Benderman Defense Trust

I think I may have gotten it all wrong, I mean, why shouldn’t I just join the Project for the New American Century?  I will ask Dick to let me into the National Archives, we can take the constitution out of the protective case and burn it right there on the floor. Better yet we can go the Rose Garden at the White House and have a formal ceremony and invite the rest of PNAC over to watch. We can have it aired on the most unbiased news organization ever; the Fox News Channel with Bill O’Reilly.

With that pesky little document that gave us a representative form of government that was based on laws out of the way we can proceed to invade and occupy any country we want with impunity. Who cares how many service members we get killed in the process? They are here just for us to use however we see fit anyway.

Then we can fire every American worker and send their jobs overseas to places like India and China and then we can call the American workers slobs and bums for not having a job. We can kick everyone out of their homes and give the houses to the millions of illegal immigrants we want to bring here to have them work for our large corporations for $1.50 an hour.

We can close the rest of the manufacturing base down in America and let the oil companies continue to make millions in profit off the gas they get from the Mideast for pennies. And when it comes to the rest of the jobs we send off, I say good riddance.

We can also burn any copies of that annoying little thing called the Geneva Convention and we can then water board the hell out of any one we like. If you complain we can even do it to you while the Supreme Court and the Dept. of Justice shout and cheer while you scream in agony as your bones are being broken and we refuse you any medical treatment. What the hell? It was just a stress position anyway, stop your whining.

I will have to co-ordinate this with Dick because George is too stupid to know what is really going around him anyway. We will have Mr. Alberto “I can’t recall” Gonzales made the Grand High Inquisitor and he can put all kinds of listening devices into your phones and homes. He can secretly tap into your computer and read all of your emails and personal info and if he doesn’t find anything illegal he can just make up false charges to press against you, whereupon you will be convicted and then tortured. This will be because you are now an unlawful enemy combatant.

 If I have forgotten anything, don’t worry we will make it up as we go along. And remember; fool me once, shame on you-fool me fool me we won’t get fooled again.

Our illustrious president says that using taxpayers dollars to destroy human life is immoral and we should not engage in activities that do so. He said this in reference to stem cell research that would destroy human embryos that are slated to be destroyed anyway.  I have to ask this, “What does he think is doing in his invasion and occupation of Iraq ?” If he is not using taxpayers dollars to destroy human life I would like to know just what he calls it. What is the loss of over 3500 American service members? What is the loss of over 25000 wounded American service members? What is the loss of over 100000 innocent Iraqi civilians, if not the destruction of human life?

"Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical, and it is not the only option before us," said Bush. 

 Cheney Power Grab: Says White House Rules Don't Apply to Him
    By Justin Rood
    ABC News Thursday 21 June 2007

 Bill Leonard, head of the government's Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), told Waxman's staff that Cheney's office has refused to provide his staff with details regarding classified documents or submit to a routine inspection as required by presidential order, according to Waxman.

 Leonard did not immediately respond to requests for comment.  In a statement e-mailed to the Blotter on ABCNews.com, Cheney spokeswoman Megan McGinn said, "We are confident that we are conducting the office properly under the law." As director of the tiny, 25-person Information Security Oversight Office, Leonard is responsible for keeping track of the nation's secrets and making sure they are properly protected.

 "Serious questions can be raised about both the legality and advisability of exempting your office from the rules that apply to all other executive branch officials," Waxman said in his letter to the vice president, and asked him to explain why he felt the rules didn't apply to him and his staff and how he was protecting classified information in his office.

Former Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was recently convicted on several counts of perjury and obstruction of justice stemming from the leak of the identity of former covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, Waxman noted, and in 2006, former Cheney aide Leandro Aragoncillo pleaded guilty to sharing classified U.S. documents with foreign nationals. Aragoncillo also worked under former Democratic Vice President Al Gore, who complied with ISOO's requests.

Vice President Exempts His Office From the Requirements for Protecting Classified Information 

 Thursday 21 June 2007

As described in a letter from Chairman Waxman to the Vice President, the National Archives protested the Vice President's position in letters written in June 2006 and August 2006. When these letters were ignored, the National Archives wrote to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in January 2007 to seek a resolution of the impasse. The Vice President's staff responded by seeking to abolish the agency within the Archives that is responsible for implementing the President's executive order.

    A fact sheet prepared by Chairman Waxman describes other instances in which the Vice President's office has sought to avoid oversight and accountability.

Today we need to realize that we are capable of reaching the same levels of independent thought if we would only throw off the mindset of “we cannot do anything without government assistance”.  “We the people” have let the government of the United States grow into the lumbering behemoth is now is because we laid down our responsibility of overseeing what the people we hire to work for us are doing.

And you see where it has gotten us don’t you? We have let them put into effect documents that allow them to illegally wiretap us, we have let them start a war that will go on as long we let it continue, we have let them violate our laws by using torture on enemy prisoners of war, this is where some of you will say that we need to torture these people to make them talk, but turn it around and look at it from the other side, we do not want anyone torturing our service members if they are captured but yet we expect them not to even though we are torturing some of them to death.

Another thing that makes me angry is the crop of presidential contenders we now have. Some of them are openly calling for a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Iran on the basis of what George W. Bush and friends are telling them about Iran’s nuclear capability, this is against our laws and traditions as America . Now, I don’t know about you, but I am very leery about what comes of George’s and Dick’s mouths as they express their desire to blow up Iran . We have already seen how reliable their intelligence was about Iraq . And we have lost over three thousand-five hundred service members based on that “intelligence”. Do we want to follow their insanity into another country that has done nothing to us?

Anyway, enough of my ranting for now, I want to see the American people reclaim some of the spirit of their ancestors and demand this government stop treating us like we are a bunch of sheep and realize that we are a well informed nation who will not tolerate their lying to us in order to advance their own personal agendas.

Milligan, a Saline County businessman elected Republican Party chairman last month, told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a recent interview that “I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001], and the naysayers will come around very quickly to appreciate not only the commitment for President Bush, but the sacrifice that has been made by men and women to protect this country.” He made his remarks in response to a question about the war’s potential impact on the 2008 elections.

He speaks of commitment of the men and women of the United States Armed Forces as if he truly appreciates their commitment to the defense of the American Constitution. But someone like him does not deserve to have their commitment if he is going about calling for more attacks on Americans. Their commitment has been abused by people like him and their sacrifice is so much more deserving than this. The type of moron Mr. Milligan has shown himself to be should be locked away. Him and anymore like him should be thoroughly examined by the best minds in psychology for months to determine just exactly what is wrong with them.

A few months ago I wrote an article talking about human sacrifice and slavery and how human kind had moved away from those institutions when we had educated ourselves enough to realize that these were not honorable or sane things to do to one another. The reason I write this today is to further explore the concept that war is slavery and human sacrifice all rolled up into one vile package.

The reason I say it is slavery is that we have trapped ourselves into believing that we cannot live in a world without war because it is and has always been with us. I believe the people who practiced those two aforementioned subjects said the same thing about them as well. We have conditioned our minds into believing that we cannot live without war, but I say we can and we must. Look at how war keeps us from attaining the levels of humanity we could achieve if we did not spend so much talent and energy on ways to destroy each other.

The lies that we have been told to get us to accept this present war are another example of our accepting whatever anyone tells us and not using the mind we have been given to think on these matters for ourselves. That is enslavement of the mind and spirit and we have succumbed to it.

I refuse to accept the notion that war is some one else’s responsibility and not ours. We have some in the world who say that war is God’s fault or it is Satan’s fault, (substitute any deity’s name you want here) but it is not either of their faults. It is ours and ours alone, we thought it up, we created the weapons to do it with and we carry it out on one another on a regular basis.  NO, I refuse to try and wiggle out of the blame that is mine for wanting to experience war and training for it for ten years of my life. That is my responsibility and mine alone. God did not come to me in a dream and say, “Son you must wage war on the people who are different than you”.  I entered the military and I received the training that would allow me to physically destroy another human being. I entered the mindset of wanting to do this and accepted the training to do so of my own free will.

I say war is human sacrifice simply because that is what it is. We train our young people that it is honorable to kill be or be killed. I trained some of these young people myself on how to be effective in killing other human beings. I remember training the soldiers under my supervision on how to be effective with the .50 caliber Browning machine gun. I remember being trained on how to be effective with the “ma deuce” as it is known. I remember being trained on how to be effective with the hand grenade, the M16, the bayonet, and a host of other weapons in the U.S. arsenal. I also recall going in search of other methods of killing that are not taught to most regular soldiers.

I was trained and trained well to sacrifice myself to war and I was also training others to make the same sacrifice. But what is it all for?  Money for the power elite?  A chance to prove my manhood?  No, in the end all you get if you kill someone is a dead human being or you are dead. That is all there is. There is no glory. There is no honor. The hardest thing I have done in my life is go to a memorial for a fallen soldier and to see his family grieving his death. I had to see his wife break down, I had to see his children break down and I realized that I did not want to see another family have to go through this.

This human sacrifice has to stop.

We hear our so called leaders pay lip service to the sacrifice that is made; that they do not want to continue on with war, yet that is exactly what they do. I can give you a good example of the lip service that comes from the people who claim to be looking out for the welfare of the soldiers. When I was going through my courts-martial at Ft. Stewart , the garrison commander led one of the ceremonies for a fallen soldier. He laid it on pretty heavy about how he cared for the soldiers that have given the ultimate sacrifice and that he would continue to respect these people who serve. After all he had said about taking care of soldiers he did something that would have an adverse affect on them.

The community of Hinesville had a service for the soldiers of Ft. Stewart where they did not have to pay deposits to move into a rental property or pay one for the utilities, this deposit waiver program had been in place since about 1971 or so, give or take a few years. In 2005 the garrison commander told the people who were running the program that they could no longer offer this service to the soldiers of Ft. Stewart . This is the same commander who cried crocodile tears at a soldier’s memorial service.  Is this what our people sacrifice themselves for?

As someone who has seen what war is and what it does to people and to know how it made me some what different than before I went, I would like to challenge the people to stand up and to accept the responsibility for war and to stop blaming it on Gods or Devils or who ever else we can try and lay the blame on.

We created it, we own it.

The question is; will we get smart enough to stop it?