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Add to this travesty the fact that while you are forcefully separated from the action participants for roughly five days incredible lies are being spread about you to the action participants themselves. Lies such as quoting me as saying; "if you are not with me, you are against me." Where have we heard that before. Lies like I was literally possessed by the devil and had gone completely mad. Lies like my non-profit organization the Universal Kinship Society was not legally valid. Lies like I was taking Human Shield donations and paying off personal parking tickets. Lies like I was nothing more than an ego maniacal lunatic who only did what he did for publicity. Lies like... on and on and on. And shamefully many action participants bought that shite. As I said previously I am still somewhat shocked at their stupidity in this regard. The fact is that none of these people at this point had ever really even talked with me; how could they, I had not a spare moment between interviews and meetings and logistical work such as personally putting the vinyl lettering on the three busses the night before setting off from London, which is why I got no sleep that night. No, all these people needed to know the real me was to come to them via gossip and lies and that was enough for total judgment. Truly pathetic, but something any and all leaders will have to accept as par for the course if they really intend to fight for Truth Justice & Peace in this world. My top priority of passionately calling for a "mass migration to Iraq" immediately changed after Paris to protect the integrity and autonomy of the action which I knew was now being taken over; this change in priority alone is truly tragic. Had my energy not been diverted this way and we all actually worked together in good faith I still honestly believe we could have gotten the numbers we needed to make the coming invasion politically untenable and ultimately stop the mass murder that came to be reality. This is my great disappointment that will always cut deep because I know we could have saved so many more lives. And amazingly the bullshit residue of the Human Shield Soap Opera of Lies is not dead in the minds of some; I was to confirm that on this trip to Iraq. |