With the bare fists ... Feb 1st 2011, 11:20 am Posted by Guenter Heyes 45 Views Edit Delete Featured [Unfeature] With the bare fists ... This comment is taking most of its arguments from the pages of http://www.brianwillson.com/ - Blog title: US origins in genocide/extermination, - (pretty much in the middle when one scroll down on his page) He in turn relies on sources from: [Stannard, D. E. (1992). "American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World." NY: Oxford University Press]. So what ever one might think that I am just “Rambling about”, the links and sources are provided. Right now our News Stations are awash with the images of protests and riots in the Middle East. 1st was Tunisia, now Egypt and the “SIHTF” also in such “calm places” as Jordan and even some rumours have it, Saudi Arabia. Yemen, the helplessly propped up dictatorship is also experiencing troubles and Lebanon is also not far from exploding. So on the sideline, - a small bomb exploded in Davos, Switzerland at the economics summit. Not directly where the fat (_!_) are congregating but so a few blocks away, kind of a message of: “We could if we wanted to...” So while most stare at the screen of their TV set and wonder WTH is going on? In my memory the voice of Dom Helder Camara is heard again. Though for most “Americans” the name rings no bell, on the international scale he was the “world's MLK”. Dom Helder Camara was the arch bishop of Brasilia, in Brazil. He was a outspoken human right activist and lives as poor as the rest masses of his country. He was responsible for the instigation of the so called “liberation Theology” - which later on no one else but Pope John Paul II ripped to shreds again. In 1973, the international bishops conference was held in Vienna, Austria, at which DHC participated. Mind you this was the “Yom Kipur” war of Israel against most of the Arab world. The Russian army was sitting in Czechoslovakia, ready to march on the west, - so it was feared, and in the middle east the USA and the USSR played a tit-for-tat game with nuclear bombers. So the mood in this conference was a sombre one and a fearful one. DHC, who cared to travel just in his cassock, bare feet and sandals, - “To represent the 90% of my people who have NOTHING” - took the podium and said those words that I will never forget: “The 3rd World War will NOT be fought with Missiles and tanks. The 3rd World War will be fought with the RAGE and the BARE FISTS of the masses of the DISPOSESSED.” - close to 40 years later his words have come hauntingly true. What is strange and should be a point to ponder for the many Americans who believe in their god given right to bear arms, that when one watched the footage of the demonstrations and riots, one sees the weapons only in the hands of the soldiers and the police. However in Egypt the masses with their bare fists did manage to capture army vehicles, did manage to break open the jails in some cities and did manage to scare the living crap out of the people. The French revolution also began with nothing but the bare fists of the enraged masses. A enraged people does not need guns, it goes out and gets them from the hands of their oppressors. This how “Real” revolutions are done. When one looks behind all those “dictators” in the countries we see now engaged in riots, they have all been propped up by the USA and foremost received masses of loans and investment via the IMF, - which in turn then (The IMF) – forced these puppets to enforce severe austerity programs on its own people. In many TV debates we always hear people (Americans) ask the question as to “Why are we so much hated?” And this is why I gave you the link to Brian Willson and also linked to the actual book he uses to draw his arguments from. I will not repeat it again, it is up to the reader to follow the link. Not since the fall of the Roman Empire has a “New Rome” been so influential in shaping our world as the USA since the end of WW2. When I was just starting HS in Austria, I was still dreamy about the USA. Till by chance I picked up a work by “Leonard” - (This is as much as I remember about the author's name) – with the title. “.. He shall cast the 1st stone.” (I might add that the book was in German so I do not recall if it was a German translation of a foreign author or a German author, period.) In this book he looks at the judicial system all over the world and naturally cites the many idiotic laws that exist. However what struck me right there was the incredible cruelty on the US judicial system, past and present. -(Mind you, this was the 1970's, so I have no idea what Mr. Leonard has to say about it today, - IF he is still alive.) This book alone scratched a bit the silver image that I had about the USA, based on hardly more than the world as I knew it according to Hollywood. However I was lucky that my brother had studied in the USA at the same time and actually had been present as a demonstrator at the infamous “Kent State Massacre”. So gradually the silver lining became a belt of rusted steel. I do have military experience, mostly in the sector of Military intelligence, which again gave me insight in some of the “behind the back” dealings of “real-politics”. To succeed in this field, one has to understand how the enemy “Thinks”. The “Enemy” does NOT look at a nation as the country wants the tourists to see it. The enemy does not care about Disney World and NASA space centre. The “enemy” however KNOWS the REAL history of the USA, - namely the history cited via the links. As an Austrian, - (Now a Canadian) – I do recall the efforts of “total de-nazification”. Let us look at it a bit more: A lot of people think that Stalin and Hitler were the biggest mass-murderers in history. Well yes their numbers are impressive. However I used to argued very early in my teens that: Had General Custer had the technical equipment at his disposal that Hitler and Stalin enjoyed, there would be no Native American alive today. Let us look a bit at the hypocrisy of the USA politics: Black people on “Blacks Only” regiment liberate Europe and consequently the KZ where the many Jews and others were held, - just to return “home” and be again nothing else but a common “Nigger”. Some 10 years AFTER WW2, McCarthy begins his Communist hunt that rivalled pretty much Hitler's and Stalin's “Purging tactics”. And today, US soldiers in Iraq call the Iraqi's “People that are not like us, they are not human...” (Quote from a ex US Army Sergeant now serving a life sentence for shooting up a few people in the USA after returning from combat in Iraq. - front-line PBS.) So one then asks, why all the fuzz about the Nazi's and their racial profiling? Today, the world has a lot of knowledge, TV, Internet and other means. And the many who are unemployed due to IMF sanctioned austerity programs have all the time on their hands to read and think. And these people read the Real-History of the USA, that the tourism office would rather not talk about. And if each time one checks a bit as to why the economy is up the proverbial “brown creek”,- just a few names past the local ones sits an American ... and that not just in Egypt or Tunisia or so, but all over the globe. Pax Americana! Well we had Pax Romana some 2,000 years ago, and we know what happened after. As an Native American saying goes: “Only once the last tree is felled, the last river and lake polluted and the last land destroyed will you find out you can't eat money.” - maybe these bare fists are just trying to tell us something ... Günter Heyes – MTL- 30-01-2011 Tags: politics(8) Bookmark & Share: Twitter , Digg , Facebook | Like Hide Comments Peter Riden As it's well known to me, you have long been quite the Historian as Guenter. Many of your works are outstandingly challenging and that's well known to many..;-) Now, when it comes to "Americans" many are tempted to generalize which is a temptation I resist because, after all, Americans or North Americans are mostly the results of immigration and, as such, most are good people, although many North Americans can prove excessively naive when it comes to the governing structures and elected representatives. So, when something gets wrong it's not the American people, nor the North American people but rather.. their governing structures. That is not pretty. You cover many realisitic facets, Rai... so keep bringing the light on.. Just resist on the temptation to generalize when it comes to Americans. about a year ago Guenter Heyes I was afraid that the blogs will only permit so many words. Thus I refrained from defining the generalization. I am of the POV that people who know me by know clearly understand that with "Americans"I mean the "System" of unchecked greedy capitalism. Naturally from TGB meeting all these "American People" it sort of is quite clear that between the flesh and blood person and the untouchable "entity of a System" is a difference. So for future references: When I use the term American, Austrian, Asian etc. I usually mean the "System" as it is understood in the ones opposing it. about a year ago Peter Riden You and I know that, Rai, but it's important to emphasize on it when generally presented. The Invisible Man can express his thoughts and that's good even as Guenter..;-) about a year ago admin Very well done Rai. I think the greatest error in modern thinking right now, is that it could "never happen again", or the delusion that the events unfolding now are any less different than the uprisings you mention in your blog post. The one possible silver lining, glimmer of hope in all this is; that greed will interject for the continuance of its ideology, as was the case in the still settling banking fiasco of 2008. There is a change on the horizon, and these coming times will be rife with the maelstrom of conflict, savagery,degradation and desolation that have become the hallmarks of our species. But like you also mention, The earth tires of our impudence, grows weary of our disrespect. maybe it too will tire of our tyranny and neglect, and bare its fists. about a year ago Guenter Heyes Well after decades of research, I have come to the conclusion that mankind always seems to "advance" in leaps and bounds and then self-destructs and begins anew in some sort of dark ages. The problem we seem to be afflicted with is the senseless over confidence in "gadgets" and especially technology. Naturally the more dependent we become with technology and science, the harder the fall, once these things are taken from us. Then the whole cycle begins anew. Will we ever learn? A MUST READ! Nov 23rd 2011, 8:56 pm Posted by Guenter Heyes 14 Views Edit Delete Feature this Seems like some countries still have some Ba***. http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27821