Hawaii Observer

Did you notice how newspapers always offer quizzes about issues most people would never ponder while sober? “Do you have too much body hair?” asks one. “Are you a cat person?” inquires another. Safe, bland and boring. How about a quiz with some sizzle: “Are you the devil?”

I bet you thought you would never qualify. Wrong! Unchanged since 3000 years, the decisive criterion for being the Evil Umpire isn’t horns, hoofs, or a fondness to toast people literally. It is a single question: do you support plunder and murder by your leaders? If you do not, you are the Devil, the Shaitan, the Mara, the Unamerican, the Anti-Aryan, the Anti-Semite, the traitor of your country, the Enemy of the Proletariat – pick the devil figure of your favorite ideology. The fact that this would qualify even Jesus, Buddha, Karl Marx or George Washington for devils of their own beliefs yet it remains unchanged reveals the true priority of the genre. Ideology exists to justify crime.

Cheerleading for murder Catholicism (Pope Pius XII): “Hitler’s war against the Jews is a noble enterprise.” Protestantism (Martin Luther): “It is a Christian act and an act of love confidently to kill, rob and pillage the enemy and to do everything that can injure him until he is conquered.” Judaism (Bible): “He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, shall be utterly destroyed..” Islam (Koran): “When ye encounter unbelievers, strike off their heads until ye have made a great slaughter among thems.” Zen (Daiun Harada Roshi): “If ordered to shoot: bang bang. This is the manifestation of the Highest Wisdom. The unity of Zen and war of which I speak extends to the farthest reaches of the holy war.” Buddhism (Kyowa-kai): “In order to establish eternal peace in East Asia… we now have no choice but to exercise the benevolent forcefulness of killing…” Capitalism (Beveridge): God has made Americans the master organizers of the world that we may administer government among savages.” Communism (Stalin): “Our opponents must be ruthlessly smashed and uprooted as the enemies of the working class.” Nazism (Hitler): “In resisting the Jew I am fighting the Lord’s battle.”

How is this possible? Crime may lurk behind the biggest personal fortunes, but where does ideology come into the picture? An ordained priest of two major religions, now a professor in Honolulu explains the connection: “The huge cathedrals and pagodas, the priests’ often comfortable lifestyle rarely if ever came from the pennies of the believers. They came from huge contributions by a few very rich, who in exchange determined what is going to be preached.” The church, a forerunner of today’s corporate media? “One could say that.”

Ideology offers a great insight into a society if you know how to approach it. Most people commit the mistake of studying its tenets. The fact that most every church’s actions run counter to its tenets, that tenets can be (and often are) swapped between embattled beliefs without making any difference shows their unimportance. Christianity picked up pagan fertility rites, Roosevelt’s New Deal Capitalism copied Marxist measures, Communism embraced the fight of good and evil of Zoroastrianism, Democrats and Republicans routinely steal each other’s agenda – tenets are just PR, a.k.a. false advertising. A better approach is to study ideology like murder: who benefited? Which small group filled its pockets using some of other ideology as a justification for crime? History (and the evening news) will make suddenly a lot more sense.

Does giving money to a church with a bird logo ensures prosperity? Ask your ancestors.

A church is a business which collects money for a noble cause while it works against it. You pay at least 50 of these non-delivery services, like the church of truth (the media), the church of justice (the courts), the church of liberty (the government), the church of security (Homeland Security, Ministries of Interior), the church of wealth (the stock market), the church of defense (the Pentagon, Ministries of Defense), the church of luck (casinos), the church of representation (any political party), the church of lovemaking (porn theaters), etc, all of them modeled after the first churches of deity. You can tell you are dealing with a church whenever money guarantees no delivery just a show of moving lips.

The practice began on a cold winter end day in pre-calendar times. Having understood the cycle of the seasons first, a crafty hunter-gatherer announced to his shivering tribe that he can talk the bird god into bringing them a spring (season of prosperity) for a tithe. It was a deal. The first ideology was born by selling the spring (the Brooklyn Bridge hasn’t being built yet). It would be easy to ridicule the tribesmens’ belief that paying a tax to a symbol of a bird will bring any kind of prosperity, but have you checked the logo of the Internal Revenue Service lately? The Federal Reserve’s? Observe the distinguishing marks of a church on them: 1.) the priests who promise something people want (money), 2.) the believers who pay for it, hoping to get it, and 3.) the temples where there’s none.

Temples and ministries show you actually what isn’t there. When Jesus’s spirit went missing (at the bloody unraveling of the Roman Empire, the Crusades, the Inquisition) they built a lot of temples to Jesus’s spirit. When money went missing during the Depression, they built a lot of temples to money. (Federal Reserve banks) When democracy went missing, they started to build a lot of temples to democracy. You’ll find the justice missing at the Ministry of Justice, the defense missing at the Ministry of Defense, and commerce missing at the Ministry of Commerce. In the U.S., these three ministries (“departments”) still sport a bird on their logos. You would put one too if you had no idea what justice, defense or commerce might look like.

When the promised goal fails to materialize and the ideology hits the fan (predominantly due to its own church) who will get the blame? The priests who sold the spring? The criminals who robbed and killed in the name of it? No, it will be honest people like you and me who had the morals to stand up and express our disapproval. For disturbing the profitable racket of our kleptocrats, we’ll be labeled the Enemy of the State, he Enemy of God, the heathen, the anarchist – the Devil. Do you have a toaster? Maybe it’s time to start practicing with it now.

MURDER & PLUNDER: IDEOLOGY IN ACTION
Murder / plunder name	Dates	Est. deaths	The pretext	True aim	Ideology preached in	The author
African Mideast slavery	650-1981	19 million	Civilizing the infidels	Plunder	Legal ruling	Ahmad al-Wansharisi
Crusades	1095-1291	1.5 million	War against the infidels	Plunder	Clermont sermon	Pope Urban II
Mongol conquests	1175-1368	40 million	Mongols are chosen people	Plunder	Precepts	Genghis Khan
Inquisition	1215-1800	50,000	War against heretics	Plunder	Decree of Pope Innocent III	Pope Innocent III
Thug murders in India	1300-1848	8 million	Thugs are chosen people	Plunder	Rituals to Bhowanee	Unknown
Timur Lenk’s wars	1369-1405	17 million	War against pagans	Plunder	Institutions	Timur Lenk
European colonies, Asia, Africa	1415-1956	11 million	Civilizing the infidels	Plunder	Dum Diversas Bull	Pope Nicholas V.
Annihilation of American Indians	1500-on	20 million	War against pagans	Plunder	Decree of Pope Alexander VI	Pope Alexander VI
African American slavery	1550-1860	17 million	Civilizing the infidels	Plunder	Slave Trade Consistent with Principles of Humanity	Thomas Thompson
Manchu conquest of China	1616-1644	25 million	Manchus are chosen people	Plunder	Mandate of Heaven calendar	Adam Schall
Taiping Rebellion	1850-1864	20 million	War against evil	Plunder	Principles of the Heavenly Nature	Hung Hsiu-Chun
USSR	1900-1991	62 million	War against the burgeois	Plunder	Communist Manifesto	Marx, Engels et al.
China – Kuomingtang	1928-1949	10 million	War against the Manchus	Plunder	New Life Movement	Chiang Kai-shek
Nazism	1933-1945	35 million	Germans are chosen people	Plunder	Mein Kampf	Adolf Hitler
Japanese militarism	1936-1945	15 million	Japanese are chosen people	Plunder	The Essence of National Polity	Okawa Shumei
China – Communism	1949-1987	40 million	War against imperialists	Plunder	Mao’s Little Red Book	Mao Zedong
U.S. Iraq wars	1990-on	1.5 million so far	War against America’s enemies	Plunder	Rebuilding America’s Defenses	Perle, Wolfowitz et al.
State wars & genocides	3000BC-on	2115 million	Government is your friend	Plunder	Plato’s Republic, Federalist Papers, media	Plato, Hamilton et al.

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