As a veteran of almost ten years in the Navy, I was going to ask you not to attend the AIPAC meeting that was once again held at the Mittleman Jewish Center. As one of your constituents I was going to ask you not to send a representative to this abomination of our political system. As a grandfather and one of the protesters I spent my Sunday outside telling all who went in that they should be ashamed of supporting an organization that believes that Israel can do anything. You and the rest of the Congress will support AIPAC and the government of Israel even when they support murder. My message to you is simple,
**F..K YOU CONGRESSMAN.
There is a legend in the deep part of Ireland that says you will face all your sins someday, know how many people you helped to murder, maim or just terrorize. You sir, are guilty of supporting an organization that believes in the corruption of our congress to the tune of 60-70 million dollars per year. Those funds support the murder of women and children in Gaza. AIPAC says the blockade of Gaza is necessary for the protection of Israel; this is a lie and you as my congressional representative cause me great pain. My understanding is that you snuck into this year's fundraiser and made a statement that the 70-90 protesters outside of the center were just cranky human beings who should spend their time doing other things.
Someday the people of the 3rd District will wake up and understand you support wars, have voted for the funding of wars and occupations, and will do it again and again because you have 60-70% of the people fooled into thinking you are a progressive. When the people realize you became a multimillionaire during your tenure while voting for some of the worst trade deals in our history, they will vote you out of office.
Over a year ago I asked you to go on record that you would fight tooth and nail against any more offshore drilling and you said no. How about now, watch as the Gulf coast is destroyed by the British Petroleum Corporation that likes to call itself BP, "Beyond Petroleum."
I may not be here to see it, but your days are numbered as our representative. People will wake up and realize that you are corrupt and will say anything to keep your job.
I hope you sue me for slander, seems like there is enough in this rant for you to do that---come on!
** I dislike using the word "F..k" but sometimes it is the only word that fits.
I just received this e-mail from a friend and brother veteran and want to share it here.
source:
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april302010/splc-tk.php
Tim King & Nahida Izzat Salem-News.com
You don't fight racism by only backing certain teams.
Special thanks to friend of Salem-News.com Carloss Latuff in Rio de Janeiro, for the authorized use of another of his incredible images
(SALEM / LONDON) - The Southern
Poverty Law Center may be as racist as anything else in the deep south. It hit
me like a ton of bricks when I finally took the time to visit their Website
today to investigate these allegations I have been hearing, about how they will
not say a word against Israel's extremely inhumane treatment of the
Palestinian people.
I'm a little vague in my overall understanding, I admit that. There were a few
things to confirm that they acknowledge the importance of protecting people of
Arab descent, but if you enter the word 'Gaza' into their Website, and this is
what you get in return:
"Minuteman fence modeled on West Bank, Gaza barriers".
What?
So I thought, let's just do a general search and enter the one word in the
world that is synonymous with genocide: 'Palestine'.
I was not ready to see that this anti-racism site would come up empty for such
a query. No site with these claims could possibly overlook the hundreds
of murdered children in Gaza, that is unless they were another American
fantasy, another national disgrace, one more ruse in red, white and blue.
I have always thought a great deal of this group, hearing their stories of
championing the rights of black people and Jewish people in the country's
southern states, but as I increasingly become aware of the constant daily
suffering of the Palestinians, I learn that they are still a cog in the wheel
of racism. Really it is worse than that, as SPLC is little more than a
pro-Israel political operation.
It seems as though every other word on their pages is 'anti-Semitism' and it is
a serious boy who cried wolf scenario. Our team of writers
including the acclaimed Maidhc Cathail in Japan, along with distinguished
Professors, Dr. Alan Sabrosky and Dr. Paul Balles in the U.S., Award-winning
international Writer Alan Hart in London, and noted Author/Attorney Jeff Gates,
took the time to explore the mystery of Zionism in a special
Salem-News.com series[1][2][3][4].
I don't have any regret or moral questions about calling the plight of the
modern day Palestinians a tragedy and genocide in the making. It evolves from
an attitude, and from hatred toward the Arab people. This hate is extreme and
widespread in Israel, and always described as "defensive" when in
fact it is rarely that. Everyone in Israel is not this way, many are fighting
the racism from within, but it is all tied to that theory that a chosen few get
every square inch of land. That is Zionism, and it is used as an excuse for
murder, with the bloody hands of America loading the guns.
I don't think this attempt to eliminate an entire culture is wrong, I know
it is wrong. But watch, these morons will come along every time any of
us criticize the Israeli government and call us "anti-Semites". Then,
you turn around and read about someone like David Duke, and you are seeing the
real personification of what they mean with that term anti-Semitic.
If I was standing near David Duke and not on somebody's clock as a reporter,
I'd be tempted drop kick him to the floor Marine Corps style. That's because I hate
Nazi's and fascists and the people who toss hate like confetti at a birthday
party[5]. But I will inevitably be called anti-Semitic and a Nazi
and everything else at one time or another for the criticism of Israel's
military abuse of Palestinians.
People supposedly fighting racism better figure it out or hang their hat and
retire. I think I have more of a problem with a veiled support of racism than I
do a direct one. That's like using religion falsely, very very wrong by any
standard or measurement.
Some Good Energy
I detect a degree of confusion in the ranks of the SPLC as well. If you
look around, you see things like a slam against the anti-Arab and anti-Muslim
Jewish Defense League, which had stated: "We've decided not to take any
vacations to Islam-loving Hawaii. There are 49 other states to visit. And we
love to travel in Israel too!"
SPLC presented this for what it is. OK, they get a small vote of confidence,
and not because they simply criticized something the JDL said; but because
there are obviously people in their group that can identify the universal
problem of racism.
Also to their credit, they cite a very interesting story, "Mainstream
Scholars Attend Racist Conference Hosted By Jewish Astrophysicist",
that really gets to the root of the problems in America today that are inspired
by Jewish people part of the time, just like any other group.
The aim of the "Preserving Western Civilization Conference" according to
the SPLC, was to defend "America's Judeo-Christian heritage and European
identity." (This in and of itself, is the racist philosophy of Zionism, taught
in tens of thousands of churches and synagogues in the west.) It is the belief
that Jewish people are "entitled" to steal land from the
Palestinians, and over the last 63 years, Israel has taken almost all of it and
killed countless thousands in the process. The conference apparently was more
centered around claims that "blacks are not as intelligent as whites,
immigrants are destroying America, and Islam is no religion of peace it's
expansionist, intolerant, militant, and seeks to destroy." Along with the
organizer, Jewish astrophysicist Michael Hart, was the noted American racist
politician David Duke. You have to love the insanity of that; two men with a
common goal?
But still, the SPLC is obviously and clearly not saying a word against Israel.
They want to object to racism in the U.S. while they inadvertently support it
in Israel.
Class Example
I see it as a classroom of elementary school students.
You have the nice girl and the nice boy, and the mean boy who likes the girl,
but not the other boy. The nice boy knows right from wrong, but the mean kid
would likely beat him up if he objected. So, when class ends, the mean kid
starts bothering the girl, the nice boy just happens to be looking away at that
moment.
That girl is Palestine, the mean boy is the racist Zionist government of
Israel, and the nice boy is the world that could speak up, could get involved,
but does not.
How do you roll? What would you do?
In the end of this story the nice boy is unscathed, but he doesn't need to be.
Even if he lost the fight every time, he should still be in it, not ignoring it
for the sake of keeping his hands clean.
The SPLC calls a few things for what they are, but they are an agent of the
extremist racist view of Zionism which I place in a pile with radical Islam and
all of the other philosophical or religious wastes of time that people dedicate
their miserable and sad lives to. Our same group of distinguished writers took
this subject on from a number of angles also. Regardless of the ignorance,
Zionism is the reason hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have died long
before their time[6][7][8][9][10][11].
God, Allah, did not place people on this earth to kill each other, or
rip each other off, and he didn't brand the phrase, "He who dies with
the most toys wins" - the over funded rednecks of America came up with
that one.
He doesn't want you to kill your neighbors in search of your own security. It
is as simple of a point as anyone will make; an organization can not stand
against racism selectively, that is just an extension of the same bigotry, and
these guys have it written all over them.
They rally for Jewish people, good, I do too. I rally for all
oppressed people, however Israel is not a country that is at the bloody end of
the sword these days, instead they bear the sword and kill without
accountability while the world looks the other way.
The United Nations' report from Judge Richard Goldstone, a South African Jew,
cites Israel for using illegal weapons to illegally slaughter civilians in
Gaza. Almost EVERY DAY the Israelis kill more innocent, unarmed Palestinians[12][13].
They seek peace and are met by bullets and tear gas canisters that are fired
directly at them at close range. The most recent death was reported yesterday
in Gaza[14].
Two weeks ago Israeli Defense Force soldiers were acquitted in the shooting
death of an unarmed man in West Bank[15].
The same man's brother was the subject of one of our reports just months
earlier; he was manacled by Israeli soldiers and shot at point blank range[16].
A little Palestinian girl videotaped it, the soldiers from Israel next went
after her, destroying her family's home and belongings, but failing to get
their hands on the videotape. So, the Israeli soldiers took her brother, a
little kid, away in a military jeep kicking and screaming.
Anyone who approves of Israel's behavior toward these innocent oppressed people
is a monster and fan and supporter of genocide. It is not a matter of opinion.
Then there is the Israeli Navy, and their targeted attacks on families who go
to Gaza to enjoy a day at the beach. Speaking of little girls, I recently
reviewed a story where a young girl's family was slaughtered by an Israeli
patrol boat; picnic baskets, little kids and all[17}.
The Southern Poverty Law Center seems like it is poor in terms of equality. I
will close with a poem written by our Poet Nahida Izzat, a Jerusalem-born
Palestinian refugee, that was first published on Salem-News.com yesterday:
Thank you
So, let me get this straight:
You tear my veil to free me
You jail me to rid me of my terror
You kill my beloved to liberate me
You shoot my baby to erase my misery
You starve me to show me how to vote
You threaten me to bring me to my senses
You wage war on me to help me find peace
You slay my people to teach me compassion
You humiliate me to aid me live with dignity
You insult me to illustrate freedom of speech
You crush my bones to save me from my evil
You demolish my home to elevate my morality
You torture my children to teach me how to love
You uproot my tree to raise my ethical standard
You steal my resources to bring me social justice
You assassinate my leaders to bring me democracy
You destroy my history to educate me about progress
You dehumanise me to coach me into humanity
You bomb my town to train me into security
You wipe me out to push me to civilisation
You scorn my faith to bring me salvation
Thank you sir
How can I -ever- pay you back?
editor Radical Vet Gazette
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Squadron13 Aviation Museum
& Flights of Thought on War and Politics - http://www.squadron13.com
founder- Veterans Against Torture
http://www.VeteransAgainstTorture.com
member: Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Veterans
For Justice
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing" Albert Einstein
Joe Walsh-Lone Vet
Individual for Justice
Veterans Against Torture
Candidate for Congress against Blumenauer, 2008
