Hi y'all - I agree with the first part of your post - Zimbabwe is next. As for the second - I disagree. "In every instance where the details of a suicide are carefully and meticulously examined it is directly caused by the wrong doing of another or others. There are no suicides"
Not so. I have the right to die when I choose. I am not required to divulge reasons. There maybe none. I may just have had enough and I'm tired. It will be my decision. In the Madoff case - he bears some guilt for the suicide of others. On Dec 26, 3:51 pm, Morpheal <[email protected]> wrote: > GUINEA’S JUNTA AS AN EXAMPLE OF CIVILIZATION’S FAILINGS: > > There has been some debate as to whether the world community should > “talk” to Guinea’s junta, after its successful coup, taking over the > government of that nation. It is a strange debate. > > We must keep in mind that what makes it a strange debate is that there > is no proper and legal mechanism to overcome and bring down from power > a truly corrupt and oppressive government. > We do not live in a world where civilization has advanced to the > extent that a people can prepare a case against a government, take it > to a world court, and have the leader or government, removed by the > world community, using legal means. That step in the advance of > civilization might chance to come, someday, but likely not very soon. > There are too many bad leaders and bad governments, which fear that > they too would be removed from power for their actions in regard to > violating their own people’s rights and the rights of other nations. > > Yes, of course, other nations could ask for a removal from power, if a > leader in the community of nations, was overstepping peaceful bounds, > and violating their fundamental rights. An alternative to war. > Alternatives to war, such as the advent of peace keeping are very slow > to come into effect. Millennia of acceptance of a constant condition > of incessant conflict stood firmly in the way of establishing peace > keeping efforts. The next step becomes peace enforcement. The > effective policing of the world community to force peaceful > resolution, by legal means, of sources of conflict. The global village > needs the international policeman, the United Nations soldier, as much > as any village needs its own local police. The alternative is the > potential for violent chaos where those who are simply attempting to > continue their day to day lives, including non combatants, women, > children, and their livelihoods, are all made victims of violence. > That lesson has been learned relatively late in the history of the > human species. That in itself is a warning as to how the species has > learned to so unquestioningly behave. The foundations upon which human > civilization is built are somewhat shoddy, crumbling, and uncertain. > If civilization is to remain standing, the edifice needs a lot of > restorative work, with major changes to the foundation of ideas it is > constructed upon. > > Once we have peace enforcement in place, and nations have to make > their cases against one another by legal means, seeking legal > resolution of their grievances against each other, we begin to build > civilization upon a more solid foundation. Most of the atrocities, the > mass destruction, the violent confrontations, that have filled the > history books, could be averted by legal resolution of differences, > according to universalizable principles that can be shown to be valid > for all. > > As to Guinea, we must remember that only a military coup or a > successful civil uprising can do remove what is considered to be a bad > government or leadership from power. Civil uprisings tend to spill a > lot of blood. Military coups are usually less bloody, and sometimes > they are bloodless. > > Until the world empowers a legal mechanism for removing a leader or > government that is acting wrongfully we must accept the legitimacy of > coups and revolutions, judging them only by their subsequent actions. > We must keep in mind that bad, usually corrupt, leadership or > governments, can hold power while claiming democracy is in force, > without any chance of being voted out by a popular vote. There are too > many mechanisms available to assure continuance in power, by means of > terror, and other corrupt practices, for the mere label of democracy > to be an effective antidote for the poison of corruption. > > THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SUICIDE: > > There is in fact no such thing as “suicide”. That cause of death does > not really exist. As difficult as it might be to comprehend people > never actually simply choose to kill themselves. The label “suicide” > really means only the fact that the murderer or murderers were not > identified and perhaps were unidentifiable. The fact that the > assailants left no actual physical mark upon the corpse does not > lessen their guilt as to the act of murder. The lack of a wound, or > physical evidence of an act of murder, does not repudiate the cause. > In fact psychological and social violence, by others, is often the > direct cause of death. The murderers sometimes take the sadistic > stance of their actions being no more than a big joke, but that > reveals a darker side to the function of humor in society. Humor too > can be used to kill. Unfortunately few really understand the social > and psychological mechanisms involved other than those who have > survived an attempted murder. Most of those are not experts in the > relevant fields of study. Most of their testimony on the subject would > tend to be disregarded. The only difference ascribed to them, compared > to the dead victims, is that they were considered to have been “tough > enough” to withstand their assailants. Well, toughening up society to > withstand murderous assailants that it refuses to recognize as such is > not a very good answer to the problem. It certainly does not make for > a better society. It does make it far more likely that more of the > toughened up will become assailants themselves, and the causes of > further deaths. > > I recall the case of a young married woman, living in Canada and a > recent European immigrant, married to another immigrant of the same > origins. When he decided he no longer wanted to be in the > relationship, and wanted to pursue other personal social interests, he > chose to use his social status in the ethnic group and the local > community where they lived to cut her out socially, and to isolate her > from those who were her friends. She was a kind, empathic, gentle, > woman, devoted and loyal to her marriage. Finding herself thus > socially rejected, essentially isolated, and with the additional > difficulty of some language challenges creating even more of a sense > of isolation, she killed herself. A typical case of murder. The ex > husband who cut her so thoroughly out of all of her social > connections, and completely out of both communities (ethnic and > cultural) where she had any connections with other people and any > chance of any support structures, was never charged with that murder, > and never would be. He was permitted to date and marry another woman, > whom he preferred, and to pursue his own bad habits to excess, without > consequence. Society approved of his continued enjoyments of life, his > continued membership in the social groups he maintained his social > status within, and never chastised him for his wrongs and excesses. To > this day he shows no remorse or recognition of his wrong doing. If > anything the murderer has risen in status in the society in which he > functions. This type of situation is not unusual. > > In another case one person actually was known to have assisted another > to suicide in the hopes of gaining some money and possessions from > that the deceased would leave behind. It was found that despite the > physical illness of the victim being a factor, the method of the > murderer was a consistent and well thought out plan how to lead the > victim to death, and how to attempt profit from that eventuality. > Nevertheless it was done in a manner that there was no physical > evidence such that the murderer could be charged with murder. After > all, psychological manipulation, and intention, as such, are > insufficient to pin the murder rap on the murderer no matter how > leading the actions of the murderer in fact were. The murderer was > clearly somewhat psychopathic and ritualized the guilt into a peculiar > commemorative ritual of the anniversary of the event of death > deliberately taking on and expressing some of the characteristics of > the deceased at the time of the anniversary each year. > > In another instance a person hung themselves, and the entire matter > was considered accidental, even though the situation could never > really occur by pure chance. The real story was a young and > inexperienced person suffering constant erosion of self esteem by > means of a lover’s demeaning, derogatory, comments. That combined with > the tease of having and losing the object of strong emotional > attachment in a culture of strong commitments and high levels of guilt > concerning the formation and maintaining of lasting, rather than short > term, relationships. A personality flaw of the other, but directed > against a vulnerable victim. That and a tendency to torture with > silence in disputes, refusing to enter into meaningful and difference > resolving dialogue, but frustrating communication with long periods of > refusing to communicate. Perhaps that victim ought to have been > toughened up to resist such blatant and thoughtless attacks, but > neither victim nor anyone else associated with the events would have > even thought of that fact prior to the innocent’s murder by the > other’s psychologically violent actions. The perpetrator of the murder > went on to express that some personality flaw in other relationships. > Each involved derogatory and demeaning, often public, behavior in > relation to the other. Each involved an about face, change of mind, > after consummating the relationship and making a commitment. The > pattern repeated at least four or five times. Fortunately none of the > other victims were as vulnerable, and none of the others actually > committed suicide. > > In another case a victim of financial fraud, with a feigned promise of > relationship used as the lure, provided a clear example of how > involved and complicated the attempt to murder the victim of fraud can > actually become. Murder by means of driving the victim to suicide. > Getting rid of the victim of a financial fraud, can often involve the > attempt by the perpetrator and those they are in collusion and > conspiracy with, striving to cause the untimely death of the victim of > fraud. A common way by means of which those practicing fraud tend to > seek to bury the matter. Certainly a method for avoiding having to > return the money, and potentially having to pay other damages in civil > litigation, as well as avoiding probability of criminal charges by the > victim. Of course tangled up in being murdered is not a good situation > for someone who is a victim to be able to formulate and press legal > charges, taking effective action, against the defrauders, who have > become would be murderers. Fighting for one’s existence tends to put > such distant technicalities aside during any battle for survival, > until it is too late to act otherwise on the original matter of having > been cheated out of one’s money. The mechanisms utilized in such > attempted murders, tend to be effective in most instances. So there > are very few survivors and the mechanisms are so complicated that it > is beyond this article to even begin to discuss them, nor is it > appropriate as some things are best not taught and learned, > considering it be a primer in criminality. > > In every instance where the details of a suicide are carefully and > meticulously examined it is directly caused by the wrong doing of > another or others. There are no suicides, but there are many murders, > where people are killed for personal, social, or avaricious reasons, > by means other than direct physical attack. We must, as a society, as > a world community, begin to recognize that fact, that there are no > suicides. None whatsoever. Every instance has a murderer or murderers > involved, and criminology must change its approach to the problem > accordingly. > > We are also seeing a time period when those who give voice to > unpopular and sometimes radical ideas are finding themselves > increasingly disconnected with social, economic, and relationship > opportunities, being cut off from most or all of society, while being > increasingly demeaned in the persistent attempt to erode self esteem > and undermine belief in self by means of isolation and attack on the > psyche. This is particularly true of those who choose to disagree with > American ideology, in various parts of the world. That peculiar trend > is difficult to discern and understand without specialized training, > and so it remains largely unchallenged. In fact it is an increasingly > prevalent condition affecting what are largely American dominated > areas of the world, or areas that America seeks to dominate. It is > simply systemic abuse, and a blatent human rights violation, but > exceedingly difficult to prove and even harder to challenge. Those of > us specially trained in what amounts to psychological warfare and > withstanding of various modalities of brain washing can discern the > “signature” of systemic abuse and its methods. “Signature” means it is > consistent with a specific ideology, and promoting of that ideology. > “Signature” does not imply definite knowledge of the source of the > systemic abuse, but only the nature and intent being consistent with a > system of beliefs and practices. We have to consider that the American > attempt at world order is a murderer and we must allege that it is > using suicide as its modus operendi regardless of who is “pushing” the > ideology as such. We have seen this trend across a span of 20 years, > and it has proven unrrelenting. > > So we must also consider the political factor in suicide statistics. > Where suicide statistics are rising, and are particularly high, in > comparison to averages in other areas and nations, politically > motivated oppression and rampant systemic abuse is to be suspected. > More than merely suspected, it is a certainty. Where individual human > rights are ebbing out, invariably a tidal wave of suicides is rapidly > rising. > > There are also cases where unwelcome minority religious beliefs, > disability, or serious and potentially costly illness, have resulted > in the hard and persistent shove, from behind, as the individual > chances to walk along the edge of the abyss of ending a life. In > effect that push is a being ended, not a self chosen ending of that > life. We must also recognize that that is a persistent factor in the > brutality that often emerges, inclusive of where expertise and > privileged knowledge are involved, as to the thin veneer of what we > call civilization and “human rights”. The right to die is more often > the right to be murdered. The fact that the murderers leave no > physical mark when they kill, and the fact that they are so > manipulatively clever in their methods, does not obviate the fact that > they murder others by social and psychological means. > > Robert Morpheal > > This article may be copied, distributed, reproduced, in any form, by > any means, anywhere by anyone, and in fact anyone is encouraged to do > so. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. 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