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I will grant that no matter who controls the International Criminal Court, he or they may have carte blanche to exercise lethal force. I was just perusing a new book entitled "Hiroshima". The author (from Stanford) seems to give a fair hearing to the position that the U. S. dropping the A-bomb was immoral. I have firmly decided to support the American action. The one argument that if only we had let the Japanese keep the empire, they would have surrendered, and avoided the bomb. I submit that if the Japanese were allowed to keep their empire, they would have quickly remilitarized. I firmly believe that the Shinto religion proved itself to be almost as jihadist as the Muslims, and to have allowed them to keep that paramount symbol of world domination perhaps would have led to a Pacific War II. Some disciple o Jung has written a book entitled "A Terrible Love for War." In it he actually argues that the path to world peace leads through a glorification of war. He quotes on the first page Exodus 15:2: The Lord is a man of war. He rejects Jehovah for Mars. He recounts how he came to reject Christianity: He had a dream of a man on a cross (presumably Jesus), with a spear coming out of his side. Apparently, his god Mars was telling him to reject Christianity. As I refledted on Ex. 15:2 (I have long been acquainted with it; in fact I once had a record (LP) of Handel's setting it to music), I determined that this is how Jehovah responds to the original warmonger. It surely is the case that man invented war, and not God.

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From Niel Diamond: I am I cried; I am said I. And no one heard at all, not even the chair. Update on Ivan Davidson, the NYPD officer who refused to take a breath test to determine whether he was drunk when he fired at some criminal with a powerful gun: Yesterday's NYPost ran a cartoon with Batman sitting at one end of the bar and "Davidson" sitting at the other. Batman says to the bartender: I want what he has. As I reported this to my drinking buddies this morning (@McD's), my laughter turned to anger (some might even say rage, although I would not so characterize my sentiment). I shouted: Criminals of the world unite: Shoot Ivan Davidson!

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On another topic: I found a book at the Public Library entitled "Amnesty Denied" by a Georgetown Law professor. It is the story of a Kenyan immigrant, who tried to gain entrance to the US after he had been brutalized in Kenya for a farmer's protest. The end of his story is that he is given ordinary immigrant status after he marries. His wife graduated from Georgetown Law; he is still working on a Georgetown Law degree, and, I think he has an academic position somewhere. I have not read much of the story, but I am unconvinced that our system of granting asylum would be improved by his thoughts. It is perhaps a little ironic that a refugee is denied asylum, apparently because he travelled back to his home country for funerals and similar family business, but gains permanent status, again apparently because he finds a wife that already has it. This book gives the second reference to me of the real ID of 1995. I was recently introduced to it through the magazine "Republic". I certainly have the same concern about privacy that the "Republicans" have, although I can not support the sentiment of "I want to do business with you, but I don't want to reveal who I am." In fact, the concern for complete privacy (actually secrecy) of income seems to be somewhat irrational. It is a fact that none of our incomes is a secret, at least not a complete secret. Anyone who reports his income to the IRS reveals that secret to some beauracrat at the IRS, that is, some nameless eyes see what your income is. The only way to keep your income a secret is to not file an income tax return. Even then, someone may be able to trace all your sources of income without you knowing it. Local Republican activist Doug Guetzloe had a court order the release of all his bank records to the State Attorney, who then let the Orlando Sentinel photocopy them. This indicates that none of us has much control over our own privacy, unless you argue: just don't do anything to anger the State Attorney.

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Is it me or does anyone else find it ironic that our government knows exactly how many of our troops have been killed or wounded, but can't seem to come up with accurate figures of Iraqi dead and wounded . The American people are in denial. The cold hard truth is, this government made up lies ,invaded a country that never threatened us , hanged their leader , and inflicted over 1,000,000 causualties. War crimes? What else would you call it.