RCP and Two Years After, the Very Changed World Continues
I have written a lot of posts here now at TruthRevival.Org. I am proud of each. My main web site is down again and will be for awhile, partially for financial reasons, partially by choice. That site, PolSci.com, and this blog, and my other blog (For Those Who Never Had It) are intertwined because the blog posts are later improved a bit (grammatically corrected), and cataloged over at PolSci.com. The (previously referred to) Fall 2007 “issue” will be moved back to Winter 2007, and, if then at all, released at that time.
For those who might get to see the corrected posts there, they would be able to see how they intertwine. The Bicycle Race post here was simply most of the times I referred to bike riding in my papers and notes, which had all been included at PolSci.com. Those bicycle references cut across some strange and different times, and the future, should George W. Bush and Dick Cheney decide to accept it, will probably hold much stranger things and times, and hopefully genetic mutants will not be among them (hopefully for a good few decades at least).
I count among those writings, three essays which I am most proud of, and because that site is down, and may never return, I will post an excerpt of one still up elsewhere below. And of the one not up at all (but inconceivable now to be vanished completely) I will put up below in its entirety since, for the moment, is not available anywhere else, and since this is its second anniversary.
These three essays are not the kinds of things one could put on a resume or refer to on college application, not that college is likely for me to be resumed anytime soon, but they are definitely what I am most proud of at this point in time, politically speaking. They are, in chronological order, the original Radioactive Cereal Principle (RCP) (November 13th 2005), Constitution Cola (May 30th 2006), and When I Think I Might Never See Hawaii Again (September 24th, 2006).
The original RCP, I am pleased to admit, I did not think once of myself before writing it and trying to get it out there. Only with the second one, RCP2, did I pause to think, what would writing this mean to myself and my life should things go badly, and things going well after that was never in any way likely whatsoever. As I said many times, getting it on record was solely the point, and what happened after that was up to anyone or everyone else. My life at the time, not that anyone necessarily would believe it, was not even much of a consideration.
What I omitted from that was only due to not wishing to “accidentally” increase what I thought I was trying to work or speak out against. They are often connected, and often it is the case, too often to count, that you make worse the things you tell yourself or others you are trying to avoid or lessen. Sometimes, often, that is out of your control, the effects, but when you know them or sense them, or damn well should or ought to try to know or sense them, you must take that into consideration because otherwise, you are a liar to yourself.
Was there any point or effect to writing RCP? Outside of my own life, I cannot gauge and no one has yet claimed otherwise, it made little if any difference. The timing of lots of things, some still yet to happen, sure seemed to have gotten changed around.
For me, after a nasty bit, there was no gigantic retribution for having done so, the greatest threat to Low Fruit. But then yet there are always every day endless new potentials for other yet-to-be invented new shoes which might drop, so all I know that it did for me was to open up a little space in time where I could write a little while longer.
Constitution Cola, the second one I mention above, was written out of anger. It was passionate, and was very well done, but that I can pretty much say had no effect whatsoever. It inspired no one. It made no difference to have written it, but it made me feel better. The anger was in the Supreme Court’s throwing up a blockade for whistleblowers against Bush/Cheney. Not that the Republican and then the Democratic Congresses were not all too eager to join them and make all the bad accusations of “crimes” go away and make the “crimes” not even crimes anymore.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had at that time recently been accused of blackmail by the Speaker of the House Dennis Hassert, a Republican no less, and the mainstream Press, the veritable Third Estate of government, the safeguard of Democracy, well they just sort of yawned.
Well, maybe they just knew they only had left their right to remain silent because he had just also warned/threatened reporters that he would arrest them if they pursued the illegal wiretapping program allegations, or any other ongoing illegal programs. And not too subtly let it be known their cell phones, among other things, had been tapped all along.
The third thing I mentioned that I am most proud of, and will include an excerpt of below, is When I Think I Might Never See Hawaii Again. It was good, it was from the heart, and it was trying to imbue a perspective that our glorious leadership cannot for the life of them fathom, what if this is all there is? What if they never see their hometowns again, their children again?
For people (Congress) supposedly reacting out of constant fear thrown at them, fear of their constituents thinking they are weak, fear of a right wing press that even Republicans lawmakers admit being terrorized by, fear of terrorist attacks, but seemingly completely without fear of handing over every last scrap of power the mythical magical wondrous “Founders” gave to their positions and legislative bodies.
Seemingly their jobs now are to tear the Constitution to shreds, put little pieces of it into things called “bills” to send to the President so he can veto them and make its destruction, piece by piece, the new law of the land.
Habeas Corpus? (The right to some sort of charge and a trial before being imprisoned (and tortured), not even now, "indefinitely") A bill, not a writ, not a "self-evident right," or according the Attorney General, not even a right at all. Congressional approval needed to attack Iran? A Constitutional mandate or directive, and a foundation of our Republic? No, sing it from School House Rock, “I’m just a bill, a little ol’ bill, but I might be a law, … someday.” Smack down veto threat, and little ol’ bill (and Separation of Powers) goes away. Not today thank you, can’t tie his hands. Can’t let a Declaration of War make the world an unambiguous place without undeclared wars, unrecognized occupations, and unmentionable, literally, US war crimes.
The fear that motivates Congress and America these days is not even good fear. What are good fears you ask? Good fears make you act to eliminate what you are afraid of. Common sense says you cannot eliminate all terrorists if terrorists can be anyone or anyone can become a terrorist.
You cannot spy on everyone all of the time (though they will make a ton of money trying), you cannot control every country’s government (though they will kill a lot of people trying), and you cannot make everyone afraid of your weapons, not even while you are using them on people. You can, when you are done with an orgy of death, that attempt at making the world submit to your non-existent authority, ditch the fear by trying to make peace with them. That is how you kill fear, at the source.
The source of fear is not people. The source is, as many have countlessly said before, and will say later, fear is created by what you do not, cannot, and choose not, to understand or acknowledge. The fear we have is real and warranted because somewhere, in the back of our minds, we as a nation are aware of the truth of the terrors we are giving the world while claiming we do not see it ourselves.
The greatest fears we have, and rarely as Americans will we admit, is that our fears are justified. That just because our Washington Press buys the fact that if the White House does not admit something, it never happened, or is left in a less-defined gray zone between what is real and what is not. That there are things we are doing now, things we are responsible for, which we should not, but will not doing stop either. And that it will come back to haunt us if it is not already on the way.
Waking up and confronting THAT fear, that good fear, that can inspire people to wake up and do something to counter it, that is always just around the corner. Derrick Jensen in The Culture of Make Believe, (the best title IMHO for American Culture ever), similarly writes…
As this dawning dissonance began to tear at my insides, again and again I considered that the confusion must come from within, that I must be missing some simple point: No one could be so stupid as to destroy their own planet, all the while chatting breezily about golf, “reality-based TV” (whatever that means), and How about them Cubbies? What seemed profoundly important to me seemed of no importance to most people, and what seemed important to so many people seemed trivial to me. … The United States bombs Vietnam to save the Vietnamese people, it arms death squads through Latin America to save the people there, it bombs Iraq to save the people there. I kept thinking: Is there something I am missing?
… I asked David Edwards how this plays out in our day-to-day lives. He told me, “We build our lives on certain beliefs, then spend much of our time protecting ourselves from conflicting beliefs. … It may seem that he has everything to lose and nothing to gain from that sort of self-examination, and so his unconscious will protect his sense of self from a very painful conflict by dismissing or ignoring any evidence that he participates in these atrocities. And it will do so in such a way that it never even occurs to him- even with the evidence staring him in the face- that there’s the slightest thing wrong with what he is doing. The same is true of journalists, for example, or politicians, whose livelihoods and self-esteem are based on serving corporate power; under no circumstances can they allow themselves to comprehend the true nature of the role they are playing.”
Yet reality is never shut out completely, even in the most extreme instances referred to above. One must know and constantly be workings against what one knows but is choosing not to acknowledge. This knowledge becomes fear, becomes dread, becomes the dark recesses of where we choose we ought not to look at what we as individuals or as groups, societies, countries, or cultures, are doing to others. And worst of all, that knowing or acknowledging that we have surrendered our right to question it openly and effectively without fear.
Dying is easy then, when having to live daily in denial at the obvious and increasingly frequent greater and growing injustices, and with the ever changing definitions of the official Newspeak insanity, and still yet choosing to think or consider oneself a rational being. It becomes then, the living is what is hard. Unless of course, you batten down the hatches, forget about any or all possible consequences, and try to let out on (what you think are) the right occasions what you know that others, by choosing not to acknowledge will get themselves, and possibly yourself too, killed.
1) The Radioactive Cereal Principle, November 13th 2005
“Precautions must be taken not only to protect operations from exposure to enemy forces, but also to conceal these activities from the American public. The knowledge the Agency is engaging in unethical and illicit activities would have serious repercussions in political and diplomatic circles.” Auditor, MKULTRA, CIA 1961 (1)
“At the time, Senator Edward Kennedy basically said, “The intelligence community of this nation, which requires a shroud of secrecy in order to operate, has a very sacred trust from the American people. The CIA’s program of human experimentation of the ‘50s and ‘60s violated that trust. It was violated again on the day the bulk of the agency’s records were destroyed in 1973. It is violated each time a responsible official refuses to recollect the details of the program. The best safeguard against abuses and abusers is a complete public accounting of the abuses of the past.” Carol Rutz (2)
“Given the manual's repeated instructions to probe and exploit the individual mind-frame of the subject--to place "a tap on the psychological jugular"--it would not be surprising to find that yet another MKULTRA project, the PAS, was incorporated into CIA interrogation strategies. The CIA was loath to release its manuals to the American public, but the agency has readily shared its expert opinions on interrogation with military and intelligence forces around the world. In numerous cases both the CIA and the Defense Department have been implicated in the international dissemination of torture and other political terror tactics. The tricks of the trade were often exported to governments who turned the brutal methods against their own civilians. U.S. involvement in this terror trade has been so widespread that its effects can accurately be described as global in scope.” Jon Elliston (3)
“many, including me, would choose a beating. The effects of most beatings heal. The memory of an execution (mock execution) will haunt someone for a very long time and damage his or her psyche in ways that may never heal. In my view, to make someone believe that you are killing him by drowning is no different than holding a pistol to his head and firing a blank. I believe that it is torture, very exquisite torture.” Senator John McCain (4)
"Somewhere in the upper reaches of this Administration, a process was set in motion that rolled forward until it produced scandalous results," said Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) yesterday, referring to the shifting government policy on torture. "We may never know the full story, because the Administration has circled the wagons and stonewalled on requests for information. What little we know we owe to leaks, to the initiative of the press, to international human rights organizations, and to a few internal Defense Department investigations, and to Freedom of Information Act litigation." Senator Patrick Leahy (5)
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan called the culture of secrecy "a belief system . . . a way of life" that blurs judgment. "By increasing the scope for discretionary judgment, secrecy enhances the rule of man and subverts the rule of law. With the facts hidden, the administration can and does define reality as it sees fit. The White House believes that the president has a "blank check" in the war on terror and is effectively above the law.” Joe Pitts (6)
"... the 1995 Hearing of the President's Committee on Radiation, and they say "In the 1950's and 60's the CIA engaged in an extensive program of human experimentation using drugs, psychological, and other means, in search of techniques to control human behavior for counter intelligence and covert action purposes." In other words, they are training agents, it says here, by using mind control on them... a 1963 CIA Inspector General's report on project MKULTRA which was "a program concerned with research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of deployment in clandestine (secret) operations to control human behavior." John Rappoport (7)
The Radioactive Cereal Principle first appeared in my notes about a year ago as a paper to be written at this time. If unsuccessful, then this is to try to put things now in a better perspective without saying too much now. Enough has been written already in my papers and the notes (now hopefully widely propagated) that many could put the pieces together if I am not allowed to speak for myself or become timely incommunicative.
The Radioactive Cereal Principle is not about the actual secrets but the effect they have upon society, the covering of them up. Not only does that give societies a dishonest, schizophrenic, and ultimately false view of themselves and what they do, it spreads like a cancer unseen and ultimately kills, corrupts, and destroys people's lives, all in secret, and with a public forever free to smile in ignorance of what is done, supposedly for their benefit, but since they will never know or hear about any of it, for whoever wants to or is in a position from benefiting from secret money, secret programs, and untold methods of coercion inevitably targeted back upon their own representatives and republics, and on the blissfully clueless citizens themselves.
The title comes from the programs made public by the Clinton Administration (1995 Hearings of the President's Committee on Radiation)(7) on how the government secretly gave doses of radiation to children, pregnant women, and others without their knowledge or consent, knowing of potential dangers but justifying it in the name of medical research and national security. National security is a mantra which can and has covered up far worse things than just putting poison in children's cereal. It is a blanket excuse to do anything you want to anyone you wish if you have the right job, because no one is ever suppose to know about it, and you are told, you are free from having to worry about any consequences from the public because none of them ever will.
But now I am talking also about the collateral damage, not the ones who suffered because the government did something so reprehensible, it could not tolerate (or survive the publics outrage) people finding out about what they did to them, but what it does to those unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time to put together too many of the pieces, and being questionably too high-minded (read unpredictable) to be bought off or kept silent.
In doing a search on the Internet for the above quotes (searching radioactive cereal), I came across the story of Carol Rutz.(2) Many of her claims seem too fantastic, too much to believe that it could ever get that far out of control, yet for those willing to put aside their patriotic unthinking cap momentarily, if not having happened to her, there is ample evidence similar things did happen in government sanctioned secrecy to other children.
It was either President Ford or Carter who publicly announced in the mid-1970's that the government would from that day forward no longer be prostituting children to foreign diplomats or businessmen they wanted to impress or buy strategic influence with them or their countries, all in the name of national security, thus admitting that the CIA had been prostituting someone's children, and the MKULTRA program by its later names would make sense to have been involved. Again, they had to come from somewhere. TIME Magazine ran a good article mentioning the implications, but that the US government itself could be the beneficiary, promoter, instigator, and sole operator of what could only be called a network of child sexual slavery as recently as less than 30 years ago never really seeped into the publics awareness, nor was it suppose to. Oh yeah, we did that, talk about something else now.
There were allegations made that it came undone because local law enforcement investigating that a child prostitution ring operating out of the D.C. area, with links to other cities, did not like being told that this was off limits for them to look into. Those who ignored the warnings not to pursue it, finding out it was in fact the US government itself running the operations, they were not in a good position. People were fired, set up to be arrested, drugged and sent to mental hospitals, possibly even killed, just for doing what they were supposed to be doing, just not supposedly, in this instance, succeed at. At a certain point, it must have reached a critical mass where it could no longer be covered up, or the cost of all those counter-operations to ensure the main operation succeeded in running with impunity and under total secrecy would continue.
The risk for knowing something like this, that your government intentionally poisoned kids, pimped kids to rich foreign diplomats, businessmen, or kings, or other similar things, and might not wish to forever hold your peace about it, you would automatically be considered an enemy of the state, no matter how law-abiding, God-fearing, flag-worshipping true patriot you otherwise might have been considered up until that point. From that moment on, you would simply forever, and not for long, from that point on simply be in the way, an error about to be corrected.
The Radioactive Cereal Principle does not involve me. I am smart enough to generally steer clear of not coming across what I am not suppose to know about and try to stay in the dark about my government's doings as much as most people. However, some are unfortunately not able to avoid the potential effects because you can never tell exactly how they will break. Theoretically for every new action (crime) taken to cover up one crime which the government should never have committed, that new action itself needs to be covered up. Eventually like in the D.C. case, one would think the cost of keeping things covered up would some day finally get too high, potentially thousands of new instances (crimes) to cover up all related to keeping one thing quiet which should never have occurred, and all those new cases being covered up solely because of how easily avoidable and far less damaging it would have been to have come clean about it in the first place, not that any involved would ever have to worry about jail, they are above that, though they might lose the promotions they covet.
Though I may be on the outside as far as any specific cases needing to be currently covered-up, potentially no one is outside the scope of the criss-crossing webs and cover-ups which are both new and old. The United States has one again sunk as low as it is possible to go, what US Vice-President Dick Cheney called going to the dark side. The new skeletons they are exponentially adding to the already overflowing closet is causing the old ones to have to move out.
The abuses of authority due to what the administration now regards it can keep secret in perpetuity has led to an arrogance greater than that which destroyed Rome. President Bush has by executive order tried to give ex- and future ex-Presidents, namely himself, the power to keep things secret indefinitely as long as he is alive and so chooses, to the degree that a sitting President now has, so he will never have to face up to revelations about his own mistakes or horrific abuses equally as bad or worse than those under MKULTRA while on his watch. Even Putin is still working out how to give himself THAT much power after leaving office. Though I cannot name any specific cases, and given the abuses already made public thus far, the public has become immune to hearing them anyway in those becoming rarer instances the US media acknowledges by reporting on them (omitted from US news: (8) The recent charges by the Pro-American Pro-occupation Iraq government that the US used chemical weapons with heavy causalities and women and children dying horrifically as the their bodies were dissolved away spreading of the chemicals eating into their flesh under their clothes and turning them into leather like corpses wearing clothes, burned alive and watching it spread on them unable to stop it. And these charges were not made by biased against us enemies but by those who want us there, but to stop doing that sort of thing. This was not deemed newsworthy for Americans to hear (8) that our government was caught doing the same kind of things we call War Crimes or Crimes Against Humanity when other countries do them or Saddam Hussein did it. Without our publics hearing about it, our hands are thought to remain clean.) If not for the shroud of protection from the Radioactive Cereal Principle, there is little doubt now Bush would have gone out of the history books the same way as Hitler, by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
While claiming the US does not stand for torture, Bush has just now openly said anyone who would speak out in favor of limiting his ability to order the torture of others as "unpatriotic". He has also recently warned others not to try to "revise history" on the reasons we went to war with Iraq when it has been proven that he was lying. Don't try to effect an established lie by trying to bring in, let out, or try to find the truth, he says. He thinks he has the power to create reality, and the power given to him by the media fondling and dependable as clockwork cover-ups gives him due reason to be delusional.
Whereas the United States used to have a representative list of which countries respected human rights and which were abusers, we now have a hypocritical list that many to most nations would say we belong at the top of as the worst abuser. Bush has almost openly yet coyly bragged about how will stop at nothing, even torture, and the press has been complicit by hardly raising an objection to the official state-line insanity. Overseas, we have pressured other countries to curtail civil rights, even encouraged martial law and the suspension of legal processes, almost worldwide, in the name of the War on Terror.
Even while fostering an anything goes policy within the CIA, the administration has shown itself willing to try to force reports to be doctored to its political objectives, ignored anything they do not wish to hear, been arrested for divulging state secrets to score political points, and creates fall guys (to be well-rewarded later) to tell them the lies they want to hear to justify wars of aggression and profiteering. Anyone who has studied the fall of the USSR like I have can tell you, it was the same atmosphere of invulnerability and willingness to ignore legitimate intelligence over what it only wished to hear and be told which caused it to collapse.
America has in less than 4 years gone from being a country respected and admired all over the world, even among Islamic nations and peoples, to a country reviled and thought to be the greatest enemy or threat to peace and stability in the World, and that is just among our friends and allies publics! The rest REALLY hate us now. Bush has purposely played the part of a firebug to start incendiary policies bound to exacerbate tensions and problems around the World so he can portray himself as a hero for standing up to them. Milosovich comes to mind as having played the same game, much to his country's detriment.
Believe it or not, I saw and still see getting out as my best chance to help. The shit is about to hit the fan bigtime as far as world peace goes, if not this year, then the next, or within the next few years. A void is growing and a polarization against both the US and World institutions has never greater threatened America and its interests, and it is all being self-inflicted. The world needs America more than it realizes, but the America it needs needs to get its shit together, and soon, or both America and the world will have lost the best chance at long-term stability in exchange for a few hundred extra billions of dollars of short-term profits.
If I am wrong, if I am not so far removed from the Radioactive Cereal Principle as I thought, then I shall soon find that out. Chances are good from my perspective then it might be that I was borne too close to the center and may have been in a hopeless position from the start. Still, I am what my country made me and luck willing and with a little foresight, our courses will converge again on safer and higher ground.
1) 2005 Whitehead John W. 2005/05/18 A Nation Betrayed: Secret Cold War Experiments Performed on Our Children and Other Innocent People: An interview with Carol Rutz :
http://www.rutherford.org/oldspeak/articles/interview/Rutz.html
2) 2005 Whitehead John W. 2005/05/18 A Nation Betrayed: Secret Cold War Experiments Performed on Our Children and Other Innocent People: An interview with Carol Rutz :
http://www.rutherford.org/oldspeak/articles/interview/Rutz.html
3) 1999 Elliston Jon 1999/ 03 THE CIA AND TORTURE ON THE RECORD, PART 2 : http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/99-03%20SPR/thecia.html
4) 2005 McCain, John 2005/11/13 Torture's Terrible Toll : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10019179/site/newsweek/
5) 2005 SECRECY NEWS 2005/02/03 SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2005, Issue No. 13 http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/2005/02/020305.html
6) 2005 Pitts, Joe W. 2005/10/01 SECRETS, LIES & TORTURE : President Bush's Penchant for Secrecy Is Moving Us Toward a Closed Society http://www.washingtonspectator.com/articles/20051001secrets_2.cfm
7) 200? Rappoport, John, The CIA, Mind Control, & Children, CKLN-FM Mind Control Series -- Part 10, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, CA
8) The day after I first wrote this, the Pentagon came clean about it and admitted to using White Phosphorous in battle against combatants in Iraq despite earlier denials by the State Department. While still claiming it is not illegal to do so, and technically not a chemical weapon (unless intentionally used against people as a weapon) because the US does not consider it a chemical weapon as many other nations do. While I applaud any admittance of past mistakes, which is after all the whole point of this paper, that the lies and cover-ups do far more damage in the long run, the US continues to state the obvious and not have it challenged or followed up by the press. "We do not intentionally target civilians." No shit, but that does not mean they are not using it on civilians inadvertently. Chemical weapons are killer clouds. They are not responsible for which way the wind blows, except politically speaking, which is all politicians seem to care about. Still, my hat is off to the Pentagon in this instance, and I am hopeful the Bush/Press disinformation wall is cracking, but not because of the American Press, which did not even consider it a valid story despite overwhelming evidence until the Pentagon itself admitted to doing it. Maybe since Brian Williams (9) does not think the government secretly bribing the press to run favorable stories is not against the rules, maybe paying them not to run stories they don't like will be fair game also one day, if not already.
9) 2005, Media Matters, 2005/12/05 NBC anchor Williams: Bush administration has "right" to buy media coverage http://mediamatters.org/items/200512050010
2) Excerpt: When I Think I Might Never See Hawaii Again, September 24th 2006
Some may think me unworthy to speak of him, others would condemn me for calling him a great American leader, yet if he was not an American, who can say they are? If American's are not a race, as we like to point out, but many races, then why cannot an American be one outside of a government? Governments come and hopefully will go and give way to better and more just ones, but people and places remain. There was no doubt he was a good leader and an American, therefore it is not wrong to say he was an American leader to which any could be proud of.
I have mentioned him before in my writings, and mentioning him now is because so many have not heard his most famous words, now dead in the hearts of Americans, many but not all, and need rekindling now more than ever. All that was great about America, the government at least, that small portion of what is America, has gone terribly wrong. Former President James Carter's belief in a self-correcting mechanism is unfortunately seemingly misplaced at the moment. We have been fed illusions of our worth, blinded to the suffering we are inflicting all over the world in the name of values it is apparent to all all over the world we are not living by and seemingly no longer believe in except to use as an excuse to take what we wish and do whatever is our will.
Nothing can I remember having moved me more deeply than when I read the words below. It is not just words, not just pain or agony at the reality of war we have been sanitized from, protected from, and because of which, that distancing, we watch men and women without hearts advocating things on television to us and to children, what they are teaching to a new generation, advocating avoidable attacks that would cost thousands of innocent lives, without guilt over what they say, without hesitation in what they are advocating, and without regrets. Joseph's pain inoculated me against thinking like that, and his words will outlive the hate mongers, the torture advocators, and those who scorn diplomacy and the avoidance of war as "weak".
These words, his words, will outlive those people because the world they advocate cannot endure, would not survive. A world which not only remembers these words but learns from them, takes them into its heart as I have into mine, that is a world which can endure. That is the future I work for, hope for, would live and die for, but the future we are creating now, what our present leaders wish to give the world, that is nothing I would want to be a part of. That world in which we have already recently killed tens of thousands of innocents in cold blood unnecessarily, and would kill millions if not billions to prevent the world from growing beyond the systems we have now, based on the need for war, the rewarding of aggression, and the sanctity of mass murders beyond scale in the name of country and in the name of God. May their notions not be passed on. Humanity could not long survive it if they do. The goal and the means to take us to that better world are found in the words below for any to hear, to know, and to feel, and to guide us back from the brink by remembering the slaughters we have done in the past, and are about to repeat again.
"It is cold, and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are -- perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever."
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