Fw: [A-List] US-UK Imperialism: Christian Call to Arms

["Christopher Black" <bar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> The following was transmitted to the Press Association @ 3.15 am UK time
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> UK pentecostalist William Spring has called for Christians of all
> denominations world wide to seriously consider the question as to whether
or
> not they are called to  volunteer to fight with the Fedayeen in Iraq
against
> Coalition forces.
>
> William Spring who is Director of CANA UK (Christians Against Nato
> Aggression) an ecumenical group established in London in March 1999 to
> oppose the NATO attack on Yugoslavia comments:
>
> "Christians and Muslims need to get together to consider whether their
> confessional differences have not been exploited by successive US
> administrations in the cause of furthering and expanding the interests of
> the American Empire.
>
> For example in the Yugoslav civil wars US policy definitely tilted towards
> the Muslims, (as in Bosnia and latterly in Kosovo).
>
> But what was the reason for that orientation?
>
> It was to give the Muslims a bone, when they could not take the whole
> carcass (the State of Israel) because of US support for Israel.
>
> By appeasing the Muslims in the Yugoslav wars, (which involved the US
> teaming up with Osama bin Laden) the US hoped that the Muslim world would
> overlook continued US support for the occupation of Arab lands by Israel.
>
> A deeper reason driving US policy in separating Bosnia and Kosovo from the
> Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was to acquire bases.
>
> Hence Tusla air base, (formerly used by the Yugoslavian air force, but
never
> used by them for any hostile purpose against any neighbouring state) has
now
> been taken over by the US and British, in order for the US and British to

> conduct bombing raids on Afghanistan and Iraq.
>
> Muslims should be aware that any supposed pro Muslim bias in US policy
> either then or at any other time was purely to disguise  US objectives,
> always predicated in terms of US national interest, ( which national
> interest is now identified with the national interest of the State of
> Israel).
>
> Now in Iraq, and previously in Afghanistan,  it would appear that the US
is
> following an anti Muslim agenda.
>
> But this is not the case.
>
> It is really immaterial to the US who controls Iraq, whether they be
> Muslims, Christians, Jews or Mennonites, they would still have to be
> replaced, if they did not do what America told them.
>
> The America of 2003 is an imperialist colonialist aggressive corporatist
> avaricious anti democratic immoral consumerist sex obsessed anti life
polity
> satiated by drugs and in thrall to a cult of violence.
>
> The decisions of the executive of that state are not determined by any
> ethical or legal considerations,  only by realpolitick, considerations of
> power, and what can they can get away with.
>
> The Americans are the new Fascists of the  21st century.
>
> Unfortunately they have the support of the UK Prime Minister Tony Blair,
who
> follows a similar fascist agenda.
>
> Experience has shown Fascists are not to be argued out of their position.
>
> The protagonists of US power, such as Richard Pearle, are in any case
unable
> to offer a coherent argument on any point.
>
> The only thing that will convince the Americans that they are ill suited
in
> their new role as surrogates for the State of Israel  is a multiplicity of
> body bags, which is what the Iraqi resistance now seems to be providing.
>
>  But I am concerned lest that resistance consists exclusively of Islamist
> forces.
>
> If that happens, at the end of the day, when the Americans are defeated,
and
> the Iraqi people have come together in celebration and for a national
> discussion on the way forward, if the Christians of Iraq have not played
> their full part in the resistance against the Coalition, then their
minority
> rights previously guaranteed by Saddam Hussein in his secular Republic may
> be threatened.
>
> Only if Iraqi Christians actively support the resistance, against the
> Americans and the British,  will they have any right to a say in the
future
> format of  a new Iraqi state and constitution.
>
> As in the Palestine conflict, where Christian Arabs and Muslims came
> together to oppose occupation, so in Iraq  Christian communities should
give
> now full support to this new intifada, as only by that procedure will they
> have an entitlement for Muslim respect when  the invader is expelled.
>
> There is a further corollary to this:
>
> in my view all men and women of good will, whatever their religion, or of
no
> religion, if they are able bodied and have no physical impediment, or
> pressing reasons not to participate, and should their efforts be requested
> by genuine representatives of the Iraqi people, they should now be making
> their way to Iraq to join in an international brigade to expel the
> aggressors.
>
> From my point of view I find it unfortunate some of the troops in Iraq are
> British.
>
> The British Government and Parliament committed a treasonable act in
sending
> our young men and women into a combat zone, to die in a foreign field, not
> for England, but for the Heritage Foundation.
>
> But those UK troops now in theatre need not remain there one minute
longer.
>
> A contract  between the British armed forces and the Government has been
> broken.
>
> When these young men and  women enlisted they understood they were joining
a
> professional army, not Blair's feudal levy.
>
> They understood they would fight for Queen and country in cases involving
> national defence, not becoming participants in aggressive wars and thus
war
> criminals.
>
> Under the Nuremberg rulings members of the armed forces of a state  faced
> with the necessity of obeying illegal orders are released from all such
> obligations.
>
> British troops now in theatre should request transfer and refuse any
longer
> to obey orders aimed at the military occupation, subjugation and
enslavement
> of the Iraqi people.
>
> Volunteers should make their services available to the Iraqi resistance
and
> there should be organised committees of Iraqis in Western capitals to
assess
> the value of services offered by such individuals and to provide
logistical
> support for any Western volunteers selected to travel to Iraq.
>
> What is at stake in Iraq is a fundamental issue involving the moral and
> legal structure of this planet.
>
> I do not want to live in a world where any state can simply invade
another,
> upon any pretext.
>
> Those who promoted the Iraqi invasion are war criminals.
>
> Until the restoration of an international legal structure a fundamental
> right exists to the states of the UN to defend themselves against
> aggression, which right is now being exercised by the people of Iraq.
>
> That right also extends to a request  for  support from other states and
> individuals.
>
> The American public education system is a shambles.
>
> Their political establishment is corrupt, (as is the case in the UK.)
>
> The deaths of US service personnel in Iraq are wholly regrettable in that
> they were wholly avoidable.
>
> They should never have been sent there in  the first place.
>
> The supposed killings of the sons and the grandson of Saddam Hussein
> constitute a war crime by the United States.
>
> Those who rejoice in this atrocity should remember political assassination
> is an indiscriminate instrument.
>
> The Pentecostals in the United Kingdom differ from the Pentecostals in the
> USA in that we believe, or did believe, and hold to,  pacifist tenets.
(My
> own brother was a conscientious objector at the time of the Suez invasion
of
> 1956).
>
> The right not to bear arms was written into the Constitution of our
> fellowship. (My late wife's father, now also deceased, was Chairman of the
> UK Assemblies of God Bible College,  at a time when Donald Gee was its
> Principal. In fact my religious background is not dissimilar to that of US
> Attorney-General Ashcroft.)
>
> As time went on I found myself unable to accept the strict tenets of
> pacifism and believe now force is justified in a case of national defence.
>
> Because of these beliefs, and because I believe their struggle is
> legitimate, I now send my good wishes to the Iraqi resistance and
encourage
> them to fight on against the US and UK occupiers, until Victory.
>
> I also send to the President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, my condolences
should
> these  reports of the death of one or both of his sons, and his grandson,
be
> verified. "
>
> VICTORY TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE
>
> End of statement
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