The writer is one of a set of US lefties Allan. The best of them is a guy called Steve Fraser. Thought you should know more people are up to sig line writing somewhat more puffed up than yours.
Hard to describe our house a veggie with two dogs and a cat, but we don't eat much meat. Not really much use as commandments are they? On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 9:42:24 AM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: > > Can you write down verbatim what was said.. or is the writer pointing > fingers at everyone else? > I am not saying what is said is wrong.. it is mostly lip flapping. > Pointing mostly at government activities.. there is one small flaw there > he is the government becoming guilty as he charges others.. > For got his lip flapping already > > تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين > Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others > > -----Original Message----- > From: archytas <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 6:22 AM > Subject: Mind's Eye Ten Commandments For Modern Americans > > *1. Thou shalt not torture:* Torture of every horrific sort in these > years seems to have beenremarkably ineffective > <http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/cia-torture-report/senate-report-finds-cia-interrogation-tactics-were-ineffective-n264621> > in > producing useful information for the state. Even if it were proved > effective > <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/opinion/sunday/did-the-torture-report-give-the-cia-a-bum-rap.html> > in > breaking up al-Qaeda plots, however, it would still have been both a > desperately illegal (if unpunished > <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/us/holder-rules-out-prosecutions-in-cia-interrogations.html>) > > act and a foreign policy disaster of the first order. > > *2. Thou shalt not send drones to assassinate anyone, American or not:* The > ongoing U.S. drone assassination campaigns > <http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175936/tomgram%3A_engelhardt,_the_national_security_state_%22works,%22_even_if_nothing_it_does_works/>, > > while killing individual terrorists, have driven significant numbers of > people in the backlands of the planet into the arms of terror outfits and > so only increased their size and appeal. Without a doubt, such drone > strikes represent a global war of, not on, terror. In the process, they > have turned the president into our assassin-in-chief > <http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175551/> and us into an assassin nation. > > *3. Thou shalt not invade another country:* D'oh! > > *4. Thou shalt not occupy another country:* By the way, how did that work > out the last two times the U.S. tried it? > > *5. Thou shalt not upgrade thy nuclear arsenal:* The U.S. has now > committed itself to atrillion-dollar > <http://thediplomat.com/2014/01/us-to-spend-1-trillion-on-nukes/>, > decades-long upgrade of its vast arsenal. If any significant portion of it > were ever used, it would end human life as we know it on this planet and so > should be considered a singular prospective crime against humanity. After > years in which the only American nuclear focus was on a country -- Iran -- > with no nuclear weapons, that this has happened without serious debate > <http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175933/tomgram%3A_james_carroll,_the_pentagon_as_president_obama%27s_great_white_whale/> > or > discussion is in itself criminal. > > *6.* *Thou shalt not intercept the communications of thy citizens or > others all over the world or pursue the elaboration of a global > surveillance state based on criminal acts*: There seems to be no place > <https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/> the NSA > has been unwilling to break into in order to surveil the planet. For > unimaginable > reams <http://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/> of information > that have seemingly been of next to no > <http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175901/tomgram%3A_engelhardt,_entering_the_intelligence_labyrinth/> > actual > use, the NSA and the national security state have essentially outlawed > privacy and cracked open various amendments to the Constitution. No > information is worth such a price. > > *7. Thou shalt not be free of punishment for crimes of state:* In these > years of genuine criminality, official Washington has become a crime-free > zone > <http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175833/tomgram%3A_engelhardt,_knowledge_is_crime/>. > > No matter the seriousness of the act, none -- not one committed in the name > of the state in the post-9/11 era, no matter how heinous -- has been > brought into a courtroom. > > *8. Thou shalt not use a massive system of secret classification to > deprive Americans of all real knowledge of acts of state:* In 2011, the > U.S. classified 92 million documents > <http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175570/tomgram%3A_engelhardt,_the_national_security_complex_and_you/> > and > the shroud of secrecy over the business of the “people’s” government has > only grown worse in the years since. Increasingly, for our own “safety” we > are only supposed to know what the government prefers us to know. This > represents, of course, a crime against democracy. > > *9. Thou shalt not act punitively toward those who want to let Americans > in on what the national security state is doing in their name:* The fierce > <https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/18/destroyed-by-the-espionage-act/> > and draconian > <http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175500/tomgram%3A_peter_van_buren,_in_washington,_fear_the_silence,_not_the_noise/> > campaign > the Obama administration has launched against leakers and whistleblowers is > unprecedented in our history. It is a growing challenge > <http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175856/tomgram%3A_peter_van_buren,_rip,_the_bill_of_rights/> > to > freedom of the press and to the citizen’s right to know. > > *10. Thou shalt not infringe on the rights of the citizenry to life, > liberty, and the pursuit of happiness:* Need I even explain? > > > Tom Englehart > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
