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Permission to reprint this article in its entirety, including this notice,
is granted by the author. Many
who followed the heroic stand of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen
soldier, in Crawford, Texas' Lone Star Iconoclast may have noticed
that the question Cindy repeatedly asked was one too embarrassing for
W to answer: "What is the noble cause for which our soldiers are
dying?" Conniving George couldn't answer because his "noble
cause" metaphor is an outrageously false frame coined to cover
the ugliest of facts (which are the exact opposite of anything noble):
the "cause" George paints as "noble" is a series
of vile, premeditated international crimes, the worst being an illegal
armed aggression against another nation. The
1945 Nuremberg Charter is clear: "To initiate a war of aggression...is
not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime,
differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself
the accumulated evil of the whole." At the Nuremberg trial of the
Nazi leadership, counts one and two, "conspiracy to wage aggressive
war" and "waging aggressive war," refer to "the
common plan or conspiracy." These are defined in the indictment
as "the planning, preparation, initiation and waging of wars of
aggression, which were also wars in violation of international treaties,
agreements and assurances." A
wealth of evidence is now available that George Bush, Tony Blair, and
their advisers did just that. Nazi leaders were sentenced to death
and hung for their crimes. Under U.S. law the penalty for the same crimes
is capital punishment. In the near future when the American people realize
fully what has been done to them and their country and understand the
irreparable damage they and their children have suffered at the hands
of greedy, treasonous murderers, we will witness another war crimes
trial. No
presidential pardon could ever be valid for such crimes against humanity
no matter what platitudes and false frames right wing media cook up
to defend these criminals. In
"The Epic Crime That Dares Not Speak Its Name," John Pilger
reports:
No
false frame like "noble cause" can ever blot out the infamy
of evil men pushing the planet back to the death camp days of the past.
The truth is surfacing everywhere. Metaphors,
slogans, proverbs have shaped all cultures for good or evil. In the
best historical periods inspiring verbal frames have elevated and liberated
human societies from oppression. The French Revolution followed the
outcry of a people rising against the oppression and cruelty of greedy
aristocrats: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
(liberty, equality, brotherhood). That was a noble cause, a sincere
aspiration. In dark times evil frames enslaved millions. Mussolini's
frame was: Credere, Obbedire, Combattere (believe, obey, fight).
Hitler called for German supremacy with: Deutschland über Alles.
The
deluded Bush Administration has adopted the Mussolini-Hitler pseudo
"patriotic" framing style to incite hatred of Islam as a way
to justify his invasion and control of one of the world's richest oil
regions. The sinister Orwellian aspect of right wing frames is embedded in their blatant duplicity. It is nothing new. This goes back to the invasion of native lands on this continent. "Manifest
Destiny" was the false frame that justified a chain of Native Americans
massacres. That evil frame was concocted by hypocrites like the present
Republicans to make satanic genocide of native tribes appear as an act
of Divine Will. A transparently deceiving frame was created by the Bush mob to pay back coal and oil industries' campaign cash bribes. This frame hides the illicit licensing of more poisonous pollution, allowing a brutal gradual repeal of our clean air and clean water legislation. It is purposely misnamed the "Clear Skies Initiative." More than 300,000 Americans a year die victims of air pollution, 100 times the number who died on 9/11. Instead
of being punished or held responsible, the corporate killers of these
people are rewarded with tax cuts. The pollution costs of production
-- instead of coming out of their burgeoning corporate profits -- are
paid by the American people in this land of "freedom and justice
for all…billionaires!" It
takes brass-faced impudence for conservatives to voice one of their
most hypocritical frames: "Leave No Child Behind!" One wonders
how criminally negligent right wingers dare to utter this grotesque
misrepresentation when millions of children are left in desperate poverty
behind the smoke screen of corporate media blackout. "Leave no
child behind?!" What atrocious crap! That frame really means: "cast
poor and black kids aside...let them starve or drown" or in Bennett's
evil words: "Let them be aborted." The Katrina tragedy was a wake up call, a bolt of lightning in the darkness of conservative egotism, evidencing again that Truth, in the end, will always be revealed. That
irrefragable law liars never learn. It came home to conservative America
with the shocking power of a hurricane. With Katrina, facts of widespread
poverty, hunger, the uncared for sick in the richest country on earth
were suddenly out in the open. The tempest of wind and tides aggravated
by the Bush cabals' long suppression of global warming science was a
preview of coming attractions. The Administration's choice to ignore
predictions of a potential New Orleans disaster in favor repaying campaign
finance bribery with tax cuts left thousands of our citizens unprotected.
"Let them pull themselves up by the boot-straps!" "Let
Jesus come walking on water again and save them!" So the poor were
abandoned and died. Meanwhile, America's criminally negligent leadership was out playing golf, shopping for expensive shoes strumming an acoustic guitar, imitating Nero while Rome burned. Now
our low life politicians are busy playing the "pass the White House
buck" blame-game. So much for "homeland security" farce
with its bison-dung color coded alerts. The Taliban are laughing themselves
silly at the Robinson, Falwell, Dobson failure of prayer. The christianoids
couldn't keep their psychotic God from devastating their holier-than-thou
red states. They better go back to Sunday school. Osama
is singing, "Come get me dead or alive! Bring them on, buster-Bush!" The
storm exposed facts so overwhelming that corporate media bordellos faced
in house revolts of pundit-whores who, for a few days, recovered their
journalistic principles, shocked enough to protest. But that fresh air
of honest reporting did not last long. Now the media pimps and harlots
have been whipped back into their dungeons, tied down with even thicker
chains and ordered to avoid the glaring images of a country ruled by
treasonous liars like George Bush, Tom Delay, Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby,
Karl Rove, Condi Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and the rest of the cow-dung-patch
mob. Republicans
do not want body counts on TV. That would upset advertisers. How can
you sell cars or diapers after seeing dead bodies floating in the streets
or after watching flag wrapped caskets bringing home the body parts
of young Americans? Definitely not good for Halliburton's bottomline.
On
the political left the stagnant pool stinks a little less than the right
wing sewer. A pathetic bunch of blindfolded donkeys has been intimidated
by the loud trumpeting of elephant trunks, broadcasting endlessly deceiving
verbal frames. And the Greedy Oppressive Pachyderms the (GOP) have been
winning because Democrats are not even trying to be a real opposition
party. The intimidated donkeys forgot that they were once the people's
party. If they don't fight back, they may soon be extinct, leaving Democracy
crushed under the iron boot of a coming neo-fascist dictatorship. Now
the remedy. If you haven't read the explosive best-selling little book
published by a brave independent publisher Chelsea Green from the best-run
state of Vermont, you should get a copy ASAP to protect yourself and
the future of your kids. George Lakoff's, Don't Think of an Elephant:
Know Your Values and Frame the Debate, exposes the 30-year-long
conservative linguistic-fraud that cost us our country and freedom. A
Fellini-style film now in production -- DEFLATING THE ELEPHANT: The
Art and Science of Framing -- based on Lakoff's ideas, will show people
how to deflate rogue elephants in a short time. Find out how to effect
immediate change through the power of language at: http://www.communication-evolution.org Here
is a frightening example of the power of words every American should
hear about. On
September 9, 2005, only a month after Katrina's blow, the U.S. Fourth
Circuit Court of Appeals struck an even more devastating blow to America
by illegally overturning a lower court's ruling that denied the President
the authority to indefinitely detain any U.S. citizen without due process,
thereby abolishing the most fundamental principles of our Constitution.
This ruling set a staggering precedent for absolute executive power
over citizens. No American citizen can let this outrageous, treasonous
ruling stand unchallenged. The Germans made this mistake with Hitler.
Let us not repeat it! Our
Constitution states: "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion
the public Safety may require it." Is there a rebellion? Not yet.
Have we been invaded? No. We are the invaders. This Administration is
in rebellion against our Constitution. There
can be no democracy without due process of law and a presumption of
innocence. The
Fifth Amendment guarantees due process: "No person shall be...
deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." The
Fourteenth Amendment contains the same guarantee. Unless
we impose an absolute restoration of our Constitution and punish those
who have betrayed their oath to defend it, we are no longer the land
of the free. In
the words of a real patriot, Mike Whitney:
The
problem is that most Americans are not well informed and don’t
know that their democracy is being methodically stolen from under them.
To change this is our most urgent task. Let
all be aware that by spreading false frames that incite public fear
like “war on terror,” immoral media corporations, driven by
evil men, have intimidated our representatives into passing legislation
that violates the Constitution and our civil rights, like the maleficent
“Patriot” Act. That vile, repugnant law never stopped a single
act of terror: it just took away our liberty. False terror frames and
outright lies swindled us into an illegal war that increased terror
all over the world, made the plundering of our treasury possible, and
sanctioned the pirating of a sovereign nation’s oil wealth. All
this evil was done by persistently using the power of verbal frames
that demean traditional American values, values that have always been
progressive. The repetition of false words through the vehicle of mass
media allowed evil men to confiscate and distort the image of one of
the most liberal and progressive teachers of all time: Jesus of Nazareth.
They turned him into a grotesque supporter of oppression, assassinations,
and ugly fanatical cults. To
survive this onslaught of poison, we must fully understand the awesome
power of human language. Language can incite violence, start wars, and
prevent us from resisting the destruction of our country. On the other
hand, if we realize the magic of words, we can liberate ourselves from
deceit. We must transmit to our young the liberal and progressive ideas
we inherited from great Americans like Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln,
Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, and others. DEFLATING
THE ELEPHANT will illustrate the science of framing so it is easy for
people to use. We must deflate the rogue elephants or be crushed by
them. Any person exposed to this coming film will become immune to political
hogwash. The liars who dragged America in the right wing cesspool of
corruption and pollution will find it impossible to deceive people who
learn how to see through the transparent dishonesty of neo-con fascists.
The Fitzgerald investigation is another proof that sooner or later the
truth must be revealed. Tell
your friends to contact the production team of DEFLATING THE ELEPHANT
at uneco@uneco.org or by calling
831-454-9191 to contribute their verbal bow and arrows. Join the rogue
elephant hunt so together we can take back our country peacefully and
with some deserved fun. Let's get started.
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