Posted on 09/13/2001 6:01:30 AM PDT by LarryLied
"A nation that continues to make non-violent revolution impossible makes violent revolution inevitable." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
As the smoke clears from the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, it is becoming increasingly apparent to me that the teachings of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" are timeless. This book tells me, "all warfare is based on deception." And until the general public is willing to realize this simple fact, the true grim reality of the so-called "terrorist attacks against freedom and democracy" on 11 September 2001 will be buried under the collective zeal for all out revenge that is brewing.
The best way to explain, in the simplest terms available, what really happened is found in the understanding that I proudly overheard my significant other give her 10 year old daughter:
"Let's say that you have a 5th grader that constantly bullies and beats up on the kindergarteners. It is possible that one day those kindergarteners will get fed up with the relentless, unwarranted treatment they are receiving from that 5th grader. And on that day they may find the collective resolve to strike back in a unified force."
The United States government has an extensive track record of bullying and beating up on so-called Second and Third World governments and their people throughout the world, as well as doing the same to its own so-called Fourth World citizens in its own ghettoes throughout this nation. The New York City government has a similar relationship with its citizens. The United States government has the blood of millions of innocent bystanders on its hands from Panama to Iraq. And New York City through its police department is responsible for hundreds of unjustified deaths from Manhattan to Queens.
I think Malcolm X said it best, "the chickens have come home to roost," which, in my humble opinion was his interpretation of the scripture that reminds us all that the sins of the father will be paid for by his progeny.
The general public needs to accept the fact that we, the American people, are responsible for the destruction and fatal mayhem that occurred yesterday because we have too often sat idly and quietly by while our governments have wrecked havoc on our neighbors both at home and abroad. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Luther King, Jr., told us not to neglect our civic responsibility in this regard when he said:
"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today-my own government."
So, before we totally succumb to the propaganda machine and the Salem-styled witch hunts begin, let's take a minute to acquire and utilize some critical thinking skills and stop asking the same damned questions and expecting some new revelation each and every time.
My moms used to always tell me that God don't like ugly. And my grandfather used to always tell me that my sins would never be forgiven if I did not willfully repent and ask for forgiveness.
The United States government had an opportunity to do just that by accounting for its participation in Golden Triangle, COINTELPRO, and Zionism during the recently held UN World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia & Related Intolerances. It still has an opportunity to account for its failed War on Drugs and its policies on abortion and capital punishment during the upcoming UN General Assembly Special Session on Children and the World Congress on Family & Law & the Rights of Children & Youth. However, in its arrogance, the United States government decided that it was in its best interest to boycott all three events.
Yesterday's events were not isolated incidents! Welcome home, because yesterday, the Revolution was indeed Televised!
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BULLYING AND BEATING UP!! I guess the billions upon billions that we have spent in helping these underdeveloped countries is just a horrible deception that we have foisted upon the world. It is fathomless to me how such people as this K.K.K. come by their thoughts, but I suppose objective thinking is beyond his capability.
A traitor is someone who once swore allegiance and then went to the other side. This guy never had an allegiance to the US. He is just an enemy and should be treated as such.
This is a quote by JFK by the way.
This "man" is beneath contempt.
I assume you are not including the cost of freeing 400 million from socialist tyranny as well as stopping Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. You probably aren't even counting private charities either are you?
Guess stinking, repressive, hell holes like Sweden and Norway (the former of which collaborated with the NAZIS and the latter of which doesn't want to get involved in fighting the animals who just bombed us) are the model for charity we should follow.
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