Subject: The BIG LIE still works Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 17:37:13 -0500 To: Junto From: Bob Armstrong I won't repeat my view of governance at all scales from neighborhood to global which I presented in my email on 03/24 . I have uploaded it to http://cosy.com/Liberty/[nycjunto]Re_FriedmanNYT.eml I'll just quote : However , in this case , I think it is clear that the UN was transparently reflecting the opinions of the world's= populations , and the gross dishonesty , distortion and warmongering by US= was clear to all with access to media beyond the American= mainstream . At Junto Thursday , I was most surprised at the apparent acceptance of the BIG LIEs of the Bush War and Terror mongers . The record has been disgusting . The standard set by the Clinton debacle that the President can= be more of a liar than lawyers permit among themselves , has been= used with gusto by Bush and his fellow US hegemonists who look for= security thru global force and fear rather than representation and= rational conviction . It won't work . THE TERROR LEVEL IS UP not down . And we have= bred perhaps 10s of thousands of Saddam Bin Laden's . What else can come from naked overwhelming force backed by= exposed lies and frauds and forgeries . -- And at the same time , the continuing colonization and= Bantustanization of the Palestinian region on the basis of the explicit denial of= the wisdom of the very first clause of our own first amendment= causes the hearts of moral people around the globe to seethe as did South= African apartheid . You can either believe in the wisdom of our first amendment as= a foundation for domestic tranquility , or you can believe in= Zionism . They are not compatible . There are a number of religions which proselytize "be fruitful= and multiply" , some Moslems , Catholics , Mormons and Hassidic= Jews , among them . ( There is a general tendency for religions to be= pro propagation and states to be pro non-reproductive ( as long as= non- capitalistic ) gratification . ) A fecundity war has been noted by both sides in Jerusalem . The= Jewish settler population in the occupied territories has doubled from= 200,000 to 400,000 in just the last few years with 66 new settlements= this year ( if I heard the facts correctly ) . The voice of the world cannot afford to be , and will not be intimidated by US anti-democratic militarist supremacy into ignoring this most grotesque and dead-end oppression of a= population . Iraq will have been just a short term diversion from this open= wound . It has been suggested that NATO "peace-keepers" move in . The= non- Zionist population would welcome anybody ( but US ) who might= protect them from the slaughter and destruction which continue whether= or not another Mau-Mau attack against the massively armed master class happens or not . See http://www.onepalestine.org for an alternative vision= based on American founding principles . -- =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Ultimate Computing Environment : =A0http://cosy.com/K/CoSy.htm A WTC vision : http://cosy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/ =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02003/04/05 1:10:16 PM