- What would you do if in the middle of the night a heavily
armed and armored goon squad invaded your sanctuary called home and terrorized
you and your family with threats and beatings, and maybe even raped the
females, killed one of your family members or took them away never to be
seen or heard from again?
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- What would you do if your child was in the backyard playing
and suddenly you see his head explode from a psychopathic snipers' bullet?
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- What would you do if you saw a picture of your best friend
lying dead in a partially wrapped body bag and a foreign soldier posing
gleefully giving the thumbs up signal?
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- What would you do if a car full of neighbors drove by
and suddenly their car was riddled to pieces by .50 caliber gunfire and
the shooters then walked up to the mangled mass of metal and finished off
those who managed to survive the unprovoked attack?
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- What would you do if newborns in your family and community
were born with hideous defects as a result of the all the depleted uranium
contamination left behind by the spent munitions that liberated you?
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- What would you do if you had to watch a loved one die
a slow agonizing death due radiation poisoning from the same depleted uranium
contamination?
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- What would you do if you had to recant your religious
beliefs, or face the possibility of sick and perverted sexual humiliation
or a tortuous death?
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- What would you do if your unwitting child curiously picked
up an unexploded cluster bomb and was killed or maimed?
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- What would you do if you found out your daughter felt
she had to become a prostitute in order to help the family afford the basic
necessities of life?
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- What would you do if a local family was having a wedding
party and they were torn to pieces by foreign troops firing bullets and
bombs, and had no regard as to whether or not they killed innocent men,
women or children?
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- What would you do if foreign corporations came into your
country and plundered your natural resources?
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- What would you do if you were coming home only to find
arrogant bullies had demolished it with bulldozers?
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- What would you do if those who act less than human treated
you as if you were less than human?
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- What would you do if constant fear, suffering and death
caused by foreigners, with no end in sight, came to visit your neighborhood
and country?
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- Take a moment or two and try to imagine yourself in these
conditions, and then ask yourself, what would you do? That is, if you dare.
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- Comment
Simon H.
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- I know what I wouldn't do. I wouldn't send my sons and
daughters off with bombs strapped to their bodies to kill innocent people,
and very often my own people in the process, as a form of idiotic retaliation,
which I know will only bring about more violence. I would demonstrate greater
wisdom. I would certainly fight back! But, I wouldn't take hostages at
random and behead them, when they had nothing to do with the tyranny of
my oppressors. I would target my oppressors and their supporters, specifically,
and with great justice and righteousness indignation, so that the whole
world could clearly see who is in the wrong -- and that is what is not
being done as a response to the insane oppression presently at hand. Certain
elements in our faction are actually working for our destruction, and we,
the common people, are paying for it. Even our neighbors, who claim to
support our cause, treat us with equal if not worse tyranny when we seek
peace and safety among them. So we have two enemies. The oppressive, racist
state and the psychotics who claim to represent our cause with bombings,
all in the name of our God.
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