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Warmongers R Us?
by Dennis D. Hayes
Liberty For All Online Magazine

Painters paint, plumbers plumb, and warmongers make war. And so it is, in early October, as Congress does what politicians do best; stand to the side so their hands will not be bloodied. Early this week, the House and Senate handed President Bush the keys to make war with Iraq. That is, without any oversight by any other body.

The line of least resistance for the warmonger is to make war. First, declare your enemy. Next, sensationalize the threat. Finally, flood the airwaves with propaganda and follow this by defining your cause as true and just. In this case, we the people are being asked to send our sons and daughters to die for "a threat" to our way of life. Will it go unnoticed that the acceptance of this cause will mean that America is openly announcing to the world a shift in our military policy? Will anyone acknowledge our switch from a policy of defense and deterrence to one of first strike capability? Or maybe we are not supposed to. After all, it is in the name of freedom, right?

But the people know. They know that freedom does not come about as a result of politics. That the illusion being performed before our very eyes is just that, a trick. We know that a better set of rules, or a better set of men, or even men who may act in a more noble manner, does not result in freedom. Freedom comes about from individual initiative. What is clear, is that what is about to happen in the Middle East is a gambit for supremacy. In any battle for supremacy, someone must be defeated and someone must survive. For George Bush, Saddam must be defeated...and the "American way" must survive. How ironic that President Bush has assumed the role of Hannibal (of the first Punic wars) and ascribed to Saddam the role of Rome. Check your history for that result. So the question comes, will you buy into the political motive or do you stand back as an individual dedicated to freedom?

The most problematic aspect for the Bush regime is that recent polls show we the people are not fully behind him. It gives us a powerful place from which we can ultimately dismiss the political warmongers and the theft of ours and our children's freedom and lives. Consider, if you will that power and how you may yet have the ability to influence the course of events to come. I invite you to read carefully the thoughts of a young American woman, as she ponders our role in the world, in a poem she calls...

WE THE PEOPLE
We The People, we are the ones; the little guys
The masses who hear the ghostly call,
We are the ones who will stand UNITED and STRONG
Or will stay DIVIDED and FALL.
We The People, we are the ones,
Who can vote for the laws that run our land,
We are the ones who could pass down the amendments
That could have made this land so grand.
We The People, we are the ones,
Forsaking our ancestors' written laws,
Not defending the rights they fought and died for
Not fighting to defend their cause.
We The People, we are the ones,
Look around at what we have done,
We have trashed our Mother Earth, destroyed our ancestors' birth,
What have We the People become?
We The People, we are the ones,
Who must stop this madness destroying our land,
Stop them from herding us like cattle or lemmings,
Awaiting that deadly command.
We The People, we are the ones,
Not choosing to unite and stand as one,
By being weak, lazy, arrogant and scared,
Too vain to see what we have become.
We The People, we are the ones,
Who can still wake up and take a stand,
Still stand united, even if JUSTICE means
JUST US throughout the land.
We The People, we are the ones
Who never had to fight for our freedom to live
Being free to us is like breathing,
So we take instead of give.
We The People, we are the ones,
Who must decide if we do or die ,
They are taking our rights and our freedom,
And not listening to our ancestors' cry.

We The People, we are the ones,
Who can still unite and agree,
Don't be lemmings, but stand up and fight,
For what our ancestors gave birth to…..BEING FREE.
WE THE PEOPLE, WE ARE THE ONES!!!!!!
Written by Billie Boucher January 10, 1999

"Give peace a chance" - John Lennon.


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