"Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "England expects that every man will do his duty." In 1805 that was enough. It should still be." - Johan Huizinga, In the Shadow of Tomorrow, pg. 158. (1936).The year 2001 was announced by the United Nations as the " Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations." Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami "introduced the idea of Dialogue Among Civilizations as a response to Samuel P. Huntington’s theory of a Clash of Civilizations."
"Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time. One comes here again to the point in one's thinking where judgment must remain inconclusive. No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what. Expressed in medical terms it may well be that our time is in need of heroic treatment, provided it is administered by the proper physician and in the proper manner." - Johan Huizinga, In the Shadow of Tomorrow, pg. 167. (1936).
"Of the many ideals which in youth gave life a meaning and radiance missing from the chilly perspectives of middle age, one at least has remained with me as bright and satisfying as ever before -- the shameless worship of heroes. In an age that would level everything and reverence nothing, I take my stand with Victorian Carlyle, and light my candles, like Mirandola before Plato's image, at the shrines of great men.
I say shameless, for I know how unfashionable it is now to acknowledge in life or history any genius loftier than ourselves. Our democratic dogma has leveled not only all voters but all leaders; we delight to show that living geniuses are only mediocrities, and that dead ones are myths.
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No, the real history of man is not in prices and wages, nor in elections and battles, nor in the even tenor of the common man; it is in the lasting contributions made by geniuses to the sum of human civilization and culture. The history of France is not, if one may say it with all courtesy, the history of the French people; the history of those nameless men and women who tilled the soil, cobbled the shoes, cut the cloth, and peddled the goods (for these things have been done everywhere and always) -- the history of France is the record of her exceptional men and women, her inventors, scientists, statesmen, poets, artists, musicians, philosophers and saints, and of the additions which they made to the technology and wisdom, the artistry and decency, of their people and mankind. And so with every country, so with the world; its history is properly the history of its great men. What are the rest of us but willing brick and mortar in their hands, that they may make a race a little finer than ourselves? Therefore I see history not as a dreary scene of politics and carnage, but as the struggle of man -- through genius -- with the obdurate inertia of matter and the baffling mystery of mind; the struggle to understand, control and remake himself and the world.
I see men standing on the edge of knowledge, and holding the light a little farther ahead; men carving marble into forms ennobling men; men molding peoples into better instruments of greatness; men making a language of music and music out of language; men dreaming of finer lives, and living them. Here is a process of creation more vivid than in any myth, a godliness more real than in any creed." - Will Durant, A Shameless Worship of Heroes.
The dramatic events that were staged on September 11, 2001, by the shadow governments in the United States and Israel gave credence to the moronic idea that there is a Clash of Civilizations between the West and Islam.
For a decade, the discourse about the West's war on terror has been informed by this destructive and invented narrative. The tragedy of 9/11 took the life out of the debate, and made it appear that a clash of civilizations actually exists between the West and Islam.
But there is no such clash. Nobody in the West desires that there be a final crusade to conquer Jerusalem. And the Afghans who are fighting NATO in their homes and villages don't have any ambitions of taking their fight to the West.
People point to al-Qaeda as the Big Bad Wolf in the global village that is blowing down the symbols of American power and the houses of the West, but this perception is not true. The evidence of the last ten years prove that al-Qaeda is a CIA-MI6-Mossad front.
So there is nothing to fear from the "Other." Radical Islam is not a threat to America and the West. In reality, Islam, as it is practiced today in its barbaric form, is a threat to the East, to Iran, Afghanistan, and Asia. Afghan freedom fighter Ahmad Shah Massoud tried to destroy the Taliban and other barbaric practitioners of Islam in his country, but his struggle ended when he was assassinated two days before 9/11. And he was assassinated not by al-Qaeda suicide bombers, as the official story says, but by the shadow CIA and Bush White House.
Iran's reformist leaders like former President Khatami and Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, who originally supported the Islamic revolution but later criticized the Khomeini regime and struggled for reform, have battled against the barbarism of Iran's Islamic establishment. Montazeri died two years ago at the age of 87, but his leadership still inspires hope.
To end the invented clash of civilizations narrative and stop the war on terror, heroes in both the West and Islam need to face off against the barbarians and tyrants in their own lands.
830 years ago, there was a clash of heroes in Jerusalem between Saladin of Islam and Richard the Lionheart of Christianity. In our own age, new heroes need to rise in the West and Islam, but instead of having a clash with one another, they should sit down and lead a global dialogue to create peace, friendship, and understanding.
Both the West and Islam have made incredible contributions to human civilization and the universal struggle of freedom against tyranny. The holy struggle for freedom that true Muslim fighters from the mountains of Afghanistan to the valleys of Lebanon are fighting and dying in is a struggle that the heroic American people know well, having fought a revolutionary war, a civil war, and two world wars for freedom.
I don't like the arrogance and stupidity of the Republican party, but it has always been right about one thing: America is an exceptional nation. The ideals and principles that America was founded on are the greatest of any country and society. Thomas Paine said "the cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind."
America has a national asset that other world powers like China and Russia lack: idealism and ingenuity. The American people are the most idealistic on Earth. This is a great and valuable part of America's national character.
But as we've seen since the false flag attacks on 9/11, this characteristic can also be exploited by self-interested politicians, power-seekers, and war criminals to advance their evil policies abroad and at home. Americans who fell for the 9/11 lie still can't face the truth because they are so idealistic that they cannot even entertain the thought that their leaders are evil mass murderers who desire world domination and global dictatorship.
At its core, America is a great and beautiful country. But America's greatness has collapsed because it abandoned the principles of its revolution. America's constitutional republic began to erode near the end of the nineteenth century. The creation of the parasitic and private Federal Reserve System in 1913, the rise of the fascistic military-industrial complex after WWII, the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963 by the shadow CIA, and the state terror attacks in September 2001 all point to a war from within by America's elite against America's core principles and values.
Author and Christian theologian James W. Douglass says in his book, "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters," that JFK tried to change the course of human history and defeat the snakes of war, but the political cancer at heart of the American shadow state consumed him before he was able to make any revolutionary changes in Washington. Douglass writes:
"John Kennedy was turning. They key to understanding Kennedy's presidency, his assassination, and our survival as a species through the Cuban Missile Crisis is that Kennedy was turning toward peace. The signs of his turning are the seeds of his assassination.JFK made mistakes, but so did Jefferson, Adams, and Washington. Like them, he was also a great hero and he must be honored for putting up a fight against the demonic forces of dictatorship, oligarchy and war who established Washington's shadow government.
Marcus Raskin worked in the Kennedy administration as an assistant to National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy. Not long after the Bay of Pigs, Raskin witnessed an incident in the Oval Office that tipped him off to Kennedy's deep aversion to the use of nuclear weapons.
During the President's meeting with a delegation of governors, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, expressing his irritation at the guerrilla tactics of the Viet Cong, said, "Why don't we use tactical nuclear weapons against them?"
Raskin, watching Kennedy closely, was in a position to see what happened next. The president's hand began to shake uncontrollably.
JFK said simply, "You know we're not going to do that."
But it was the suddenly shaking hand that alerted Raskin to Kennedy's profound uneasiness with nuclear weapons, a mark of conscience that would turn later into a commitment to disarmament." (Douglass: JFK and the Unspeakable. Simon & Schuster: New York. Pg. 320. (2008).
Heroes of America And The West
Heroes have risen in America and the West to defend the traditions of freedom and the rule of law. Below is a short and unfinished list of the great heroes of America and the West in modern memory who defended freedom in its darkest hour:
President John F. Kennedy, the last real American president, assassinated on 11/22/63:
"Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed — and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment — the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution — not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants" — but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion." (From JFK's The President and the Press speech).
Martin Luther King Jr., the conscience of America, assassinated on 4/4/68:
"Gargantuan industry and government, woven into an intricate computerized mechanism, leave the person outside. The sense of participation is lost, the feeling that ordinary individuals influence important decisions vanishes, and man becomes separated and diminished.
When an individual is no longer a true participant, when he no longer feels a sense of responsibility to his society, the content of democracy is emptied. When culture is degraded and vulgarity enthroned, when the social system does not build security but induces peril, inexorably the individual is impelled to pull away from a soulless society. This process produces alienation--perhaps the most pervasive and insidious development in contemporary society." (From MLK's book The Trumpet of Conscience).
Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the defender of America, assassinated on 6/6/68:
"At the heart of that Western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any Western society.
The first element of this individual liberty is the freedom of speech: the right to express and communicate ideas, to set oneself apart from the dumb beasts of field and forest; to recall governments to their duties and obligations; above all, the right to affirm one's membership and allegiance to the body politic - to society - to the men with whom we share our land, our heritage, and our children's future.
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives. Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people. Therefore, the essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer - not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.And even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people; so that there may be no interference with the right to worship, or with the security of the home; no arbitrary imposition of pains or penalties by officials high or low; no restrictions on the freedom of men to seek education or work or opportunity of any kind, so that each man may become all he is capable of becoming.
These are the sacred rights of Western society. These were the essential differences between us and Nazi Germany, as they were between Athens and Persia." (From RFK's Day of Affirmation speech).
"The basic political problems confronting the Framers of our Constitution were as complex as our political problems today—perhaps more so, because they were striking off into the dangerous unknown, whereas all we need do is return to the fine highway we were once on." (From McDonald's book We Hold These Truths: A Reverent Review of the U. S. Constitution).
Senator Paul Wellstone, the conscience of the Senate, assassinated on 10/25/02:
"It would also be a sign of the wisdom of our founders, who lodged in the President the power to command U.S. armed forces, and in Congress the power to make war, ensuring a balance of powers between co-equal branches of government. Our Constitution lodges the power to weigh the causes for war and the ability to declare war in Congress precisely to ensure that the American people and those who represent them will be consulted before military action is taken." (From Wellstone's Iraq War speech).
William Cooper, the vigilant guardian of America, assassinated on 11/6/01:
"Like it or not, everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man or the most horrible enslavement that you can imagine. Be active or abdicate. The future is in your hands."
Pat Tillman, the noble soldier of America, assassinated on 4/22/04.
Former Governor Jesse Ventura, the outspoken fighter for America:
"I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am"
Congressman Ron Paul, the conscience of the House:
"The sad part of all this is that we have forgotten what made America great, good, and prosperous. We need to quickly refresh our memories and once again reinvigorate our love, understanding, and confidence in liberty. The status quo cannot be maintained, considering the current conditions. Violence and lost liberty will result without some revolutionary thinking." (From Current Conditions or Just a Bad Dream speech).
Alex Jones, the voice of America:
"We told the truth. We're here in the open. We're going to tell the truth and it doesn't matter what you say or what you do, we're not going away. And you can kill me, you can kill this guy, or you can kill her, but you can't get us all. And we're not going to stop. And we're not going to shut up. And we're not going to go away.
And that's why I say in resistance is victory. If your cause is right, it doesn't mean we're a hundred percent right, but we're going in the right direction, if you're looking for the truth and you don't shut up, and you never quit, and you can't be shutdown, and you don't care what people say to you, and you never go away, nothing on Earth can stop you and that's why they're scared of you.
They're scared of you because you carry the light of truth and honour and everything that's good in your soul, and when you turn that loose there's nothing on this planet that can stop you.
When you have no shame, when you're not afraid, when you don't care what people say about you who are scared and want to keep to their little comfort boxes, when you get outside of that, it is so enlightening, it is so empowering, it is so fulfilling. And as this spirit of liberty spreads, and as people discover their own innate personal power and their own tie in to the overall human destiny and something much larger, there's no amount of propaganda, there's no amount of slick semantics, there's no amount of divide and conquer, there's no amount of left-right paradigm, that can stop you. And that's my overall message." (From The Global Awakening speech).
David Icke, the gadfly of England.
Weapons expert Dr. David Kelly, the conscience of England, assassinated on 7/17/03.
Member of Parliament Robin Cook, the conscience of Parliament, died on 8/6/05.
There are more heroes that can be added to this list. In a future article I will list the 9/11 truth activists and heroic witnesses who have been killed by Washington's shadow and treasonous government.
Heroes of The East And Islam
Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir, assassinated on 9/9/01:
"The goal is clear. Afghans want to regain their right to self-determination through a democratic or traditional mechanism acceptable to our people. No one group, faction or individual has the right to dictate or impose its will by force or proxy on others. But first, the obstacles have to be overcome, the war has to end, just peace established and a transitional administration set up to move us toward a representative government.
We are willing to move toward this noble goal. We consider this as part of our duty to defend humanity against the scourge of intolerance, violence and fanaticism. But the international community and the democracies of the world should not waste any valuable time, and instead play their critical role to assist in any way possible the valiant people of Afghanistan overcome the obstacles that exist on the path to freedom, peace, stability and prosperity." (From Massoud's Letter to the People of America).
"In an era like ours, when people read, are politically aware, and mentally developed, and have full and complete contact with the outside world, and can see the freedom in other countries, to ignore the legitimate liberties of the people, shut their mouths, silence the national press, and insist on their total and unconditional surrender, especially that of the scientists and the experts in social, political and economic sciences, all at the instigation of one fallible human being who is capable of making mistakes - especially in the name of Islam and religion - will lead to a rebellion by the people and their disenchantment with the fundamentals of Islam and religion. Today’s world does not accept the absolute rule of the individual; our government is in no way comparable to the simple government at the beginning of Islam that was headed by the infallible one." (From Ahmad Rafat's interview with Montazeri).
There are more heroes that can be added to this list. I am ashamed of my ignorance of modern Islamic heroes who refused to worship the demonic spirit of power and war.
Remembering The Heroes of Our Age
Ahmad Shah Massoud could've seized power in Afghanistan but he remained loyal to the Afghan people and faithful to the ideals of freedom and democracy. His goals were pure and noble. And Grand Ayatollah Montazeri was originally chosen to be the Supreme Leader of Iran once Khomeini died, but that did not come to fruition because of his unshakable resistance to Khomeini's dictatorial policies. He refused to stay silent in 1989 when the rights of the Iranian people were under attack from Khomeini's regime, and he paid a price for his courageous stand.
Massoud, a warrior, and Montazeri, a cleric, defended their people, country, and faith when all three were being attacked from abroad and at home. Their heroism must not be forgotten. By resisting the barbarians and tyrants of their lands both heroes helped lay the path to true freedom and representative government in Afghanistan and Iran.
America's path to freedom was laid by its great founders so the American people have a much easier task than the people of the East. In our age, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Larry McDonald, Paul Wellstone, and Ron Paul all protected the American Constitution, the moral values of America, and the will of the people. All these men pledged their sacred loyalty to serve America, and they fulfilled their oaths, unlike the vast majority of public servants. They are Christian heroes as well as American heroes, who deserve the highest praise and gratitude from all mankind.
The heroic resistance to tyranny and oppression by JFK, MLK, RFK, McDonald, Wellstone, Paul, Massoud, Montazeri, and other heroes from both the West and the East is not appreciated as it should be because the modern press, in the hands of the fascist elites, is hostile to freedom, truth, brotherhood, and justice.
Instead of holding up JFK's heroism and noble act of self-sacrifice to the American people and the world, the shameful American press concentrates on his mistresses and playboy lifestyle. The press does this because they hate America and they don't want the American people to know that once in a while a hero actually ends up in the White House who defends the public interest.
JFK wanted to give the American government back to the American people, but not even a President can achieve this goal. It takes an entire nation to restore freedom, not one individual, no matter how powerful he is. But JFK's heroic martyrdom can still light a fire in the American people's hearts and inspire them to make his noble dream a living reality in the 21st century.
In his "Day of Affirmation" speech at Cape Town University on June 6, 1966, Robert F. Kennedy said:
It is a revolutionary world that we all live in, and thus, as I have said in Latin America and in Asia and in Europe and in my own country, the United States, it is the young people who must take the lead. Thus, you, and your young compatriots everywhere, have had thrust upon you a greater burden of responsibility than any generation that has ever lived.JFK, MLK, and RFK were too revolutionary for their time. The treasonous wolves in America's shadow government were hungry for blood, money, power, and war, and they still are in 2011. But they're not as powerful today because the American people have awakened and they know they've been betrayed by the highest leaders in the land.
"There is," said an Italian philosopher, "nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the -- in the introduction of a new order of things."2 Yet this is the measure of the task of your generation, and the road is strewn with many dangers.
First, is the danger of futility: the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant Reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32 year-old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that "all men are created equal."
"Give me a place to stand," said Archimedes, "and I will move the world." These men moved the world, and so can we all. Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and then the total -- all of these acts -- will be written in the history of this generation.
Congress is hated. The federal government is viewed as a terrorist state that killed American citizens on 9/11 in collaboration with the criminal Zionists in Israel. The private Federal Reserve traitors and the criminal banksters on Wall Street are no longer protected behind the wall of secrecy. And the Office of the White House is seen as a joke.
If JFK, MLK, and RFK were assassinated by the shadow government in 2011, a majority of the American people would not believe the official stories. The public trust is gone. The faith in the U.S. government's word has been destroyed. Thus, a political reformation in Washington is inevitable.
