Monday, August 1, 2011
Spiritual Protest #3: Saying a simple “No” to the extreme violence, racism/bigotry & poverty-production of the United States of America (“Perfect Revolution” – per MLK Jr. & Gandhi).
by Norm Lowry
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience … Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves … [and] the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.” – Howard Zinn
To the Lancaster PA U.S. Military Recruiters:
It is my honor, today, to continue my unwavering commitment to continued Spiritual Protest at your facility (Protest #1 – April 16, 2009; Protest #2 – January 15, 2010).
My pertinent questions continue to be:
1. How can any aware & knowledgeable person call it anything but tyranny, that the United States of America maintains (with its mere 4.6% of total world population) its commitment to “Total Dominance” of the entire world (fiscally, militarily & politically), by spending in excess of 60% of the entire world’s military expenditures (not counting the hundreds of billions tacked on, monthly, to the U.S. “Credit Card” – payable by who knows who – who knows when)?
2. How can any aware & knowledgeable person call it anything but tyranny, that the U.S. total policy & resultant sanctions (fiscal, military & political) continue to cause the deaths (murder/genocide) of 200,000+ people every day (that’s 70,000,000+ deaths per year); half of whom die, simply due to having food & water withheld (as sanction)?
3. How can any aware & knowledgeable person call it anything but tyranny, that the so-called “U.S. Justice & Prison Systems” house 25%+ of the world’s total inmate population (not including military & torture populations); in a population base of merely 4.6% of its total population?
4. How can any aware & knowledgeable person call it anything but tyranny, that 80%+ of all U.S. crime is “white collar,” while 80%+ of U.S. prison beds are filled with “blue collar” criminals?
5. How can any aware & knowledgeable person call it anything but tyranny that one of the nation’s top policing policies (the so-called “war on drugs”) is anything but a cover-up for mass racism/bigotry, for making the minorities poor & for the commercialization of the prison system; all in spite of consistently deescalating crime rates?
It seems quite obvious that our loving Creator (who would prefer to be merciful) is allowing the systemic collapse of the United States of America. We are past the point of fiscal insolvency, yet our arrogant leadership seems content to “keep alive” the absolute lie that there is any hope for honest fiscal recovery. Pathetically, there is the larger lie; that somehow a military solution shows some possibility, when the U.S. military remains simply the world’s largest murder-for-hire establishment.
It is time for the United States of America to wake up, choose humility, repent of our extreme violence, racism/bigotry & poverty-production (before our Holy Creator), accept His discipline & resultant healing…or face imminent destruction!
After presenting this notification to you, it is my intention to simply stand by your front entrance…praying. I will not leave your property, except by arrest.
My choice of today’s spiritual protest is Love. I love you enough to confront & will not waiver in my commitment to do so!
Blessings…
Norman Edgar Lowry Jr.
Monday, August 1, 2011
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Our problem is also based in the brainwashing that bad religion-meaning religious FUNDAMENTALISM that has aligned itself with The STATE and negates the message that Jesus died for:
ReplyDeleteAbout 2,000 years ago, when Christ was about 33, he hiked up a hill and sat down under an olive tree and began to teach the people;
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.”
In other words: it is those who know their own spiritual poverty, their own limitations and ‘sins’ [the only 'sin' is selfishness] honestly and trust God loves them in spite of themselves who already live in the Kingdom of God.
How comforted we will all be, when we see, we haven’t got a clue, as to the depth and breadth of pure love and mercy of The Divine Mystery of The Universe.
God’s name in ancient Aramaic is Abba which means Daddy as much as Mommy and He/She: The Lord has said, “My ways are not your ways. My thoughts are not yours.” -Isaiah 55:8
Christ proclaimed more: “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
The essence of meek is to be patient with ignorance, slow to anger and never hold a grudge. In other words: how comforted you will be when you also know humility; when you know yourself, the good and the bad, for both cut through every human heart.
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, they will be filled.”
In other words: how comforted you will be when your greatest desire is to do what “God requires, and he has already told you what that is; BE JUST, BE MERCIFUL and walk humbly with your Lord.”-Micah 6:8
“Blessed are the merciful, they will be shown mercy.”
In other words: how comforted you will all be when you choose to return only kindness to your ‘enemy.’
“For with the measure you measure against another, it will be measured back to you” Christ warns his disciples as he explains the law of karma in Luke 6:27-38.
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they see God.”
In other words: how comforted you will be when you WAKE UP and see God is already within you, within every man, every woman and every child. The Supreme Being is everywhere, the Alpha and Omega, beginning and end. Beyond The Universe -and yet so small; within the heart of every atom.
“Blessed are The Peacemakers: THEY shall be called the children of God.”
And what a wonderful world it would be when we all seek peace by pursuing justice; for there can be none without the other.
“Blessed are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires, theirs is The Kingdom of Heaven.”
And one fine day the lion will lie down with The Lamb and man will make war no more; and thus create the Kingdom of God on planet earth.