I AM RIGHT!

The Rhythm Of Time by Bobby Sands

There's an inner thing in every man,
Do you know this thing my friend?
It has withstood the blows of a million years,
And will do so to the end.

It was born when time did not exist,
And it grew up out of life,
It cut down evil's strangling vines,
Like a slashing searing knife.

It lit fires when fires were not,
And burnt the mind of man,
Tempering leandened hearts to steel,
From the time that time began.

It wept by the waters of Babylon,
And when all men were a loss,
It screeched in writhing agony,
And it hung bleeding from the Cross.

It died in Rome by lion and sword,
And in defiant cruel array,
When the deathly word was 'Spartacus'
Along the Appian Way.

It marched with Wat the Tyler's poor,
And frightened lord and king,
And it was emblazoned in their deathly stare,
As e'er a living thing.

It smiled in holy innocence,
Before conquistadors of old,
So meek and tame and unaware,
Of the deathly power of gold.

It burst forth through pitiful Paris streets,
And stormed the old Bastille,
And marched upon the serpent's head,
And crushed it 'neath its heel.

It died in blood on Buffalo Plains,
And starved by moons of rain,
Its heart was buried at Wounded Knee,
But it will come to rise again.

It screamed aloud by Kerry lakes,
As it was knelt upon the ground,
And it died in great defiance,
As they coldly shot it down.

It is found in every light of hope,
It knows no bounds nor space
It has risen in red and black and white,
It is there in every race.

It lies in the hearts of heroes dead,
It screams in tyrants' eyes,
It has reached the peak of mountains high,
It comes searing 'cross the skies.

It lights the dark of this prison cell,
It thunders forth its might,
It is 'the undauntable thought', my friend,
The thought that says 'I'm right!'





Brkic Sulejman

HIDING BEHIND PACIFISM

HIDING BEHIND PACIFISM

Protest is when I say this does not please me.
Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.
Ulrike Meinhof



On a damp night in February 2003 as the U.S. prepared to invade Iraq, five Catholic Worker activists scrambled across runways and broke into a hangar at Shannon airport. Swinging hammers and a pickaxe, they did more than $ 2.5 million damage to a U.S. Navy transport plane.
The five were hit with the full weight of the law, and were quickly condemned by the media and much of the anti-war movement. But three-and-a-half years later a Dublin jury decided they were innocent of any crime.

The above passage was taken from the back cover of the book Hammered by the Irish: How the Pitstop Ploughshares disabled a U.S. war-plane with Ireland’s Blessing by Harry Browne with an introduction by Daniel Berrigan.

First of all: Bravo! To the these brave activists.
As for the much of the anti-war movement that condemned them: Shame on you!

Here in Japan, lots of us live practically surrounded by terroristic U.S. military bases, between 40 000 and 50 000 U.S. mercenaries are stationed here (mainly in Okinawa) to protect Japan from North Korea, which is total bull-shit but I won’t get into that now, it’s too ridiculous to be worth explaining.
What I am aiming at is the abundance of opportunity for the Japanese anti-war movement to put its words into practice. There are at least 4 U.S. military bases in the area where I live, a 5 minute train ride to the closest one.
In my 18 years in Japan, as you may know a major launch pad for Yankee wars of plunder and a country that pretends to be peace loving but follows and supports every single criminal war adventure in pursuit of plunder undertaken by its master Uncle Sam, in my 18 years here not once have I heard a call for action of the kind carried out by the brave Irishmen mentioned above.
Beside the circus-like peace parades organized around Tokyo in which I have taken part, in my memory the lowest point of the Japanese peace (brain dead, no balls) movement, I mean really pathetic, was when a guy, an activist, stood up at some gathering in Tokyo just before another one of their colorful anti-war prancing and suggested that the few people who were still raising a clenched fist during a march stop doing that. Can it get more pathetic? Supposedly it was too aggressive and it might alienate people. And I won’t even get into what hurts the most the Japanese Left: its sectarianism.

To get back to the Pitstop Ploughshares, in the opening passage taken from the book I mentioned it says that they (the five Catholic Worker activists) were quickly condemned by the media (the government lackeys) and much of the anti―war movement.
Condemned by much of the anti-war movement.
Why am I not surprised?
What else is to be expected from cowards? Yes! Cowards!
The Pitstop Ploughshares are pacifists, too, yet they have engaged in direct action.
How dare the spineless anti-war movement condemn them?!
But the fact is that there are very few pacifists like them.

At one of my gatherings, I brought up direct action for discussion (mentioning the Pitstop Ploughshares and Shannon airport), out of about 30 people only 2 agreed with the need for it. Although I tried to explain that direct action doesn’t necessarily mean violence, that the Pitstop Ploughshares’s actions were not violent, not violent, that they were right in every sense of the word, that they did save lives by destroying a U.S. military killing machine, that they had sent a strong message to the warmongers that people will no longer just stand by or prance in the street while innocents are being slaughtered for economic gains, that, if possible, we should all try to engage in such actions if we are at all serious about preventing our countries (Japan did take part in the U.S.-U.K.-led illegal war on Iraq and the peace-loving Japanese people a r e responsible for the death of over 1 million innocent Iraqis who were killed so that the Japanese and all those who took part in this war could get very, very, very cheap oil) from going into wars in order to preserve our comfortable, materialistic, parasitic, empty way of life.
The more I kept talking like this, the more cowardice became palpable. The usual excuses to avoid doing more were at hand, how we should keep organizing, how direct action would only alienate people, how we should preserve the moral high ground, how it’s counterproductive…bla, bla, bla…..Hell, nowadays coward pacifists are trying to avoid the topic of direct action altogether.
We have assumed the name of peacemakers, but we have been, by and large, unwilling to pay any significant price. And because we want peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course continues, because the waging of war, by its nature is total-but the waging of peace, by our cowardice is partial.Fr Daniel Berrigan

A comment on the side for all those of you who don’t know much about Japan, it is a country with a total lack of solidarity. In case you get involved in direct action here, do not expect any sympathy from the public or a sympathetic jury. Cowardice feeds on cowardice here.

I watched the German film The Baader-Meinhof Complex and I was praising their actions and the actions of other urban guerrilla groups such as The Red Brigades, The Tupamaros and so on…to a friend of mine and he said that those groups had done a great deal of damage to the Left that was trying to organize a mass movement .
I don’t think so.
Let’s turn that argument around and I say that it is the rest of the Left that damaged itself by refusing out of cowardice to lend support to those urban guerrilla groups and betrayed those groups by refusing to join them in their/our armed struggle against capitalism/imperialism.

Simply put: The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to “be active”, to “participate”, to mask the nothingness of what goes on. Slavoj Zizek

My message to you so-called pacifist activists is: Stop pretending!
Stop pretending you are doing something. Your ways, combining hesitance with cowardice, have never achieved anything! Name one example in History where pacifism has actually brought about meaningful social change, alleviated suffering of mankind, instilled fear into capitalist/imperialist dogs, restored justice…
It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern
State to ensure by all means necessary that its government
adheres to the rule of law, not just domestically but internationally. Karl JaspersYour ways, your flowers in the barrel of the gun are an insult to all those who came before you and really fought, who put up a real fight, who resorted to all kinds of direct action, who died so that you and I would have the right today to prance in the streets daring to pretend that your/our clownish activism is gonna save Iraqi, Palestinian….lives. All you are doing is legitimizing dictatorial democracies!
And don’t even dare to talk about Martin Luther King Jr. without mentioning The Black Panther Party and Malcolm X or Gandhi without Chandrasekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh. We need a combination of tactics!

Much of the anti-war movement is about the first part of the quote by Ulrike Meinhof at the top of this piece. The Pitstop Ploughshares is about the second part of the same quote.

By condemning the five Catholic Worker activists, much of the anti-war movement took sides. It allied itself with the State, the lackeys in the media, it allied itself with the U.S. killing machine!
What much of the anti-war movement did and has been doing is, in the words of the title of a book by Romeo Dallaire, shaking hands with the Devil!

Sometimes doing nothing is the most violent thing to do.Slavoj Zizek from his book Violence

We need a combination of tactics!



Brkic Sulejman
24/07/2009

ARMED UPRISING

LET US TAKE UP ARMS!

"All means used to struggle
against tyrants are legitimate."French revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf 1792

It seems that Iran is about to be attacked by the U.S. With the active support of the only democratic apartheid regime in the world: Israel. And, as usual, the tacit support of the rest of the G7 vultures.

Another war of plunder. But that's nothing new.

The question is whether we on the left are going to do something new to stop the above mentioned criminals. Or the best we'll come up with is some new "protest" signs and a couple of new peace songs. No, I mean, really, what is wrong with us? That's the question! It is not "what's wrong with capitalism or imperialism and so on...?" We know what is wrong with capitalism. What is wrong with us? Us, the so-called anti-war "activists".

Do we really expect to stop the U.S war machine from bombing, killing hundreds of thousands more of innocent people, plundering again another country, do we really expect to stop the U.S war machine, our criminal governments in the G7, the IMF, N.A.T.O, the E.U, the W.B, you know, the usual partners in crime, do we really expect to stop them by holding peaceful "mass protests" only on a Saturday or a Sunday (not both days because there are shopping needs to be satisfied), by holding candle light vigils, giving lectures on why Iran is being targeted, writing letters to our congressmen or to whatever scumbag is "representing" us, "educating" people when actually everybody knows what is going on and those in the G7 who don't know, let's face it, it's because they don't want to know, because they don't care. And let's stop making up excuses for them, like blaming the mass media for their DELIBERATE ignorance. How come I know? How come most of us on the left (or not) know?

So, do we really expect to stop them with our risk-free bullshit? Don't we see that it doesn't work?! IT DOESN'T WORK! We gotta stop pretending we are doing something, for a start!

But, how committed are we? How far are we willing to go to stop another crime from being committed? More than 600 000 killed Iraqis (so that we in the G7 could get cheap OIL) is not enough for us to consider other options, other actions? How much are we willing to risk, to sacrifice for our beliefs? How deep are our beliefs? Sometimes it seems to me that our ("activists on the left") obsession with doing things "peacefully" is very hypocritical and has to do more with our COWARDICE than anything else!

Just think! Have we managed to stop the murder for plunder going on in Iraq? How hard have we really been trying to? Has it ever crossed our mind that some much more drastic measures have to be taken to force our criminal governments in the G7 to respect OUR will, the people's will, and not the will of a small capitalist elite?!

Doesn't it bother us to be surrounded by war criminals walking freely with all that blood on their (and ours) hands? Our presidents, prime ministers and all the other politicians who are involved in war crimes, Bush, Blair, Howard, Berlusconi, Aznar, Koizumi, Abe...etc, all these criminals should be hanging! Do we really expect any court to try them for war crimes? Do we really expect to get justice from THEIR courts? Some of these criminals have already retired and now they are enjoying peace and quiet in their new lives after having helped set Iraq on fire and drown it in blood of (so far) more than 600 000 innocent Iraqis for OIL! And this is not the first time! It has been going on and on and on forever. When will the victims of our greedy capitalistic lives get justice?! And now OUR heads of States in the G7 are about to do it again with Iran.

"THOSE WHO ACQUIESCE IN A CRIME ARE
EVERY BIT AS GUILTY AS THOSE WHO ENTHUSIASTICALLY
PARTICIPATE."Endo Shusaku

So, what are we on the left going to do about it? Organize another peace march to stop them? That's us, right? That's the best we can do, right?

How the hell do we hope to change something while operating within the very criminal system set up and controled by the very gangsters mentioned above? The courts, the police, the media, the banks, the money, the guns... everything is in their hands! Everything is in the hands of a few leeches! We know that, right?! And yet, we keep operating within/inside that criminal system instead of doing everything possible and more to smash it or at least damage it! Why? Cowardice!

"IT IS THE OBLIGATION OF EVERY PERSON WHO
CLAIMS TO OPPOSE OPPRESSION TO RESIST THE
OPPRESSOR BY EVERY MEANS AT HIS OR HER DISPOSAL.
NOT TO ENGAGE IN PHYSICAL RESISTANCE, ARMED
RESISTANCE TO OPPRESSION, IS TO SERVE THE
INTERESTS OF THE OPPRESSOS; NO MORE, NO LESS.
THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE, NO
EASY OUT...Assata Shakur, 1984.

Someone once said that without breaking the rules the fight against injustice is a waste of time! Yes! Unjust laws must be broken, cordons of police must be broken, threats must be made and warnings given to all those in power, to the coward mass media people... they must understand that we the great majority of people don't want their wars! We must break out of their criminal system! They must be afraid of us! They must tremble at the sound of the roar of the people!

"POWER GROWS FROM THE BARREL OF A GUN."
Chairman Mao Tsetung

And if our threats and warnings are not heeded by those who are supposed to represent us, then punitive actions will be carried out against those bastards; the kind of punitive actions that might leave one in a life-threatening condition. Whatever their interests are, they must become the target of great damage.

"ALL MEANS, INCLUDING SUICIDE ATTACKS, ARE
VALID IF THEY SPEED UP THE ADVENT OF
DEMOCRACY!"Karl Heinzen

We on the left must set up an armed wing, an armed extension of the current pathetic "peace" movement. That armed wing will be carrying out violent, punitive actions against anyone in position to negatively influence and lead the people to the path of war. Any stinking politician, mass media vulture, intellectual who dares advocating, justifying any kind of war will be physically disabled.

"MASS MEDIA, OPPRESSIVE CULTURE, ADVERTISING
MANAGEMENT, AND MOST CONTEMPORARY MODES OF
THOUGHT ARE THE ENEMIES AND APPROPRIATE
TARGETS..."Herbert Marcuse

But, first, we have to start arming ourselves because the fight will be tough. Let us not forget that those sons of bitches in power have any kind of weapon we can imagine at their disposal to suppress us, the people, if we ever dare get out of line. We the people must remind those ungrateful bastards who the real masters are! They have weapons to wage plunder wars, we'll have weapons to wage a liberation war!

"THE PATH TO HUMANITY WILL PASS THROUGH
THE ZENITH OF BARBARITY."Karl Heinzen

In 2003, despite of millions of people marching throughout the world against the then-imminent war on Iraq, despite of the fact that the great majority of people in almost every single country (except Israel and the U.S) in the world were opposed to the war, war happened! If that is not spitting in the face of the people then what is?

Aren't you enraged by their (the politicians') arrogance, lies, condescension, corruption, crimes...and all in the name of greed?! Those sons of bitches are just supposed to respect and carry out our will, that's all! But you look around and it's the other way around! The vermin must be exterminated!

Those who advocate war for the sake of profit, those who advocate WAR must be taken out!

I am advocating intensive, intelligent, selective, well organized violence against the State in the G7 and against anyone involved in any kind of crime against humanity. Any political and economic elite, any oligarchy, any plutocracy must be physically eliminated once and for all! I am advocating being ONE with the oppressed!

"MEET VIOLENCE WITH VIOLENCE."
Rob Williams

I am advocating violent self-defence against capitalism and imperialism!

Elites must be exterminated!
Power must be taken by the people and spread among the people!
War must be stamped out!
Those who advocate war must be crushed!
The thought of war must be erased!
Capitalism must be obliterated!
Capitalists must be wiped out!
Capital must be annihilated!
Private ownership must be eradicated!
But all this can only be done by peoples of good will armed to the teeth, without mercy for the enemy, well organized and in coordination throughout the rapacious G7 for the benefit of the entire mankind.

"IF YOU HAVE TO BLOW UP HALF A CONTINENT
AND CAUSE A BLOODBATH TO DESTROY THE PARTY
OF BARBARISM, YOU SHOULD HAVE NO SCRUPLES
OF CONSCIENCE." Karl Heinzen

After all this is accomplished, all weapons must be destroyed.

Brkic Sulejman 28.03.2007

ONE WAY TO CHANGE THE WORLD

ONE WAY TO CHANGE THE WORLD


I watched FIVE FINGERS. It is a 2006 film directed by Laurence Malkin, starring Laurence Fishburn, Colm Meaney and Ryan Phillippe.

Here is the synopsis:

The film is fictional, but inspired by and is about an Islamic terrorist who captures a Dutch citizen, setting off a thrilling game of one-upsmanship, punctuated by riveting suspense and a dynamite shocker ending. Martijn (Ryan Phillippe) is on a goodwill mission in Morocco when he is stabbed with a syringe and wakes up blindfolded and shackled in a hideout. His captors (Laurence Fishburne and Gina Torres) want information - and they'll do anything to get it. So Martijn had better come up with a plan of action, because he's running out of time ... and fingers.

Here is a dialogue from one of the scenes. It’s between Martijn and the woman captor, Aicha:

M: I was fired.

A: And why is that? Did they find out about the money?

M: No. They saw pictures of me.

A: Doing what?

M: Protesting.

A: Protesting. Against who?

M: Dutch immigration policy and our government’s support of the World Bank.

A: You honestly believe that to protest against the World Bank would accomplish something?

M: I did. I used to think that it could accomplish a lot.

A: But not anymore?

M: Not that way, no.

A: Of course not. Because you are a child, Martijn. An idealistic, stupid child who is playing a very dangerous game. You go away for a weekend, throw a few stones, swallow a little tear gas and tell your girlfriend how risky it was. And while she is sucking on your cock, your government expels 40 000 asylum seekers. You have no idea what it would really take to change the world.

M: You’re wrong.

A: Then tell me.

M: A series of devastating events, events that would destroy the world’s richest companies, that would crush the world’s economy. A dozen 9/11s all over the world.

A: Like what?

M: Like targeted direct action against Halliburton. Against Dow Chemical, against McDonald’s. And not just American companies. Against Airbus, against British Petroleum. Against any company that promotes global capitalism and destroys lives and cultures in order to increase its profits…

JAPAN: GUILTY OF DOING GOOD

Guilty Of Doing Good

“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do” Voltaire

From the narrow window of my small cell,
I see trees that are smiling at me
and rooftops crowded with my family.
And windows weeping and praying for me.
From the narrow window of my small cell--
I can see your big cell!

Samih al-Qasim, from “End of a talk with a jailer”

Here in Tokyo, Japan, 3 peace activists, Toshiyuki Obora, Nobuhiro Onishi and Sachimi Takada were found guilty on April 11, 2008 by the Supreme Court of putting anti-war fliers into the mail boxes of the families of the Japanese soldiers who were dispatched to Irak on the orders of Uncle Sam to assist the shameful U.S.-led coalition in its illegal invasion and occupation of Irak to free it of its oil.

For a detailed account of this injustice, please read these articles by David McNeill in The Japan Times and on Japan Focus:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20060214zg.html
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080520zg.html
http://www.japanfocus.org/_David_McNeill-Martyrs_for_Peace__Japanese_antiwar_activists_jailed_for_trespassing_in_SDF_compound_vow_to_fight_on
(with the interview)

These 3 activists were found guilty, their actions were found illegal for opposing an illegal war in which their country has taken part.

" The decision by President George W. Bush to go to war in Iraq was ILLEGAL because it didn't have U.N Security Council approval, according to Secretary General Kofi Annan in an interview with the BBC World Service on Wednesday 15 2004. On Wednesday after being asked three times whether the lack of council approval for the war meant it was illegal, he (Annan) said: " From our point of view it was ILLEGAL."

The crime I’m writing about is of course the rape of Irak by the of course U.S.-led coalition of the willing to kill and plunder. These 3 activists did jail time, 75 days, for opposing an illegal war that has led to the death of over 1 million Irakis, and counting, to rob them of their oil! And the criminals who have caused their death, who have taken part in this Supreme International Crime are prancing around free.

To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, 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. Robert H. Jackson, 1945-46

A student of mine the other day here in Tokyo was all excited and happy because she went to the Opera and there, guess who she saw enjoying Don Giovanni? Koizumi himself! Koizumi is the former Prime Minister of Japan and a war criminal since he has led his country into this illegal war on Irak. There he was, at the Opera, enjoying Don Giovanni while Irak is burning and bleeding! I feel rage burning inside me while writing this piece.

The 3 activists were found guilty by a judicial system of a country whose government, ignoring the will of the majority of its people opposed to the war, has taken part in the Supreme International Crime. They, who are opposed to this illegal war, were found guilty by a lackey judge who is an accomplice in this illegal war. Could anyone really expect anything else than a guilty verdict?

What is the Left that lives in the belly of the beast doing about this?

I once wrote a piece advocating the inclusion of violence as one method among others used by us on the Left to fight against whatever capitalist and imperialist institution and their leaders is promoting the horrible, horrible kind of crime against humanity that is taking place in Irak before our greedy eyes.

I sent my piece to a socialist website on which I was a kind of a regular and was banned from it soon after. I was told that the kind of actions I had in mind to fight against the illegal actions of our Western imperialist governments (including Japan) would be … illegal.

“It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modernState to ensure by all means necessary that its governmentadheres to the rule of law, not just domestically but internationally”. Karl Jaspers


Brkic Sulejman

BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!

Remember, remember.......5 years!

The decision by President George W. Bush to go to war in Iraq was ILLEGAL because it didn't have U.N Security Council approval, according to Secretary General Kofi Annan in an interview with the BBC World Service on Wednesday 15 2004. On Wednesday after being asked three times whether the lack of council approval for the war meant it was illegal, he (Annan) said:
" From our point of view it was ILLEGAL."

Q: It was illegal ?

Annan: Yes, if you wish.

Q: It was illegal ?

Annan: Yes, I have indicated it is not In conformity with the U.N Charter, from our point of view and from the Charter point of view it Was ILLEGAL.

International Herald Tribune, Friday, September 17, 2004 (U.N chief calls Iraq war Illegal) The Associated Press, United Nations, New York."

Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring."
Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal,1950.

"By any means necessary…" Malcolm X

Here is now my opinion on how we, the anti-war movement (at least here in Japan), should define the fight led by the Iraqi people against the U.S-British-led ILLEGAL occupation of their country:It is RESISTANCE !

The Iraqi people should and have the right to fight the invaders of Iraq, and all the vultures that came with them, by any means necessary !It is RESISTANCE ! There must be no doubt about it.Iraq is just another Algeria, Vietnam, Kenya, Haiti, Afghanistan, Palestine, Chechnya…etcWe, the anti-war movement, must support the Iraqi RESISTANCE no matter how ugly it may appear. No matter how many are beheaded, no matter how many heads we see being cut off on the Internet, no matter all that ugliness, we must support the Iraqi RESISTANCE.

Frantz Fanon once said: "The resistance is ugly because the occupation is ugly".

Is more than 1000000 dead Iraqis so far, killed (for OIL) by U.S high precision strikes pretty ?

It is at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on a scientific study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003.
That study, published in prestigious medical journal The Lancet, estimated that over 600,000 Iraqis had been killed as a result of the invasion as of July 2006. Iraqis have continued to be killed since then. The graphic above provides a rough daily update of this number based on a rate of increase derived from the Iraq Body Count. (See the complete explanation.)
The estimate that over a million Iraqis have died received independent confirmation from a prestigious British polling agency in September 2007. Opinion Research Business estimated that 1.2 million Iraqis have been killed violently since the US invasion.

"We don't do body counts" U.S General Tommy Franks

We must support the Iraqi RESISTANCE because History demands it, because Justice demands it, because the ghosts of the victims of previous injustices demand it, because the ghosts of killed resistance fighters throughout History demand it, because the ghosts of the more than 600.000 dead Iraqi children (we, in our "democracies" let them die) in the 1990s under genocidal and illegal U.S-imposed, cowardly U.N-allowed economic sanctions demand it, because all those who cannot resist need it.

We must support the Iraqi RESISTANCE because we owe it to all those before us who died resisting so that we, today, would have the strength to resist. We must support the Iraqi RESISTANCE because it is the right thing to do ! We cannot pretend to do anything else before we have made a clear stand for this issue. We cannot go around in pitiful numbers, chanting anti-war slogans and asking for the withdrawal of these troops or those troops, an "end to the occupation" and so on before making it clear that we support the Iraqi RESISTANCE ! We also must stop condemning "both sides" for their brutality, we must stop being hypocritically "even handed" because this kind of attitude only reinforces the aggressor.One thing must be made clear:
The Iraqis are the victims, the U.S-led occupation forces are the aggressors and the Iraqis fighting these criminals are the RESISTANCE!

As for the "leaders" of the countries that took part in the rape of Iraq, here is the verdict:

BUSH, BLAIR, HOWARD, AZNAR, BERLUSCONI, KOIZUMI, KWASINEVSKI and all the others who supported the decision to invade and occupy Iraq are guilty of mass destruction and continued massacre in Iraq. They should be tried as war criminals in an international court for distorting the reality with lies upon lies, taking lives of thousands of innocent people and making the world more unstable than it was before their much vaunted noble war.

As for us, the people, who elected these criminals, we have the right and duty to get rid of these scumbags BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

Noam Chomsky, speaking of George W. Bush, once said that
" if he (Bush) were to be judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunal, he would be hanged. So too would every single American President since the end of WW2, including Jimmy Carter."

And I say Bush, Blair, Howard, Aznar, Berlusconi, Koizumi, and all the others in power who supported this war on Iraq as well as all those cowards, lackeys of the government in the mainstream "media", all these leeches should be judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunals and be hanged !

WAR CRIMINALS

We, the anti-war movement, must identify with the Iraqi RESISTANCE because if we don't then what are we? When I say that we must identify with the Iraqi RESISTANCE, I don't mean that we must identify with the elements that the RESISTANCE is led by, be they Islamic fundamentalist, ex-Baathists or some other religious or secular groups. We do not have to and must not identify with the ideologies of these elements if they are incompatible with ours, we must not compromise our beliefs, we do not have to espouse their beliefs in order to support the RESISTANCE.
But there is one thing that we must recognize and it is that no matter how much their ideologies differ from ours, the people carrying out the battle against the rapacious U.S-led imperialist dogs ARE the RESISTANCE and that is what, without hesitation and delay , we must identify with and support. I repeat: without delay !
Because if we don't, we'll be confirming what Bertrand Russell once said:

"It is the nature of Imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know and care about circumstances in the colonies."

We, the people who live in the imperialist ("democratic") countries that have taken part in the rape of Iraq (for OIL), are responsible for what our leaders are doing and have the obligation to topple our criminal leaders because they do not represent us, the majority opposed to the war, anymore.We can do it, we have the real power, we are the power!

As for condemning "horrible" acts committed by the RESISTANCE, we have no right to condemn the RESISTANCE from the safety of our homes in our "democracies".

Che Guevara said:

"A people without hate cannot triumph over a brutal enemy".

Two factors contribute to the increasing brutality of the Iraqi RESISTANCE: The U.S-British-led ever increasing brutal and illegal occupation of Iraq and our, the anti-war movement's, passivity, docility.
Instead of pretending being pacifists, of trying at all costs, when, say demonstrating, to abide by the rule of law (the very same law that allowed our government to take part in the slaughter of more than 1000000 ("We don't do body counts" U.S General Tommy Franks) Iraqis (for OIL) so far), instead of pretending to follow the principles of non-violence of M.L. King or Gandhi when, actually, it is our own cowardice that we are trying to disguise, instead of engaging in all these half-measures, there is one concrete step that we could take and that could pave the way to more concrete actions and that is to recognize, identify with and support the Iraqi RESISTANCE.

We, the anti-war movement (at least here in Japan) have shied away from any association with the people fighting the imperialist invaders of Iraq. We have been demanding the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq and an end to the occupation while ignoring or condemning the RESISTANCE.
We have been doing all that through actions that are called "parades" in some dailies (I took part in one of these parades and on the way a friend of mine was actually asked by a passerby if it were a festival) or ignored altogether and carried out mainly on the anniversary of the attack on Iraq (Afghanistan has again been forgotten) in a very colorful and cheerful fashion, and all this of course inside the framework of unjust and more and more restrictive domestic laws aimed at people dissenting with the government line.

Now, are our tactics really productive?

Supporting the Iraqi RESISTANCE is not only about Iraq. It is about a global RESISTANCE. RESISTANCE to war, exploitation, greed, plunder, colonialism, capitalism, destruction of environment, oppression, aggression, occupation, G7, the World Bank, the I.M.F, E.U, the U.N Security Council… in other words: Globalization, that ubiquitous and faceless MURDERER, which is just a euphemism for IMPERIALISM !And Iraq is just another front in the RESISTANCE to IMPERIALISM !

According to the Webster's ll New Riverside University Dictionary, Imperialism is the policy of extending a nation's authority by acquisition of territory or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations.
According to LENIN, Imperialism is a struggle of the great powers for the economic and political division of the world characterized by the quest for spheres of influence for the control of markets, raw materials and cheap labor.

To all of us involved in the RESISTANCE against injustice, Frederick Douglass once said:

"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle."

To me RESISTANCE is about hope. Hope for a better world. Of course, by hope I don't mean sitting and waiting for something good to fall down from the sky. I mean hope in action. I mean Being hope by RESISTING, resisting to those who want to sell us hope.

St. Augustine said: "Hope has two beautiful daughters: ANGER and COURAGE. ANGER at the way things are and COURAGE to change them."

RESIST…BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY !



Brkic SULEJMAN

TIBET

　　　　　　　　　　 Free Tibet?
Y E S!

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.
~Dalai Lama


In the April 23, 2008, Japan Times, I read this headline: Dalai Lama seeks help from U.S.
So, let me get this straight, one of the greatest pacifists in the world is asking for help from the most warmongering country in the world, the U.S.A. Ha!

On December 17, 1984, 143 member-states endorse UNGA Res.39/161B, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial countries and Peoples. The U.S. alone casts an opposing vote.
(And this is one time among many others)

I was never a big fan of that impotent, chubby, bald guy called the Dalai Lama, prancing around in his colorful nightgown. But this tops it all. He is asking for help from the most genocidal country in the history of mankind, the U.S.A, the greatest purveyor of violence on Earth, according to M.L. King. The Dalai Lame is asking for help from the U.S.A, the country that has just caused the death of over a million Irakis (and counting), in yet another illegal war, in an attempt to rob them of their oil.

When I say I was never a big fan of the Dalai Lama, I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one. According to the bits I’ve read, even the younger generation of Tibetans themselves are fed up with him and his impotent ways of dealing with the Chinese ogre. The younger generation of Tibetans are willing to put up a real fight against the Chinese imperialists. Yes, Chinese imperialists! Imperialism is not something that belongs exclusively to the Right. The Soviet Union was an imperialist dictatorship. As for because of my being on the Left I should automatically sympathize with the “communist” China, give me break!
China is as communist as that pedophile Benedict in the Vatican.

Let me make something clear: I am for free Tibet! Tibetans should fight by any means necessary to get free of more than 50 years of Chinese colonial rule!

Now, about all those Western protesters, trying to extinguish the Olympic flame on its way to China or whatever shithole it’s headed for, as far as I am concerned they can piss on it. Where were those Western protesting angels who are so (suddenly) concerned with the plight of the Tibetans, where were they when the flame of shame was heading for Atlanta, Georgia in 1996 into the bloody hands of Uncle Sam? Why weren’t they demanding freedom for Hawaii or its other colonies? Why weren’t they demanding a halt to U.S.A’s support for apartheid Israhell against a free Palestine, its continous bombing of Irak and genocidal economic sanctions against Irak that killed 1.6 million Irakis including 600.000 Iraki children? Not to mention the 1984 Olympics held in Los Angeles.

On April 4, 1984, 13 of 15 Security Council member-states endorse draft res.S/16463, condemning the U.S. policy of aggression towards Nicaragua as violating international law. The U.S. employs its veto to override them (final vote: 13-1-1).

And then what do you think happened? The U.S. went on to get 83 gold medals. Bravo! These are just two examples of Western deadly hypocrisy, not even the tip of the iceberg.
So, why only Tibet? Why suddenly now? What is so special about Tibet? Is it because of that “special spiritual connection” that the empty white Westerner (he thinks) has with Tibet? The empty white vegetarian Westerner would rather have a gentle, cute little Tibetan monk at his/her dinner table than a Fedayin (Palestinian freedom fighter) with his/her head wrapped in a kuffiya holding a Kalashnikov, right? How deep can cowardice and hypocrisy go?

Why is China being suddenly demonized? I mean, what do you expect from a dictatorship when the greatest democracy in the world, the U.S.A, is running a gulag called Guantanamo on stolen land from Cuba?
And, what is it with the Olympics anyway? China should never have gotten them in the first place! None of the Western powers should be allowed anywhere near the Olympic flame, either! Hell, the Olympics should be abolished altogether! It has become painfully ridiculous, to say the least, to hold such an event when the great majority of the population in the world lives in misery, when between 25 000 and 30 000 people are dying daily of hunger in the 21st century. As if there weren’t enough sports on TV already to keep people dumb, we need some more Olympic crap and let us rejoice when instead we should be screaming at the top of our lungs at the injustice that surrounds us!

The Western governments are in no position to criticize China. It’s like a rapist criticizing another rapist. They criticize China but keep doing business with it. Doing business with China is much more profitable than trying to get justice for Tibet. No wonder this injustice has been going on for more than 50 years. Remember how the West profited from its relationship with white apartheid South Africa that lasted up to the mid-nineties?! And Mandela spent almost 30 years in prison so that the West could continue doing business with a bunch of white racists. And they even gave the Nobel Peace Prize to de Klerk who, in a just world, shoul have ended up on Robben Island.

“I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists. I tell them that I was also a terrorist yesterday, but, today, I am admired by the very people who said I was one” Mandela

Socialist/Communist governments cannot take sides with China just out of leftwing solidarity and for the sake of opposing the imperialist West. Peoples do have the right to self-determination!

Although China may be an important business partner of the West, it is mainly seen as a rival. If you look at the map of the world, China is almost totally surrounded by U.S. military bases or military installations.
To get back to the good-for-nothing Dalai Lama, he has done more harm than good to the Tibetan cause. By playing by the Western rules which always demand peaceful methods of resistance on the part of the oppressed peoples whom the West is raping (Look at what has happened to Suu Kyi in Myanmar. Fallen into oblivion. Where is the Western cavalry?), the Dalai Lama and his Western “supporters” have allowed Tibetan culture to go almost extinct, particularly the Tibetan language. In Tibet right now, there are more Chinese than Tibetans, millions were forced to flee, Chinese businesses, casinos, departments stores, brothels, luxurious hotels are flourishing and out of hundreds of Tibetan temples, there are only a few left, among other things. So, what are the D. Lama’s achievements beside a few pictures of him with Richard Gere and Stephen Segal?

The Dalai Lama should be pushed aside by the younger generation of Tibetans. He could easily find a lucrative job as a spiritual guide to the Hollywood lost souls. Tibet should establish stronger ties with the rest of the oppressed third world, arm itself and put up a resistance fight against the Chinese colonizers.

To me, China has become just another player in the capitalist game so it might as well go down. I just hope it takes the West with it. Then maybe we’ll have some peace.
To the West: Fuck off!
To the Dalai Lama: “There is no such thing as part freedom.” Mandela
To the Western hypocrite protesters: where is your (even spiritual) indignation about the Irakis, Palestinians, Chechens, Kurds, Africa, and many, many, many others?
As for the Olympic flame….well, to the flames!

Brkic Sulejman
1/5/2008