Friends, there are aspects of the death of Osama (who was no saint but once was an ally of the U.S.) which should cause alarm, real alarm even though the details of the murder are dribbling out and are often contradictory.

What has occurred is that the world’s biggest warmonger has, from an aircraft carrier patrolling off the Pakistan coast, launched a small group of helicopters carrying specially trained killers who then, without telling the Pakistan authorities about this invasion of their sovereignty, flew to a compound north of the capital, rappelled down, then systematically went through the compound.

Then, when they reached Osama who was unarmed and in his bedroom with his wife, they shot him in the head twice. They made no attempt to capture him so he could receive justice and due process but shot him down in cold blood.  The Americans were clearly afraid of what he would say, what secrets he would tell about them so they shut him up permanently. It seems there were other casualties but again we are getting conflicting reports about who they were and how many there were.

Then his body was taken back to the carrier we are told. The body was supposedly washed and dressed in white cloth and, after some ritual or another, was ‘eased’ into the sea. The story is still emerging from the American spin doctors and it will probably take many days or weeks for us to get the story, the emphasis on the world ‘story’.

But what we do know is that the U.S. can, at any time, invade any country in the world and murder anyone it so chooses if that person is deemed by America to be a threat to its interests. This situation is echoed by the recently acquired power of Obama to likewise assassinate any American citizens deemed to be un-American.

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Friends, this morning I saw the Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, a lawyer, state on television that Osama had been ‘brought to justice’.

So a man who was mown down in Pakistan by an American special forces hit-squad along with his son and wife was given justice was he, Julia? Have you forgotten all your legal training? Has your worship of America  and Israel blinded you completely?

Well, certainly he was given American justice. American ideas of  ‘justice’ brought about the genocide against the American Indians. Then there was the justice of the Wild West when people were regularly strung up from the nearest tree without trial. Then in the Deep South, ‘niggers’ were justly hung by the Ku Klux Klan for misdeeds such as looking at a white women.

It was justice like it was in Vietnam when simple villagers were napalmed because they were suspected of being sympathetic to the Viet Cong. If they, men, women and children, didn’t die from their burns they carried terrible scars for the rest of their lives. Then the Americans moved to Cambodia.

It was justice like that meted out to Iraq civilians via cluster bombs and depleted uranium explosives and phosphorous bombs or the water-boarding in Guantanamo or the cruel rendition carried out in other countries.

Yeah, American justice has many dimensions, most of them evil!

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Friends, as the U.S. crows about killing Osama Bin Laden and Americans dance in the street, keep in mind the following brief history of American involvement in war since the Korean War began.

It was written by Zoltan Grossman and the link to the original article is shown at the bottom of this post. If you use the link, you’ll see that he also presents a link to an atlas of the deaths estimated to have  been caused from 1950 up to the end of the century and beyond. Also he has more to say about the U.S. than I have included in the excerpt.

As you read through the various events below, keep in mind the number of casualties, civilian and military, that America has caused during this period to say nothing of the injuries (two million deaths in Vietnam alone).

It puts the 3,000 deaths from 9/11 (said to have been planned by Osama) into some form of perspective.

“The war in Korea (1950-53) was marked by widespread atrocities, both by North Korean/Chinese forces, and South Korean/U.S. forces. U.S. troops fired on civilian refugees headed into South Korea, apparently fearing they were northern infiltrators. Bombers attacked North Korean cities, and the U.S. twice threatened to use nuclear weapons. North Korea is under the same Communist government today as when the war began.

During the Middle East crisis of 1958, Marines were deployed to quell a rebellion in Lebanon, and Iraq was threatened with nuclear attack if it invaded Kuwait. This little-known crisis helped set U.S. foreign policy on a collision course with Arab nationalists, often in support of the region’s monarchies.

In the early 1960s, the U.S. returned to its pre-World War II interventionary role in the Caribbean, directing the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs exile invasion of Cuba, and the 1965 bombing and Marine invasion of the Dominican Republic during an election campaign. The CIA trained and harbored Cuban exile groups in Miami, which launched terrorist attacks on Cuba, including the 1976 downing of a Cuban civilian jetliner near Barbados. During the Cold War, the CIA would also help to support or install pro-U.S. dictatorships in Iran, Chile, Guatemala, Indonesia, and many other countries around the world.

The U.S. war in Indochina (1960-75) pit U.S. forces against North Vietnam, and Communist rebels fighting to overthrow pro-U.S. dictatorships in South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. U.S. war planners made little or no distinction between attacking civilians and guerrillas in rebel-held zones, and U.S. “carpet-bombing” of the countryside and cities swelled the ranks of the ultimately victorious revolutionaries. Over two million people were killed in the war, including 55,000 U.S. troops. Less than a dozen U.S. citizens were killed on U.S. soil, in National Guard shootings or antiwar bombings. In Cambodia, the bombings drove the Khmer Rouge rebels toward fanatical leaders, who launched a murderous rampage when they took power in 1975.

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Friends, the thought struck me in the early hours of the morning that there is a good case for electing Donald Trump’s wig and as the next President of the United States.

Now I know you may think this is a rather controversial proposition but please hear me out. You may change your mind when you see what I have to say. Let me make the following points:

1.  A wig is an honorable thing which hides human physical deficiencies and, as such, does good things year after year without complaint.

2. A wig, being dumb, cannot lie or make promises it has no intention of keeping.

3. A wig is decidedly more intelligent than some of the two-legged jokes that have been elected President of America.

4. Electing a wig for two terms would give the American people a chance to experience life without a human President who, in many ways, is no more than a puppet of the corporations and the Pentagon.

5. A wig is a peaceable thing, one that is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than some Presidents we know. A wig has never harmed anyone as far as I’m aware though it does tend to keep a lid on things.

6. A wig from Don Trump’s head would be very familiar with the human ego and its soaring conceit although, when the wind blows, it has experienced flights of fancy.

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Are you sick of being led around by the nose?

Friends, as I watch the American Presidential Elections begin to get underway, the thought struck me just how meekly we accept the status quo, how we accept that there should be leaders who we must respect and honor, leaders who should lead us because…well, we think we are too stupid or we lack leadership qualities or we’re not bright enough to either think for ourselves or to manage our own lives or think that we can lead others. Almost universally, most of us look to others to work things out for us.

Looking at some of the people who get into positions of leadership…well, surely we could do better than them. Take George W Bush for example. He couldn’t articulate clearly at all.  To listen to him speak was sheer torture. Who can forget his arrival on the deck of an aircraft carrier called Mission Accomplished!

Of course, then Obama came along and he was the opposite of George. He was eloquent. His speeches soared. People were in raptures. But nothing he said meant anything. He promised change and instead gave us more of the same, escalating wars and refusing to close Guantanamo. He even has assassination squads now to take down American dissidents and he has not banned torture or rendition!

In America now, some Republican Presidential hopefuls are Sarah Palin and Michele Backman. Sarah Palin, ‘hockey mum’, an object of frequent and deserved ridicule, is overseas getting some ideas on world geography and how the world works and is heavily involved in the tea-party movement as is Backman. Palin and Backman are seen as twins!

Then in Australia we have a Prime Minister who might function well in a solicitor’s office but is a hopeless failure as the leader of the Country. She blunders around like a bull in a China Shop and is totally lacking in vision. Her servile address to the American Congress was disgusting, nauseating even.

Then there is the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott who is also known as Dr No! He rejects everything the Gillard Labor Government puts forward and has few policy ideas of his own. If Julia Gillard said to him: “I think you would make a great P.M.,” our Tony would automatically say no!

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