Refuse to Fight Imperial War
by Great Orion Voyager  © 2009
thorkorps


REFUSE TO FIGHT IMPERIAL WAR:
Dropping cluster bombs on villages is criminal insanity.  Refuse to kill your brothers in the Class War.  War is always Class War:  Worker Class versus Property Class.   Workers die in battle to enrich Property Class War Profiteers whose own kids never join the military.  There is no War on Terror.  WAR IS TERROR.

THE WAR OF TERROR IS CLASS WAR:
George Orwell described it in 1984 as war without end, a secret war where reporters are not allowed to report battles, no one knows how many get killed, teenagers get drafted and disappear without a trace.  Neocons have been looking for a new enemy since the Soviet Union.  Now they found the perfect enemy:  Faceless stateless poor folk.

NEOCONS WANT WAR WITHOUT END: 
Neocons do not intend to win anything.  The War of Terror can never be won.  Victory can never be declared.  The War of Terror is designed to last forever to maximize war profiteering and crony contractor corruption.  

George Orwell says, “The object of torture is torture.”  Neocons want to torture prisoners to ensure future generations of terrorists.  There is a natural tendency for guards to torture prisoners unless strictly prohibited.  Torture does not work.  When prisoners are beaten and tortured, they give false information just to make the beating stop.  American patrols are clueless and mistake civilians as "bad guys."  Teenagers go into Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo innocent civilians, but leave as terrorists—as intended.

Neocons are using an American Prison Gulag to arrest and torture and disappear countless foreign and domestic protestors, dissidents, freedom fighters, any threat to the Property Class.  Neocons are using an American Imperial Army to invade and occupy foreign nations to steal oil and resources, impose Totalitarian Theocracy, and transform all workers into slaves— a return to American Plantation Slavery led once again by Southern Christian Crackers.  Southern Christian Crackers, bloodthirsty mercenaries, gun-crazed deer hunters, are happy to murder Muslims in a New Holy Crusade.  Arrest every former member of the Criminal Bush Administration, send them to the World Court in The Hague, find them guilty of War Crimes Against Humanity, and behead them with scimitars broadcast live on Al Jazeera.

AMERICA ALREADY LOST THE IRAQ WAR AND THE WAR OF TERROR: American patrols gun down anything that moves. They call it “lighting up bad guys,” even if some “bad guys” are innocent little girls— oh that’s “collateral damage.”    You cannot shoot and bomb and torture civilians and expect to win anything.  LACK OF BATTLE OBJECTIVES VIOLATES EVERY TENET OF BATTLE DOCTRINE:  General Patton could see it instantly:  When you have no battle objective, when your only plan is to drive around crowded cities provoking attacks, you will lose.  WHEN YOU SHOOT AND BOMB AND TORTURE CIVILIANS, YOU LOSE HEARTS AND MINDS, YOU ALREADY LOST.

YOUR ENEMY ARE NOT FOREIGN TEENAGERS: 
YOUR ENEMY ARE MILLIONAIRE WARMONGERS WHO FORCE YOU TO KILL AND DIE SO THEY CAN STEAL FOREIGN OIL AND RESOURCES.  ONLY BAD GUYS ARE MILLIONAIRE WARMONGER BAD GUYS:  Light them up.   Send them to hell.    Be strong.  Do the Right Thing.  Refuse to fight.  Get a court martial and do years in prison.   Henry David Thoreau said that in a nation of pigs, “the only place for a just man is a prison.”   HONOR our sacred role models strong enough to do years in prison:  Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mohammed Ali, Nelson Mandela.  DUTY.  HONOR.  COURAGE.  SEMPER FI.

GET RID OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS:
Threatening to nuke any population is criminal insanity. All nations especially America must get rid of all nuclear weapons immediately.  DECREASE MILITARY SPENDING: The Missile Defense Shield is blatant theft of billions of your tax dollars to deliberately provoke a new Cold War, and must be shut down. BAN CLUSTER BOMBS AND LAND MINES:  American cluster bombs and land mines are tools of terror, and weapons contractors who produce and sell such terror must be convicted of war crimes.  BAN INTERNATIONAL ARMS SALES:   It is time to WAGE PEACE.

GIVE THE AMERICAN MILITARY TO THE UNITED NATIONS: 
The US Military should be given to UN to serve as UN Peacekeepers providing relief and medical aid throughout the world.   Imagine the world’s most hated superpower as the world’s most beloved agent for freedom, democracy, human rights, relief and medical care.  Imagine the US Military finally earning its pay, saving lives instead of murdering them, doing good instead of evil….  Imagine.







Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” 1848
"This American government:  It does not keep the country free.  It does not settle the West.  It does not educate.  The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished, and we would have done somewhat more if the government had not got in our way.   I believe we should be men first, and subjects afterward.  It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as respect for the right:  Law never made men one whit more just....  

“See a file of soldiers marching over hill and dale off to the wars, against their common sense and conscience, which makes it very steep marching indeed.  They have no doubt it is a damnable business.  Now what are they?  Men at all?  Visit the Navy Yard and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make with its black arts, a mere shadow of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, yet already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniment.... 

“I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave's government also.  There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; who, esteeming themselves children of Washington and Franklin and Jefferson, sit down with their hands in their pockets and say they don’t know what to do, and do nothing.   At most, they give only a cheap vote.   Moreover, any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.... 

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison:   It is there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexican on parole, and the Indian come to plead the wrongs of his race should find them, on that separate but more free and honorable ground, the only house in a Slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.... 

"Some years ago, the State commanded me to pay a certain sum toward the support of a clergyman:  'Pay,’ it said, ‘or be locked up in jail.'  I declined to pay.  I condescended to make some such statement as this in writing:  'Know by all ye men present that I, Henry Thoreau, do not wish to be regarded as a member of any society that I have not joined.'  This I gave to the town clerk, and he has it.  The State, having thus learned that I did not wish to be regarded as a member of any church, has never made a like demand on me since.... 

"I have paid no poll tax for six years.  I was put into jail once on this account, for one night, and as I stood there considering the walls of solid stone two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron a foot thick, and the iron grating straining the light, I was struck by the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones to be locked up.  I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of mortar and stone.  As the State could not reach me, it had resolved to punish my body, just as boys, if they cannot come against some man whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog.  I saw that the State was half-witted, and lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it....

"The authority of government must have the sanction and consent of the governed.  It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.  The progress from an absolute monarchy to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is progress toward true respect for the individual.  There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as the higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.   A State which bore this kind of fruit would pave the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which I have also imagined, but not yet anywhere seen."









Cindy Sheehan, January 2007
"I am tired of warmongers making war with our children.  I am tired of our tired troops being sent over to do the dirty work for mob bosses who are going to squeeze the life out of Iraq and not leave until every asset and resource has been raped from the country.  I am tired of seeing Iraqis burying their loved ones and hearing the screams of mothers all over our own country who are being destroyed for the benefit of a very few.  You tell me the truth.  You tell me my son died for oil.  You tell me my son died to make your friends rich.  You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East.  You tell me that.  You don't tell me my son died for freedom and democracy.  You get America out of Iraq.  You get Israel out of Palestine.  Our country has been taken over by murderous thugs, gangsters who lust after fortunes and power. The US is now ruled by murderous criminals who should be arrested!"




Mike Malloy, 2006
“Republicans are just vile.  All Republicans are liars, cheats, sneaks.  They are immoral; they have no ethical structure.  I don't care if they're members of Congress or your momma.  If they are Republican, they are thugs.  They support mass murder.  They support the destruction of this country.   The Bush Crime Family is deep in blood, blood, blood.  You sons of bitches.  I just hate you.  I hate you to the depths of my soul.   I will hate you a million years after I am dead.  My hatred will be a star in the firmament that will shine down on your Republican asses forever.  That's how deep my hatred is, because of what you are doing to my country."





Hunter Thompson, KINGDOM OF FEAR, 2004
“The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb.  It is the beginning of the end of the world as we know it.   Doom is the operative ethic.  We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully.  We are not just Whores for oil and power, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts.  We are human scum, and that is how history shall judge us.  No redeeming social value.  Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you.  Who can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands?  Who are these swine?  These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush, they are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks.  They speak to all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character.”




Noam Chomsky, KUOW Seattle, April 2005
"The Bush Administration do have moral values.  Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and powerful, kick everybody else in the face, and make your grandchildren pay for it all.  That simple principle predicts almost everything that's happening now."




Hugo Chavez, World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 2005
"When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.  The attacks on Venezuela are a sign of weakness, ideological weakness.  Nowadays almost nobody defends neoliberalism.  Up until three years ago, just Fidel Castro and I raised these criticisms at Presidential meetings.  We felt lonely, as if we infiltrated those meetings.  Just look at the internal repression inside the United States, the Patriot Act, which is a repressive law against US citizens.  They put into jail a group of journalists for not revealing their sources.  They won't allow them to take pictures of the dead soldiers coming home from Iraq, many of them Latinos.  Those are signs of Goliath's weaknesses.  The south also exists.  The future of the north depends on the south.  If we don’t make that better world possible, if we fail, and through the rifles of the US Marines, and through Mr. Bush's murderous bombs, if there is no south to resist the offensive of neo-imperialism, and the Bush doctrine is imposed upon the world, the world shall be destroyed.  Every day I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind: It is necessary to transcend capitalism.  But capitalism cannot be transcended from itself, but only through socialism, true socialism, with equality and justice.  I’m convinced it is possible to do in a democracy, but not in the type of democracy imposed from Washington.  We have to re-invent socialism:  It cannot be the kind of socialism we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems built on cooperation, not competition.  Privatization is a neoliberal imperialist plan.  Healthcare cannot be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity, other essential public services.  They cannot be surrendered to private capital that denies the people of their rights!"






“Did did did did you see the frightened ones,
did did did did you see the falling bombs,
did did did did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter
when the promise of a Brave New World
unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?
The flames are all long gone but the pain lingers on….
Goodbye blue sky, goodbye blue sky, goodbye, goodbye.”
Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, “Goodbye Blue Sky”






Malcolm X, January 1965, MALCOLM X SPEAKS, edited by George Breitman, p. 217
“You put the government on the spot when you even mention Vietnam.  They feel embarrassed.  It's just a trap they let themselves get into.  But they're trapped, they can't get out. You notice I said 'they.'  THEY are trapped, THEY can't get out.  If they pour more men in, they'll get deeper.  If they pull men out, it's a defeat.  And they should have known that in the first place.  France had about 200,000 Frenchmen over there, the most highly mechanized modern army sitting on this earth.  And those little rice farmers ate them up, and their tanks, and everything else.  Yes they did, and France was deeply entrenched, had been there a hundred years. Now, if she couldn't stay there and was entrenched, why, you are out of your mind if you think Sam can.   But we're not supposed to say that.  They put Diem over there.  Diem took all their money, all their war equipment and everything else, and got them trapped.  Then they killed him.  Yes, they killed him, murdered him in cold blood, him and his brother, Madame Nhu's husband, because they were embarrassed.  They had made him strong and he was turning against them.  You know, when the puppet starts talking back to the puppeteer, the puppeteer is in bad shape.”




Martin Luther King, New York City, April 1967
"This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.  I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.  We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.  When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.  Over the past two years, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path:  Why are you speaking about Vietnam, Dr. King?   I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me.   Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live."







Hunter Thompson, "September,"
FEAR AND LOATHING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL '72

“If current polls are reliable, Nixon will be re-elected by a huge majority of Americans who feel he is not only more honest and trustworthy than George McGovern, but also more likely to end the war in Vietnam.  The polls also indicate Nixon will get a comfortable majority of the Youth Vote.  And that he might carry all fifty states….  This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it— that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.  The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon.  McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose....  Jesus!  Where will it end?  How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?”



Hunter Thompson, "November,"
FEAR AND LOATHING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL '72

“It was eerie, you'd walk out of the press room, through the lobby out of the elevators, into the bar....  There'd be a huge crowd in the lobby and only one person talking and you'd hear this voice saying, 'The mood at McGovern headquarters is extremely solemn and shocked, one of shock and depression right now.  Illinois has just fallen, California is gone, New York is gone...' They'd read this list of disasters and you knew their faces and what they were saying was on TV screens all over the country.  It was like a televised funeral.... I was feeling depressed.... And John Holum came in. I could see that he'd been crying, and he's not the kind of person you'd expect to see walking around in public with tears all over his face....  That was the only time McGovern cracked.  For about a minute he broke down and… and… and couldn't talk for a few minutes. Then he got himself together.  He was actually the coolest person in the place from then on.  Other people were cracking all around…. Stunned, wall-eyed.  There was nothing to say, just a helluva shock… a fantastic beating….  I remember when Agnew came on, throwing something at the television set.  It was a beer can….  That was the last flight of the Dakota Queen and also last flight of the Zoo Plane.  It was the trip back to Washington from Sioux Falls, which borders on one of the worst trips I've ever taken in my life....  Jesus Christ, it was easily the worst scene of the campaign....  There was something… total… something very undermining about the McGovern defeat....  There was a very unexplained kind of… ominous quality to it… weeping chaos.  People you'd never expect to break down stumbled off the plane in tears….  It was such a shock to me that although I'd gone back to Washington to analyze, I saw how ripped up people were….  I decided to hell with this….  So I just went right around to the main terminal and got on another plane and went back to Colorado.”