Twelve Minute Debate on Pacifism

Questions:

1. The prowar fellow asks why we have a military if we never use it.  This misses the point of standing vs. nonprofessional military.

2. It dawned on me that the pro-war fellow argues against immigration, when all three people on the stage are beneficiaries of immigration as a way to avoid genocide.  Is this very mandate for borders designed to make genocide easier?

3.  The question of intervention in San Diego is interesting, since the standing military after the Civil War in USA was tasked with the genocide of American Indians.  Should the Chinese have intervened? (Many USA Indians escaped USA genocide by escaping to Canada, where genocide was less robust for lack of resources..)

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US Soldier Admits Murder to Protect Officers

Americans can no longer see a lie spoken directly to their faces.  A USArmy Sergeant claims he murdered sixteen people, mostly women and kids, which is no doubt true, and far more common that we are allowed to know.  When Bradley Manning released that video of US Helicopter crew murdering civilians helping civilians, he found himself as an object lesson to anyone who would reveal USMilitary criminality.

Here is the outright lie:

Prosecutors say Bales slipped away before dawn on March 11, 2012, from his base in Kandahar Province. 

Really?  If one can slip out of a base unnoticed, then one can slip into a base unnoticed.  Bales, the murder, did this twice in one night?  There are no perimeter guards watching a forward base in enemy territory?  I have an aikido buddy who killed another American one night in Vietnam when the fellow failed to use the password as he approached the perimeter.  "How do you feel about it?"  "No one gets past me."

This story as told in the press just isn't true. Why is it no one asks the simplest questions anymore?  Even if it is true, which it isn't, the CO of that base should be spending 10 years at hard labor in Leavenworth.  Yes, the murders occurred, and this soldier is protecting his officers.

Bales admitting his guilt will spend the rest of his life on vacation, and eventually released.  His officers will all get medals and promotions.    Actually, I like the idea if someone admits a crime, he is free to go.  As long as he tells the whole truth. Bales should be obliged to rat out the others that he expressly states he is trying to save.  Then let the victim/survivors find him and them.

The USMilitary has given Bales a pass when he begged for his life.  As a part of the USMilitary, who work in our name, when children begged for their lives, Bales executed them.  When adults begged for their children's lives, Bales executed them.  No one got a pass from USArmy Sergeant Bales.

He forgot to apologize for murder.    But he did remember to say he hopes this does no harm to U S Soldiers in Afghanistan.  Too late.  But as we saw from My Lai, officers incur no responsibility for their officers committing murder.  So murder of civilians continues.

Bales claims it was stress that caused him to murder sixteen defenseless people.  We are seeing people who are under "intelligence monitoring" also lash out and murder.  Perhaps we should factor in such inevitable lashing out when we elect a global policy of murder for oil.

All this is done in our names.  We enjoy the fruits of empire, and the benefits that come from the murder of sixteen.  This is not isolated.  We are all guilty as hell.  If sixteen people we love are murdered someday, we can hardly complain.

We do group hate on a Muslim who stabs a dead man on a London street.  But look the other way when a Christian murders sixteen women and children.    It is different.  The London fellow is of some African heritage, and Moslem.  We are white.

One of the biggest mistake you can make in life is to believe your own PR.

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Aikido Styles and Music

Aikido ju-dan and Hombu Chief Instructor Tohei Koichi is the fountainhead of the majority of all aikido practitioners in the world for the simple reason he taught people how to teach aikido.

There are other styles of aikido, such as yoshinkan, which were developed by Tohei sensei sempai Terada, so it is aikido, but parallel.  His style is widespread because it is a good style.

There are many styles that developed under Tohei Sensei, such as Yamada of New York, Chiba of San Diego, Murayama of Kokikai and Kobayashi of LA.  It is all aikido but an analogy with music might explain some differences.

There is the music as it is written and the note as played and the timing.  After that each artist will style it anyway he likes.  For example, John Lennon was unique for rushing the front end of the note, not singing on the center of the note, but on the front.  Jimi Hendrix and Prince are well within the note, but jazzily are all over it, here and there.  Bruce Springsteen is phenomenal in his ability to keep his band on dead center.  Dean Martin advanced his "happy drunk" schtick by working the trailing end of the note.  Randy Newman keeps it tight and small.  Boys choirs fill each note from end to end, top to bottom.

Yamada Sensei has a precise, tight hard style, which tends to be right on, and very much in control.  Kobayashi Sensei taught "into nage's range of effectiveness (close to nage's hara) where nage is strong and uke is weak..." which he called One Circle but was viewed technically as "small circle."

Take a throw like shiho nage.  It is executed when your nage's "one point" is lateral with uke's.  This can be executed early, mid, late or full.  Kobayashi would be early, by taking uke down even before the spin if finished, small circle style.  Mid might be Yoshinkan style, where the arm is spread out and back, just at the point where shiho nage often goes wrong, yoshinkan centers all weight at the barred arm.  If you do not go up and over, your arm will break.  One learns to do awesome high trajectory hard falls in yoshinkan.

Yamada sensei would head straight through with tight control and send people sailing backwards.  The Tohei style is to go large and end up in total control looking into the ear of the uke.  The take down from here is devastating.  There is no stronger uke takedown by nage.  Tohei Sensei taught a full open style, but if you slo-mo his videos, he did everything.

There are more styles, but the point is most come from Tohei, they are all aikido, and all simply styles.  At any given point with any given partner, any given style may be employed.  It is good people develop these styles and codify them, keep them alive, so one can draw on them in a pinch.  Learn them all.

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Not a Conscientious Objector

Here is a fellow who will not fight because he disagrees with the politics of the current war in Israel.

Neither could he seek exemption of the grounds of pacifism. "The army has a narrow definition of pacifism – someone who would never apply force in any circumstances. The [IDF's] conscience committee asks tough questions, and I would not be able to say never. I think force should be used rarely, but it can't be completely ruled out."
Blanc is willing to undertake national service in lieu of the compulsory stint in the army, but thus far the military has refused to countenance this.

If one is not against war, only against a particular war, then he is not a conscientious objector.  He is a dissident.  That is a different class.  And if you are willing to do "alternate service" then I doubt one is a conscientious objector.

As to never using force, well, the rule is "that shalt not kill."  Not "that shalt not use force."  You use force when you play baseball, but you do not kill people.

And conscientious objection is conscientious, there are possibilities that one might instinctually use lethal force, but not intentionally.

So anyway, this fellow is no conscientious objector.

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The Instigator

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Still More on London Murderer

Well, it seems in addition to hounding him, Intelligence services has already turned his brother...

Police and security services are under huge pressure to explain what they know about Adebolajo and his alleged accomplice, Michael Adebowale. Despite warnings stretching back ten years, Michael Adebolajo is said to have been considered ‘low risk’ by MI5. He was photographed at high-profile protests – even standing next to hate preacher Anjem Choudary.

He was arrested in Kenyan 2010 over his alleged plans to travel to Somalia to join terror group Al-Shabaab before being returned to the UK. Jeremiah married Charlotte Patricia Taylor in 2008 at Sutton Register Office in Surrey.

There is obviously no supervision of Western Intelligence.  Even more than IRS agents, they are immune form oversight.  It is clear the Government is not capable of dealing with this problem.

During the interview, he was warned about what happens to Muslims who don’t help the Government and was shown documents that confirmed people he knew were being held in prisons throughout the world.

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We Need Truth Commissions

Here is a bit of history that gets overlooked...

Estes was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1963, but paroled in 1971. Eight years later, he was convicted of tax fraud and served another four years.

Emerging from prison a second time, he gave what he called a ‘voluntary statement to clear the record’ in 1984. He told a stunned grand jury investigation that Henry Marshall, the bullet-ridden investigator, had been killed on the orders of Lyndon Johnson, who at the time of the murder had been U.S. Vice President.  

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Estes claimed his accountant had also been killed by Wallace, who had been doing Johnson’s dirty work since 1950, when he had been convicted of shooting a man who just happened to have been having an affair with Johnson’s sister. When the Justice Department pushed him for more information, Estes dropped his bombshell. In return for a pardon and immunity from prosecution, he said he would detail eight killings ordered by Johnson. 

But these assertions never went anywhere.

Estes’ incredible allegations never went any further as prosecutors ruled they could not be corroborated. 

The fellow who made them, an LBJ business partner, could care less if they went anywhere or not, the result was Estes would not ever be going to prison for a third time for crimes yet unpunished.  And accessory to capital crimes has no statute of limitations.

They could not be corroborated because who wants to risk his life talking to the Feds?  How interested are the Feds in getting the facts out?  Too many loose ends.

But we have passed the point of no return in regards to trusting law enforcement in USA.  The responsible parties declined to maintain oversight and decency.  Election fraud is material in USA, so there is no chance of getting a congress that will reform the executive branch.

But we do have a system of wiggle out of this mess.  We could have private attorneys general with the power to offer complete immunity for all crimes, such as Billy Sol Estes received.   Even capital crimes.

The info Billy Sol Estes could lead to others who would gladly escape prosecution in trade for the truth.  The result would be a reckoning of the facts and perhaps a bit of maturing on the part of the USA electorate.  In any event, there is nothing like sunshine to clean up the body politic, and no doubt some excused criminals would get punished by interested parties, but that would the a risk they would run.

If someone was clearly guilty of something proven by several witness accounts, then let the government prosecute such suspects.

You have a better way to fix the lawlessness of the USA criminal justice system?

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