July 18, 2003

Personal Opinion, II

[Comments by the author, Roger Scott Cathey, added afterwards, are
indicated by brackets.  Hindsight is always 20/20...even then,
not necessarily perfect. rsc]

I don't doubt the prime Minister's [Tony Blair's] sincerity or his belief in his
own goodness. I doubt his accuracy. [See file www.navi.net/~rsc/updates/071403.txt]

When it comes to the lives of a foreign nation, when it comes down to actual all-
out war against another nation, as opposed to retaliation or retribution to a gang
of people whose actions, however horrific, are not the voice of an entire Nation,
but the voice of a little cadre, it is incumbent upon A world Power, A Nation of
POWER like the United States, or of Great Britain, our Parent, to be accurate.  If
a child is wrong, and the parent sticks up for the child, then two wrongs are
there, is it not so?  When did, ever, two wrongs a right make?

A moving speech, well delivered, dramatic and emotional, is no solace for
realization by US, that Our Great Nation has been lead to an UNJUST WAR.

It is Viet Nam, all over again.  How many times shall we repeat the same mistake?
How many lives shall we offer on the altar of political expediency? Who is going to
answer the parents of those lives lost?  Not this president [GWB].  I assure you.
In the words of his own father, THIS WILL NOT STAND.

Every man is judged by his own words.  His own words will be the standard we judge
with, with hindsight.  With out doubt, the sacrifice of lives for anything but dire 
emergency is not going to be forgiven.  Not in our homes, not at the polls.  And
that, the latter, is all they care about. Otherwise, who would say of any resistor:
"bring it on", knowing full well, his own life was safe? As for real forgiveness,
everyone gets the same justice in the end.

Everyone gets a penny for their labours.  No matter what each one believes they
have earned, more or less.  That is not what is important here.  We are talking
about the future of OUR nation, OUR freedoms.

I will not stand idly by as others stand ready to kick out the props that support
the flame of liberty.  Never!

Not as long as I have breath, as long as I have life.  All others [considerations]
be damned, I will not be damned by such betrayal or fear of reprisal. [by people
within my own country's political structures...politics in America is not
snow white...and many murders and shenanigans have been pulled by individuals
and cadres within the two major parties, to silence political dissent.]

I cannot be silenced for fear of the enemies of my kith or kin.  Everyone is
responsible for their own lives and none others, child, parent, or closest friend.
My life is dedicated to A NATION.  The United States of America.  Why? Because it
is the HOPE of the World, and ALL NATIONS ELSE. [I would add, I am a citizen of
the world, and love all nations, and will good to them, and seek common ends
of goodness for us all, not goods for my nation at their expense.  That too
would be a contradiction of principles of the United States of America as
testified to by our Constitution.  See: www.navi.net/~rsc/USAlaw/Constitn.txt]

IF WE DO NOT STAND FORTH AND PROTECT THE PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
[all the world], THERE IS NO FREEDOM, NO JUSTICE FOR ANY. ANYWHERE, FROM THENCEFORTH.
This is my definite opinion.

We were once the child of Great Britain.  We were once ALLIED with them.  If anyone 
describes us an ally today of an ally of the enemy of the Principles of Justice and
Judgement, of Goodness and Truth, of the Principles of Freedom and Justice for ALL,
though such enemy reside in the very highest office of the land, as long as I draw
breath they do not describe ME or MY country.  I am foreign to them [such people],
and they are foreign to the True America [as I view it], the True New World to which
the original USA aspired and which state it attained for a spell. [See Bacon's
Atlantis].

In 1963 that aspiration was being realized and its movement was cruelly cut short
and usurped by foreign powers with insurgent powers in our land [The assassination
of John Fitzgerald Kennedy].  I say 'foreign', because they were interests against
true egalitarianism, true racial, economic and personal equality as a universal
condition.  Thus against the true, original ideal in which we forged the American
Dream as a system of laws and regulations.

For a time a harsh reaction, a reactivity of rebellion followed in the wake of such 
a shock ['The Sixties'].  For a time it seemed this would eventually be forgotten.
And things would settle down.  And for a short span it did settle down, or shall we
say, a lull transpired [The Reagon years].   During this lull, the traps were fully
cocked, and opened to grab the remnants of people who remembered the original dream.
And it seemed to have caught them.   And yet it didn't.  And today, this scheme, this
cunning and subtle cleverness is all but played out.

This character, this so-called prime minister of Great Britain, with unmitigated
gall and such audacity, dares speak as if he spoke for all of Britain and the
Family there [The Royal Family], and as if to say, our own fallen family here worked
all for naught. Such shame!  As I live and breath, as I stand here today in the face
of what breakwaters could have come were we such fools, I shall never forget this
man's utter last attempt.  Shall we call it foolery?  When it means real lives, real
blood let for it?  Tom fool trickster imp? When it means lives yet to be taken who
presently live?  Does he think we are idiots?  Evidently.

So goes world politick.  So come toms, dicks, and now tonies. What utter shame, to
waste such talent on such utter degradation of our sons and daughters.  WE will
deal with terrorists.  We [Americans] will draw all nations with the aroma and honey
of liberty without depending on the gun...or sword.  We say, let them come.  You 
[terrorists] may kill us, but not Liberty.  You may maim us, but not Justice.  We are
not such fools as to take away, ourselves, our own liberty and justice for your puny
attacks.  You may be unjust to us, we shall not be so to you.

RSC