FROM: Sanjeev Bery, ACLU Organizer/Advocate, ACLU of Northern California, 1663 Mission Street, Suite 460, San Francisco, CA 94103; phone (415) 621-2493; fax (415) 255-1478
TO: Brian Willson
SENT: Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 11:08 AM
TO: Brian Willson
SENT: Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 11:08 AM
When I was a young man growing up in western New York State I had several Seneca Indian acquaintances who jokingly remarked on occasion, "White man speaks with forked tongue." They called the U.S. American flag, "Old Gory." These remarks were made with a wide smile. I would laugh as well. After all, we were acquaintances playing on opposite high school basketball teams, and all our conversations were light and friendly. Their remarks were not to be taken seriously.
As strange as it may sound, it is possible that a long overdue psychic awakening may have been catalyzed by the tragedy of September 11, 2001. Clearly, it has provided a terrifying opportunity for the U.S. imperial plutocracy to complete its ultimate global control and resources theft project. Ironically, it may also have provoked a painful wake-up process for millions of people that may contribute politically to Western civilization’s collapse and to the initiation of alternative, sustainable paradigms.
Awaiting the impending U.S. government’s concocted "preventive" war against Iraq (indeed, against the world), this is perhaps one of the most frightening moments in human history. In a surreal scenario, the U.S. government is renewing active threats of using nuclear weapons and reviving use of anti-personnel land mines, and is introducing new technological weapons of death we can only imagine, and some we cannot.