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THE BALANCE
OF TERROR
By
NAIWU
OSAHON
LEADER
World pan african
movement
The world is a very violent place
thanks to its dominating selfish culture. A culture that believes it can
verbalize virtue to clothe evil and hatred or marry love with its opposite
number, capitalism. A culture that thrives on perpetually attempting to
play God to the detriment of others.
Life was not always like
this. A spiritual (African) culture launched mankind into the merry-ways
of modern civilisation before it was abruptly aborted two thousand years ago by
white culture's excessive greed, selfishness, racism, blind arrogance and a
shortsighted religion.
The dominating culture substituted
spirituality with materialism and enslaved and colonized people of the old
world. They rapidly annexed, stole and confiscated huge tracks of precious
indigenous estates around the world to increase their holdings from about 6% to
65% or nearly 40m sq miles of the earth's land mass by the mid 20th
century. From the Americas to Canada to Australia to New Zealand, natives
were massacred, their food poisoned, their homes and farms destroyed to give way
to Christopher Columbus' siblings who 'discovered' the 'virgin' estates.
They layed claim to Southern Africa too because of its land, favourable weather
and gold. Land is still the issue there now. Mosquitoes helped to
dislodge them eventually from the rest of Africa but not before they had put
neo-colonialism in place.
Whites maimed, tortured and
brutalized Africans. They truncated aborigine/native populations
around the world to 1.6 billion, a two-fold growth rate, while theirs jumped
twelve fold to a billion by the middle of the 20th century.
The elite culture exploited the
labour and resources of their slaves to herald their industrial revolution which
in the last five hundred years set them up as the economic and political giants
of the world. Today, with Capitalism, Christianity, Democracy and Human
Rights as their war cries, they have turned the entire human race into whimps of
their decadent culture and unlished AIDS and hunger on the hapless natives of
the old world.
Of course, civilisation galloped in
limps and bounds but at a price. The masters control everything including
our God-given raw materials and we have nothing. Everytime we raise our
heads to try to pick crumps from under their tables, they crush us with
unmitigated vengeance with their jackboots so how can the world know
peace?
They have caused two world wars in
quick succession already, because they are not prepared to consider the
equitable share of the world's commonwealth with the rest of
mankind.
They set up the UN to try to temper
greed among themselves not envisaging that their estwhile slaves would mature
enough one day to begin to demand their rights at UN deliberations. To
checkmate the unsavoury trend, they deviced undemocratic institutions like the
Security Council, IMF and the World Bank. And despite these institutions,
America, leading the NATO pack, continues to behave like a spoilt child, walking
out on UN caucuses to avoid taking responsibilities and setting out on her own
to police the world and impose her hegemony.
Despite the marginalization of the
Soviet Union, America and her NATO family continue to build and stock pile
formidable military arsenal obviously against the rest of us. A few years
ago, they came up with the secret strategy called the COLOMBIA PLAN. It
incorporates support for germ warfare, AIDS infestations and economic
strangulation, not of the Soviet Union who has since joined their G7, but
against the economically disadvantaged world.
Lenin once described capitalism as
horror without end. One does not have to be a socialist or communist to
agree. Capitalism without spirituality is a sin against the basic law of
nature by largely trying to reap where it has not sowed. Whoever sows a
wind must expect to reap a weirwind surely. When we strike against our
adversaries, they call it 'war.' Their atrocities against us have steeled
us against them but because they employ superior military arsenal and win all
the time, they call their efforts 'peace' or claim that they are protecting
'Civilisation.' The peace of the graveyard. Tacitus, the Roman
historian once said: "......when they have created a wilderness they
call it 'Peace."
Trotsky predicted before the Second
World War that America would win the war and establish world hegemony but with
dynamite built into its foundation. America has not only won the war, the
Soviet Union disintegrated ten years ago encouraging Bush's father to describe
current American hegemony, as the 'New World
Order.'
What George Bush meant in effect is
that multinational companies like the Dow Union Carbide, Exxon, AT & T, Du
Pont, Shell, Mobil and ITT now determine the fate of the world. Big
business corporations now fix state Presidents and economic policies leaving a
trail of misery, hunger, disease, oppression, war and chaos along their
tracks. From the Congo, to Angola to Liberia to Palestine the story is the
same, land or raw minerals are the prizes at stake.
Palestine on the West Bank and Gaza
suffer bomb attacks daily from Israeli imperialism. Their homes are being
demolished and kids killed in the streets in broad day light but Bush Jr. does
not see Israeli action as an "attack on civilisation." Rather,
Bush continues to give unflinching support to Israel against the
Arabs.
I am not holding brief for
the Arabs. I am not a Muslem. I think the Arabs are the most vicious
racists in the world. From Libya to Mauritius to Muritania, Africans are
catching hell in the hands of their Arab settler usurpers of their land.
Arab racism is without conscience. They started the African slavery
holocaust and are still at it even now. Their religion supports the
exploitation of man by man. They say, the sense to cheat is like any other
gift from God. All that one needs to do for receiving the blessing is give
alms to the poor after. The Arabs have commandeered all of Northern
Africa, condemning the indigenous Africans to the life of sertvitude, destroying
their languages, history, customs and traditions and denying them knowledge of
their scintillating past as former leaders of the Arabs and the rest of
mankind. No, I am not a mouthpiece of the Arabs, I just want justice and fairplay to prevail in the
world that's all. I want the circle of violence to stop. The earth
needs a breather from wars and mayhem. Mankind cannot afford another world
war.
I have heard the call of war drums
from several quarters. NATO says it is ready to join in the fray.
They have turned Iraq to a desert already so what would they be bombing next in
Iraq? Russia too wants the opportunity to finish off what they and the
British left behind in Afghanistan from previous wars. A dust track
outpost of the poorest people on earth. They have no electricity, no
water, no homes, nothing but poverty and prayers. Don't they have the
right to be angry too and to hope? May be this is the time to put them out
of their suffering permanently. Wipe them off the face of the earth once
and for all. But we have been taken through that road several times before
and it has not stopped the circle of violence in the world.
President Ronald Reagan invaded
Grenada in 1983 after a truck bomb exploded at a US Marine Corps base in
Lebanon. US aircraft bombed Tripoli and Bengazi in Libya after the 1986
discotheque explosion in Germany. Hundreds of civilians including children
were killed in the mid night surprise attack. Gaddaffi whose tent-home was
bombed escaped death by the whiskers.
On Christmas eve in 1989, at mid
night, Bush Sr. while pretending to be fighting a drug war, invaded Panama
killing over 2000 civilians and kidnapping their President, a former CIA
protégé.
The US and Britain blocked the UN
Security Council resolution condemning Iraq's aggression against Iran in
1980. In exchange for technical information on Soviet weapons in 1986, the
CIA gave Iraq satellite pictures of Iranian stroop movements. In July
1988, Reagan blocked US congress sanction against Iraq for gassing 3,000 kurds
and armed Iraq against its neighbours while steeling Israel at the same time to
defy UN resolutions 242 and 338.
When Saddam Hussain, goaded by the
Americans, foolishly burgeoned, America ordered allied troops to bomb and
butcher defeated and fleeing Saddam soldiers and move 100 miles into Iraq's
territory to try to force a civil war. That strategy failed so Bush
destroyed Iraq's major economic facilities and cut off water and electricity
supplies to the civilian population. Then his contractors invaded Iraq
like a swarm of locusts to make fortunes from cash strapped Iraq, cleaning up
the oil smeared beaches of Bush's one noonday madness. If there was order
in their methods it would not be so bad. One minute they are on your side,
the next minute they are blitzing your home. It has been one endless
mayhem since they took control of the world from their African
ancestors.
Over one million children, not to
talk of adults have died from the US continued blockade and bombardment of
Iraq. Cuba's blockade has dragged for years and was designed to destroy
Cuban economy and encourage the population to revolt against their
government. Does this portray the US as a just and democratic society
imbued with the milk of human kindness which they call human rights. Since
all atrocities and aggression by the US are directed at the non-white people of
the world it is difficult to see them as honest arbiters or brokers in world
affairs.
The Pentagon in August 1998
destroyed the Al Shifa Pharmaceutical factory in Sudan without evidence that it
was linked with the bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that same
year. The factory was Sudan's leading pharmaceutical factory and thousands
of innocent Africans lost their lives as a result of the bombing.
Nostradamus (1503 - 1566) was
quoted in a 1654 AD publication as predicting as follows and I quote:
In the City of God there will
be a great thunder, two brothers torn apart by chaos, while the fortress
endures, the great leader will succumb."
The Third big war will begin
when the big city is burning."
"On the 11th day of the
9th month that ..... two metal birds would crash into two tall statues.....in
the new city .....and the world will end soon after."
On the 11th day of
September 2001, the worst terrorist attack in US history sent two planes
crashing into the World Trade Center in New York at 18 minutes interval,
toppling the twin storey towers. The first crash happened at about 8.45
am. Simultaneously the terrorists crashed another plane into the Pentagon,
the defence headquarters of the most powerful nation on earth. The
terrorists were aparently heading another hijacked plane for the White House
when it crashed, either due to skirmish in the plane or it being short
down in Western Pennsylvania. A car bomb exploded outside the State
Department although this was promptly denied by security forces who came out to
patrol the White House with automatic weapons
Military jets took to the skies of
the two cities and FAA grounded civilian aircrafts nation wide, for the first
time in US history. The death toll from the atrocities is still being
collated and it is expected to number in the thousands of innocent souls of
various nationalities of the world.
The sophistication and audacity of
the attack took the world by storm. It is obvious that some well trained
pilots were among the terrorists. The logistics of the operation is mind
buggling. Months if not years must have been employed to put together the
staggering planning and organisation that hijacked four planes simultaneously
inside America without alerting the security forces who pride themselves as the
best in the world. Alexander Cockburn a reporter for a US newspaper, the
Nation, described the attacks as "near miracles of logistic calculations,
timing, execution and devastation of targets." All the missiles the
terrorists needed were full tanks of jet fuel and the knowledge of how to fly
the commercial planes. The devastation is already being compared with
Pearl Harbour.
The experience should be used as a
lesson for future planning by the US security forces who must take some
blame for what happened. Of course their pride is wounded right now, but
they must not plunge the world into another catastrophic war. Whoever
started this war, why not go and pick him up quietly and try him in an open
court of justice? That is what civilisation is about, is'nt it? And
if bin Laden is the culprit, why create a monster and punish the rest of us for
your blunder? Leaders of the west should stop to think now and
accept blame for the way they have impacted on the world in the last two
thousand years instead of spinning off into their usual orgy of state
terrorism, massacaring thousands of innocent people around the
world.
May be this is the time for a
New World Order in earnest. A world devoid of hatred and racism. A
world in which we are all our brothers keepers. A world where the most
powerful and powerless have nothing to fear from each other .
By Naiwu
Osahon
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