In their no doubt zealous desire to “protect the American people,” our leaders have spent the precious reputation of a country which tries to be better. (Now this is an illusion. I was certainly never taught in school here in USA about the M69 napalm firestorms in 67 of Japan’s wood, straw and paper cities.) How ever faux, the world saw us as somehow trying to be just.

                                   sistersofmercy

Now our Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and our general hysteria and grotesque hubris have made us distrusted and disgusting. It’s all about means and ends. Your ends can not be nobler than your means were. Amnesia and/or rationalization can blur the memory, but, unlike in Dresden, 67 of Japan's firestormed wooden cities, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo, we must fight for means that, if not, forlornly, serene, are at least not vile. ...   more »

What BushCo & Ilk completely miss is that we win both allies and friends with spreading what you might call �practical love.� Instead of multiplying vengeance, we would multiply affection. Train battalions of paramedics instead of soldiers � the same people, folks, the very same people. Train para-engineers instead of soldiers. The same recruits. The same team work, the same camaraderie. Minus the future nightmares that we bequeath to so many of them. We should use our massive strength (tho we�re owned by the Chinese banks & it�s hard to know when that bubble bursts?) to build for the downtrodden, champion the sick. The Earth is pleading for peace in broken people -- they are the runes, the hieroglyphs. You just have to have another tank -- and you let another sister go river blind? These things are connected. .. .. Is our legacy as America all this hell and hate? I don�t believe it. I believe that we can export engineering and education and medicine -- and movies and cruddy hamburgers . .. .    more »

I wonder what will become of Karl, Dick the Dick, and their Slithery Ilk who indenture our countrymen to poverty and sign the order for weapons as if their pens didn�t write blood. How do they not hear the screams of the mutilated collateral damage at night?.. .. ..    more »

Mr. Rove is a serial Smearer. . .. . It is impossible to get the Smearodent Toothpaste back in the tube. What is John McCain to say? "No, I didn't father a black baby with a prostitute." Then just even more people hear about it and wonder. Or John Kerry and the Swift Boat ads. "No, it was dangerous as hell and I could have died and I was really brave, unlike you, you chicken hawk" . . . You can't rebut this garbage without sounding defensive or vain. The victim of these tactics is in a serious trap . . .    more »

Fundamentalist Christianity is an anti-jesusian, virulent sidebar. The real 8000 lb gorilla in America is the Church of Militarism. To speak out against it is a burn-at-the-stake heresy-equivalent. They do you with the gatling gun and finish you off with a flamethrower.. Dare to suggest that 99% of military spending is a colossal waste of money and in come the bunker-busting bombs, soon to be nuclear for cruds sake .. ..?    more »

Blake exhorts us to know that �A skylark wounded in the wing, A Cherubim does cease to sing.� And we hurl shock and awe by the explosive tons at the collateral children of Iraq? In Auguries of Innocence, Blake also says �Nought can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace. When gold and gems adorn the plow To peaceful arts shall Envy bow.� .. .. . We are deformed by this war. It is too late in history to be mutilating children to haruumph that we are strong. If it weren�t so dangerous and stupid, we could howl derisively at the absurdity. No, George, no, we are making more terrorists and proving to them how very effective their suicide cheap-car driver is compared to our suicide expensive-tank driver. Ours noble, theirs craven? No, both insane. But conned and brainwashed by adults who never send their own children or, gods forfend, find the cause noble enough to go themselves .. .. .    more »

�I cannot believe that we just go to sleep at night and let day after day pile up like corpses along side the highway of history while these bastards loot and steal right out from under our noses and we do not whimper, not even like a kicked dog. Where in the hell, Obol, amigo de mi coraz�n, is our dignity and our sacred honor? Such sheepery and lemminghood disgust me about ourselves. They don�t even have to bestir themselves to defeat us. They must be putting saltpeter in the junk food. Are we tamed by aspartame?� .. .. ..   more »

A few days ago I thought, Well, we should dub ourselves pro-peace eather than anti-war. This better obeys the powerful but slightly tweaky notion of waht in hypnosis is called an embedded command. .. .. .. IF we say 'anti-war' instead of 'pro-peace' in this micro-embedded command, we are requiring people to imagine the war. IF we say pro-peace, they have to imagine something about peace to even comprehend the words . .. .. ..    more »

Instead of saying Go to War, if we say Go to Mutilation, we strip away the monstrous notion that War, that Mutilation is noble. We�re going to Mutilation for fight for freedom? People need to recoil if they hear a Mutilation-monger � whether it is their neighbor or their president. .. .... Remember, dear reader, that my premise is that in Y3000 humans reject war as absolutely as we reject child abuse today. (Of course war, of course mutilation is the worst degree of child abuse .. .. ..   more »

Now that I�m settling into being a militant pacifist, how does it feel? .. .. Fierce pacifist, c�est moi! Well, I�ve burned almost all my bridges to politics as usual or life as usual. I am no longer considered part of any fold. As you can see in the Hector & the Abolition of War piece, I�ve seen too much to go back. .. .. You realize you�ve gone further out on a limb to the future than any of your friends. They�ll still default to some version of the good or necessary war. .. .. ..   more »

Hector, Psychic Assassin, my friend. For those who grok it, this is my quintessential statement for why I have resolved to devote my life to the Abolition of War -- because the psychic assassin become Healer, Hector, taught me why pacifism is the only choice. .. . . .. Read this as slowly as you can read and you will funes what a life is worth that you cannot take it. . .. . "Prince or peasant, all men die the same when they are butchered. It was not lovely or interesting. To kill as I did later, by stealth, by seduction, when I saw the breadth of a life, then I knew what I did. It was like walking through a pyramid-shaped tunnel, a pyramid on its side. Starting at the wide end, you saw the vast spiraling mosaic of their complex life, until you came to the narrow end where face to face at the top of the spine, you looked into the unblinking eyes of the life Snake. In the reptilian brain, their first and last light lay. It�s the place where consciousness is ignited. And quenched. The sixth king, Orez, I did not kill. I saved him instead. He knew I could have killed him, and when I did not, each picture, poem, song, from the least crumb of his all but lost life became precious, delirious to him. The great cruel king wept. I became a healer in that hour. Orez became a kind ruler, seeking to treasure his subjects� days as his own .. .. .    more »

I am happy to call Mr. Bush a Gigantic Canker on a Pig's Rump and consider it a sycophantic civility. . .. . I suppose I can applaud "calm & peaceful foci" for those to whom that is a soothing m.o., but in the last decade, there's been far too much civility in the USofA Inc re these Death & Poverty-Dealing Bastards who are sucking human resources out of the human system like Monster BloodSuckers from the Planet Mortetsang . .. .   more »

Next time you hear the phrase �collateral damage,� I want you to leap up out of your chair and start screaming. . .. . Too boat-rocking for you? Too impolite? People will question your sanity? Your urbanity? Tut tut . .. . Doing what�s right ain�t comfortable, ain�t polite. Solidarity of the living. The civil right to remain unmaimed . .. . War is state-sanctioned murder. War is state-sanctioned mass murder. Ohmygods the �m� word! Murder . .. .    more »

I have been derelict because I have been so offended. So offended that our country has been invaded by stenched souls willing to call dead &/or mutilated children, the born, collateral damage. Now, with my name-doppelganger Swift, I certainly ain�t against the occasional �stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled� plump milk-fed child. I am not a sentimentalist. But just blowing them to smithereens is an offensive waste in both nambi-pampi moral and strict capitalist Greedo terms. The least we could do is make tasty sausages out of the freshly killed. I mean where are the Entrepreneurs when you need them? Give the no-bid sausage contract to Halliburton. . .. . Own the Far-Left Exremist Agenda. Say kindly and with patronizing patience and sorrow, �Yeah, that pesky Far-Left Extremist Agenda � We want universal healthcare, superb education, a treasured environment," &c . .. .    more »

The Grave of the Known Soldier. Iraq Death #1999? Today we're at 1852 American soldiers dead. To me this isn't only about Ken or Casey or Roberto or Rachel -- it's about Juan Smith #1999 -- is there ANY way we can save that kid? . . . . . . "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Iraq for a mistake?" . . . . . .    more »

Militant Pacifism. We're talking fierce pacifism. People annoyingly label pacifists as nice; namby-pamby; passive. Flay that. All I care about is that people aren't dead or mutilated while I stand by drooling in some theo-patriotic trance. So, not dead, not mutilated. Limbs and soul and heart intact. . . . I hurt your feelings? I'm too abrasive? I uncivilly trash the false use of Jesus? Who gives a fig? I care about your still being alive to get all huffy. . . . It's like all the puritanical hoorah about Janet Jackson's bosom when we have people without healthcare. You don't seem to mind your children being exposed to images of Leaders who do not fight for a living wage. I'm a fierce pacifist not because I'm lilylivered but because I can't take how immensely stupid it is to kill strangers. . . Don't tread on me. Or I'll rip out your remaining eye. But metaphorically, pilgrim . . .    more »

Once we outwitted the Inevitability of Slavery, War is now the Inevitable Social Condition, the sine qua non of immutable human nature. . . . Pish tush. Balderdash. Piffle. (That�s a hat-trick of disdain.) If we set our minds to the Abolition of War as a grail goal, and we make every decision in its light, we will outwit the slouched Beast and spend out Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor on the Pursuit of Happiness through Art and other Ingenuities . . . .    more »

That you bastards could call dead, mutilated children collateral damage is a scarlet fact so disgusting, so repugnant to the human of heart that I have crossed into an incandescence of rage. . . . I will not accept a world in which the hissing and falsely pious utter the phrase collateral damage. To whom collateral?. . . I could, in concept, possibly bear it if you fell blubbering to your knees keening screaming, tearing your over-starched white shirts from your chests in grief. But this mealy-mouthed measured crap. It is cursed .. . .    more »

The theofascist menace is every bit as dangerous to the simple and delightful cause of humanity as nazism was. . . . People say Oh no, don't use that word nazism to compare. I mean this word theofascist to be more strong,, more fuerte, more strident of danger. . . . The deaths are billions of little lessenings of human cheer and prosperity that the Snakes suck out of the global system. It is its relative invisibility that makes it so hard to fight. The major weapons are mis-used words and twisted thoughts. They use our very cognition against us .. . .    more »

If you can't get to Crawford, make your own sign and start walking around your own downtown a little every day! YES, just you by yourself if need be. Read on . . . . . I'm up to a 1035 days in a row going out with my Teach Peace sign. . . You'll only feel foolish in the beginning. Later you feel foolish when you don't have your sign! . . . Tiptoe in. It's all about beginning, and suddenly it adds up to 1035 days . . .    more »

The abolition of war starts with you today. Be a protest army-of-one. Start today. As of 10.03.05, me & my Teach Peace Sign have been out doing our peace-abouts for 1090 days in a row. You do not have to wait for some formal March tho I go to those too as I can. . . . The dimensions of the perfect Protest Sign that will work best for your protest over the longhaul are in this post. . . Also some useful distilled Talking Point Tidbits are in this post.. I stay relentlessly on message. Get your rap down & say the same brief thing to everyone. They've never heard it before. So you should make it brand new and impassioned for them each time . . . . Mostly you won't be talking, you'll be walking down the street on the way to your Coffee Shop . . .   more »

When I was 10-years-old, I saw wall upon wall of medical close-up photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims . . . . It was that day in Washington DC that I stepped upon another species path. I did not care if I was the only one. I claim nor exalt kin nor kindness with a species that would do that deliberately charred mutilation to its own kind whose photographs I saw upon the walls. Better alone in the universe with no friend nor God than to be one of the glorified, sung and storied DeathDealers or one of their apologists. Militant pacifism. It was and is a reviled view. I cannot recommend this deep a loneliness to you, friend, but if you cannot bear the lies and the slither of rationalization, your own heart will feel light to you and you will have earned the wholehearted right to hear the dawn songs of birds without the static of the screams of the dead that the Killers hear in their own forsaken child�s heart. There was a time before they joined the Legions of DeathDealers, before they chose to walk across the line of blood and justifiy the sword; the machete; the M16UziAK47; the jellied gasoline. Before they surrendered their will to the command of a Dark Purpose which feeds on the blood of the innocent under the guise of glory . .    more »

2:13:36am pdt usa 08.06.05 .. It is the unbearable echo-day of the first atomic vaporizing bomb being dropped on humans by humans. I thought I bloody well better do some small thing to whisper, "I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry. We have changed." . . . . Within this post is the short letter I sent to the News organizations emails I found at this important After Downing Street Memo url: " http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/1202". . . . . �We live here. We would have fought you for 300 years if need be.� That�s what Ho Chi Minh, winning Vietnamese leader, said. Remember that figment Vietnamization? It didn�t work. . . . Iraqiazation will not work . . . They have a 300 year supply of cheap explosives and young men willing to die. They live there . . .. What delusion allows anyone to think it will get better? . . ..   more »

They 'fixed the intel to fit the policy.' It's David's pebbles against Goliath's flak now. It's taking time on the blogbrain for this to get out, for the new synapses to stabilize, for the hypnotized and bought 'media' to get corrected and re-corrected. If it were not for the noosphere Internet obsession, FixedIntelGate would have vanished long since and Goliath's Hummerjuggernaut would be rolling over more of the few stalwart bodies who would continue to squawk. .. . Watching and feeling and participating in the slowly accreting and concerting noosphere action -- quite symphonic really -- as it blooms has been thrilling and important . . .    more »

If I have to live next door to someone willing to call child-mutilating 'collateral damage,' I want to know. If you in your hometown take a grenade and throw it at a child or mow them down with an M16UziAK47, you go to jail, get battered with outrage and shunning, get wired up in the fry chair and e-lek-tro-cuted. If the mutilated child is exactly the same End, but your Means is a noble son dropping a bomb from 10,000 ft or mowin� �em down with the M16UziAK47, you get parades, holidays, and sousa music? You do go to Karmic Jail, and it�s a profound security prison, let me tell you, and that is a faint solace for us. If you had to touch them as they died; if you had to push their wheel chair; if you had to look over their shoulder into the same mirror as them as they have to see every day that they�ll never be pretty again; if you had to sit with them as they watch unmutilated kids play basketball or soccer. The jury that judges you is dead children, is mutilated children, pilgrim . . .   more »