August 28, 2001
i have something to get
i have something to get off my chest, and i'm sure that people will take what i have to say and claim that it is anti-semetic, but it isn't. in reality, i could care less what religion or race anyone is. my opinions are based on actions, and not beliefs.
now on with the rant:
israel has become a truly horrible country. it has always amazed me that a country so set on cleasing the world of nazi war criminals, would have the policy they do towards the palestinians. an israeli official was quoted in the 1980's when talking about the palestinian situation as saying that they [israel] had learned well from the germans. it has gotten so bad recently that the us, the eternal(and often lone) supporter of israel, made a statement that israel is inflaming the situation with their pinpoint killings(read assassinations, and i do realize that the usa does similar things(the attempt on qaddafi, and i am not for them either)). this is something that i can't remember happening even when israeli soldiers killed 2 palestinian boys who were throwing rocks at them in the 1980's and it was caught on video.
israel constantly talks out of both sides of their mouth. they say they are for peace, but continue to encourage people to settle in the occupied territories. they say they want a ceasefire, but then require that the palestinians stop fighting, while israel continues. they continue to violate us law, by using us weapons in non-defensive attacks, and the us is too timid to call them on it.
remember that this is a country that was created by the un after world war 2 against the wishes of the palestinians(who were living there, and occuppied by the british) and the surrounding countries. what was the rationale for this? god gave them the land. what kind of fucked up excuse is that? originally the country was to be split in half, but when people objected, they gave it all to israel. now it is true that during ww2, the jewish people were subjected to horrible, unspeakable things at the hands of the nazis. and if you listen to their public relations campain, you would think that only jews were targeted by the nazis. this would ignore the fact that 5+ million non-jews died, and the fact that the romani people were targeted for extermination as well. none of this justifies israels current actions towards the palestinians.
this isn't to say that the palestinians are blameless, and certainly they have done little to help their situation. attacks on civilians are terrorism plain and simple, although recently, it seems that civilian deaths have been caused by israel more than the palestinians. part of that is that it is hard to determine what is a palestinian civilian, but part of that is the excessive retaliation that has become the israeli norm in recent years.
the main question to ask yourself is: would you quietly submit to the conditions of the israel occupation if it were your homeland? would you be willing to have to show id every time you went to another town? would you be able to keep your job if on a whim the guards could keep you from going to work? would you allow your family home to be lived in by strangers who took it by force? would you stand by while israeli civilians shot at you just because you were palestinian, and out at night? where there was a double standard for crimes(for example, any palestinian killing an israeli was a terrorist, while any israeli killing a palestinian was doing so in self defense)?
the main point of this is that israel has, over the past 50 so years, become a country that is as bigotted in their official policies as any i've seen. the time has come for the us to stand up and declare that we cannot continue to condone the actions of israel.
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so i was looking through
so i was looking through my web server logs, and i noticed that i have about 200 entries that are attempts to infect me with the code red worm. thank god for apache. so if anyone would like to have the worm, i can send it to them. :)
August 24, 2001
ok, please look at the
ok, please look at the swinging watch. follow it closely with your eyes. you are getting very sleepy. very sleepy. your eyelids are very heavy, it takes too much effort to keep them open. let your eyes close, and as i count backwards from 4, you will feel yourself falling into a deeper and deeper trance, until you are under my control. 4, 3, 2, 1. you are now completely under my control. you will not notice that i haven't written an entry in 2+ months. you will forget that i mentioned something called the danary. you feel very peaceful. you will unbutton your shir--- i mean, when you awake you will remember none of this, and will feel as if you just awoke from a full nights rest. when i snap my fingers, you will awaken. [snap] so, how's everything going? i'm going to fill you in on my life now(not 2 months, but just the 1 1/2 weeks it's been since i wrote last, remember you don't remember the 2 month gap right?)
well, i'm back from the boundry waters, fairly intacted. everything went well, with only a few tired ass crabby moments, oh and the bears. what? you say. yes, bears! on two nights we had bears walking through our camp. the first night, i was actually touched by a bear. ok, it was through the tent wall, but still. then looked over to see a bear paw under the rain fly on the tent. i shook, and hyperventilated for about 1 hour after that, while my friend todd just went back to reading(bastard), and later sleeping(unbelievable bastard), while i was left to wonder how the bear was going to react to todds growling(snoring). that and to wonder how long i could hold back the fluid waste that was building up inside me. (oh and counting seconds in my head) After the first incident, i did some thinking, and realized that there was a pattern in our bad nights, and it went like this:
night 1 - todd convinces me to sleep with the fly off, and in the middle of the night, it starts to rain really cold rain, making this a bad night
night 2 - good night
night 3 - good night
night 4 - big thunderstorm, and first bear night, making this bad night number 2
night 5 - good night
night 6 - good night
(i've noticed that there seems to be a pattern of 1 bad night, and 2 good nights, so i am kind of nervous about night number 7, but i tell myself that i'm just being crazy(you probably have figured out that since i mentioned 2 nights of bears, and i've only talked about 1, and we only have 1 more night in the bwca, what will happen next))
night 7 - while going to sleep, todd and i hear something splashing in the water, but we go to sleep anyhow. about 5:00, i wake up, because it's raining and have to pee again(i may have just found 2 more patterns). i zip the fly shut, before i realize that i need to pee, but before i can get it unzipped again, i hear some noises coming from over by the other tent. now, since i already expect this to be a bad night, this freaks me out, and i huddle in the tent, and wait. i hear stuff being moved around, and the canoes being pushed, and the other tent being brushed up against. finally after 30 minutes, my bladder is too full to wait, and since i haven't heared anything for 5 minutes, i climb out of the tent, headlamp blazing, and look around, to find an empty camp site(thank god). soon, the rest of the campers decide to follow my lead, and come out to join me, and talk(very loudly just in case the bears decide to come back) about our bear terrors.
the end
