Ali Abbas was one of
the first victims of America’s
‘surgical strikes’ during
‘Shock and Awe’. Their family
farm outside of Baghdad
was not seen from computerized
bombers thousands of feet above
(beyond the clouds).

When there is a message people do not want to hear, facts do not seem to matter. Some examples of messages people do not want to hear: 9/11 Truth commission that questions the mainstream account of what happened September 11, 2001; US is fighting preemptive wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistani that are illegal by international law and immoral by standards of most religious groups; Marquette University is the only Jesuit Catholic University in the country that has military training schools of Army, Navy/Marines and Air Force on campus; The local Democratic liberal Democratic congressional representative has voted for more war spending than the local conservative Republican suburban representative. The list could go on but the simple facts are that when people do not want to hear a message there is no sense in giving them facts. Facts do not matter when a person is not open to changing his or her opinion or conscience.

How does one communicate facts and one’s ‘opinion of the truth’ to a person that does not want to hear the message? To take some words from the military, we might need some ‘shock and awe’ to wake people up. The ‘shock and awe’, like the ‘hit and stay’ needs to be nonviolent but nevertheless explosive enough to wake people up.

Today I heard about a group of veterans and other persons experienced in war who will go to the White House to give their message to “Stop These Wars” and refuse to move. In a statement on their web page they say:
There are children being orphaned, maimed or killed every day, in our name, with our tax dollars; there are soldiers and civilians dying or being maimed for life, in order to generate profits for the most odious imperialistic corporate war machine ever, again in our name. How long are we going to let this go on?”

When rational, factual words do not work it is time for “shock and awe” in word and action.

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