The following correspondence originally took place upon the Facebook wall of my friend, and fellow Autistic Self-Advocate, Jason Ross, after he posted captioned artwork being shared from here…
Jason R.:
Rayn: End Apartheid now!The following correspondence originally took place upon the Facebook wall of my friend, and fellow Autistic Self-Advocate, Jason Ross, after he posted captioned artwork being shared from here…
Jason R.:
Rayn: End Apartheid now!The following correspondence originally took place upon my Facebook wall, after I posted artwork being shared by the page, “The Non-Aggression Principle“…
Rayn:
Adam G.: The politics around this are super disturbing: no less than 200,000 Japanese dead from an act of intimidation against the USSR.
Rayn: SUPER, indeed! And, yet, many Americans happily justify this act of terrorism, and the mass-murder of civilians that it caused, as a “necessary” step towards ending WWII. Yet, to demolish that lie: would such an excuse be valid for the Iraq government to use, even after enduring an unprovoked attack by the American military, based on a pure lie? NO, of course not!
“Necessity is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” – William Pitt the Younger
I originally posted the following information and statement onto my Facebook wall…
Blowback: Did Israel Help To Create Hamas?
Here’s a very informative article on the topic:
How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123275572295011847.html
Well… I guess we should just be glad that the Israeli government didn’t fund, train and arm Hamas, the way the America government did with the Mujahideen, the MAK, and Al Qaeda:
OPERATION CYCLONE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
Bin Laden Comes Home to Roost:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3340101/
(note that this article is from 1998! All of the politics and emotions of 9/11 are nonexistent)
Terror ‘Blowback’ Burns CIA:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/terror-blowback-burns-cia-1182087.html
(note that this article, too, is from 1998)
Bin Laden, Taliban Created During Cold War Era:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0110/S00004.htm
(note that this article is from Oct. 2001, right after 9/11)
I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
Terrorism, By Any Reasonable Definition:
http://blog.independent.org/2012/08/06/terrorism-by-any-reasonable-definition/
(Independent Institute Blog, Anthony Gregory) Sixty-seven years ago, on August 6, 1945, the Truman administration dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, instantly killing tens of thousands of men, women, and children, and causing a nuclear catastrophe that took thousands of more lives in the weeks and years that followed. Three days later, on August 9, the U.S. followed up by dropping a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki.
Assuming the conventional narrative we hear about these events is true, these acts were acts of terrorism by any reasonable standard. The typical story is that the Truman administration made a necessary and difficult calculus, deciding that the lives of about two-hundred-thousand Japanese civilians were worth expending so as to save the lives of even more American servicemen who would have had to invade Japanese mainland and secure victory.
My Commentary: “If nuclear holocaust inflicted upon innocent civilians for the purpose of securing a diplomatic result is not terrorism, then there is no such thing,” says Anthony Gregory.
Today marks the 67th anniversary of the American government’s terrorist attacks against Japanese civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following chart here, being shared by the page, “End U.S. Wars and Occupations,” and originally posted it to my own wall…
My Commentary: One man’s government is another man’s terrorist…