To be OR NOT to be,
by Lu Banta
That is the question facing all us ordinary mortals of Earth today and the conflict that could END US ALL is not one between two . . . candidates . . . OR even between two "parties" . . . OR between 2 sets of "VOTE COUNTS" - one that continues and one that freezes the count where it's at?!
NO . . . it is much simpler than these . . . it is a conflict in the MIND of man and woman.
For it was the human MIND that gave us nuclear weapons It was "the MIND" that spread theses poison-bombs against human survival far and wide. It was "the MIND" that escalated the wars mankind has long endured - into Armageddon of the unspeakable, unthinkable KIND !
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And NOW WE are all up against that "mind" again . . . in a lethal form called "$TAR WAR$" which would surround our precious planet with enough nuclear-armed missiles toxins and deadly poisons to kill off our atmosphere, our sunlight, rain, wind, ozone, and the very air we breathe so that ultimately - even without a death dealing nuclear war -- it could indeed be the death of Earth.
The Bush "side" -- in this deadly conflict -- would assure US of such an outcome . . . for a right-wing dictatorship -- lusting for the obscene astro-profits this deadly $chime would bring to a handful of "humans" -- pi;d brook NO opposition to its star-crossed bonanza . . . Even though this could mean its own $suicide -- along with its Earth-ocide ! ! !
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And yes -- the "other side" says it too is committed to $TAR WAR$ too. But with that "other side", while it too is courting a Corporate-profits-made $suicide ! -- at least WE KNOW one such suicidal leader, named Clinton, backed off of that deadly "policy" when mass pressure here and from around the WORLD stopped this particular president politician in his mad tracks.
Mass pressure like MASS VOTES is the very essence of a democracy. Without mass influence on events -- there is NO DEMOCRACY. WE THE PEOPLE must MUST ! -- wake up to this reality NOW . . . or commit ourselves, our children and all that is dear to US -- to mass destruction not of ONE region OR another but of our God-given HOME here on Planet Earth ! ! !
Any other course, while courting disaster, is what WE can call LUNATIC. And what does "ulna" stand for ? It means the moon. And remember -- the MOON is already a dead planet. Is this how we mortals wish our sacred Earth to be? TO BE OR NOT TO BE -- is indeed the choice we make . . . in deciding whether (or not?) we retain our equally sacred DEMOCRACY !
But that struggle between the "sides" -- LIFE OR DEATH = is far from "new". It has gone on for Centuries, eons ! And it is a conflict WE SEE, every day ! ! !
The 9/11 -- Columbia Shuttle Anomaly
A strange Question mark about preparedness and policy has struck at the hearts and minds of America.
When the mega-tragedy of 9/11 hit us three years ago -- WE warmhearted Americans were too much in shock, too dazed, and too empathetic with the victim?s families? agonizing losses -- to think of why ?
As we heard and saw the uncountable true stories of courage, volunteered aid, and outgoing services of every kind expressed by and for the victimized families -- we didn't stop to inquire about certain strange factors in our government relation to the heart-wrenching horror.
Why, for example, the Bush administration apparently ignored countless warnings it had received about the danger, from many parts of the globe.
Also, how Mr. Bush apparently knew so surely the name of the perpetrator of this hideous crime . . . yet at the same time, seemed to know almost nothing of it?s details . . . not only the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden whom he quickly identified as the arch-mastermind of the terrible deed. . . .but also - what connection had been established with the guilt of yet another country, Afghanistan -- not even Bin Laden?s homeland.
Yet Mr Bush quickly named that long-suffering country as the cause of this attack . . . and promptly announced to America -- "THIS MEANS WAR ! ? . . ". Soon after which, U.S. air strikes were killing thousands innocents in Afghanistan, who had NO IDEA either of Bin Laden's whereabouts, NOR who was responsible for the attack.
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It has been estimated by authoritative reports that about as many were killed by "official" U.S. attack on Afghanistan as were slain on 9/11. . . (a death toll that was much to the distress of many of the victims families, who strongly protested it -- saying Not in Our Name? ! ! ! )
Yet very much in Bush's name -- long before any of these puzzling anomalies were explained -- were such mystifying questions as WHY the U.S. Government had once befriended this same Osama Bin Laden, and WHY with such lightening speed, BU$H has switched his blame for endangering America-- from bad man Bin Laden to another villain Saddam Hussein. . . and turned his threat of mass slaughter, instead, against a country whose population has already been devastated by a dozen years of U.S. attack, and strangling sanctions, little Iraq -- which is the present target of BU$H'S all out anathema.
And again -- what hard evidence is there, in connection with 9/11 -- in the case of either targeted country ? -- Yet 9/11 was the massive tragedy which triggered off Bush's original personal declaration of WAR? !
But as we all know, "weapons of mass destruction" is the latest gimmick to "excuse" mass murder by a U.S. pre-emptive strike ! A strange claim for the Administration of a Government which has itself produced, amassed (and USED !) the most gigantic arsenal of weapons of mass destruction the WORLD has ever known. [Costing the American people seven times more wasted tax dollars than any other country has spent on war in today's nuclear era.]
One wonders what judgment from "On High" has ordained that only "WE" -- the U.S. of A-- has the God-given right to posses (and USE) such formidable destructive power -- but NO ONE else ? ? ? And what such judgment now decrees in the case of a small war-decimated, mass-impoverished people like most in Iraq -- has NO such celestially authorized privilege ! ! !
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The sheer RACISM manifested in this kind of "judgment" is, in and of itself, a comment about the U.N.'s decision-makers.
This kind of national chauvinism was, quite evident in the consternation that white majority "advanced" industrial nations [that is their governments] displayed -- when "Third World" countries like India, and Pakistan, finally achieved nuclear status.
All this United Nations kowtowing to the U.S. self-proclaimed "privileged status" in the realm of mass-destruction (OR even genocidal) capability -- being somehow a U.S. prerogative ( ? ! ) -- is currently being exposed by the U.N. action of inspecting -- NOT this U.S. all-too-real capability -- but IRAQ'S !
All this puts an entirely new slant on the concept of the equality of nations -- and -- peoples -- upon which the the United Nations was, at least verbally, founded.
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