A great poet once wrote:
Take up the white man’s burden,
The savage wars of peace,
Fill up the mouth of famine,
And bid the sickness cease.
There is much food for thought here. You are indeed fighting ‘the savage wars of peace’, so savage that peace is an almost unimaginable outcome, and the savagery is beyond belief. And it is indeed the ‘white man’s burden’, the burden of white, Anglo-Saxon, protestants and all the gallant people’s of the West, whatever their colour. You must not flinch from accepting that burden, from taking on the mantle of the white Empire of Light, the successor to the great Empires of the past. You must once more go forth as the soldiers and missionaries did in the past, the warriors of the civilizing process.
Yet we have to admit that we are less persuaded by the next two lines. They suggest a way of fighting the wars and shouldering the burden to which we have always paid lip service, but been less interested in as an effective way of dealing with your problem.
It is true that the world is full of hunger and poverty and even of famine. Several million died of famine in one unreformed communist power alone in the 1990s. But in that case, you sensibly let them starve rather than give in to any weak idea that to feed or raise the sanctions on them might have shown your generosity and earnest friendship and hence defused tensions.
It is true that millions die unnecessary deaths from tuberculosis, malaria, dysentery and now AIDS. It is obvious that unspeakable suffering from preventable diseases, from blindness and many other conditions could be hugely reduced if you wished to spend even a small part of your wealth on research and medicines, rather than on weapons of war. Yet, you do not take this course, which could damage the west’s pharmaceutical industries and divert precious funds, and might even make the disease racked population a threat to your supremacy.
Jesus rightly suggested that the poor would always be with us. He didn’t actually say it would be a good thing if they were, but some might see a tone of approval here, and your religious orders have always glorified poverty (or at least for others). If you’re to be rich and powerful in this resource-scarce world it is perhaps a necessary evil that the majority of the world should remain poor. It certainly inhibits them from buying the tanks and aeroplanes and other weapons which would seriously threaten us.
So the current strategy, which is to spend billions (500 billion dollars a year on ‘defence’ in the U.S. currently) on military approaches, spy satellites, intelligence, imprisoning and other methods, and to use almost all your energy, time and thought on this, seems right. It is right even if the famines, diseases, terrible housing, gruelling work and general misery of half the world’s population cannot be seriously addressed. Remember that you’re not social workers or philanthropists. You are fighting a war against the Evil One. You may occasionally pledge to commit ourselves to alleviating the misery in parts of the world. This is a useful gesture. But, of course, you don’t have the time or resources to follow through seriously on this.
There are naïve people who say that you should try to understand the causes of the radical attacks on us. They innocently suggest that if you tried to deal with ignorance, poverty, misery, hopelessness, people might hate us less. They seem to think that you have the time to work at the deep roots of injustice and inequality. But you do not have the times, nor the plans. You need sensational, fast, short-cuts.
The wishy-washy idealists seem to think that you could correct the inequality of the world without losing something, which is clearly unrealistic. If you were to give the other half of the world which lives on a pittance even a part of your wealth to bring them up to half the average consumption of the west, you would have to make drastic changes to your way of life.
You would have to economize, eat less meat, drive smaller cars, turn down the air-conditioning, have less weapons. So you would have to give up civilization as you know it. You would have to treat these other people as equals, as humans of the same level as us, instead of as a rather miserable inferior species. Even if you seriously wanted to do this ourselves, how could you possibly sell the idea to your populations?
Furthermore, there is little glory or even political capital to be derived from trying to solve the problems of world poverty and disease. They are worth ideals no doubt, but who wants to be like the Scandinavian countries with their large overseas budgets and zero political power, boring philanthropists with unmemorable rulers? No, what you must do is to chose the path of war, taking the battle to your enemies.
For you must remember that all this talk of the ‘roots’ of attacks on us being the miseries and injustices of the world is a smokescreen. What these people hate is not that they are poor, but that you’re rich. They want to drag us all down to their own level. They hate what they call your materialism and overblown consumerism, what they call your ‘Coke and McDonald’s’ culture. They hate your open society (though perhaps they would hate it less if they knew how much you secretly censor and put pressure on dissident thought).
These enemies hate your freedom, for example the freedom of your women to compete in a man’s world on roughly equal terms. They hate your youth-culture, the huge consumption of alcohol, the rapidly increasing use of drugs, the pornography and open sex. They hate your endless pursuit of bodily pleasures, your obsession with money, your philistinism as they see it, your gambling, your obesity and your waste. Their hates are deep and irrational, just as were those of the poor mumbling witches with their irritating requests and malevolent, critical, eyes.
No amount of helping them to get decent schools, jobs, hospitals, food and clean water would affect this hatred. So it is not worth trying this approach. Concentrate on the bombs and bullets, on walls and high technology defences, and the kingdom of heaven will be with you.
The final misapprehension is that you want to win this war against terrorism. Christ’s battle with Satan never ends. If it were not this war, it would be another. When the Evil Empire of Communism posed a real threat, you knew where you were. For a few confusing years after its collapse you seemed to have won. One famous thinker with the big American intelligence agency the RAND corporation even wrote a book on ‘The End of History’. The war was over. Capitalism had won. He did not seem to realize what this would do to western economies whose main export and wealth now came from fighting. So, economic (and social) disaster loomed.
Although some have disputed its reality, the ‘Report from Iron Mountain’, which is on the internet, sets out cogently, if hypothetically, why the end of war would be an unacceptable disaster for America. If you do not know this forthright and realistic account of how America cannot afford peace, you should look at it.
Fortunately Satan chose that moment to launch his next attack. Now you have found an even better foe who can never be beaten. The more you throw ourselves against Him, the more, hydra-headed, He grows. Redouble the efforts, man the defences. Fight the good fight with all your might. There is no time for remorse, there is no alternative to the Christian battle against the Empire of Evil.
Thursday, 11 January 2007
Tuesday, 9 January 2007
2:2 How to conceal your motives effectively.
A second difficulty is to conceal another part of your motivation. It is clear to all of you that you are chosen by God to defend your world. No other leader could do it so well. You have tasted power and know its sweetness. People treat you with real respect and seldom argue with you. Even if some of you in your past were often people of mediocre abilities, who would not be very successful in any other sphere of life, you have found your true vocation. Usually by chance, you have become the focus of much wider forces and powers.
Huge sums of money and expertise are channelled into your hands. You are regarded with awe and have rightly come to regard yourselves seriously. You know the answers. Your enemies are fools, or worse. It is your destiny to lead. Day by day and adulation by adulation, this conviction grows. Your courtiers make sure that you are sheltered from the critics and the realities. They flatter and press you on in your grand crusade.
After a time you begin to realize that the terrorists are not just your countries enemies, but your personal enemies. If they succeed, you will lose your power. Why should they hate you so?
Fortunately, your enemies provide an opportunity rather than a threat. In the well-worn tradition of political behaviour, you should be masculine, aggressive, confident, even a bit swaggering in your walk and talk. You should not show any signs of weakness, any ‘on the one hand or the other’, any reasonableness towards the infidels. This image of machismo man is what you should pursue.
Model yourself on other heroes, in reality and fiction. Remember Richard the Lion Heart, ‘Braveheart’, Batman (for you each have your ‘Robin’), Superman, Rambo and others. Walk tall, posture, grin, fill your speeches with threatening words and military or hunting metaphors and your population will love it. They will soon forget that much of this is designed for your own preservation and furtherance of your power and fame. They will hopefully not notice too much that if you really cared about their good, you would often have to apologise for your mistakes. If possible, forget the very concept of apology.
This may sound difficult, but we have seen some of you are masters of the art. For example, we heard the leader of the world’s greatest power, after a particularly disastrous intervention and many palpably terrible domestic errors, asked if there was anything he regretted doing, any mistakes he had made. After being dumb-struck at the very idea for a couple of minutes, he sensibly replied, no, he couldn’t think of anything at all he should apologise for – except perhaps for the fact that he had nothing to apologise for. Great stuff.
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So your problem is that your real motives are mixed and only vaguely overlap with your publicly stated motives. Your speeches are sensibly filled out with empty generalities which come in handy in every situation. You talk of ‘freedom’ (without defining for whom, how, why and what). You speak of ‘democracy’, without ever bothering to specify what that means. You proclaim ‘peace’ (after bloody war), ‘our civilization’ (meaning your way of life). Of course they are all wonderful, like mother love and apple pie. But intrinsically, unfortunately, they are so vague that they are not conspicuously more satisfactory than the vague objectives of your enemies.
For example, the ‘Evil Empire’ of Communism proclaimed that it would spread, equality, fraternity and liberty through the total involvement of the people in the running of the system. You rightly spurned those empty and hypocritical claims. Yours are true, and worthy, of course, theirs false. But it is difficult to prove.
Though at times you seek to persuade yourself that these large values are what you are fighting for, you are caught with the difficulty that even these glorious aims have to be sacrificed if they conflict with a higher cause. If a country elects a President who is part of the Axis of Evil, you need to replace him with a dictator, even if democracy’s glorious cause is cut short. If freedom from hunger, disease, poverty and fear is made more difficult by your sanctions and bombs, then these freedoms must be temporarily suspended in pursuit of the larger freedom of opening up their markets to your goods.
After all, the half a million children and others who are reported to have been killed by your blockade of Iraq’s food and medicine was perfectly reasonable. ‘They’ had a choice. ‘They’ could have listened to you and got rid of their leader, and lifted the sanctions. As for ‘peace’, that may have to be postponed indefinitely. Peace is a luxury which you can only glimpse at the rainbow’s end.
So though you have the sound conviction of your high and patriotic motives, you know that the war is about much more than what you can publicly speak. It is about oil, it is about trade, it is about influencing people to be positive about your imperial ambitions. And above all it is about your rule. You must not apologise because, unlike all other fallible mortals, you are above error. What you do is automatically right. You could be described as ‘moral supermen’. You sincerely believe in yourselves as trustworthy, good, guys. You have inherited the mantle of the our blessed Father the Pope who has always been infallible.
This self-belief is essential. Where would Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Mao have got without self-belief? Like them, you are full of sincerity. You rightly believe that God is on your side, calling and guiding you. You have a mission on earth. You are the called, the Elect. You join the blessed tradition. And if some filthy infidels and non-persons stands in your way, you should trample them down. You are St. George. Politics is a large game of ‘Dungeons and Dragons’. You have your dungeons, they are the Dragons. Go forth to conquest.
Huge sums of money and expertise are channelled into your hands. You are regarded with awe and have rightly come to regard yourselves seriously. You know the answers. Your enemies are fools, or worse. It is your destiny to lead. Day by day and adulation by adulation, this conviction grows. Your courtiers make sure that you are sheltered from the critics and the realities. They flatter and press you on in your grand crusade.
After a time you begin to realize that the terrorists are not just your countries enemies, but your personal enemies. If they succeed, you will lose your power. Why should they hate you so?
Fortunately, your enemies provide an opportunity rather than a threat. In the well-worn tradition of political behaviour, you should be masculine, aggressive, confident, even a bit swaggering in your walk and talk. You should not show any signs of weakness, any ‘on the one hand or the other’, any reasonableness towards the infidels. This image of machismo man is what you should pursue.
Model yourself on other heroes, in reality and fiction. Remember Richard the Lion Heart, ‘Braveheart’, Batman (for you each have your ‘Robin’), Superman, Rambo and others. Walk tall, posture, grin, fill your speeches with threatening words and military or hunting metaphors and your population will love it. They will soon forget that much of this is designed for your own preservation and furtherance of your power and fame. They will hopefully not notice too much that if you really cared about their good, you would often have to apologise for your mistakes. If possible, forget the very concept of apology.
This may sound difficult, but we have seen some of you are masters of the art. For example, we heard the leader of the world’s greatest power, after a particularly disastrous intervention and many palpably terrible domestic errors, asked if there was anything he regretted doing, any mistakes he had made. After being dumb-struck at the very idea for a couple of minutes, he sensibly replied, no, he couldn’t think of anything at all he should apologise for – except perhaps for the fact that he had nothing to apologise for. Great stuff.
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So your problem is that your real motives are mixed and only vaguely overlap with your publicly stated motives. Your speeches are sensibly filled out with empty generalities which come in handy in every situation. You talk of ‘freedom’ (without defining for whom, how, why and what). You speak of ‘democracy’, without ever bothering to specify what that means. You proclaim ‘peace’ (after bloody war), ‘our civilization’ (meaning your way of life). Of course they are all wonderful, like mother love and apple pie. But intrinsically, unfortunately, they are so vague that they are not conspicuously more satisfactory than the vague objectives of your enemies.
For example, the ‘Evil Empire’ of Communism proclaimed that it would spread, equality, fraternity and liberty through the total involvement of the people in the running of the system. You rightly spurned those empty and hypocritical claims. Yours are true, and worthy, of course, theirs false. But it is difficult to prove.
Though at times you seek to persuade yourself that these large values are what you are fighting for, you are caught with the difficulty that even these glorious aims have to be sacrificed if they conflict with a higher cause. If a country elects a President who is part of the Axis of Evil, you need to replace him with a dictator, even if democracy’s glorious cause is cut short. If freedom from hunger, disease, poverty and fear is made more difficult by your sanctions and bombs, then these freedoms must be temporarily suspended in pursuit of the larger freedom of opening up their markets to your goods.
After all, the half a million children and others who are reported to have been killed by your blockade of Iraq’s food and medicine was perfectly reasonable. ‘They’ had a choice. ‘They’ could have listened to you and got rid of their leader, and lifted the sanctions. As for ‘peace’, that may have to be postponed indefinitely. Peace is a luxury which you can only glimpse at the rainbow’s end.
So though you have the sound conviction of your high and patriotic motives, you know that the war is about much more than what you can publicly speak. It is about oil, it is about trade, it is about influencing people to be positive about your imperial ambitions. And above all it is about your rule. You must not apologise because, unlike all other fallible mortals, you are above error. What you do is automatically right. You could be described as ‘moral supermen’. You sincerely believe in yourselves as trustworthy, good, guys. You have inherited the mantle of the our blessed Father the Pope who has always been infallible.
This self-belief is essential. Where would Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Mao have got without self-belief? Like them, you are full of sincerity. You rightly believe that God is on your side, calling and guiding you. You have a mission on earth. You are the called, the Elect. You join the blessed tradition. And if some filthy infidels and non-persons stands in your way, you should trample them down. You are St. George. Politics is a large game of ‘Dungeons and Dragons’. You have your dungeons, they are the Dragons. Go forth to conquest.
Sunday, 7 January 2007
2:1 What are your real motives?
One thing people often say is that while you pretend to be fighting to protect your citizens from their enemies, or pretend to be spreading freedom and democracy, lofty enough motives, in fact you are largely concerned with political and economic aggrandisement. They say you are mainly trying to extend your Empire and obtain precious resources such as oil and minerals in order to maintain your high standard of living.
This is not easy to refute for several reasons. Firstly, it often quickly becomes apparent that your actions only stir up fresh dangers and new terrorist anger. They do not appear to make the world safer, but attract terrorism. So it is a little difficult at first sight to say that your actions are to protect us from your enemies, or, if they are, they are a bad way of doing it. Secondly, it usually appears that the original fear which you used to justify your attacks were grossly exaggerated, if not entirely invented. You have counter-attacked against the wrong enemy, or without cause.
Thirdly, the idea of bringing peace, civilization and democracy seems a little hollow as events unfold. As your peoples watch the destroyed buildings, gutted schools, razed fields, frightened and wounded and hungry people in the places you go out to ‘save’, they may wonder for a moment whether civilization and democracy can be or is being installed in the way you promised.
They may even wonder whether you have got it the wrong way round. They may be seduced into thinking that just giving people the right to vote without any of the underpinnings of democracy cannot work. They may suggest that you should help other countries, even if you may not like their politics, to create peace, reasonable taxes and a decent judicial system first, and then democracy may well emerge, as it did in your civilizations. Democracy was not imposed on England or America, it grew organically, they will say.
The difficulty with refuting these objections also arises from another problem. This is that while in logic these criticisms are right, they miss the wider context and are based on naïve and liberal beliefs which cannot be sustained in your world.
Of course you want and need the oil. How can you fight your crusade against Terror if you do not have the fuel for your bombers and tanks? And how can you live a civilized life without consuming a large part of the world’s oil supply? How can a decent American or British way of life be led without consuming fifty times as much energy per capita in a lifetime than an average Indian or African? So you need the oil for civilization, for defending the democratic way and, if we may say so, for promoting Christ’s Kingdom.
It is a good axiom that ‘he who wills the ends must will the means’. The ends are the glory of God and your way of life. You must will the means, which are controlling the oil wells, driving out settlers on your borders, destroying those who try to separate themselves off from us, especially if they might have access to precious resources. Unfortunately, such is the innocence and idealism of your population, that if you said you were mainly fighting for oil, that would be regarded negatively by some. So do not say ‘you wanted the oil’, but do make sure you get it.
This is not easy to refute for several reasons. Firstly, it often quickly becomes apparent that your actions only stir up fresh dangers and new terrorist anger. They do not appear to make the world safer, but attract terrorism. So it is a little difficult at first sight to say that your actions are to protect us from your enemies, or, if they are, they are a bad way of doing it. Secondly, it usually appears that the original fear which you used to justify your attacks were grossly exaggerated, if not entirely invented. You have counter-attacked against the wrong enemy, or without cause.
Thirdly, the idea of bringing peace, civilization and democracy seems a little hollow as events unfold. As your peoples watch the destroyed buildings, gutted schools, razed fields, frightened and wounded and hungry people in the places you go out to ‘save’, they may wonder for a moment whether civilization and democracy can be or is being installed in the way you promised.
They may even wonder whether you have got it the wrong way round. They may be seduced into thinking that just giving people the right to vote without any of the underpinnings of democracy cannot work. They may suggest that you should help other countries, even if you may not like their politics, to create peace, reasonable taxes and a decent judicial system first, and then democracy may well emerge, as it did in your civilizations. Democracy was not imposed on England or America, it grew organically, they will say.
The difficulty with refuting these objections also arises from another problem. This is that while in logic these criticisms are right, they miss the wider context and are based on naïve and liberal beliefs which cannot be sustained in your world.
Of course you want and need the oil. How can you fight your crusade against Terror if you do not have the fuel for your bombers and tanks? And how can you live a civilized life without consuming a large part of the world’s oil supply? How can a decent American or British way of life be led without consuming fifty times as much energy per capita in a lifetime than an average Indian or African? So you need the oil for civilization, for defending the democratic way and, if we may say so, for promoting Christ’s Kingdom.
It is a good axiom that ‘he who wills the ends must will the means’. The ends are the glory of God and your way of life. You must will the means, which are controlling the oil wells, driving out settlers on your borders, destroying those who try to separate themselves off from us, especially if they might have access to precious resources. Unfortunately, such is the innocence and idealism of your population, that if you said you were mainly fighting for oil, that would be regarded negatively by some. So do not say ‘you wanted the oil’, but do make sure you get it.
Friday, 5 January 2007
1:5 Do you know what real evil is like?
So it seems from your words and your actions that you take the threats seriously, but do you yet know how very serious they are? You talk of ‘Evil’ frequently, and it is clear that you see that what faces you is horrible, a vast and threatening attack on Our World. But at times we feel that with your rather materialistic backgrounds and lack of training in theology, you do not yet fully understand what a cosmic battle we are engaged in.
Our enemies are not just misguided political extremists. They are bestial, depraved and perverted humans. Indeed we should not think of them as humans. We shall give further advice on how to get your populations to think of them as sub-human, but in the meantime we note that you have started to make some progress in this direction (we have seen the photographs).
Your techniques of keeping those captured in tiny cages, exposed to the wind and rain and without privacy is a good start. The setting of dogs upon them as if they were wild beasts who were being hunted down is another good technique. By urinating on them as if they were toilets you show their sub-human level. By putting leads on them as if they were animals and pulling them around, you rightly indicate to everyone that they are just like a dog or cat. By making them commit grossly indecent acts with each other in front of you and with video cameras at the ready, you liken them to performing apes. These methods should, ideally, be extended to a much wider range of those captured. Beasts deserve bestial treatment.
Yet your materialism and watered down religion may make it difficult for you to realize that they are not just non-persons in the sense of being animals, but also that spiritually they are not humans. We do not mean that the majority of them are infidels – Chechens, Palestinians, Afghanis, Iraquis, Iranians, North Koreans – and so on. That is bad enough, but some of you are also not of the true Catholic faith, and your ancestors came from godless lands. What we mean here is that their inner essence, their ‘souls’, have been eaten away. They are ‘devils’, with devilish powers to threaten us. Their aim is not the political independence or fair treatment which they proclaim, but rather to destroy our very souls, to lead us in the pit of damnation, to take us from Christ.
Let us remind you of Evil. It is sleepless, pitiless, anti-matter. It prowls and schemes and hates. It uses secrecy, the night, the merciless logic of insanity. We cannot understand its motives, or listen to its words. All we can do is, in your language (and we shall return to refining that language later), to ‘eradicate’ it (like weeds), hunt it down, trap, kill and wipe it off the earth.
We must always remember that by joining with Evil, by making the fatal compact with the Devil, our enemies have put themselves outside the moral fence. They have had their humanity sucked out of them. They may seem like humans on the surface, but are really monsters, zombies, the living dead, vampires. Think of the Lord of Mordor, of Voldemort in Harry Potter, the Joker in Batman, of all your worst nightmares since childhood. And be in dread.
So, because they are non-human and out to steal our souls as well as our civilization, we must not flinch in our task. Christ’s empire must flourish, civilization must not sink. Exterminate all Evil. That is your task. Never forget it.
Our enemies are not just misguided political extremists. They are bestial, depraved and perverted humans. Indeed we should not think of them as humans. We shall give further advice on how to get your populations to think of them as sub-human, but in the meantime we note that you have started to make some progress in this direction (we have seen the photographs).
Your techniques of keeping those captured in tiny cages, exposed to the wind and rain and without privacy is a good start. The setting of dogs upon them as if they were wild beasts who were being hunted down is another good technique. By urinating on them as if they were toilets you show their sub-human level. By putting leads on them as if they were animals and pulling them around, you rightly indicate to everyone that they are just like a dog or cat. By making them commit grossly indecent acts with each other in front of you and with video cameras at the ready, you liken them to performing apes. These methods should, ideally, be extended to a much wider range of those captured. Beasts deserve bestial treatment.
Yet your materialism and watered down religion may make it difficult for you to realize that they are not just non-persons in the sense of being animals, but also that spiritually they are not humans. We do not mean that the majority of them are infidels – Chechens, Palestinians, Afghanis, Iraquis, Iranians, North Koreans – and so on. That is bad enough, but some of you are also not of the true Catholic faith, and your ancestors came from godless lands. What we mean here is that their inner essence, their ‘souls’, have been eaten away. They are ‘devils’, with devilish powers to threaten us. Their aim is not the political independence or fair treatment which they proclaim, but rather to destroy our very souls, to lead us in the pit of damnation, to take us from Christ.
Let us remind you of Evil. It is sleepless, pitiless, anti-matter. It prowls and schemes and hates. It uses secrecy, the night, the merciless logic of insanity. We cannot understand its motives, or listen to its words. All we can do is, in your language (and we shall return to refining that language later), to ‘eradicate’ it (like weeds), hunt it down, trap, kill and wipe it off the earth.
We must always remember that by joining with Evil, by making the fatal compact with the Devil, our enemies have put themselves outside the moral fence. They have had their humanity sucked out of them. They may seem like humans on the surface, but are really monsters, zombies, the living dead, vampires. Think of the Lord of Mordor, of Voldemort in Harry Potter, the Joker in Batman, of all your worst nightmares since childhood. And be in dread.
So, because they are non-human and out to steal our souls as well as our civilization, we must not flinch in our task. Christ’s empire must flourish, civilization must not sink. Exterminate all Evil. That is your task. Never forget it.
Wednesday, 3 January 2007
1:4 The nature of the war on evil
Let us remind you of the nature of the war you have proclaimed and the fact that you are engaged in a great and glorious cause. This is especially important since you will know that the assorted enemies you have taken on try to undermine your work by issuing specific and apparently plausible demands, they attempt to make you fight on many fronts and without any coherence. This is one problem for you.
For example, the Chechens are very different from the majority population of Russia and their traditions and history lead most of them to wish to have a separate state. Other fragments of the old Soviet Union like them escaped to freedom, but through chance they did not. Their demand to be separate, they say, would not threaten Russia and indeed from time to time they have been granted near autonomy. Yet their arguments are, obviously, just a ploy.
You can deflect all criticisms of your severe treatment of these peoples by pointing out that in reality they are part of an Islamic fundamentalist conspiracy with deep links to the evil organization which keeps changing its name, but is currently called al-Qaeda. So you can easily show that they are not, and should not be, treated as nationalists, but terrorists. We should not listen to their surface requests. They are clearly part of the Axis of Evil and whatever general methods are permissible against terrorists are to be used to destroy these vermin.
Or again, some might listen to the arguments of the Palestinians for a separate State based on earlier agreements. They might feel that in the face of overwhelming military power and endless encroachments, the building of walls that cut off their farm lands, the destruction of their olives and crops, they have no way to react but to use the methods of those they consider to be the aggressors, but, as one definition of a terrorist puts it, they are fighters without air-power. Subject to assassinations, the bullet and the bomb, they act in the same way.
Yet obviously we should not listen to their whining pleas for fair-handed treatment or their harping on about U.N. resolutions requiring Israel to pull back to an agreed border and remove the settlements. We know that the Palestinian militants are really part of the same grand conspiracy, and indeed Palestine is one of the chief swamps where these vermin breed.
Even one of the great servants of Satan, Bin Laden himself, put forward requests which have deceived some. Foolish people suggest that if we had tried to deal with some of the grievances he put forward, this war might have been avoided. He says that all he wants is fair treatment for Palestine and the removal of the American troops from the most sacred holy land of Saudi Arabia (that was all I thought? Mecca lies in SA). But obviously this is just a cover, not to be listened to for a moment. We know that really he and his followers hate and envy us. They want to destroy all that we stand for. They hate consumerism, capitalism, what they call the decadence of our lives. They are Evil and we should have no truck with evil. We should shut our ears to its seductive tones and resolutely turn away from self-examination or any listening to their woes.
Of course you know all this, and you know that the situation is now particularly grave because the weapons available to those who hate us are so lethal. In our time, the weapons were equally serious – plagues, storms, locusts – but the means by which they were brought into operation were magical and mysterious. Now both the weapons and the ways to use them are easy to find.
So you are well aware of the gravity of the situation, especially after the obscenity of the bomb attack of 9/ll on the ‘Twin Towers’. That shock is particularly undermining since, while we know that it is part of the international conspiracy of Evil which links all our enemies, it has been impossible to find any connection to another major fiend, Saddam Hussein. Of course you had to cover-up this absence of any link, and to constantly imply, hint, suggest a link so that, in the end, without ever seeing any proof, people became convinced that Saddam had planned the attack. This is just the kind of deceit which is unfortunately both necessary and justified in our war, as we shall explain. We had to use deceits to trick the witches and Satan in our time, and you must do the same.
For example, the Chechens are very different from the majority population of Russia and their traditions and history lead most of them to wish to have a separate state. Other fragments of the old Soviet Union like them escaped to freedom, but through chance they did not. Their demand to be separate, they say, would not threaten Russia and indeed from time to time they have been granted near autonomy. Yet their arguments are, obviously, just a ploy.
You can deflect all criticisms of your severe treatment of these peoples by pointing out that in reality they are part of an Islamic fundamentalist conspiracy with deep links to the evil organization which keeps changing its name, but is currently called al-Qaeda. So you can easily show that they are not, and should not be, treated as nationalists, but terrorists. We should not listen to their surface requests. They are clearly part of the Axis of Evil and whatever general methods are permissible against terrorists are to be used to destroy these vermin.
Or again, some might listen to the arguments of the Palestinians for a separate State based on earlier agreements. They might feel that in the face of overwhelming military power and endless encroachments, the building of walls that cut off their farm lands, the destruction of their olives and crops, they have no way to react but to use the methods of those they consider to be the aggressors, but, as one definition of a terrorist puts it, they are fighters without air-power. Subject to assassinations, the bullet and the bomb, they act in the same way.
Yet obviously we should not listen to their whining pleas for fair-handed treatment or their harping on about U.N. resolutions requiring Israel to pull back to an agreed border and remove the settlements. We know that the Palestinian militants are really part of the same grand conspiracy, and indeed Palestine is one of the chief swamps where these vermin breed.
Even one of the great servants of Satan, Bin Laden himself, put forward requests which have deceived some. Foolish people suggest that if we had tried to deal with some of the grievances he put forward, this war might have been avoided. He says that all he wants is fair treatment for Palestine and the removal of the American troops from the most sacred holy land of Saudi Arabia (that was all I thought? Mecca lies in SA). But obviously this is just a cover, not to be listened to for a moment. We know that really he and his followers hate and envy us. They want to destroy all that we stand for. They hate consumerism, capitalism, what they call the decadence of our lives. They are Evil and we should have no truck with evil. We should shut our ears to its seductive tones and resolutely turn away from self-examination or any listening to their woes.
Of course you know all this, and you know that the situation is now particularly grave because the weapons available to those who hate us are so lethal. In our time, the weapons were equally serious – plagues, storms, locusts – but the means by which they were brought into operation were magical and mysterious. Now both the weapons and the ways to use them are easy to find.
So you are well aware of the gravity of the situation, especially after the obscenity of the bomb attack of 9/ll on the ‘Twin Towers’. That shock is particularly undermining since, while we know that it is part of the international conspiracy of Evil which links all our enemies, it has been impossible to find any connection to another major fiend, Saddam Hussein. Of course you had to cover-up this absence of any link, and to constantly imply, hint, suggest a link so that, in the end, without ever seeing any proof, people became convinced that Saddam had planned the attack. This is just the kind of deceit which is unfortunately both necessary and justified in our war, as we shall explain. We had to use deceits to trick the witches and Satan in our time, and you must do the same.
Monday, 1 January 2007
1:3 How to deal with criticisms of your war
Another reason we write is that it seems to us that you need to be armed more explicitly against the arguments of doubters and critics. Remember that you are facing the Evil One himself, who is behind the terrorist plots on earth. He is ever seeking to pollute and corrupt human minds and especially those misguided minds of certain Professors, Lawyers and other so-called human rights and civil liberties groups who will, among other things, try to obtain copies of this secret Manual if they hear of its existence.
Satan will feed these critics with plausible criticisms of your Godly work and these, if unrefuted, may stir up resistance in the Gadarene swine whom you lead. We ourselves encountered this in our work in Germany where many doubters objected – until the Holy Innocent VIII armed us with his papal bull and condemned them as heretics. Things are not as easy for you, as yet, so you need to have considered all the possible objections to your work and have rebuttals ready. We provided a few for the authorities in our Hammer of Evil, and we will do this for you in two special chapters of factual ‘question and answer’ (FQA) advice so that you are well prepared to counter the insidious claims of your critics.
We should also warn you that Satan is not above tempting you, yourselves. There will be moments when you doubt. When you see young children screaming in pain in the hospitals of an infidel country you have bombed to rid our world of Evil, or hear that some of your soldiers have tortured prisoners in ways that exceed your orders, or watch beautiful objects, buildings and priceless writings smashed and burnt, you may falter. When you hesitate and wonder about the cost, we can encourage and console you.
We ourselves in the witchcraft prosecutions heard the screams of fair young maidens and children on the wrack or as they were being burnt alive protesting their innocence. We also had our momentary doubts. Yet we fortified ourselves in Christ. We shall advise you how to keep resolute, how to make a realistic estimate of the relations between the glorious Ends and the often painful means. And we shall remind you that as Christ was reviled and scorned in his time, yet suffered in his cause, your rewards will not only be on this earth (as we believe will also be the case), but ultimately in fame in the future and in a blessed Eternity in Heaven.
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We feel spurred on to write because no such Manual has come to our attention. We also write because while we can praise your efforts so far, we feel that you have only just commenced your mighty task. There is evidence enough that while the major part of the twentieth century was pre-occupied by wars between you all and the vicious disciples of the Jewish prophet Karl Marx, much of the twenty-first century and beyond will be concerned with the new war on terrorism.
You do not really seem fully aware of what still remains to be organized in order to set up a full-scale war against the Axis of Evil. You seem both to underestimate your deadly Foe, and perhaps still retain a lingering desire to be seen to be liberal, democratic, rulers in the western tradition.
Of course you should aim for this appearance. Your populations are not overnight going to switch from their old-fashioned adherence to the godless and liberal political systems which they were brought up in. But we would like to point out the implications of your grand undertaking and where it must lead you to if you are to win. So we will show you how to gain the necessary powers, political, legal and military, while keeping up a semblance of democratic and open civilization for your still too nostalgic a people, strangely wedded to an outmoded fashion from an earlier age. By examining the foremost proponents of those old-fashioned views, the doubtful adherents to liberty, as well as the more realistic and useful manuals on politics and war by great thinkers, we can synthesize a useful set of tools for your great task.
Satan will feed these critics with plausible criticisms of your Godly work and these, if unrefuted, may stir up resistance in the Gadarene swine whom you lead. We ourselves encountered this in our work in Germany where many doubters objected – until the Holy Innocent VIII armed us with his papal bull and condemned them as heretics. Things are not as easy for you, as yet, so you need to have considered all the possible objections to your work and have rebuttals ready. We provided a few for the authorities in our Hammer of Evil, and we will do this for you in two special chapters of factual ‘question and answer’ (FQA) advice so that you are well prepared to counter the insidious claims of your critics.
We should also warn you that Satan is not above tempting you, yourselves. There will be moments when you doubt. When you see young children screaming in pain in the hospitals of an infidel country you have bombed to rid our world of Evil, or hear that some of your soldiers have tortured prisoners in ways that exceed your orders, or watch beautiful objects, buildings and priceless writings smashed and burnt, you may falter. When you hesitate and wonder about the cost, we can encourage and console you.
We ourselves in the witchcraft prosecutions heard the screams of fair young maidens and children on the wrack or as they were being burnt alive protesting their innocence. We also had our momentary doubts. Yet we fortified ourselves in Christ. We shall advise you how to keep resolute, how to make a realistic estimate of the relations between the glorious Ends and the often painful means. And we shall remind you that as Christ was reviled and scorned in his time, yet suffered in his cause, your rewards will not only be on this earth (as we believe will also be the case), but ultimately in fame in the future and in a blessed Eternity in Heaven.
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We feel spurred on to write because no such Manual has come to our attention. We also write because while we can praise your efforts so far, we feel that you have only just commenced your mighty task. There is evidence enough that while the major part of the twentieth century was pre-occupied by wars between you all and the vicious disciples of the Jewish prophet Karl Marx, much of the twenty-first century and beyond will be concerned with the new war on terrorism.
You do not really seem fully aware of what still remains to be organized in order to set up a full-scale war against the Axis of Evil. You seem both to underestimate your deadly Foe, and perhaps still retain a lingering desire to be seen to be liberal, democratic, rulers in the western tradition.
Of course you should aim for this appearance. Your populations are not overnight going to switch from their old-fashioned adherence to the godless and liberal political systems which they were brought up in. But we would like to point out the implications of your grand undertaking and where it must lead you to if you are to win. So we will show you how to gain the necessary powers, political, legal and military, while keeping up a semblance of democratic and open civilization for your still too nostalgic a people, strangely wedded to an outmoded fashion from an earlier age. By examining the foremost proponents of those old-fashioned views, the doubtful adherents to liberty, as well as the more realistic and useful manuals on politics and war by great thinkers, we can synthesize a useful set of tools for your great task.
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