Should I Disappear
Friend I did all I knew to do back in 2002. I wrote, among other letters to world leaders, the letters below. Almost four years later we are witnessing a world that no longer respects the USA.
Please read what I wrote back then. Only then will it be clear, should I ever mysteriously disappear, what has happened to me. This present Bush administration represents the resurrection of the dinosaurs most of us thought were laid to rest in the 60's and 70's. Reagan came along to prove these reptilian political creatures were still with us. They believe the USA is destined to rule the planet. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, and the rest of the scaly, leathery, and cold-blooded omnivores have shaken the earth with their pre-human behavior. World leaders have had enough. They are shocked the American people would have re-elected or allowed the re-selection of this rogue regime.
They are predictably taking matters into their own hands. What "We the People" refused to correct they are in process of correcting. China is blocking our satellites as they attempt to spy on their military. Can anyone blame them? Our government gladly accepts their child labor in exchange for cheap Wal-Mart goods. Yet they spy on their military.
Fellow Americans, it's over. Be ready. The fall of the USA will not begin with your grandchildren, or children. Friends, we are in free-fall at this moment. You and I will see the end of our hubris in short order. We have allowed our leader to go too far. The fall is here. The fall may not be perceptible because it is a fall of such a grand scale. When all around you is falling the perception of movement is impossible. As the earth spins and we do not perceive the spin, so it is with the fall of our nation from a position of "only" world power to whatever position fate holds for us.
The extinction of the dinosaur will end, however, with a mighty crash.
Duane Short
September 28, 2006
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
...maybe it's too little, too late.
I gave up on "We the People" when "We the People" accepted the (S)election of George W. Bush for the second time. I took matters into my own hands. I sent this letter to UN security Council Members. I also wrote then Canada Prime Minister Chrétien concerning Bush's crass treatment of the Kyoto Protocol.
Today, May 18, 2006, the rest of the world has awaken. Hasn't anyone noticed how nations who once demonstrated respect for the U.S. are now thumbing their nose at U.S. dictates? I am not talking about nations like China, Iran, although they are certainly not shaking in their boots. I am talking about Venezuela, Columbia, Mexico, Canada, and so many others.
I pleaded with these leaders (and many other leaders of foreign sovereign nations) to do what "We the People" of the U.S. would not. TAKE A STAND! For better AND worse, so many leaders around the world are taking a stand against the hubris of this administration.
Friends, George W. Bush and our politically inbred congress has not only sold out the U.S. but they have reduced the U.S. to an "also ran" in the global race to adapt to an ever shrinking planet.
We are screwed. There is no turning back. We are about to find out what it is like to be an "also ran." An arrogant #1 makes for a miserable #2 or #3 or #4..... etc.
Duane Short
May 18, 2006
==============
Emailed to addresses below on 10-24-02.
Dear Security Council Representatives,
As a native United States citizen I wish to make clear I believe a preemptive military strike by the U.S. and/or any of its allies violates international law and, in particular, the United Nations Charter.
By threatening Iraq, the U.S. is clearly in violation of the UN Charter and is in violation of international law to which the U.S. is a signatory. Article 2 of the UN Charter requires all countries to "settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered" and states that they must "refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state ..." Article 51 of the Charter is the only article permitting individual countries the use of force, and that strictly for purposes of self-defense.
Should this war become a reality it would be an act of lawless aggression on the part of the United States. More importantly, and more disturbing, than knowing the U.S. is willing to violate international law to achieve its nationalistic objectives, is the knowledge that an unjust U.S. attack on Iraq will unleash violent chaos around the world. We are already witnessing examples of widespread violence precipitated by U.S. "tough talk" on Iraq.
The Bush Administration is repeatedly stating Iraq is a threat to the U.S. This repeated claim contradicts the information provided in an important document that serves as no less than a script for the events we see unfolding as the Bush Administration moves forward.
The following claim is made in a report by the "Project for the New American Century" (Released in September 2000) and is said to be one of the KEY findings that supports its recommendations as found in the excerpt from the section titled:
REBUILDING AMERICA’S DEFENSES: STRATEGY, FORCES AND RESOURCES FOR A NEW
CENTURY
"IT [THE U.S.] FACES NO IMMEDIATE GREAT-POWER CHALLENGE."
By ALL accounts military strategists agree, "The U.S. faces no immediate great-power challenge."
The Bush Administration, embraces these very findings, yet they are trying to mislead Americans, citizens around the world, and their leaders to believe that Iraq is a major threat to the U.S. and the world.
Saddam Hussein is not a true threat to the U.S. and the entire world (except supporters of George W. Bush’s agenda) understands this to be true. Global reactions to a U.S. invasion of Iraq will elicit widespread and long-lived violence from small groups of citizens and militaries commanded by sovereign governments. Catastrophic death of innocent civilians as well as infrastructural and environmental destruction will befall many nations.
I strongly encourage the U.N. Security Council request the U.S. delegation supply a copy of a U.S. right wing think-tank document known as THE PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY. The think-tank grew out of the New Citizenship Project, which was funded by the conservative Bradley Foundation, a part of Rockwell Automation, a former defense contractor. This plan was published in September 2000, “before” Bush was appointed president by the U.S. Supreme Court. A portion of this document outlines the conservatives’ ambitious military agenda in a section titled, "Rebuilding America's Defenses -- Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century."
This file can be downloaded from URL
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
This document will enlighten the Council to this U.S. administration’s true agenda.
A religious dogma and political philosophy known as “Manifest Destiny” underlie the formulation of the New Citizenship Project. Manifest Destiny is as old as the founding of the United States. It’s momentum has never diminished but its name has changed to reflect its greater level of sophistication.
Following are quotes from the "Rebuilding America's Defenses -- Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century."
“Of course, the United States must be prudent in how it exercises its power. But we cannot safely avoid the responsibilities of global leadership of the costs that are associated with its exercise. America has a vital role in maintaining peace and security in Europe, Asia, and the Middle Ea, and to meet threats before they become dire. The history of the past century should have taught us to embrace the cause of American leadership.”
---
Any serious effort at transformation must occur within the larger framework of U.S. national security strategy, military missions and defense budgets. The United States cannot simply declare a “strategic pause” while experimenting with new technologies and operational concepts. Nor can it choose to pursue a transformation strategy that would decouple American and allied interests. A transformation strategy that solely pursued capabilities for projecting force from the United States, for example, and sacrificed forward basing and presence, would be at odds with larger American policy goals and would trouble American allies.
Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and their colleagues are, collectively, seeking world military domination. They propagate, in America, a sense of national superiority and destiny. They convince many they wish to "save" the "inferior" from themselves. They convince third world nations that if they support our efforts they too, will one day be as wealthy and powerful as we. Collectively this administration functions as one pathological liar. Sadly, it seems many Americans and citizens of other nations are being fooled.
I am a U.S. patriot. I love my country and I love democracy. I, like tens of millions of U.S. citizens, realize one nation cannot and should not try to force democracy on any other nation. To attempt to do so is a contradiction and mockery of democracy. With great sadness I confess I believe controlling Iraqi oil and gaining greater military advantage in the middle east is the true motive of the Bush administration. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Please help patriotic U.S. citizens reign in the frightening ambitions of our current administration.
Again, I urge the Security Council to research The Project for the New American Century and the philosophy of Manifest Destiny that serves as its foundation.
With Great Respect and Hope for the Planet,
Duane Short
5255 Marion Road
Metropolis, IL 62960
618-564-3991
woodmist@shawneelink.net
.....................................................................
from the website: www.iraqpeaceteam.org
October 17, 2002
Urgent Action: As the Security Council enters its second day of debate on a new resolution relating to military action against Iraq, Voices would like to generate a huge number of letters to specific members of the SC. I spoke two days ago with Mr. Hans von Sponeck and he concurred that this could be an effective action at this time. Letters should go to three of the permanent members of the SC (France, China, Russia) and to Ireland (currently president of the SC) and to Denmark (currently heading the EU).
Here are the FAX numbers and E-MAILS for the member states we are suggesting:
Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the UN
FAX: 212-634-7626
e-mail: china@un.int
Permanent Representative of Denmark to the UN
FAX: 212-308-3384
e-mail: nycmis@um.dk
Permanent Representative of France to the UN
FAX: 212-421-6889
e-mail: france@un.int
Permanent Representative of Ireland to the UN
FAX: 212-752-4726
e-mail:irleland@un.int
Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN
FAX: 212-628-0252
e-mail: rusun@un.int
*note: these addresses have been verified with each office.
The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien
Prime Minister of Canada
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1A 0A2
Email Address: pm@pm.gc.ca
Dear Prime Minister Chrétien,
I am writing to strongly encourage you to exercise bold
international leadership by committing Canada to ratifying
the Kyoto Protocol during your trip to Johannesburg next
week for the World Summit on Sustainable Development
(WSSD). Should you do so, you will effectively deliver the
protocol to the world community, and you will go down in
history as a global environmental hero.
Your enabling of global climate change policy would
effectively pull the WSSD back from the brink of
irrelevance by delivering a finished international protocol
that was born 10 years ago at the Earth Summit in Rio de
Janeiro. Only Russia's ratification will remain - and they
are widely expected to do so soon.
More than 76 per cent of Canadians think Canada should
adopt the Kyoto protocol at the WSSD in Johannesburg. This
is appropriate given that Canada stands to be particularly
hard hit by climate change; including coastal flooding,
loss of permafrost, shifts in natural ecosystems, forest
decline, and more severe droughts and floods.
Your government has spent years consulting Canadians on
this matter, and clearly the vast majority would support
your bold global leadership. Of course not everybody will
be happy when the decision is made - but that is what
leadership is about. Please - for the sake of global
ecological sustainability and the future of all our
children - announce Canada’s ratification of the Kyoto
Protocol next week.
As an embarrassed citizen of the U.S I would like to add the following comments.
How can Bush be so arrogant as to defy scientific data accepted, globally, by experts in climatology and many other related disciplines? His recent withdrawal of the U.S. commitment to support the Kyoto Treaty is simply "stupid" and politically irresponsible.
Bush, as though the health of billions of present and future people around the globe is secondary to the bank accounts of present day U.S. citizens (voters), infuriates world leaders and the environmentally aware.
Those who know me best know I respect the office of U.S. president and that I rarely use the term ”stupid.”
However, I cannot keep silent. President Bush is totally oblivious to current science. How much evidence of this do we need before we act to block his reckless pursuit of a strong economy at all costs.
Bush observed the power of a great economy when our voting public winked at Clinton’s personal mistakes.
Political analysts were quick to point out the fact that our strong economy was Clinton’s saving grace.
Bush knows he, as much as Clinton did, will need similar political armor.
He is willing to trade the health and welfare of future generations for four more years of prosperity.
U.S. citizens, and in effect, the entire population of this planet, will suffer a great environmental injustice if we wink at Bush’s recent assault on our most threatened natural resource, the air we breathe.
The U.S. makes up about 3% of the worlds human population. We contribute 25% of all the ozone depleting gases to our planets atmosphere. Our waste is a global concern, not just a U.S. issue.
I have always believed each nation should take care of its own “first.”
But who is Bush really taking care of?
Bush is playing his nationalistic sentimental card to further his separatists causes and pad the pocketbooks of his oil & gas cronies.
Why would anyone, especially in a democratic society tolerate this kind of economic tyranny and environmental injustice?
“When no longer remains clean water to drink or fresh air to breathe nothing else matters...not even all the money in the world.”
Please voice Canada's objection to Bush’s Bad Air.
----------
Please read what I wrote back then. Only then will it be clear, should I ever mysteriously disappear, what has happened to me. This present Bush administration represents the resurrection of the dinosaurs most of us thought were laid to rest in the 60's and 70's. Reagan came along to prove these reptilian political creatures were still with us. They believe the USA is destined to rule the planet. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, and the rest of the scaly, leathery, and cold-blooded omnivores have shaken the earth with their pre-human behavior. World leaders have had enough. They are shocked the American people would have re-elected or allowed the re-selection of this rogue regime.
They are predictably taking matters into their own hands. What "We the People" refused to correct they are in process of correcting. China is blocking our satellites as they attempt to spy on their military. Can anyone blame them? Our government gladly accepts their child labor in exchange for cheap Wal-Mart goods. Yet they spy on their military.
Fellow Americans, it's over. Be ready. The fall of the USA will not begin with your grandchildren, or children. Friends, we are in free-fall at this moment. You and I will see the end of our hubris in short order. We have allowed our leader to go too far. The fall is here. The fall may not be perceptible because it is a fall of such a grand scale. When all around you is falling the perception of movement is impossible. As the earth spins and we do not perceive the spin, so it is with the fall of our nation from a position of "only" world power to whatever position fate holds for us.
The extinction of the dinosaur will end, however, with a mighty crash.
Duane Short
September 28, 2006
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
...maybe it's too little, too late.
I gave up on "We the People" when "We the People" accepted the (S)election of George W. Bush for the second time. I took matters into my own hands. I sent this letter to UN security Council Members. I also wrote then Canada Prime Minister Chrétien concerning Bush's crass treatment of the Kyoto Protocol.
Today, May 18, 2006, the rest of the world has awaken. Hasn't anyone noticed how nations who once demonstrated respect for the U.S. are now thumbing their nose at U.S. dictates? I am not talking about nations like China, Iran, although they are certainly not shaking in their boots. I am talking about Venezuela, Columbia, Mexico, Canada, and so many others.
I pleaded with these leaders (and many other leaders of foreign sovereign nations) to do what "We the People" of the U.S. would not. TAKE A STAND! For better AND worse, so many leaders around the world are taking a stand against the hubris of this administration.
Friends, George W. Bush and our politically inbred congress has not only sold out the U.S. but they have reduced the U.S. to an "also ran" in the global race to adapt to an ever shrinking planet.
We are screwed. There is no turning back. We are about to find out what it is like to be an "also ran." An arrogant #1 makes for a miserable #2 or #3 or #4..... etc.
Duane Short
May 18, 2006
==============
Emailed to addresses below on 10-24-02.
Dear Security Council Representatives,
As a native United States citizen I wish to make clear I believe a preemptive military strike by the U.S. and/or any of its allies violates international law and, in particular, the United Nations Charter.
By threatening Iraq, the U.S. is clearly in violation of the UN Charter and is in violation of international law to which the U.S. is a signatory. Article 2 of the UN Charter requires all countries to "settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered" and states that they must "refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state ..." Article 51 of the Charter is the only article permitting individual countries the use of force, and that strictly for purposes of self-defense.
Should this war become a reality it would be an act of lawless aggression on the part of the United States. More importantly, and more disturbing, than knowing the U.S. is willing to violate international law to achieve its nationalistic objectives, is the knowledge that an unjust U.S. attack on Iraq will unleash violent chaos around the world. We are already witnessing examples of widespread violence precipitated by U.S. "tough talk" on Iraq.
The Bush Administration is repeatedly stating Iraq is a threat to the U.S. This repeated claim contradicts the information provided in an important document that serves as no less than a script for the events we see unfolding as the Bush Administration moves forward.
The following claim is made in a report by the "Project for the New American Century" (Released in September 2000) and is said to be one of the KEY findings that supports its recommendations as found in the excerpt from the section titled:
REBUILDING AMERICA’S DEFENSES: STRATEGY, FORCES AND RESOURCES FOR A NEW
CENTURY
"IT [THE U.S.] FACES NO IMMEDIATE GREAT-POWER CHALLENGE."
By ALL accounts military strategists agree, "The U.S. faces no immediate great-power challenge."
The Bush Administration, embraces these very findings, yet they are trying to mislead Americans, citizens around the world, and their leaders to believe that Iraq is a major threat to the U.S. and the world.
Saddam Hussein is not a true threat to the U.S. and the entire world (except supporters of George W. Bush’s agenda) understands this to be true. Global reactions to a U.S. invasion of Iraq will elicit widespread and long-lived violence from small groups of citizens and militaries commanded by sovereign governments. Catastrophic death of innocent civilians as well as infrastructural and environmental destruction will befall many nations.
I strongly encourage the U.N. Security Council request the U.S. delegation supply a copy of a U.S. right wing think-tank document known as THE PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY. The think-tank grew out of the New Citizenship Project, which was funded by the conservative Bradley Foundation, a part of Rockwell Automation, a former defense contractor. This plan was published in September 2000, “before” Bush was appointed president by the U.S. Supreme Court. A portion of this document outlines the conservatives’ ambitious military agenda in a section titled, "Rebuilding America's Defenses -- Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century."
This file can be downloaded from URL
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
This document will enlighten the Council to this U.S. administration’s true agenda.
A religious dogma and political philosophy known as “Manifest Destiny” underlie the formulation of the New Citizenship Project. Manifest Destiny is as old as the founding of the United States. It’s momentum has never diminished but its name has changed to reflect its greater level of sophistication.
Following are quotes from the "Rebuilding America's Defenses -- Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century."
“Of course, the United States must be prudent in how it exercises its power. But we cannot safely avoid the responsibilities of global leadership of the costs that are associated with its exercise. America has a vital role in maintaining peace and security in Europe, Asia, and the Middle Ea, and to meet threats before they become dire. The history of the past century should have taught us to embrace the cause of American leadership.”
---
Any serious effort at transformation must occur within the larger framework of U.S. national security strategy, military missions and defense budgets. The United States cannot simply declare a “strategic pause” while experimenting with new technologies and operational concepts. Nor can it choose to pursue a transformation strategy that would decouple American and allied interests. A transformation strategy that solely pursued capabilities for projecting force from the United States, for example, and sacrificed forward basing and presence, would be at odds with larger American policy goals and would trouble American allies.
Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and their colleagues are, collectively, seeking world military domination. They propagate, in America, a sense of national superiority and destiny. They convince many they wish to "save" the "inferior" from themselves. They convince third world nations that if they support our efforts they too, will one day be as wealthy and powerful as we. Collectively this administration functions as one pathological liar. Sadly, it seems many Americans and citizens of other nations are being fooled.
I am a U.S. patriot. I love my country and I love democracy. I, like tens of millions of U.S. citizens, realize one nation cannot and should not try to force democracy on any other nation. To attempt to do so is a contradiction and mockery of democracy. With great sadness I confess I believe controlling Iraqi oil and gaining greater military advantage in the middle east is the true motive of the Bush administration. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Please help patriotic U.S. citizens reign in the frightening ambitions of our current administration.
Again, I urge the Security Council to research The Project for the New American Century and the philosophy of Manifest Destiny that serves as its foundation.
With Great Respect and Hope for the Planet,
Duane Short
5255 Marion Road
Metropolis, IL 62960
618-564-3991
woodmist@shawneelink.net
.....................................................................
from the website: www.iraqpeaceteam.org
October 17, 2002
Urgent Action: As the Security Council enters its second day of debate on a new resolution relating to military action against Iraq, Voices would like to generate a huge number of letters to specific members of the SC. I spoke two days ago with Mr. Hans von Sponeck and he concurred that this could be an effective action at this time. Letters should go to three of the permanent members of the SC (France, China, Russia) and to Ireland (currently president of the SC) and to Denmark (currently heading the EU).
Here are the FAX numbers and E-MAILS for the member states we are suggesting:
Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the UN
FAX: 212-634-7626
e-mail: china@un.int
Permanent Representative of Denmark to the UN
FAX: 212-308-3384
e-mail: nycmis@um.dk
Permanent Representative of France to the UN
FAX: 212-421-6889
e-mail: france@un.int
Permanent Representative of Ireland to the UN
FAX: 212-752-4726
e-mail:irleland@un.int
Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN
FAX: 212-628-0252
e-mail: rusun@un.int
*note: these addresses have been verified with each office.
The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien
Prime Minister of Canada
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1A 0A2
Email Address: pm@pm.gc.ca
Dear Prime Minister Chrétien,
I am writing to strongly encourage you to exercise bold
international leadership by committing Canada to ratifying
the Kyoto Protocol during your trip to Johannesburg next
week for the World Summit on Sustainable Development
(WSSD). Should you do so, you will effectively deliver the
protocol to the world community, and you will go down in
history as a global environmental hero.
Your enabling of global climate change policy would
effectively pull the WSSD back from the brink of
irrelevance by delivering a finished international protocol
that was born 10 years ago at the Earth Summit in Rio de
Janeiro. Only Russia's ratification will remain - and they
are widely expected to do so soon.
More than 76 per cent of Canadians think Canada should
adopt the Kyoto protocol at the WSSD in Johannesburg. This
is appropriate given that Canada stands to be particularly
hard hit by climate change; including coastal flooding,
loss of permafrost, shifts in natural ecosystems, forest
decline, and more severe droughts and floods.
Your government has spent years consulting Canadians on
this matter, and clearly the vast majority would support
your bold global leadership. Of course not everybody will
be happy when the decision is made - but that is what
leadership is about. Please - for the sake of global
ecological sustainability and the future of all our
children - announce Canada’s ratification of the Kyoto
Protocol next week.
As an embarrassed citizen of the U.S I would like to add the following comments.
How can Bush be so arrogant as to defy scientific data accepted, globally, by experts in climatology and many other related disciplines? His recent withdrawal of the U.S. commitment to support the Kyoto Treaty is simply "stupid" and politically irresponsible.
Bush, as though the health of billions of present and future people around the globe is secondary to the bank accounts of present day U.S. citizens (voters), infuriates world leaders and the environmentally aware.
Those who know me best know I respect the office of U.S. president and that I rarely use the term ”stupid.”
However, I cannot keep silent. President Bush is totally oblivious to current science. How much evidence of this do we need before we act to block his reckless pursuit of a strong economy at all costs.
Bush observed the power of a great economy when our voting public winked at Clinton’s personal mistakes.
Political analysts were quick to point out the fact that our strong economy was Clinton’s saving grace.
Bush knows he, as much as Clinton did, will need similar political armor.
He is willing to trade the health and welfare of future generations for four more years of prosperity.
U.S. citizens, and in effect, the entire population of this planet, will suffer a great environmental injustice if we wink at Bush’s recent assault on our most threatened natural resource, the air we breathe.
The U.S. makes up about 3% of the worlds human population. We contribute 25% of all the ozone depleting gases to our planets atmosphere. Our waste is a global concern, not just a U.S. issue.
I have always believed each nation should take care of its own “first.”
But who is Bush really taking care of?
Bush is playing his nationalistic sentimental card to further his separatists causes and pad the pocketbooks of his oil & gas cronies.
Why would anyone, especially in a democratic society tolerate this kind of economic tyranny and environmental injustice?
“When no longer remains clean water to drink or fresh air to breathe nothing else matters...not even all the money in the world.”
Please voice Canada's objection to Bush’s Bad Air.
----------
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