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Photo: 750 women naked for peace, Australia
by Pip Wilson
Saturday, Feb. 08, 2003 at 5:23 PM
Photo: 750 women naked for peace, Australia Photo: http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/ Saturday February 8, 2003, Australia More than 750 women lie nude on a hillside at Byron Bayon, on the New South Wales north coast about 200 km ( miles) south of Brisbane, Australia, in the shape of a heart with "no war" spelled inside.
Photo: 750 women naked for peace, Australia Photo: http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/ Saturday February 8, 2003, Australia More than 750 women lie nude on a hillside at Byron Bayon, on the New South Wales north coast about 200 km ( miles) south of Brisbane, Australia, in the shape of a heart with "no war" spelled inside. The women are urging Australian Prime Minister John Howard not to follow US President George Bush into a war with Iraq
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More than 750 women lie nude on a hillside at Byron Bayon, on the New South Wales north coast about 200 km ( miles) south of Brisbane, in the shape of a heart with "no war" spelled inside. The women are urging Australian Prime Minister John Howard not to follow US President George Bush into a war with Iraq. Click for more on the war and protests |
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My letter to John Howard
by Kaushalya
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2003 at 5:34 AM
kaushalya@globalpeaceplan.com
This is a copy of the letter I have sent John Howard, posted February 19th 2003. If you haven't written to John Howard, Alexander Downer, Robert Hill or the press, to voice your opposition, then you really don't care one way or the other.
ATTENTION JOHN HOWARD
PLEASE BE ON NOTICE THAT: You do not have the right in a �so called� democracy, to send this country to war as an aggressor without a plebiscite. Further more, you are at fault when you say that you know you represent all Australians when you speak. You can never speak for all Australians. We all think differently. Some are wise and some are ignorant. How absurd to think that all Australians think like you! As I said, there are wise people and there are the ignorant: Unfortunately for Australia, many people consider you are ignorant and only of average evolution.
If you would like to know how a wise person thinks and behaves; it is so: A wise person is thoughtful and considerate. They are kind and respect the sanctity of life. They are careful, mindful and loving. They are peace loving and sanguine. They are creative, meditative and honest. They take responsibility for their actions. A wise person is never the aggressor; they never speak for other people. They never lie or cheat. They never degrade people, animals or the land in which they live. They do not blindly follow malevolent and destructive people. They do not take what is not rightfully theirs. And they never kill or order the deaths of other fellow human beings!
One day George Bush will go down in history as one of the most evil and heinous individuals a country has ever had the misfortune to have as a leader. He talks about the �axis of evil� whilst he is the epitome, or should I say, acme of evil himself. Apart from the fact that George Bush stole the 2001 election from Al Gore, and is not the rightful leader of the United States of America, he made a very erroneous and ignorant statement when he said, �You are either with us or you are against us�. There is a third party to this equation: They are the peaceful people who do not want war. They are the non-violent people of the world; the wise people, but we do not exist as far as George Bush is concerned. And you have the audacity to refer to us as �the mob�. More proof of your lack of wisdom.
Now, not only has he stolen the Presidential Seat, but he now wants to steal the Iraqi�s Oil Fields as well. There will be no end to his megalomaniac behaviour. Once he has control of the Oil Fields, he will consider he has conquered the world. If you trust him, you will be considered a fool by wise people. Only fools rush in where angels fear to tread. You obviously do not know his history as Governor of Texas, or you would know what he is capable of.
You may wonder why there is so little opposition to your will. It is because the average person is afraid to voice their dissent. They fear the consequences, and they have every reason to be afraid, as you have given ASIO more and more power to mistreat and harangue ordinary citizens of Australia. I too, have been mistreated by your agents in the past, for being a peace loving person. Why do you fear peaceful people?
I am not afraid of you or your henchmen, or George Bush, for that matter. You could both have me killed tomorrow, if that were your desire. Most ordinary people know that you only have to command, and it is done. Certainly this is the case in the US. No questions asked. People already know what action to take, if anything happens to me.
To many people you are not even a mediocre Prime Minister. The fact is, that many less than half of the Australian population voted for you. This is democracy. One third of the population can get a party elected, through preferences and the system that is used. But you had to form a Coalition to become Prime Minister. One of the worst things you have done was to bring in the GST. Not only is it a bad policy, you told an out and out lie, when you said that there would never be a GST whilst you were Prime Minister. I heard and saw you say it on television. Then there is the case of the Treasure, gambling $4.8 billion on the Foreign Opts and Puts Market and not even a reprimand for it from you. What a travesty of justice! Your stand on the Kyoto Treaty is a disgrace!
You have now committed our troops to an illegal and aggressive battle with a country that has called us their friend and to which we export billions of dollars worth of produce to. That will end, when war begins. You seem to have a poor memory as well, as you have forgotten that Bush senior set Saddam Hussein up with missiles and chemical weapons in the Ba�th Party, when Saddam Hussein was a �friend� of the US.
I have written three times to the United Nations and asked this question, but since three months I have had no reply. Why? I have no idea. DOES AMERICA HAVE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION? Does it have chemical and germ warfare? If the answer is �yes� Then why is it that the US can have them and Iraq can not? Isn�t this a double standard? This is not a rhetorical question. I need an answer from you.
George Bush says Saddam Hussein kills his own people. Most of the people he had killed were Kurds, during the Kurdish uprising, because of displacement. Saddam Hussein is not a Kurd. You wouldn�t expect a C grade student to know that though. However, if you think U.S. Foreign Policy is great, you either have not bothered to study it, or you have some ulterior motives for the decisions you have made.
Everyone knows the date, September 11, but do they know August 6th ? On this day America dropped the first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing 343,000 human beings. This is thirty four hundred thousand, more than the Twin Towers. That is 340,000 innocent men, women and children. Many more were mutilated, blinded and burned beyond recognition, 4 square miles was obliterated. People were found hours later, their skin hanging off them, exposing raw flesh to the elements, radiation and dust. Children and babies, burned black, but still alive. Parents dead or lost. The entire city devastated in ruin. Yes, America did this. This is the country you so eagerly obey. It disgusts me! This is the country that brought black slaves to America and treated their animals better. This is the country that stole from the American Indians. Australia was also stolen, the inhabitants killed or mistreated. Haven�t you learned anything in your lifetime?
You follow George Bush as if he were a wise and benevolent being. You do his bidding like a puppet. Perhaps before your life is over, you will realise your errors of judgement. Perhaps when George Bush is tried as a War Criminal, you will �see� how blind you have been. Even an ignorant person can have some scruples. But for Australia and the rest of the world�it will be too late. One nuclear bomb dropped anywhere in the world will be the beginning of the end. Don�t tell me George Bush does not have his finger on the proverbial button. It is common knowledge the world over that the US has an arsenal of nuclear and long range weapons. They also have chemical and germ warfare. It has been reported several times on the news. Why is he above the rest of the world? Yes, please do answer this. Here we have nuclear weapons in the hands of a thief, liar and a cheat, who thinks he is above God. He is just as much a terrorist as the terrorist, only he is worse, because he systematically wipes out whole populations, and does not even have the guts to do it himself. He orders someone else to do it for him.
And speaking of God: I would like to ask you a question. Why do you, and George Bush go to church on a regular basis? As a Christian, I would have thought that you would both know that one of the Ten Commandments is �Thou Shalt NOT KILL!� Are you too above God�s law? What gives you the right to order the deaths of your fellow human beings? You obviously know nothing of karma, or you would not dare to have mega-tonnes of blood on your hands. Is �Thou shalt not kill� for other people?
If you had a modicum of wisdom, you would know that lifestyle is degraded by war, for both the perpetrator and those being attacked. Why do you choose degradation for the people of Australia and Iraq? What is so attractive about it? All the extra money for the War Effort has to come from somewhere? Are you going to put up taxes? Or the GST? Or introduce new taxes? Perhaps a War Tax? Or will these funds be denying Health, Education and the disadvantaged and disabled? These areas already in dire trouble.
Why do you feel we need to attack Iraq anyway? Do you honestly believe Saddam Hussein has such long range missiles that he could aim them at Australia and actually reach us here? Have they ever threatened to do so? Of course they may want to now, since you have very publicly sided with George Bush. You have now taken on every enemy The United States has in the name of Australia. And believe me the US is hated in every country in the world. Because you love him, does not mean all Australians love him. He is hated here too. You don�t have that right. This is not just folly, it is depraved. A nefarious act such as this will have dire consequences, as has already been encountered by the Bali Bombings. YOUR ACTIONS CAUSED THIS! And will continue to cause casualties, or is it collateral damage? Isn�t this the term given to the death of human lives, when they got in the way of progress? You have single handedly endangered the lives of every Australian! How proud are you of that?
Of course I condemn the terrorist�s actions. I condemn all violence. No violence is good, but one does have the right to defend one�s self if attacked. Exactly when did Iraq attack Australia? If they have, then why has it not been reported? When has Iraq threatened Australia? George Bush threatens Iraq every day, but Iraq has not attacked, because of that threat. I now hear that Saddam Hussein has taken artillery to the oil fields to blow them up when war starts in earnest. They are Iraq�s oil fields; they have every right to do as they wish. We should be finding an alternative to oil anyway.
An ignorant person is unable to recognise wisdom or truth. How can one recognise something one has not experienced?
YOU ARE PUT ON NOTICE TO HEED THE CONTENTS OF THIS LETTER
Kaushalya (catalyst for peace and rectification of misdeeds)
Email: kaushalya-peace@care2.com
My 2nd letter to John Howard
by Kaushalya
Monday, Mar. 03, 2003 at 7:25 PM
kaushalya@globalpeaceplan.com
* WAR * OR * PEACE*
What have you done for Peace? * If you haven’t already written to John Howard, Robert Hill and Alexander Downer, Tony Blair or US Congress, then you do not care what happens.
This is a copy of my second letter to John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia. Please write of your disapproval for war or you approval of Peace. Please photocopy and pass around to your friends. This was my letter, please write your own.
Please be warned John Howard.
There is a growing movement of love, which you have no power against. At first, you are confronted by hatred, as experienced by the terrorists. This is the negative force of Hatred. Hatred for the United States, Hatred for George Bush Senior, Hatred for George Bush Junior, and Hatred for Australia. This is all to be expected and has been perpetrated by unevolved and lowly evolved souls. I am talking about spiritual evolution here. The negative always comes before the positive in this day and age. When the positive starts to take hold, there will be no stopping it. In the past and the present, ignorance and lack of wisdom prevented LOVE from permeating the planet. So the ‘negative’ has ruled since the beginning of time.
Men have falsely taken all the lucrative positions and those of power and ruled with ignorant, unethical, unevolved and unspiritual ideas.
Your thinking is not only “old fashioned” at best, coming from days when it was patriotic to die for the ‘love’ of one’s country, it also masks extreme fear on a subconscious level. This causes cowardly behaviour. It causes a person to distort their view of truth. They are convinced their motives are justified, as many other ignorant people agree with them. The bully in the schoolyard is always fearful, or petrified on a subconscious level. They bully to hide or mask their feelings of inferiority, to bolster their ego and to bluff their opponent.
Your ego has to be bolstered for you to continue. Those that cow tow to you are on the same evolutionary rung of the evolutionary ladder that you are on. Of course you have support, as the majority of the human population are both ignorant and unwise. They can’t comprehend Truth and Justice. They are also spiritually impoverished. This is an indisputable fact that can be correctly read by someone such as myself.
You say that you will not retire until the Iraq issue is resolved. But what if we do not want you as Prime Minister, John Howard? What if we want and need a referendum? What if we the people of Australia, the unevolved and the highly evolved alike, insist on deciding whether we obliterate Baghdad as the Americans did with Hiroshima, or we want nothing to do with it? Why is THIS not terrorism? An Arab kills some people-they are terrorists. We kill many Arabs, we are NOT terrorists. Would God make this same distinction? Why is it that you can not identify yourself or George Bush with terrorism? The reason being, you do not have the mentality nor the capability of the understanding of truth. You have tunnel vision, brought on by ignorance and fear.
You put on this huge bluff, by way of autocratic power and dictatorial bravado; but it is just a disguise. You feed your ego by attending meetings with Tony Blair and George Bush and holding press conferences. You constantly try to reinforce your feelings of importance in the world, but you appear insignificant and weak in the eyes of those who ‘know’. True strength is never with the one who has the most weapons, or who is the biggest bully. The torturer is not stronger than the tortured. Inner strength (which is the only strength that counts) is in the resolve to be Fair and Just at all costs. You can not have one rule for yourself and another set of rules for your opponents. This is NOT Fair or Just. Have you not learned this yet?
The wise, peaceful and loving people of the world do not want you as Prime Minister of any country, let alone Australia. These are the people you ignorantly refer to as the “Mob”. Your own thinking is from that mentality, that up-bringing, which was unremarkable and ordinary in anyone’s book-that is why you used the term. You can be defiant and wallow in your self-righteous thoughts; but those watching you, who know and recognise Truth, know that you are not worthy of your position.
You do not have any credibility after acts of cronyism, lack of correct decision making ,and out and out lies and cover-ups. Why do the public accept you without a whimper? Because, the “Bully” is in town, and is throwing his weight around, by misuse of power and stealth. The strongest person in the entire planet can not stand up to Swat Teams with automatic machine guns drawn at the ready, screaming and yelling, blaspheming and abusing at 5:00AM in the morning. 20 Swat Team members for a handful of unarmed civilians? This is not the kind of strength that I admire. This is the “Bully “ mentality.
Power has gone to your head, John Howard. You have joined The Terrible Trio, (here in after to be known as the TTT). George Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard. This makes you feel important, but in reality, you have only formed The Terrified Troika. The Trinity of Evil, Arrogance and Stupidity, in that order.
The meek shall inherit the Earth. That is MEEK, not weak. Meek means non-violent, peace loving and caring people who respect the sanctity of life. Our time has come!
You may not know who I am, but I come to you in peace. My words may be harsh, as I can only speak to you in language you can understand. If you tell a child nicely to stop running inside with muddy shoes on, they will likely continue to do so. It is also negative programming. Only when you speak severely and firmly, do they take notice. You are a child on the evolutionary ladder. I have to address you this way. If I tell you nicely to STOP our involvement in this illegitimate war, you will continue, just as the child does in my analogy.
I am telling you that PEACE is on its way through LOVE. If I had a chance, I would like to vote for PEACE. John Howard, I demand the right to have my voice heard. I demand the right of every peaceful, loving and Just human being to renounce the decision on WAR! We don’t want it and we won’t stand for it!
It is a well known fact that there are more unwise people in the world than there are wise. Therefore given the fact that less than 1% of the world’s population are wise, one third (1/3) of our population voting for PEACE must be taken notice of. If you can win an election with only one third of the population voting for you, AND become our Prime Minister, then one third of the population voting for PEACE should rule! Anyone who can write should be able to vote. Children have the right to want peace as much as any adult, for war will ruin more of their lives than ours. Voting should NOT be compulsory.
You have erroneously left our country vulnerable and unsecured. This is a violation of our human rights. The only battle that is valid is that of defence. Any battle NOT on Australian soil is deemed illegitimate, due to the fact that you can not claim to be defending Australian soil when invading another country. You can not be responsible for Australians that leave the country. They are the responsibility of the country they are in. It is their choice to leave and therefore relinquish the right to Australian security. If you have ever studied ‘logic’ at any time, you will understand the ‘logic’ with which I speak. I would not expect you to understand anything more esoteric.
And as for raking in bonus petrol taxes from the poor and impoverished motorist. Who was it who decided the petrol tax should not be a flat rate, but indexed as a percentage; so that when the price of petrol goes up through your war mongering rhetoric, your revenue also increases and the motorist is slugged twice? Was it Peter Costello? It is just like his mentality: Out of your pocket and into mine mentality. And if he gambles out of the budget surplus and loses $4.8 billion, well, “Cet la vie”. He wouldn’t care how a poor person has to find ways to survive, as long as his own pocket is well endowed. Both of you are out of touch of the needs of others.
And one last thing: The very next day after emailing a copy of my first letter to you, to every Parliamentarian, my computer co-incidentally crashed. I lost everything on all my hard drives, C, D and E. The next day, I bought a new hard drive at the cost of $204:00. I went on my computer for ten minutes to look at the Desk top and by the next time I went on, my computer has crashed again. You can hinder, you can terrorise and you can humiliate, you may even intend to sabotage my brakes, or perhaps burn my house down, (as has happened to someone I know) but you can not stop me, or the movement of LOVE. I am not the leader of this movement. It does not have a leader. I have no following at all. I am a single person determined to do my best to set things right.
Please be on notice that your tenure is slipping and only the ‘mob’ majority of ignorant people support you. Ignorance rules, but Truth is rising. Women will lead the way!
Sincerely in PEACE
Kaushalya (Catalyst for Change and rectification of misdeeds)
Website: http://www.globalpeaceplan.com
Email: kaushalya@globalpeaceplan.com
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