Letters from Readers

September 10, 2005

Urbi et orbi

Editor:

Boy, could we ever, the inhabitants of this planet, be in more danger than now. Just imagine the Strong Man walking from one side of Oval Office to the other looking for an scapegoat. Anything can emerge from his frightful imagination or from any of his illuminated war cabinet staff in order to distract world's attention. Have we already forgotten the "mass destruction weapons" argument to invade Iraq?

Francisco Guerrero
 

September 8, 2005

Laughing at ridiculous neocons

Editor:

I knew that it would happen eventually.  The Neocons in their PANIC to lessen the anger felt by Americans are beginning to be completely laughable.  With that thought in mind, I have written some jokes based upon the idiotic and completely nonsensical stuff being said by the neoclowns.  Have fun and let's get people to add their own jokes.

Gina de Miranda

Katrina unmasks the evil

Editor:

There is evil afoot, more evil than I have heard or read of since the Khan Brothers trod the earth. But then, perhaps they weren't evil, just ambitious in their imperialistic romps.

This group of liars and thieves running the US now is determined to change the face of not only the country, but the world, and they're emptying out the Treasury on their way out the back door.

If you'd like an example of how the Bush Crime Family would like the whole country to look and work, take a look at New Orleans. Privatization at its finest.

Evil, straightforward, glaring you in "the eye", down and dirty, race-tinted EVIL! Some of the headlines:

• Offers of Aid Immediate, but U.S. Approval Delayed for Days
• Why FEMA Failed
• FEMA's Crime Spree
• Navy Pilots who Rescued People Reprimanded

Katrina made three landfalls, how many headlines tell that? Why were troops locked and loaded to save Americans in distress? Where were the Navy's ships, well, they were sitting off-coast, unused. Hospital ships.

Major cities around the country offering aid, corporations, other countries, all offering free help, turned away because FEMA didn't want them there to foul up their depravity.

FEMA personnel appointed by Bush, not because of their competence, but for the amount of their contributions.

Children dying in their parent's arms, left alone because they were black. That's right, it is a racial thing; ask yourself, "Were those roofs full of rich white Repugnicans, would they have been ignored for DAYS?"

I never thought I'd be ashamed and disgusted to be an American. Where's the togetherness that swept this country after 9/11/2001?

The only thing now that can save the face of the country is the arrest, conviction, and death by firing squad for every last one of the murderous and traitorous thugs running this country. Every one of them who had their fingers stirring the contents of the pot that created this sickening, feculent gumbo.

Jay Pickard
Port St. Lucie, Fla.
 

September 7, 2005

Re: In the name of God and Katrina

Editor:

I was so relieved to read this article because it was everything I had been thinking.  I knew that there would be those who would say this was all about punishment.  Guilt and shame are too often a tool used to keep the sheep under control and to gain more power.

Good article and thanks!

Rhonda Haffner
Richmond, Va.
 

September 5, 2005

DeMockracy in America

Editor:

It's time to take the call that Conservatives have raised for the last 30 years to have less Government in Washington to heart and admit to ourselves that we don't need Washington anymore. On the contrary, it extorts Billions of dollars from supine citizens, who are treated more like denizens. They have subverted the Economy so that it now is basically a War Machine . . . unable and unwilling to provide even the most basic services to any of its citizens except the ultra rich who now control it. The States should rise up and dissolve the Union so as to stop paying tribute to Imperial Washington for protection it can not and will not provide.

The members of the current administration have an immensely high opinion of themselves and are not far from believing that they form a species apart from the rest of the human race.    It could be argued that this is the most succinct explanation for the mind-boggling double standard of US foreign policy .

Yet it is also apparent in the entire stance of the administration toward anyone outside its limited constituent base.  A recent issue of the SF Chronicle ran an article about the NAACP outlining an IRS investigation of the civil rights groups' tax-exempt status. The reason given, as justification for said investigation, is that Julian Bond, one of the board's directors, had the audacity to criticize the Bush Administration's policies. It states: "Tax-exempt nonprofit groups are forbidden from promoting or opposing candidates for political office".  This from an administration funneling FEMA money to Pat Robertson, a known Terrorist, a fact proven by his recent public call for the assassination of a foreign leader.

This duplicity, this brazen, open, in-your -face hypocrisy endangers ALL Americans, yet it is only a relatively small group that has usurped the rights of the greatest number to enhance the privileges of the few.  The main object of government is NOT to achieve great conquests and glory for the nation, but to provide for every individual therein the utmost well-being, protecting them as far as possible from all afflictions. Instead, the Power Elite have acquired sufficient preponderance to enable them to take exclusive possession of the central power of the Federal Government. They now consider the States as their subjects and enforce respect for their sovereignty under cover of the sovereignty of the Union. But in truth, the Union has ceased to exist. When the founding fathers established the federal government and defined its powers via the Constitution, it empowered it to negotiate foreign treaties, keep a uniform currency, and amass an Army should The Nation come under attack. The WTO now makes such treaties not worth the paper they're written on, the Fed has debased our currency and brought us to the brink of economic collapse, and the events of 9/11/2001, and now Hurricane Katrina, make it all too clear that the Federal government means to use any attacks on us as nothing more than excuses to abrogate that Constitution which enshrines its very existence. It is time to come to the realization that the only solution is dissolution. The Confederacy of Dunces, now ruling via Military Fiat, Represents nobody but the Rich and Powerful who are a Clear and Present danger to the very Existence of the rest of the population whom they have worked unstintingly for the last 30 years to leave prostrate and powerless in the face of their depraved Greed.

Robert Lowrey

New Orleans a psyop?

Editor:

As an Australian I don't feel qualified to comment too broadly on your affairs, however, for some time I have been following the 911 Cover-up and visit your site regularly. So naturally have been awaiting the next big "psyop," due, they were saying, around Sept 11.

New Orleans fills the criterion. It leaves people confused, not believing in themselves anymore.

And, in future, people will be much easier to evacuate. Wouldn't you agree?  That could be useful in the new Police State.

Garry
 

September 4, 2005

Re: Bush disrespects the troops

Editor:

It's time to take action. Our soldiers need our help. Thanks for the article.

Sarah
Mother of a son

Harbinger of things to come

Editor:

New Orleans is the picture postcard of life in a "post-peak" America—uncertainty at best when it comes to "Homeland Security," something to ponder since most Americans actually believe that those who hold office are brilliant! That's the scary part!

Norm Ezzie of www.storminnorm.com
 

September 3, 2005

Gulf disaster victims

Editor:

When you see how Americans, who have lost all they have in the world in New Orleans and the coastal areas, are treated by our government leaders you know the stories and accusations about torture in Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuba, etc. have to be true. These leaders who are elected and employed to protect us instead are hateful, cruel, and inhumane.

What have we become a third world country? It certainly doesn't look like a democracy.

Judy of Oz

HAARP

Editor:

As the author of H.A.A.R.P.'S FURY, a recently released novel detailing the possibilities of this "non-project" run amok, the very idea outlined in your article crossed my mind more than once during Katrina's life. The thought of irreprehensible acts causing the destruction and loss of life that Katrina invoked, salts the conspiratorial fires with heinous implications. Even the most unassuming should agree, when power and greed are mixed into an equation, there is no scenario that can be totally discounted. Conspiratorialism can gain momentum like a runaway train. It should be held in check, yet at the same time, evaluated with a discerning eye.

I pray that an event of such devastating proportion, as that which tore apart the Gulf Coast region, and is exposed within the pages of H.A.A.R.P.'S FURY, can only be purely the idea of a novelist's mind. In the event that lives are being toyed with for the sake of greed, God help us all.

My congratulations on continued worthwhile reading.

WILLIAM BECK
Author of H.A.A.R.P.'S FURY, available through www.booksbybeck.com.
 

September 2, 2005

Another mother against the war

Editor:

What is President Bush thinking . . . or is he ..how can he possibly think by honoring our men and women who have been killed in a war we should not be in, stay the course and have more of our loved ones killed? What is he planning on doing when the numbers of troops we have there amount to more and more casualties.. replace them? How many of our loved ones do we have to sacrifice before President Bush says that's enough? Does he think his own countries people are that expendable? Doesn't he know they have families that love them? It's all well and good to send our people to help another country, but these people our killing our loved ones.

And another thing about this war . . . why in the world do we want to train another countries troops to fight as well as our country . . . That is idiotic . . . what happens when the US soldiers leave and the insurgents take over (which will happen ) and force their people to attack the US . . . and thanks to "OUR LEADER PRESIDENT BUSH", they now can fight as well as the US troops.

Does President Bush know what this war we should not be in is doing to "his people"? I myself have a son who is in the reserves and was deployed to Iraq. I am normally a calm easy going person . . . all that's gone. I now am obsessed with the news I surf all the news channels trying to find out about what's going on in Iraq, plus if I'm not glued to the TV I am on the Internet. And I know that any mother that has a son or daughter in harms way is probably doing the same thing. I have no life anymore thanks to "Our President". What's going to happen to me if my son doesn't make it back alive, is President Bush going to take care of me financially because I no longer can work because I only have my income to take care of me.  

The President needs to bring our troops home NOW and beef up his own country. He says we should fight over there rather than over here, if those people want to come over here . . . they will. If he wants to do something right that will benefit us right here, stop all these people from coming in to our country to live that are not US citizens. I personally know a man that lives in Egypt , that for that past 20 years comes over to the US in the summer time and works, doesn't pay a bit of taxes and goes back to Egypt in the winter. What's up with that? They are taking our jobs . . . People like the President that doesn't have any financial problems might not have to worry about that. But there are plenty of people in the USA that could use these jobs that foreign people are taking.

WAKE UP PRESIDENT BUSH and BRING OUR TROOPS HOME before we loose anymore of our loved ones.

Evelyn Hannett
Christiansburg, Va.
 

August 30, 2005

Re: Malignant hate hiding behind religion

Editor:

Thank you for printing the Article Malignant hate hiding behind religion by Mel Seesholtz PH. D

In today's climate of hate, fear and chaos it's nice to see a glimpse of truth peep through every

now and again.  In the scriptures of the right (and the left), " You shall know the truth and the

truth shall set you FREE."  In other words, the truth always liberates it does not discriminate.

Linda Riggi

Re: Listen up, you Christo-Fascist bullies

Editor:

This piece is OUTSTANDING!! Thank you for publishing it!!

Meta T.
 

August 29, 2005

Hooray!

Carla Binion:

Thank you thank you thank you for your insightful commentary about Cindy Sheehan, the media and Bush's propaganda.  I have been distraught the past week with all the anti-Sheehan propaganda and the media.  I hate to admit I have been really ashamed to be an American, because of this illegal invasion Bush and this administration has taken us in.  I want the traitor Karl Rove fired!  I want us to leave the Iraqi people alone.  We've done enough damage.  I still can't believe nothing has been done about 9/11.

You might be the "new" media—what news used to be, and should be.  We can't seem to hold our corporate press (aka mass media news) accountable, and they certainly aren't reliable for forcing our government, who the people we elect/hire/pay, to be accountable and not deceive the people the way they have.

Kudos.

Chrysta Miller

On "sin" and "God"

Editor:

It makes one wonder what would have happened had Christianity not been "invented" during the 4th century and, instead, the Greek enlightenment and the Alexandria Texts had been our cultural heritage?

What would have happened had Christianity not stolen over 1,000 years of progress in science, law, literature and art and plunged much of humanity into the intellectual squalor of the Dark Ages?

It seems that much of the Dark Ages has trailed along behind us like a rotting leg, polluting us with the rhetoric of such people as Pat Robertson et al. Isn't it time we actually chopped it off? Not through assassination but education.

If Christianity wishes to invade the realms of science and state, we now have a perfect opportunity for science and state to invade the realms of religion; public-funded faith-based organizations and schools should have scientists at their pulpits giving examples of why what they just heard is bogus. Bring on the historians to outline the true origins of Christianity, professors to give examples of biblical errancy, biblical horror that translated into millions of deaths. Let's give everyone, as President Bush said, an "alternative view" of religion—and for that matter, let's teach alternative economic theories as proposed by Jesus and Marx.

We have been given a wonderful opportunity and if implemented, could see fundamentalists giving new thought to keeping their mouths as shut as their minds.

Thanks for a great article.

Stephanie Norris
 

August 28, 2005

Fox News anchor GOP cpntributor

Editor:

When I found an innovative too1 from The Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C., which is both bi-partisan and non-profit, I was a tad surprised. This tool searches the records of who donated how much to certain campaigns, and I was appalled when I saw that Neil Cavuto, an anchor of Fox News, had given $500 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and $500 to the National Republican Congressional Committee on 6/3/2002. This perversion of the trust between a viewer and a journalist is something which should be made known.

Jason Gerson
 

August 27, 2005

Re: Standing with Cindy Sheehan (and learning why Jesus wept)

Editor:

I enjoyed Mr Burch's opinion piece and thought one of his ideas  deserved to be expanded:

Neocon's 10 commandments

1.    Thou shalt not have any other gods before corporate profits.

2.    Thou shalt make graven images of deceptive operation names upon  the headstones of fallen soldiers.

3.    Thou shalt take the name of intelligence officers in vain in  retribution for their spouse telling the truth.

4.    Three months shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But then  take a 5 week vacation and get on with your life.

5.    Thou shalt dishonor Gold Star fathers and mothers and all who  dare oppose your wars.

6.    Thou shalt kill anyone who has resources you think should be  yours.

7.    Thou shalt not commit adultery, but it is just fine to invite  gay prostitutes to visit anytime.

8.    Thou shalt steal elections.

9.    Thou shalt bear false witness against thy neighbor's weapons  and their involvement in terrorist attacks.

10.  Thou shalt covet thy neighbor's oil whether it be in Iraq, Iran  or Venezuela.

Larry Zimmeran

American violence or Zionist propaganda?

Editor:

It appears all Zionist Propaganda and the  majority  who choose to lie, cheat, steal, and kill, and  practice Kol Nidre,  are only  interested in  gaining  worldwide political, economic, and religious power controls. Aren't the Zionists ruling in America  trying to destroy America from within?

D. Pounds
 

August 23, 2005

Re: Busted at at "Justice Sunday III"

Editor:

Excellent. Thank you.

Joe Simonetta
 

August 8, 2005

David Kirby and autism

Editor:

Thank you for the great article on David Kirby and autism. It was very informative. I have a son with autism, and I pray everyday for people like you and Mr. Kirby. I get so angry when doctors and the other powers that be dispute what I know as fact. One, that there was no link to autism and his vaccines. Two, that his digestive problems have nothing to do with it. Three, his immune system was not compromised by them. And four, he was not worse after his flu shot.

Thanks again for fighting for our children.

Pamela Reitzler

TeenScreen

Editor:

Thanks for the great article you posted about giant pharma and TeenScreen, and our bought and paid for politicians. I have forwarded the article to both of my Illinois senators, Barak Obama and Dick Durbin. Thanks again for this great article. It is quite sinister really.

Pam Kulig

Chicago, Illinois
 

August 4, 2005

Bravo!

Editor:

Bravo for your wise, well informed article Remembering Srebrenica, thinking of Fallujah.

It is almost impossible to find such an article in the Western's corrupted, ignorant "kiss-ass" media, made out of the "footmen" persons.

M.Dordevic,
Paris, France
 

July 21, 2005

Faith Based Initiative is a huge failure

Editor:

I have an answer, not statistical but by observation, that the Faith Based program to help the poor is not working. It is a huge failure. This all in a time of high unemployment, hunger, homelessness, and poverty in America. Even these religious leaders look the other way when bundles of cash come their way.

The administration is buying religious support with our tax dollars. It goes to one party not both.

While many churches have done charity over the years, I have yet to see the effects of charity to the poor in my community and around the country.  All I see are new churches, schools, hospitals and competition between them to be larger, more powerful politically, etc.

For example, in Chicago the Catholic Church has closed many of it's schools and churches in poor districts while building a whole city block of new all marble, stone church and school in one of the richest towns in America. It is prime property in the center of a small town tax free and very expensive real estate.

These new churches, schools, and hospitals are usually in areas that were/are predominately the other religion. A huge Catholic cathedral/hospital in the center of the Bible Belt, etc., (as seen in Charlotte, NC and Asheville, NC). In my predominately small Catholic town, there are two new Protestant churches and the present ones have expanded their schools. Just a few miles away, both Protestant and Catholic hospitals are expanding. Community hospitals bought up by religious organizations.

I listened as a man came into campaign headquarters looking for help. We have no community church where they can go to get it. After billions of dollars taken of taxpayer dollars by Bush (unconstitutionally by the way) and given to only certain religious groups, there is still no "charity," just new buildings.

Religious organizations do charity work but are not equipped to do it properly. They are not trained professionals. Some services are repeated when it could be combined to be more efficient.  That's why government took the responsibility in the first place. Government does it better and cheaper. There is accountability. With religious organizations the money could flow all over the world because there is no way of following the money. Who says, "Charity begins at home?"

It is not faith based charity but bundles of taxpayer dollars given for influencing their members. Polls show over and over, most Americans do not trust religious organizations with their taxpayer dollars, but our Congress allows it despite our disapproval.  It violates our Constitution (Congress controls the purse not the president).

Is this new to history? Madison and Jefferson would say no. Jefferson said it could ruin a democracy to become a theocracy. Using God and religion for tyranny and power by the elite. It is one reason many of our ancestors fled tyranny in Europe. Hitler used God to give his rule credibility.

President Lincoln fought off a strong political push for a theocracy, along with fighting to keep the country united.  They said Christians should rule and use the Bible as law.  God Bless America, they would say. Lincoln stated in his usual dry way, it is not what God can do for us but what can we do for him.

What can we Americans do for God and how can we help those in need? We need to help the needy and do good deeds rather than build huge buildings and walk around with God on our sleeves, telling others how to worship and live.

I have neighbors that have huge crosses on their homes. I feel like saying, hey how about wearing your religion on your house!! Do they help God's children or earth in any way?

J. Stevens
 

July 19, 2005

Dr. Betty Martini's aspartame article

Editor:

I would like to commend Dr. Martini for writing such an eye-opening article. While I don't consume diet soda every day, I do get several servings in a week. It is clear the overall diet situation is dire in America. I miss the "old fashioned" meals myself, but find today's society is driven towards needing to make ends meet, while hoping one's children are properly preparing for life and, ironically, we find ourselves in an eating rut, not having time to do proper meal preparations. In the case of my own children, though, I tried to feed the balanced foods when they were young. To this day, they reject most foods.

After a while, I lost confidence when they would shriek if I brought something I made to the table. As a single parent and having an ex-husband who follows the path of least resistance, rarely attempting homemade meals when the kids visit, I'm out of ideas that can provide a consistent path back to a healthy diet. They do eat items that are nutritious and they aren't ill any more than average, but I find their behavior outrageous at times. Divorce can be difficult for children, but I can't locate what is causing this degree of trouble. Perhaps it is the diet.

What I'd like to see, as well as all concerned parents, is not just education on what is bad, but very duplicatable ideas to shift a bad diet, considering people's lives will remain very complicated until we can shift economic factors. It doesn't surprise me at all that Rumsfeld, or any of the president's cabinet somehow has a hand in this. People don't always believe such conspiracies, but the opposition knows the more outrageous, in-your-face acts against humanity are brought forth, the more the people will dismiss it as partisan exaggeration. It's a Hitlerian tactic.

Of course, I also know there is a lot of medical information out there that isn't based in classical science traditions. It is difficult to tell what info is likely to be correct, from scare tactic assumptions, using associations instead of experimentation. The general public, dumbed-down through every aspect of their lives, let alone their diet, has been brainwashed into weakly submitting to information, not understanding the responsibility we need to educate ourselves on matters, and ask the tough questions. Often the public doesn't have access to the research and experimentation process, since after all, how would they possibly understand any of that? And yet, how else would we learn and advance?

I'm not a fan of vaccines either, though I admire the original intent. I see companies making tons of money, and science being guided by shareholder values, not actual benefit to mankind. They can hide behind the emotions involved- surely it is okay to have a few errors for the sake of protection against horrific diseases, right? But that doesn't tell the whole tale. Surely, we can do better through breaking down the barriers of these ideological clubs that call themselves scientists, and pose the paradoxes in their behavior. We must look out for the general welfare of all humanity, not some, and without doing harm!

All of these topics written in Online Journal have a common thread: we are fighting the ideology that suggests mankind needs to be governed over, and at times, culled, but an elite class of overseers. This leads to slavery and loss of our God-given free will, and potential. Mr. Mazza writes of the rapture rupture, and I would agree. If it is to be interpreted in modern terms, I think once that crowd has fulfilled their mission, or come close enough to stop most progress, (which I believe they will fail, ultimately, but at a great cost to mankind) any number of events-disease, a wayward asteroid, or other natural event, could take out most, if not all of us, simply for not paying attention to universal truths and natural events.

In the meantime, we need to continue to "crack the code" of our existence, and the factors that undermine it. I would appreciate more information on how to do this in a troubled world, at least, the best we can, with hope of better times ahead through taking back our sovereignty, with the help of real science.

Jane MacHale

Re: Homophobia in action, inert creationism, and the drive for a radical Christian Supreme Court justice

Editor:

The hypocrisy of the religious right is shown most clearly in their departure from biblical doctrine. Here are two examples:

Deuteronomy 15:1: "At the end of every 7 years you must cancel debts."

Why then did the Republican Congress change the bankruptcy laws to discourage cancellation of debt? These laws already reflected the biblical 7-year period. The Republican Congress moved law away from the bible to serve corporate special interests—the credit card industry.

Deuternonomy 21:22: "If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine."

Here the killing of a fetus is very clearly set forth as a civil offense. Yet the Religious Right strives to pass fetal homicide statutes. They contradict the bible without concern when it suits them.

It appears the the Republicans and the Religious Rright only pay attention to those aspects of biblical law that provide them with the prospect of judging and killing others. Millions of attacks on sexual rights, but not one penny of profit foresworn in obedience to the word of God. It is by their works that we know them.

K. VanZant
Lexington, Kentucky

Larry Chin's article: London plot thickens, as does propaganda

Editor:

Great work! Keep it up!

Z. Richard Zmijewsk
 

July 17, 2005

Re: And the Supreme Court nominee is . . .

Editor:

One of the best analyses I read in a long time.

"This is one of those moments in American history. No matter what side you're on, everything you've believed in, everything you've cared about, everything you've fought for is at stake."

What more has to be said? How much more can one plead to the people to wake up? When is the White House of "Big Lies" going to fall? And how? Will Bush stand trial? Will Sharon? Is the Pope Catholic? They all will stand trial. Question is, will it be in Washington, The Hague, or will they just knock on Heavens doors and ask for forgiveness? Their excuse: it was all done in G-ds name.

History, for sure, has already judged Bush and his poodles to be the un-understanding uneducated uncivilised law breakers and war makers. To put it mildly.

1984. Evil is good and good will rapture you from this evil place sooner, when you do more evil. If any philosophy and guidance to life was stood on its head, than when GWB said, his preferred philosopher was Jesus C.

May G-d help us.

Democracy, Folks, is with Us!

Dr Ralph Kruger
Scotland
 

July 14, 2005

Re: London Britches Falling Down

Editor:

Great article. I am sending link to all in my email address book.

Dan Lawrence
London, England
 

July 13, 2005

Sibel Edmonds' case and Downing Street memos

Editor:

Wonderful article! So obvious, yet so few can see it! Please keep pushing on this critical point.

Tim Howells

Re: Tax dollars pay for vaccine-damaged kids

Editor:

I wish to commend Ms. Pringle for the excellent job she has done in so straightforwardly bringing to light such a clouded issue as is the holding of pharmaceutical companies accountable for the extensive and senseless damage they have perpetrated against a generation of children.

It is time the American public realized that while the multi-billion industry of pharmaceuticals is making a kill on poisoning innocent children around the world. It will be the taxpayers of this generation and many to come footing the bill in caring for the countless children who have lost their lives and will require a lifetime of care. The public needs to be educated in order for changes to take place.

I lost my child to the greed of the pharmaceutical companies. When all was said and done, I learned that the vaccines that took my child away could have been made safe, without the thimerosal additive, for an additional $1.25. I would have gladly given Merck or any other pharmaceutical company the $1.25 out of my pocket in exchange for my son's. Actually, I would have given them my life for them to spare my child's future.

Martha Ibrahim
 

July 11, 2005

Nazis

Editor:

Am I hearing old German Third Reich marching music in some commercials played to American cadence?

Arthur Walker
 

July 10, 2005

Re: False flag over London

Editor:

False flags fly over London, Baghdad, Fallujah, New York, Bethlehem, Jenin, Gaza, and any other damn place that falls squarely in the crosshairs of the warmongers. It's to be "war in perpetuity!"

Our world is in the "war on terror." Bush says exactly that and Blair says exactly that. All of the wondrous propaganda machines that surround the men of power say exactly that. It's "us versus them." Makes Pink Floyd seem awfully prophetic.

I'm of the opinion that a fair segment of our world's population has readily signed on to a cult of death. Inordinate numbers of people are willing to fight and die for simple political lunacy. Everyone else gets to clean up their bloody messes.

There must be some voices of reason somewhere but, these voices of reason are blocked out and censored by corporate media.

Don Nash
Murray, Utah

Re: False flag over London

Editor:

Thank you for the article "False flag over London" by John Leonard. I don't know how much heat you'll get for publishing it, but I honor your courage and your efforts regardless.

Gregg Roberts
 

July 9, 2005

Re: What's 'mental health' in a theocracy?

Editor:

While reading Mel Seesholtz's  fine article, a very frightening thought occurred to me.  What if I were sent away to a camp and an attempt was made to 'cure' my heterosexual lifestyle?  Ahhhh, errr, ummmm; I don't think their would be much success.  The plumbing just doesn't work that way.   Are these people nuts.  Sexual orentation doesn't happen in the mind, it happens a few feet down from there.

At any rate, good piece, good website.  Keep up the good work!

Wandy

Oppression begets hate & violence, hate & violence begets more hate & violence

Editor:

In the Tupelo, Mississippi Daily Journal's editorial section of July 7, 2005, "Attacks in London," the editor wrote: "It is, remember, the modern Western way of life more than individuals that radical Islamic fundamentalism hates and fears."

Actually, that is not too far off track from one of George Bush's favorite lines he used during his post-911 propaganda campaign to trick the people of this nation into condoning his preemptive strike on Iraq.

"They hate our freedoms" was repeated ad nauseam. Ultimately, it helped pave the way for war in Iraq and the resulting current strategic disaster in that country.

Americans believed Al Qaeda was targeting the U.S. because we stood for democracy when, actually, the animosity had more to do with our support of the Israeli military and other factors.

As long as the Bushevik propaganda is allowed to be repeated by the American media from every nook and cranny of this country and in every shape, form, and fashion, and as the Journal editorialist wrote: "the only meaningful commitment is a full one, and if it is constant, we will prevail."

But, we will only prevail when the terms are much less simplistic than that.

George W. Bush has repeatedly claimed: "Our troops are fighting these terrorists in Iraq so you will not have to face them here at home." Try telling that to the Britons who are in mourning for their loved ones today.

Oppression begets hate & violence. hate & violence begets more hate& violence.

Think about it.

Al Bratton
Tupelo, Mississippi

Re: False flag over London

Editor:

Just a quick comment on your article by the above mentioned headline. This is an excellent article by a gentleman that has not bought into the mind-numbing garbage they are promoting in the mainstream media.  I hope to see more of this insightful writing on your site in the future and will check back from time to time.

I also want to thank you for having the openness and courage to allow this work on your site.

Don

Downing Street memos

Editor:

I knew Bush was in trouble,but it reads like if Congress doesn't do it job, they could be in trouble.

I'm sorry for what the Bush government has done to the Iraq people.

I'm sorry for the mom without a son, the wiife without a husband and the child without a dad!

Kay
 

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