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To underscore the personal meaning of events of international scope, I offer three scenarios on a small scale. These events don't involve countries and entire peoples. The players are a few individuals, and the setting is a single neighborhood.
It's your neighborhood, and you're one of the players.
Situation One:
Several of Sam's friends are viciously murdered. Sam says he knows who did it, and he can prove it. Most people, including Sam, think that the suspected murderer is hiding in Tom's house. Sam demands that Tom surrender the alleged killer. Tom responds that he'd be happy to do so; Tom requests only that Sam show him the evidence that the suspected killer is, in fact, guilty. Sam insists he has the evidence, so Tom can't imagine why the request would be problematic.
Sam refuses Tom's offer and repeats his demand that Tom surrender the supposedly guilty man without conditions. Tom says again that he'd be glad to comply with Sam's demand; he only asks that Sam offer the evidence that Sam says he has. This back-and-forth continues; neither Sam nor Tom will alter his position. In frustration, Tom finally declares: "Look, I'll do everything you demand. You say you have evidence proving he's guilty. So show it to me. Then you can have him. You can have everything you say you want."
At that point, Sam yells: "THIS MEANS WAR!!" Sam means it. He kills Tom and his entire family, destroys Tom's house, murders several of his neighbors and wrecks much of the neighborhood.
How would you describe Sam's behavior? Note that, in all of these scenarios, Sam's victim repeatedly assures Sam that he can have whatever Sam says he wants. Every time, despite the fact that Sam can have everything he says he wants -- and despite the further fact that Sam gets everything he says he wants -- Sam's only response is: "THIS MEANS WAR!!"
We can certainly conclude that what Sam says he wants is not what he actually wants. The scenarios compel a further conclusion, an especially terrible one: what Sam actually wants can be achieved in only one way -- the destruction of his victim. And as I've indicated, the destruction always encompasses more than just a single victim: other people are destroyed as well.
It is tempting to say that Sam is a homicidal maniac. In one sense, that's true, and I will not argue the point. But the full truth is far worse: what if Sam isn't "just" a homicidal maniac? What if he knows exactly what he wants and has set in motion a plan to achieve it? Note this: so far, Sam's plan has worked.
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For this is the view of the ruling class: "America is God. God's Will be done."
What they want is dominion over the world. They intend to have it. In pursuit of this aim, as they believe the necessity arises, they will destroy anyone and anything that stands in their way. To describe their behavior as insane is to miss the much more critical point, and to minimize the far greater danger. They know exactly what they're doing. They're hoping that you do not. To date, far too many people oblige them.
Don't help them in their pursuit of brutality, oppression, murder and vast destruction. I state again: they know exactly what they're doing. Be sure you judge them accordingly.
Originally posted by woodwardjnr
reply to post by CountDrac
The Arab league are just a bunch of dictators and despots who have no interest in human rights or the sanctity of their citizens. Why people give credence to this group is beyond me. Half of them are trying to kill off disent in their own countries.
Originally posted by DerepentLEstranger
reply to post by hmdphantom
indeed, i am seriously considering "trolling"
these kinds of threads in future by posting a relevant
Nasrudin story.
Where is the criticism on these Muslim leaders?
Originally posted by charles1952
reply to post by GLaDOS
Would you be so kind as to tell us where we can find this report you're talking about? I think it could be a blockbuster, if true.
Originally posted by woodwardjnr
reply to post by CountDrac
The Arab league are just a bunch of dictators and despots who have no interest in human rights or the sanctity of their citizens. Why people give credence to this group is beyond me. Half of them are trying to kill off disent in their own countries.
Originally posted by CountDrac
Look at this Disturbing video. Yet again we have another Muslim regime or dictatorship killing innocent civilians.
Another Muslim country, Syria that its leader Bashar al-Assad who also blamed Israel for all of Syria’s problems only to Distract his publics eye from his barbaric corrupt government. And I am checking the recent posts and I don’t see even one post from ATS Muslims and its supporters on Syria.
Where is the support for their brothers?
Where is the criticism on these Muslim leaders?
Where is the criticism and uproar at the backwards mentality of these Muslim countries where their leaders and Muslim regimes slaughter their own people, force them to live under Islamic law and crush their freedom and civil liberties.
All I see is Israel this and Israel that. What HYPOCRISY…
I don’t see Palestinians dieing by the hundreds each day. Only Syrians…
I suggest you stop blaming Israel for all the problems in the Middle East and focus half of your attention to your brothers who are dieing daily in the streets by your own leaders. Maybe then, once you get rid of these primitive religious regimes and barbaric dictators there will be peace in the Middle East.
www.youtube.com...
edit on 6-2-2012 by CountDrac because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by munkey66
I saw no evidence of anything except a bit of violence and an injured child.
reports say that up to 50 people are dead, I saw recent reports saying santa was on his way and that even had a NORAD radar tracking him, I give the santa story a bit more credability than tthe youtube I just watched