John Kaminski
The understanding
Wed Dec 31 21:00:49 2003
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The understanding
America teaching its children to lie, steal — and kill

By John Kaminski - skylax@comcast.net

How you treat a stranger determines how you treat the ones you love.

At first you can't see the connection. After all, how many doors
have you slammed in the
face of some maddeningly pious Jehovah's Witness, or screamed into the
phone at some gentle grandpa trying to raise money for the local fire
department? Or, best example of all, how many times have you cussed out
a homeless panhandler bugging you for spare change without contemplating
the ragged family he may have squirreled away behind some nearby
dumpster?

Most of us are too busy to care.

In the self-centered savvy of our synthetic 21st century American
lives, we are taught not to realize that how we treat our enemies — or
in our haste, those we would categorize as superfluous to our hectic
agendas — has a direct and debilitating impact on those who we say are
important to us. Our parochial perspectives teach others in our family
how to be cruel. We are taught that some people are less deserving than
others, that our way of life depends on recognizing and perpetuating
these distinctions, and that's the way most of us live.

What happens when those distinctions become blurred? If we hate
others on the basis of propaganda lies, how do we decide who we'll love
and know the reasons are true?

Most obviously, it is beginning to dawn on many of us that the way
America abuses the luckless inhabitants of less-developed lands is
beginning to unmistakably resemble the way the U.S. government now
roughs up its own citizens, without regard to their rights or their
humanity or whatever noble motives they may have, in favor of how big
their bank accounts are, and how much they'll pony up to participate in
this sleazy scam of corporate conquest and bottom-line tyranny that is
now sweeping the planet.

It's as if there's a colossal rush by everyone to buy their way into
hell.

Consider, just for a moment, groups of Palestinian children gunned
down for sport by bored Israeli stormtroopers, or Afghani families
bombed from the sky by hopped-up American airmen just for shooting
celebratory rifle shots into the air during a festive wedding. Compare
them to white-haired retirees and principled college students assaulted
with truncheons and pepper spray by masked Miami police thugs just for
protesting the destruction of American prosperity by rich men who give
allegiance to no country.

What's the difference? We are all citizens of the world now — all
eligible to be jailed without trial, killed without warning by those who
have deemed us excess baggage.

It's much like the way we see that vagabond on the west side of
Manhattan trying to clean our windshield. Chances are good, in this
raging age, that you'll have a chance to experience that as the American
economy continues to be propped up by lies, as more families lose their
homes and livelihoods. Then you too will see the ugliness of that
temporarily affluent man inside the car, racing off to fulfill his
endless commitments without seeing his own future waving that squeegee
in desperate frustration receding in his rearview mirror.

But beyond the visible parallel of pauperized Americans more and
more resembling gang-raped Iraqis as the herding of humans into
categories and camps accelerates, there lies the truly nauseating
specter of the behavior of contemporary American leaders and its
poisonous effects on America's children.

Contemporary political events and the lies that are told to justify
them are turning America's children into monsters without consciences
willing to kill anyone for cash. Anyone!

Have you noticed the number of kids going to school dressed in
military fatigues? The number of video games where the object is simply
to kill without reason? Is this why we had children in the first place?

Most parents do their best in leading their children through the
labyrinth of regimens and requirements to give them a decent shot at a
functional and productive adulthood. But think of what that involves
now.

It requires teaching a willingness to believe in the flag-waving
lies our leaders tell us. What kind of adults do you suspect that will
produce? You are looking at the future of America and the world, and you
ought to be scared.

It requires explaining to them how it's OK that America's Secretary
of State — Colin Powell, one of the most respected men in the country —
can go before representatives of the entire world and deliver a totally
fictional scenario, simply so that his bosses — the men who make the
weapons — can obliterate an entire country and enable their companies to
pull one of the greatest financial scams in history — the robbery of the
American people to rebuild a country that they themselves have
destroyed. Amid continuing flag-waving, that plan is scheduled to be
inflicted on many more countries which can't defend themselves.

It requires explaining to children why American soldiers who come
home in a box are to be venerated as having done something good, as
having given their lives for a noble purpose. And that requires lying to
your children, and overlooking some serious lies that we told to create
the situation in the first place. Because the soldiers who are dying in
Iraq are dying for lies that so many Americans try to overlook. Pity
those parents who give away their children's lives for lies about
weapons of mass destruction.

To most of the rest of the world and especially Iraqis, it is
Americans who are the terrorists.

The choice left to surviving children whose siblings have squandered
their lives in a war based on lies is to support their parents and
believe the lies, or go mad.

Our children learn what we teach them. For a majority of American
parents, we are teaching our children to overlook the truth, that real
justice doesn't really matter if there is a quick profit to be made. As
American soldiers come home and become policemen, and treat us in the
same way they treated Iraqis, so our children will grow up and behave in
the same duplicitous, immoral way our leaders do now. Why? Because
that's what we have taught them.

I wonder how many parents are naming their new babies after George
Walker Bush or Richard Cheney? And if any are, I wonder what kind of
adults those children will turn out to be?

Will they be children who learn how to steal elections? How to
destroy the Constitution by bribing their friends to support their lies?
To drop diabolical nuclear weapons on innocent foreigners because there
is a moneymaking scheme to be carried out that will make them billions
of dollars? Will they be men and women who will destroy buildings in
their own big cities and kill innumerable numbers of their own
countrymen simply to achieve their political objectives?

And perhaps more importantly, how will these children — grown up
with the lies of the present political machinery indelibly etched in
their own heads — treat the ones they are supposed to love? Perhaps we
can see that now. Perhaps we can see, in the behavior of those who
return from Iraq, how we treat the ones they love — or used to.

Is this why we raised our children? To believe in lies? To give
their lives for lies?

We are teaching our children that it's OK to kill large numbers of
innocent people if those people have some valuable commodity that we
covet. Just pick up any newspaper. Listen to your president, the man who
laughs about people he is about to execute. That's what it's all about.

How we treat strangers determines how we treat the ones we love. If
we abuse strangers, we can't help but abuse the ones we love. Not enough
people realize this, or don't realize until they're older, after a few
divorces, perhaps.

Need proof?

Consider this snippet of conversation between that crusading Idaho
dentist Len Horowitz and an interviewer about why it seems everyone in
America is sick right now with a brochial infection no one seems to be
able to get rid of.

Horowitz explained: " ... in the contemporary warfare arena, where
experts in biological chemical warfare convene and discuss the ways that
are ideal to conduct warfare today, to really take an enemy out, you
don't want to kill the people. You want to produce people who are
chronically ill and become dependent on the state and totally sap the
resources of the country. And then you can move in further with your
military-medical-industrial complex, your international
medical-pharmaceutical cartel. And then you sell these beleaguered and
defeated countries all of the pharmaceuticals and chemicals that they
need to maintain any semblance of healthy function."

Interviewer: "So you've got a work force that can work, but they're
too tired after they finish working to .... "

"That's exactly it," Horowitz exclaimed. "They're completely
depleted. They can't put together a military, you create a dependence
and thereby you weaken the population, and weakened populations are
easily to control. So you've got population control, and you make vast
fortunes doing it, versus just blowing up a nuclear weapon and
devastating the infrastructure that you own. You and your colleagues own
that infrastructure. You want to get rid of the people. You don't want
to get rid of infrastructure."

So much for the "why" of this biowarfare now going on that
everyone's overlooking. How about for the "who" and the "how," according
to Horowitz.

"What you're looking at with this upper respiratory infection is
that it is a multi-factorial illness. It's associated with a variety of
chemical and biological co-factors. Just like with AIDS, it's not the
AIDS virus that ultimately kills, it's co-factor microbes such as the
micoplasma ...."

"What you have could be described as an ideal Russian biological
cocktail. And I suppose it's called Russian biological cocktail because
the Americans likely invented it. What they determined would be the best
biological chemical warfare approach was a combination of chemicals and
biologicals, so that it would be very difficult to diagnose and then
treat the illnesses. Moreover, it would be very difficult to trace where
they came from.

"If you've got, say, ethylene dibromide coming out of the jet fuels
that is causing immune suppression and weakening your immune system, and
then you've got a micoplasma microbe or a fungus that causes an upper
respiratory illness, suddenly you develop a secondary bacterial
infection. Now you get hit with antibiotics, and the antibiotics cause
your body chemistry to go acidic, so now you get rashes and other
things, your liver gets full of toxins and comes out through your skin
in rashes and they get hyperallergenic reactions associated with the
other chemicals.

"So all of a sudden now, you realize that you've got a human being
who is completely out of balance and infected by two, three or four
microbial co-factors as well as intoxicated by a variety of different
chemicals."

There's your human weather forecast from one of the world's foremost
medical detectives.

How are you going to teach your children about that — a diabolical
conspiracy devised to poison the Russians that has now been turned on
the American people themselves?

And are your children, dressed stylishly in their military fatigues,
going to think that's a groovy idea, very patriotic?

When we are with our families, we like to assume that everything we
do and everything that they do is based on mutual love. Of course, it
doesn't always work out that way, but surely that's what we'd like it to
be.

We have an understanding that family comes first, that I would do
anything to protect and nurture my child under any circumstances, and
that my children, if I brought them up right, would feel the same way
about me, as I most certainly felt about my parents.

It is an understanding most families reach. I don't know that it
holds up, for those families who still support what America's leaders
say and do these days, when you have to teach your children that lying,
stealing other people's countries and killing large numbers of people
for reasons that are lies are OK. Just the way the world works.

In which case, many of these parents could realistically expect
their children to kill them for money, because that's what their country
taught them. And sometimes that happens.

And after 9/11, in which America's leaders betrayed their people by
complicity in an attack on their own country, followed by wars that were
blamed on that phony event, the understanding of mutual protection,
respect and allegiance between a nation and its people has been
shattered. Honest people are very afraid of their dishonest government.

And so has the trust between fathers and sons and mothers and
daughters, because some insist on believing the lies that it's OK to
kill people you don't know for money, while others — still trying to
believe the words of holy men who urge us to love others — won't accept
those lies that have torn so many families apart.

The understanding that once was between those who care for each
other is no longer what it was. The blame can be squarely placed on an
America that has become perverted by its own power, and now threatens
the lives, livelihoods and love of every person on Earth.

How long will it be, under this present trend, until we look into
the eyes of our children and not know them anymore?

John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a
collection of his Internet essays. For more information, or to make a
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At Year's End, Signs Of
Dictatorship Abound
In Washington
By Wayne Madsen
Prison Planet.com
© 2002-2003 Alex Jones All rights reserved.
12-31-3


As 2003 winds to a close, it is perhaps timely to assess the state of affairs in the nation's capital. As a long time resident of Washington, DC, it is striking how this city has changed-and not for the better.
The telltale signs of dictatorship and fascism abound in this city on the Potomac. Some of the signs-concrete barricades and 8-foot walls around monuments-are apparent. Others, like video cameras, although more subtle, are every bit as ubiquitous. For those who have never visited Washington, DC, or who traveled here during better times, the city that is suppose to represent the aspirations of the American people is now a hollow shell of its former self.
The White House Ellipse is now a security bivouac. The grassy area that once played host to Frisbee games between dogs and their owners, touch football scrimmages, and throngs of tourists marveling at the south faΧade of the White House are largely gone. They have been replaced by chain link fences, concrete Jersey barriers, menacing black Secret Service SUVs, squad cars, and security "men in black" armed to the teeth. Sitting in the midst of this security encampment is the National Christmas Tree. Once surrounded by rosy-cheeked youngsters who marveled at its thousands of ornaments and lights up close, the tree is now viewed after dark from afar-its future as endangered as its rooted relatives in the Rocky Mountain and Alaska National Forest a