opportunism
“You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. This power struggle permeates the training, educating and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably must face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethnic.”
–from “Muad’Dib: The Religious Issues” by the Princess Irulan in Frank Herber’s Dune books.
The past two weeks I found myself frozen like a deer in the headlights. I could not write anything as I was thoroughly disgusted by what the world has descended to. I was also worried about relatives in London but I can only sit for but so long feeling depressed. The war on terror is an opportunism for maintaining the rule of a select group of people who have an orthodox religion. Most of us fools think the only orthodox religious followers are Muslims while a few of us may count some jewish sects as the orthodox followers. But here I am alluding to another type of orthodoxy even if a few of in this select group includes people claiming jewish descent. Members of this group follow a religion called neo-conservatism otherwise known as world domination. Some say christian fundamentalism but it’s as christian as Hitler’s ideas about the spear of destiny. It goes a lot deeper than that. It must because the terror attacks which occur in the west seems to happen where the citizens are critical of the war on terror. The attacks pose a perfect opportunity for diminishing our rights to the benefit of those who follow the orthodox religion.
In an example of how complaining citizens become targets. A brit colonel in Iraq pre London bombings complained: http://villagevoice.com/news/0527,axe,65576,6.html
“You can’t have an insurgency without an occupier to fight. And if you justify your occupation as an effort to combat insurgency, then you’re chasing your own tail. Williams calls it a “chicken and egg thing.”Many Americans apparently believe that the occupation of Iraq is part of some greater conflict, be it a clash of civilizations or a global war on terrorism. But for the British, who’ve occupied Iraq before, Iraq is less a crusade than another in a long string of costly efforts to prop up the shambling nations of the world. “The American military is at war,” Williams says. “We’re not. We’re on operations. The British people do not believe we are at war. Americans do.”
Not long after there was a published report that the Brits would be pulling out of Iraq by next spring. Then the London terror attacks occured. I Wonder what the British people believe now? The war on terror is now their war too.
I’ve since seen this: poll result.
Should I worry about another terrorist attack on american soil? Should the Japanese worry about their own cities?
In asking who benefits most from these attacks and one may see the man behind the curtain. I doubt it has an arab face but if it does, then one must also look for the string attached and follow that string. There you will find those who have long succumbed to complete opportunism because they are never willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethnic. They sacrifice ordinary folks like you and I, our sons and daughters for the orthodox ethnic.
