It has been nearly six decades since the world powers ran afoul of one another and the human race found itself in a global conflict. Sixty-one nations and that number multiplied by one million was the death toll. The portion of the race who happened to be located on the Eurasia landmass suffered the most of all from the war - and not only between 1939 to 1945, but during the buildup to this tragedy as well as during the military conflicts.
The German people that were not vaunted as being ‘perfect’ Aryans saw a slow erosion of their freedoms. Those humans who bill themselves as Jews saw nine million of their kind slaughtered by the ’superior race’. Though history classes today may downplay how many of other ‘races’ were placed in the same death camps, they too suffered as the Jews did.
The Cold War loomed over everyone after WW2 concluded. It gave rise to things like McCarthyism and the KGB. The CIA began its toppling of foreign powers with operation Ajax. But, during these years, most of the world found relative peace.
But now, my dear readers, I fear that the great period of calm is drawing to a close. The world has rebuilt. Russia is once more an economic, and therefore military, powerhouse. The United States has a military more advanced than any other. Europe prospers and grows. The Japanese are the forerunners of high-tech doodads and flashing lights just sixty years after two major population centers were reduced to radioactive ash.
The ‘civilized world’ has a new enemy. What were once the Allies, the defenders of the freedom so crucial to every human, are finally coming undone. The neo-conservative elite has taken charge of the US and have done an incredible job of decimating this great nation’s relationships with the rest of the world. They have demonized the Muslim - another ‘race’ to blame all of their problems on. A reason for consolidating their power - ‘terrorism’ - has been spawned from the 9/11 attack upon the States. A war on terrorism has been initiated by the Allies - against a faceless, nameless opponent with no identity beyond ‘possibly being descended from an Islamic state of participating in the religion of Islam, maybe’ to give them a blank cheque to behave in whatever manner suites them.
Their war on terror is a farce. Terror is a tactic of war, not an enemy. A war on terror is no different than a war on barrel rolls; terror just happened to be a convenient buzzword. The problems of the world are being blamed upon the ‘Arab race’, just as Germany’s problems were blamed on the ‘Jewish race’ in the years leading up to the Holocaust.
Already, ancient and venerable Britian has fallen into the next cycle of hate and war:
Government ministers and police chiefs are demanding new powers to allow the police to stop and search people in the streets if they suspect them of terrorism. These powers echo the notorious “sus laws†of the 1970s.
Then the laws created an atmosphere of fear as police targeted young black men. Those laws were abandoned after widespread rioting in the early 1980s.
A glimpse of what these new laws would mean was shown last week when two foreign students were arrested for “terrorism†after taking snapshots of Tower Bridge.
Salam Abdulrahman is a politics student at Swansea university. On 14 May he and a friend travelled to London to arrange funding for a PhD.
After their meeting they decided to visit tourist attractions and walked around the capital taking pictures.
Salam told Socialist Worker, “We went to Tower Bridge and then to Big Ben.
“I took pictures of many beautiful views. The final one I took, minutes before being arrested, was a building belonging to the MI5 security services – which I only discovered was an MI5 building when in jail.
“We did not realise we were being watched. As we approached Scotland Yard we were stopped by police.
“They questioned us, took our student IDs and searched us.
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(Source: ‘I took a picture of Tower Bridge and was arrested for terrorism’. )
And the French, once oppressed by a Nazi occupation force, seem to have slipped just as far. Have they forgotten already the blood of the over fifty-seven thousand free men who took leave from their homes to buy back French liberty?
The United States, the leader of the free world, has fallen quite far. A fraudulent war, suspension of Habeus Corpus, a President who has authorized illegally spying on all of his constituents, Naziesque torture of prisoners of war (after the Nazi forces would gladly surrender to US troops in WW2 so they would have superior living conditions!), institution of a Soviet-style ‘National ID’, the operation of CIA ‘black sites’, the USPATRIOT Act, and the President’s unending flood of ’signing statements’ granting him whatever authority he feels like having on a particular day, among a myriad of other violations, all demonstrate precisely how far America has receded.
We see the neo-conservative elite maneuvering the North American continent into a European Union-style bloc behind the scenes. The NAFTA superhighway project is an ambitious undertaking that would involve swiping property from an unprecedented number of North American citizens, as Representative Ron Paul has stated:
This will require coordinated federal and state eminent domain actions on an unprecedented scale, as literally millions of people and businesses could be displaced. The loss of whole communities is almost certain, as planners cannot wind the highway around every quaint town, historic building, or senior citizen apartment for thousands of miles.
And, while any effort to consolidate the various ‘races’ into a cohesive Human Race is good, the entire highway project (which, again, will impact *million* of people) is completely unknown to most North Americans. For what reasons keeping such a thing quiet could be, I will not speculate, but there is always something inherently wrong with secrecy from elected officials.
There is also the question of the recently-surfaced news item regarding contracts (that value in excess of three-hundred-million dollars) to construct detention facilities on US soil to deal with ‘a sudden influx of immigrants’ or ‘other projects’:
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“I stand by this President’s ability, inherent to being Commander in Chief, to find out about Fifth Column movements, and I don’t think you need a warrant to do that,†Graham added, volunteering to work with the administration to draft guidelines for how best to neutralize this alleged threat.
“Senator,†a smiling Gonzales responded, “the President already said we’d be happy to listen to your ideas.â€
In less paranoid times, Graham’s comments might be viewed by many Americans as a Republican trying to have it both ways – ingratiating himself to an administration of his own party while seeking some credit from Washington centrists for suggesting Congress should have at least a tiny say in how Bush runs the War on Terror.
But recent developments suggest that the Bush administration may already be contemplating what to do with Americans who are deemed insufficiently loyal or who disseminate information that may be considered helpful to the enemy.
Top U.S. officials have cited the need to challenge news that undercuts Bush’s actions as a key front in defeating the terrorists, who are aided by “news informers†in the words of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Detention Centers
Plus, there was that curious development in January when the Army Corps of Engineers awarded Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root a $385 million contract to construct detention centers somewhere in the United States, to deal with “an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs,†KBR said.
Later, the New York Times reported that “KBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department for an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space.â€
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With each passing day, the British ‘Home Office’ and the US Department of Homeland Security draw more and more parallels with the Ba’athist regime that was recently toppled in Iraq over charges of doing things the US and Britian are both engaging in to ‘fight terrorism’. People suspected of terrorism are ‘dissapeared’ by the CIA and tortured; the British round up Muslim tourists for taking photos and charge them based on laughable evidence; both great nations are moving towards a police state with their domestic spying programs.
Certainly, the scales that America and Britian engage in violations of such basic rights as freedom and privacy are less than the abuses performed by Saddam Hussain. But, for countries that are renown as Leaders of the Free World, their actions do not bode well for Humanity over the next two decades.
The US missile-defense system project that seeks to deploy counter-measures to missiles throughout Europe is the most recent indicator that Humanity is headed for what issues were once conquered and put to rest are, in fact, not as defeated as we thought. A new arms race may be developing between the US and Russia:
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“If the American nuclear potential grows in European territory, we have to give ourselves new targets in Europe,” Putin said, according to Corriere. “It is up to our military to define these targets, in addition to defining the choice between ballistic and cruise missiles.”
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And the justification for this missile defense system…?
The threat posed to the United States by Iran, a nation that is alleged to be working towards becoming a nuclear power. Or, rather, The Muslim, a horrible creature, and from this vile thing having access to refined uranium (and thereby nuclear power plants or, potentially, nuclear arms), he poses a threat to the entire world. The Muslim is the problem; they are the enemy that must be defeated at all costs!
But, my dearest readers, I fear that there is little to be done to stop the recurrence of this cycle of war and peace. When WW2 ended, the world learned that talking, not fighting, was a more effective tool. A tool that benefits not one nation, nor one bloc, but the Human race as a whole. From this lesson, the UN was formed.
But, alas, the lesson is lost. The UN is portrayed as a weak, ineffective group. Sadly, they were unable to reach a peaceful resolution on the Iraq issue - and this is in part due to Saddam’s reluctance to talk, and in part due to the US’ reluctance to talk. Communication, largely because one government official from Iraq, broke down. And as a result, human beings are dying.
The issue of race, one that this magnificent country thought it had overcome, has resurfaced. Yesteryear, it was the Black, the savage negro beast that wanted to take everything from you. They had to be suppressed. The white race was superior. As we saw leading up to the second World War, the Germans faced a similar issue with the Jews - they were grubby, conniving creatures who wanted to steal your money. They were causing all of Germany’s problems. And today, it is the Arab - the despicable terrorist - that we must defeat.
It is sad, but this cycle - this endless waltz - determines the state of affairs. I am sure that in another hundred years, it will happen again - this time, with different superpowers slipping into being what they defeated. There will be another ‘race’ that is causing problems, and they will use those problems to consolidate power. And, for the life of me, I cannot figure out why this dance of death and despair is the only one Humanity can dance.
Readers, if you take nothing else from this article, know at least this: there is no ‘Arab’ race. There is no ‘Jewish’ race. There is no ‘Black’ race.
We are Humans. We are, at the end of every day, exactly the same. We all eat, we all work, we all sleep, we all play, we all think, and we all bleed. There is no ’superior’ race. There is no lesser race. And know that there is no ‘other race’. There is just Humanity. Perhaps if enough people can learn this, the key tool that those who lead us into destruction will be taken away. Perhaps, if enough people understand that simple fact, perhaps then a different dance can be learned.
I have no solution to the problems at hand. The Syndicate is small and still required shaping. It is not ready for the grand mission of leading the way into the next frontier for all of Humanity. The current world powers are quite set in their ideals and their nationalism. The division in the sand are currently being drawn, and the consolidations of power are ramping up. From there, who knows where Humanity will go.
I cannot vote to change the situation, for all of the candidates for Senate and the Presidency of the US are easily bought by corporations with too much to gain from a third world war. I cannot withhold my tax money, for I would be jailed. I cannot relocate, for I am tied to this land by birth and by society, and many of those places that I would be accepted have already taken sides with the US against the ‘Muslim threat’.
So I write.
