Just War
Violence against other humans is a crime 100 times out of 100 times. War is the justification of crime, if one power has the ability to justify criminal acts, so does any other. War is not an honorable thing, war is a series of premeditated horrendous crimes over a period of time orchestrated under the guise of “justice” by the power that be. Matters little which side one is on, whether one is fighting a war of “self defense” or a war of aggression; it is still a series of crimes. Any snapshot of humans killing humans is always a crime. Murder is murder and murder is a crime, to slip from this definition is to allow a creep towards rationalization and justification of horrid acts. It clouds one’s ability to see events clearly; to say, “well they deserved it” is to accept the short bus mentality of “in order to save the village, we had to destroy it”. In a knee jerk response to the crimes of 9-11, the United States Government (USG) has created tremendous amounts of “justified crimes” in the name God and Country actively accepted by a large and extremely marginalized herd, the American public.
Murder is a crime, wanton destruction of property is a criminal act, and none can argue that war is not violent and destructive. War is a continual series of crimes rolled in to a campaign for the betterment of the power that commands. Therefore the “winner” of this series of criminal events justified by beliefs is not always the power with the strongest forces but rather the power with strongest will. If criminal acts are within the guidelines condoned by the power, be it the Geneva convention or the US Army manual or the Bible or the Koran, matters not, these heinous acts are justified crimes, in fact glorified to the point of worship. When so many accept crimes based in beliefs as “just”, there can be no resolution to the problem.
War is crime justified by the state so if we loosen the shackles of thinking and look beyond the tunnel vision America has become, things are clearer to see. In order to have productive conversation one must eliminate the terms war, terrorism, good, evil, right wrong and most of all belief. In order to progress as human beings we must stifle belief in the quest of understanding. We must aim our perspective towards the words used and not allow ambiguity to seep into the discussion and fog the issue, simplicity is a major key toward understanding.
One should not punish a crime with another crime, yet following the crimes of 9-11, the USG has openly engaged in a series of crimes unlike any in human history, the grandest just war of them all; a “war on terror”. All within the guidelines and parameters of the good old USA, putting boots in people’s ass is our way. As long as crime is for the “greater good” and the “elimination of evil” it is okay, of course. This thinking is retarded at best.
Crime is never honorable and war is never “just”.
