It
takes only A FEW GOOD MEN and WOMEN to stand
up against tyranny and open the eyes of
the world, but may be most importantly,
the eyes of American people, since this
is the richest country in the world with
the largest military budget that surpasses
that of the entire world put together.
Of course not all Americans
agree on the definition of tyrannical behavior
and acts. Instead they tend to believe in
tyranny based on who is labeled evil and
who is not.
If American politicians
or American corporatized media labels someone
or a country as tyrannical or evil, then
most Americans will assume that the actions
of those labeled countries (or individuals)
are evil, unjust, inhumane, cruel, and indecent.
And therefore they deserve everything coming
to them, including bombs, suffering, torture,
poverty, and hunger.
If on the other hand, the
country or the persons under question are
not labeled as evil, then their actions,
despite how evil or unjust, would not be
regarded as tyrannical by most Americans.
An example of this is when
Palestinians are labeled as terrorists for
killing civilians out of sheer desperation
but the Israeli government and military
is not regarded as terrorists for causing
the death of countless numbers of civilians
– even when they kill young children.
See below, only a few examples
of the humongous list of casualties caused
by Israeli military:
 An
8-year-old Palestinian boy was killed today
when Israeli soldiers fired at crowds of
children throwing stones as they returned
from school in the West Bank city of
Nablus… by: New York Times, November
2002
Palestinian
boy, aged 7 playing near his home in Gaza
Strip, is killed by gunfire from Israeli
Tank – by: The Independent Newspaper
in United Kingdom; March 2002
Israelis
kill boy, aged 9, as army enters Gaza camp
– by The Independent Newspaper in
United Kingdom; March 2003
A
5-year-old Palestinian child is killed by
Israeli artillery shelling – by:
People’s Daily; April 2008
Israel
helicopter gunship fires at crowds of protestors,
many of them children, killing 10 and wounding
many others – by: Washington Post,
May 2004
Since
2004, in operations to arrest wanted persons
in the West Bank,
Israeli
forces have killed 35 innocent bystanders.
The Palestinians that use occupation, apartheid,
and persecution as their reasons for taping
suicide bombs around themselves is not convincing
enough as an act of desperation and the
result of injustice against them since 1948
occupation. At least, not convincing enough
to most Americans.
However, the Israeli killing
of civilians despite their enormous military
(funded entirely by the American taxpayers),
is regarded as an evidence of their desperation
to fire artillery into crowds of unarmed
protesting civilians and a display of a
reluctant act of self-defense.
While corporatized American
media has been depicting Israelis as exercising
self-defense against ‘unprovoked’
acts of aggression by Palestinians (many
of them children), they have been training
American people into remaining silence and
indifferent towards injustice and inhumanity.
Only to come back and bite us and challenge
the American ideals, right here at home.
What started as an Israeli
bias from the media to blind American people
to justice and humanity, evolved into an
American mentality and tolerance for one-directional
terror that has now chanced and unraveled
the American moral fabric.
The result:
Violation of the American constitution by
the Bush Administration
Prolonging and rendering ineffective the
pursuit of real terrorists
Actions that impeded prompt elimination
of terrorists that caused 9/11
Acts of torture by the American government
and Blackwater corporation assassinations
CIA interrogation techniques and outsourcing
torture to Syria and Egypt
Harsh treatment of Guantanamo prisoners
that inherently produce false information
Destroying America’s reputation throughout
the world for the unseen future
Many of these aspects have
been discussed brilliantly, in detail, in
a book I read recently. Thanks to CSPAN,
and the Miami Book Review, I came across
this book and it has opened my eyes and
I am no longer part of the group of Americans
who believe that good and evil is decided
upon by the American government and the
corporate media.
As an American, I will not
tolerate, accept, nor support violation
against the American constitution even if
conducted by my government or the corporate
media and they can no longer dictated to
me on who is good and who is evil. I will
decide on my own by listening to both sides
and search for fairness and justice among
the display of all grievances.
I highly recommend this
eye-opening book by Jane Mayer, THE
DARK SIDE: HOW THE WAR ON TERROR TURNED
INTO A WAR ON AMERICAN IDEALS.
Excerpt From, THE DARK SIDE
“ … reveals
secret report by the International Red Cross
warned the Bush administration last year
that the CIA’s treatment of prisoners
categorically constituted torture and could
make Bush administration officials who approved
the torture methods guilty of war crimes
… also reveals that the Bush administration
ignored warnings from the CIA six years
ago that up to a third of the prisoners
at Guantanamo Bay may have been imprisoned
by mistake “.
Good has not died in America
yet, thanks to brave individuals like Jane
Mayer, who keep American ideals alive and
stand up against tyranny in disguise. Keep
up the good work you brave, brave, Americans.
Make us all proud, once again, through American
goodness rather than military preponderance. |
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