- No, inhumanity is not a cartoon, not a rush of machismo,an
adventure for a day, bombs bursting in air, parades, drumming, laughter
down life's highways, a debate with intellectuals. Few today have any inkling
as to just what is this "man's inhumanity to man"? It's barbarism,
savagery, brutality, contempt, indifference, arrogance, ripping, crushing,
slashing, beating, stomping, gassing, vaporizing, shredding, incinerating.
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- We are indeed, dear people, trapped in a back lot, two-bit
carnival; where the clowns and freaks have gone mad and are rampaging up
the mid-way, with manical, demonic laughter. The stuffed bears and Big
Bird animals have loosed their fragile tethers; raging through the fun
house, the miniature golf course, the picnic lawns, with clubs on shields-M-16s-bulldozers
and tanks. Hatred, unbridled hatred, seethes toward the other. Where we
see diversity, freedoms, liberties-, humanity denied, in human society;
a cloned sameness dominates.
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- Such a society that turns one against the other, in propagandized
hysteria and venom, I fear, is a society that has become totally unstable.
Brutal murder becomes a cartoon in a school newspaper. War becomes a sterile
TV mini-series; minus the shredded babies, withered milkless breasts, terrified
screaming children, trembling gnarled hands reaching into the nothingness
of promised peace and insane postured liberation amidst the rubble of their
lives.
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- All this shallow, superficial veneer, double-speak, news
speak of love of children; protect the children, save the children, feed
the children, zero tolerance, mandated stupidity......all of it is a colossal,
stupefying lie . The children? The youth? What of them? What have we, the
people who have walked amidst the stars, hiked majestic mountain peaks;
made laws in alabaster halls, walked amber fields of grain given the children?
What?
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- A legacy of a poisoned, toxified, plundered earth of
nuclear waste, oil fields, pipe-lines, defoliants, depleted uranium, mountains
of waste, spewing stacks of chemicals, gas, mushroom clouds, vaporizing
fire storms, flesh shredding cluster bombs, micro-wave weapons and satellite
directed missiles. What have we wrought? What? Sausage fingered bejeweled
men in gilded board and war rooms playing at World Conquest, sneer in climatic
loathing, at the scenes of the children they've created for their own ends.
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- Children, who will mindlessly do the bidding of religious,
patriotic, nationalistic, cultural mantras, slogans and orders to maim
and kill one another. Bulldoze under, stomp to death, strap bombs on innocence
etc., all in the name of God-Country-Freedom-Peace-pablum nothingness!
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- Several pictures of young people this past week exemplify
what we have indeed come to. A young peace activist bulldozed under as
so much garbage. Another young man humiliated and stomped to death, and
a mocking-indifferent product of Super-Nation, draws a cartoon of it all.
The perpetuators of these crimes against innocent youth? Other young people,
deadened of conscience, devoid of all humanity. Killer-Kids. This is what
we have wrought in this carvival of the mad. See pictures below of our
New World Order of youth.
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- ....My dear, is it too late for peace, too late
- For men to gather at the wells to drink
- The sweet water; too late for fellowship
- And laughter at the forge; too late for us
- To say, 'let us be good to one another"?
- The lamps go singly out; the valley sleeps;
- I tend the last light shining on the farms
- And keep for you the thought of love alive,
- --Saul Kunitz..age 97
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- Please see below: http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1248.shtml
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- http://www.inform.umd.edu/news/Di amondback/archives/2003/03/18/cartoon.html
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