CLASH OF CULTURES revisited
I wrote this on Sept. 16th 2001 as a windshield flyer and am reposting it because of it's pertinence regarding our political leaders and their total disregard for the responsibilities entrusted to them by the People and Constitution of the United States of America - can I get an Amen?
I may post some of my older stuff in the future if apropriate unless of course the feed back is that it sucks (all things considered) 6/28/07
CLASH OF CULTURES
COULD IT HAVE BEEN AVOIDED
SEPTEMBER 16TH, 2001
HERE WE ARE, PREPARING FOR WAR AGAIN! AFTER WE TAKE OUR POUND OF FLESH IN RETALIATION FOR THE WORST ATTACK WITHIN OUR BORDERS, EVER! MAKE NO MISTAKE , WE HAVE NO CHOICE !
AFTER FIVE DAYS OF ANGER AND OUTRAGE, I THINK NOW I AM BEGINNING TO SEE WHAT I’VE KNOWN ALL ALONG.
TWENTY EIGHT YEARS AGO WE HAD A WAKE UP CALL. LONG LINES AND BAD BEHAVIOR AT THE PUMPS, STOCK MARKET CHAOS AND MOST OF ALL, THE REALIZATION BY ALMOST EVERYONE THAT OUR DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGN OIL IS A DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN. WELL IT HAS! BUT NOT BEFORE MANY SMALLER SIGNS, IF YOU CONSIDER ALL THE DEATHS IN THE LAST TWENTY FIVE YEARS SMALLER SIGNS.
WHERE AM I GOING WITH THIS YOU ASK? THE HIJACKINGS, ACHILE LAUREL (REMEMBER THE MAN IN THE WHEELCHAIR).FLT 103, FLT 800, DEAD MARINES IN BEIRUT , FAILED HELICOPTER HOSTAGE RESCUE IN IRAN, COBAL TOWERS, THE USS COLE, LIBIA, IRAQ, SOMALIA, THE FIRST WTC, DON’T FORGET KOSOVO AND NOW THE SECOND AND FINAL WTC HIJACK AND TOTAL DESTRUCTION WHICH INCLUDED THE PENTAGON AND 4 PASSENGER JETS !
WHO’S TO BLAME HERE ? ARABS, WHICH ONES? THE ONES GETTING RICH SELLING OIL OR THE POOR ARABS WHO GET NO SHARE. ALL ISLAM, OR THE ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS WHO BELIEVE THEIRS IS THE ONLY RELIGION, MAYBE THATS ONLY RHETORIC OF SOLIDARITY FANNED BY THE LOSS OF SOVERENITY. ACCORDING TO OSAMA BIN LADEN IT IS, BECAUSE WE HAVE BASES IN HIS SAUDI ARABIAN (X) HOMELAND, EVEN THO HE’S BEEN AROUND SINCE 85 STIRRING THE POT !
HOW ABOUT ISRAEL, A JEWISH STATE RIGHT SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU KNOW THAT IRKS EM TO THE INTH. WELL THATS A REAL BITTER PART OF THEIR HISTORY WHICH INCLUDES BRITAINS LOVE OF NEAT LITTLE DIVIDING LINES ON MAPS, WHICH BEGAN THE END OF A NOMADIC PEOPLE AND THE BEGINNING OF BORDER DISPUTES !! SPEAKING OF HISTORY, MAYBE WE SHOULD BLAME THE CRUSADES! AHHH, RELIGION ! THOSE NOT WILLING TO TOLERATE THE VIEWS OF OTHERS !
GO BACK TO OIL AND WHAT WE PROMISED TWENTY EIGHT YEARS AGO AND SEEMED TO HAVE FORGOTTEN ! ALTERNATE ENERGY, MAINLY IN THE REALM OF TRANSPORTATION IE; CARS AND THE FOSSIL FUEL DELIMA, WHO’S FAULT IS THAT ? THE OIL COMPANIES FOR WANTING TO PROTECT THIER VERY LUCRATIVE JOBS? THE STOCK HOLDERS FOR PROFIT ? OR US FOR NOT DEMANDING R&D $$ FOR ELECTRIC CARS. TRUCKING AND RAILROAD LOBBY FOR GETTING THEIR MACHINES EXEMPTED FROM EVEN THE LAXIST OF EMISSION CONTROLS!! WE’VE LOST 28 YEARS OF RESEARCH AND ADDED 28 YEARS OF POLLUTION AND BLOODSHED AS A RESULT !!
WE’VE BEEN SKIRTING THESE IDEAS FOR DECADES NOW ! EVERY AMERICAN I’VE TALKED TO COMES OFF AS KNOWLEDGEABLE IN THESE MATTERS ! THEY ALL SEEM COMPASSIONATE AND WE’RE KNOWN INTERNATIONALLY AS PHILANTHROPISTS. SO WHAT’S WRONG HERE ?
HOW COULD WE HAVE LET THINGS , AS A PEOPLE, GET SO BAD ?
ARE WE SO USED TO BEING TOLD BY THOSE WITH EVERYTHING TO LOSE (CORPRATIONS VIA CONGRESS) IT WON’T FLY THAT WE BELIEVE THEM ?
WHO DO THE REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENT ANY WAY? WHAT’S ALL THIS TRASH ABOUT MONEY BEING FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS ? MONEY ISN’T SPEECH FOLKS, IT’S A POSESSION! I SURE HOPE OUR RIGHT TO GOVERN OURSELVES ISN’T USURPED BY THE ELITE !
IT SEEMS TO ME, AFTER RECIEVING OUR DESERVED DRINK AT THE WELL OF VENGEANCE, WE’D BE WISE TO VANQUISH THOSE IN POWER AND POSITION THAT ABUSE THE PUBLIC TRUST IN FAVOR OF ENRICHING THEMSELVES AT THE PUBLIC TROUGH OF POWER AND WEALTH !!
WE ALL KNOW THESE THINGS TO BE TRUE, OR WE WOULD’NT BE DROWNING IN CHAOS WITH THESE CONTRADICTIONS. SMART ENOUGH TO SEE TRUTH WHEN ALONE BUT CONVINCED TO THE CONTRARY BY THOSE HIRED TO POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY. WE SHOULN’T BEG AS SERVANTS ! HELL NO, WE SHOULD DEMAND AS MASTERS WITHOUT FEAR OF REPRISAL OR IMPRISONMENT !!
THINK OF THESE CIVIL RESPONSIBILITYS WHILE SWINGING THE SWORD OF JUSTICE FOR THOSE WHO NO LONGER CAN .
IT’S TIME WE TALK THE TALK AND WALK THE WALK KNOWING BEYOND A DOUBT THAT IT’S NOT AN ILLUSION !!
SEPTEMBER 11,2003
2 YEARS LATER , WE’RE RELIVING THE TEARS AND ANGER ALL OVER AGAIN. A 9/11 A THON WITH A HEALTHY DOSE OF HIND SIGHT IT IS
Sorry about the caps folks but those were pretty heady times - 7/7/04
I may post some of my older stuff in the future if apropriate unless of course the feed back is that it sucks (all things considered) 6/28/07
CLASH OF CULTURES
COULD IT HAVE BEEN AVOIDED
SEPTEMBER 16TH, 2001
HERE WE ARE, PREPARING FOR WAR AGAIN! AFTER WE TAKE OUR POUND OF FLESH IN RETALIATION FOR THE WORST ATTACK WITHIN OUR BORDERS, EVER! MAKE NO MISTAKE , WE HAVE NO CHOICE !
AFTER FIVE DAYS OF ANGER AND OUTRAGE, I THINK NOW I AM BEGINNING TO SEE WHAT I’VE KNOWN ALL ALONG.
TWENTY EIGHT YEARS AGO WE HAD A WAKE UP CALL. LONG LINES AND BAD BEHAVIOR AT THE PUMPS, STOCK MARKET CHAOS AND MOST OF ALL, THE REALIZATION BY ALMOST EVERYONE THAT OUR DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGN OIL IS A DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN. WELL IT HAS! BUT NOT BEFORE MANY SMALLER SIGNS, IF YOU CONSIDER ALL THE DEATHS IN THE LAST TWENTY FIVE YEARS SMALLER SIGNS.
WHERE AM I GOING WITH THIS YOU ASK? THE HIJACKINGS, ACHILE LAUREL (REMEMBER THE MAN IN THE WHEELCHAIR).FLT 103, FLT 800, DEAD MARINES IN BEIRUT , FAILED HELICOPTER HOSTAGE RESCUE IN IRAN, COBAL TOWERS, THE USS COLE, LIBIA, IRAQ, SOMALIA, THE FIRST WTC, DON’T FORGET KOSOVO AND NOW THE SECOND AND FINAL WTC HIJACK AND TOTAL DESTRUCTION WHICH INCLUDED THE PENTAGON AND 4 PASSENGER JETS !
WHO’S TO BLAME HERE ? ARABS, WHICH ONES? THE ONES GETTING RICH SELLING OIL OR THE POOR ARABS WHO GET NO SHARE. ALL ISLAM, OR THE ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS WHO BELIEVE THEIRS IS THE ONLY RELIGION, MAYBE THATS ONLY RHETORIC OF SOLIDARITY FANNED BY THE LOSS OF SOVERENITY. ACCORDING TO OSAMA BIN LADEN IT IS, BECAUSE WE HAVE BASES IN HIS SAUDI ARABIAN (X) HOMELAND, EVEN THO HE’S BEEN AROUND SINCE 85 STIRRING THE POT !
HOW ABOUT ISRAEL, A JEWISH STATE RIGHT SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU KNOW THAT IRKS EM TO THE INTH. WELL THATS A REAL BITTER PART OF THEIR HISTORY WHICH INCLUDES BRITAINS LOVE OF NEAT LITTLE DIVIDING LINES ON MAPS, WHICH BEGAN THE END OF A NOMADIC PEOPLE AND THE BEGINNING OF BORDER DISPUTES !! SPEAKING OF HISTORY, MAYBE WE SHOULD BLAME THE CRUSADES! AHHH, RELIGION ! THOSE NOT WILLING TO TOLERATE THE VIEWS OF OTHERS !
GO BACK TO OIL AND WHAT WE PROMISED TWENTY EIGHT YEARS AGO AND SEEMED TO HAVE FORGOTTEN ! ALTERNATE ENERGY, MAINLY IN THE REALM OF TRANSPORTATION IE; CARS AND THE FOSSIL FUEL DELIMA, WHO’S FAULT IS THAT ? THE OIL COMPANIES FOR WANTING TO PROTECT THIER VERY LUCRATIVE JOBS? THE STOCK HOLDERS FOR PROFIT ? OR US FOR NOT DEMANDING R&D $$ FOR ELECTRIC CARS. TRUCKING AND RAILROAD LOBBY FOR GETTING THEIR MACHINES EXEMPTED FROM EVEN THE LAXIST OF EMISSION CONTROLS!! WE’VE LOST 28 YEARS OF RESEARCH AND ADDED 28 YEARS OF POLLUTION AND BLOODSHED AS A RESULT !!
WE’VE BEEN SKIRTING THESE IDEAS FOR DECADES NOW ! EVERY AMERICAN I’VE TALKED TO COMES OFF AS KNOWLEDGEABLE IN THESE MATTERS ! THEY ALL SEEM COMPASSIONATE AND WE’RE KNOWN INTERNATIONALLY AS PHILANTHROPISTS. SO WHAT’S WRONG HERE ?
HOW COULD WE HAVE LET THINGS , AS A PEOPLE, GET SO BAD ?
ARE WE SO USED TO BEING TOLD BY THOSE WITH EVERYTHING TO LOSE (CORPRATIONS VIA CONGRESS) IT WON’T FLY THAT WE BELIEVE THEM ?
WHO DO THE REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENT ANY WAY? WHAT’S ALL THIS TRASH ABOUT MONEY BEING FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS ? MONEY ISN’T SPEECH FOLKS, IT’S A POSESSION! I SURE HOPE OUR RIGHT TO GOVERN OURSELVES ISN’T USURPED BY THE ELITE !
IT SEEMS TO ME, AFTER RECIEVING OUR DESERVED DRINK AT THE WELL OF VENGEANCE, WE’D BE WISE TO VANQUISH THOSE IN POWER AND POSITION THAT ABUSE THE PUBLIC TRUST IN FAVOR OF ENRICHING THEMSELVES AT THE PUBLIC TROUGH OF POWER AND WEALTH !!
WE ALL KNOW THESE THINGS TO BE TRUE, OR WE WOULD’NT BE DROWNING IN CHAOS WITH THESE CONTRADICTIONS. SMART ENOUGH TO SEE TRUTH WHEN ALONE BUT CONVINCED TO THE CONTRARY BY THOSE HIRED TO POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY. WE SHOULN’T BEG AS SERVANTS ! HELL NO, WE SHOULD DEMAND AS MASTERS WITHOUT FEAR OF REPRISAL OR IMPRISONMENT !!
THINK OF THESE CIVIL RESPONSIBILITYS WHILE SWINGING THE SWORD OF JUSTICE FOR THOSE WHO NO LONGER CAN .
IT’S TIME WE TALK THE TALK AND WALK THE WALK KNOWING BEYOND A DOUBT THAT IT’S NOT AN ILLUSION !!
SEPTEMBER 11,2003
2 YEARS LATER , WE’RE RELIVING THE TEARS AND ANGER ALL OVER AGAIN. A 9/11 A THON WITH A HEALTHY DOSE OF HIND SIGHT IT IS
Sorry about the caps folks but those were pretty heady times - 7/7/04
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