(Thanks, P. :)

Reader Paul writes:

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Re: Reader: 'Before any new programs can be la....

I partially disagree. How does one bring about this short list, without doing things ahead of peace?

The point is, the resources, needed by people who can do things about both long lists of tasks, are presently in the hands of people that need to be dead. Peace first, will put everything out of whack, and peace will probably be forestalled or stopped all together.

Get things moving, or peace very likely will not happen at all. Remember, this thing might not solve. It's very possible that we may have temporary relief, then the old system can re-assert itself. History warns us of the long-term failure of the good-guys to reduce the bad-guys to ashes; and allowing them the time to come back and re-assert their evil.

Weapons for the solution cannot wait, the inertia must continue to build. The very things that stop the changes we'd like to see, have to be wrested from the people we need to totally defeat. That does two things. Improves the chances of retribution (you pick the kind), and second removes the tools of the schmucks that need to be permanently stopped.

We all need a clear map to the understanding of history of the recent world (the last 400 years or so). Without that, we won't (and can't) understand why the tools we use are based on money, and the related instruments. The tools of the enemy are very much enmeshed in these dealings. To remove them, and re-install them in the hands of the good-guys, is paramount. No philosophical rhetoric can remove this point.

The hard edged tasks allow no-one argumentative moral high-ground. The only thing that will stop the bad-guys is methods the bad-guys use. Moral and righteous behavior is for people, after the war is over. The philosophical and reality-based hard-edged methodologies are the true reality today. And must remain so until the last battle is won.

Sorry to rain on the parade of so many good people, but this will not be 'bloodless' culture conversion. People have been literally murdered for real, for years. I get tired of so many who wish to have peace, and have no idea what brings it about, when the adversaries of basic goodness don't care about moral high-ground, as long as they have the power to force people to think the bad-guy is moral.

For the enemies of decency, it has always been a better choice to have the tools of righteous behavior, without actually being righteous. That is the nature of basic evil. The only answer, over the long term, is for the righteous to get their hands dirty. Nothing else will save the World. We need a clear idea of what will happen if the Human race fails. Our enemies will blow most of the public into powder; as retribution for the biggest scare, the bad-guys have ever faced. They will then ensure that no chance for this kind of revolution will ever manifest again.

The end is now in sight. We cannot replace our resolve with hi-brow discussion without surrendering our inertia to the bad-guys. Hi-brow moral hi-ground discussion continues to be an impediment to our total victory.

-Paul Pollock
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"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again." - Ronald Reagan, 1967.

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