-Caveat Lector- I have been exchanging email with a guy who really likes Bush and believes the weapons of mass destruction will be found just any time now. (Who knows....perhaps some will). Anyway, Mark said that if the weapons are found, then I will have a lot of "egg on my face". This is my response to him and I hope you will find it worthwhile. Nakano ------------------------------------------------------- Mark, About the "egg on the face"…no problem. Believe it or not, I often hope I am wrong…and this is one of those times. There is no satisfaction in "being right" about serious things which are harmful to our country. So if I'm wrong about these things, I'll gladly take egg on my face. Over the last 30 years, I have investigated many things. Often I have found dark disturbing information which I did not want to believe.... and I accepted it only when the supporting evidence was too much to deny.
The focus of the moment is this question of weapons President Bush said Iraq had and which haven't been found and whether we were misled into war. It's an important question, but regardless of what is found, or not found, regardless of how this turns out....this is just one small part of something much larger and far more important to the future of our country and the world. For me, there are too many troubling unanswered questions about the attacks of 9-11 and the "war on terror". There are too many troubling questions about many of the ways our government has (and hasn't) responded since those attacks. There are too many disturbing signs that what is really taking place right now is the destruction of our Constitution nd the creation of what George Bush Sr. openly called a "new world order". My allegiance is to "one nation"...the United States of America, and not to any World Government or international authority. I believe in the principle of "national Sovereignty". What does "national Sovereignty" mean? It means "the international independence of a state, combined with the right and power of regulating its internal affairs without foreign dictation. It means a state's lawful control over its territory and the authority to govern within that territory." (Def. Black's Law) I agree with the United State's Declaration of Independence - "That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States…and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do." I hope that you agree with this, and I think you do. Perhaps you just haven't thought it through. What we are seeing now is the erosion and destruction of the principle of the Sovereignty of Nations. You think not? What other conclusion is there when you see an International Authority dictating its will on countries and imposing it's rules upon them? What other conclusion is there when a U.S. President tells the leader of another country that he has "48 hours" to get out of his own country? This same President has told two other "Sovereign Countries" that he "will not tolerate" them developing certain weapons, when their enemies and many other countries already possess these weapons. By what authority does George Bush issue these ultimatums? He has no such authority except the ancient principle that "might makes right". Bush is saying: "We have the military power to dictate these terms and we are gonna do it. To hell with the Sovereignty of these countries." Bush's Dad did exactly the same thing when he sent the U.S. military to invade Panama and capture Manuel Noriega. They brought Noriega back to the U.S. and put him on trial in an American courtroom. By what authority did he do this? Under what law? MIGHT MAKES RIGHT. No other authority than that. It was totally unlawful. Imagine how the American People would react (or at least should react)if another country sent an armed force into the U.S., killed 5,000 or so Americans, captured our President…took him back to their country and put him on trial and then put him in prison! Would we feel that our National Sovereignty had been violated? It's had to imagine a more flagrant violation. And so for the past 10 years there has been this precedent where an International authority (the U.N.) had told a Sovereign Country that it is forbidden to fly aircraft in the skies over it's own territory. ("no fly zones") There have been numerous UN "peacekeeping" missions in which International military forces have invaded "Sovereign Countries". Each time the U.S. provides most of the military force. And you may say "yes, but the cause was just…we did it to save lives and end tyranny" etc. But the overall effect of all these violations of Sovereignty has been to establish the principle that international authority supercedes and takes precedence over the Sovereignty of Nations. The Sovereignty of ANY NATION…..INCLUDING OURS! Think not? Then why have two U.S. Presidents (both named Bush) sought the approval of the United Nations to go to war and violated the Constitutional Requirement to obtain a Declaration of War from Congress? Bush Sr. flagrantly violated his oath to uphold the Constitution when he openly stated he "didn't need the approval of Congress" to go to war against Iraq. The United States has fought many wars is the past sixty years. Every single one of these has been an unlawful war . Every one has been unconstitutional. The last time Congress declared war was in 1941. Since then, we have been fighting UN approved wars. And the great majority of Americans think all of this is just fine. And no wonder - they were educated in government indoctrination centers called public schools that never taught them much of anything about the Constitution and the principles upon which it is founded and which it embraces. So they don't care when Presidents use it for toilet paper. And just in case you think I am imagining all of this. President George Bush Sr. spelled it out plain and simple for all the world to hear. "The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times; a new world order can emerge. My vision of a new world order foresees a United Nations with a revitalized Peacekeeping function. It is the SACRED principles enshrined in the UN charter to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance." --February 1, 1992 speech to the UN General Assembly With these words, President George Herbert Walker Bush identified himself s a traitor to the United States of America. As for me, I will do all that I can to uphold and protect our Constitutional Republic. I have never pledged any allegiance to the UN Charter and I owe none. I will do what little I can to alert and inform my fellow countrymen. Perhaps I may yet find a few who's minds are not closed to the truth. Nakano __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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