The Pointlessness of Protest PT II by ShadowsNTime
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For the millions who have marched and rallied and raged against war around the globe there remains no serious attention or response to it from media or governments anywhere, but there is a serious side to this issue, a pathos as well, and i would be remiss not to make mention and 'art' of it. At the boards at AW, FLOWERS FOR PEACE is a never ending thread of anti-war expression populated by a few peace seekers who speak in a multitude of tongues to say the same thing. PEACE is the word they speak like a mantra from all over the globe. But Who speaks for those who won't speak for themselves of their SUPPORT of the status-quo and their acceptance by silence of the atrocities America is comitting in its INTERNATIONALLY ILLEGAL AND UNIVERSALLY IMMORAL invasion and occupation of another soveriegn nation without cause or provocation? No one!.....So here i will make a statement to and for them in my own AMERICAN GUERNICA. For all the mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, sisters and brothers of those who have gone to fight 'over there' that rally against the anti-war crowds and paste their de rigueur vinyl ribbons to their gas guzzling SUV's- there is no bravery...there is no nobility in their killing of others or dying themselves. Their deaths are morally akin to being shot in the commission of a crime. Every soldier who dies there, dies for someone else's enrichment....not for honor or liberty or 'freedom', but for something as sinful and ugly as personal greed on the part of their masters. THIS WAR NEVER HAD TO HAPPEN....THEIR LIVES AND THE LIVES OF THEIR VICTIMS NEVER HAD TO BE SACRIFICED. THERE IS NO DIGNITY IN THEIR DEATHS. BRING THEM HOME. END IT NOW. OR FACE THE SAME SHAME WE DID IN VIET NAM, only a thousand times worse...for this war has no minor LBJ Gulf of Tonkin-sized deciet and deception behind it...it has no legality to it whatsoever...no legitimacy to any of its scurillously false claims or eccentric excuses for its actions. The world only let it happen because America spends more than the next 16 nations on earth combined on Wars and Weapons of War, and everyone else is afraid of our total lack of scruples or loyalty to any noble concept or cause beyond the dollar. So here is your statement, thee who stand in silence..... We, The People, have become so frightened by our own government's lies and disemblings that we are willing to sacrifice any friend, bury any semblance of truth, surrender our Constitutional Rights and give our own children up to the enrichment of our temporary corporate masters that tell us through their puppet regiemes who and when to fight their wars with no meaning or honor....with no dignity or glory. Nothing but profit and loss to those with vested interests. And speaking to you coldly quiet men and women.... i'm treating you to this quote from my partner, Lynn, because in this space and at this time it is so apropos: The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country -- when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right." Croesus THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY.....this is a death wish by the Silent Majority. So don't cry now for your dead...you've killed them yourselves with your quiet. This is the true pointlessness of protest. Image and text by Alexander Graham. Thanks for viewing and comments.
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Richardphotos
like the song says"freedom is just another word when we have nothing else to lose" The biggest mistake that Busher is making is that the nations of extreme religious beliefs do not want freedom, but only to kill all the people that does not share their crappy belief.then after that they would continue killing each other as they are doin already along with anyone in the way. He is not there for to achieve freedom for them, but to line his pocket book along with Chener.mean while soldiers are dying right and left. "Saddam-it" knew how to keep them under control, but he had designs on neighbors and did not want to play ball with busher
mike80549
I would like say that I first and foremost want peace! The idea that people WANT to to take another life is horrible! You have made no mention of the other side in this war, those who believe in death to all infidels. Until all peoples agree that peace is the true and right way then peace at any cost is the equivalent to the lamb walking itself to slaughter. As for the "Illegal war" comments, what would make a war legal? Morality is a personal judgment and your belief that this war is immoral, is your BELIEF ( and one held by many others ) but still just a belief. Iraq signed a peace treaty after the Gulf War and agreed to conditions for peace. they violated those conditions ( if you would like I could discuss those in future correspondence ) and as such were subject to resumption of the war. Democracy does not end when you do not get your way, it rests in the power of the majority. As we have elections you and those who think like you will have the chance to show you are the majority. I hope that you do not get your way on this issue because I feel it would in-danger the live of my children. Remember, a dead man may no longer have any enemies but he is dead.
Lampy
Why is the U.S.-UK war on Iraq illegal? The mistake most of antiwar movements made in the run up to, during and after Iraq war was basing their criticism of the invasion on the unilateral nature of the war and occupying the country without the United Nations approval. What those peace and anti-war movements failed to realise and stress is that even with a Security Council resolution, the war is clearly a violation of international law, as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has previously pointed out. As the vast majority of people can see now, the U.S. goal of the occupation in Iraq has become one of punishing the Iraqi people for not being grateful for the effort the U.S. and UK exerted to liberate them from the hands of their oppressor. The basic argument we all agree with is that the war on Iraq wasnt needed and both leaders, the American President and the British Prime Minister have failed to justify the urge for such war which they launched on a false pretext. Iraq posed no threat to any country, and its violations of the UN Security Council resolutions are simply technical, not more than providing incomplete documentation about weapons that nothing proved their existence, and for the use of which there are no apparent plans. Iraq war constituted a Crime against Peace as defined by the Nuremberg Charter (1945), the Nuremberg Judgment (1946), and the Nuremberg Principles (1950) as well as by paragraph 498 of U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956). Shortly before the outbreak of the war, the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan made it clear that any use of force without Council endorsement would "not be in conformity with the Charter". But heres a deeper and fuller discussion of the legality of the war and why the U.S.-UK offensive in Iraq was an act of aggression, and violation of international law. In his legal advice to British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the legality of the Iraq war, Attorney General Lord Goldsmith stated that ousting the former Iraqi government led by Saddam Hussein is a disproportionate response to the countrys leaders alleged failure to disarm, illegal in the eyes of international law, stressing "regime change cannot be the objective of military action." Previously leaked White House documents revealed that UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and the American President George W. Bush planned to launch Iraq war whether or not they won UN approval, contradicting claims repetitively made by Mr. Blair who maintains that the final decision to invade Iraq was made only twenty-four hours before the war began. Also by ordering the so-called decapitation strike against the Iraqi President in violation of a 48-hour ultimatum he had given him and his sons to leave the country, the American President also violated the customary international laws of war set forth in the 1907 Hague Convention on the Opening of Hostilities to which the United States is still a contracting party, as evidenced by paragraphs 20, 21, 22, and 23 of U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956). Moreover, the repetitive attempts to assassinate the former Iraqi President was an international crime in its own right. Landing on a U.S. aircraft off the coast of San Diego, the U.S. President declared on 1 May 2003 that the "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." Behind him stood a huge banner reading: "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED." As of that date, the United States became the belligerent occupant of war under international law and practice, as stated by Francis A. Boyle, a Professor of Law, University of Illinois, and author of Foundations of World Order, The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, and Palestine, Palestinians and International Law. In the draft resolution Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush submitted at the UN on May 2003, both leaders falsely pledged that: "The States participating in the Coalition will strictly abide by their obligations under international law, including those relating to the essential humanitarian needs of the people of Iraq." The disclosure of numerous lies upon which those leaders built their justification for launching Iraq war and the repetitive scandals involving the two countries troops conduct, including abuse of Iraq detainees, using banned weapons, and unjustified killings of innocent civilians, all these revelations made a nonsense the two leaders' claim that the war will be launched in conformance with international law.
o-q
Well guys I'm sorry, but untill you get a democracy, your not going to get a say in what goverment you get! Over throw your goverment! Or prehaps you need the free peoples of the world to do it for you?
B_PEACOCK
I will only say excellent image . I dont voice my opinions often .Usually just starts a huge debate . I hate wars and people dying .I dont lik eliving in fear either
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Our government was designed to be in constant overthrow. The problem is: some neo-fascists have found a way to "hack" the system. Time to pull the plug, and re-boot, I'd say. I might remind all that the US has the oldest constitutional democracy in the world. Rusty, I'll grant you! But she'll "clean up" nice. November comes. Great Image...Welcome Back!!