The term terrorism has become very confusing to me. The U.S. invades a country i.e. Iraq and one million people die. Depleted uranium, a weapon that is banned under international law, is spread in huge quantities across the country ensuring toxicity of soil and water for a million years. I know of not one Iraqi citizen or soldier that has invaded the U.S. and done harm to one American.
If a citizen of Iraq attacks one of our invading troops that is occupying his country and uses a car bomb he is labeled a terrorist. Is this because we don't approve of his primitive weaponry? His weapons certainly do less damage than ours. Why is he just not a warrior defending his country or part of a grassroots civilian militia?
I will take this argument one step further. Not one person from Pakistan has invaded our country and killed an American yet we are bombing their country using remote control devices, and the targets are chosen from the advice given by enemies within this country. This is the same thing that got us into the quandry in Guantanamo. We gave ransoms to people and they turned in their enemies regardless of their crimes against the U.S.
Would it be O.K. if someone who hated my neighbor told me he was planning on doing me harm so I then dropped a bomb on his house and killed his whole family? Who is the terrorist here? A man has his whole family killed by a drone and then walks into a CIA station and blows himself and 7 agents up. Why is this man labeled a terrorist? He is simply fighting back. We invaded his country and killed his family. Would he have still been a terrorist if he used an f16 to drop a bomb on the CIA agents?
Recently a man in NYC failed to detonate a car bomb. Why is he labeled a terrorist? He would be called a freedom fighter if the shoe were on the other foot. He owns no advanced weaponry so he makes do . He invaded our country and tried to kill someone because we invaded his.
Another sad twist in this war of words is that if THEY think about doing us harm or display patterns of movement consistent with terror activities we kill them . U.S. forces kill people who have not attacked them but they are not labeled terrorists. Is it worse to think about doing harm or actually doing it?
War is terrorism. War is murder. No ground rules apply. All participants are warriors and potential muderers. The media and our government has twisted the english language and helped foster the belief in some Americans that our methods of killing are not terrorism. This is false.
Depleted Uranium is worse that a car bomb. Cluster Bombs are worse than rifles. Our invasions have caused the death of over 1 million people. Their invasions of the U.S. have killed not one person. Martin Luther King once said "My country is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." This is even more true today than it was in 1969.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
NYC false flag
Sometimes I do get tired of blogging about the war but it is tough because we are wasting so much money on silly cowboy and indian games that it makes me ill. Bad dark skinned man on land that we want. We try to take his land. He fights back with crude weapons. We exterminate them with better weapons. We take their land and tell our people that it was rightous. Our people believe us because we of course always do good.
The latest fake terrorist who could not shoot straight in New York City just happened to be from Pakistan. Wow so now we can kill more innocent people and feel good about it. Sorry if I don't buy it or any other manufactured attack that helps justify U.S. terrorism abroad. It is amazing how the bombs always work in their country but never in ours. Bad fuses I suppose.
Gotta keep the 50% believing in this illegal war and it ain't easy when the rest of the world don't.
Thou shalt not kill always seemed like a good rule to me, if you only had one. No exceptions.
The latest fake terrorist who could not shoot straight in New York City just happened to be from Pakistan. Wow so now we can kill more innocent people and feel good about it. Sorry if I don't buy it or any other manufactured attack that helps justify U.S. terrorism abroad. It is amazing how the bombs always work in their country but never in ours. Bad fuses I suppose.
Gotta keep the 50% believing in this illegal war and it ain't easy when the rest of the world don't.
Thou shalt not kill always seemed like a good rule to me, if you only had one. No exceptions.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
War and Oil
Any energy policy for the future that includes oil is a bad policy. Oil is a non-renewable resource. The U.S. economy currently is thoroughly reliant on oil. The United States has no local supply of oil, and the acquisition of oil necessitates war. Corporations trading on Wall Street now own all of Iraqi oil and the citizens of Iraq own none. Anyone who tells you that wars are about freedom, Saadam Hussien, The Taliban, or 9/11 is lying. These lies have led to servitude and misery,for our soldiers,their families, and the people of the Middle East. War is about energy and keeping Wall Street afloat.
Renewables can solve most of the worlds energy needs. Vermont can solve almost all of its needs with local renewables. Solar energy does not require anyone to leave town and sacrifice their life. Wind Power will not poison the earth, soil, water, and bodies of those who come into contact with it. Hydro power does not require the toppling of governments and installation of puppet regimes to keep the energy flowing. Vermonters can stay right at home and enjoy this local, guilt free source of energy.
Transportation is a problem that does need to be addressed. We cannot transport with wind, solar, hydro, or any other present energy source effectively. The good news is that if we eliminate oil usage in other areas we can buy a little time and work on the transportation problem for the future. The reality of one million dead in the Middle East and one half million permanently disabled U.S. Vets should be enough to change our energy path now. Cuba survived quite nicely during a long oil embargo. They all had gardens and walked a lot and became a very healthy society. Communities got together and helped each other to survive. This may be the key to our future and our survival, because no matter what devastation our leaders inflict on the world, oil will not become a renewable resource, it will eventually run out.
Renewables can solve most of the worlds energy needs. Vermont can solve almost all of its needs with local renewables. Solar energy does not require anyone to leave town and sacrifice their life. Wind Power will not poison the earth, soil, water, and bodies of those who come into contact with it. Hydro power does not require the toppling of governments and installation of puppet regimes to keep the energy flowing. Vermonters can stay right at home and enjoy this local, guilt free source of energy.
Transportation is a problem that does need to be addressed. We cannot transport with wind, solar, hydro, or any other present energy source effectively. The good news is that if we eliminate oil usage in other areas we can buy a little time and work on the transportation problem for the future. The reality of one million dead in the Middle East and one half million permanently disabled U.S. Vets should be enough to change our energy path now. Cuba survived quite nicely during a long oil embargo. They all had gardens and walked a lot and became a very healthy society. Communities got together and helped each other to survive. This may be the key to our future and our survival, because no matter what devastation our leaders inflict on the world, oil will not become a renewable resource, it will eventually run out.
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