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July 2006

The Justification League

Cain had justifications.
Mao had justifications.
Hitler had justifications.
Charles Manson had justifications.
Che and Castro had justifications.
Saddam Hussein had justifications.
British Kings had justifications.
Western settlers had justifications.
Alexander the Great had justifications.
Mussilini had justifications.
Napolean had justifications.
Neo-nazis have justifications.
The KKK has justifications.
Stalinists had justifications.
Hutus had justifications.
Hamas has justifications.
Hezbolah has justifications.
Israel has justifications.
The US has justifications.

All involved in these conflicts had justifications.

****NOTE****
This is not an exhaustive list


It seems that no matter who it is, there is a justification. The justification only affects the present and not the future.


  • Death begets death.
  • Murder begets murder.
  • War begets war.

One fight won means another fight is to come.

Join the war round-robin today.

Death is just an airplane ride away.


  1. Do you or your group want to be added to this group of the overlords that will get overtaken?
  2. Do you or your group desire to be the murdered killers?

Training is the impetus for action.
A chainsaw is useful, but if it is all you have got then what?
War is an idea that, even though it has never worked before, will work this time.
War is also the idea that death and destruction can change peoples minds.


How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
- Neville Chamberlain

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
- Ernest Hemingway

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
- Tony Blair

War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means.
- Carl von Clausewitz

War is a profane thing.
- Norman Schwarzkopf

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
- George Orwell

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
- James Monroe

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
- Agatha Christie

The Last Secret Santa

Last Secret Santa

Don’t be Scared of Death

I am a pacifist. This means that I proudly will not kill another human being. I am also a quasi-environmentist. This means that I think about earth stewardship in the sense that the earth is something to be enjoyed and not devoured.

People are fascinating. This is mostly in part due to our ability to think, rationalize, philosophize, construct, deconstruct and to devise. The binary poles of political thought (left v. right) each have a perspective of human worth. Each would agrue, albeit in a different fashion than the other, that human’s are worth something.

The right would say the human is worth something as a human. The left would likely say the human is worth something as a person. That is an important distinction. Think about it.

As a human the body is expendable. As a person the body is but a vessel for the mind. To destroy the body is to destroy the mind.

The left has a problem however. If the body is a vessel, and that vessel consumes that which the earth produces then there is limited space for those vessels. The right has a problem as well. The human has a mind and that mind may prevent other humans from being able to live peacably together. As such conflict is inevitable unless those human minds can learn to co-habitate the earth. However, one does not learn peace by living in war.

The solution, as it stands, for the left is to work to gain a peace which would expediate the population problem. For the right the solution is more fighting which perpetuates the problem of conflict.

My solution is to have some cake and then eat it too. With ice cream, some coffee and a cigerette to celebrate the deliciousness of the cake.

I will not kill another person. I will not support other people killing other people. I believe humans are special in some way that animals may not be. I cannot put my finger on what that is exactly, but that is another post on another day.

I will do what I can here at home to try and ensure a rich beautiful planet such as I enjoyed growing up for my heirs. (But not for my kid’s kids, because I don’t believe kids should be having sex.)

I will not fight the notion that there are people who believe that killing another person is ookey-dokey for several reason. First, it is fruitless to try to convince people of that idea. I have never succeeded and a person who likes the idea of war-toys will likely never even consider the alternative.

Second, it is an exercise in futility to try to stop governments from battling other governments. Government exists to protect its people. But governments are war institutions. As such they only have a select number of ideas in their arsenal. War is a fact. Death is unavoidable. Murder is option #1.

Third, if people kill people then there are less people to destroy the planet. And maybe, just maybe, eventually there will be so few people left that those handful can learn to live together.

Death is a part of life. Killing other people does not need to be. But with populations growing too rapidly and technology advancing too hurredly it seems inevitable for a vast number of people to die. Either from over population, starvation, or from war and other human controllable situations.

The neglect will be on my part. War is the wrong answer to all problems. But I am defeated, I will let it happen. I will be a passive supporter. I won’t like it. I won’t do the killing.

So kill all the mother-fucking foreigners. Bomb the hell out of other religions. Don’t be scared of death. Embrace it. Destroy all life on the planet. Bring an end to the misery that keeps rearing its ugly pimple scarred face.

Hell, throw another fetus on the BBQ. We are eating like kings and queens tonite.

Double Crossing

Deer Double Xing

Nation as a Notion

The problem with Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Canada, Quebec, the US and any other “nation” is the notion of “nation.”

Provide me with a definition of “nation” and I will provide you with an exception. Do the exeptions prove the rule? Generally this is not true of a definition.

The problem with an imaginary line as the defining factor of a nation is that there may be groups within that nation who do not see such a line as important. This is the problem in the Middle East. The middle eastern goal is, as I understand it, ultimately Jerusalem. As long as imaginary lines are the definition of nation there will be conflict.

Israel did not always believe in such lines. In fact they still do not entirely believe that. Israel, as a nation, existed before they had some real estate to call home. Now that they have that sod to trod, they want to defend it and its borders. Good fences may make good neighbours, but this is not always true. A fence with armed guards preventing any outsider from eating from your apple tree may keep the apples at home but will likely get some people riled up. Stolen apples (or pears) are the sweetest. Just ask Augustine of Hippo

Israel insists that Hezbollah should be dealt with by Lebanon because Lebanon currently owns the lot on which Hezbollah is squatting. This is the problem with the idea of Nation-State. Hezbollah wants something and is trying to get it. When Israel wanted something in 1967 they destroyed their opposition, but not to Biblical perportions.

Seems they don’t believe in the Old Testament either. They should have anihilated the Palestinians. That is Old Testamently Biblical. And not leave any survivours.

I am a pacifist and will not support any war or killing of any human being. But I applaud the wars that go on. Keep up the good work.

As a Mennonite I can say that pacifism does pay. During the Reformation there were many, many Anabaptist sects. Most were militant and desired to bring on the Apocalypse. The only groups that ended up surviving were the pacifists.

Zionism is basically about the same thing. If all the militant groups can continue fighting, eventually they will all be dead and we pacifists can live in peace.

As a bonus, this would help solve many of the world’s food and population issues. And would help the environment.

One thing that could definetely help the environment is the eroding of the notion of nation-states. A countries issues should not end at the imaginary border. Every country, nation, group and individual is a stake hold not only in the grouping to which they are a member. But stakes holders in the earth and in each other.

Until then . . . my grass; my trees; my dirt; my water; my oil; my air; mine; mine; mine. Oh, and my Uzi and my tanks.

And my bombs.

Pizza Party

Pizza Party

Looking for Trouble

Looking for Trouble

I think the word is "Stoked"

Tomorrow is my last day of work for the week.
And this week has been hell so far.

Tomorrow I will be pitching a tent or two.
And then coming back to the city for supplies.

Sleep in my own bed.
Wake early enough to shop for some sandals.
Groceries and beer.

Then back to Birds Hill Park for the Winnipeg Folk Fest.

Bruck Cockburn, Neko Case, Low, Hawksley Workman, Wailin’ Jennys, Vic Chestnut, Steve Earl, Greg MacPherson and Son Volt. And many many more.

A full weekend. Camping. Beer. Music.

No work. All play.

Maybe I will see you there.

Unless you are not.

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Harper's Canada

Harper's Canada