The Peaceful Warriors
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In the next few weeks we will once again hear the sad refrain that we must support the troops in Iraq..or the Philippines, or Colombia, or Afghanistan, or Kuwait... After all, they are protecting us and defending our freedoms. It is through their sacrifice of life and limb that we can speak freely, assemble freely, and otherwise exercise our Constitutional rights. While I respect their self-described patriotism and intent, I have quite another view and method with a similar intent; just a different means to achieve that end. The end does not justify the means. In fact, the actions I choose to take are to also protect the troops and defend their freedom. I and millions of patriotic Americans are risking our life and liberty so that they need not die or be maimed in a war that is illegal under International Law, a violates the UN Charter, the Nuremburg Principles, and the US Constitution, and with weapons that are a violation of the Geneva Convention; a war that is justified only by lies and propaganda. Although is was not their fault, their claim to be defending us mocks the events of September 11, 2001. Not only could our defense forces not defend us on our own homeland, they could not even protect their own headquarters, the Pentagon. (Or would not..time will tell.) After trillions of dollars in investment, high technology communications and orbiting satellites, and global deployment of military force, they could not (did not) intercept, translate, relay, or interpret the vast amount of information coming from their own intelligence (?) assets and the intelligence agencies from around the world in time to protect themselves, much less me and my compatriots. So please don't tell me to remain silent. It is not only my right to disagree with my government leaders, it is my duty. Or have we all forgotten what the Constitution is all about and what the American ideals are that make the "terrorists" so envious. No, the powerful evidence points toward the frightening conclusion that our terrorists are within. They terrorized the Congress with anthrax of our own making to pressure them to pass, sight unseen, laws that run counter to the first Patriots of this nation and yet they called these laws "the Patriot Act." They established an American Gestapo and called it Homeland Security when it makes Americans less secure in their homes and threatens to rob them of their right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. While our defenders are far away fighting wars and terrorizing other countries, clearing the way for ever greater wealth in oil and drugs, there are patriots at home trying to stop the wars so that our defenders will not have to suffer and die for the bankers and financiers that have held the world in a death grip. We are fighting night and day, risking our liberty and jobs, to bring the message to our fighting men that depleted uranium munitions (DUM) is almost as much a danger to them as to those on the receiving end; and that the vaccines that are injected into their bodies to protect them are likely the main cause of Gulf War Syndrome along with DUM. We are bringing the message that they are participating in a war crime instigated by leaders who may one day stand before a war crimes tribunal if not impeachment. We are pleading with them to notice that in the last Gulf War only 247 US defenders died in combat but over 10,000 died of various injuries and insults to the body from "friendly" sources and over 221,000 have been disabled. That's 30% of our Gulf War Vets. We are pleading with them to listen to the veterans of the last Gulf War and to the US census bureau that reported over 70,000 children, 16,500 women, and 8,500 senior citizens died in OUR attack on them. To bomb a city like Baghdad with its 5 million people, half of whom are children, is a gruesome way to remove one man from power. Our DUM has made the region a radioactive zone for the next 4.5 billion years and our guys are being sent back in there again with gas masks and decon suits that leak. Now who's defending whom? I don't think that peace workers must take a back seat to our active duty soldiers or even veterans. We have been defending them, advocating for their welfare and the welfare of their families, protecting them from obeying unlawful orders. At the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal, the repeated excuse for the actions of the German military was, "Befehl ist Befehl," which translates as "Orders are orders." That is not an adequate defense, then or now. Soldiers and sailors, marines and air force must all obey first: the Constitution, International Law, and the Geneva Convention including the Nuremburg Principles, over and above the orders of their officers. Simply following orders is NOT an excuse. Ignorance of the facts is not an excuse. I am not embarrassed in the slightest that I have not gone to war or even into any branch of the "service." I have served in quite another way. I have sought to dig and search for the truth to understand what has caused such inhumane suffering on both sides of conflict and oppression. I was too young to fight in WWII but even that war was not a war to ensure our freedom because the international financiers and bankers financed the rise of Nazism from the beginning, especially American and European banks. Both George W. Bush's grandfathers were involved in the banks and enterprises that were closed in 1942 as violations of the Trading with the Enemy Act. Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker narrowly escaped jail time for their participation. Standard Oil was refueling German U-boats in mid-Atlantic, Ford continued to build trucks for the NAZI regime throughout the war, ITT continued to supply communication equipment, and IBM furnished information handling technology to process the heavy load of prisoners on their way to the concentration camps and the ovens. And it was a war into which we were plunged by the secret provocation and facilitation by the US military under orders from their Commander-in-Chief. Pearl Harbor was not an infamous sneak attack but the result of a deliberate US foreign policy and military maneuvering. Shipping in the Pacific was even diverted from the expected route of attack to avoid early warning. Fuel supplies were deliberately withheld to ensure two battle groups in port at a time instead of one. A cable was held for several hours by General George Marshall until, half an hour before the attack, he sent a warning by Western Union that arrived in Hawai'i too late. Vietnam was a struggle for control of the heroin trade and the oil in the Gulf of Tonkin, not about protecting Americans or our ideals. Ho Chi Minh had asked for our help in setting up a free and independent nation following WWII. He admired our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. He was rebuffed and we handed his country back to the French colonial powers. So his resistance continued. Instead of fighting the Japanese Empire, he turned to fight the French Empire. When the French had had enough, we stepped in and carried on the fight. By this time he could only find assistance from the communist bloc. Then came the pretended attack on the Turner Joy, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and 58,000 US men were killed, hundreds of thousands wounded and more emotionally damaged. They were not defending my liberty or my ideals. They were fighting for the financiers and bankers interests who had found that laundering drug money was almost as lucrative as importing drugs into the Western world. The people back home who took to the streets to protest the crimes against humanity and our constitution were, in effect, trying to end a war that was taking such a severe toll on our humanity. Had they been successful earlier, they might have reduced the number of names on the Viet Nam Memorial. Americans have often been told that the highest sacrifice one can make for one's country is to die in battle defending our rights and ideals. We are taught the glory of dying. Instead, the people in the peace movement have seen that the fighting and dying on both sides is unnecessary and only made to seem necessary by lies and propaganda that serves the interests of a few at the expense of the many. We wish to change that so our men in uniform do not have to fight and die without just cause or cause death and destruction without just cause. Peace workers are fighting for the warrior's right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. We aren't paid, we have few resources other than a strong, loving heart, there is very little glory, if any, and very few understand or accept that what we are doing has value for all. And yet we push on, ever hopeful that enough will listen long enough to understand. Peace and love are the greatest power. "If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be...If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed."---Thomas Jefferson to Col. Yancey, 1816. "There is none more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free!" Johann W. von Goethe. "I do not believe that the troops are protecting me and my rights. Quite to the contrary, my rights are under siege by the same forces that are putting the lives of the troops in jeopardy. I have only to read the PATRIOT Act, The Homeland Security Act and the draft of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act to know that the biggest threats to my rights are named Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and Powell, not Hussein. Iraq is not attacking me and therefore the troops waging war on Iraq are not defending me." Kéllia Ramares Play: Imbalance of Powers: The Executive Branch Attack on the Constitution (58 minutes) Play Iraq: Behind the Headlines
Remembering Kent State 1970 When
thirteen students were shot by Ohio National Guard Troops during a war
demonstration on the Kent State University Campus on the first week of May
1970, four young lives were ended and a nation was stunned. More than 30
years later, the world at war is a different place. However, those
thirteen
War Comes to Twin Peaks explores the rumblings of protest at home during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. From a priest who takes up the anti-war protests, disillusioned war veterans, and a mother who fears for her son as he departs for service, War Comes to Twin Peaks shows us the varied human faces affected by administration policy. Their stories strike a familiar chord as the United States again confronts the possibility of war with Iraq more than a decade later Listen to War Comes to Twin Peaks with Real Player
BBC Television Indicts Bush / CIA in 9-11 Terror Complicity (video) Canadian TV: Bush / CIA Complicity (video) Michael Ruppert - Reasonable Doubts: The Truth about 911 (video) VisionTV: Pearl Harbour and 911 Lies (video) The USA PATRIOT Act strips U.S. residents of their civil liberties (video) Barrie Zwicker's comments on the 6 month anniversary of 911 (video) Alex Jones: 911 The Road to Tyranny (video) Meria Heller Interviews Nafeez Adhmed "War on Freedom"
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