by StarmanSkye » Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:12 pm
Re: Referring refuseniks for psychiatric care, treating conscientious objection to the institutionalization of war as a mental illness - Cripes, yet another sign of the outstanding lunacy of our times.<br><br>It's hardly just coincidence that Israel and its ideological/political/military ally US have pursued policies and practices that are completely at-odds with their stated high ideals, solidarity with the principles of justice, human rights, freedom, legitimate and accountable and transparent democratic government reflecting the interests of their public -- the deviation in both instances has become grotesque -- as the US has followed the horrific path of aligning with repressive right-wing regimes employing terror and arbitrary violence under the pretext of defending against communism -- as IF American style democracy were such a frail, delicate, weak institution that it needed to be protected by any and all means including practices and policies that are repugnant to all decent people and contrary to civilized values and in opposition to domestic and international law -- as happened throughout the Cold War and which the US quickly adapted to replacement with War on Terror.<br><br>The intimate partnership between the US and Israel encourages each other's most perverted delusions and psychoses. In the case of Israel, the state refuses to see that its refuseniks are among its most valuable natural resources -- individuals with the rare talent of clear-thinking and principled beliefs with the courage of their convictions embracing another more creative, constructive and forward-thinking way of dealing with conflict.<br><br>It's so heartbreaking and frustrating to see the extent that both Israeli and American society are under the influence of dangerous, destructive and self-indulgent interests with their poisonous, hateful ideas, emphasizing violence as a 'solution' to injustice and decades of wrong-headed, disasterous policies. Both America and Israel are cursed with corrupt, criminal and essentially illegitimate, pig-headed leadership that have repudiated and defiled the very best that each nation once stood for -- though arguably, both America and Israel were founded on contradictions and lies that underscored the biggest challenge for each state to reconcile and surmount -- unfortunately it is now evident that each state failed in this abominably -- seemingly focusing on external dangers and often on wildly exaggerated or contrived and even manufactured 'threats' to deflect and divert the necessary task of brutally-honest self-reflection and acknowledgement of its horrific faults and crimes -- there hasn't been an accounting for grevious mistakes made, in fact it seems we are incapable of electing leadership that is interested in acquiring wisdom and maturity -- as in the US's unwillingness to admit the horrific mistake it made in interfering in Middle East politics and conspiring to bring Saddam Hussein into power -- the blood and sorrow and guilt for a legacy of fatally flawed policies has never yet been acknowledged -- Such cowardly lack of honesty deserves nothing but our contempt <br>-- as it has directly led to our present crisis of failed leadership and psychotic belief that militarism will bring peace.<br><br><br>Re: political asylum -- wouldn't Sweden, Holland, Venezuala or Cuba be a *bit* more ideologically-appropriate venues as refuge for conscientious objectors from both the US and Israel? (Although I've been giving thought to the possibility of moving to Canada simply as the most practical and efficient compromise towards reconciling the contempt and outrage I feel at the betrayal of the nation by the vile criminals who have seized power).<br><br>Starman <p></p><i></i>
