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 Posted: Mon May 29th, 2006 12:18 pm
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Joe Kelley

 

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This falls under the heading of ‘fool me once’ or ‘Beating a dead horse’.

I’ve tried submitting to Lew Rockwell in the past and that effort was rejected. 

It is time for me to try again. 

From here: 

http://forum.atimes.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7391 

I’ve posted this:

 

May I continue? 

My wife is busy earning our families happiness while I am busy doing housekeeping and raising the kids. I have, for example, a particularly interesting problem with the Christian School, private not public, we pay taxes (involuntary) to teach our neighbors kids, and in addition to that cost we also pay the private school to teach our kids, anyway, the teacher at my daughter’s school was applying a tactic whereby the teacher punished the whole class for the misbehavior of one student, we fixed that problem; my daughter and I. 

Additionally: my son tried to get a loan for college as he is in his senior year at high school and the application for a loan included the requirement for him to sign up for selective service. My son and I decided to look for credit elsewhere.

So that is my earning, that is my family’s situation, and this short report leads to this: 

My busy wife often asks, as she watches Oprah, Dr. Phil, and the latest propaganda currently spewing forth from the major media’s anal orifice, she asks: 

How do you know that all that stuff you read is true: 

Case in point: 

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/230506soldier.htm 

Note: The video was pulled for some reason. 

My answer: 

I don’t know. 

My sense of moral conscience suggest to me that one might try to know so as to be better prepared for future events; like estimating the value of a home for sale. 

Some people believe in a cause, that makes no sense, and those honest people are perhaps very dangerous. Pity may be appropriate for people following lost causes however; the victims of those acts committed by misdirected individuals cannot be expected to have a ready reserve of pity or any emotion beyond sheer terror; I suspect.  

Remember: I am the Stupid one. 

What I would like to do, in the effort to communicate a perspective that may offer some argument against the common belief in a common, but false, cause. 

Abstract:

Suppose a web page existed and on that web page were a number of growing signatures, like a petition, whereby the stated goal was to hire a force of arms to cause, peacefully, a change of regime in a certain country where the leader of that country reached a point whereby too much power was exerted in an aggressive and abusive manner; like Saddam Hussein murdering Kurds with weapons purchased from another country; or given to him – on loan. 

I know: this is far fetched. 

So long as it is far fetched then: 

Suppose further that a “coalition of the willing” including the armies of China, Russia, Nato (minus the U.S.A. and probably minus the not so Great Britain), Brazil, Iran, (probably not Japan), Argentina, etc. Suppose those countries promised to honor the petition, at least in theory, by signing onto the ‘idea’ and a statement of intent was issued. 

Stating: 

Please stop invading, occupying, and enforcing democracy, or whatever you call it, or we may have to honor the voice of “We the People” in America and elsewhere, cease and desist please, or we may have to come to aid, surround the White house, Congress, The pentagon, and ask for resignations of those unwilling to sign the petition and join this cause.  

Such folly could never enter one’s mind, of course, since human beings are all evil and no one can trust anyone else ever.  

However, play with me here please, could, just for the sake of argument, could such an event manage to accomplish something? 

The ‘coalition of the willing’ wouldn’t even have to bring guns. They could bring cameras. The current example of this “spreading democracy” stuff has most of the ‘Special forces’ with their “Special Interest” out of town, so to speak, leaving the home guard rather pitiful – don’t you think? 

Am I just a bit irrational? 

Common sense tells me, with a little help from an active imagination, probably a bit too active, curiosity and the cat you know, perhaps logic, perhaps not, tells me, like a strange little voice calling, that, something is just not right with the “official” version of things reported as current events. 

One cannot expect to know what will occur in the future; however one may find reason to look and look for help. 

There was a time in America when people thought outrageous things like this: 

“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. Patrick Henry 1736-1799”  

Have on gone beyond the boundaries of protocol?

P.S. My wife doesn’t have a lot of time to watch T.V. Times are tough in the Real Estate business as the bubble levels off and my wife is certainly my better half - she teaches me:
 
“Stand for something or fall for anything.” 

We stand at home; in our land.  


I’ll edit the piece a bit and send it to here: 

lewrockwell@mac.com 

From here: 

http://www.lewrockwell.com/ 

I’ll link this web page and ask for permission to publish the rejection. 

Remember: I’m the Stupid one. 

Time will tell.