The First Charter of Human Rights, By The Persian Emperor
Kourosh The Great Over 2700 Years Ago

"Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely"

An Open Letter To The People of The World

- By Bahram Maskanian - February 19, 2004

To really understand what makes a person into a terrorist who would gladly strap a bomb on his or her body with no regard to their own lives, go into crowded places and blow up people they don‘t even know who have done nothing to them, one must realize the quality and value of life of these individuals.

Imagine all you have to do all day is to think how to take revenge. Imagine all you do with your friends and family all day, with nothing to do but sit in a corner of a mosque while being preached to by a very well paid mullah, telling you how glorified life could be in the promised heaven once you are dead. Or imagine there are neither employment to be had nor college to take part in and one ends up with others and friends in the same situation at the neighborhood teahouse watching on the television the lifestyle of the rich and the shameless in European or American societies. Imagine hanging about and around in a miserable dwelling with no electricity, running water with little or no food, thinking of how to take revenge and stop the Europeans and Americans from dominating and destroying your life.

The value of life for those of us who live in European or American societies is as different as night and day from those who are living in absolute poverty shackled by us, the Europeans and Americans to a tyrannical dictatorial rule and under constant harassment with no hope for a better tomorrow.

Regardless of one’s living conditions, nationality and geographical location, we all possess the universal desire to be free.

The internal drive for freedom combined with the lack of conducive, social, economic and political environment is the first element that can cause one to turn against other human beings.

In any kind of activity, human nature always strives to progress and do better. This is why we have had such success in developing a variety of different activities and sports. It is human nature to push oneself to do better than the next one. This is an addictive temptation. While it is good to be modestly competitive it would be deadly if one does it all the time. The drive to progress and do better is the second vital element in every human being.

Now let’s take this competitive human nature and apply it on different skills, ambitions and frame of minds. One can simply browse the recent history and begin to see a pattern emerging from the very same human drive, which is to strive to progress and do better.

This internal force in every human being is constantly at work and tempting the majority of us to push ourselves for bigger, better and faster success in life. A terrorist is no different. In fact there is more hype and glory for such individuals calling themselves freedom fighters, whereas we call them terrorists.

Take Islamic fundamentalist terrorists for example. A terrorist emerges when the first elements or internal drives, the search for freedom and the drive for progress are combined with the brainwash of the religious fundamentalist recruiters who willingly tempt the thousand of desperados who have nothing to live for and have absolutely no prospects in life. They are promised a third fundamental element, glory and eternal life by pleasing God and going to heaven. No fear of death. How do you stop that? If someone comes at you with no fear of losing his or her own life, how do you stop that?

I read the nonsense told to the suicide bombers/fundamentalist terrorists. Obviously a ludicrous lie, which states the following, "You are going to be a Martyr (One who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles) and drink milk and honey with Mohammad in heaven, have endless beautiful women and eternal life. You will become one of God's chosen men."

The so called soon to be Martyrs are told and promised of such glorious heaven, which they are destined to provided, of course, if they carry out the most barbaric and unholy act of all, which is expected of them in return for the promised rewards. Why is it that none of these brainwashed Martyrs have ever asked their mullah recruiters, "WHY AREN'T YOU IN LINE FOR PERFORMING THIS HOLY ACT YOURSELF, IF THE REWARD IS SO GLORIOUS AND GREAT???"

The temptation of glory and eternal life in the promised heaven results in the fearlessness of one’s consequences of action. Mullahs in Iran went even as far as actually handing over a plastic key to the “martyrs” who are still being trained in Iran, to be hung around their neck and were told that it was the key to the gates of heaven!

Take for example, the first attempt to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993. The terrorists didn’t risk their lives. They left a van full of over 1 ton of explosives in a parking garage beneath and in between the two towers in the hope of bringing both of them down with a big explosion. They ran for their lives. Obviously they had killed 10 people and injured thousands causing a big hole of a few hundred feet in diameter in the World Trade Center, but in the terrorists’ eyes it did not count as a successful attempt to capture the world’s attention.

Ever since, the terrorists gradually became more and more aggressive as they realized the grievances and messages were not getting the public’s attention. On the morning of September 11th, 2001 the terrorists attempted again with better planning and a better brainwashed and trained team of individuals. This time they did not count on one source of explosion. Each one of the airplanes colliding into the World Trade Center towers had in the neighborhood of 20-30 tons of jet fuel in its belly. Terrorists hijacked these particular planes, which were destined for long distance flights between east coast and west coast directions, knowing that the fuel tanks would be full or near full capacities.

On 9/11 there were no plans for escape and the one and only goal pursued was to completely obliterate the World Trade Center and kill as many people as possible creating one of the most horrifying and deadly terrorist attacks in recent history. In this scenario of attack, unlike the first attempt in 1993, the terrorists gladly took control of the planes and collided into the World Trade Center, destroying thousands of lives including their own to make a point.

Unlike what we were told by the useless corporate media and corrupt politicians all over the world, the point of this attack was not that the terrorists were jealous of our lifestyles or freedoms or democracies. The point of this attack was to disrupt our lives and give us a taste of our own medicine, which is a daily occurrence in many parts of the world today.

Now let’s imagine for a moment what would be the next big step for terrorists to get our attention to stop our imperialist foreign policy toward the rest of the world. What could make us all forget about luxury items in life, expensive trips, big homes or big cars?

The ultimate attention grabber is going to be the Nuclear Annihilation of one or more of the major European or American cities, many of them at the same time. The crooked Pakistani nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, who confessed a few weeks ago that he had sold nuclear secrets and equipment to Mullahs in Iran, North Korea and Libya through the black market, made it possible for the terrorist mullahs in Iran to gain control of Nuclear weapons.

"Iran Hosting Global Terrorist Conference" Reported:
"Just as the U.S. State Department approves wider contact with Iran and as members of Congress begin planning the first official trips in 25 years, Tehran is sponsoring a 10-day conference of major terrorist organizations beginning in February 25, 2004. The purpose of the conference is to discuss anti-U.S. strategy. Among the groups headed to Iran to participate are: Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and al-Qaida allies Ansar Al Islam. The conference, dubbed 'Ten Days of Dawn,' is ordered by Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and marks Iran's investment in sponsoring Islamic insurgency groups in the Middle East, Asia and South America."

Now the question is how can we stop mullah's terrorists? First of all, if you are of a mindset that Department of Homeland Insecurity is going to protect you, you are a fool. If the decision is made and things are set in motion to achieve such horrible goals by fundamentalist terrorists, there is nothing we can do about it.

However, the good news is, we are still here, World War III has not begun yet, and we still have a chance to set things right, stop supporting brutal terrorist mullahs in Iran, Iraq and Arabia.

To achieve this goal would be the easiest and the best accomplishment of the human race. Whoever is reading this text, a lucky free person, or a person subjected to a brutal tyrannical dictatorship rule installed by Europeans and Americans or somewhere in between, must realize that there is only one way to live your life in a relatively safe and harmonious environment, and that is to live and let live!

All publicly held European and American companies, over 400 of them, who are actively supporting and doing business with the most dangerous terrorists of all, the mullahs of Islamic Republic of Iran, need to stop this cooperation and interaction. First and foremost they must end their dealings with the Islamic Republic of Mullahs in Iran.

Secondly, all European and American government agencies must wake up and support those who are truly in pursuit of democratic change and peaceful coexistence with other nations and people.

So in reality, we need to understand ourselves better and stop blaming everybody else with what’s wrong with human nature. We need to take responsibility for our own actions and consequential reactions by others.

All of these corporate media and corporate business people and politicians in their pockets need constant badgering and pushing in the form of mass demonstrations, letters, phone calls and e-mails

We must boycott these corporate media and corporate business people, and stop purchasing their products and services. We must boycott voting at the shareholder meetings and boycott voting for corrupt politicians at Local, State and Federal elections.

We have to push them until it hurts, or kiss thousands of years of progress goodbye and destroy the only home we have got!!!