We as spiritual beings or souls come to earth in order to experience the human condition. This includes the good and the bad scenarios of this world. Our world is a duality planet and no amount of love or grace will eliminate evil or nastiness. We will return again and again until we have pierced the illusions of this density. The purpose of human life is to awaken to universal truth. This also means that we must awaken to the lies and deceit mankind is subjected to. To pierce the third density illusion is a must in order to remove ourselves from the wheel of human existences. Love is important but knowledge is the key!

End the war on Terrorism
 
In the words of the acclaimed Journalist and author John Pilger has said 
"the war against terrorism is a fraud"  

Good afternoon ladies, and gentlemen, and adjudicator.
 
Ever since the horror of September 11th. We have been bombarded with the 
propaganda of the "war on terrorism". The America government and her allies, 
including the Australian government, Have thrown down the gauntlet, 
declearing war on terrorism. Vowing to extirpate this blight from the face. 
Which poses the obvious question, what is terrorism? 
 
The United Nations Office of Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP) 
legally defines terrorism as: "an anxiety-inspiring method of repeated 
violent action, employed by (semi-) clandestine individual, group or state 
actors, for idiosyncratic, criminal or political reasons, whereby - in 
contrast to assassination - the direct targets of violence are not the main 
targets. The immediate human victims of violence are generally chosen 
randomly (targets of opportunity) or selectively (representative or symbolic 
targets) from a target population, and serve as message generators. 
Threat- and violence- based communication processes between terrorist 
(organization), (imperilled) victims, and main targets are used to 
manipulate the main target (audience(s)), turning it into a target of 
terror, a target of demands, or a target of attention, depending on whether 
intimidation, coercion, or propaganda is primarily sought" (Schmid, 1988).
 
This definition could apply to the any number of regimes including the 
United States. A country with a sordid human rights record. The same country 
that Martin Luther King once said was the "greatest purveyor of violence in 
the world today". Distinguished MIT Professor Noam Chomsky is one of the 
most vociferous critics of US government policies, he accuses the US of 
being worlds biggest state sponsor of terrorism.  One example Chomsky cites 
is Nicaragua, Americas intervention in Nicaragua fits the ODCCPs definition 
of terrorism like a glove, in the mid nineteen eighties, the CIA partially 
using money earned through drug smuggling, secretly funded a terrorist army 
known as the contras, many of whom were trained in psychological warfare 
tactics (i.e terrorism) at the infamous School of Americas in Fort Bening 
Georgia. 

Waging a covert war against the Nicaraguan civilian population, designed to 
coerce and intimidate nicaraguans into forcing the democratically elected 
Santanista government from office, in 1989 the Santanistas brought their 
case before the world court, the court ruled in the Santanistas favour, 
condemning what they called "unlawful use of force" (i.e. terrorism), and 
ordered the United States to pay $60 billion dollars in war reparations. As 
Chomsky is quick to point out that the United States is the only Nation, to 
have been both condemned by the world court for "unlawful use of force" and 
to have vetoed a UN resolution calling upon members to obeyed by 
international law. 
 
This brings us to a question that the US President George Bush posed to the 
Muslim world, "why do they hate us?". The truth is the Arab world doesn't 
begrudge the United States because of their freedom and prosperity, The 
United States are despised because of their foreign policy. While Osama Bin 
Laden is reprehensible, we all know this, it's unjust to punish a nation 
because of the actions of a recalcitrant few. Bin Laden and his supporter's 
grievances are legitimate. They blame America for 1,000,000 children who 
have according to the World Health Organisation, died in Iraq because of 
harsh economic sanctions. They reproach them for the plight of the 
Palestinians living under illegal Israeli occupation. Thus it isn't 
difficult to conceive why America is so hated around the world.
 
The war in Afganistan smacks of hypocrisy. Which now leads us to the explore 
the machinations behind the war. Let me begin by paraphrasing an article 
that appeared in the BBC on the 18th of September . The Story quotes the 
former Pakistani foreign secretary Niaz Naikas saying he was told by a 
senior American officials in mid-July that military action against 
Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October. Mr Naik said US 
officials told him of the plan at a UN- sponsored international contact 
group on Afghanistan which took place in Berlin. A story appearing in the 
Indian public affairs magazine India Reacts in June of 2001 confirms this 
report, The article announces that India and Iran will "facilitate" the 
planned US-Russia hostilities against the Taliban. 

The war in Afghanistan was being planned months before the attacks. This 
contradicts the official government line that the war in Afghanistan was 
primarily aimed at dismantling the al-quadea terrorist network. The real 
objective was to oust the Taleban from power. One possible motive for doing 
this, is UNOCAL's plans to build an oil pipeline through Afghanistan to 
transport oil from the Caspian to markets in South Asia. This oil pipeline 
would likely be constructed by Haliburton, a company that American 
vice-president Dick Cheney was once the CEO of, and stands to benefit 
enormously. 

It is also worth noting that both the American ambassador to Afghanistan and 
the interim Afghan President are former petroleum negotiators for UNOCAL. 
Central Asia is strategically important, as Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former 
national security advisor for the Carter Administration, says in his 1997 
book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And It's Geostrategic 
Imperatives. "Ever since the continents started interacting politically, 
some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power." - 
p. xiii. Eurasia is all of the territory east of Germany and Poland, 
stretching all the way through Russia and China to the Pacific Ocean. 

It includes the Middle East and most of the Indian subcontinent. The key to 
controlling Eurasia, says Brzezinski, is controlling the Central Asian 
Republics. And the key to controlling the Central Asian republics is 
Uzbekistan". A country that America is now heavily invested in. The Taleban 
is an abonimation, we all know this, but are the Northern Alliance any 
better? According to human rights watch 50,000 civilians died during the 
Northern Alliances rule of kabul from 1992-96.  

Wasn't it also the Northern Alliance that was responsible for introducing 
harsh shira law?. The Taleban even agreed to the initial US demands to hand 
over Bin Laden. Offering America a quid pro quo, agreeing to hand over Bin 
Laden in return for evidence. When this evidence wasn't forthcoming they 
recanted on their offer. To date there has been no unequivocal proof 
convicting Bin Laden or al-quadea of responsibilty for the september 11th 
hijackings.
 
The Bush administration is now threatening to expand the "war on terrorism" 
to other so-called rouge states such as Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Which 
Bush said in his state of the union address to congress, constitute an "axis 
of evil". There has been recent calls by both parties to invade Iraq, Mr 
Bush's vitriol has been received with consternation in the Arab world, Saui 
Arabia has refused to grant the United States access to it's air space, and 
Russia has publicly stated that it will veto any US request to attack Iraq. 

There is also a real danger that an attack on Iraq could provoke a regional 
war. The atrocities of September 11th, have been cynically used by the Bush 
administration as a pretext to pass draconian anti-terrorist legislation 
through congress, abrogating civil liberties, and creating the orwellian 
Office of Homeland Security, which has effectively given carte blanche to 
arrest and detain suspects incommunicado, and monitor electronic 
communication. Another key benefactor of the war on terror has been the 
military industrial complex, before September 11th the Defence Department 
was in dire straights, having never passed a Government audit in the 
departments history, and according to a General Accounting Office (GAO) 
inspector General's report could not account for 2.4 trillion dollars. 

The pentagon was faced with the prospect of massive budget cuts. Post 
September 11th has seen the largest increase in defence spending in US 
history, paving the way for the multi-trillion dollar Antiballistic Missile 
Defence Shield (ABM), that the Federation of American Scientists has said is 
"doomed to fail", and the multi-billion dollar Joint Strike Fighter.
 
Simply put "The war on terrorism" is a farce, a shambolic attempt to plunder 
third world resources, and extend American hegemony. The war has 
destabilised Asia, setting dangerous precedents, allowing any Nation to 
attack another Nation on the grounds of combating terrorism, as has been 
recently seen in Pakistan and India, and is currently being seen in Israel. 
When will military leaders learn, that Violence only begets violence. If the 
United States is serious about ending terrorism, Instead of bombing innocent 
Afghan civilians. The US government should withdraw it's support for 
despotic regimes, and stop imposing it's will on smaller nations. The 
leaders of the world should be focusing on waging peace, not war! However 
There can be no lasting peace without justice, and a recognition of the 
privations of the millions of oppressed around the world. Then and only 
then, will there be an end to terrorism. As Ghandi said "An eye for an eye 
makes the whole world blind". What is needed now more then ever is justice 
not revenge.