WORLD WAR 3
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Letters to the editor
Sir,
Having taken the decision to put an end to terrorism, the western alliance clearly can't call a halt to its activities once it's immobilised the Taliban. That would be like killing the cockroaches in your microwave while ignoring the cockroaches behind your fridge. Iraq must be next on the list, followed by Libya and Syria.
Before the forthcoming election we must ask both Mr Howard and Mr Beazley how many young Australian lives they are prepared to sacrifice before America invokes the Hiroshima option. Like, will we just sacrifice enlisted men or will there be conscription? Are we prepared to sacrifice 1,000 Australians, 10,000, 100,000? How many?
Rebel Rouser
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COOL CLEAR WATER
She's five years old, raggedy, filthy dirty with sores all over her body. Her mother has sent her out with a cracked plastic bucket and a crumpled polythene bag to fetch water. Walking is difficult since her left leg was shattered by a landmine, courtesy of the Motorola Corporation. So here she is lying in the mud and the excrement trying to collect some drinking water from the disgusting trickle of brown fluid that runs through her camp. It's two days since she's eaten, her last meal being bread riddled with weevils and cooked over a fire fueled by cow dung.
Years ago her father died in the revolution. He and some other men almost managed to topple the brutal capitalist junta and introduce a benign form of communism. Unfortunately this upset the Big Neighbour to the west which feared that its interests could be jeopardised. The Neighbour sent arms, money and cut-throats to crush the insurrection, her father was called a terrorist, tortured and shot. Her family, what was left of it, was driven from the home that her father had built with his bare hands, the home was bulldozed and for the past four years she, her sister and three brothers have lived in a tent, alongside a million other relatives of "terrorists".
The area almost gained a big dam two years ago, a dam to provide fresh water and electricity. She remembers celebrations in the camp because everyone believed that their standard of life was about to improve. Unfortunately people called "enviromentalists" forced the World Bank to withhold funds because the dam threatened a rare species of beetle. The area still boasts thousands of very happy beetles. But no clean drinking water.
The Neighbour has clean drinking water. All the Neighbour has to do is turn on the tap and out comes sparkling fresh, pure and delicious drinking water. The Neighbour has so much drinking water that he washes his clothes with it, swims in it, flushes his urine and exrement away with it. He can choose different brands of drinking water with different attributes and packaged in attractive bottles, some clear, some opaque, some blue.
The Neighbour has so much food that contractors are paid to collect the bins of waste food left outside restaurants each night. The Neighbour spends 4 billion dollars each year on lingerie, 9 billion dollars each year on face creams and perfumes, and almost twelve billion dollars each year on pornography and aids to masturbation.
The Neighour spends trillions of dollars each year on what it is pleased to call "defence". It spends still more tossing things called "probes" into space, some of them with telescopes so sophisticated and so powerful that Big Neighbour can observe the maggots crawling through the body of her sister who died last week from dysentry.
The little girl ducks for cover, her near neighbour has aimed a missile at tent city. They do this all the time to teach the uppity "terrorists" a lesson. The missiles are manufactured and supplied by Big Neighbour who is determined to maintain the status quo in the area – no more uprisings.
News has reached the family of her elder brother's exploits. Apparently he has struck a blow for freedom, right in the heart of Big Neighbour's territory. This would explain the wailing she hears emanating from the general direction of the Big Neighbour to the west. She cups a scabied hand to her ear and listens... "Why do they hate us, oh why do they hate us? We cannot understand why they hate us..."
Rebel Rouser
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THE AMERICAN BLITZKRIEG
How many Americans know the full story of the invasion of Panama? Hardly any. George Bush (senior) had to convince the American public what a tough hombre he was, so he ordered the invasion of Panama. The excuse given was to apprehend nasty Noriega because of his drug dealings. But seeing as the new, American backed regime has doubled the flow of drugs through Panama this excuse seems a trifle lame.
Bush ordered the bombing of Panama's poor districts. For maximum effect the new stealth bombers were employed, it was a great opportunity to test their prowess. After "softening up" the ghetto, Bush's storm troopers went in, they moved from house to house with incendiary devices burning the humble homes of working Panamanians. Men, women and children were machine gunned in the streets. A total of 4,400 civilians were murdered by Bush's terrorists. 20,000 people were left homeless.
And remember, the alleged reason for this atrocity was to capture one man!
After the massacre, George Bush addressed the American people and announced, "Panama has been liberated!" He got a standing ovation both from Republicans and Democrats. The American public was pleased to learn that only 220 Panamanians had died, and anyway they were mostly bad guys.
To this day, thousands of desperate Panamanians are housed in aircraft hangers, blankets draped from clothes lines serve as walls between families. No employment, no schooling, no medical attention. Photographers are forbidden to photograph, film crews are forbidden to film, reporters are forbidden to report – interviews are banned.
During the actual invasion photographers had their cameras confiscated or if they resisted they were shot dead. And so most Americans know nothing about this atrocity which was committed by George Bush to glorify his name. George Bush junior must have thanked the "Lord" for September 11th, what a godsend. No phoney excuse necessary – a perfect opportunity to prove what a big man he is. Glory was handed George junior on a plate.
Rebel Rouser
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AMERICA the JUVENILE
Before I continue I'd like to make it clear that I am no Yank hater. I'm conscious of the fact that had it not been for the USA I would either be dead of slaving away building railways. We in Australia and Europe owe our liberty to America's intervention 60 years ago.
But Americans have a lot of growing up to do. It is impossible for us to respect people who are incapable of engaging their reasoning faculties. And when we see grown men and women grovelling before "Old Glory" and worshipping the phoney gods and the false values that were rammed into their brains as children, we feel sorry and sad that they can't advance intellectually.
The only difference between the average American and the average Muslim is his appearance. Americans tend to be clean shaven and they dress better than the ragtops, but they both believe a whole heap of religious and nationalistic shit and they are both prepared to kill and/or die for that shit.
All we ask is – please don't take the rest of the world with you!
Don't hate bin Laden. You should drop to your knees and thank him. Because without people like Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein how could you justify selling deadly weapons to wealthy tyrants all over the world? Enemies are your friends, they keep Americans employed and global industrialists wealthy. But the bomb barons miss the good old days when fortunes were made manufacturing weapons to massacre Vietnamese peasants.
Briton and France are no better, if there's a quid to be earned murdering "wogs" they'll seize it. And Australia is happy to sell guns and helicopters to Indonesia knowing full well that they'll be used to slaughter innocent villagers. Selling death provides a comfortable lifestyle for Westerners, but now and again we must accept a set-back like the WTC attack.
I don't expect you to like what I've written but that's what liberty's all about. I have a right – and so do you for that matter – to question and reject the garbage that schools, churches, industrialists and governments pump into our heads. If you choose to absorb it then don't blame the ragtops for doing likewise. You are both victims of your conditioning and the entire world is about to pay the price for your pathetic mindset.
Sorry guys, I like your 'burgers, I like your music but I'm your best friend telling you that your thinking stinks.
Rebel Rouser
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HAPPINESS is a WARM GUN
On September the 11th a bunch of god's henchmen damaged some American real estate and killed a few thousand people. What's the problem? America sacrifices 30,000 of its citizens every year in the name of Constitutional Rights. That's how many Americans slaughter each other with guns. Speak to any American and the chances are that he will justify those deaths on the grounds that it is his Constitutional Right to bear arms. (For an insight into the psyche of America – its attitute towards guns, check the well known photo of the silly but sinister J. Edgar Hoover posing menacingly with a machine gun. What a pathetic wanker.) Americans see themselves as John Wayne or Dirty Harry, "Go ahead, make my day..." 30,000 Americans are sacrificed every year so that the remainder can feel like King Kong.
So now a mere fraction of that number has died in the WTC attack and because of that America is prepared to trigger World War Three. Why not just write off those suckers like they write off thousands of dead American children every year? Ah but then there's the financial loss – billions of dollars worth of real estate damage apparently.
Chicken-feed. America fritters away trillions of dollars on its military. More guns for the boys. Floating guns, underwater guns, flying guns, guns on wheels and guns on guns and guns, guns, guns... And it's happy to fire megabucks at Mars or Jupiter – a probe here a probe there, here a probe, there a probe, everywhere a probe probe. And then there's that big revolving restaurant known as a space station, I'll bet that cost considerably more to build than your neighbourhood McDonalds. Plus the biggest waste of money in the history of mankind – the cosmic gunship – Star Wars Mk 2. For that money everyone could have a World Trade Centre built in their back yard.
My point is that America has until now remained blase about murdered Americans and wasted money. But what it does care about is its pride. America's pride has been hurt by the attack on New York and Washington. So now to assuage America's hurt pride, thousands of young American, British and Australian lives are about to be sacrificed.
How many lives, that's what we want to know? We must demand answers from our politicians; how many deaths are acceptable? If politicians had been honest with the British public in 1914 there might have been no WW1. If Haig the Horrible had explained to the Brits that he was prepared to sacrifice at least a million British lives in order to cover himself in glory, the lads would have stayed at home drinking Watneys mild. So it's important in the lead-up to the election that we learn from Prime Minister Howard what he proposes. How many Australian lives before we reach cut-off point, Mr Howard? We need FIGURES, not your usual evasive bullshit. "No conscription while present strategic circumstances apply" isn't good enough. This is John Howard speaking with forked tongue. He knows damned well that the present strategic circumstances will change within weeks.
We demand an unequivocal "NO CONSCRIPTION!" – not now, not next month, or next year – never!
Rebel Rouser
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