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18-11-2002, 19:35
Dit kwam ik tegen op het net, het is een excuus van 1 amerikaan aan de rest van de wereld.... Het is mooi en raakte mij. Vergeet nooit de goede tussen de slechten, elk volk heeft rotte appels, maar ook elk volk heeft stervelijke engelen... Met een liefdevolle groet, Corrie ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One American's Apology to the World There is much that is wonderful about the United States. But we, too, have a dark side that we are not facing. I am not a scholar, historian or investigative reporter. There is much I do not know of what the United States has done. But I feel great shame for many things I do know. There is little I can do as an individual, but I would like to do what I can. *** I apologize to the earth for all the poisons. I apologize to the oceans for wanting to kill the love and light of the exquisite marine mammal beings. I apologize to the air for the pollution, the chem trails. I apologize to the heavens for the weapons in space. I apologize that we in America consume the majority of the world's resources. I apologize for our role in creating the global usury-based, credit-driven, debt-servitude economy. I apologize for our arrogance, our selfishness, our small-mindedness and our overbearing sense of entitlement. I apologize for the concept and practice of planned obsolescence. I apologize to the Native Americans for our forefathers' acts of genocide. I apologize to the Nation of Hawai'i for the holocaust of your people. I apologize to Mexico for taking your land. I apologize to Salvador Allende and the people of Chile for murder and for destroying your fledgling democracy. I apologize to Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala and all the countries of the world that we have raped and pillaged. I apologize to Cuba for the Bay of Pigs and for despising your self-chosen form of government. I apologize to American Samoa for polluting your happy culture. I apologize to Africa and Black America for 300 years of slavery. I apologize to South Africa for turning Nelson Mandela over to the apartheid regime. I apologize to our hostages if we purposely botched Carter's rescue mission to help elect Reagan. I apologize to the hostages we now hold in violation of the Geneva Conventions. I apologize to the people of Islam for trying to make you an enemy. I apologize to Vietnam for invading your country in the name of freedom. I apologize to Korea for splitting you asunder. I apologize to Japan for two bombs and so many deaths that were not really necessary. I apologize to the nations that were Yugoslavia for God knows what we did or didn't do there. I apologize to Iraq for making our lust for global domination, your oil and a family vendetta the excuses for invading your country and to Saddam Hussein for arming you, giving you the go ahead and then acting like we didn't. I apologize to Saudi Arabia for railroading you into allowing our armed forces to occupy your country. I apologize to Osama bin Laden for training you to be a terrorist and then making you the scapegoat. I apologize to the people of Israel for backing you no matter what horrendous thing you do. I apologize to Afghanistan for taking your government and then allowing things to fall into chaos. I apologize for all the corruption, bigotry, cover-ups and lies in our Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Systems. I apologize to all those falsely arrested, incarcerated and executed and to all those brutalized by our system. I apologize for letting courage, democracy, integrity and our free press nearly slip through our hands. I apologize for letting the Office of the Presidency, in actuality, slip through our hands. I apologize for all the lies and duplicity behind our foreign and domestic policies. I apologize for being so blind, so naive, so easily duped, so ready to abdicate and abuse power and so very afraid of death, truth, higher integrity and owning our own misdeeds and shadow. I apologize that we are not able to bring forth and sustain a true statesman. I apologize for placing security above truth and integrity. I apologize for our apathy and immaturity. I apologize for all the false propaganda. I apologize for all I omit due to my own lack of knowledge, insight and truthful information. And if we purposefully infested our ghettoes with drugs in order to arrest our people for using them, I apologize to our minorities and the underprivileged who would be hard put to just say no. And if, as many believe, 9/11 was partially an inside job, I apologize for creating and using it to advance the agenda of a polluted sector of our society. And if, as millions of people in the world believe, American expertise was involved in the purposeful development and deployment of the AIDS virus, I kneel before God and the world and beg for forgiveness. And if, as I believe, Paul Wellstone, John Kennedy, Jr. and Mel Carnahan were murdered, as were JFK, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, I apologize to God, the Earth and all people for willfully destroying and striking fear into the hearts of those who would be benevolent and place the good of the people above the pockets of wealth, control and power. *** I renounce all the evil America has perpetrated in the world. I invite all benevolent souls to join with me in The Council of Peace. Peace, love and blessings, Mark Landau.