MUST READ: War Against
Conscience -- A Satanic
Rite?
"Before I had chance in another war, the desire to kill people to
whom I had not been introduced
had passed away."
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
Preface note by Christopher
Rudy:
- I hope the headline gets your attention
--and that this preface gets you thinking -- regarding the feature article
below.
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- Where is the CONSCIENCE of a nation -- or
indeed the whole world -- when giant corporate
war profiteers own and control the mainstream media while manipulating
our dominant social institutions of government, education, health care and
the economy?
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- What happens to public CONSCIENCE when
military-industrial contractors own some of the major media conglomerates
and Israel-expansionist Zionists own the other major media conglomerates?
How often do these war profiteers tell us the truth of Israeli Mossad
involvement in 9-11 -- "the dancing Israelis" --
or bring to our attention the mass deception of sympathy for the Jews' "Holy
Holocaust" while neocon Zionists create a holocaust in the Middle East
and orchestrate a Martial law police state in America?
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is
being run by smart people who are putting us on,
or by imbeciles who really mean it."
- Mark Twain
- That's like asking how many enlightened
people in America see through the BIG LIE of incessant war propaganda that
creates sympathy for Israel's right to exist while that country has been
destroying their neighbors' livelihood and right to exist -- stealing
Palestinian property -- from the time the U.N. created Israel. If you
doubt this, read, "THE ATTACK ON THE USS
LIBERTY".
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- The truth of this -- in full CONSCIENCE --
was the first victim of 9-11 and the terror war. Most intelligent people
who have sought the truth of the real perpetrators of
9-11, know that it was an inside job by the war profiteers. If they dig
a little deeper, they will find it is the same war profiteers behind World
Wars I and II. War doesn't happen without war profiteers who sell their
souls to THE COMPANY... or footsoldiers taking orders from "faulty
Intelligence".. or mercenaries following orders from corporate war
contractors.
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- That's why WAR -- with all it's collateral
damage to women, children and the soul of civilization -- ultimately
victimizes CONSCIENCE of, by and for everything sacred... as in life,
liberty and everyone's pursuit of happiness.
"All war must be just the killing of
strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity;
strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in
trouble,
and who would help you if you needed it."
- Mark Twain's "The Private History of the Campaign That Failed"
- Lose your CONSCIENCE and you have a form of
insanity that goes along with war -- passive non-resistance -- yet expect
different results from politicians who have sold their soul to THE COMPANY's
"bottom line" for all the perks of power, prestige and profit. Politicians
fear telling the truth of 9-11 because THE COMPANY (war profiteers) would
lose prestige, profit and power.
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- Most politicians take money directly or
indirectly from THE COMPANY, and he who pays the piper calls the tune for
the "war dance".
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- No politician can thrive, much less survive
as a COMPANY PLAYER unless the ritualistic "rite" of the Big Lie --
practiced daily in the mass consciousness (mainstream media) -- is
maintained. This is the WAR AGAINST CONSCIENCE that sustains the Big Lie
which is so BIG and so bold and so often told... that many people
believe it religiously. That's when they lose their CONSCIENCE, replacing
it with spiritual pride, intellectual contortions, and "Belief Systems" of
the most depraved "BS" nature.
"Statesmen will invent cheap lies,
putting blame upon the nation that is attacked,
and every man will be glad of those
conscience-soothing
falsities,
and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of
them;
and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will
thank God
for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque
self-deception."
- Mark Twain's
"Chronicle of Young Satan"
- So as you read the following article,
consider how the love of power, prestige and profit is destroying the pure
intent for the power of universal LOVE. Consider who the REAL
terrorists are, how the U.S. is terrorizing the people of Iraq, how the good
hearts of good men entering the U.S. military are sacrificed to a
godless-as-hell agenda. Consider how the whole world is watching this insanity compounded
as heartless killers reenlist as mercenaries for big money in privatized
corporate black ops that foment even greater terror to destabilize the
Middle East with sectarian in-fighting while outsiders steal resources in
these foreign lands.
Yes, the whole world is watching and
wondering when America will champion a higher standard for the whole of
global civilization to THRIVE.
Better yet, reframe your consideration in the
positive, affirming the common sense that has become uncommon. Consider how
the vision of virtue in universal love can resurrect Net reality, collective
CONSCIENCE and the angels of our better nature.
The best way to neutralize the war
profiteers' Satanic rite -- the sacrifice of CONSCIENCE to the gods of war
-- is full CONSCIENCE in the spirit of LOVE that
chooses the New Testament's new paradigm over the Old Testament's
"eye-for-an-eye" depravity that would make the whole world blind.
-
- - Christopher
"An inglorious peace is better than a
dishonorable war."
- Mark Twain from "Glances at History," 1906
--------- article follows:
THANKS to Bill
for this one - CR
- Who is planning and
giving the orders to these raids? No wonder Iraqis don't like Americans!
This war is not only doomed to fail to win. It is planned to lose! --
Bill
Why I fled George Bush's war
What happened to make a patriotic,
gung-ho soldier desert the U.S. army, and turn against the war in Iraq.
JOSHUA KEY | Feb 7, 2007 | 11:40 am EST
Joshua Key, 28, was a poor, uneducated Oklahoma country boy who saw the U.S.
army and its promised benefits -- from free health care to career training -- as
the ticket to a better life. In 2002, not yet 24 but already married and the
father of two , Key enlisted. He says his recruiting officer promised he'd never
be deployed abroad, but a year later he was in Iraq. Only 24 hours after
arriving, as Key recounts in The Deserter's Tale (Anansi), he experienced
his first doubts about what he and his fellow soldiers were doing there:
I was scared out of my wits that first day in Ramadi. Our own air force had just
finished bombing these people, but as soon as we got out of our vehicles we
began patrolling their streets, on foot. With nearly 100 lb. of weaponry,
equipment and clothing on my back, I was about as mobile as a cow. It was just
my platoon, 20 guys, walking single file through streets full of Iraqis. I could
not stop thinking that anywhere, at any time, some half-starved sniper on a roof
could have taken me out in no time flat. Iraqi kids surrounded me in swarms,
hands out, asking for water and food. I kept hearing the last words [my wife]
Brandi said to me before I flew out: "Don't you let those terrorists near you,
Josh. Even if they are kids. Get them before they get you."
I was awakened at 3 a.m. that first night and told to get my ass up quickly
because in one hour we were going to raid a house full of terrorists. Capt.
Conde and some sergeants showed me and my squad mates a satellite photo of a
house and a drawing of the layout of the inside. Our assignment was to blow off
the door, burst into the house, raid it fast and raid it good -- looking for
contraband, caches of weapons, signs of terrorists or terrorist activity, then
rounding up the men and getting out damn fast. The longer we stayed in any one
location, the longer somebody would have to put us in the sights of a
rocket-propelled grenade or lob mortars at us.
I had no idea what to expect. Would I charge through the door, only to be blown
to bits by a grenade? Would somebody with an AK-47 knock my Oklahoman ass right
back out that door? Would some six-year-old terrorist with two days of gun
training be waiting to put me in his crosshairs? The minutes ticked on, and I
wanted the hour to speed forward so we could get on with it. One or two guys did
push-ups to pump themselves up. I borrowed Mason's portable CD player and bombed
out my eardrums to the beat of Ozzy Osbourne. It got me going. High and ready
for action. I checked my watch, wished it would accelerate, and stuck some dip
-- Copenhagen, bourbon flavor -- behind my lip. You can't manage a cigarette
when you've got an M-249 automatic weapon on your arm. So dip was best. Makes
your mouth black as sin, and rots the roots right out of your gums, but dip was
my nicotine hit of choice going into that raid.
I committed our instructions to memory. I knew the angles of the house, what
door I would help blow down, how many floors were in the house, and who would do
what when we busted inside. I would be third in the door, which means I was the
second most likely to get shot if anybody had a mind to take us down, and I'd
head to the left. Always, for every raid, I would be third in, heading left. I
gripped my M-249. Yes, it could belt out 2,000 rounds a minute but only in
theory. You couldn't really hold your finger down that long. When you were
blazing away like that, the bullets turned the barrel as hot as Hades. And if
you held your finger down too long, it would warp the barrel.
It took thirty seconds for Jones and me to put the charge of C-4 plastic
explosive on the door. Then we dashed around to the side of the house so we
wouldn't blow ourselves up. You'd be fried meat if you were anywhere near the
explosion. I set off the blast, and then the six of us charged in. Jones went
first -- that skinny, red-haired Ohio boy was always hot to trot. With Jones
leading the way we burst into the house, armed to the hilt. Kevlar helmets, flak
jackets, machine guns, combat boots, the whole nine yards.
I'd never been inside an Iraqi's house before. We charged through a kitchen. I
had been told by squad leader Padilla to check everything, so I even opened the
fridge. Perhaps, I thought, I would find guns or grenades hidden inside. No such
luck. In the fridge, all I saw was a bit of food. In the freezer I found big
slabs of meat, uncovered. No wrapping. No plastic. Frozen, just like that. We
ran into a living room with long couches, one along each wall. In this room with
the couches we found two children, a teenager, and a woman. We also found two
young men in the house. One looked like a teenager and the other was perhaps in
his early 20s -- brothers.
We hollered and cussed. I spat dip on the floor and screamed along with the
other soldiers at the top of my lungs. I knew they didn't understand, but I
hollered anyway.
"Get down," I shouted. "Get the f--k down. Shut the f--k up."
They didn't know what "get down" meant, so we knocked the two brothers to the
floor, face down. We put our knees on their backs, pulled their hands behind
them, and faster than you can bat an eye we zipcuffed them. Zipcuffs are plastic
handcuffs that lock on tight. They must have bit something fierce into those
young men's skin. There was no key, nothing -- the only way to get them off was
to slice them with cutters.
We pushed the brothers outside, where 12 other soldiers from our platoon were
waiting. The Iraqi brothers were taken away to an American detention facility
for interrogation. I don't know what it was called, and I don't know where it
was. All I know is that we sent away every man -- pretty well every male over
five feet tall -- that we found in our house raids, and I never saw one of them
return to the neighbourhoods we patrolled regularly.
Inside, we kept on ransacking the house. The more obvious it became that we
would find no weapons or contraband, the more we kicked the stuffing out of the
house. We knocked over dressers, sliced into mattresses with knives, kicked our
way through doors, raiding the three bedrooms on the second floor, then raced up
to the third floor. We turned over everything we could and broke furniture at
random, searching for contraband, weapons, proof of terrorist activity, or signs
of weapons of mass destruction. We found nothing but a CD. Soldiers initially
said it showed proof of terrorist activity, but it turned out to have nothing on
it but a bunch of speeches by Saddam Hussein.
Once we had everybody outside the house and had done our initial job of
ransacking, another squad took over inside. They kept raising hell in there,
breaking and turning over more furniture, looking for weapons that we might have
missed. Outside, under a carport, I was assigned to watch the women and
children. We weren't arresting them, but we weren't allowing them to go anywhere
either. The family members couldn't go back inside, and they couldn't wander off
into the neighbourhood. They had to stay right there while we tore the hell out
of their house.
A girl in the family -- a teenager -- started staring at me. I tried to ignore
her. Then she began speaking to me. Inside, when we had been screaming at her
and the others, I'd assumed that nobody understood a word of English. But this
young girl spoke to me in English, and her eyes bored holes right through me.
She was skin and bones, not even 100 lb., not yet a full-grown woman, but
something about her seemed powerful and disturbing. I feared that girl, and I
wanted to get away from her as fast as I could, but it was my job to stay right
there and make sure she didn't move. I had my weapon ready. She was wearing a
blue nightgown and had a white scarf covering her hair. She had no veil, so I
could see her face perfectly. Her eyes were coal black and full of hatred.
In English, she asked me, "Where are you taking my brothers?"
"I don't know, Miss," I said.
"Why are you taking them away?"
"I'm afraid I can't say."
"When are you bringing them back?"
"Couldn't tell you that either."
"Why are you doing this to us?"
I couldn't answer that.
I hoped she would not raise a fuss. I didn't want her to start screaming, which
could attract the attention of my squad mates. One or two, I feared, would be
more than happy to use a rifle butt to knock out her teeth.
I hadn't been in Iraq more than 24 hours and already I was having strange
feelings. First, I was vulnerable, and I didn't like it. Even with all these
soldiers and all this equipment, I knew that anywhere, at any time, any Iraqi
with a gun, a wall to hide behind, and one decent eye could pick me off faster
than a hawk nabs a mouse. Second, with hardly one foot into the war, I was also
uneasy about what we were doing there. Something was amiss. We hadn't found
anything in this girl's house, but we had busted it up pretty well in 30 minutes
and had taken away her brothers. Inside, another squad was still ransacking the
house. I didn't enjoy being stuck guarding this girl under the carport, in the
cool April air before dawn in Ramadi. Her questions haunted me, and I didn't
like not being able to answer them -- even to myself.
Busting into and ransacking homes remained one of my most common duties in Iraq.
Before my time was up, I took part in about 200 raids. We never found weapons or
indications of terrorism. I never found a thing that seemed to justify the
terror we inflicted every time we blasted through the door of a civilian home,
broke everything in sight, punched and zipcuffed the men, and sent them away.
One raid was far worse.
It was a handsome two-storey house and quite isolated. As usual, I put the
charge of C-4 explosives on the door and we blew it in. As we rushed into the
house, women were staggering out of their rooms. Three teenage girls screamed
when they saw us. Some of my squad mates grabbed them and held them at gunpoint,
and the rest of us ran through the house. We found no men at all, just six more
women in their 20s and 30s. The guys in my squad couldn't find a thing, not even
any guns -- and it seemed that the more incapable they were of locating
contraband, the more destructive they became. They smashed dressers, ripped
mattresses, broke cabinets, and threw shelves to the floor.
Outside I found Pte. 1st Class Hayes with a woman under an empty carport. He
pointed his M-16 at her head but she would not stop screaming.
"What are you doing this for?" she said.
Hayes told her to shut up.
"We have done nothing to you," she went on.
Hayes was starting to lose it. I told her that we were there on orders and that
we couldn't speak to her, but on and on and on she bawled at Hayes and me.
"You Americans are disgusting! Who do you think you are, to do this to us?"
Hayes slammed her in the face with the stock of his M-16. She fell face down
into the dirt, bleeding and silent. The woman lay still on the ground. I pushed
Hayes away.
"What are you doing, man?" I said to him. "You have a wife and two kids! Don't
be hitting her like that."
He looked at me with eyes full of hatred, as if he was ready to kill me for
saying those words, but he did not touch the woman again. I found this incident
with Hayes particularly disturbing because during other times I had seen him in
action in Iraq, he had showed himself to be one of the most level-headed and
calm soldiers in my company. I had the sense that if he could lose it and hit a
woman the way he had, any of us could lose it too.
Then something happened that haunts my dreams to this day. All the women were
led back inside the house and our entire platoon was ordered to stand guard
outside it. Four U.S. military men entered the house with the women. They closed
the doors. We couldn't see anything through the windows. I don't know who the
military men were, or what unit they were from, but I can only conclude that
they outranked us and were at least at the level of first lieutenant or above.
That's because our own second lieutenant Joyce was there, and his presence did
not deter them.
Normally, when we conducted a raid, we were in and out in 30 minutes or less.
You never wanted to stay in one place for too long for fear of exposing yourself
to mortar attacks. But our platoon was made to stand guard outside that house
for about an hour. The women started shouting and screaming. The men stayed in
there with them, behind closed doors. It went on and on and on.
Finally, the men came out and told us to get the hell out of there.
It struck me then that we, the American soldiers, were the terrorists. We were
terrorizing Iraqis. Intimidating them. Beating them. Destroying their homes.
Probably raping them. The ones we didn't kill had all the reasons in the world
to become terrorists themselves. Given what we were doing to them, who could
blame them for wanting to kill us, and all Americans? A sick realization lodged
like a cancer in my gut. It grew and festered, and troubled me more with every
passing day. We,
the Americans, had become the terrorists in Iraq.
[Just as Israel in Lebanon,
Palestine and Gaza. - CR]
###
In December 2003, Key went home on a two-week leave. He never returned to
Iraq. Instead, Key went into hiding.
The following March, he and his family crossed the Canadian border at Niagara
Falls.
Published by House of Anansi. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. All
rights reserved.
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THE VOICE OF
CONSCIENCE - NOTABLE QUOTABLES
"Today we need a
nation of Minutemen, who are not only prepared to takearms,
but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose
of their
daily lives, and who are willing to
consciously
work and sacrifice for that freedom."
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Each man must for
himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong,
which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.
To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and
excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country."
- Mark Twain
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their
neutrality in times of moral crisis"
- Dante Alighieri
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one
by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle"
- Edmund Burke
"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom,
those who wish to tyrannize will do so;
for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any
number of gods,
religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."
- Voltaire
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
- Plato
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing
no allegiance and
acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible
government, to befoul
the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics
is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."
- Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It
is hardly too strong to say that
the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good
intentions.
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to
govern.
They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
- Noah Webster
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear, kept us in acontinuous
stampede of patriotic fervour,
with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible
evil at home,
or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up
if we did not blindly rally behind it."
- General Douglas MacArthur
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to
rule. The whole aim of practical politics
is to keep the populace alarmed and thus clamorous to be led to safety by
menacing it with
an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
- H. L. Mencken
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop
thinking about new ways
to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
- George W. Bush, August 5th, 2004
"Your enemy is not surrounding your
country.
Your enemy is ruling your country."
-- George W. Bush
[to Sadaam’s Iraq? or U.S.?]
"It is fortunate for
those in power, that people do not think."
- Adolph Hitler
METHOD TO THE MADNESS OF THE
WAR PROFITEERS
"The amount of corporate money flowing into Washington has exploded over
the past decade, and the Wall Street Journal has led the cheers as an
army of influence peddlers converted those billions into legislation
favorable to the corporations.
For years, the Journal has been the leading advocate for a globalcorp
future of unrestrained capitalism administered by multinational
corporations in a borderless world in which markets and labor have
replaced nations and humans."
- Craig Nelsen,
www.ProjectUSA.org
"Contemplate the
mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of
such sacrifices?'
Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough,
and sow, and reap,
to glut the avarice of the men who
have let loose on us the dogs of war
to riot in our blood and hunt us
from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the
tranquility of servitude
more than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your
counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget
that ye were our countrymen!"
--Samuel Adams
"Politics is the art
of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing
it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies."
- Groucho Marx
"We must be prepared
to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace
that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war."
- Albert Einstein
"Peace hath higher tests of Manhood than battle ever knew."
- John Greenleaf Whittier
"We
have had our last chance.
If we do not now devise some greater and more equitable system,
Armageddon will be at our door. The problem is basically theological
and involves a spiritual renewal and improvement of human character.
It must be of the spirit, if we are to save the
flesh."
--Gen. Douglas
MacArthur, who understood the ultimate
solution to wars and the defeat of evil
~~~~~~~~~
"Humankind
is standing precariously on the edge of its destiny.
It will either rise to a paradigm change or experience decline
and possible destruction. This is an unavoidable confrontation.
The options will be presented and the choices will be made."
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