- Lately I am so paralyzed by the truly frightening array
of horrific subjects to write about that I often cannot choose. No sooner
do I start to research one subject - say, the blatant theft of yet another
American election - when another horror - say, the napalming of women and
children in Fallujah - seizes control of my frazzled focus.
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- A frightening array, and seemingly endless. Vaccines
created to make people sick, radioactive ammunition designed to sicken
and kill our own troops, chemtrails that have left half the country stricken
with a debilitating bronchitis that never goes away, the destruction of
our Constitution by cynical Congressional fiat, a plan to put all our schoolchildren
on prescription drugs the ingredients and consequences of which are never
fully revealed until it's too late, our brains shredded by microwaves from
cellphones, the neverending robbery of our treasury by Israelis to support
their genocide of the people whose land they stole, and the sinister plot
by corporate giant Monsanto to kill half the world by starvation with bioengineered
seeds that produce sterile crops .... the list of horrors inflicted upon
us by corporate criminals does not end.
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- And of course the 9/11 scam, the malicious maneuver that
brought America out of the closet as a lethal menace to the whole world.
The latest news on this front is that the courageous 9/11 skeptics who
have gathered all manner of irrefutable evidence that the tragic day was
undeniably an inside job have pinned their hopes on a variety of legal
actions designed to get more people's attention, but all of these court
moves have disappeared into black holes and are most unlikely to ever see
the light of day again.
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- Another triumph for the elite and their bought-off judges.
The latest disappointment returns to the scene of the crime in New York
City, where state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, whom the media have built
up as a corporate giant killer, has been given substantial 9/11 hoax evidence
by renegade Republican crusader for truth for Karl Schwarz.
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- But today Spitzer announced his candidacy for governor
of the Empire State, further reducing the already slim chance he would
actually do anything about the revealing 9/11 evidence he has been furnished.
After all, what mainstream politician has EVER talked about 9/11 in a constructively
critical way? They are all bonded to the malignant myths so fascistically
reinforced by mainstream media that Arab fanatics are to blame, and that
our striking out against the world with murderous rage is perfectly justified.
No way Spitzer is going to ally himself with the 9/11 critics now, if he
ever was to begin with.
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- Same deal with the other 9/11 lawsuits, Hilton's, Mariani's,
Rodrigues's. All disappeared into the corrupt courthouse swamp of payoffs
and coercions known as the American justice system. All these principled
actions will be quietly dismissed down the road on some arcane technicality.
If you're extremely alert, you'll read about them on page 29 of your local
newspaper, in a two- or three-paragraph blurb that will never explain what
they were about in the first place.
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- So ... with this odious spectrum of ominous topics all
clamoring for attention in my shellshocked brain, it often requires some
note, letter, or e-mail from one of those noble souls on my substantial
list of correspondents to sufficiently jolt me into writing something.
Such an e-mail arrived today, from my good friend and benefactor Duane,
whose desperation about the demonic turn in current affairs has become
as bleak as my own. It was couched as a letter to God, and concluded in
this way.
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- "No offense, God," he wrote, "but maybe
you should abduct some people, enlighten them, and leave a mark or even
a memory or two. About some real deep truth. I mean DEEP. C'mon, give us
a clue. We need you. We really do need you.
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- "We have people espousing what they think are 'your'
views and trying to force them on us all. And there are a lot of us who
are frightened by their self-righteousness and their pious approach. Something
doesn't seem right. Are you there? We need a miracle."
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- Duane has a good heart, and I understand where he's coming
from. Things are so bad, the American corporate monster has become so evil
and so oblivious to arguments of conscience and compassion, that it seems
logical, in our ashamed frustration, to hope for some miracle that would
somehow right the ship of state into concentrating on peace rather than
constantly devising new instruments and techniques for war.
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- But on the other hand, I began to realize after reading
this, waiting for a miracle is exactly what got us into trouble in the
first place.
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- Because it's very likely that if we're hoping for miracles,
we may not be paying sufficient attention to the here and now - and thinking
about what certain actions actually mean. This is how our once free country
has degenerated into a corporate zombie plundered by its own leaders.
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- Much in the same way the Indians sold Manhattan to the
Dutch for a bucketful of trivial trinkets, we abdicate our responsibility
for controlling the events that shape our lives in exchange either for
cash, which we then spend on our own kind of trinkets, or for some nebulous
blessings in the spiritual sphere, which have never been known to have
any effects at all on events in the real world.
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- Oh sure, in our frustration with this nasty assembly
line of current events in which murder and lies have become the norm rather
than the exception, it's easy to throw up our hands and beg for a miracle.
This is just a simple expression of frustrated hope.
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- But on a deeper level, if we wait for miracles, we guarantee
the miracle we seek will not happen. Because the problem that needs fixing
with a miracle, whatever it is, will never be fixed until we fix it ourselves.
That is the real message in wishing for a miracle. The realization that
our fate, whether we know it or not, is in our own hands.
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- Put it this way. You know how people say, "The truth
will all come out in the wash?"
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- This statement is untrue, demonstrably so. On most occasions,
particularly having to do with political assassinations or the real causes
of wars, the truth absolutely never comes out. This is the lesson that
keeps the power brokers devising and conducting new and more heinous schemes
to fleece the stupid populace. They never get caught. Ever.
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- Think about it. We never solved the assassination of
Lincoln, for God's sake. John Wilkes Booth, according to some, lived out
his life on a plush estate in Europe after doing Abe because he printed
his own money. Or how about Zachary Taylor? Damn few people even know he
was a president, never mind that he WAS assassinated, felled by poisoned
strawberries, a gift from bankers who opposed his principled stand against
private banks.
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- Every president who was ever assassinated spoke of the
government wresting control of the currency from the international bankers
shortly before his demise. Check it out. Taylor, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley,
Kennedy.
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- Then take a look at more recent debacles: Waco, Ruby
Ridge, Oklahoma City, Flight 800, Wellstone, 9/11. How about the 2004 election?
No, the truth does not always come out in the wash. In fact, it never does.
Probably the best, most astonishing story in this category is about World
War Two. Who wanted war and who didn't? Do you think you know?
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- It's a great opportunity to gauge the level of your own
brainwashing that I'm offering you.
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- And now, with the world in disarray, with the possibility
of solving some problems totally distorted by corporate media which refuse
to provide honest, objective accountings of the problems that beset us,
with politicians claiming they are representatives of God killing MILLIONS
of people - including the very soldiers who are fighting FOR them ....
hoping for a miracle is the surest way to make sure these problems are
never solved.
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- The miracle you seek assures your inaction. The real
miracle would be if people were to suddenly awaken and really do something
about the lies that are being told. But as history shows so clearly and
so tragically, this is another miracle that will never happen. And waiting
for it is the surest way to make sure it won't.
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- Of course, the biggest miracle of all is also the biggest
lie, that Jesus rose again from the dead. This so-called miracle provides
the template and the conditioning for all these other lies to be accepted.
The lie that America is trying to spread democracy throughout the world
by stifling the truth about what it's really doing and snuffing out the
lives of all those who simply want their own freedom is directly tied into
the myth that Jesus rose again from the dead.
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- Just listen to the evangelicals if you don't believe
me. Listen to your alleged president. Or worse, listen to the "civilized"
Protestants who say, oh, those fools like Bush and Falwell not really Christians,
and, in the same ways Jews attempt to distance themselves from Zionists
to avoid responsibility for the carnage in Gaza, deny the unsavory fact
that Bush and Falwell ARE in fact the real Christians, following their
bloody Old Testament orders with that characteristic retributive hatred
flaming from their eyes.
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- If you believe the legend of Christ's sacrifice then
you believe that he told you to accept authority. It follows then that
you also believe the legend that Bush talks to Jesus, and the history of
hundreds of millions of pagan corpses sacrificed to this same lie should
clearly show you what it really means. The miracle of Christianity is not
eternal life, it's mass murder.
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- Thus is America a Christian nation following the dictates
of its messiah. Let the innocent keep dying as the world is bathed in blood.
And wishing for an intervention by Jesus becomes extremely problematic.
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- The miracle, you see, is a lie, and if you're waiting
for it, the only thing you guarantee is that the carnage will continue.
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- On the other hand, if you have courage - real courage,
not the kind they bribe you with in the holy books - you do have the ability
to work the real miracle all by yourself.
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- The basic lie that everybody tells themselves is very,
very simple. The most terrible truth of all that everyone struggles to
ignore is that we die, and that fundamentally delusional behavior affects
everything that we do. That thought, debilitating though it is, must preface
every action you take in life, because, in fact, it does.
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- This is the real enlightenment, and most of the most
enlightened people in the world refuse to comprehend it. We are only here
for an instant, and we have but one chance to make things right. We invent
all these fantasies to convince ourselves that we don't die, and in pursuit
of those fantasies, continue to destroy everything on this earth, including
ourselves.
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- Precious few people have the courage to see this, but
if we don't - and soon - the human species is finished, an evolutionary
dead end consumed by its own fear.
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- And now you have some idea of the miracle we really need.
No one else can save us, and in fact, we cannot save ourselves. But what
we can do - and must - is to use our little interlude of time in existence
to be conscious of our predicament and demonstrate our compassion to try
to alleviate the fear of others. No other course really makes sense, as
the glint in the eyes of those you love will tell you, every time. In this
life, a little kindness is all that is required.
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- Just this little bit will be enough to stop the random
killing. From there, a real future is possible.
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- Look into your hands, palms up. Study the lines and the
air that circulates above them. You are looking at the real miracle. It
is in your hands, and mine. It is the only way to stop the madness.
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- The miracle you seek is only a mirage unless you make
it happen yourself. I know this sounds all too smarmy and New Agey to be
believed, especially in the face of the military monster that casts its
lethal shadow over all our lives, but let me stress there is no mystery
to solving the problems of the world, and there is no need to hope for
a miracle.
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- It is only a matter of numbers, of people acting honestly
with conscience. And if you choose to believe in a benevolent creator,
don't you think it's time for you to help rescue his reputation from all
these fools in black cassocks who continue to support all this needless
killing in his name?
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- John Kaminski is an old newspaper guy who lives on the
Gulf Coast of Florida whose Internet essays have been collected into two
anthologies, the latest of which is titled "The Perfect Enemy."
Sales of these books and contributions from appreciative readers are what
enables him to continue to write.
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- For information go to http://www.johnkaminski.com/
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