Pure, Unadulterated Insanity
The Surge Speech
(This is my initial knee jerk reaction to the dumbfounding speech that George W. Boosh delivered to the nation tonight, albeit done in a hurry)
I hate to say I told you so, but I did. I am going to briefly touch on a few things that Boosh said about the specifics of Iraq tonight, then I will move to what I told you a short time ago was the real reason for the so-called "surge" of troops into that debacle. First, on Iraq. (I do not have a transcript of this speech in front of me so most of these quotes will be paraphrased)
"We have made some mistakes, and I am responsible for them." A rather startling revelation from a mistake free man, I must give him that. But oh so far from the truth. The truth is that this adventure has been a botched abortion from the start, and the American people will not buy this desperate attempt at contrition. Suddenly becoming humble, from a man who has less credibility than your average serial killer will not sell.
"On September 11, 2001 we saw what giving extremists a place to work out of can do to America..." Yeah, that's pretty much what I said from the day this operation began. I told you that this would accomplish nothing more than to give an entire country, much bigger and better than Afghanistan, to work out of and would allow the jihadists to multiply in numbers. But hey, what the hell do I know? I'm simply an average, thinking American citizen who can see past tomorrow morning.
"Al-Maliki knows that he has to now stand up..." This message was delivered by a Democrat, nonetheless to the leader of Iraq yesterday. "I have received assurances from the Prime Minister that he won't tolerate the death squads anymore.....this is not an open ended plan." Just who is this man we are expecting to stand up to members of his own country? Only a man who stated publicly less than a month ago that not only does he not want to serve a second term as the leader of the New Democratic Iraq, but doesn't even want to finish his current run. He wants out now and has said so! It makes one have a great amount of faith in his ability to quash the insurgency.
What Does 20,000 Additional Troops Really Mean?
In reality, it means nothing. In fact, we have had more troops there before, precisely one year ago. At that time we had more than 160,000 troops in country, a larger number than we will have once the 20,000 additional troops arrive.
As an aside, Boosh said that 4,000 troops will be sent to Anbar province, outside of the Baghdad arena. This is after he stated that the key to the lock is in the capital itself. Amazing.
Boosh said, "Why will this work now when it wouldn't work before? Because before, we would clear out an area, move on and the insurgents would come back in after they left. Now, with these additional troops, we will be able to hold the areas after we clear them." Oh really? Let's look at these numbers a little closer. You see, 20,000 troops is really not 20,000 troops fighting at the same time. Why? Because these people have to sleep, as do the troops that are already there. So, when you say 20,000, in reality you must divide that number by four to get to the actual number of troops acively fighting at any given time. So, using real numbers, we have an additional 5,000 troops fighting in the entire country of Iraq.
Considering that New York City has over 40,000 police officers on the street at all times, 20,000 additional troops with targets on their backs will do little more than make the insurgents think that soldier "deer season" has opened. Yet again.
That is enough on Iraq for now. Let's move to the real reason these troops are headed to Iraq, something that I mentioned a little while back. What is startling about this is that Boosh as much as said so, out loud, on television to the entire nation, and that is this.
We are headed to Iran
George W. Boosh stated that we knew that Iran was supporting the insurgents, funding them, and allowing them to use their country as a portal to enter and exit Iraq. He also mentioned Syria, and said that we would stop this activity. This, coming from the most incompetent administration in our history my friends, is insanity. Though he did his best to look somber tonight, the cowboy is back, alive and well....sick.
Boosh knows that the current debacle in Iraq is a lost cause, knows that the "surge" means nothing, and knows that the current elected "democratic" government has no chance to stand. So he puts Iran and Syria on notice. He stated that we have sent a warship within range of the Iranian border. This mind boggling statement proves that this man has learned nothing during his 6 years in office, has learned nothing from the Iraq war, and is determined to lead us into WWIII, polls and public opinion be damned. He is clearly still dipping into the neocon Kool-Aid, even going so far as to mention a free and democratic "region." You have absolutely got to be kidding me. We can't democratize Iraq, have already proven that this won't work. And he's still talking about forcing our way of life on the entire region?
Boosh was given a life line, a thing called the Iraq Study Group. He ignored them. He has stated repeatedly since this war began that he listened solely to the Generals on the ground when determining troop numbers. When the Generals told them that 20,000 more troops would not help, would be nothing more than targets, he responded by firing them and shopping for Generals who would go along with his delusions. When the American people delivered him a message in the November election, he told them to jam it.
I know that you all are probably tired of hearing me say these things, but I will say them until someone stops him. George W. Boosh has gone mad, mad in the clinical sense. He is on an island, with no one left who will listen to him. NO ONE really believes that this "new way forward" will work except for Boosh, and I think he hopes it won't. Nor does anyone believe that it is really a "new way forward." It is stay the course with 5,000 more troops per shift, nothing more and nothing less. The Iraq experiment will fail, and he will then move his little war game to Iran.
Unless, that is, our own duly elected Democratic government stops him. It is really that simple. We are soon to find out whether politics trumps lives, whether fantasy trumps reality, whether there are a majority of elected politicians in this country that care more about our very existence than they do about the next election. If they do, they will find the delicate balance necessary to de-fund our role in this civil war and bring our troops home in the fastest and safest manner possible. Despite what Joe Biden says, there is a way to do it. If they don't, we will be lobbing bombs into Iran within 6 months, asking brigades of men and women who are on their 4th or 5th tours of duty to shift their focus next door. What they will find there is very different than what we found in Iraq. Our war weary soldiers and war weary nation will find an enemy that WILL fight back, and the bloodbath will have begun in earnest. This country is about to find out, once and for all, exactly where the rubber meets the road. And this country should be very afraid of the answer it might get.
Cyclone
posted by cyclone @ 7:19 PM
34 comments
34 Comments:
Cy,
Yup, I listened to the speech and came to pretty much the same conclusions.
Got one of M. Moors's newsletters today about the speech. He thinks it will take 28 million Americans to defeat the 27 million Iraqies. Then after they are all dead, half of the Americans should stay and run the country as our style of democracy, and let them all be neocons. lol.
Did you catch how long it was going to take for the whole 20,000 to deploy to Iraq?
And Maliki wants out Hell, only Sadam would want the job now. Hmm, maybe he still does. Get the mojo working.
Parts of his speech did directly indicate that Iran is next, with what in troops I find questionable. Course, he and the rest of the neocons aren't too anxious to have their kids going over there to save the country and region for democracy. Got to have someone around to administer the chaos when daddy is gone.
I wonder if there is anyone or any organization around that can stop this madman now. Oh well, we knew he was insane when he was elected. Ain't elections great?
Well, there is a method to the madness...I have read that within the next week or so, the Iraqi government is supposed to okay a deal to allow BP, Exxon, and Shell to take over oil production in Iraq for the next 30 years, with servicing agreements that will allow them to keep 75% of the profits until they can "recoup" their investments (or until the oil runs out). Once that is done, Bush and Chaney will have their victory in Iraq.
Then we have those permanent bases in Iraq, from which we can threaten just about all the oil producing nations in the Mideast. Of course, the only way one could even begin to think that they could be contained, would be with nuclear weapons. Oh, dear...we keep coming around to that pesky INSANITY again.
It's probably the only thing that could unite the entire Middle East to cooperate as one. They would be united in their determination to wipe us off the face of the earth.
Good piece Cyclone,it makes me think about things that i would normally not think about,and somehow it got me to thinking about the thirty percent thing in regard to the people in Venezuela that that can't stand Hugo Chevez because of the notion that he is nationalizing the oil there and breaking up the giant cattle ranches,and generally pissing off the rich people and giving the shit they have stolen from the people back to the people and the man actually seems to be really for the common folks and they love him! Now here in this country the thirty or so percent that love this president are neocons? And the reason they love him is because war is good for their lifestyle,? i mean is the number thirty percent indicative of human nature on this insane ass planet?
I'm not smart on the politics but it seems like human nature is following a pattern no matter who is in charge. Thirty percent love Bush here, thirty percent hate Hugo in Venzuela, Hugo is for the people, Bush is for the neocons.
Its three in the morning and i'm trying desperately to make one goddam iota of sense to the madnes thats all over the news links.
I watched the coup attempt on Google of President Chevez and the looks on the rich peoples faces were looks of absolute pure assed evil,not human faces at all,I mean that hatred was the most vilest thing i have ever seen.Is that what money and power do to a human being? Desensitize a person to the point that all traces of humanity are obliterated? And nothing but a skinless skull remains?
Man this is to much for me to comprehend.
But i can say one thing for certain, i would not want to walk a mile in a neocons moccasins,or even more then one step, just to scary to comptemplate.
Anyway i'm going to see if i can find a beer.
Peace councilors,
mf
Murph,
As I did this immediately after the speech without notes or anything, I now realize that I forgot perhaps the most incredible part of it all. He said something like "if Maliki doesn't follow through this time....the American people and the Iraqi people are going to stop supporting this war." What? Maybe this moron really doesn't look at polls!
I would suggest this. LET THE 12% WHO SUPPORT THIS SURGE--BE THIS SURGE. Send their sorry asses to Baghdad, then check their tune right after the blood pressure cuff comes off. It might make a difference.
Cyclone
freeacre,
I have never stated this, I don't think, but I do believe that the long term goal is to remain in Iraq forever. Keeping their oil, selling their oil, living off of their oil. Something that got very little attention was the fact that we bombed Somalia on Sunday, I believe it was. Killed al-Qaeda in Somalia! Boosh didn't bother to inform Congress that he was even doing that. Well, guess what? They just found some oil in Somalia that they didn't know was there. Hmmm, coincidence? I don't think so. Tell me this is all a bad dream......
Cyclone
Planman,
You are exactly right. We are continuing to lose kids because the Saudi's told us that is what we will do. As long as chaos ensues, Iraqi oil does not flow, the Royal's are in business. Once that mission officially breaks down, we have to go to Iran to disrupt their oil bidness to keep the Royal's in power. Our kids are dying because the Saudi Royal family says that they must, and when they speak Cheneyco listens. We are led by a pathetic lot, and we are entering a time where someone had better get a grip on it in a hurry. Admit that Boosh is a madman and an imbecile, dump him and the entire crew that surrounds him, and restore some semblence of reason back into our thinking. Otherwise,..........It is heartening to see that many Repubs are maintaining their opposition, though it has only been 10 hours. In the end, they (the Republicans) will be the ones who decide our future.
Cyclone
montana freeman,
Wise words, my friend. Yes, we are surrounded by evil, coming from all sides. Sadly, the most vile seems to come from our own country. Nor will I walk in their shoes, nor will I ever understand how we have let things get so out of hand. Live with the cricket and the owl, don't try to understand it. Otherwise, you will become mad as a hatter.
Cyclone
I was listening to the speech on the radio while talking with a friend on the phone. I kept walking up to the radio and poking it like a little kid uses a stick to poke at a snake, all the while thinking, is this for real? A lot of the speech was the same blah, blah, blah we've heard so much before. The rest I couldn't believe I was hearing. Yes, the man is clearly insane. He is delusional, paranoid, and Goddess only knows what else. What really worries me is that now he is also practically deserted by many of those who once supported him. All madmen are dangerous. Madmen who are isolated are doubly, even thricely, so. They have nothing to lose and no one to moderate their madness.
Last night, the U.S. raided the Iranian Embassy in Iraq. This, obviously, is an act of war. But don't expect it to get played that way. If the Iranians are crazy enough to retaliate, it will be "they attacked us first". Just like Pearl Harbor, when any student of history knows that we committed an act of war against the Japanese months before by cutting off their lifeblood -the oil, and they had no choice but to attack us at that point.
Here's something us that could throw a monkey wrench in Bush's plans: the China factor. They have negotiated contracts with Venezuala, several of the African nations, and are working on the Middle East ones. All about oil of course. They need that oil as much as we do. They have the world's biggest infantry and a few hundred million too many people they wouldn't mind losing in a war. (It is better than them starving to death after all.) How will they react to these plans? China is just itching for a fight.
Rockpicker, re, the last post: yes, it is theoretically possible to hide one ship in another sonar footprint. I stuided this a bit in engineering school. The thing is, it isn't easy -and I wouldn't recommend doing it if you had any other choice. If that's what they were doing, I'm worried.
MF and Stoney: I would like to ask y'all about something because there aren't any medicine men around here and I'm sure this is important. Yesterday I was on my way to register for classes and I see a Hawk. Yes, in January. It was flying in circles leisurely in the sky. I'm just driving along, going rather slowly on this road and watching it with one eye. Suddenly, it goes into a dive and swoops down right in front of the car. I thought it was going to land on my windshield or something. I could see every feather on it and it was close enough to look in the eye. Then it cried out, backwinged, and changed direction, and swept back up into the sky. I could hear that cry even over the engine and the radio. I had to jerk the wheel to keep from going off the road. I was a little freaked out by it. (All right, more than a little.)
Exactly, Planman,
Didn't watch the idiot because I just can't. It hurts too much to watch the moron try to speak -and lie.
One other thing. Moron put an admiral in charge of CENTCOM. This admiral has little experience commanding ground troops, but he has a whole lot of experience in carrier task force deployments. Hmmmmm.... looks like Iran is definitely going to get bombed by the good old U S of A. I wish I could leave the country.
Cyclone,
It's good to hear from you after that speech. I was absolutely stunned that Bush was so upfront about Iran and Syria. We have been put on notice.
You mention that in 6 months bombs will be lobbed into Iran. But, I read today that 2 towns have already been bombed. No real information is available yet, as far as I can tell.
I believe the additional troops have nothing to do with the situation in Iraq per se, but are there to provide further protection to the Green Zone as the war widens.
My 2 cents.
Dina.
In related news today US forces have stormed an Iranian consulate in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil and seized six members of staff. I am guessing this was done to provoke Iran into doing something that would justify a larger scale attack by the US.
Dina & Anon 8:37,
Thanks for the comments. It appears I am wrong. At this rate, it may only take 2 days for the Iranian bombing to begin. Who needs a surge after all?
Cyclone
Ras,
We ramped it up with the Iranian's within minutes of the end of the speech. God help us all,
Cyclone
Dude,
Glad to see you back. Unfortunately, I think it is much too late to leave the country. Better find someone to hunker down with. Better yet, a couple of hundred someones.
Cyclone
Ras;
Oldensoul and I are still visiting my folks in upstate N.Y. We recently had a similar experience with a hawk nearly diving into our windshield. It was almost dark. I figure those encounters are significant, but I'm not sure just how to interpret them.
About the ships colliding, that could just be a way to help the collective consciousness focus on the imminent shift in energies from Iraq to Iran. Just another li'l bump in the night to get our attention before it's too late.
We catch the train tomorrow. Can't wait to get started for home. Hope it's not too late. Good luck to everyone.
MF. Will call from Whitefish. We get in late Sunday.
Talk to you Monday. O. wants to go swimming.
From Belgium,
Cy,
He didn’t actually admit to making mistakes, What he said was “Mistakes have been made and I have to take responsibility for them”. In other words, if some Generals made the mistakes, then he has to take responsibility for their actions or decisions since there is no one else he can kick them upstairs to. A slightly different meaning but the same effect on the public.
It looks like the deterioration into hell is a prelude to getting into Iran. I believe Iran has a long standing offer on the table of direct talks with the USA and Syria has more recently requested the same thing. They have both been given the North Korea response or should that be the democratically elected Hamas response of “talking to terrorists only gives them respectability”, forgetting all the time that someone without political capital outside his own country cannot command much of that himself. The fact is that any meeting resulting in a breakdown or a failure to agree, must reflect on both parties to the negotiations and if America bears some of the blame then it is more difficult to invade these countries. If this is the object of the exercise all along, it is better to keep them at arms length.
I understand that Al Malaki commands an area about the size of Central Park but if everybody agrees that makes him boss of Iraq than that is what he is. And he had better stand up because if Bush gets stood up again he will have a lower standing than some other prostitutes I know. (I don’t really know any, I just wanted to say that).
Roughly 400 hundred billion dollars, if not more, and 3,000+ lost lives and this is what we get?
What a poor investment.
I would have taken that 400B and partially solved oil addiction and let them go back to hearding goats.
Just like Vietnam\Russia, who cares if they want to be a democracy
[NO ONE really believes that this "new way forward" will work except for Boosh]
Bush's 'sherrif' down under here in Australia still believes it. Howard says the plan is 'realistic'!.... Wanker.
...Andy
Belgium,
You are exactly right. Boosh admits no wrong, but takes the bullet. I didn't express that properly. I was rushing and wanting to get it up quickly. I hope to do a more thorough analysis of this "speech," with it actually in front of me soon. Thanks for pointing that out.
Otherwise, we aren't talking to Iran until Boosh is locked away in a nut house. We are in SERIOUS trouble here, more trouble than anyone might imagine. We may well have already begun operations inside Iran. We'll see what's up.
Cyclone
Andy,
Sure, the plan is "realistic," because it's happening. It just won't work! Pass that on to Howie for me, would you?
Cyclone
anonymous 1:40,
Iraq will soon be a minor incident compared to what we are about to face. More later,
Cyclone
I don't think Bush has taken into account the Europe factor here either. Europe just got a rude awakening with the shutdown of the Russian pipeline that runs through Belarus. The LAST thing the EU and UK want is anymore threats to their energy supply, and they do get some oil from the OPEC countries. If it looks like that supply might be cut off, we might find out that they are no longer are allies.
My appoligies in advance for the insane length of this but it is pertinent to the insanity of the sick cowboy.
There is only one thing in all you said Cy that I would take issue with... "George W. Boosh has gone mad, mad in the clinical sense." He hasn't just gone mad, he's been mad. Clinically sick. For years. I know its just semantics and I know you already know this. Like Murph said, "Oh well, we knew he was insane when he was elected."
We all should know. But we all don't. In part because many of us are victumized products of a sick, punitive pedigogy hell bent on misguided, premature forgiveness for the perpetrators rather than holding them and that pedigogous system accountable. In part because some of us are just too damned scared to look. In part because some of us, even if we do look, still deny the reality. And in part because now we, the child victums, are the adult perpetrators.
Like with any criminal or clinically sick mind Bush will continue to be supported by some no matter what. Right now, as mf said and the polls continue to confirm, about 30%. But I think that number is deceiving because its just about the war. His support is not from just the neocons. Nor is it them along with the corporatocracy, the power brokers, and the elites. Its about Joe Sixpack and Mary Rosary many of which add up to the millions of Christian fundamentalists and extreemists who keep looking for the messiah. In the meantime Dubbya will do. Praise the Lord and thankyou Jesus for putting a man of God in the Whitehouse! I'm convinced that when junior "got Jesus" he "got even sicker" because he, along with his minions like Rove, conived to figure out how that could be used on the gullable public to get him elected. First gov of Texas and then the presidency.
I say this, not to put down christianity, but to point out how sick minds can twist what should be a good and loving thing and prey upon sick hearts. Yes, his "approval rating" is polling 30%. The scarry reality is better than 50% of this nation still support this lunatic in their own sick heart of hearts even if enough of them would no longer vote for him to get him re-elected could he run again today.
Like with any criminal or sick mind the behaviorial traits go back to his formative years as a boy. Even had some of these 50+% read Alice Miller's "Drama Of The Gifted Child" they would still not connect the dots. They would still support this maniac who has done exactly as any who have studied his behavior patterns and personality traits could have predicted... He will ignore any and all advice to the contrary and double down on Iraq.
Miller expanded on her psycoanalysis and anthropological examinations in later books tracing the behaviors of twisted minds like Hitler back to the twisted pedigogies of family, culture, and dogmatic religous ideologies noting specifically how these systems are set up, can, and often do, result in the pirating of the very essence of the human soul and spirit. Books with incredibly revealing titles like "For Your Own Good" and "Banished Knowledge".
Even had those same some been watching John Bradshaw back in the early ninties they would still not see the forest for the trees. Bradshaw gave us a view into the workings of sick codependent family dynamics by using a stunning visual aid. He would hang a mobil on the stage and explain how each piece of the mobil represented a family member and as he lectured on these dynamics of family systems he would touch one piece of the mobil to show how the rest of the mobil would REact almost as if in automomic response.
And so it would be had those same some read Gail Sheehy's Vanity Fair article, "Accidental Candidate" or listened to any historian reporting on Junior's behavior in the context of the dynamics of the Bush family profile.
Sheehy was part of the media tribe that trapsed around the country following Bush along the 2000 campaign trail. In preparation for her lengthy VF article published the month before the election she did considerable research into his bio. She begins with Bushisms and reports of the kind of verbal banterings and blabberings we've all come to love or hate as the case may be. But the point is quickly made that hers is a character study and there are reasons to be found lurking in the closets that might help explain the twisted charm and arrogant, wise guy attitude and why, as Sheehy wrote, when it comes to playing the game, any game, "He'll just change the score, or change the rules, or make his opponent play until he can beat him."
The entire last quarter of the article is devoted to his appalling environmental record down in Texas, the most toxic state in the union. Anyone reading that should be able to see the Satan in the saint, should know we have a madman on our hands. And anyone still voting for or supporting this maniac is either doing so because Bush is in bed with them, sick their own damn selves, or both.
The article in its entirety can be read here... http://gailsheehy.com/Politics/polimain_bush3.html
Btw Belgium, damn good point. He did not admit to any mistakes on his part. This is another trait of a twisted, narscicistic, self-agrandizing clinical sociopath.
In Bush's case he is bordering on psycopathic as his World War III objective, fueled by his belief he has a mandate from God, becomes clearer.
Heaven help us!
Palooka,
Read the linked article. That was some piece of exposure.
palooka's revenge,
I read it as well. Nothing new, but good to see it all in one location. Thanks, and send me your email address again please. I can't find it. cyclone@cyclonesrealdeal.com
Cyclone
They were talking about the possibility of attacking Iran (and Syria) on NPR tonight.
The curtains are really coming down now...
From Belgium,
Did anyone catch Olberman's take on the speach, available on Altnet?
Cyclone,
I've been popping in to visit since your piece on Cheney getting the impromptu invite to the house of Saud on Thanksgiving.... good piece.
I've also considered this "surge" to be a sleight of hand to move more troops into the area for an Iran action. Especially since reading reports of an Israeli plan to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.
But I still hold back. I don't think the armed forces are up to it. The original Iraq oil grab was a hard enough sell and now nobody with half a brain is buying it anymore.
Then again, who would have thought a draft-dodging war monger would beat a decorated veteran?
There is a remarkable post on cryptogon.com this evening - a video of Rep. Ron Paul giving a speech in congress talking about a possible false flag event like the Bay of Tonkin incident to manipulate us into an attack on Iran! Amazing! Check it out!
RAS,
Native Americans believe that the Hawk is the messenger of the gods or the Great Spirit.
The teachings of the Hawk guide us to be observant, to be aware of our surroundings and recognize the obvious in everything because life is sending us signals. The Hawk's call breaks through the state of unawareness and asks us to seek the truth.The Hawk sees the overall picture and views life from a higher perspective with a keen eye and a bold heart.
You know sister, that ever sense the killers and rapers that invaded this country arrived most of the knowledge that was passed down from one generation to the next has been destroyed on purpose.
So much of whats left of it is carried through the DNA and the desire to remember where we came from . And fortunately some of the old ones have told their secrets and have been posted on the net by us.
THE hearts of the invaders will wither breathing the fumes that come out of the disease that they have created .
peace ,
mf
mf @ 1:43,
I don't know how many people on this blog will appreciate the wisdom in your words but were they said in public forum, as they have been so many times in so many ways in the past, they would be thrown down and stomped upon once again.
It strikes an almost unbearable sadness in my heart. Not only that it happened but that it continues to be denied so universally by the american people. Personally I find a chilling irony when we hear and recognize Amadinajad denying the holocost but can't connect the dots between that and our own denial of how this nation was built upon the horrors of the genocide of your people and the beautiful lands and wildlife of this country.
I just want you to know that you are not alone in recognizing the parallels between what happened so many years ago and what is happening now in the mideast. We ARE seeing an re-enactment. And, just as with your old peoples' memories, it is inextricably woven into the fabric of the dna. There is and has been much form change which can be deceiving. But the underlying energies fueling the forms are the same.
I know you know and see that or you couldn't have written your words. Unfortunately too few do. And those of us who do are far to quick to absolve ourselves because... well, that was way back then and hasn't got anything to do with me. Or so we'd like to think.
If we would study current events in the context of American history with intent to take personal responsibility we could begin to break the bonds in the dna structures that hold us hostage from a more peaceful and loving world. For that ugly truth remains in those dna structures and is passed right down the chain of incarnation.
That we continue to see these re-enatctments is the proof positive. We can run from our past but we will never leave it behind and we cannot hide from it. We can only seek to heal it.
Personally I believe that also woven into the dna is a thread of an original dream... a core intent and desire for True Understanding, Balance, and Love evolving in Life along Destiny Path and that that is inextricably woven into the fabric of the Greater Cosmic Forces That Are Seeking Balance of which we are all a part.
Little do we know how much the role of denial is playing in the re-enactment of original cause events and, ultimately, this is what needs to heal.
And so MF, your comment opens opportunity for me to say to you, I am sorry for the atrocities done to you and your peoples and whatever role who and what i am may have played in that. I am working my ass off over here in this lifetime to take responsibility for my own victumizations and perpetrations with intent to heal what is mine to heal. And to say to you, thank you and thank your ancestors for NEVER forgetting the truth and couragously continuing to remind us.
May True Heart be born from the ashes of the awful heartlessness of the human condition. I wish us peace my brother.
Palooka
Palooka,
I am so pleased that you have joined our council. Our cyber fire continues to attract those who's spirits are drawn to each other and who share a sense of the power of this process. As you come to know us, or read back on our stories, you will know how much we rely on the wisdom of Montana Freeman, our Cherokee Elder, and upon Stoney13, who's story of being the son of an Indian maiden raped by a missionary at an Indian school and adopted by a white man of pure heart. We have adapted the rules of the native American sacred circle to guide our cyber campfire as we share our thoughts and feelings with each other. We also listen with respect to the voices of cricket, who now sleeps, and the four leggeds and six leggeds when Montana, or whomever else hears them, share their wisdom with us.
We definitely find this a place of healing and growth and empowerment. It can also be a place of silliness, outrage, and despair as we respond to the weird shit of the day.
I have agonized with my sense of guilt as a white person to the cruelty of genocide and slavery and exploitation. Then, I remembered that my ancestors were peasants in Sweden, and never killed any Indians and never owned land, far less any slaves. Now I try to listen for the wisdom that is inherent in this place. I attempt to be open to the wisdom of this place that for some reason we have all been drawn. The people who live in this country now are the offspring of those who have lived all over the world. The only thing that really might be able to unite us and make our lives sustainable, is if we all learn to respect the ways of the original native peoples here and make it our own. We welcome and respect all those who join our council with an open heart.
aho
All,
The President of Egypt was talking about an "end game" in an interview today. Hmm, I wonder -what endgame was he referring to?
MF -thanks for the wise words, my friend.
-RAS
It's Martin Luther King day and I am wondering how much coverage he'd be getting if he had that speech and demonstration in Washington DC today. He's probably be on the No Fly list. The demonstrators would be kept in a "free speech" zone where no one could see or hear them. There would be minimal, if any coverage on the news. If he still proved to be to much of a threat to the powers that be, he could be labeled a "terrorist" and remanded to a hell-hole somewhere, tortured, and held indefinitely with no legal recourse. We sure have come a long way, haven't we?
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