How Proud Are You Of Your Country?

By George Paxinos
2-18-9
 If we do nothing now, if we do not see the link between what is happening to everyone on the economic front and on the crowded streets of the destitute, lined by clusters of empty shops, between which cower the huddled masses of women and children left homeless and penniless while their menfolk are dragooned off to an oil cartel's "Never-Ending War on 'Terror'" for their corporate fun and profit and for the furtherance of the jackbooted State-Terror of the New World Order's Globalist State-Fascist Agenda, if we cannot make the connection from conditions in our home society to those happening to forgotten individuals held incommunicado on the Dark Side away from the light of life in secret places like Gitzmo, Guantanamo's Camp X-Ray, Abu Ghuraib Torture and Interrogation Camp in Iraq, Bagram Torture Facility in Afghanistan, then not only will we never be able to look ourselves in the mirror again with anything like a clear conscience, but we ourselves, our families and our loved ones, will soon enough land in home-side versions of those same camps. 
  
Read below what America has become, Dick Cheney, a clipped-wing bird-hunter, who approved the crushing of a child's testicles : read here : 
  
"I feel sick to my stomach as I write this. 
  
This morning I read the interview with the former Guantanamo guard who describes in excruciating detail how Gitmo prisoners were allegedly subjected to anal rape as well as other forms of sexual abuse, torture, humiliation, and other atrocities, all at the hands of their U.S. captors, in some cases under the supervision of U.S. medical personnel. It is a ghastly account." 
  
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seery/cheney-chief-of-churls_b_167451.html 
  
"Dick Cheney -- the clipped-wing bird hunter -- as the poster boy of U.S. sadism. He became the bragging ringleader for policies that exceeded the bounds of respectable military strategy (and/or domestic partisanship) in order to inflict special psychological damage on all perceived adversaries [...] the insistence on waterboarding; the indecent disdain for the Geneva Conventions; the Plamegating of critics; the spying without warrant; the legal approval for squeezing a child's testicles : [...] ... 
  
"In several public fora heretofore, Yoo has insisted that no law -- neither domestic nor international -- prevents the president from authorizing the crushing of a child's testicles or the raping of an infant as a way of exerting pressure upon a terrorist suspect." 
  
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seery/testicles_b_109687.html 
  
  
Former Gitzmo Guard Tells All : 
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/02/hbc-90004409 
  
DOJ Report on Yoo/Bybee Torture Memos 'Damning' : 
http://www.pubrecord.org/torture/687-doj-probe-on-yoo-torture-memos 
  
I am not going to write more regarding America's fate if it does nothing to stop these atrocities, nor about the way America will go down in history as a far, far worse Fascist Regime than Nazi Germany ever was; from now on in, it is up to you to do this -- for yourselves. 
  
Even here in Switzerland I am under observation by obscure security services probably not Swiss for writing articles like this one, I have found two professional bugs planted in my tiny apartment by persons and agencies unknown, and calling Swiss Intelligence and complaining seems to have surprised them as much as it had me : these obscure agencies or persons can most probably only be acting from British or American sources, and they are acting illegally on Swiss Territory, to promulgate the goals of their New World Order against the laws of my new home country, or else there are politicians in our midst who are turncoats and traitors to our country, lapdogs of the NWO, whose only goal, it would appear, is to share in the bloody-handed ghoul-feast of the ultra-rich, be they only small scavenger buzzards, themselves. 
  
I am now a Swiss, and if Switzerland was ever lacking in Wilhelm Tells, if he was indeed only a figment of Schiller's imagination, then at least there is one in this country now. If the New World Order wants a fight, then they have got one. But not by Tell's Second Arrow -- he was a gentleman; I am not. 
  
Compared to docile Americans, British and Continental Europeans, I am of South African birth and Greek and Boer extraction, and now the spiritual, if not the genetic, inheritor of the spirit of Wilhelm Tell; if others do not want to fight for the freedoms of themselves and their families, and fight the destruction of their countries and basic human decency, then I shall at least defend those that Switzerland might still have left. 
  
I have to shave every morning, and cannot look at that face if it were as smeared with the blood of innocents, as those politicians of ours who allowed CIA Torture Flights to land at some of our airports in transit from one US camp to another. 
  
May God Almighty fry all those lap-dog politicians in Hell. 
  
George

Whatever happened to '60's music?

Back in the 60's when the U.S. was fighting in Vietnam, musicians sang against the occupation and the war.  People protested while listening to these singers, the power of the people ended that war.

Where are these singers who empowered the people so?  Where are the people who listened to the artists and fought the government?  Did what they did then make any real difference to the future?  Is there something we can learn from that time and implement it now, and stop what's happening now?  I believe there is, all we need is people with guts to get started on it.  Could a true anti-war movement be struck again?

Everyone's heard of Simon and Garfunkel, and most people know the song "Are You Going To Scarborough Fair?", but, have you ever paid attention to the underlying lyrics?  I've always heard and understood the predominant words, but if you listen closely, there is a completely different song playing in the background.  It blends in so beautifully that most people don't pick up on it.  Hell, all I've ever heard of it was the odd word here and there, so I finally googled the song and dug up the lyrics.  Here they are, pay attention to the words in brackets.   They're the lyrics I'm talking about here:

Are you going to Scarborough Fair? 
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme 
Remember me to one who lives there 
She once was a true love of mine 

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt 
  (On the side of a hill in the deep forest green) 
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme 
  (Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)
Without no seams nor needlework 
  (Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain) 
Then she'll be a true love of mine 
  (Sleeps unaware of the clarion call) 

Tell her to find me an acre of land
  (On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
  (Washes the ground with so many tears)
Between the salt water and the sea strand
  (A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
Then she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather
  (War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions)
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
  (Generals order their soldiers to kill)
And to gather it all in a bunch of heather
  (And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)
Then she'll be a true love of mine 

Are you going to Scarborough Fair? 
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme 
Remember me to one who lives there 
She once was a true love of mine

There were so many powerful songs written and perfomed during that era.  I really wish I hadn't missed it!  One artist that comes to mind from this era is John Mayer.  On his album Continuum, is a great piece called "Waiting On The World To Change".

I've linked the lyrics to the title.  If you can come up with some more powerful anti-war songs for me to listen to or lyrics to read, I'd appreciate the links, so thanks in advance.