I've got quite a lot on my mind today. Last night, Brooke and I watched a very well researched bit on 9/11 we received in the mail from a new on-line friend of ours. I have long rejected any belief that a pair of Boing 767's brought down the World Trade Center Towers - or that they had anything to do with Building 7 whatsoever. The examination of the evidence was nothing new to me, but the effort of the producers to ask the obvious follow up questions resonated with me a great deal. I've never seen what I consider a plausible explanation of how explosives or pre-blast demolition work could have been accomplished. Suffice it to say, I'm even more convinced now.
So here I am with several new (and some downright ancient) ideas floading around in my head. Just this very day a leading news story tells us that one of the leading government experts responsible for anthrax research committed suicide, most likely because of the tremendous pressure he's been under as the most recent focus by the FBI as the perpetrator of the antrax mailings that followed 9/11. In the public eye, and I'm relatively sure those of the FBI, his suicide ensures his guilt. Frankly, I just don't buy it. I feel Glenn Greenwald at Salon dot com provides a thoughtful, well research analysis of the issue and I can't add much to it. You can see it here.
I'm not a conspiracy loon... but I'm not an idiot either. I'm intelligent enough to know when I'm being lied to, or so I hope. One of the big problems with any discourse on conspiracy is "They", or "Them"... those nameless, faceless people we get to blame it all on. Through it all, I find that Veritas or Truth really amount to a shell game in the 21st century. I'm a minor student of relativism, but I _do_ believe in the possibility of absolute truth, just as I believe that paper autoignites at 451 derees farenheit. How we reach these truths as individuals, as a nation, as a society, and as a race are obviously very complicated.
I have long opted to ignore the NEO-CON problem in my nation. It's really easy to look around, get disgusted, and then ponder an "escape"... perhaps expatriating to another country, etc. The true problem with this comes from the presence of "Them" and "They". It's one thing to know who the President of the United States is, or his Dark Sith Lord veep... it's quite another to know who their handlers are. In crossing a line to believe in a false-flag operation carried out by American's against American's on American soil, a colder terror can present itself - the realization that if any of it is true, it's simply not realistic to expect to be able to escape or evade these truly wicked people.
It becomes in my own mind more important to recognize John Mayer's words, "It's not that we don't care, we just know that the fight ain't fair, so we keep waiting... waiting on the world to change." I make that decision within myself to try to come OFF the radar (yeah, keep blogging dude, that'll hide you) and wait. Wait for the world to change, for better or for worse. I feel it more important on that hand to be more in the now, focused on my life, what's happening in it, and what's most deserving of my focus. As I shared with my lover recently, when there is rioting in the streets, when armed insurrection darkens my door, THEN is the time to fret about it... at which time believe me, I'm armed and dangerous too ya freakin savages. (I digress...)
What has troubled me most as a man of some form of schitzophrenic faith is the devisions created by our current administation. Masterfully they have converted the largest portion of our non-thinking populace into Muslim haters. I find this fact ironic, considering most of these folks bilked into believing Muslims are evil don't know jack shit about that religion of peace. I immediately recall the words of Albert Pike in "Morals and Dogma", circa 1871, which I quote for you below.
The fires of Moloch in Syria, the harsh mutilations in the name of Astarte, Cybele, Jehovah; the barbarities of imperial Pagan Torturers; the still grosser torments which Roman-Gothic Christians in Italy and Spain heaped on their brother-men; the fiendish cruelties to which Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, Ireland, America, have been witnesses, are none too powerful to warn man of the unspeakable evils which follow from mistakes and errors in the matter of religion, and especially from investing the God of Love with the cruel and vindictive passions of erring humanity, and making blood to have a sweet savor in his nostrils, and groans of agony to be delicious to his ears.
Man never had the right to usurp the unexercised prerogative of God, and condemn and punish another for his belief. Born in a Protestant land, we are of that faith. If we had opened our eyes to the light under the shadows of St. Peter's at Rome, we should have been devout Catholics; born in the Jewish quarter of Aleppo, we should have contemned Christ as an imposter; in Constantinople, we should have cried "Allah il Allah, God is great and Mahomet is his prophet!" Birth, place, and education give us our faith. Few believe in any religion because they have examined the evidences of its authenticity, and made up a formal judgment, upon weighing the testimony. Not one man in ten thousand knows anything about the proofs of his faith. We believe what we are taught; and those are most fanatical who know least of the evidences on which their creed is based. Facts and testimony are not, except in very rare instances, the ground-work of faith. It is an imperative law of God's Economy, unyielding and inflexible as Himself, that man shall accept without question the belief of those among whom he is born and reared; the faith so made a part of his nature resists all evidence to the contrary; and he will disbelieve even the evidence of his own senses, rather than yield up the religious belief which has grown up in him, flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone.
Ah yes... the Fires of Moloch. A great place to start with scriptures that forbid the Hebrew nation from actions such as to "give any of your children to devote them by fire to Moloch, and so profane the name of your God” (Leviticus 18:21). My own personal interpretation given the Jewish mind of the time remains relevant today. They weren't to sacrifice their children to Moloch, yet I reject a literal interpretation of this "Fire God". What I see, if there be such a thing as sin and our ability to commit it, is that we are RIGHT NOW sacrificing our children. Not exactly my desired point, as the second paragraph is what I really most wanted to share.
Anyway - there's more I want to share. George Washington's Farewell Address, circa 1796 has this to say about a two party system in America.
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
Ya know, I think the old boy was onto something, even way back then. It was a warning. Why must American hindsight always be 20-Perfect while we remain absolutely blind to the future our current undertakings will bring?
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