Terrorism – USA 11^th September 2001 &, Bali 12th October 2002

Perth, Western Australia, 8th September in the year of our LORD 2003

The terrorist attacks in America on September 11th 2001 and in Bali on October 12th 2002 were 'watershed' events with serious, far reaching implications for the entire planet, in particular changing forever the character of life of the wealthier, developed nations, most especially the USA and Australia. These actions, focused as they were in such an apparently arbitrary, indiscriminate manner against children, women and civilian men, were an absolute obscenity, inexcusable on any grounds whatsoever and to be deplored without reservation. However the deliberate misrepresentation and total misunderstanding of what has happened in New York and Bali and WHY along with the likely future global consequences are the most distressing and dangerous outcome of these catastrophic events. This is not surprising as both Australia and the USA are led by physical, emotional and spiritual midgets, John Howard and George Bush, with unrealistic delusions of grandeur operating well beyond their safe and useful limits of innate ability, competence, strength of spirit, wisdom and understanding, a certain recipe for disaster.

 

For all responsible, humane and mature adults and especially for those who profess to believe in a GOD of LOVE, the sanctity of all human life is immutable, to be valued, protected and preserved without exception or qualification - always. For genuine Christians killing is specifically against one of GOD's Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:13) and no-one who reads the Bible could ever mistake the simple purity and clarity of CHRIST's teachings and example in this regard nor, for that matter on any other important aspect of spiritual doctrine. Killing, like all forms of violence is not loving (Luke 3:14) and therefore can certainly never be considered nor condoned under any circumstances whatsoever. Since CHRIST came, all people everywhere are our brothers and sisters (or at least potentially so) and Christians are specifically instructed to love their enemies anyway (Proverbs 25:21&22, Matthew 5:44, Luke 6:27 & Romans 12:20 & 13:9,10). A single American or Australian life is therefore as valuable and precious as (but not more than) any other life elsewhere in the world. For Christians, therefore there is no excuse nor justification for killing anyone, anytime, anywhere, ever - not with state executions, euthanasia, assassinations, religious persecutions, warfare or abortions at any stage of pregnancy - not ever. Nor is there any justification for placing or leaving people in peril of their lives, an example of murder by default, as the Australian government has done repeatedly with refugees.

 

Christians also realise and understand that GOD will lead them and protect them as individuals, families, communities and nations if they really do HIS will, without question or debate, in obeying CHRIST's teachings and example and learning to follow HIS clear leading each and every day (Ecclesiastes 12:13 & Acts 5:29). Accordingly they act with genuine Faith and never rely upon military aggression, even for defence, in stark contrast to most members of the various 'Christian church' denominations all over the world with their pathetic pretence of religious ritual and superficial, wordy hypocrisy. "Vengeance is Mine" saith the LORD, "I will repay" (Deuteronomy 32:35, Psalm 94:1, Romans 12:19 & Hebrews 10:30) and genuine Christians would not have it any other way (Hebrews 13:5,6 & 10:31, Isaiah 37 esp. 36 -38 & 57:21). Despite this repeated spiiritual imperative, most Americans, over 85% of whom (deceitfully) claim some form of Christian commitment, actively supported the military invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq notwithstanding the inevitable, associated civilian casualties, offhandedly dismissed and euphemistically referred to as "collateral damage" (over 5,000 deaths by February 2002) and the appalling additional refugee crisis created. A majority of the populations of all the other nations affected by the terrorist strikes in New York and Bali felt and feel similarly, especially Australia. These countries (and especially the USA) have predictably maintained their usual grossly simplistic public posturing as the aggrieved, innocent victims and portrayed the actions of the terrorists as the exact opposite, as evil and unprovoked. Nothing could be further from the truth!

 

In fact America's own numerous military and quasi-military invasions, diplomatic interferences and CIA intrigues have been far, far worse than these two single acts of terrorism. To see America as somehow innocent in these circumstances is a childish fantasy and a dangerous delusion indeed - for more detailed information, refer to Noam Chomsky's extensive writings. A similar conclusion can be made about all the other countries whose citizens were killed or otherwise affected by these disasters, notably Britain and Australia who have both co-operated with and obsequiously pandered to the USA's unrestrained and uncondemned commitment to violence for many years.

 

All those who really believe in and know GOD realise that HE is omnipotent, in charge of the whole of HIS Creation, all the time. Everything that happens in this world is therefore under HIS hand, either caused or allowed by HIM, without exception - nothing can be added to HIS will and nothing can be taken from it. Although no sane, caring person could fail to have the utmost compassion for many of the victims killed and for their families nor could ever condone in any way what was done either in America or Bali, without doubt GOD has humiliated and chastened America and Australia in a very obvious, public and shocking way in front of an audience of billions of people worldwide. Sensible, enlightened people (and certainly all genuine Christians) will look for the underlying reasons and causes WHY this has happened. In a similar way the Jewish people should have asked WHY after the Second World War instead of claiming that they were somehow completely blameless and obsessively demanding financial compensation. GOD used Hitler then, just as HE has previously used other pagan nations throughout Biblical history to appallingly afflict and punish HIS chosen people when they walked away from HIM and committed acts of wickedness, lewdness, violence and idolatry contrary to HIS Commandments. Because of HIS mercy and patience, HE often tolerated their misconduct for decades, even centuries, before chastening them.

 

GOD has similarly used a few Muslim fanatics to reprove America and Australia - the reasons for this are many and varied but the most important are obvious to any aware, insightful person. In a sense the 'chickens' of America's (and Australia's) arrogant, ignorant and intolerant foreign policy initiatives over the past fifty years or so have now 'come home to roost' and received a very just recompense of a reward. America's own unwarranted, clumsy, brutal, politically naive, even idiotic, self-righteous and violent intrusions into Japan (remember, they were mainly civilians killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki), into Indo-China (an absolute obscenity), Central and South America and the Middle East have been directly and indirectly responsible for the death, maiming, dispossession of and enormous distress to tens of millions of often innocent civilians including babies, children, women, the aged, disabled, sick and wounded. In Vietnam 3 million Vietnamese died, 4 million were wounded, crippled and poisoned by chemicals and 600,000 children were subsequently born deformed as a result of the chemical Agent Orange, a weapon of mass destruction. Another infamous example was East Timor where the USA (and her Allies, notably Australia) were told in advance of Indonesia's original intention to invade decades ago - by their joint tacit approval and support they consequently became implicated at very least as accessories before and after the fact to the subsequent deaths of over 200,000 civilians. With the possible exception of Stalin and Hitler, the American government has been the most destructive force globally of the 20th century and seems determined to be top of the list in the 21st.

 

So this is not a battle of good versus evil but rather a war between two groups showing different degrees and kinds of evil, both fanatical, one rich and powerful and the other poor and by comparison, relatively defenceless. The American Government is by far the largest and most dangerous terrorist organisation globally and George Bush and his cronies are literally marauding menaces and war criminals. Bush has now shifted behaviourally into borderline paranoid schizophrenia, a certifiable maniac whose judgement is highly suspect and certainly not to be trusted. The Americans, despite their proud, public, political rhetoric are not even fighting a war for democracy - they violently deposed popular or democratically elected governments in Vietnam, in Chile (to install a ruthless military dictator), in Iran (to install the Shah) and in Panama, El Salvador and Nicuaguara.

 

So for those who believe in HIM, GOD has obviously punished all these nations in a very merciful and mild way when compared to the carnage and destruction they have all been guilty of worldwide for decades, at very least by default. The civilian deaths show clearly that HE considers that no-one can claim to be innocent if their own government presumes to interfere in or violate the national sovereignty of another nation unless there is a very compelling, humanitarian reason for doing so. Citizens who pay taxes to murderous governments are equally guilty of pulling the trigger or dropping the bombs themselves! And it is not a sufficient excuse to invade another country because you disagree with them politically or because you have some irrational, paranoiac fear about them being a possible future threat. Violence has and always will breed violence and solves no problems: it just creates more in the future for our children and grandchildren. There are no winners in war, just degrees of losing and in some ways Japan's and Germany's post-war prosperity suggests it is preferable to lose but to do it quickly with minimal loss of life!

 

The retaliation in Afghanistan by the USA and her Allies had very little to do with a campaign against Bin Laden. In fact the CIA supported and funded him and his Al-Qaeda network with millions of dollars directly and through the secret police in Pakistan and otherwise meddled in Afghanistan affairs for years. Bin Laden was just used as an excuse to invade a highly strategically desirable area and establish a compliant regime there. After a few days the American rhetoric predictably shifted from the enemy being Bin Laden onto the Taleban who were then systematically destroyed. America had no genuine humanitarian or human rights concerns about Afghanistan and their true motives are selfish, avaricious, vengeful and expansionary, as usual.

 

The bombings in Bali were completely avoidable yet inevitable and even predictable in view of the Howard government's stupidity and provocation in proudly and publicly providing unquestioned and unqualified support for Bush. Even if one agreed with this policy position, it was criminal negligence, deplorable dereliction of duty and craven cowardice to not at least give travelling Australians a similar warning to that issued by the USA government to its own citizens abroad. In particular Bali, though predominantly Hindu, is part of the world's most populous Muslim nation of 220 million people, it had a 6 month history of terrorist bombings prior to the Bali attack and there was a great deal of animosity there openly expressed towards Australia and Australians due to our position on East Timor. Only a gullible fool could not have foreseen potential trouble and the absence of a warning from Foreign Affairs can only be seen as a deliberate informed choice because the Australian government was still too spineless to stand up to their Indonesian counterparts after all these years (and is actually choosing to deal with its embarrassing titular head, the grossly obese, 'maiden aunt' Megawati).

 

With the incidents in New York, Washington and Bali, GOD has also taught those who will listen several other invaluable lessons both about and to individuals and organisations directly affected and involved. First it is clear that the Police Department and other Emergency Services in New York city and the Pentagon personnel were not generally staffed by honest, caring, serving men and women, adults, spouses and parents. Many must have been violent, corrupt, dishonest, selfish and irresponsible, both privately and professionally and have been dealt with accordingly - this will be no surprise to anyone who has any insight into the police here in Australia, both state and federal. Next those in the World Trade Centre whose principal (pre-)occupation was with making money with no actual tangible contribution to the planet suffered severely. One such bond trading company lost over 75% of its staff, a lesson that so many Jewish people globally have stubbornly refuse to heed for centuries. GOD has also showed many thousands of individuals, especially those who were miraculously able to escape from the damaged tower buildings before collapse, something about HIS extraordinary mercy and grace. Next it would be foolish to ignore the obvious message about the folly of air travel in general, especially in relation to its vulnerability, potential misuse and the horrendous amount of pollution of all kinds it causes both directly and indirectly. Compared to going by ship, for example, it is a third rate way of travelling. Finally there is the even greater insanity of continuing to build structurally precarious, impractical and unnecessary high rise towers on horrendously expensive pieces of land, monuments to mans' unrestrained arrogance, ignorance, stupidity and greed.

 

There are similar lessons to be learned by Australians from what happened on October 12th 2002 in Bali. First it should be noted that both premises bombed were seedy 'dives' frequented by the alcoholic, the desperate, the degenerate, the vulgar and by self-centred pleasure-seeking hedonists hell-bent on escapism. Only the worst of these people were still present at the time of the explosions, late at night - more sensible people had gone home or elsewhere. In contrast mature and responsible emotional adults go to Bali to enjoy the culture and natural beauty and show the locals, who have a rich history dating back thousands of years, consideration and respect. They do not misuse and abuse the place as a party destination and pre-school playground for the self-gratification of aged, unweaned infants and would never patronize a place like Paddy's Bar (who do not welcome Balinese locals as patrons), most especially at a time of night when many customers are inebriated, objectionable and aggressive. The large numbers of footballers killed and wounded is a clear and emphatic lesson for those who will learn it about how GOD feels about these violent larrikins, drunken louts and emotionally retarded aged boys whose fathers have obviously taught them absolutely nothing about life or about how to be men. Also it should be noted that only untrustable, immoral and coarse females would go to such a horrible place, especially at that late hour, and those who took their adolescent daughters with them were absolute and total failures as women, wives and mothers - many were tragically rewarded for their reckless irresponsibility and effective child abuse! Where were their useless, abdicated and absent husbands, total failures as men, husbands and fathers?!

 

It is time that Australians grew up, took their global responsibilities seriously, gave up their unweaned drinking habits and expensive toys and their obsession with enormously wasteful and essentially childish ball games and other competitive sports of no consequence and started to behave like adults, spouses and parents. It is useful to consider how much improvement could be made to the quality of life of so many millions of starving, homeless people worldwide if the money was not misspent on golf, cricket, the various codes of football, baseball, basketball, hockey, tennis etc. etc. was not so disgracefully squandered on all these considerably less than essential activities. Our young people should be encouraged to go overseas on their holidays to learn, to be sensitive to local cultural traditions, to give and share, to make a tangible contribution and not just to spend money frivolously creating an artificially and unhealthy local economic dependency. They would then come back more mature, selfless and better aware of our country's comparative wealth along with an appreciation for the attendant responsibilities that go with this privileged quality of life, ready to support Australia taking on a global position as a country of which we can be proud on a whole range of social, humanitarian and environmental issues.

 

New York city without doubt is the most indulged, smug, legally and morally corrupt, violent, avaricious, gluttonous, wasteful, hoarding, squandering and misusing of resources, emotionally immature, obsessively escapist, narcissistically self-absorbed, compulsively hedonistic, sexually depraved and perverted, most polluted and polluting, unrealistically impractical, uneconomic and unsustainable, parasitic, uncaring and ungiving centre of population on the entire planet. All cities like Sydney, London, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Tokyo and Hong Kong, for example, are little better, far, far worse than Sodom and Gomorrah ever was.

 

To say that the populations of all the rich, industrialised nations needed a wake-up call is a considerable understatement. Tragically instead of facing and constructively dealing with the underlying anger, pain, fear and guilt that the World Trade Centre destruction and the bombings in Bali have catalysed and unearthed like mature, aware adults, most people in New York and throughout the whole of America and Australia have taken the easy way out and continue in greater excesses than before. This guarantees that America (and Australia) will so deservedly live increasingly in fear effectively under siege and eventually will experience much, much greater disasters in the near future. Having now dispossessed entire groups of terrorists, a significant biological, chemical, radiological or nuclear attack is most likely in one of the major cities, probably Chicago - loss of life conservatively will be tens if not hundreds of thousands.

 

The developed nations have had a clear and unequivocal WARNING to jolt them out of their smug complacency and a significant motivation to re-think their insane priorities. In fact the refusal to live simply, sensibly, equitably and sustainably and the hoarding and deliberate unwillingness to give and share of wealth, so common in the supposedly civilised, industrialised nations is a sin and an inexcusable act of shameful deliberate violence which directly causes so much suffering, disease, death, provocation, conflict, crime, terrorism and environmental destruction. The world's wealthiest nations waste much, much more on military spending than on humanitarian aid (the USA spends $800 billion annually, more than the combined total of the next 10 countries, an absolute obscenity!), they care for their pets better than the poor, homeless, starving and destitute and squander more on their inane games, sports and other pastimes, on gambling and on their unrestrained gluttony. Conservatively they also misuse more than a thousand times the water they really need and consume 5-10 times the food and 20-50 times the drink in fluids of various kinds - juice, tea, coffee, beer, wine, spirits and soft drinks. In total this is far, far more than what is required to feed, clothe and provide bedding, heating, fresh water, housing and transport for ALL those in genuine need globally.

 

The tragic and disgraceful truth is that there are a hundred thousand times the resources necessary to generously care for all the poor and needy worldwide today, immediately, today, but this is deliberately not done due to the disgusting obstruction, corruption, greed, hoarding, duplication, misuse and waste of these resources, especially by those who live in the industrialised countries and particularly by the elderly and by those who deceitfully profess some pseudo-Christian commitment. There is no excuse for this callous indifference, inaction, abdication of responsibility and stubborn refusal to give and share because everyone who should be doing something tangible and real about the situation knows exactly what is happening in places like the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. They have daily access to newspapers, magazines, the radio, TV and the Internet. Real Christians and all caring decent adults establish sensible, humane priorities in their lives and feel compelled and prepared to devote every single cent of their income, assets and savings above what is absolutely necessary for a generous but not indulged standard of daily living to help those in genuine need. This means no money wasted on selfish pleasures, on non-essential items, on idle and unnecessary distractions, hobbies, sports and other indulgences and addictions.

 

For Christians there are a plethora of Biblical references about the dangers of wealth (Jeremiah 17:11, II Corinthians 9:7, Matthew 16:26, Mark 10:17-21, 23-25, Luke 6:24 & 18:22-25, 1 Timothy 6:8-10, 17-19, James 4:17) and it needs to be appreciated that almost all people who live in the developed countries are rich in absolute terms. They have opulent housing often with heating and cooling and an overabundance of bedding, fresh water, clothing, food and transport. To have hot water on tap for cooking, washing and bathing is affluence indeed, a real luxury that even Solomon in all his glory did not enjoy. The privileged minority in the wealthy, industrialised countries need to understand that they have no moral right whatsoever to hoard and waste such an disgraceful disproportion of resources.

 

It is only through an accident of birth that they enjoy such prosperity and self-indulgent excess and this privilege comes with an attendant responsibility to act justly, fairly, equitably and compassionately. The average American, European or Australian cannot claim that their standard of living is a result of how hard they have worked. In fact many of those in the developed nations don't really work at all, they just make money, sit and talk, move pieces of paper around, make products and provide services that are not really needed, slave like robots on industrialised production lines and cause the most enormous amount of pollution and environmental degradation in the process. In contrast many of those in the under-developed countries work extremely hard, long hours spent every day under the most arduous conditions in great privation, in order to eke out an often less than basic, subsistence existence in abject poverty.

 

The Christian churches together could easily remedy this situation on their own but instead endlessly discuss, write, pray and hold meetings about the problem, publicly deplore the situation and feign concern while it rapidly gets worse due to their own inaction, avarice, waste and hardness of heart. Whilst deceitfully 'crying poor' and claiming that it is a government responsibility, they squander a scandalous quantity of vitally needed time, money and other resources for their own use, on their own expenses, their own lavish lifestyles, their unnecessary buildings (including churches) and their travel, accomodation and international conference expenses. All senior church hierarchy and clergy, despite their unprecedented level of guilt and opulence, are incredibly mean and demonstrate disgraceful hypocrisy, inexcusable double standards, provocative game-playing and real violence in their mistreatment of the poor, needy and homeless. Many of the clergy and their congregations live like royalty in revolting opulence and luxury when compared to the filth, depravity and degradation of the treatment and facilities often begrudgingly and resentfully eked out to those in genuine need. It is understandable and in some ways very just that so much anger is directed against church buildings and property in the form of violence, vandalism and theft. However real charity is not just a matter of giving cash or writing a cheque, the least needed and easiest form of giving. This is just a quick and convenient way of keeping the true horror of the disgusting state of those in need at a convenient distance, as far as possible away from the reality of peoples' personal lives. Most do the least possible, give the absolute minimum and merely affect a token external pretence of concern to try to buy off their considerable burden of guilt.

 

What is needed most is to bring the poor, homeless and refugees into our own countries and communities and have our women give their women and children ongoing, active, tangible help and daily support with cleaning, making beds, cooking, serving meals, washing dishes, nappies and clothes, changing babies, organising clothing and bedding and shopping. This is almost totally absent today, especially amongst the so-called Christian churches, where most of the females just love to sit and talk and do as little real work as possible - they in action really hate serving! In turn Christian men need to be assisting their men in organising housing and other basic facilities, building, repairing, maintaining, leading by example, unselfishly supervising, apportioning resources fairly according to need, standing up strongly for what is right, just and fair and putting children and women really first. Instead of welcoming unfortunate refugees into our own countries, communities and homes and responding to their simple needs with the resources already abundantly available here, at least temporarily until the crisis, conflict, drought, famine, flood, earthquake or other disaster in their home countries or lives has passed, the richest nations at enormous cost absurdly contain the poorest refugees in squalid camps meanly eking out just sufficient flown, shipped or trucked-in resources to maintain them in constant dependency and crisis.

 

This is exactly what they do with all their own social problems by condensing them into one place at a convenient distance. Not only is this insanely expensive and a logistic nightmare, it is a really cruel, twisted and depraved form of sadistic voyeurism not unlike what that tragic, masochistic, violent witch 'Mother' Theresa did to children in India. With refugees, the most deserving and needing of help are the very ones that are unable to gain asylum into other countries as they do not meet the rigorous entry requirements and often cannot get to the relevant embassy or consulate. To call anyone a "queue jumper" when the queue may be thousands of miles away is barbaric. It is a savage condemnation of the cruelty, lack of compassion and abject laziness of the Australian populace that a considerable majority supports the disgraceful government stance on refugees. It is simply not true that we are taking in an acceptable number of refugees, especially when it is considered that many are women and children who endure the most difficult and squalid circumstances, often in daily peril of their lives. Consider the unparalleled human disaster on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border today where starving babies, children, women and men are living in makeshift shelters in the snow, without enough food, sufficient bedding or clothing, with no proper sanitation, fresh water or heating. If you would not tolerate this for your own family and fellow countrymen yet do not do everything in your power about it, today, you are a racist, a sadist and a killer. It is an indication of just how smugly complacent, self-satisfied and greedy Australians have generally become, a nation of over-indulged, opportunistic free-loaders and literal bludgers who do so little to justify their place on this planet and who steal a grossly disproportionate share of global resources. Their unrestrained gluttony and idle indolence has its obvious just reward as Australians increasingly experience a plague of obesity of Biblical proportions, become more diseased and enjoy life less and less.

 

The worst (and this comprises a disgracefully high percentage of the total population) are those who misuse the most implausible pretexts or flimsiest of excuses to try to justify not giving and not sharing their over-abundance in a fair and humane way to those genuinely in need. They have demonised refugees as "illegals", "criminals" and "queue jumpers" and irresponsibly inflamed the debate by implying that our standard of living and the security of our borders are somehow under serious threat so as to minimise or rigidly control the flow of refugees into this abundantly blessed country. This is fatuous nonsense and it is difficult to comprehend what kind of low life, sub-human species and introduced vermin could argue about whether people should be welcomed, whether they are genuine refugees or not, whether they deserve our hospitality or not. Even the wealthiest of the refugees that have been able to afford to pay the parasitic people smugglers have hazarded their own lives and the lives of their families in order to come here, an act of often suicidal desperation.

 

All true Christians and all decent, caring adults give generously and appropriately to anybody in genuine need and consider "giving to those that ask of you" as a spiritual and humanitarian imperative (Luke 6:30). The only legitimate excuse for refusing to give is if what is asked is to be abused or misused destructively, violently or illegally in any way. It would not for example be loving to give money to a smoker, alcoholic, drug addict, glutton, hoarder, wastrel, gambler, thief or fraud - this however describes most of those self-appointed frauds claiming to be GOD's chosen ministers in all organised religions today. GOD never asks us to give away anything that is not in our own best interests to give up and this is often HIS way of simplifying our lives and lightening us up both physically and emotionally, freeing us from unhealthy attachments to material possessions and money. This process promotes both emotional and spiritual growth by uncovering the investment of underlying repressed feelings which motivates all greed, covetousness, hoarding and unsharing and ungiving behaviour.

 

However it is not good enough to just passively respond to peoples' needs whenever they ask. Really compassionate people and all true Christians take the initiative and by using their hearts know what is needed, by whom it is needed, where it is needed, when and why. If people were not so blind to GOD's purpose, they would realise that responsible, generous giving and sharing is good for everyone - HE loves and providentially rewards cheerful givers for their generosity of spirit (II Corinthians 9:6,7). When it is appreciated what could and should so easily be achieved worldwide if the privileged few were genuinely committed to helping, it makes any reasonable adult outraged, sickened and disgusted. As an example, a typical seaside resort town of Robe in South Australia with a permanent resident population of just under 1,000 people most of the year accommodates well over 10,000 in peak holiday season. Clearly one small town in Australia could easily at least temporarily shelter ten times its population in refugees and Australia could in turn easily shelter one million refugees (1,000,000) here, today, immediately. There is no excuse because all the resources are here already - we have the unoccupied spare rooms, flats, holiday homes, units, cabins, caravans and tents not to mention grossly underutilised and misused churches, convents, monasteries, retreat houses, holiday & church camps, church and civic halls, conference centres, sports complexes, public buildings, concert venues, libraries, museums, art galleries, theatres etc. etc. We also have an overabundance of bedding, food, water, sanitation facilities, clothing and transport and it is insanity to try to fly or ship these resources across to those in need in camps overseas instead of bringing them here. All it takes is the determination to behave like human beings and real Christians (instead of greedy, selfish savages), to give and share generously, the mark of any emotional adult.

 

A decent, caring and humane approach and attitude would not only be the best thing that countries like Australia have ever done in their entire national existences but would also be the most effective and least expensive defence policy ever conceived of or implemented. The indefensible, abiding, unaddressed inequity in the sharing of resources globally promotes jealousy, antagonism, hostility and conflict and is clearly one of the primary root causes of terrorism. Those living in abject poverty and squalor are only too aware of the west's lavish standard of living and this encourages some to take up arms and commit acts of violence, hatred and fanaticism and others to embark on perilous journeys as refugees. Countries like Australia (& Australia is one of the worst examples because we have so much!) have through their inhumane, restrictive refugee policies actually created the current crisis. Therefore an added benefit of an unselfish refugee effort is that it will not only defuse the current situation but it will pre-empt future refugee problems, something the wealthier nations could and should have done decades ago.

 

Those who are genuinely cared for with few exceptions do not bomb their benefactors.

What America and all its global fellow-travellers need to do is to blessedly stop pompously parading their public posturing and pretence, stop filling our lives with their endless, wordy platitudes and start cleaning up, simplifying, giving, sharing and actively doing. In fact nothing much of any good has ever come out of America with the possible exception of some of their music. The best cure for the increasing plague of obesity, other addictive behaviour, violence and crime afflicting all western populations today, a clear consequence of gluttony, laziness, excess and idle inactivity, is give them something useful, meaningful, active and unselfish to do for the benefit of others who have so much less. This would improve our real quality and standard of living by compelling the large numbers of overindulged, grossly under-utilised, unweaned, inactive, obese Australian males and females to justify their existence on this planet by getting off their ever increasing backsides, closing their continuously flapping 'barn door' mouths and stopping them sitting, watching mindless programs and childish sports on TV, drinking endless cups of tea and coffee and glasses of wine and beer, smoking tobacco, taking drugs and generally indulging themselves with their other various escapist pursuits and narcissistic pastimes and profitless artificial exercise.

 

America has responded with indiscriminate, vengeful violence, yet again, instead of taking stock and accepting responsibility for the barbarism they have been guilty of themselves over most of the past century. Internationally their allies have willingly colluded in this cosy conspiracy, pandering to the USA like servile lackeys instead of facing up to their own and America's culpability. Just as the Americans have so conveniently condemned the genocide in the Balkan states (without even beginning to deal with the much worse genocide of their native American population where 27 out of 28 of all Native American Indians were killed), everyone will excuse their continued outrages with the usual cliches and parrot the usual meaningless platitudes about patriotism, honour, glory and justice. How stupid, inane and hypocritical these heathens sound when they parrot "GOD bless America" as they get down on their knees to pray and get up to kill!

 

Australia has not listened to what GOD HIMSELF has tried to tell this blind, lost and spiritually bankrupt country bereft of the truth with the events of September 11th 2001 in America and Bali on October 12th 2002, with the worst drought in living memory or the horrendous bushfires with the national capital so deservedly under siege! Australians have now been given an excellent insight into what it means to be homeless, destitute, subject to extremes of climate, without possessions, with limited fresh water and forced to flee an inferno - how just!! Now they know what many millions of people worldwide have to endure every day of their lives while they themselves live in selfish, affluence and convenient, distant, uncaring isolation.

 

Until the populations of all the comparatively rich nations start to behave in a humane and compassionate way towards all those in need globally, they will continue to be increasingly afflicted so deservedly by their MAKER. Hell is where they are all bound, especially those that sanctimoniously and self-righteously feign the superficial pretence of spirituality and religious tokenism so fashionable today, notably most of the so-called "Christians". GOD has abundantly blessed America and her NATO and ANZUS allies for decades and they have never really listened. Now no doubt HE will increasingly punish and chasten these nations until they listen and choose to change.

 

HIS Servant,  

  

Michael Israel †

 

Update Bangkok 13th July 2005

The only thing with the planet in such a shocking state that makes sense out of life and human existence is to seek to understand GOD's purpose in all the events that happen around us, especially the 'co-oincidences', 'accidents', 'natural' disasters, other catastrophes and even the fortuitious occurences (blessings). Any true Christian Minister "worth his salt" is easily and credibly able to explain WHY these things occur in GOD's terms for individuals, communities, particular groups, particular nations and for the earth as a whole.

 

All those who have real Faith know that GOD is omnipotent, in charge of the whole of HIS Creation, all the time. Everything that happens in this world is therefore under HIS hand, either caused or allowed by HIM, without exception - nothing can be added to HIS will and nothing can be taken from it.

 

Now no sane, caring person could fail to have the utmost compassion for many of the victims killed in USA on September 11th 2001, in Bali October 12th 2002, in Madrid and now in London and for their families. However without doubt GOD has humiliated and chastened America, Australia, Spain and now the United Kingdom in a very obvious, public and shocking way in front of an audience of billions of people worldwide with these terrorist strikes and bombings, not to mention all those other nations affected by the recent tsunami disaster.

 

Sensible, enlightened people (and certainly all genuine Christians) will look for the underlying reasons and causes WHY this has happened. In a similar way the Jewish people should have asked WHY after the Second World War instead of claiming that they were somehow completely blameless and innocent and obsessively demanding financial compensation. GOD used Hitler then, just as HE has previously used other pagan nations throughout Biblical history to appallingly afflict and punish HIS chosen people when they walked away from HIM and committed acts of wickedness, lewdness, violence and idolatry contrary to HIS Commandments. Because of HIS mercy and patience, HE often tolerated their misconduct for decades, even centuries, before showing HIS obvious displeasure.

 

As GOD leads, my wife Mary has just spent ten extremely difficult days immediately prior to the July 2005 bombing living in faith in London and being treated to the reality of 'charity' and 'Christianity' in this avaricious, hard-hearted, cold, mean, ungiving, cruel and spiritually bankrupt city. How fitting and thoroughly deserved that London should be terrorised in the middle of partying about winning the right to stage the 2012 Olympics! What kind of depraved deviates could contemplate squandering billions of pounds on these meaningless, childish contests of absolutely no benefit or consequence whatsoever to the human race whilst the streets of London are littered with homeless sleeping in the rain!!! What kind of low-life, sub-human species are in charge of this world and especially in charge of the churches!!

 

The lessons to be learned from the tsunami on 26th December 2004 have much in common with those outlined in detail below in the report on Terrorism. However what is especially significant is the scale of this particular disaster as it impacted on so many countries worldwide. It is useful to consider what would be the implications and consequences of a similar event in the Pacific basin instead?? Unless the wealthy nations take notice and heed this obvious warning, this WILL happen or something much, much worse!!! Incidentally, it should be noted that the effects of the tsunamis were made much worse by the destructive, insensitive and stupid devastation and clumsy and insensitive alteration of the environments which made the coasts so much more vulnerable and less resistant to the waves.

 

With the tsunami GOD in HIS wisdom and mercy has reproved and shown HIS obvious displeasure at the self-centred, parasitic hedonism by rich, obese, gluttonous, immodest, alcoholic, drug addicted, sexually depraved, vulgar, loud-mouthed, foul-mouthed and insensitive tourists (holidaymakers, backpackers and surfers), all hell-bent on selfish, indulged, decadent escapism, who all enjoy and flaunt a grossly unfair, unjust and undeserved, discriminatory and very priviledged standard of living in disadvantaged countries with blatantly obvious poverty.

 

Overseas businessmen and women who live locally and work for wealthy overseas corporations were also affected by the tsunami, employees of companies that exploit low cost domestic labour instead of paying what in absolute global terms is equitable and fair. It was for example the greatest disaster in Sweden's history therefore being "neutral" in the political context does not mean that a country is neutral in GOD's terms. Producing and creating a demand in the local market for unnecessary, polluting goods and services and otherwise manipulating the local economy for financial profit is also immoral as is destroying local patterns of living and survival which are much more healthy, realistic, sustainable and appropriate than the destructive insanity of narcissistic, self-centred, competitive western, industrialised, capitalistic 'democratic' cultures.

 

GOD with this disaster has yet again encouraged the western and other wealthy nations to help, really help, not just to donate money from afar, the easiest to give and least needed resource. What is needed is for people to DO, to GIVE and to SHARE and to re-think their insane, selfish, money-obsessed, idle, wasteful, childish priorities in life. Some tourists were even stubbornly surfing, playing golf and sunbathing on the beaches immediately after the disaster with dead bodies still under the rubble nearby - what will it take to get through to them, perhaps an atomic bomb or lethal pandemic or plague!

 

It was and is obvious that the ONLY sensible, sane and responsible and caring course of action after the tsunami was to bring all the orphan children, babies, widowed mothers and women, the old, sick, disabled and traumatised to Australia, New Zealand, America, Japan, Europe etc. They have the resources needed here in over-abundance, the buildings for accomodation, the bedding, clothing, food, health care support and transportation.

 

It is really cruel and sadistic to leave the most vulnerable in a disaster zone and quite insane to fly in very basic supplies at enormous cost just to keep the problem and sufferring well distant. There is something obscene about dumping and scattering rations from a helicopter which is demeaning and insulting to the recipients, where the fittest, strongest, most intimidating, most violent and least deserving can steal the largest proportions. And these daily supplies need to be continuously supplied for months, if not years!

 

To evacuate tens of thousands of people by plane or ship is by comparison a relatively simple, one-off exercise once appropriate protocols are established the first time this is necessary. The ships and planes are readily available (hundreds of planes sit idle in the Mogavi Desert!), both civilian and military. There is no suggestion that this would be a permanent move, just until the disaster is over (war, famine, flood, volcanic eruption, earthquake, cyclone/monsoon etc) and until the young local men with overseas help have buried the dead, cleaned up the rubbish and debris and rebuilt the necessary basic infra-structure. Then families could be carefully and gradually repatriated, resettled and reunited.

 

There are obvious other advantages to this approach, apart from the cost savings. First it would avoid the misuse of donated resources by corrupt and military regimes. Next it would improve the health, reverse the obesity trend and give meaning, purpose and fulfilment to the lazy, fat, sedentary, idle, indulged, sports-obsessed westerners who squander the most obscene resources on things of no importance or value and waste their lives in the process. It would give them something unselfish, real and physically active to do with their lives.

 

GOD with the tsunami has also expressed in a clear and unambiguous way HIS disapproval of warring, violent, corrupt and oppressive military dictatorships, national governments, local administrations and separist groups (like the Tamils where their orphanages are staffed by women fighters!) which abound in the tsunami-affected region. HE has also made a statement about spiritual fantasies and religious delusions in the area whether pseudo-christian, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist.

 

Finally it needs to be understood that the standard of child care and of parenting in this whole area is generally very poor as it is in the 'west'. Everywhere babies and children are deprived, neglected, invalidated, abused, violated and exploited each and every day. In a sense GOD took away so many children from their present suffering and the evil to come on one hand and on the other HE miraculously saved other children to get through to their parents how priceless a gift they are. Thailand in particular is renowned for sexual exploitation of children and women, a haven for westerners who are so emotionally disabled and ungrown that they cannot or choose to not form relationships with women of their own race. Misusing a very unfair and imbalanced physical, emotional, financial, intellectual and cultural power advantage, these males effectively exploit and enslave local females in what constitutes a form of prostitution or even paedophilia for these child-like, small-statured, gentle, simple women. There is always a covert, unsavoury, cowardly emotional agenda underlying mixed, interracial marriages, the relationships of westerner men with Thai, Phillipino and Balinese women are particularly infamous examples.

 

Having just spent 3 weeks in Bali, I was greatly offended, outraged and embarrassed by the behaviour and appearance of most of my fellow Australians (and other westerners) there. Generally they have appalling standards of self-care, dress like hobos, do not look after their hair or appearance and eat and behave like uncivilised savages, all of which faithfully reflects the deplorable standards of parenting in countries like Australia, America, Germany, the UK etc. They are loud, insensitive to local customs and sensibilities and are so emotionally crippled that they are unable to cope without regular infusions of alcohol and live in desperate denial by constantly sucking down their feelings with their babies bottles of beer. Most strut around with their full wallets and empty hearts, poor in spirit as though they have all the answers when in truth they are just blind, deaf, hard-hearted, arrogant ignoramuses who are too stupid to look, listen and learn.

 

The local Balinese people put most visitors to shame and have much to teach them being polite, gentle, quiet, careful, unobtrusive, modest, aware and considerate. They enjoy serving and keep smiling even given the obscene disparity between their own average weekly income of A$15-20 and that of most visitors (>A$1,000). Many of the Balinese women dress, grow their hair and behave like women, not like the ugly, shorn, hard she-male eunuchs so common in the west today and the apparent avariciousness of the Balinese is at least driven by a realistic desperation based on poverty and not, as is general with visiting tourists, by unrestrained greed.

 

HIS Servant,  

  

Michael Israel †

 

Saturday 3rd September in the year of our LORD 2005 - The Sabbath Day

Hurricane Katrina

 

Will the United States of America ever learn?!

 

The violence that they are guilty of globally GOD will increasingly heap back onto their own heads. And even the poorest, most insignificant American citizen is not without blame, being tax payers and voters who are in absolute terms guilty either directly or indirectly by default and inaction of the murder and mayhem committed all over the world by its violent heathen government of marauding menaces.

 

For more information as to the meaning and significance of this latest catastrophe, as to why a GOD OF LOVE should so obviously afflict a nation in such a way, read the original file “Terrorism” below.

 

I repeat, a nuclear explosion in one of their major cities, probably Chicago, will happen in the next five years unless America both individually and collectively repent of their wickedness, stop hoarding, refusing to give, interfering and killing and start sharing of their undeserved wealth and privilege and start doing for those less fortunate than themselves, especially children.

 

As the Tsunami, bombings in London, Madrid and Bali and the events of September 11th 2001 in New York should have taught anyone with any common sense or intelligence, there is no protection and no shelter from GOD’S wrath, none, except to serve and obey HIM.

 

“There will be a time of trouble such as has never been since there was a nation even to that same time” Daniel 12:1

 

HIS Servant,  

  

Michael Israel †