Letter to America
A reader from New Zealand appeals to
American voters
06/23/03
Dear American's
I am writing to give you my support and encouragement in the build up
to your 2004 elections. Even though this will be your elections
and your opportunity to stand together and create regime change in
your own land, realize that millions upon millions of us are praying
for you to succeed.
We hear you are facing difficult times we are hearing that tax cuts
for the obscenely wealthy and the astronomical costs associated with
the war machine, that vast insatiable military complex, are robbing
you of much needed welfare, health care, and education. Not to
mention the jobs that are need in order to survive. Your once
proud nation has fallen from grace, and it is only you who can reclaim
it from within.
I and many others pray for you to be successful. You need to
realize that many millions of us who inhabit the globe in places you
may never have heard of, would love to vote in your elections, would
love to see a regime change in your country, for your country holds
the fate of the worlds future in its hands. Now I hate to say
it, but unfortunately your nation has become known as the most
arrogant super power the world has ever known. It has the
dubious distinction of being voted, the biggest threat to world peace
according to global opinion. By dropping more bombs, and by
consequence creating more acts of terrorism, what ever laws are
created in your absence usually find their way down here. I have
never really figured out why that should be, unless we are an
unofficial state without voting rights, but then again that's another
story…
Our world leaders are much to nice to be honest, in fact for the most
part, our various governing leaders, are very much the same, they lie
with a smile, kill with impunity and hide their accountability behind
titles of office that it seems no one can touch them, they have become
impervious to the laws that you and I are forced to be accountable to.
I hear however that you now house 2 million people in your jails, so
the legal system is working somewhere along the line, could it be the
bottom line ?
The choices your government has made in your name affect us all.
Most of you know this I am sure, some of you may not want to admit it,
and a lot of you are sticking firmly to your guns, in support of
Bush….but the facts are screaming at us to take a good look around
our world, our lives and our lifestyles. Because to me, to have
done what we have done does not bode well for a race that calls itself
humane. Something is terribly out of balance here.
Its not just the wars, it's the environmental degradation of our
world, our food source, our water, deforestation. It's the way
we consume non renewable resources, with an infantile belief in
sustainability. It's the rise in pathological disease, which now
claims our children at alarming rates, not to mention the rise in live
birth deformities, still birth and miscarriages. This will
increase with the influx of returning servicemen and women,
contaminated by DU. Hell this war is all over a non renewable,
unsustainable resource that is running out.
A race that considers itself humane, that talks of love and peace, yet
continues to allow WMD and biological agents to be created, which
enviably becomes part of the GDP; A race that incarcerates
millions of its populations while itself commits acts of terror and
treasonable violence and murder whilst violating the rights of its own
citizens, well there is no word for it really, it just has to be
stopped. All I can say is that actions speak louder than words
ever can.
The notion of weapons of mass destruction. Why are we creating
such weapons ? Do we hate and fear each other that much?
Your America is reactivating its nuclear weapons program, now what
message is that sending to the rest of the world?
When actions speak louder than words, I have to ask myself, is a race
that talks of love, yet allows WMD to be created a race that comes
from love? Or even a race that comes from its heart? Or even a race
that has any idea of what its doing. Have you gone mad over
there or what ? WAKE UP !
You and I are responsible for the world we create, and we do create
it, as surely as we allow the creation of WMD, the virus's of
biological terror, and the means in which to use them. We are
responsible even if we deny that its going on, we are responsible even
if we are not aware of what is going on, and we are responsible even
more so, knowing what is going on ..becasue this is OUR
world…..yours and mine...its not just theirs
If a country like yours, America, decides to re active its
nuclear weapons program, what can I take from that, what can the
rest of the world make of that? Is it an unrealistic mind jump
given your administrations preponderance with pre emptive strikes to
see a nuclear war over the horizon? They have already doomed
many generations of children to come with deformities from DU dust and
for many serving in both Afghanistan and Iraq to a lingering 'mystery'
illness. Just because its not you dosnt negate the pain and sorrow
others will feel.
John Lennon and many others like him sung about the power of the
people uniting together in peace and love. I believe that you as
a citizen of a country you love are just as concerned as the rest of
us, more so as it is in your name and your reputation that is being
trashed around the globe. I want you to know that I, and many
millions like me stand steadfastly in support of any changes that you
make towards ending this abuse by those currently occuping postions of
power and inlfuence in your white house.
Anger is a powerful motivator for change, and our world has been
angry, powerfully angry enough to gather together globally no
less, and march in our millions in an un precedented pre war NO war
protest !
I ask you, did we have a collective gut feeling that this war was just
an excuse to grab a sovereign nations OIL ?
Did we have a collective hunch that both the UK and the USA leaders
LIED to us about WMD. That this lie, was a fabricated burecratic
choice to conceal the oily rich and strategic land of Iraq. And that
they have done nothing BUT lie to us and continue the lies even now?
Incidentally the initials UK - USA were said to be United
to Kill Us All …by a 60 year old Iraqi man interviewed on
Demorcracynow.org in the first days of what was legally an illegal
invasion. Basically what this thread poses, is did we
intuitively know all along they were lying, and do we inherently know
now, in our deepest gut, our heart of hearts that if these PANAC
visionists remain in power, they may just take our entire world into a
nuclear Armageddon?
You have an incredible responsibility to the rest of the world to
right the wrongs done in your names and we for our part, we will
continue to stand with you in our perspective countries and do the
same as we all did together on Feb 15th when we stood united in our
millions, united in our vision for peace. Many more of us, will
endeavor to stand up to our governments and get more involved with the
day to day running of our country. Never again will we allow such
abuse of power to erode, our power and voice as a people.
Our leaders, especially Bush Sharon and Blair, are showing us
something. They are showing us a world that could be our future.
This isn't the future I want for my yet to be born grandchild, or any
child for that matter
I also know that before any change can occur one must first see the
need for that change. I believe I am not alone in feeling that
that time is now and there has been such a prolonged and consistent
abuse of power in your country that a powerful force has taken over,
that we will need the energy and support of everyone of you to stand
against them and say no more.
Healing doesn't happen in isolation, it occurs when we heal the things
that affect our health and the way the world is at the moment just
about everything we take for granted in order to live our lifestyles
is becoming a threat to our health
It is not my intention to list every thing that makes me angry about
what your government is doing in your name, but I cannot conclude this
letter if I did not mention the event that polarized and in many
cases united us all.
September 11th was a moment in time that changed our world, it was for
you a wake up call to what your government has been doing in your
name, and the consequence of those actions. Was it really a
terrorist action or was it a government plot, which would validate a
long standing conspiracy theory? Since the white house has
consistently blocked any type of open public enquiry, the answer will
probably be left to our gut feelings. Languishing, still under debate
at the turn of the next century, if we are lucky enough to have one.
Whatever it was, it shocked the world, the scope and magnitude of it
witnessed ad nausem on TV screens around the world. I have to
confess, that I and many who may not like to be so open, initially
thought, yes, payback time. I mention initially, because
when I witnessed people jumping out of windows my heart cried.
This act of terrorism either state sponsored or otherwise, changed our
world. And in the way that only human suffering and tragedy can
do, it bought us together, it briefly united us.
Many of you asked why do they hate us, you honestly had no idea, what
was being done around the world in your name, in other countries, to
other peoples lives. Some of you knew that your government has been
terrorizing many poorer nations, in your name, and have been
diligently trying to bring these facts to your consciousness so that
you also may know and help end them. Yet for the most part these
people have been labeled conspiracy theorists…..however over the
past 20 years most of the conspiracy theories I have heard have today
become fact. Fact, according to my mini Collins dictionary,
means undeniable yet, often unpleasant TRUTH. !
Thus September 11th set the stage for what has since played out.
But most importantly what it has done has enabled billions of us to
see the need for change. It has enabled us in our anger, shock and
horror, to connect with isolated groups around the entire world to
link up with a united cause in a united voice. Out of this has come
movements for social change, a unity of people from all faiths, all
races. A global movement that shows only signs of expanding.
Our worlds future is in our hands, if we leave it and do nothing, then
we are basically not taking responsibility for our world. I am
tired of watching small groups of people struggling to make the rest
of us aware of what is happening to our food; GE, to our children;
Cancers, to our education; (induction) our water; Polluted, and our
earth; (degraded) and our military complex; (out of control)
These people are dotted around the world in small groups all
working towards making changes that would benefit all of us.
They are often un supported, definitely under reported, trivialized,
terrorized and imprisoned, with reputations and credibility defamed.
All while warning of us of what lies ahead if we don't make some
changes…..red pill anyone? I
often marvel at the fact that football stadiums, or in your case
basketball stadiums can be full with as much as 35, 000 people who
often come from all over the country, and spend vast amounts to get
there. Imagine if these same people cared enough about the
things that truly affect our world and by consequence our lives,
imagine if they came and stood up for GE, for clean water, imagine if
they all voted for regime change.
Every event has a choice attached to it, and 9/11 was no different.
The US government could have taken the opportunity to make amends for
its murderous foreign polices. It could have been 'man' enough to
stand up and say that certain actions in the past, have resulted in
this tragedy. They could have began dialogue to ensure that this could
never happen again. For all their intelligence and past covert
history, should have told them that terrorism does not arise in
isolation.
The entire world will await your 2004 elections with bated breath, we
will all be rooting for you to create regime change in your own land,
for until these men are removed from power and true justice is
restored in your courts and senates, there will not be peace, rather
there will be as your president has already said, endless war.
And who I ask you wants to live in a world in perpetual war ?
except those who stand to make a profit out of it….and we are all
beginning to discover who these men are. Personally we deserve
better than this. Our children who we claim to love so much deserve a
world that has freedom and the right of expression, a world with clean
food, and natural medicine. Our children deserve to have a world
of peace not endless war. So in gods name, for gods sake
VOTE if not for yourself, then for your children. And if not for
them, then could you please caste a vote for me in your name?
Actually we should be able to vote in your elections since most of my
country is owned by American corporate interests anyway, not to
mention all the American shoot em up and kill em cop shows, along with
all the video stores filled to the brim with movies of the bloodywood
genre….our culture has become Americanized…but then that's
another story.
Best of luck
Jenese@xtra.co.nz
New Zealand
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious, but
it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is
less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly.
But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly
whispers rustling through all the alley, heard in the very halls of
government itself.
For the traitor appears no traitor he speaks in the accents
familiar to his victims and he wears their face and their garments and
he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the
night to undermine the pillars of a city. He infects the body
politic so that it can no longer resist."
(Marcus Tullius Cicero) 743 BC
