"Good versus Evil?" - or "Evil versus Evil?"
by Adrian Banks
3/13/03
Is Saddam Hussein an evil man? Of course he is. Around 670,000 Iraqi people died in the war with Iran that he instigated. He persecutes and kills those who oppose his rule. More innocent souls died in the war he waged against Kuwait. In his writings and speeches, he quotes the Holy Quran and makes reference to Allah, but the Holy Quran denounces his actions as evil. No doubt this is one of the main reasons why the Arab nations around him disapprove of him. Of Hussein, the Holy Quran says this:
"And of men whose speech about the life of this world pleases thee, and he calls Allah to witness as to that which is in his heart, yet he is the most violent of adversaries. And when he holds authority, he makes effort in the land to cause mischief in it and destroy tilth and offspring; and Allah loves not mischief. And when it is said to him, Be careful of thy duty to Allah, pride carries him off to sin - so hell is sufficient for him. And certainly evil is the resting place." (2: 204-206)
Rulers who are evil always practice the art of deceit upon their subjects. It is called a psychological operation, or "psycop" for short. It is an operation of deceit that is designed to mold the public mind conform to the will of political authority. One of the conditions that the newest UN resolution proposed by Great Britain states that Hussein tell the Iraqi people on public television that he has deceived them and the world about his weapons of mass destruction. To answer the question as to whether or not he will do this, let us consider a similar demand made in this country that Bush come clean to the American people about their liberties that their Constitution guarantees them. After all, the oath to support the Constitution is still taken by all elected and appointed government officials. Would Mr. Bush dare stand before the people and admit to them that they have been tricked out of their basic liberties? For example, the Constitution still guarantees the right to free labor and the right of locomotion. The right of free labor means that workers have the right to receive the equivalent of their labor and not whatever allowance the government chooses to let them have. This is primary right that the 13th amendment was supposed to secure to all working people, and the politicians have no constitutional authority to take away the right without asking the people's consent through constitutional amendment. The right of locomotion has been destroyed by the drivers licensing schemes of the states. In fact, a law passes last year in South Carolina makes it a criminal offense for a carpenter (and I am a carpenter) to contract his labor without a state license. The penalty for doing so is a $1000 fine or one year in prison or both. I am now a criminal in the eyes of the state. Free labor is dead.
Would Mr. Bush dare stand before the people and admit that the political parties in power have destroyed the peoples' liberties and that they live under a de facto government? Would he ever admit to the people that a deliberate psycop has been ongoing for years to make the laboring population think that they have a legal duty to file and pay income tax on the fruits of their labor?: and at the same time make them think they are a free people? Almost every activity in this nation is subject to licenses and fees. This is a system of Feudalism, where all who labor are under the authority of powerful lords the people have the privilege of electing every two years. A license represents a privilege, not a right. This is not freedom, it is slavery. Would Mr. Bush admit this to the people on national television? Is this good or evil?
I guess if I don't like this, I can get out of the country and be a slave in another one. I have been counseled by those who don't like the truths I expose to move to places like Haiti or Iraq. One person asked when are we going to restore liberty to the people of Iraq. We don't have liberty ourselves.
In this country thousands are warehoused in debtor's prisons and thousands commit suicide every year to emancipate themselves from cannibalistic slavery. All people who labor for their bread are in a condition of servitude. They are not people with individual rights secured by the Constitution - rights that are, in accordance with the Declaration of Independence, inalienable. Again, all who labor in the world are in a condition of servitude. All that varies is the weight of the yoke.
Operation Enduring Freedom? Freedom for whom? Freedom, according to the dictionary, means "personal liberty, as opposed to bondage or slavery." It does not mean privileges granted by the licensing schemes of government - a government that claims power over the labor of children when they are born by issuing them Taxpayer Identification Numbers (or SSN's). Hence the old slave maxim partus sequitur ventrem is fulfilled. The income tax was never intended to be used to determine the worker's allowance from their labor when it began in 1913 with the 16th amendment.
The fact is, no political leader will dare tell the truth to the people. The upcoming war is not "good versus evil," for "good" means "morally excellent; righteous; pious." Whereas "evil" means "violating or inconsistent with the moral law....anything causing injury or harm." The war will be "evil versus evil." The only debate on this issue is what nation represents the greater evil. So, at best, the war will be "the lesser evil versus the greater evil," or a war between quislings.
Evil is alive and well in the world and liberty will not be restored until after Armageddon.
"And he will certainly render judgment among many peoples, and set matters straight respecting many nations far away. And they will have to beat their swords into plow shares and their spears into pruning shears. They will not lift up sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore." Micah 4: 3
Yours in Liberty
Adrian C. Banks