Concise News Item 6:

Violence begets Violence,
Illegality begets Illegality
Lies beget Lies!

The bombing of Afghanistan is the legal and moral equivalent of what was done to the Americans on Sept. 11.... We may come to remember that day, not for its human tragedy, but for the beginning of a headlong plunge into a violent, lawless world.

Say what you want, but this war is illegal
By MICHAEL MANDEL
Professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto
Globe and Mail
Tuesday, October 9, 2001
The justice based on "an eye for an eye" or "a tooth for a tooth," is Old Testament based.  All it has ever done is perpetuate and perpetrate a culture of violence, a cyclical order of war and peace relentlessly replacing one another.  Even the periods of peace were but time outs to prepare for the next conflict.

Two thousand years ago another paradigm was introduced, a state of mind or a belief system based on "Peace on Earth and Goodwill to Mankind."  It got nowhere.  It was hijacked by religious institutions that continued the cycle of violence and glorified war.

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excerpt from "Aftermath of Terror"
 
 
 
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