Could it be that we have lost the true cost of war as we morn its
dead ~ could it be that flowers and flags can never justify the inhumanity of
war ~ could it be that all wars are lost because there are no true winners and
lastly why are we continuing to justify our current illegal
occupations by falsely calling them wars. In wartime, everything is
done to subvert the force of love but in the end ~ only love prevails: Allen L Roland
Here
are some thought provoking quotes and serious
thoughts to mull over on memorial Day 2012 but first let’s
have a reality check and watch a must see Real News video of Larry
Wilkerson discussing the National Defense Authorization Act that recently
passed the Senate giving the president the power for indefinite detention
without trial ~ which Wilkerson correctly asserts is a draconian violation of
our rights. 7 minute video: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7688
Wilkerson
correctly calls this “another step on the road to tyranny“ and
also shares that the Defense (War) Department “now is completely in
control of over two thirds of our intelligence facilities.”
The founders of our Republic were seriously opposed to handing
this much military power over to the executive branch, fearing tyranny. If
enacted into law, this provision will make Obama a dictator who can wage war
anywhere and without the consent of the American people and it’s duly elected
Congress. Events in the past have warned of the danger of an out of control war
making machine ~ which we most certainly have at the present time.
Here’s a short video clip showing how every
major war in US
history was based on a complete fraud, lie or false flag ~ with video of the
insiders themselves admitting it. This includes the battleship Maine, Sinking of the Lusitania,
Gulf of Tonkin, USS Liberty but not the yet to
be admitted 9/11 cover up. 8 minute video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkE94ayHlNg
President Eisenhower most certainly warned us about the out of
control military/industrial complex but here is a 21st century updated
thought provoking warning by Joe Rogan that War Is indeed a Racket ~ with X
rated but effective language, so be fore warned. Nine minute video ~ http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/1119.html
When people say "support the troops"
but aren't fighting to bring them home and keep the criminals who run these wars and occupations in check, I wonder how serious
they are about helping anybody. Others have expressed the same doubts about the futility of war;
"We
have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours
is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than
we do about peace - more about killing than we do about living." ~
WWII General Omar Bradley
"In
war, there are no unwounded soldiers"-- Jose Narosky
"Individuals
have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience.
Therefore (individual citizens) have the duty to (refuse to obey) domestic laws
to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring." ~ Nuremberg War
Crime Tribunal, 1950
“We must kill them in war, just
because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be
called murderers.” ~ Blaise Pascal (17th
century mathematician and philosopher whose father lost his entire savings
because of France’s
national bankruptcy caused by the debt incurred during the religious Thirty Years
War)
“If you had seen one day of war, you
would pray to God that you would never see another.” ~ The Duke of Wellington (celebrated for being the victorious British general
at the Battle of Waterloo, June 1815)
“I
confess without shame that I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all
moonshine. It is only those who have neither heard the shrieks and groans of
the wounded, who cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War
is Hell.”~ Civil
War Union General
William Tecumseh Sherman who
orchestrated the infamous scorched earth policy that terrorized the Confederacy
in his “March to the Sea” in 1864.
"Every ambitious would-be empire
clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security
and freedom, and is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and
humanitarian purposes. That is a lie, and it is an ancient lie, yet
generations still rise and believe it! ...
If America
ever does seek Empire, and most nations do, then planned reforms in our
domestic life will be abandoned, States Rights will be abolished ~ in order
to impose a centralized government upon us for the purpose of internal
repudiation of freedom, and adventures abroad.
The American Dream will then die ~ on battlefields all
over the world ~ and a nation conceived in liberty will destroy liberty for
Americans and impose tyranny on subject nations." George S. Boutwell - (1818-1905)
American statesman, Secretary of the Treasury under President Ulysses S. Grant
"All
that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive
patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them
accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became
discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because,
being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific
grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice." ~ George Orwell 1984
And of course, the mass media more than plays its role in
promoting and selling these larger evils or so-called wars and occupations for
the benefit of the Military/Industrial complex.
In other words, no mass media
promotion, no war.
Howard Zinn (1922-2011) shows how CNN and other
"news" outlets cheer lead the Iraq
and Afghanistan
wars and other atrocities.
5 minute Video:
Only love can reach the common taproot beneath the
primordial necessity to kill because love and the urge to unite is not only
deepest within ourselves ~ it is also the driving force of
evolution and we resist it at our peril.
And
this is the truth that shall set everything ablaze; The basic underlying and uniting force of the Universe is a psychic
energy field of love and soul consciousness ( the Unified Field
) which lies not only beyond time and space
but also beneath our deepest fears ~
and whose
principle property is the universal urge to unite.
The June 1995 issue of Scientific American featured an
article titled The Arithmetic’s of Mutual Help in which it
shared that computer experiments conclusively show how
cooperation rather than exploitation can dominate in the Darwinian struggle for
survival
... ”In the course of evolution, there appears to have been ample opportunity
for cooperation to have assisted everything from humans to molecules. In a
sense, cooperation could be older than life itself. “ And what else but love and this
innate urge to unite could be older than life itself.
But
I am not alone in singing this song of innate connectedness,
love and hope.
Chris Hedges, award winning human rights journalist and
peace activist, makes this same point in his interview with Sarah
Ruth Van Gelder in the Winter 2005 edition of YES Magazine:
SARAH: "
In your book, you say, “Lurking beneath the surface of every society, including
ours, is the passionate yearning for a nationalist cause that exalts us ... the
kind that war alone is able to deliver.” That yearning suggests that we’re
always going to be either at war or on the brink of war. Do you see any
forces that can temper that tendency? "
CHRIS: “The only
force that is powerful enough to subvert the force of war is love. Love is never organized. Love is always individual
love. Love is a force that is built between two human beings. In wartime, everything is done to subvert that force.
I don’t know that there’s an organized
force that can stand up to the allure of war, which gives us a sense of
empowerment ~ allows us to be part of a cause, to ennoble ourselves, to rise
above our small stations in life.
The need to find meaning like that, I
think, is an indication of the huge deficit of our emotional life. In conflict after conflict, those who are able to
remain sane, who were never able to hate the perfidious enemy (who, in places
like the Balkans, were often their neighbors), were those who had good relationships, those who were
in love." See article ~ http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=1165
So in wartime, everything is done to subvert the force of
love ~ but
in the end only love prevails because it lies deepest within ourselves and we
resist it at our evolutionary peril.
So on Memorial Day 2012 ~
let us honor those who have died, let us heal the countless wounded
and let us take the necessary action to stop
these illegal occupations, masqueraded as wars ~ which are actually mockeries
of freedom and liberty.
Allen L Roland
Freelance Alternative
Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland
is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements
and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com
)
Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist,
author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on
his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national
radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
