A
letter to the American Peoples
Project
Humanbeingsfirst.org
May
11, 2008.
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Project HumanbeingsfirstTM.
Permission granted to use freely as per copyright notice.
“Good
morning [America]. At this moment, somewhere in the world, terrorists
are planning new attacks on our country. Their goal is to bring
destruction to our shores that will make September the 11th pale by
comparison.”
(President of the United States, George W. Bush, Feb. 13, 2008)
What
can possibly “pale” this anti-gravity exploding
building “by comparison”?
Project
HumanbeingsfirstTM
would certainly like to assist the President of the United States in
preventing any “new attacks on our country” and
bringing any “destruction to our shores”
whatsoever, whether or not it will “make September the 11th
pale by comparison.”!
This
must indeed be the duty of all men and women of uncommon courage, to
rise-up to the age old challenge of “ask not what my
country can do for me, but what I can do for my country.”
As
tax-paying denizens of this land, and also the first victims of all
“terrorists”, be they 'pirates', or 'emperors', it
behooves upon even the lowly to rise up to that cliché by
taking the dire warnings of the President of the United States of
America very very seriously.
“Obviously,
the West must defend itself by whatever means will be effective”,
as Bernard Lewis puts it. The first step of course, is to identify
the “terrorists” correctly. And in “devising
means to fight [these] terrorists, it would surely be useful to
understand the forces that drive them.”
The
“Latest
Reports”
from Project
Humanbeingsfirst
is a tiny and humble contribution towards this vainglorious “what
I can do for my country” bit in the context of the astute
recipe expressed by Bernard Lewis.
Project
Humanbeingsfirst
hopes that it is not too presumptuous to expect that the President of
the United States will use any new insights gleaned from its humble
reports with his own powers of “infinite justice”
and genuine statesmanship to steer his great nation away from the
brink of crossing the nuclear Rubicon and in getting rid of all
terrorists starting with the most significant ones among them –
as per the touchstone laid out by St. Augustine, the founding
theological political philosopher of the modern “West”
itself, from whom the President can derive much moral ascendancy and
wisdom for his own “what I can do for my country”
bit (even at this late stage):
“When
the King asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate
defiantly replied: 'the same as you do when you infest the whole
world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,
and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.'”
Project
Humanbeingsfirst also humbly presumes that after reading its forensic
reports,
the worthy President of the United States and the American and
Western peoples whom he leads, like the rest of the six billion
peoples on the planet Earth already do, will also trivially recognize
that the “pirate” of St. Augustine's metaphor is
indeed a very useful device for any modern day “emperor”!
When
the “pirate” does not exist naturally, it is
created or imagined. In all cases, under the rubric of “they
are attacking us”, it enables the “emperor”
to “infest the whole world” in the guise of
fighting both the real and imaginary threats from the “pirates”!
This
threat, at times, indeed appears to be real, and may in fact be very
real, just as the President of the United States warned: “At
this moment, somewhere in the world, terrorists are planning new
attacks on our country. Their goal is to bring destruction to our
shores that will make September the 11th pale by comparison.”
The
blatant full spectrum public recognition however, primarily among the
Western peoples, that this threat is also very necessary for the
“emperor” for “catalyzing” its
own “imperial mobilization” against the wishes of
its own peoples – even at the expense of some small or big
sacrifice as its unwitting or unprepared victim – can entirely
eliminate the most significant raison d'être for the threat
altogether.
The
remaining largely irritant nuisance of any real “pirates”
at sea who have likely existed in every epoch, stripped of its
demonizing auras, most assuredly will not require an annual defence
spending bill which today is in excess of a trillion dollars for
achieving “full spectrum
dominance” over them.
This
will enable the substantial monies left over from needlessly bombing
the “pirates” thinking
that their threat is much larger than it actually is, and in that
process of “shock and awe” also needlessly creating more
new “pirates”
who must now avenge their blown to smithereens family members,
villages, cities, nations, to be fruitfully spent for the
greater common welfare of the American peoples themselves.
Thank
you.
Project
Humanbeingsfirst.org
The
author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary
geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied
EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley
(patents here),
and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden
2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web
at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org.
He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org.
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