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>So why does unfree stuff happen to free Iraqis? >Why are they being discriminated against by their >liberators? I must admit I have noticed a growing sense of impatience and frustration lately. There have been so many of these sorts of messages for so long -- these arguments and refutations to the schemes and lies -- that it has become like one slap after another, with no end in sight. While such messages may be useful for those who are just beginning to wake to the truth, for most of us on this list, they are redundant. The time has come for all to rub our eyes and shake ourselves fully awake, and see the reality. Bush, his friends, the corporate heads and political bandits of the world are quite simply trying to take control of everything and institute world-wide fascism. All of these refutations merely cater to their efforts to frame the contexts of discussion and action. It all comes down to one thing, really: the madmen want all the power and wealth and will do what they can to take it. It's a like a small child eating up all the cake, while we say that they should not do that. They argue they are not eating ALL the cake, because there is still some left. They argue that they are only eating their fair share, and argue what is fair, and how much they were cheated out of the last cake, and how the fat people should get less, and on and on. Each argument has a sound refutation, but while the argument goes on, they continue to eat. We end up arguing with the child, on the child's terms. The child has already won the argument, however, because the child has realized that as long as the argument continues the cake is disappearing, and soon the argument will be over when the cake is all gone. The proper response is to grab the child by shirt collar and confine him to his room, and to stop him from eating. The question we have now is how to do that. Not whether it needs to be done, not if we can win the argument, not if we should continue to even listen to the lies he tells, but how to stop him, confine him. We -- the world -- are faced with the newest rise of insane fascist forces. We already know where it is going and how it will work, if we admit it to ourselves. It is nothing new. The reality is simple: we can do everything we can to stop it, or we will be plunged into fascism for an indeterminate future, at which time it will be too late and we will have to wait for it to gradually die out in a long and painful struggle of attrition -- finally exploding in bloody revolution. Considering the technology and the breadth of power, the world may not survive it this time. We, all of us, have to choose -- or the choice will be made for us, and we won't like it. It will take a great many of us working together, and we need to get a lot of people to choose, but there isn't much time left. We must decide how it can be stopped, and do it. Let's start talking about strategy! ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk