 It has been stated that war has long
echoes. Yes, indeed, and the littlest echoes such as the picture of this
small angelic child, shows forth the utter hypocrisy of the continuing
mantra in this country, blabbering of our grave concern for children.
Second hand smoke, car seats, safety zippers on jackets, playground equipment
that might as well see kids in rubber rooms, child proof caps, Internet
police, danger- don't talk to strangers etc. You would think we were raising
rare orchids or hybrid butterflies for goodness sakes!
Today's child is so pampered, coddled, pampered and protected from mean
looks, a spanking, harsh words, or correction that, God help us, if an
ill-wind hits them or they are refused their newest demands, a tantrum
ensues, with threats of calling 911 to report child abuse (encouraged in
our lab rat schools). TVs, video recorders, thousand dollar mountain bikes,
trips to exotic lands, to vacation from all the stress of materialism,
spring breaks, skiing, yachting, designer clothes, designer sneakers, cars,
concerts, Ivy league colleges, etc., are but a few of the excesses granted
a small cadre of today's privileged youth; through birthright--money--or
parents titled or well-connected in today's world of the 'Haves'.
Now the 'Haves' see themselves as separate-chosen-special-detached and
removed from the more sordid, mundane, crude, simple, vulgar means of life's
workaday world of farming, mining, foundry work, service jobs, fisherman,
lineman, teacher, fireman, policeman, lawns keeper, migrant worker, janitor,
laundress, maid, bellhop, taxi driver, construction worker, roofer, trucker
etc. These are the needful scut workers, that make the lives of the 'Haves',
free from soiling their hands, or God help us doing anything for themselves.
- The 'Haves' or Robber Barons of today's world, make their
living on gas/oil/timber/shipping/prisons/casinos/chemical production/waste/building/corporate
mega-farms/corporate pig/cattle farms/and WAR. War is a big one. Lots of
money to be made in the world of weapons. Satellites, bombs, super-sonic
jets, micro-wave weapons, Daisy Cutters, tanks, Hummers, ships, missiles,
weather modification, gas, mines, napalm, stun guns, barbed wire, sonar,
and weapons that can now cut through metal like butter made from depleted
uranium.
And so it is, in a world gone mad; that has clowns with hatchets, marching
down the midway of a precious place called Earth; raping-plundering-poisoning-drilling-bombing-shooting-gassing-kicking-stomping-and
destroying all that they touch. Ancient lands and their people beaten down
and robbed, their environments poisoned to kill foliage, to protect 'oil
lines' (not a drug war!) Engineering and technology have built devices,
through the misapplication of science, that could destroy all life on Earth!
These devices and the ones capable of destroying 4.5 billion years of life,
are unimaginably and frighteningly in the hands of manic clowns without
conscience! Clowns drunk with power--detached and removed from any semblance
of humanity. Without hearts, without a moral compass, without any feelings
of guilt, remorse, regret, or compassion towards one's fellow man, such
monsters are capable of the impossible. History proves me right.
It's not about money. After one's first billion or even multi-millions,
all the creature comforts that one desires are there for the taking. No,
there's a diabolical crazed mind set, that imagines itself as all knowing-all
seeing-all powerful-and all controlling of the world and all its resources
and people. It is beyond rational reasoning, or natural affection. It is
hard, if not impossible, for the ordinary citizen- just wanting to raise
their children without want in their villages, towns, and remote lands,
to imagine that manic clowns would destroy the whole of the earth in their
blithering, rampaging madness. It has to be madness that would construct
weaponry that melts people, blows them apart, renders them mindless and
poisons the Earth for billions of years and announces it as "Shock
and Awe!" What else can one call it?
- Radioactive waste from nuclear weapons development,
mixed with high-level waste from nuclear reactors, becomes a lethal cocktail
in Depleted Uranium ammunition. In recent reports, the US Department of
Energy has admitted that military reactor waste has been mixed with Depleted
Uranium. Disposing of this dangerous waste at a profit benefits many, namely
the military industrial complex. Depleted Uranium bullets are pyrophoric
and ignite on impact, producing a smoke that poisons life and travels great
distances. The bullet fragments and dust left in the bodies of the world's
children, their parents, and soldiers (cannon fodder from both sides),
cause extended suffering, and cruel and inhumane deaths years and years
after the war has ended and coffers filled. It is a toxic metal, and the
toxicity is greatly increased when combined with chemicals. It disproportionately
affects women and children. The children of the Nots, it must be noted
(civilians and cannon fodder), are given no thought---merely needful instruments
to order them to kill-gas-kick-and plunder for moneyed masters. Peace protests
see helmeted men in black with clubs beating on shields, to terrorize other
ordinary people---not the real monsters. Go figure. Neighbor stomping their
neighbor because they want peace.
Who can forget our little child in her purple sweater, one of the first
victims of "Shock and Awe" being lifted from the rubble by her
grandfather, dead. The clowns with their hatchets had shredded her little
feet from her limbs. What of little Ali, asleep in his farmhouse, miles
from Baghdad, shredded in his bed; both arms taken by the clowns with their
cluster hatchets. If this isn't madness then what is? We care about the
world's children! What a macabre joke--what lunacy! The Haves of the world,
kill butcher and maim the Nots, and we become enraged over a fan catching
an errant ball, stay glued to our TVs for the latest on some basketball
star and his lewd behavior, or plan that trip to Disney World or warmer
climates! Others shut down and cocoon refusing to allow negative thoughts
to mar their lives. Out of sight--out of mind seems to be the response
from those who feel powerless and impotent to effect change. And so, they
do and say nothing--hoping that the morrow will have things fixed. Well
they're not fixed and things will never be the memories of our youth.
- Our purple sweater child had the right to dance and catch
fireflies in the night. Little Ali, an orphan, without arms deserved to
clap his hands in childhood glee and to romp with his puppy on his isolated
farm. The land of Oz, with its Munchkin clown freaks had no right, no
rhyme or reason, to proclaim a regime change--liberation--or lie about
Iraq being an imminent threat to the whole of the world. For what? The
lust to control the mid east and it's vast oil reserves. The spoils were
divided up before the first youngster was sent off in a thunder of flags
or the first reservist called from his family.
It is estimated that up to half the 697,000 Gulf War I veterans are demonstrating
signs of "Gulf War Syndrome" and thousands have died since returning
home. And now, according to the Guardian, at least 100 troops from the
USUK attack on Iraq are demonstrating mystery pneumonia symptoms. Josh
Neusche was a former track star from Missouri. He wrote home that he was
chosen to do some secret hauling mission on June 26th,2003. Five days later
Josh was in a coma with the military authorities medically retiring him,
depriving him of any salary entitlements or health compensation. By July
12th, Josh died unsung! Zeferinao Colungo a 20 year old from Texas died
battling an unexplained pneumonia. So much for supporting the troops.
The Uranium Medical Research Center reports that urine samples of Afghans
show the highest level of uranium in the world! Afghans (not in the news)
are reported dying, demonstrating similar symptoms as the Gulf War Syndrome.
Dead birds, still perched in trees, are found partially melted, with blood
oozing from their mouths. Such scenes are now being reported in Iraq, albeit
on a wider scale. As in Afghanistan the genetic future of Iraqis is destroyed.
And the world slumbers. Akira Tashiro reports in his book, Discounted Causalities,
of Gulf War I veterans returning home only to find that intercourse with
their wives leave their vaginal areas burning and without sensation and
their semen contaminated with Depleted Uranium. In a study of 251 Gulf
War I veterans who prior to Iraq had normal children, 67% of their children
born after their return were found physically, psychologically and/or mentally
abnormal. Our Littlest Echo, will never throw a ball with his dad, ski
down some slope, hike or go river rafting. He didn't chose to join the
military but he's a war casualty just the same. They don't show these scenes
on the Army Recruitment Bus that makes the rounds of high schools for new
'cannon fodder'. I doubt whether these busses are welcomed at the Haves
private schools for their children. Rich children don't go to war----which
if they did might sharply curtail our mad rush to annihilate.
- The Guardian last month brought out an article entitled,
"Bring Us Home". The article quoted a soldier named Kindblade.."the
rules of engagement are crippling. We are outnumbered. We are exhausted.
We are in over our heads. The President says, "Bring 'em on."
The generals say we don't need more troops. Well, they're not over here".
Many troops are now learning that their wives and girl friends are planning
to leave them on the fear that they will come home (assuming they survive)
significantly disabled due to Depleted Uranium overexposure and consequently
jobless. No flags or parades or nightly newscasts on those dying, of a
young man here in NH with both hands blown off, a young 20 year old from
Vermont, an only son, dead. Is this what supporting the troops means? Sending
them off to be poisoned, enduring 130 degree heat with one liter of water,
and without proper equipment or nourishing food? And when they come home
ill; suffering from chronic fatigue, severe headaches, rashes, joint pain,
muscle pain, nerve damage, neurological damage, kidney damage, lung damage,
cardiovascular disease, thyroid disease, multiple cancers, auto immune
deficiencies, fevers, night sweats, sleep disturbance, abnormal births
(see the Littlest Echo), memory loss, blood in stools and urine, Epstein-Barr
syndrome, genetic alternations, infections, hair loss, chemical sensitivities,
asthma and vision problems; the DOD will deny any connection to Depleted
Uranium poisoning and tell all these men, the sick and the dead, it's all
in their heads.
Madness! Insanity! Pretty good propaganda from the hired guns they have
(called experts in moth eaten military uniforms) from their Public Relations
stables, when you can pit citizen against citizen, in arguing to send our
best and brightest off to a world of chaos, mayhem, and sands drenched
with Depleted Uranium, to kill rag tag people in a destroyed land, for
oil. No, the Iraqi people will never see a drop of their oil...and companies
like Haliburton and Bechtel will see to it, that the American citizens
are sucked dry, in the ever increasing demands for more and more and more
billions! Hell, the $87 billion requested by the President comes atop the
$79 billion Congress already allotted earlier this year.
- The 'Haves' aren't paying for all this. They're off building
trophy homes or vacationing in exotic resorts, much as the Kuwaiti youth
were, when we sent our young off to die for their land. Is this madness?
Their tax free, off shore accounts,will see to it that they won't be paying
the bill. No, it'll be the loggers, farmers, teachers, and Wal-Mart greeters,
their children and their children's children! With three and one half million
jobs lost these past few years; technology and manufacturing moving to
cheaper lands, it's a dilemma of how this nation building is going to be
paid for?
Don't know about your town, but around these parts, taxes are going up
and up, social services gone, and the infra-structure pulverized. The elderly
can't afford medicines, nor the cost of heating oil. Bridges are crumbling
and soup kitchens throughout the land are overwhelmed. The only ones oblivious
are the 'Haves'---and life is being very, very good to them. Congress?
Hell, they need a raise they vote themselves an automatic cost of living
increase. They have five different health plans to choose from with us
picking up approximately 72% of the costs, so you'll see no movement on
affordable health care. The 'Haves' are all set with their own private
hospitals and private doctors....meanwhile hospitals and clinics close
across the nation. Seems a bit mad to me that you dismantle one nation
to rebuild another. Where will our children have to go for jobs? India-South
America-Korea-Indonesia? Where? But let's all pretend it's not happening....let's
think happy thoughts, positive thoughts. When the electric company comes
calling and the fuel man, and when I go to the doctor; why hell, I'll just
write some happy-go-lucky platitudes on some slips of paper and pay them
that way! Some can choose to live in the Matrix, others (like most of us)
don't have such luxury.
- Senator Larry Craig, R-Idaho and Michael Moore were both
on TV yesterday. Craig in some delirium of self-induced Republican psychosis,
ranted on about Gallup polls in Iraq, saying that 71% of Iraqi citizens
were happy we were there. He frothed on about book bags, schools opening,
and the New York Times printing negative stuff; like our young people getting
blown up, on the front page, and the positive school bag stuff and wondrous
polls on page 16. Imagine! Hey, once the cannon fodder bites the dust who
cares? At least that's how I heard it. Now I realize that most people are
mesmerized by TV, thinking it the final authority of Truth, but Gallup
polls in Baghdad! Please! No phones--so we are supposed to imagine these
pollsters going door to door, knock-knock, "Hello, we're from Gallup.
Are you happy that America is occupying your country--taking your oil--and
liberating you into McDonalds-McNiki-and McFreedom?"
- Michael Moore on the other hand(Democracy Now--9415 satellite)
was a bit more down to earth; questioning how some guys trained (supposedly)
in crop dusters, brought down the Towers, how President Bush kept reading
a book about goats, and of contracts making a few very rich, oil etc.
He ended by asking of all of us, "What are we going to do? We have
one year before elections. Do we want the same old show? " Mostly
you could hear the voice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in his plea, that
we must do something...all of us in our own unique ways and together. We
have to save our country...we just have to. "Our lives begin to end
the day we become silent about things that matter". We can have Dr.King's
Dream, or we can disappear with our duct tape, plastic sheeting, and Sherwin
Williams color coded terror days, chased down Earth's midway by Crazed
Mindless Clowns with hatchets. The Littlest Echo, Ali, our purple sweater
footless child, beg us to save the world -- to save the children.
"Somewhere the saving and putting away had to begin again and someone
had to do the saving and the keeping, one way or another, in books, in
records, in people's heads, any way at all so long as it was safe. Free
from moths, silverfish, rust and dry-rot, and men with matches "(hatchets)
Fahrenheit 451
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