A Peaceful End to Terrorism ... Our Responsibility

I learned about the suicide terrorism attacks in Paris only Sunday and checked out the facts that were available about the deaths that occurred.

• Over 130 deaths
• A couple hundred injured, many seriously
• 8 terrorists either committed suicide or got killed by police (no survivors)

This is terrible indeed!

But long ago I pondered on why these attacks occur and many have thought about this, studied this and asked the right questions to the right people that are or have been part of terrorist organizations.

Some more thoughts in my Youtube post here:

The reason is ultimately the same:  Feeling oppressed and desperate, combined with fanatism (be it religious, political or other kinds).

Its a lethal mixture leading men and women to do things they would never ordinarily do:  hurt and kill people and themselves.

Now, fanatism is a very personal thing, even though it can be encouraged in some regions depending on your surroundings (friends, country, family, religious group, political group etc...).

But oppression and desperation towards strangers.... that has another source.

The Islamic State said it best while claiming responsibility for the civilian attacks in Paris on Saturday November 14th:

"To teach France, and all nations following its path, that they will remain at the top of Islamic State’s list of targets, and that the smell of death won’t leave their noses as long as they partake in their crusader campaign,"

Instead of raising our fists at the group and asking for blood, let's ask ourselves what caused the attack.  The Islamic State wants the "crusader campaign" to stop.  Based on other claims from this group and other terrorist groups before them, they are lashing out, in a nutshell, because they feel they need to do something violent, to stop the West from putting their noses in their country's businesses, influencing their politics, trying to influence their religion etc....

Why do terrorists exist?  The West is the oppressor and the people of the middle east (and elsewhere), having no recourse of their own to make it all stop, become desperate.  This gives the radical fanatics of these populations a reason to lash out. 

This is the truth. 

ALL violence is terrible and should be condemned, but we won't be free of terror until we stop our politicians and militaries meddling in the affairs of others, causing pain and suffering.

If 132 Parisian deaths affect you today, how do you think the Libyans feel after THOUSANDS of civilians have been killed by drone attacks while NATO was trying to get to Ghadaffi and his supporters?

How do you think the Iraqis population felt when over one hundred thousand Iraqi civilians were killed during the Iraqi war?

They probably mourned their dead and felt helpless and desperate.

We have to stop supporting ANY military action and any violent act of ANY kind around the world, on any side for the terror to go away.  People don't kill other people for fun.  They do it because they feel they have no other choice.

Let's give them a choice.

Let's all follow Ghandi's example of Social Disobedience.  Refuse to support violence, refuse to support any organization and country that is violent, EVEN in self-defence, and soon enough terrorism will go away and we shall have peace.

Russel Brand talks about it with passion here:

 Finally, my highest mentor of peace and change in the world, Maitreya Rael gives you the tools, very simply.  Join up and let's act together for peace, and influence the planet:

The Military Idiocy

Throughout the ages, we've been told and either subtly or not so subtly taught that military forces are a necessity to defend a country's freedoms.

Ultimately, this hasn't been true for the longest time.

Though the idea is quite nice as no one wants to be assaulted, invaded or be deprived of their right to freedom, the information available and truths that are coming out of the woodwork has shown that:

1. Invaders invade with the blessing of their own population ONLY if the leaders of said country convinces them that the military action is "just".  The real reason for the invasion is typically hidden and all about money or power for a very short list of individuals (and most certainly not to the benefit of the general population).
2. Military commanders that are said to "defend" against some aggressor are either doing just that (see #1), or are using that pretext to invade with the pretext of defending (see U.S. "war on terror" which seems to need to involve most of the middle east and eastern Europe.

I'm discussing all of this in this video:

Right now, the US is the biggest terrorist in the world, and a bully, as seen by their military spending and use of over 500 military installations and bases in 150 countries.  If they were doing that to be the "world police" they would be doing it with the approval of all countries.  Truth is, they are doing that to intimidate all countries in the world into submitting to them as the main economic and political power in the world. 

No sense of being equal to every other people or country in the world here.  The Americans are taught from birth that the US is the most powerful nation in the world an that their President is indeed the most powerful man in the world.

For sure, he can beat up every other nation with military might if he wanted to.  Truly the biggest man in the yard flexing his muscles and being a bully to any other kid that isn't doing what he likes, all the while telling the American people that all this posturing and foreign policy is for the good of others and the defense of American freedoms.

Its amazing how people get the illusion of safety with large sophisticated militaries at their backs (US, Canada, UK, France, etc...) while others feel a lot of fear because they aren't friends with the US and are confronted by large advanced militaries (middle-east, S-E Asian countries, Eastern Europe squished between US bases and Russians).

Real terrorism is attempt to dominate through fear.  Honestly, a lot of people display fear of the US military and hate the US because of their involvement in or around their country.  As they say, fear makes people do crazy things (like other acts of terrorism).

If all countries, with the US being the primary player, would eliminate their militaries, perhaps keeping a small proportion to be handed out to a world entity to serve as a true world police force at the service of all peoples of the world (to fight against large gangs, warlords that take advantage of others, genocide etc...) indiscriminate of soldier allegiance.

Check out No More Armies for an organization that fights for just that.