Listen America you Better Wake Up
September 24, 2001
By Thomas C. Mountain
brotom@lava.net
The American People had better wake up! The Gospels in the Bible say as
ye sow, so shall ye reap. Since my teenage years the United States has bombed Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Libya, Panama, Grenada, Iraq, Sudan,
Afghanistan and Yugoslavia injuring and killing millions of civilians.
Do we think we can go around the world forever killing innocent civilians and it won't catch up to us? Bin Laden is a terrorist and was one when the US was essential to launching his career in the early 1980šs. Saddam Hussein is a terrorist and was one when the US helped put him in power and then kept him in power both before and during the Gulf War in 1991. Bombing their countries and killing innocent civilians has only made them stronger.
In 1987 I joined with over 200 Americans in going to Libya and attempted to express to the families of the dozens of children killed in their beds at 2AM by a so called smart bomb dropped by an American jet, that this wasn't the doing of the American people, and please, please don't kill innocent Americans in retaliation.
For this crime I was threatened with 5 years in prison by the American
government. In 1988 I again joined with many other guilt stricken Americans in attempting to express condolences to the families of 300 Iranian civilians on a civilian airliner shot down by an American warship in the Persian Gulf.
The American government has to this day refused to pay any compensation to the families of those killed and to add insult to injury, refused to punish any of those military personnel responsible for this crime. And what was the American warship doing in the Persian Gulf when it shot down this civilian airliner? Helping keep Saddam Hussein in power.
As terrible a tragedy as the World Trade Center bombing was, maybe we can turn this into the beginnings of a change in US foreign policy that will signal the beginnings of peace on this planet. But first the American people have to wake up and demand this change be made. If not, expect more WTC atrocities.
Thomas C. Mountain
Founding member, Hawaii Alliance for Peace and Justice in the Middle East
(1982)
47-431 Hui Nene St.
Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744
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