First
pluck the 2 by 4
out
of your own eye...
By
Junious Ricardo Stanton
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One of the United State's sticking points for pushing the United
Nations into an invasion of Iraq is Iraq's
non-compliance with United Nations resolutions.
President Bush has repeatedly accused the United Nations
of "going the way of the League of Nations" if
it doesn't follow through on its resolutions to disarm
Saddam Hussein. Therefore, according to democratic
principles, what's good for the goose is good for the
gander.
If the United Nations must enforce resolutions against Iraq, then
it should be made to do the same to all countries
currently under unresolved resolutions. Isn't that what
justice is about, even application of the law? How about
starting with the United States and Israel? Each of
these countries has been severely censored through the
years, the United States for its invasion of Panama, for
instance. The American government has never seriously
addressed that issue, the bombing destruction, (it was
rumored at the time that the resulting fire was
"enhanced" by US troops), of an entire section
and its residents of Panama City. Nor has it acted on
any other condemnation of its tactics, at least, on the
greater issues.
We think because we're us we can bomb and kill approximately 2,500
civilians in Panama with impunity. What's the difference
between 3,000 dead civilians in New York and nearly the
same amount in Panama? Of even more immediacy is the
situation in the Middle East. No one can say that the
treatment of the Palestinians by the Israelis isn't the
biggest bone of contention and anger in the Arab world.
It's also a rallying point pitting the world against
America. According to United Nations' legalese, Israel
is the Occupying Force in Palestine.
It has certain responsibilities set out in the Fourth Geneva
Convention (1949) concerning the treatment of civilians
in occupied territories. Ironically, this particular
Geneva Convention was convened to set forth standards
that would never allow a repeat of the Holocaust. From
the world's perspective, as seen in the United Nations'
votes, Israel has been in violation of the Fourth Geneva
Convention for years. Israel has a continuous stream of
cease and desist resolutions from the United Nations
Security Council.
These resolutions, call almost entirely for the immediate
withdrawal of Israeli Defense Forces from Palestinian
territories. Just since the beginning of 2003, over 60
items of business on the UN agenda have dealt with
Israel's provocations in the territories.
--Karen
Nakamura, Coastal Post Online 03-03-03 |
As
evidenced on Thursday evening's staged "press conference,"
George W. Bush has no grasp of morality or truth, the more he
opens his mouth the less credible he becomes. Perhaps that's why
his handlers don't allow him to speak to the public. I'm
surprised his nose isn't ten feet long by now. So dismal,
lackluster, and unconvincing was his presentation Thursday, even
the corporate media harlots weren't able to put a positive spin
on it.
Anyone
who has studied AmeriKKKa's shift towards a fascist posture
since World War II can trace it to its policy of embracing and
assimilating Nazi scholars, scientists, intelligence officers
and war criminals into the this nation's academic, corporate
intelligence, and cultural fabric via the infamous Operation
Paperclip (check it out via your search engine). Given this, we
can readily see why Bush & Co's adoption of Adolph Hitler's
propaganda philosophy "If you tell a lie long and loud
enough sooner or later the public will believe it" is being
employed here.
Fortunately
increasing numbers of AmeriKKKans no longer believe anything
Bush and his cohorts say despite the propaganda apparatus's
incessant regurgitation of their warmongering mantra.. It is
clear to even the most apolitical dolts George W. Bush and his
posse have committed to a policy of indiscriminate death and
destruction in their quest to monopolize god (gold, oil and
drugs).
Last
year in his State of the Union address, Bush called Iraq, Iran
and North Korea the "Axis of Evil". Looking around the
world today one would hard pressed not to conclude based on the
violence perpetrated indirectly or directly in the so-called
Middle East and throughout the planet, the real Axis of Evil
wasn't the US, Britain and Israel.
No
amount of propaganda and psychological manipulation/intimidation
can alter the indisputable fact AmeriKKKa is the "greatest
purveyor of violence in the world today." Plus we now know
the US, Britain, and France either currently or at one time or
another armed and supplied fiendishly diabolical weapons of mass
destruction to most of the world, including Iraq. And Israel is
the one nation that routinely employs pre-emptive military
aggression against its neighbors.
A
great metaphysical teacher counseled his followers about
integrity and discernment stating succinctly, "you can tell
a lot about people by their deeds and actions... a good tree can
not bring forth evil fruit." (My interpretation) By that
reckoning if AmeriKKKa were really a good and decent nation, its
CIA and military would not be involved in so many atrocities,
covert interventions, and intrigues around the world. And it
would not have the ongoing legacy of racism, violence and
brutality it does.
Bush
and AmeriKKKa have no moral mandate to police the world let
alone tell anyone how to live their lives or interfere with
their internal affairs. As the Teacher of Righteousness wisely
suggested, "first pluck the 2X4 out of your own eye, then
you will be better able to see to pull the splinter out of your
brother's eye." Heal yourself, make sure your house is in
order, then you can effectively assist someone else. Bush fails
to grasp these fundamental truths because he is blinded by the
planks of elitism, white supremacy, covetousness, imperialism,
and hypocrisy.
POSITIVELY
BLACK, 3-10-03
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