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Date Posted: 08:40:45 09/17/01 Mon
In reply to:
Kyla
's message, "Re: What about..." on 06:54:45 09/16/01 Sun
Deidra,
Thank you for having the courage to express Truth. Do not 4,278 Beings die every day in this world? Are they not as "innocent" as our countrymen? Who is the arbiter of guilt and innocence? Why should I be excluded? Just as a journey to Wounded Knee is required to acknowledge my humanity, is not a journey to NYC? What about a visit to the Palestinian refugee camps, to acknowledge the pain of a people penned up, excluded and manipulated not only by Israel, but stolen from and lied to by their own leadership? Or a pilgrammage to innumerable places on this Earth where the preciousness of Life is denied in the name of "God". If there were a God that vaguely resembles the anthropomorphic version most people worship, would "He/She" not turn "His/Her" back in disgust? "God Bless America" right now to me is a rationalization to justify revenge, resistance, resentment. To expain this irrational and Love-less taking of life. And the terrible part is: I have to acknowledge and take responsibility for that too, and hold the ferocious energy of retribution that is forming in this country. Just as I must bear the repsonsibility of living in a country that has pissed in the rice bowls of the majority of the world for the better part of a century; that is using up the lion's share of the resources of this planet. Just as I must bear the terror and pain of those dwelling between worlds, and the bewilderment and grief of those of us left behind. If it would help end this, I would take a can of gasoline and a match, douse myself and hand the match to "holy" men, and say: If this match will clear the world of the evil you see, then use it on me! That is a grandiose illusion-- they couldn't see me anyway, and it would relieve me of the pain of watching this karma unfold, of living my part of it. That, I can't allow myself to escape. My part is to live this and re-member who I am-- all of it: the Truth of Being for All That Is; the pain of the victims, the "perps"; the blind, dumb, inadequacy of my words here, and my anguish that it seems to be necessary to play this out in an end-game of more violence and death.
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