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WE, TOO, SAW THROUGH THE LIES
Michael Moore just posted an article on various web sites, "NEVER FORGET: BAD WARS AREN'T POSSIBLE UNLESS GOOD PEOPLE BACK THEM" (commondreams.org/view/2010/09/16-0), in which he argues that the leading liberals of the time and the liberal media were largely responsible for the Iraq war by supporting rather than opposing it. Moore also details the public abuse and threats he took as a result of his principled anti-war stance. I felt moved to write a response.
Dear Michael Moore:
I applaud you for opposing the war back then when most people, including liberal big leaguers, were so gullible and cowed that they actually supported the Bush crime syndicate's sinister plot. I know you were razzed and attacked for speaking out and I am certainly sympathetic for the hard times you endured, knowing as you did how correct you were. But today at least you have the satisfaction of knowing that the world knows you opposed the war when others didn't dare to, and that you were right and they were wrong. You are now, justifiably, a hero to millions.
As you state, you weren't the only one, though your anti-war stance had the advantage of being widely noted, thus having the possibility of persuading people to rally against this iniquity being jammed down our throats. For instance, a group of us old New York City grandmothers, calling ourselves the Granny Peace Brigade, knew the war was wrong, too. We also never believed for one moment that there was any reason to invade Iraq. We read the New York Times and we, too, didn't believe. We heard that Hillary Clinton agreed we should attack Iraq, and we, too, still didn't believe. Our hearts broke when Al Franken went along with the program, and John Kerry, and Chuck Schumer and all the other Limp Liberals, and we didn't believe them, either.
And, Colin Powell, a man supposedly of impeccable character. Huh! We didn't believe him for one minute, either, as he shuffled all those maps in front of the cameras claiming they were proof of the WMDs. We knew there would be terrible consequences and that thousands of innocent people and our own military kids would die and be horribly wounded, physically and mentally. We knew it was a complete crock.
We trembled with outrage as CNN whooped it up during the hideous, unprovoked "Shock and Awe" bombing of Iraq as if it were the latest action movie. For shame!
So we, too, went out on a limb and tried to stop it. Soon after the war began, eighteen of us elderly grandmothers ranging in age from 60 through 90 went down to the Times Square military recruiting station and tried to enlist. We figured we'd had the good fortune to live long lives and we hoped to replace the kids so they'd have the same opportunity.
They didn't want us, though. In fact, they locked the door on us. So, we laboriously lowered our sore old joints and bones to the ground and sat. The cops came and asked us to move, but we wouldn't budge. We knew we were within our rights to hold a peaceful demonstration. Strangely, the police weren't as well acquainted with the Constitution, and they arrested us and took us to jail where we old ladies languished the afternoon away.
After that, we had several court appearances, always pushed along to the next one until finally we were put on trial in criminal court for six days. Wow, isn't it a credit to the City of New York that they caught us dangerous criminals and tried to convict us so the city would be safe?
Well, we were acquitted. We got some notice in the media, too, although it was short-lived. We decided to take advantage of our fifteen minutes of fame by doing everything within our power to try and alert the public of the folly, the immorality of our occupation of Iraq. We girded our over-the-hill but still kicking selves into one action after another. We began a weekly vigil in front of Rockefeller Center, called the Grandmothers Against the War vigil, which has continued without missing a single one through today no matter what the elements throw at us -- pouring rain, debilitating heat, freezing cold. We didn't incur national wrath, as you and the Dixie Chicks did, but we had to deal with our share of hecklers passing by, especially in the first few years.
We did parades across Brooklyn Bridge, a 10-day trek to Washington DC stopping at cities and towns along the way to spread the word. We wrote and performed shows with skits, comedy monologues, songs, and dramatic readings. We traveled to Europe and Central America to speak at peace meetings. We organized a national action wherein 100 grannies descended on the Capitol to lobby 100 senators for peace. We did a song and dance in the middle of Times Square. And more and more.
But, it didn't really do what we hoped. The war went on and on, and then our new President, who most of us old broads supported eagerly, went and increased the troops in Afghanistan. Yes, he had indicated during the campaign that he was going to focus on Afghanistan, but either we were too dazzled by him to notice or we figured once he was in office he'd see the light and bring them home. So, now, we are struggling to end TWO wars. Don't think for a minute we are hoodwinked into believing the war in Iraq is over. Uh uh! Fifty thousand troops is not chopped liver, and they are dying, too, in smaller numbers, to be sure, but that's immaterial to a worried parent.
So we go on and on without much applause or acknowledgment, because we HATE what we have done to Iraq and Afghanistan. We DEPLORE threats to Iran and Pakistan. We DESPISE every goddamned criminal war act we commit, always trying to justify them with phony rhetoric about democracy and safeguarding the homeland and all that blarney.
President Obama may not know about us. Our senators and Congress people may not, either, nor much of the media. But, we will go on and on even if nobody but passersby on the street see us. We will go on and on as long as we can stand up. We have our grandchildren to consider, you see. We must try to leave them with the world a modicum more peaceful than it is now. If only we had a lot of years ahead of us so we could keep on keeping on until that is achieved.
But, unfortunately we don't. And, it looks, sadly, like this state of war and chaos is going to continue for a long, long time. We urgently hope there are patriots out there to replace us when we are unable to continue.
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Realistic and righteously passionate people are always great to have around in this sick period of history and any other sick period of history.
More elders like them were needed and will continue to be needed, because our society definitely needs a whole lotta waking up; as well as because sanity and alertness being always needed. As George Carlin titled one of his skits from years ago, "You Are All Diseased"! It's time for cure.
Well, maybe sister Joan Wile of "The Granny Peace Brigade" saw through SOME of the lies . . .
. . . and indeed I remember well when you were all arrested, and if this ol' fool from North Cackilacki's memory serves, I even wrote about the incident on this very website . . .
. . . applauding the effort as a great deed of bravery and strategic brilliance . . .
"Grandmothers Against the War: Getting off Our Fannies and Standing up for Peace"
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=97808065...
However, with all due respect, when you write of Michael "My Handler Ari Emanuel Says I Can't Mention Anything About Israel, Mossad, Or World Zionism In Any Of My Films Or Interviews" Moore as some sort of hero . . .
Sister Joan Wile writes:
"You (Michael Moore) are now, justifiably, a hero to millions"
... well, this ol' fool respectfully suggests that maybe even a wise old crone and grandmother of 5 like yourself may need to do a little more homework on "LIES", "BIG LIES", "MISDIRECTION", and "LIES OF OMISSION". . . ;-)
For, forgive me if I am wrong, but this ol' fool hears a deafening silence from "The Granny Peace Brigade" when it comes to 9-11 Truth, The Goldstone Report on Israeli War Crimes, and the Zionist Financial Terrorists of Wall Street and The Federal Reserve/IRS Numbers Racket . . .
. . . just like I don't hear from Mr. Michael Moore. . . ;-)
Since you list on your blog that your all time favorite film is "Schindler's List", I fail to see how one form of racial supremacism and ethnic cleansing can be so repugnant (Bad bad Nazi) while another, the genocide of the Palestinians happening as I type, can be met with the silence of complicity . . .
. . . or worse, with shrill kvetching cries of "Anti-Semite!!!" . . . ;-)
May I suggest the following article by Dr. Elias Akleh as primer on "Connecting The Dotz To See A Bigger Picture" and hopefully, to see the BIGGER LIES? . .. ;-)
(clipped headline and article)
"911, Power Elite, and Al-Qaeda - The terrorist attack of 911 had been used to launch WWIII called 'Global war on terror'. . . Before the dust settled Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda were pronounced as the culprit terrorists . . . Scientific studies and many investigations done by 911 truth groups have discredited the investigation of the 911 Commission. There are a lot of evidences indicating that 911 was a false flag terrorist attack planned by the power elite and executed with the cooperation of Israeli Mossad operatives (the dancing Israelis documenting the attack)."
(full article)
http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2010/09/911-power-elite-and-al-qaeda/
After connecting these dotz of recent history in your mind, this six part video series, "Renaissance 2.0" may be of interest to you, and the rest of you whacky peace kidz, as it paints a much bigger picture.
"Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 1 - Revisiting American History - Financial Empire"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l37RhdFGVsM&feature=player_embedded#!
"Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 2 - Revisiting Economics 101"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGTBkNJ8ZWI&feature=related
"Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 3 - Revisiting Civics 101"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2VDC8UQ3c8&feature=related
"Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 4 - The Culture of Empire"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIsheDSCBK0&feature=related
"Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 5 - The Emerging Global Empire"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCxjqPgHgpA&feature=related
"Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 6 - Brightening the Future"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw3i5Rzpx5A&feature=related
Like the man sez in the narration, "This isn't Conspiracy Theory, this is MATH!!!" . . . ;-)
I like to think of it as Game Theory Modeling.
Now, as you long time readers recall this ol' fool at one time a long time ago was a 32nd Degree Freemason, and true to my oath, my brethren have a "right" to kill me (right to sacrificial rite???) for the "secrets" I have shared with you kidz over the years, but I think their "New World Order" Zio-model is flawed at its core . . .
. . . it has always been my hypothesis that it is the same model that the old Matriarchal Fertility cults used circa 10,000-6000 BC which resulted in wide scale ruin, chaos, and the Patriarchal backlash and the forced subjugation of women . . .
. . . as we say in North Cackilacki, "You can't polish a turd" . . .
. . . anyway, it is a good day to die . . . I swore to uphold the U.S. Constitution FIRST, anyway . . . ;-)
With that said, I thought you kidz and Crones might be interested in a few more "dotz" that you didn't learn in public schools . . or from any Hollywood movies . . . ;-)
1. Ever wonder why the dictionary also defines a "Dragon" as a strict, demanding, insatiable and instransigent WOMAN??? Like a fire, a dragon devours all that it is fed and demands ever more to sustain the flame.
2. Did you know that POLARIS has not always been the "Pole Star" . . . but for a long time Thuban/Alpha Draconis in the constellation of DRACO - "The Dragon" was the "center" of the heavens or celestial sphere? The Dragon that separates the 7 stars of the big dipper from the 7 stars of the little dipper?
3. We all know that after the REAL Semite (Sephardic) Hebrews/Jews pissed off the Romans, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem to the ground in 0135 A.D. , ... however, they didn't dig up and destroy all that was in the underground parts of the Temple, especially the secret passage ways and rooms that were so common in the architecture of the time. . . like the collections of tapestries, scrolls, etc. from all the other competing religions (many of these were Matriarchal goddess fertility religions based on the Lunar phases, the 7 planets, and the celestial Zodiac).
4. Did you kidz know that in 1099 A.D. French King Godefroi de Bouillon founded the "Priory of Zion"?
5. Did you kidz know that in 1118 A.D., nine French Knights formed "The Knighthood of God" or the "Knights Templar" as the military arm of the Priory of Zion?
6. Did you kidz know that in 1126 A.D., these nine Knights Templar returned from Jerusalem where they had excavated under the Temple mound and found "a great treasure"? They then set up the first International Banking Syndicates based on the "alchemy" of fiat fractional reserve banking and the "sin" of USURY or interest and compound interest? In other words, like Rumpelstiltskin and Rothschld's Federal Reserve, they were able to "SPIN" GOLD out of STRAW (nothing).
7. Did you kidz know that in A.D. 1458, a very curious book appeared in Europe called, "THE BOOK OF THE SACRED MAGIC
OF ABRAMELIN THE MAGE, AS DELIVERED BY ABRAHAM THE JEW UNTO HIS SON LAMECH, A.D. 1458." Interesting that wealthy alchemist Nicholas Flamel and Cardinal Richelieu both had quite an "interest" in the work, but for apparently very different reasons.
8. We all remember that "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue" . . . but 1492 A.D. was also the year the Ashkenazi and Separdic Jews were expelled from Spain.
9. 1531 A.D. was an interesting year that not only had English King Henry VIII of England declaring himself head of the Church of England, but saw him buying a copy of the Babylonian Talmud and for the first time since 1290 A.D. the Jews were allowed to return to England to interpret it for him. . . . I guess some folks will do ANYTHING to get a divorce . . . ;-)
10. And of course, who could forget 1694 A.D. when the good old money changers/money creators had finally gotten enough "leverage" to create the "BANK OF ENGLAND", which sounded like a government bank, but was actually a private bank who's investors were never revealed . . . in true 7-7-7 hidden god "owners" fashion. This would be the model for the Rotshchild owned "Federal Reserve" Bank and IRS TAX System that WE THE PEOPLE would get forced upon us in 1913 A.D.
Now, isn't history fascinating, kidz? So many LIES that even the wisest of Crones and Grannys could have a rough time seeing them ALL . . . ;-)
Of course, this ol' fool wonders if Saint John didn't have a pretty good idea of what was in store for us when he wrote:
"And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems upon its horns and a blasphemous name upon its heads. And the beast I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bears, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and throne and great authority." (Rev. 13:1-2)
Oh, and side note to Mr. Michael Moore . . . if you are looking for folks to blame for the state of things in this country, you might want to look in a mirror before you go casting stones. You could have told the WHOLE TRUTH about 9-11, but you didn't. You could have told the WHOLE TRUTH about COLUMBINE, but you didn't. Shame on YOU!!! You sir, are NO HERO of MINE!!! You were once . . .
"I'm sick and tired of hearing things from
Uptight short sighted narrow minded hypocrits
All i want is the truth,
Just give me some truth
I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic psychotic pigheaded politicians
All i want is the truth,
Just give me some truth"
- "Gimme Some Truth" by John Lennon
peace.
I remember going to the congress before our unprovoked attack on Iraq and watching a 9/11 victim's relative commit civil disobedience by crossing some foolish line that had been set up. This woman had gone to Afghanistan after our attack on that country caused by claims that Afghanistan was somehow responsible for 9/11. She tried to get compensation for an Afghan woman whose whole nuclear family had been killed by our bombs. Somehow that woman survived. Did that woman or her family attack America? I doubt it. Did we attack her? Hell yes! And it was not right.
9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows and those who opposed the wars on who knows whom for unknown and uninvestigated crimes are my heroes.
I just keep wondering why building 7 fell on the afternoon of 9/11.
If God is just, George Bush and Dick Cheney are going to have some serious explaining to do someday.