November 04, 2004

American people: I don't know Joe, but he and I share the same soul. I've tried in vain to warn my fellow Americans that when a nation sins, God deals with it nationally. Until Election Day yesterday, we the people could claim we elected the wrong government, but that meant we had a duty to make it right. We didn't.

Now the whole world knows it was a mistake to merely dislike our president, but love the American people. We are now an entirely vile nation in their eyes, not to mention how we must appear to God. Internationally, we're pretty much on our own. As of yesterday, THERE IS A TERRORIST THREAT in America.

I repeatedly warned that the only reason terrorists had not attacked the heartland of America was because they were waiting to see the outcome of this election. I reminded everyone that our president had left the borders wide open for terrorists to come here, and to hide and to wait.

There is now no good reason for them to delay carrying out their missions. It was never a case where terror attacks had been prevented here. We are a wide open society with soft targets everywhere you look. No, the only reason the terrorists had not struck us here is because they chose not to.

I fear it is now too late. I only hope Osama remembers Oregon is a blue state. If you're reading this, Osama, I live in Oregon. We tried to make it right.

Joe's excellent read follows.

Carl F. Worden

Subject: It's Over (in more ways than one)
From: Joe
Date: Wed, Nov 3, 2004 9:43 AM

The "election" is over and the result was what any sane person would have predicted: a pro-war, pro-death, pro-state, anti-freedom, anti-civilization, anti-life candidate won. The only other possible outcome would have been the election of another candidate who almost certainly would have been just as bad, and maybe even worse.

In the past, we could plausibly explain to those who might wish to do us harm that the slaughter of Iraqis, Palestinians, Serbians, and countless others was the fault of our government, not of the people - that the people really did not support aggressive war nor genocide.

Yesterday, we declared as a nation, by not only a plurality or a majority of the vote, but by damn near a totality of it, that We, the People, support both aggressive war and genocide.

I fear that we now are perilously close to deserving either exactly what we are going to get, or worse.

What can aggrieved Arabs or Muslims possibly do to us now, that we have not willingly, knowingly, and approvingly done to them?

How can we blame Osama for killing 3,000 of our civilians, when we have killed somewhere between 15,000 and 100,000 Iraqi civilians since 2003 (and somewhere over a million during the previous decade)?

I once swore an oath to defend the People, the Constitution, and the valid laws of my state (Ohio) and of the United States.

I will still try to honor that oath, with my life if necessary.

However, I must first honor a greater oath, one I swore to One greater than any person or any government: the oath to love Him with all my being and to love my neighbor as myself.

Who is my neighbor?

The Iraqi child whose limbs were blown off by a cluster bomb.

The Serbian child dying of cancer because of the depleted uranium we illegally used while illegally bombing her village.

The unborn child who is no less likely to die in the womb under the reign of our current allegedly pro-life Emperor than he or she was under the avowedly pro-abort Clinton.

The bleeding victim pulled out of the WTC.

The bleeding victim pulled out of an apartment complex in Gaza or Fallujah.

The father of four in West Virginia who committed suicide because the EPA shut down the coal mine which was the only major employer in his entire county.

The grieving mother of the Black child who was gunned down during a gang shootout resulting from the "War on Some Drugs."

The U.S. soldier whose lost his legs due to an IED detonated by the Iraqi resistance.

The Iraqi resistance soldier shot in retaliation for the killing of that soldier.

The Palestinian who was murdered by the IDF, and the Israeli who was murdered by a suicide bomber.

These are all my fellow human beings and every one of them is precious to God.

They must be to me also, if I am to have even a barely plausible claim to be His follower.

I do NOT support revenge or any other kind of violence other than in direct self-defense.

But I predict that it will occur, and that the same thing will happen in response to this violence that always happens: it will breed more violence, which will breed more violence, which will breed more repression, which will breed more repression.

Nothing saddens me more than to know I am partly responsible for this. While I did not vote for either Kerry nor Bush, I failed my neighbors in other ways.

I failed to confront members of my family and church and workplace who voted for Bush in ignorance, not realizing the extent nor the value of the human lives he has directly slaughtered. Since I did realize this, I am more guilty than they are.

I failed to confront others who voted for Kerry in ignorance, believing, honestly but again either ignorantly or naively, that he would represent a credible alternative to Bush's policies of foreign aggression coupled with domestic repression. Since I knew that he did not, I am once again more guilty than they are.

I failed to adequately support, during the primaries, any of several candidates who might have brought a consistent pro-life, anti-war, anti-repression alternative that the American people might have chosen; anyone whose election would have cost fewer innocent lives than that of one of the two candidates most people voted for yesterday.

While I am deeply sorry for my failure, sorrow is no excuse, and I believe that if a terrorist were to strike me dead right at this moment, because of my role in destroying the life of his father or mother or son or daughter or wife or cousin, I would have no possible right to condemn him, and no reason to believe that, when we both stand before God one day as I believe every one of us will, that he will be any more guilty than I am.

Some of you, probably most of you, are far less guilty than I am, and I do not mean anything I say as a judgment or condemnation against you, nor do I mean to condone violence (except in direct self-defense) against you or against anyone else.

But some of you may know that you have done wrong . . that you have wronged your neighbors in Iraq or Palestine or East Saint Louis . . and if so, I challenge you to do exactly the same thing I am doing: to admit that you have done wrong, to pray to God for forgiveness, and to seek to make amends in any way you possibly can.

Joe

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