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Want to stop terrorism? Uphold the American Ideals!!!!
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Welcome to the website of Ali A. Parsa, Ph. D.
TERRORISM AND HOW TO STOP IT
All rights reserved. ISBN 0-9663361-2-7
The so called “War on Terror” and all other futile quagmires that are bankrupting America and the world, are the bitter fruits of cancerous growth of the residual colonial mentality of a minority extremists whose roots can be traced to antiquity. Possessed by ignorance, arrogance and greed, this faction was always opposed to the American Revolution, its Constitution, Bill of Rights and the First Amendment. America's downfall is the direct result of deterioration of the public education that was the founders' prerequisite for understanding, appreciation and preservation of the original American values and the government of the people rather than government of a few. Its primary purpose was to avert the kind of disaster we are in. We can only reverse this situation by admitting that launching a War on Ignorance is our fastest, cheapest and best road map to our homeland security and more lasting global peace and prosperity.
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ROOTS OF TERRORISM
“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”
-Daniel Webster (1762-1852)
Whither America, whither “government of the people”, whither the world?
As a naturalized American citizen I have always been amused as well as surprised that in spite of our sophisticated technology we have yet to form a more lasting government of the people, by and for the people even in America where a government by that name and for that noble purpose was first founded. The succession of governments has always boiled down a small extremists mobilizing the pubic to oust the existing government through various uprisings-usually religious, secular, economical or a combination of these and sooner or later hijack the uprising and make it government of a few, by and for a few and back to square one!
After some two hundred years of experimentation America is abandoning the dream of its founder into nightmare by tiptoeing toward central control and blaming the external factors, mainly international terrorism the very existence of which is directly related to America's misguided foreign policies and upholding the ideals of its founders. This is a direct defiance of wisdom of the America's founders, namely Thomas Jefferson who said, “An empire collapses more from within than from without.” With the average age of empires at about two hundred years, why is America declining after about the same number of years instead of lasting longer and perhaps even forever? Is this failure the fault of the government, the people or both?
To me, the answer is both, but more of the government. Contrary to popular view America's decline did not start during G.W. Bush's reign. It started by the same minority extremists who have been gnawing at its foundation since the inception of the American Revolution and only reaching its peak under Bush,thus bringing America closer to yet another inevitable era of awakening hopefully before it is too late. Infiltration of extremists into the governments and abuse of power is nothing new and the adage “Government is not the solution, it is the problem” was proven in ancient Greek and Rome-long before Ronald Reagan uttered the words. What is new is that once again, even America that once liberated itself from colonial rule could revert to colonial mentality and compromise its ideals.
Let us have a quick glance at the beginning of recorded history and show how a relatively few extremists have abused the executive powers to weaken the resolve of the majority and how they abort the majority's attempt for freedom and how the same extremists continue doing the same thing during our twenty-first century.
Sinohe (pronounced SeeNoHay) was a man who rose from the depth of degradation to become personal physician to the pharaoh Akhnaton. His views of the public in 14th Century B.C. Egypt was the title of the first major historical novel (The Egyptian, listed at amazon.com) published in 1949 by Mika Woltari, widely considered the greatest Finnish writer of 20th Century. In this book Sinohe states: The public is not educable and always prefers to be ignorant and, if educated, always tends to revert to the original state of ignorance! He likened educating the public to dipping a person in water by saying that as that wet person does not stay wet when out of water, the public and education, too, do not stay together long! The irony is that Sinohe considered himself as elite rather than a common man that he originally was and he elevated his own status by clinging to the powerful and then he denigrated the public. The unresolved question is whether his hypothesis was flawed or this is just the nature of imperfect humankind.
We can safely state that almost all rulers had the common denominator of fearing an educated and informed public that could get the upper hand and limit their power and question their authority. Education was valued, but it was for a few trusted elite who would not use their knowledge to pose a threat to the rulers’ absolute power. People were treated as mushrooms-were mostly kept in dark and fed horse manure, as the saying goes! The public was only allowed to master their traditional trades to support the state. Later this system of controlling people was called propaganda machine.
Pecking order, bullying and competition for people's bodies, minds and pocketbooks was the name of the game. Stronger kings robbed the weaker ones in the name of God and the kings' men robbed the people in the name of kings! Slavery was common, and even many "respectable people" were for sale if the price suited their ambition.
People were only given superficial recognition and respect, but were treated as flocks. Like sheep, they were meant to be herded rather than to be heard from. Rulers exterminated their internal and external opposition. In doing this, ends always justified the means. In a relatively recent time this was given a modern name, Machiavellianism-a sort of plagiarism, if you will. It was this fear of government that, deep in their heart, people were reluctant to entrust it with more power than they needed for a specific mission. As an example the Greek city-states did not form a federal government until they felt a strong need to confront the Persians.
There have been numerous theories and counter theories on the feasibility of trusting the masses in governing itself the most extreme of which was Edward Bernay's proposal of irrationality of mass mind and George G. Gallup's partially rational mass. After all struggles for power during the long history of human and more recent ones such as Nazism, Fascism, Communism and many religious movements have produced mixed message about the art of manipulating the public.
The following passage, attributed to Julius Caesar, albeit not verified, summarizes the universal feeling of tyrannical rulers and their potential and unchecked evil tendencies:
"BEWARE THE LEADER WHO BANGS THE DRUMS OF WAR IN ORDER TO WHIP THE CITIZENRY INTO A PATRIOTIC FEVER, FOR PATRIOTISM IS INDEED A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD. IT BOTH EMBOLDENS THE BLOOD, JUST AS IT NARROWS THE MIND. AND WHEN DRUMS OF WAR HAVE REACHED A FEVER PITCH AND THE BLOOD BOILS WITH HATE AND THE MIND HAS CLOSED, THE LEADER WILL HAVE NO NEED IN SEIZING THE RIGHTS OF THE CITIZENRY. RATHER, THE CITIZENRY, INFUSED WITH FEAR AND BLINDED BY PATRIOTISM, WILL OFFER UP ALL THEIR RIGHTS UNTO THE LEADER AND GLADLY SO."
This website is meant to briefly review the unfinished journey of human beings and the reasons behind the failure of the public to be in charge of its own destiny rather than being terrorized by its own rulers. It will be done in five sections, namely: Roots of Terrorism, Defeat of Terrorism, Return of Terrorism, How to Really Stop Terrorism and finally, Over all Summary. Each page will also have a summary.
Page summary- Contrary to what we are told, terrorism is nothing new in the history of the world. It has been struggle for power between the rulers and the ruled. Most importantly, it is not conspiracy of the world against America or at least enough to justify America's paranoid and self-destruction.
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