a gift and an opportunity. The Bush administration has been given the same blessing. Every morning the president and his deputies are challenged not only to renew their war against potential terrorists, but also to earn the confidence of the people they aim to protect.”
The Times editors’ earlier acceptance of the claims about weapons of mass destruction and Iraq-Al Qaeda links was not a mistake, nor is their present position. While the editorial unctuously cozies up to the Bush administration, at the same time offering “constructive criticism” about how it might more effectively put its policies across, the Times’s news pages are full of unsubstantiated reports of “terror plots,” providing a platform for “unnamed government officials” and “anonymous sources” in the CIA and the Homeland Security Department to terrify the public, assault democratic rights, manipulate the election and prepare the groundwork for new and bloodier wars.
Nor is the editorial’s silence about the police-state operations in New York City and Washington a mistake. It should be noted that, according to the press, “Police closed streets surrounding Grand Central Terminal, including Vanderbilt Avenue between [East] 42nd and 45th streets and 43rd and 44th streets between Madison and Vanderbilt avenues.” In other words, a critical part of Manhattan, only blocks from the Times headquarters on West 43rd Street, has been turned into a virtual no-go zone. The newspaper’s editors and reporters no doubt observed or personally encountered the checkpoints, blocked-off streets and police armed with assault rifles.
Their refusal to denounce these measures can only connote approval. And this approval, in the final analysis, expresses the outlook of the social milieu to which the Times management belongs and for whom they speak: highly privileged layers of the upper-middle-class.
These sections of the population include those who have benefited financially—growing rich and very rich—from the assault on the working population over the past 25 years, the lowering of workers’ living standards, the destruction of the social safety net, and the battery of tax cuts for the wealthy. They have reaped the benefits of cheap labor at home and imperialist super-exploitation abroad. These are “stock market” liberals, fixated on the value of their stock portfolios. For them, the destruction of democratic rights is an acceptable price to pay for keeping the anger and indignation of the broad masses at bay.
See Also:
Murder allegations against Iraq's Allawi: an exchange of letters with the New York Times' public editor
[3 August 2004]
The New York Times and the threat to cancel the November election
[20 July 2004]
The New York Times whitewashes Bush's lies about Iraq
[15 January 2004]
The New York Times, the Washington Post and the crisis of the 2000 election
[13 November 2000]
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 23 Jul 2004 @ 10:30
WSWS readers comment on US government discussions on postponing election
23 July 2004
The following is a selection of letters on the July 12 statement of the Socialist Equality Party, “Bush administration takes steps to cancel US election” and other WSWS articles on the same subject.
Dear Barry Grey,
I agree with most of what you say in your critique of the New York Times. You seem to me, however, to treat the events of 9/11 as the catalyst for a range of repressive measures such as the Patriot Act, et al.
I think that your analogy with the Reichstag fire of February 1933 is more prescient than you allow to develop. That fire was created by the Nazis for the express purpose of rousing the German population and passage of the Enabling Act. The evidence is in my view compelling that 9/11 performed exactly the same function and for the same reason: the Bush regime was complicit in the events of 9/11. What has followed since then, including the invasion of Iraq, was on the drawing board long before 9/11.
Americans would be right to be very afraid.
Kind regards,
JO
20 July 2004
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When I first brought up the WSWS article of 4-28-2004 about the Bush regime using criminal means to retain power by canceling the elections and declaring martial law, several people thought that this was just another extremist view. Now that the current regime is moving to stranglehold all branches of the government, the premise doesn’t seem so extreme anymore.
We have reached a point in this country where radical change is needed, radical change that is just as extreme as declaring martial law and canceling elections. Radical change that begins with the workers of this country supporting a true alternative to the gangster thug mentality of the rich Republican and Democrat parties. The workers of this country, the people that care about their families’ futures, need to stop cowering behind lies of changing the system from within, need to stop running scared from their shadows and the “Terrorist Menace” and support the only alternative that comes from outside the corrupt two-party system. The Socialist Equality Party is the only true way to force change and the last hope for the workers of this country and the world to rein in the jack booted thugs with their corrupt policies who have installed themselves in the highest offices in the world.
CV
13 July 13 2004
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Thank you for covering this and please, please continue your good work. The word must be gotten out regarding the current administration’s attempts to subvert the democratic process.
AT
16 July 2004
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Hello folks,
Although I am Canadian and live in Canada, I subscribe to the wsws.org for my real news.
Thanks for the reality checks. If I were an American I would definitely NOT vote for Bush or Kerry. That is if I could vote at all.
As a Canadian, and I believe as most Canadians or anyone else who is not an American, sees the US as the greatest terrorist threat this world has ever seen. Since the Bush administration’s Coup of the Whitehouse in 2000 the world has witnessed the end of the basic freedoms of a once respected country. Canada is an unfortunate neighbour to the next Nazi Germany.
If the demonic Bush clan calls off the election in November there will be no doubt in anyone’s mind that democracy is dead in the US and that the people are under the rule of the next Hitler. In fact I believe Georgie boy is starting to make Hitler look like a choirboy. I have no doubt in my mind that the Bush cabal was behind the 9/11 “attacks” in order to do exactly what they are doing now, stripping the freedoms away from the American working class and terrorizing the world into the submission of the corporate elite.
Although it is a scary thing to be living this close to the new Nazi Germany I am still glad I am not living in it.
Good luck to you all and I hope the Good People of the USA wake up and take back their country. It is the American people’s right and duty to revolt in a massive scale to remove the terrorists who are occupying the White House. I can only hope it is not too late.
NR
July 13, 2004
See Also:
Washington Post calls Bush moves to postpone US elections “appropriate”
[15 July 2004]
See Also:
Media suppresses news of Bush's moves to cancel US elections
[14 July 2004]
Bush administration takes steps to cancel US election
[13 July 2004]
Washington weighs terror's impact on presidential vote
A warning to the American people
[4 May 2004]
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 28 May 2004 @ 20:01
I am going to keep this brief and not allow comments. I cannot take most people here at face value anymore. To be honest I feel I am in high school when I read conversations and some comments. I say this with sadness, not judgement.
There is a difference between being honest and seeming positive. Being honest doesn't mean one is negative and/or only sees what is wrong in the world. It just means one has courage, love, honesty and respect for the truth, no matter what that truth reveals. Double messages are not loving.
Saying one is loving and/or forgiving does NOT make them that way. It is also not loving or forgiving to indulge madness and/or corruption.
This is a Spiritual Forum. One where people are supposed to come together and see the unity of all life in all the cosmos, and actually initiate change.
What do I mean by double messages and liars? Here are some examples:
I hear so much about love. Loving oneself and loving others. This is said in the same breath as people take sides and justify killing, destruction, forcing people from their homes and torture. Now honestly, isn't this a double message?
I hear we are all one, yet people separate others by race, religion and etc. We are all one, but depending on what group you belong to, other groups are wrong and/or no good. For example....Arabs don't take care of their own, Rebublicans are wrong, the Jews have always been persecuted, men vs women. Are we all one or not?
There is horror expressed at the site of sex and things considered pornographic, but invading countries without just cause, killing, maiming and/or raping people in other lands is talked about, rationalized and considered somewhat ok. Using up our natural resources, destroying the earth, children without arms in wars for no reason is spoken of, but without true action to make a change.... BUT DON'T YOU DARE SHOW ME NUDITY OR TWO PEOPLE ENGAGING IN SEX....OH MY!
This is supposedly the place to come to where people see beyond social norms, and the everday 3D. That has not been evident most of the time.
Yes we are all from the same source, therefore when do we start taking responsibility for that and coming from the love, potential, infinite/cosmic meaning of what that truly means?
Therefore one has to conclude that people here on NCN, are no different than the average person who does not do spiritual work. In fact, I hold you all more responsible, because at least you are on some kind of quest for a better world. Don't just get insulted now, take a look, think about it, and for all our sakes...take it seriously and take real action.
Unfortunately, as I write this, the question in my mind, is why am I writing this? Very few are going to take it seriously or do anything to change.....there is too much invested in the ego and image they hold on to so dearly. More >
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