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

"Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely"

- By Bahram Maskanian - May ­ 13 ­ 2003

Terrorism is a last alternative and desperate act to seek equality, justice and revenge. Terrorism is what used to be called resistance. Terrorists are what used to be called freedom fighters, depending on which side of the equation you are on. Terrorism is not going to go away.

Imagine your next-door neighbor comes over to your house, at first with a couple of friends, in a friendly fashion with the excuse of wanting to know you better. They end up staying over your place overnight. The next day, two or three more friends would join them at your place. Before you know it, they are running your house, raping and abusing your family and anything you do has to be done with their permission. They form an internal government in your house. They pass laws, rules and regulations under which you have to conduct your daily life. The sole purpose of this occupation is because you have a nice garden with an abundance of fruits and vegetables, which your neighbors need and want and are not willing to find a way to provide for them selves. So they just take yours.

We are living on a tiny little planet all together as neighbors. We must learn to respect each other’s boundaries and live our lives based on, “do to others, what you wish to be done to you”.

What would you like to be called when you have this undying desire to rise against this brutal invasion of your home, wanting to regain your dignity and protect your family?

I don’t want to get into the politics of almost over one hundred (100) years of injustice and the root cause for terrorism. There are a variety of non-fiction books that one can read. I list a few below.

To understand the unjust treatment, meddling in political and economic affairs of other people and committing of genocide of millions since early 1900’s by Europeans and Americans in search of free energy and territorial expansion, one must imagine the occupation of one’s own home or town as the above example illustrates. One must put oneself in the position of desperate hopelessness and helplessness of these people to realize how far they are willing to go to free themselves one way or the other. Either they would die trying or they would succeed to get rid of the occupying forces.

Occupying forces does not necessarily mean troops from other nations, wearing uniforms of others. Occupying forces are specially trained and brainwashed men, blinded with greed and power, under the command of so-called military advisors from other nations. These men are supported and equipped by foreign governments and corporations to keep the flame of fear, divisiveness and war lit in the hearts of people.

Thus the simple solution becomes evident, which is and has always been not to go to war, but to simply stop supporting installed brutal murderous dictators. We must prevent greedy corrupt businesses and government entities from getting involved and supporting such dictators in any form or shape.

What used to be the spirit of a freedom fighter, fighting for justice, freedom, equality, and democracy for all, was transformed into a ruthless criminal activity. The very same European and American weapon manufacturers and war mongers have industrialized and privatized freedom fighting activities, “resistance”, into a criminal activity which they tightly control and unleash at a moment’s notice to scare the hell out of people.

One may wonder how that would be possible? The first element would the replacement of the resistance’s ideology. The second component is to concoct a phony revolution and install a killer, a brutal dictator, just like the Mafia’s rules of operation and engagement. This dictator would, under the boss’s orders and banner of freedom, religion and national security, accuse the true resistance of treason and indiscriminately kill and imprison all the people who disagree with the government’s corrupt principles.

The third ingredient is Brain Drainage, which means to create a hostile environment within society making it nearly impossible for young minds to get a decent objective education. Naturally and consequently, these young minds would flee their birthplace and go to one of the European countries or the United States to acquire their education. After which, they would then join forces with other exiled brilliant minds who have done the exact same thing. Forming the most brilliant, productive and creative work force for Americans and Europeans while their own country suffers enormously from lack of knowledgeable, responsible engineers and scientists to deliver basic humanitarian services such as clean water, soil, air, electricity, medical services and more, for their own people to have a dignified life.

This idea of Brain Drainage is not limited to engineers and scientists. It also includes poets, teachers, philosophers, musicians, historians, scholars and in general, progressive thinkers. In the absence of these brilliant minds and with the help of brutal dictators installed by the foreign criminal forces, no nation has a chance of regaining their freedom, human rights and dignity unless this truth is told to the average people, people who vote for the formation of such governments, in the street of Europe and the United States. This the job for them first to stop supporting their government and demand fair and honorable treatment of all people all over the world, regardless of natural resources, wealth and geographic location. We must learn to protect and clean up our tiny little planet, from brutality all the way down to pollution.

If you do agree with the basic understandings and logic of what was said, please consider joining forces with us. The philosophy and goal of Earth’s Common Sense Think Tank is to bring people together and offer dignified honorable policies for peaceful resistance leading to non-violent political transformation, thus establishing democratic government institutions.

Informative factual books to read:

1- All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup And The Roots of Middle East Terror
- By Stephen Kinzer

1 - Hostage to Khomeini
- By Robert Dreyfuss

1 - Leaving Islam
- By Ibn Warraq - Collection of essays by former Muslims from various countries

1 - New Age Racism
- By Elaine Brown

1 - War Against the Weak
- By Edwin Black

1 - Black Box Voting: A Tool To Improve Elections Or Rig Elections?
- By Bev Harris

1 - Why I Am Not a Muslim
2 - What the Koran Really Says
- By Ibn Warraq

1 - Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
2 - Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
- By Dr. Vandana ShivaA

1 - The Power of Nonviolence : Writings by Advocates of Peace
2 - People's History of the United States : 1492-Present
- By Howard Zinn

1 - American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
- By Kevin Phillips

1 - Dreaming War: Blood For Oil and The Cheney-Bush Junta
2 - Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
- By Gore Vidal

1 - Hegemony On Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance
2 - 9/11
- By Noam Chomsky

1 - Bush in Babylon: Recolonizing Iraq
- By Tariq Ali

1 - Stupid White Man
2 - Dude, Where’s My Country?
- By Michael Moore

1 - Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market.
2 - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.
- By Eric Schlosser

1 - The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
- By Greg Palast

1 - The Man Who Warned America: The Life and Death of John O'Neill, the F.B.I's Embattled Counter - Terrorism Warrior
- By Murray Weiss

1 - 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI -- The Untold Story
- By Peter Lance

1 - Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K.
- By Barr McClellan

1 - Body of secrets
– By James Bamford

1 - The Trouble with Islam: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith
- By Irshad Manji