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An American “Terrorist” in London
Welcome to Orwell’s ‘1984’ ladies and gentlemen, where black is white, white is black, and the truth is nothing but a word.
My 1984 reality is culminating with the United States and Israeli Governments treating me and/or charging me with being a “terrorist”. Americans worry not, you can sleep better at night knowing your “homeland” is being defended from the likes of me. And Israel, rest easy as well, it’s Ken O’Keefe and his Arab collaborators who are in the Mossad crosshairs.
All kidding aside, I am a family man, with a beautiful family, a loving wife and baby boy, a boy who will be the biggest victim if his father is no longer in his life.
How did I get here? Well my life is an open book, and one chapter includes meeting with people who resist war and occupation, but the idea that I would be involved in violence beyond self-defense is absurd. The character witnesses who truly know me will come out in force if ever I am locked up for conspiracy to commit a terrorist act.
The real reason why I have been named by Israel as ‘operative of the Hamas Terror organization’ is that I speak and defend the truth, and more importantly, I act on it. The truth is that Hamas and every other government, group or individual does what just about any of us would do if we were oppressed and violated in the ways that are inherent in war/occupation. We would resist.
I say to every red blooded American, every European, every human, if someone came into your home, threatened your family, imprisons and even kills your family what would you do? I do not care if every westerner of any station is afraid to say it, it is part of my purpose in life to say it, I would fight. In fact I would kill before I would allow my family to be harmed. I would fight to the death.
I say to my American brothers and sisters in particular, can you not see that the Iraqis, the Afghanis and the Palestinians are people? They are mothers and fathers, uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters and sons and daughters. They love their family every bit as much as you. Imagine that you were in their shoes, would you be passive? Would you sit by and watch your wife and child being violated? Or would you fight?
I want every reader of this article to come on a journey with me. We are in our home, we are brothers, poor in terms of money but rich in our love of family, we love each other as brothers do. Our wives are in the kitchen preparing food for our children.
We do our best, poor and impoverished, surrounded by war brought in the form of occupiers from half way around the world. The sound of rifle butts banging on the door shatters the semblance of peace. You, my brother go to the door quickly, but not quickly enough. The door slams open and the soldiers from another land come storming in.
With weapons pointed at our heads, they shout orders which we believe tell us to put our hands on our heads and get down on our knees. We are not sure, English is a language brought to us, not our mother tongue. Our wives come to the room frightened, begging the soldiers to calm down for the sake of the children in the other room.
The soldiers respond by shouting at our wives and pushing my wife to the ground with their assault rifles. Our hearts are racing, our manhood is being crushed, and we wonder if we are men at all.
The shouting and the chaos increases. Next comes the sound of your baby girl, you hear her crying for her mother, you imagine the look of her, terrified. Thinking of your little baby girl tears begin to fall from your face. You look to your wife; she is now on the ground bleeding from where the rifle butt slammed into her head. In the chaos you do not even know when this happened.
The soldiers begin throwing all that we own everywhere, overturning furniture, throwing papers and family items to the ground and breaking dishes. They ransack while one demands to know our names. As soon as I say my name they grab me and take me into the next room, the room between you and our children. They begin to beat me, mercilessly. They are shouting at me, but you do not know what they are saying.
Now all the children are crying frantically, the soldiers keep yelling, and you catch the word “terrorist”. You realize that they are calling me, your brother who you have known your whole life, a “terrorist”. I plead with them to stop the beating, blood drenching every inch of my face, for the sake of the children, who are by now screaming, crying and begging for mom and dad, I beg. All you can think to do is nothing, you are paralyzed, and eventually the soldiers take me away… You will never hear from me again.
Your children are alive, for now, and your wife will survive, but she is scarred. Your sister-in-law is without her husband, you are without your brother, your parents are without their son and the children are without a father. You find out later that “someone” gave your brother’s name to the soldiers as a “terrorist”, probably while being tortured. And that is the end of that, someone who you do not know accuses the brother you know through and through, and lives are shattered.
And so you ponder, do I do nothing or do I resist?
This is a scenario of war/occupation, it is not extreme, it is inherent. Indeed we could include scenarios where woman, wives and daughters are raped in front of husbands and fathers. You think Americans do not do this, you are wrong. War makes everyone crazy; the question is to what degree? Insanity is inherent in war, the folly of chanting the “Support the troops!” slogan while sending them off to bullshit wars could not be more stark.
And so I ask, if you came from the lands we invade, would you fight? And if you did, would you see yourself as a “terrorist”? Or a man?
And if you did not fight, would you see yourself as noble? Or a coward?
I do not intend to pass judgment, but I would fight. I would fight because I know I would rot from the inside out if I did not. As far as I am concerned, I feel nothing but kinship, love and respect for my brothers and sisters who resist, I see myself in them.
It pains me deeply to know that we, western hypocrites and citizens of morally bankrupt states are the root of the problem. We are the terrorists, us. Our entire society should face charges for crimes against humanity for our use of DU, white phosphorous, cluster bombs, etc. We should pay massive reparations and beg forgiveness for the sake of a better future world.
We claim to live in democracies, therefore we are responsible. Rather than face up to it, we remain delusional and insane, functionally insane, pretending as if we are “civilized”. We are barbaric, and not just Americans, Europeans as well. We do not have a monopoly on barbarity, but we have far more than our fair share.
When Gandhi was asked what he thought of western civilization he replied by saying, “I think it would be a good idea.”
Exactly.
I will not abandon my brothers and sisters who resist war and occupation. By being labeled a “terrorist” myself, I join you, falsely accused and persecuted, the Arabs, the Muslims, Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress, the Founding Fathers of America, the eco-warriors, the people of conscience past and present. And so be it, I am a terrorist in the eyes of the American and Canadian Government who puts me on their so-called “terror watch list”.
I am a terrorist because Israel issues press releases stating I am a “operative of Hamas” on a mission to “form and train a commando unit for the Palestinian terror organization” in Gaza; in this world of Orwellian doublespeak I am honoured, truly honoured.
The lies and depravity are oozing from you like puss from an infection of greed and power gone mad. In response I shall draw the proverbial line in the sand, those accusing and threatening me on the one side, those with me on the other side. And here is what ‘WE THE PEOPLE’ stand for;
- Breaking of the blockade of Gaza and Palestine 100%.
- Ending imperialism, occupation and war and thus the need for violent resistance.
- Ending of all forms of terrorism, with immediate emphasis on the state sponsored terrorism that is conducted with our taxes and in our name.
- Replacing the war tax system with a humanity tax system.
- Replacing institutionalized indoctrination with genuine education.
- Rendering corporate media propaganda completely impotent.
- Replacing the colour of law with justice based law.
- Embracing sustainable living and respect for nature in every way.
- Absolute respect for human rights for all people, without exception.
- The “Golden Rule”, to do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
- The way of a world citizen whose ultimate allegiance is to his entire human family and to planet Earth.
There you have it, if I am to be a “terrorist” then that is the brand I endorse. And now, I’m looking for a ship and a flotilla to go to Gaza, and I look to do it pretty soon. Who would like to join me?
TJP
Copyright 2010 - Ken O’Keefe
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To Ken I would say, Come home and take your stand at your own front door since everything you describe will likely happen here. It is only with the most absurd conceit that the average American imagines our government holds him and his family in greater regard than those abused and tormented souls in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Gaza. In point of fact, 87 of our senators have pledged their undying loyalty to a foreign nation. No self-abasing dishonor is too great for these senators, either, now that irrefutable evidence proves that nation has murdered hundreds of Americans in uniform. The Vice President of the United States is spit upon by that nation’s prime minister and says “Excuse me” before genuflecting to kiss his hand. These men are first and foremost cowards, and as Dr. Johnson noted, if there’s one certainty about cowards, it’s that they’re cruel, and cruelest of all to their own. Our government as it is derives its power solely from its ability to murder and imprison, and under the Patriot Act without the Constitutional protection of our most fundamental right of due process. The idea that it acts with the consent of the governed is for imbeciles to chant as they’re marched to internment camps. Torture, assassination, confiscation of property, and imprisonment are already the law of the land in America, and soon for merely opposing our national dishonor and the cowardice of our leaders. Your principled stand and bravery are more assuredly required at home than abroad.
Thank you Dan….I couldn’t have said it better
This is exactly what I continued to try and tell Palestinian Rights activists here, that the US is an occupied territory too, but they wouldn’t have any part of it. We are all in danger as we’ve already seen over and over again – 9/11, bank scam, gulf oil scam, loss of jobs, loss of rights, (and many “terrorist” acts prior to and after 9/11 )this is all being conducted by the same people.
We all need to be armed, they’re coming for us. This is why they are trying to remove all rights to bear arms. And I hate guns.
Kenneth O’Keefe will be joining with Gilad Atzmon, Kevin Barrett and James Fetzer at ‘The Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Muslims for 9/11 Truth Initiative’ Symposium to be held in London (UK) on July 14, 2010.
http://rehmat2.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/war-on-terror-vs-war-on-islam/
Tonight I will tell my kids your story and why it’s important, as young Americans, that they empathize with their fellow man and work to grow up in a new America that rejects criminal behavior, torture, hate, and ethnic cleansing. In our household, you’re a true blue American Hero!
God bless you Ken….keep up the good work….
You have my full support, Ken. If there’s anything you need, and it’s within my ability to deliver it; please, please get a message to me somehow. It’s yours.
Just take 2 cyanide pills and call me in the morning.
Frightened are we? Musashi, the world would be a lot better if Israel just went away. As it is, seems like the Israelis are currently digging their own grave.
I don’t get frightened…maybe you do because you wrote “we”. I am very well armed and very knowledgeable in how to protect my family as well as your’s. If you are frightened, come on over…I’ll protect you. The ironic thing is, I have protected you most of my life?
Had you written a story with the dramatics and mighty poor ones at that,you might have told a great message but as I read this I was almost ashamed at the ploy of attempting to reach into our heart and conscience rather than our intellectual side.You did a grave injustice to the cause by your style not to mention to your self as well.
Lawrence – It seems you hold against this man that he is just being himself. A warrior who now fights for Peace. And one with the heart of a poet. A man of action who stands not by idle in the face of injustices as others complain and lashes out criticisim, but one who takes neccesary action when action is needed.
King David was such a man, a warrior, a poet, a sinner many times over, (as we all are), and yet, he was called – “a man after God’s own heart”.
The world would be a much better place if it had more men like the one you criticize so freely from the comforts of your own home.
After they rifle butted your wife, did they cut your sons head off and then claim they will wipe every one who holds ur religion off the face of the earth?
Did they also say all who don’t take Islam as the holy religion should be condemned to death.
Did they use their own children as shields in battles agains u?
Do they pay their children’s families if they blow themselves up in markets and kill civilians on trains.
Did they also accept daily shipments of food, water, electricity, and healthcare from you when their family is sick? And open their hospitals to you?
Israel is no angelic country, but ur people are on the devils side for sure.
How u can live in the US and reap its blessings while u curse it is beyond me. Live in Gaza and attend a radical muslim session…listen to the hatred being spewed against every Ameircan, Brit and Jew…and how all of them should be murdered in the name of Allah and Islam, and I’m sure u would see the truth. And if u still think their cause is just, then yes, I too would assume u work for the dark side.
Musashi, Lawrence and Wade; your ignorance reveals your true self.
West Bank poverty ‘worse than Gaza’:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/201062916845576597.html
Equalizer, they are not ignorant, they just have another agenda and for individuals like this there are people and unpeople. For them, Pazlestinians are unpeople. Is zionism any less intolarant than Hamas Islam? No. Zionism just kills a hell of a lot more. If Gaza were the Warsaw ghetto, they would be singing a different tune.
Also, many fo the leading members of the PLO are Christians.
Go11, read what Yonatan Shapira; former Israeli Air Force captain, now “refusnik” and BDS (boycott, divestment and sanction Israel) activist said:
http://www.kampania-palestyna.pl/index.php/2010/06/29/gaza-freedom-graffiti-in-the-warsaw-ghetto/
Please quit mixing your medications! What is with your name? Are you some kind of sugar?
Wade, have you Been to Occupied Palestine? I’m just curious. Seems you know more than the people who have actually been there.
Welcome Ken! Glad to know you will be writing for VeteransToday! Cheers for all that you are doing
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Hello Ken, if the U.S. had more people like you we could change this world for the better. Let me say you must have the whole world on your shoulders right now, but your not alone. I for one of many support you in everyway. The only way is the humanitarian way, where as you said do onto others as you would have them do onto you. The problem as I see it is most cannot look at the truth and see it, most only look at what they want to see, to them I say truth is not a conspiracy theory and it’s high time it becomes the issue of the day everywhere, especially here in the U.S. where most would rather listen to liars and believe a lie. God bless you and yours Ken, you are in my prayers and have been for some time now.
Ken,
Excellent article. May God continue to protect you and yours. From this point on, I will always keep you in my prayers and ask my church to do the same.
Did you know the Mossad has hired agents to do nothing but disrupt blog/comment web pages by spouting Zionist propaganda? They’d rather do that than change their attitudes.
It’s clear by now that Israel owes alot to the Nazis: how to terrorize a people, how to blitzkrieg, how to execute people efficiently, etc.
Thank you, Ken, for telling it clearly, telling it like it is.
I served in the military during the Viet Nam War. If I had not been a 17 year old boy but a 45 yr old man and know what I know now I would have never done it.War is for fools…Why have they got to have everything. They are not satisfied with our body’s, they also want our minds.I have taken mine back and they will never get it it again.Governments these days are nothing but criminal enterprises run by crooks.Any nation letting Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama run it deserves what it gets.America prepare yourself for what our Creator has in store for you. You stand behind these askanazy jews over in israel so you also will take part in her plagues.Wake up people or prepare for prison with guards you are not going to like….Thanks Ken for what you did on the ship to help the ones who could not help themselves.
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