Remembering Gandhi
Jeff Knaebel at LewRockwell.com - an expatriot America reminds his new Indian countrymen of the true meaning of peace, and of the inhuman monsters who make war. [lew]
We Are Throwing Away Our Humanity for a Plastic Toy
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Back to Gandhi: "Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless and corrupt."
From the Nobel Prize Lecture of Harold Pinter, December 2005, I quote: "The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant State terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law... We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and we call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East.' What has happened to our moral sensibility? Did we ever have any? What do these words mean? Do they refer to a term very rarely employed these days -- conscience? A conscience to do not only with our own acts, but to do with our shared responsibility in the acts of others. Is all this dead?"
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The freest man I know is an Indian villager who has no ID card, no tax ID number, no bank account, no birth registration certificate, and no Big Brother tracking his every move. He earns his bread by labor with mind and body given by God, and he gives thanks for every day of life. He speaks kind words to all he meets. He is a man of peace.
Long live the possibility of this way of life, for it is my belief that the fate of the Indian villager is the "canary in the coal mine," the harbinger of mankind's future. Before the last villager will have been displaced by some big dam, or an express highway, or an IT Park, or cutting the last of his forest, or pumping the last of his water, before his last tree has been cut down, mankind will have become extinct.
