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An order to deploy which lacks or frustrates intent to compel a target to sign a declaration of unconditional surrender is an unlawful order by the Rules of Just War, the Conventions of War, Common Sense, and the Spirit of America.
Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.
None of us sees much of anything. We always only deal in transients and incidentals, the best of us trying to suss out deeper meaning from those indications. The last thing a wise person wants to do is assume they see what is in front of them.
On 15 September 2001, I wrote under title Memories Of An Inhuman Horror / 11 September 2001. I began with this language:
They overplayed their hand. Americans are neither weak nor prone to cowardice.
The United States harbors large populations prone to direct treason through action or indirect treason through sullen jealousy and hatred of “Americans” or “whites.” We face civil as well as international war. This is because, under the influence of charlatans who call themselves clergy and professors, sense-based data from studies has replaced participation as the preferred epistemological tool of leadership: evidence is accepted without involvement and opinion is permitted that is bereft of experience.
Today I add add some memories, deeper memories, memories I do not recall having committed to writing until now.
I lived in NYC when these buildings were in planning and permitting. There was strong, sustained opposition to their construction from all over the city and especially from adjoining neighborhoods. The strongest argument, IMO, focused on the New York Ego of the project’s promoters. They used the biggest, best, tallest, most impressive, most world-class arguments right from their first announcement of intent to build. Calling it The World Trade Center expressed that New York Ego most clearly. Neighbors and other citizens threw the monumental arrogance and colossal stupidity of that wording right back at their minters. The back and forth left a very nasty taste in seemingly everyone’s mouth. The usual back-door shenanigans occurred and the thing got green-lighted, but the tone around it from then on was bitter, reminiscent of the now-perpetual tone around the Obamas and Bidens. A West Pointer managed the construction phase.
When he graduated West Point, our son took my wife and me to the Windows on the World restaurant atop one of the WTC towers. That name, too, reflected the reaching, grasping tone the project had from inception. Vivid in my mind is looking down at a chopper flying by many stories below and thinking, “I wonder what it takes to make something this tall withstand a hurricane such as NYC gets?” Then I wondered if a plane could not see it and ram it. That latter thought stuck with me over the next months. I was standing up where airplanes flew. The building just seemed inordinately high, something about it just outlandishly conceited, anti-human.
Then, on 10 September 2001, as I drove a bus-load of commuters across Lake Washington to Seattle, my eye caught the Columbia Tower and a jet liner appearing to fly right into it. The Flight path for SeaTac is over downtown Seattle, where Columba Tower rises. My line of sight and distance from the objects gave to my eyes the appearance of a collision. And then, immediately, I had a premonition of dread, a very strong one, that something like that was about to happen. The premonition was extra clear: a huge plane flying into a huge building.
Next morning, my mother alerted me with the news. She was upset while almost gloating. As I watched on TV, I yelled at her through the phone: “This is what you get for voting Democrat all your life!” I was angry at her for her habitual social-political foolishness, she a graduate of Barnard College no less, and a school teacher. We hung up. Then my very next thoughts were “They were told not to build those things,” and then, “Yesterday I saw this happening. Now it’s here.”
The yoga of devotion teaches people the path of love; not to love to gain profit. Love all, just as you love yourselves. No harm will come to you! Love only spreads joy and happiness to all; God is present in all beings as love. So, love directed to and accepted is not by individuals but by God, who is resident there! The seeker of God who relies on the path of devotion and dedication will experience this fact! Some love God as mother or father, or as “dearest and closest friend” or as their beloved, the only desired goal. All endeavour is to merge individual love with the ocean of love that is God! Wherever selfless love is evident, take it as God’s own love! God loves mankind infinitely. Therefore, when anyone decides to serve humanity, God showers His grace in plenty. When any human heart melts at the suffering of others and expands as a result of empathy, know that God is present there!