Not One More Drop of Blood
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 31 May 2005 12:00:00 GMT
From lew:
A Nation Rocked to sleep
by Carly Sheehan
Sister of Casey KIA 04/04/04
Sadr City Baghdad
Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?
The torrential rains of a mother's weeping will never be done
They call him a hero, you should be glad that he's one, but
Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?
Have you ever heard the sound of a father holding back his cries?
He must be brave because his boy died for another man's lies
The only grief he allows himself are long, deep sighs
Have you ever heard the sound of a father holding back his cries?
Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?
They say that he died so that the flag will continue to wave
But I believe he died because they had oil to save
Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?
Have you ever heard the sound of a nation being rocked to sleep?
The leaders want to keep you numb so the pain won't be so deep
But if we the people let them continue another mother will weep
Have you ever heard the sound of a nation being rocked to sleep?
"We are insulted when people like Bush say that America has to 'stay the course' in Iraq to 'honor our children's sacrifices.' Not one more drop of blood should be shed for the lies and deceptions." -- Cindy Sheehan
From jomama:
"The two-party system is a shell game with two shells and no pea under either of them. The Democrats are symbolized by a donkey and the Republicans are symbolized by an elephant. But the two parties are a jackal and a vulture fighting over a corpse." -- Allen Thornton
# jomama - The Unsystem discussed - Laws of the Jungle - excerpts from Allen Thornton's Laws of the Jungle, which I've added to my reading list. [jomama]
...Democracy, then, is not essentially different from monarchy or oligarchy; it is merely the extension of oligarchy to give more people power over others. But the twentieth century claims to give us universal democracy. "The people rule themselves" also means "The people are their own slaves." This fiction of universal democracy, of everyone sharing political power, is like a cannibal eating his own foot.
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You don't want to hear this talk of might versus might. You don't want to hear about a jungle; you're civilized. You want to believe that you have certain rights and that the state protects those rights. But anarchists say that you surrendered your might, which is your money and your obedience, to the state, and the state is only a mask for other men. You are now in a position of bondage to strangers over whom you have only the slightest control.
# mercedesrules at The High Road - Gun Control and the War on Drugs - A. Gregory - pretty good discussion of this article, that I linked to last Wednesday. As is usual in these kind of discussions, however, no minds were changed, except possibly of some lurkers. Remember the remnant. [highroad]
# Tom Schauf - What if JFK Weren't Assassinated? Where Would We be Today? - no national debt and no federal income tax according to Mr. Schauf. [whatreallyhappened]
President John F. Kennedy was simply following President Lincoln and President Andrew Jackson. By JFK issuing the Kennedy dollar, United States Note, the bankers could not get the cash for free and lend it back to the government and profit from the old banking system.
JFK planned on printing enough United States Notes, like President Lincoln, and pay off the national debt and thus ending the personal IRS taxes with no new taxes.
JFK's plan to print United States Notes, cash, would have ended the privately owned banking monopoly called the Federal Reserve Bank. Upon President John F. Kennedy's assassination, President Johnson immediately stopped the printing of United States Notes and went bank to the banker's system of Federal Reserve Notes ensuring the continuation of the IRS tax and bankers profit.
It is easy to pay off the national debt and end IRS personal incomes by simply informing every voter about the truth about JFK's dollar. What voter would not join us in implementing JFK's plan if the voters understood the truth. Only the bankers, media, sheriffs, FBI, politicians, judges, and Homeland Security who benefit from the banking system will vote to enslave you.
# Garry Reed, The Loose Cannon Libertarian - Regurgitate Real ID! - our rulers have stuffed the National ID down our throats. We should throw it up, on them.
The justification for this, we're told, is to better identify the multitude of terrorists in our midst. What Real ID really does is (a) absolutely identify each of us so the SWAT-bots can swarm us any time we buy more than one bottle of over-the-counter Sudafed, (b) turn identity theft into a convenient one-stop-shopping experience, (c) create yet another bloated black hole bureaucracy to shovel tax billions into, and (d) turn counterfeiting into a growth industry, since, according to this very article, "All but one of the 19 hijackers in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks had some form of U.S. identification, some of it fraudulent." (And still they weren't caught, were they?) Better documents simply mean higher prices for better counterfeiters or higher bribes to the docucrats.
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But if you're a libertarian you know all this stuff already. If you're not, and you don't care, you might as well return to your state of persistent vegetableism. In that state, you're guaranteed a national ID card complete with a colorful holographic photo, a universal product code (we're all just products, remember), biometric identifiers like iris scans and fingerprints, DNA swabs and scratch-and-sniff stool samples, and soon enough your life history will be imbedded in an RFID chip implanted in your arm just above your "Give Me Liberty" tattoo where any pickpocket of the future (in or out of government) can stand near you and steal your identity with a miniaturized portable digital chip reader.
Wearing tinfoil hats will become a sign of sanity, not lunacy.
# Justice for None - Holocaust Survivor Leaving US - the writer's neighbor, a Jew who survived the Holocaust in Germany, is moving back to Europe, to escape the coming Holocaust in Amerika. Chilling. [jomama]
I had been stationed in Germany for two years while in the military, so I lit up, and commented about how beautiful the country was, and inquired if he was going back because he missed it.
"No," he answered me. "I'm going back because I've seen this before." He then commenced to explain that when he was a kid, he watched with his family in fear as Hitler's government committed atrocity after atrocity, and no one was willing to say anything. He said the news refused to question the government, and the ones who did were not in the newspaper business much longer. He said good neighbors, people he had known all his life, turned against his family and other Jews, grabbing on to the hate and superiority "as if they were starved for it" (his words).
He said he was too old to see it happen right in front of his eyes again, and too old to do anything about it, so he was taking his family back to Europe on Thursday where they would be safe from George W. Bush and his neocons. He seemed resolute, but troubled, nonetheless, as if being too young on one end and too old on the other to fight what he saw happening was wearing on him.
# Kevin B. Zeese at LewRockwell.com - Memorial Day Interview: Gold Star Families for Peace - Mr. Zeese interviews Cindy Sheehan, founder of Gold Star Families for Peace. Mrs. Sheehan's son, Casey, died in Iraq. [lew]
Zeese: What are some of the 'lies and betrayals that killed your children'?
Sheehan: They were sent to invade and occupy a country that posed no threat to the United States. They were used recklessly and ignorantly by their Commander in Chief who should exercise more caution when he misuses our young people. They were all lied to by their recruiters, who will tell young people anything to get them to enlist, then deliver nothing. They were ALL killed performing duties that they were inadequately or not trained for at all. Evan Ashcraft was suffering from dysentery; before he died he lost 25 pounds, because of dirty drinking water and bad food. Sometimes they are rationed to one bottle a day. Many times they have been killed guarding private contractor convoys . . . people who make many times more money than they do. Sgt. Sherwood Baker was killed searching for weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist.
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by Carly Sheehan
Sister of Casey KIA 04/04/04
Sadr City Baghdad
Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?
The torrential rains of a mother's weeping will never be done
They call him a hero, you should be glad that he's one, but
Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?
Have you ever heard the sound of a father holding back his cries?
He must be brave because his boy died for another man's lies
The only grief he allows himself are long, deep sighs
Have you ever heard the sound of a father holding back his cries?
Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?
They say that he died so that the flag will continue to wave
But I believe he died because they had oil to save
Have you ever heard the sound of taps played at your brother's grave?
Have you ever heard the sound of a nation being rocked to sleep?
The leaders want to keep you numb so the pain won't be so deep
But if we the people let them continue another mother will weep
Have you ever heard the sound of a nation being rocked to sleep?
# bob lonsberry - A Year-Old Story for Memorial Day - a year ago there was a funeral in the small town of Scio, NY for Jason L. Dunham, a Marine who threw himself on a grenade to save his buddies. An honorable man, dying for a dishonorable regime. God bless him. Damn them to hell.
