In my niaive search for understanding of 'why things are the way they are' in my teens and early twenties, I was corrupted by femin/ISM.
As with Fasc/ISM, Commun?ISM and Rac/ISM, the movement of women in the sixties and seventies which was calling for justice and fair play and equality for all peoples, was predictably hi-jacked and engineered into another 'us vs them' platform of and for conflict.

It makes perfect sense that, unadulterated, fe-males or wo-men would be the best icons in matters pertaining to life and death as they birth all of us. Therefore, it would be logical and reasonable to presume that they would have LIFE and the protection of such, guiding their decisions based on ethics, morals and the fundamental desire to PROTECT LIFE as a prerequisite in any decision regarding state, war, education, nutrition etcetera. This would be the ideal state of affairs in purity. Everyone benefits. In cultures prior to the past 5000 this appears to have been the norm in the successful development of human progress and culture.

Back to the peace movement gulvanised through the likes of Bernadette Devlin in Northern Ireland, it all started out with excellent intentions, this which was labelled 'feminism' but then the womens' movement was diverted and deliberatly coerced. Look at Martin Luther King Jnr. who was a pacifist working for the betterment of all man-kind, focussing through the extreme injustices metred out to black-skinned people.

There is a powerful, elite force 'the hidden hand' who predict, intercept and divert all great movements which would expose them and eliminate them from the dark power they exert, keeping the peoples from freedom and peace.

The powerful upsurge of women uniting in opposition to opportunistic wars was simply diverted. Reminds me of the biblical account of Christ's temptation by the Devil 'all this and more ye shall have if you just bow down and worship me'. Women were led astray by promises of equality, supremacy, equal wages, equal rights, dominance and power. Joke is, the promise was of equal rights to male slaves of the same system whereas I beleive that the original intention of the so-called womens' rights movement was to liberate men and women from this slavery.

Women in Iraq enjoyed better education, freedom and justice prior to the raid to impose 'democracy' (I call it demoncrazy) an ide/ology which is somewhat fictional, as we have rarely experienced it in the Western World by those purporting to uphold or indeed IMPOSE it. Can anyone spot the obvious mis-take?

Why aren't people talking of FREEDOM for without freedom, people will never know peace.

Back to the point. My indoctrination into femin/ISM made me hate men, this male-dominated society, took me far away from the original principles of freedom and into a head-on collision with the men in my life, losing sight that they, too, have been labotomised, castrated and tyrannised into both compliant subserviency of the oligarchs coupled with an unexpressed resentment of such whose only outlet is violence or stupid sports spectatorship.

The women meanwhile, are 'laddettes' getting more drunk, more laid and horribly bitchy and selfish - completely abandoning their life-giving, life-nurturing intelligence.

Meanwhile, those crafty social engineers go undetected and unnoticed as they continue to wreak havoc between male/female, gay/straight, christian/muslim, black/shite, mother/daughter, father/son, human/nature. But they couldn't do this unless we continued to remain blind, deaf and unfeeling.

What does freedom mean to us? Would we rather have peace at the price of creativity, diversity, self-determination, collective responsibility?

I know what it means to me. The freedom to elect or deselect at any time we feel fit, those elected and selected to act in our best interests based on the above principle.

The freedom to learn without indoctrination
The freedom to breathe fresh pure air as given by our Creator
The freedom to eat and grow nutritious, life-enhancing food
The freedom to sleep, travel, live wherever we please
The freedom to print our own money or exchange of goods
The freedom to think our own thoughts and speak our own mind
The freedom to grow and access medicinal plants
The freedom to birth in respect and dignity
The freedom to die as in respect and dignity
The freedom to encourage and support innate, diverse gifts
The freedom to speak our free minds
The freedom to defend our lives

All this with the respect of others' rights of freedom and never to impose our choices on others. Can you concieve of such a World? If you cannot, you will have to face the responsibility of the current state of affairs down here. We have the technology, we have the wisdom, we have the knowledge but do we have the WILL?

Whilst we call for:-
Passive Encouragement Abetting Coercive Extermination?

"Radical Women has kicked off a signature-gathering campaign to pressure the Bush administration and Congress for an immediate end to the occupation, which they feel is fueling the antiwoman climate."

“While the government and media exhaustively cover the combat in Iraq, they mostly ignore the deadly assaults on Iraqi women’s rights..."

The media and the administration have completely ignored the findings of the World Tribunal on Iraq. Apparently, so has the women's group if they are willing to admit that following recommendation number one, the immediate withdrawal of all troops and bases, will solve most of the problem. Why not address the larger issue of our lack of accountability to the world community rather than the special interests of women? With the rate of bodily crime against women in this country and the degradation of the female by so-called sitcoms, talk shows, and reality programs, we are acting like the pot that's calling the kettle black.

"Blue in a Red State"

I went to the website and read the petition. The petition demands the following:

I certainly support an end to violence and the freedom and safety of women. But the I found myself unable to sign this petition due to the secondary ideas and the inflamatory, emotional language. In my opinion the language detracts from what needs to be communicated, the plight of women in Iraq, and from what is being demanded, putting a stop to that plight.

It might be a "racist war" and a "puppet government". And perhaps Bechtel should pay reparations. Why are all of these things included in the petition about the plight of women? Including them requires a would-be signer to agree with these ideas which are secondary to the actual goal of the petition.

And fewer exclamation points would help the president and the congress to focus on the facts and demands being communicated rather than on the emotional content which tends to shut down understanding.

I support the gist of your efforts. I hope you will keep us updated as the petition reaches its audience.