THE MASS MURDERERS OF WASHINGTON D.C.

Pennsylvania Avenue is the bloodiest street in the world. Hands down.

That famous strip of roadway running between the White House and the Capitol in Washington D.C. has seen more than its fair share of war mongers, global pirates and international terrorists. Yes, terrorists.

Of course, we don’t tend to think of our president or members of congress as terrorists or war criminals. But we should.

So to return to the point I made in my last blog entry: If the Nuremberg laws were applied to our presidents, every one of them since WWII would be indicted as war criminals and probably end up dangling at the end of a rope.

Think about that.

By merely applying those laws to "us" as we did to the Nazis, every commander in chief would get dusted.

We like to think that we live in a righteous land, symbolized by the stars and stripes, bald eagles and a bunch of infallible old slave owners called the Founding Fathers. And that "we’re" right and "they’re" wrong. That this is God’s country and the president is His man at the wheel.

We've been blinkered and brainwashed so well that we've bought into a whopper of a lie: If "we" do it to "them," it's justified; if "they" do it to "us," it's an outrage. Hypocrisy at its finest courtesy of the world's bully.

Well we have to get away from that line of thinking. Now and forever. If we don’t, the cycle will continue and we will be partly to blame. And, sooner or later, we will all pay the price.

If you’d like a rundown of presidential war crimes, check out this audio of Professor Noam Chomsky doing just that.
*For video, go to the 27:40 mark of this clip.


The United States, more and more, has taken to acting unilaterally around the world – inventing reasons for invasions and government overthrows and whatever else it needs to do to increase its power. And these days presidents don’t bother getting the rubber stamp for their wars from congress -- even though the constitution itself states that war is strictly the business of congress:

"ARTICLE 1, SECTION 8

The Congress shall have Power:

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;..."

Of course, the way all of this should really work is through an international body. Nations working together to resolve crises and using military action only when absolutely necessary.

But the U.S. (and others, at times) isn't interested in doing things the right way, it does things its way. And anybody who has listened to any president on the issue of military initiatives knows this is an absolute truism. Bush II sounded like something out of a bad Western most of the time -- Reagan, of course, with his "make my day" faux heroics (he never saw a day of combat himself) went the Dirty Harry route. Pretty pathetic.

The leaders of the United States -- the elites in government, corporations and so forth -- are interested in power. That is their drug of choice. And all the speeches and one-liners and false explanations (e.g. Colin Powell lying his butt off at the U.N. with those ridiculous graphics) are just window dressing for the masses.

And next time a president or a congressman or such starts reeling off a feelgood speech that includes the word "we" a whole bunch, remember that you have next to nothing in common with that person. They are elites with money and power and their own agenda. You are a vote or, looking at it the other way, part of the potential roadblock to their filthy plans. "We" equals the people, you and me, not that thin layer of privileged types with their hands on the levers.

There's so much to say about this I will dip back into it in future entries. I just wanted to established the primary thesis here: The U.S. (we're talking about its leadership) is a terrorist nation presided over by war criminals. Fact! If you don't believe it, study the Nuremberg conventions, then look at the dirty work done by all the presidents since WWII -- yes, even sweet old Jimmy Carter.

And Obama? Well, he's sending another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan by summer to prop up that invasion, and he's calling for another $30 BILLION to pour into the same big crime. And that would be YOUR money. Money that ISN'T going to hospitals/health care, roads, alternative energy, environmental health, education and all those other things that are in a sorry state because, apparently, we don't have the money to pay for them. Thirty billion that might achieve, as foreign aid, what all the precision military hardware never will. How long will we suck on this?

We'll come back to this another time. I want to end on a different note.

Noam Chomsky, the MIT professor, linguistics genius and tireless political activist, was this week refused entry into the West Bank by the Israeli government.

Chomsky, a pacifist, gives talks and lectures all around the world on the important issues that are vitally important if the planet is to 1/ survive; 2/ become a better place for all. He was planning to give a lecture at a university in the West Bank.

I once interviewed Chomsky (who is of Jewish descent) for the Boston Phoenix and I know him casually. I have also studied his writings carefully. I am convinced he is one of the most moral people I have ever met and easily the most intelligent.

This makes him very dangerous to the people in the greed-and-oppression business. Anyone familiar with the Israeli government's record of violence over the decades -- or its appalling veto record at the U.N. -- will understand why they don't want to see too much of Chomsky. Same reason Fox, CNN, NBC and all the rest don't want him beamed into our homes too often: The truth works like an acid on the iron fist of control.

But what struck me about all this was a simple irony: The West Bank is a Palestinian territory illegally occupied by Israel. That's kind of like a burglar telling a plumber he can't come into somebody else's house and work on the pipes.

Or like Israel grabbing California and telling us when we can and cannot visit the Golden State. You see, if it happened to us, it would be very different!

Keep your thinking caps on, folks. Like the man said: I may be paranoid, but that don't mean they ain't out to get us!

Take care,
Adrian Zupp

FOOTNOTE:
Send an email to your Congressperson and tell them you don't want to foot the bill for an escalation of the debacle in Afghanistan.

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