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Dan Clore

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Jul 2, 2009, 12:35:47 AM7/2/09

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http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22964.htm
The ï¿½Spirit of Humanity
By Paul Craig Roberts

July 01, 2009 "Information Clearing House" --- On June 30, the
government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in
international waters illegally boarded the ï¿½Spirit of Humanity,ï¿½
kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries, including former US
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Laureate Mairead MaGuire, and
confiscated the cargo of medical supplies, olive trees, reconstruction
materials, and childrenï¿½s toys that were on the way to the Mediterranean
coast of Gaza. The ï¿½Spirit of Humanity,ï¿½ along with the kidnapped 21
persons, is being towed to Israel as I write.

Gaza has been described as the ï¿½worldï¿½s largest concentration camp.ï¿½ It
is home to 1.5 million Palestinians who were driven by force of
American-supplied Israeli arms out of their homes, off their farms, and
out of their villages so that Israel could steal their land and make the
Palestinian land available to Israeli settlers.

What we have been witnessing for 60 years is a replay in modern times,
despite the United Nations and laws strictly preventing Israelï¿½s theft
of Palestine, of the 17th, 18th, and 19th century theft of American
Indian lands by US settlers. An Israeli government spokesman recently
rebuked the President of the United States, a country, the Israeli said,
who stole all of its land from Indians, for complaining about Israelï¿½s
theft of Palestine.

I knew the ï¿½Spirit of Humanityï¿½ would fall to Israeli piracy the minute
I received on June 25 from an official of an Israeli peace organization
a ï¿½public advisoryï¿½ that the government of Cyprus had withheld
permission for the ï¿½Spirit of Humanityï¿½ to leave for Gaza. The US State
Department had advised that ï¿½The Israeli Foreign Ministry informed U.S.
officials at the American Embassy in Tel Aviv that Israel still
considers Gaza an area of conflict and that any boats attempting to sail
to Gaza will not be permitted to reach its destination.ï¿½ The ï¿½Spirit of
Humanityï¿½ obtained permission to leave Cyprus when all aboard signed a
waiver absolving Cyprus of all responsibility for the crewï¿½s safety at
the hands of the Israelis.

As President Obama has called for humanitarian aid to be sent to Gaza,
and as the International Red Cross has damned the inhumanity of Israelï¿½s
blockade of Gaza, the question that immediately comes to mind is why did
not the United States send sufficient US Navy escort to see the ï¿½Spirit
of Humanityï¿½ safely through international waters to Gaza? We send ships
against Somalian pirates, why not against Israeli ones?

We all know the answer. The US talks a good ï¿½human rightsï¿½ game, but
never delivers--especially if the human rights abuser is Israel. After
all, Israel owns the US Congress and President Obama. Israel even has an
Israeli citizen and former member of the Israeli Defense Forces as the
Chief-of-Staff in Obamaï¿½s White House. Israel owns millions of American
ï¿½Christian Zionistsï¿½ and ï¿½rapture evangelicans.ï¿½ When it comes to
Israel, the American government is a puppet state. It does what it is told.

Macho Americans might stand tall, but not when Israel snaps its fingers.

Israel, of course, will get away with a mere act of piracy. After all,
Israel has been getting away with its war crimes and violations of
international law for 60 years. If the UN tries to do anything, the US
will veto it, as the US has done for decades.

What will happen to the kidnapped foreign nationals? Most likely they
will be released and sent back to their respective countries. Israel, of
course, will keep the stolen ï¿½Spirit of Humanityï¿½ to foreclose any
further attempts by human rights activists to run Israelï¿½s inhumane
blockade of Gaza.

On the other hand, Israel might declare its captives to be terrorists on
the ground that the Gazans elected in a free election Hamas as their
government. Hamas, unlike Israel, is declared to be a terrorist
organization by the puppet American State Department in Washington. Thus
the human rights activists onboard the ï¿½Spirit of Humanityï¿½ are aiding
and abetting terrorists by delivering goods to them. The US Department
of Justice (sic) prosecutes American citizens and charities for sending
aid to Palestinians on the grounds that Palestinians, if not everyone a
terrorist, are governed by terrorists.

I wouldnï¿½t be surprised if a Nobel Laureate and a former member of the
US House of Representatives, along with the rest of the crew, are handed
over to the Americans for indefinite detention and for torturing and
waterboarding in the American torture facility at Bagram. I am certain
that ï¿½Homeland Securityï¿½ and the US Government are desperate to be rid
of all of critics, and knocking off a Nobel Laureate and a member of the
House sets a precedent for getting rid of the rest of us.

Meanwhile, California, which has become a failed state, has been denied
bailout money from Washington. Israel, which has been a failed state for
60 years, can, unlike the American state of California, always count of
Washington to deliver the money and the weapons to keep Israel going.

The same week that ï¿½ourï¿½ government in Washington told the Governor of
California ï¿½not one red cent,ï¿½ President Barak Obama handed over $2.775
billion to Israel.

Online Journal (June 29) reported that the handover to Israel of the
unemployed Americansï¿½ tax dollars took place in a ï¿½tiny Capitol roomï¿½ to
which members of the press were denied access. I mean, really, who wants
the media writing about US taxpayer dollars for Israelï¿½s nuclear weapons
while Americans are being kicked out of their homes. Not that, of
course, the ï¿½Christianï¿½ supporters of Israel would mind.

Unlike every other recipient of US military largesse, Israel is
permitted to bypass the Pentagon and to deal directly with US suppliers.
Consequently, the Israel Lobbyï¿½s influence multiplies, because military
suppliers fight for Israel in congressional committees in order to get
Israelï¿½s business. This lets Israel turn the screws on Iran. According
to Grant F. Smith writing in Online Journal, Republican US
Representative Mark Steven from Illinois has received $221,000 in
campaign contributions from Israel political action committees (PACs).
Therefore, it was a sure thing that he would introduce legislation
preventing the Import-Export bank from providing loan guarantees to
countries doing business with Iran.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4853.shtml

Americans think that they are a superpower, but in fact they are a
stupor-power. A puppet state if truth be known.

There is a great deal of evidence, even in Time magazine that Israel is
a child abuser. ï¿½Godï¿½s Chosen Peopleï¿½ routinely abuses captured
Palestinian children. The Israelis also abuse Palestinian children by
shooting them down in the streets.

Donï¿½t take my word for it. The Geneva-based Defense for Children
International says, according to Time Magazine, that ï¿½the ill-treatment
and torture of Palestinian child prisoners appears to be widespread,
systematic and institutionalized, suggesting complicity at all levels of
the political and military chain of command.ï¿½

According to Time Magazine, ï¿½Often, children suffer lasting traumas from
jail. Says Saleh Nazzal from the Palestinian Ministry of Prisoner
Affairs, ï¿½When soldiers burst into a house and drag away a child, he
loses his feeling of being protected by his family. He comes back from
prison alienated from his family, his friends. They donï¿½t like going
back to school or even leaving the house. They start wetting their
beds.ï¿½ Says Mona Zaghrout, a YMCA counselor who helps kids returning
from prison: ï¿½They come out of prison thinking and acting like they are
men. Their childhood is gone.ï¿½ And they often turn to another father
figure--the armed militant groups fighting the Israeli occupation.ï¿½ï¿½

And so it goes. Thereï¿½s no money for California, or for Americansï¿½
health care, or for the several million Americans who have lost their
homes and are homeless, because Israel needs it. Israel needs the
American taxpayersï¿½ money so that it can create even more enemies, and,
therefore, need more American money to spend with the American armament
industries to oppress more Palestinians and to make more enemies,
requiring more American money to protect Israel from its folly and its evil.

And the brainwashed American public goes along year after year.

--
Dan Clore

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Plato Been

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Jul 3, 2009, 5:44:49 AM7/3/09

Criminal Minds want to have everything seen and felt IN REVERSE

3 July 2009
{HRI 20090703}

Criminal Minds have everything in reverse, and even their conscience
is in reverse:

They have the opposite of a normal conscience

(so, that good "is Evil," and Evil "is good").

All Insanity is caused by a refusal or inability to face Criminal
Minds.

Truth is absolute,

and not "a matter of opinion or viewpoint" - but parts of the
truth may have been omitted.

Truth is 'that what happened, caused by whom and with what
intentions.'

Facing the Truth about Criminal Minds, restores Sanity.

Koos Nolst Trenite 'Cause Trinity'
human rights philosopher and poet

'Men of all nations came
to listen to Solomon's wisdom,
sent by all the kings of the world,
who had heard of his wisdom.'

1 Kings 4:34

_________
Reference:

'Definition Of Insane - Relation To Humor' (DOI)
{HRI 20030205-V2.4}
(5 Feb 2003 - Version 2.4 on 1 July 2008)
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.military.naval/msg/020f0c2e172dab3d

'Definition of Peace' (DOP)
{HRI 20070520-V3.7.4}
(20 May 2007 - Version 3.7.4 on 5 June 2009)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.war.vietnam/msg/5ae1a4055a677ab0

'The Rights of Criminal Minds' (RCM)
{HRI 20040108-V1.3}
(8 January 2004 - Version 1.3 on 26 Jun 2008)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.military/msg/93359b640af83e20
'

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