Written by Leonard R. Jaffee   

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Leonard R. Jaffee
Professor of Law Emeritus
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If you have read the serious articles (not my comic essays) I have published here at RSN & comments I have posted concerning the RSN articles of others, you may have felt my articles are rather conservative — not politically conservative, but very cautious, circumspect, and detail-focused. See, E.G.,
* http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/78-78/24423-how-not-to-overturn-citizens-united
* http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/256-justice/18081-bradley-manning-a-edward-snowden-have-they-wistleblower-defense

You may have sensed that (as is true) I do not hold any general political position or orientation (Liberal, Libertarian, Progressive, or Conservative) but react to the minute particulars of specific narrow issues. Again see, E.G.,
* http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/78-78/24423-how-not-to-overturn-citizens-united
* http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/256-justice/18081-bradley-manning-a-edward-snowden-have-they-wistleblower-defense

Very recently, I posted a comment that included this text:

[Begin quote]

"True: The government is big business controlled by big business. But the government & big-business are impregnably redoubtable. Merely can we beg wee concessions, rendered to pacify us.

"Jefferson said The People bear a right of waging armed revolution when government fails to serve The People. But now Jefferson's perspective invites ridicule. The People could not battle the U.S. military or the cruel psychopathy of our "Leaders."

"Except Washington, Madison, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Jimmy Carter, all our Presidents have been arch criminals. Our political party system precludes revolution of reason & non-violence. The Democrat & Republican Parties are essentially the same - their disagreements scripts of comic operas.

"In my youth, I "marched on Washington," saved many from being drafted into the Vietnam War, fought hard legal fights for liberty & justice. Just 7 years ago, I tried to help The People get Cheney impeached. See usalone.com/jaffee_on_impeachment2.htm

"Now, 73 & finally grown up, I'll feel blessed if my final years pass without government trespass."

[End quote.]

* Quoted from my one of my comments posted at http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/31-31/24815-the-treason-of-the-us-supreme-court

In some of my RSN comments, I labeled Israel a terrorist state — a state established, sustained, and expanded with terrorism — terrorism designed to make all of Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank a purely Jewish territory.

If Palestinians have wrought "terrorism" against Israel, the direct cause is the frequent & immensely worse terrorism Zionists visited upon Palestinians from 1945 until now — to eject Palestinians from the south Levant, to establish the state of Israel, to occupy territory legally remaining Palestinian after (corruptly) the UN carved Zionist Israel from long-time Palestinian land, land not Jewish-held or even bearing substantial Jewish numbers since the Rome-forced Jewish diaspora of 135 AD.

In a New York Times forum open during Israel's 2006 slaughter of about 1,190 Lebanese & injury of about 4,400 [see, E.G., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_2006_Lebanon_War#Casualties_of_involved_parties ] & Israel's destruction of much of Lebanon's infrastructure, I marshaled myriad historical & current facts to expose the psychopathy of the many Zionists using that forum & the like psychopathy of the New York Times's "news" & editorial pages that whitewashed Israel's terrorism of that illegal campaign.

My forum-postings reduced the forum's Zionist members to trying to assassinate my character (because they could not deny my facts or refute my arguments). Since my surname is Jewish, Zionist forum-members accused me of being a traitor to my kind, like the rather few, but notorious, contemned Jews who assisted the Nazis' realization of the mass-murder "final solution" of the "Jewish problem."

But NEVER have I thought thoughts of any kind of REVOLT — until now. Until a few days ago, I recoiled from the idea.
Again see my above-quoted comment posted at http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/31-31/24815-the-treason-of-the-us-supreme-court )].

Yesterday, Israel bombed a UN school in which 3,300 Gazans huddled hoping to evade Israel's bombing, which forced those 3,300 to seek shelter there.
*http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28558433
*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/30/gaza-market-strike_n_5634084.html
*http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/30/us-mideast-gaza-idUSKBN0FV04A20140730

[That was Israel's second deadly bombing of a UN school. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28558433 ]

Knowing its massive terrorism had pressed more than 3,000 Gazans into the UN School & having been told so 17 times by the UN, Israel bombed the building & killed about a score & injured many more.
*http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28558433
*http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2710397/15-Palestinians-killed-90-injured-Israeli-tank-shell-attack-UN-school-used-refugee-shelter.html
*http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/30/us-mideast-gaza-idUSKBN0FV04A20140730
*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/30/gaza-market-strike_n_5634084.html
*http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/israel-presses-attack-16-killed-at-un-school/2014/07/30/4a643588-17a5-11e4-85b6-c1451e622637_story.html

One must deduce either that Israel designed the bombing as a terrorist act, an act intended to kill & maim children & innocent adult civilians or that Israel bombed the school with reckless & contemning disregard of the certain bloody consequences.

Israel accomplished another, like horror yesterday — by bombing a crowded Gazan market & killing & injuring more than it did at the school.
*http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2710397/15-Palestinians-killed-90-injured-Israeli-tank-shell-attack-UN-school-used-refugee-shelter.html
*http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28558433
*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/30/gaza-market-strike_n_5634084.html
*http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/30/us-mideast-gaza-idUSKBN0FV04A20140730

In one day, the murdered Palestinian number was greater than 100.
*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/30/gaza-market-strike_n_5634084.html
*http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2710397/15-Palestinians-killed-90-injured-Israeli-tank-shell-attack-UN-school-used-refugee-shelter.html

Israel's current terror-campaign has killed more than 1350 Gazans, mostly CHILDREN & adult CIVILIANS.
See, E.G.,
*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/30/gaza-market-strike_n_5634084.html
*http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2710397/15-Palestinians-killed-90-injured-Israeli-tank-shell-attack-UN-school-used-refugee-shelter.html
*http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/30/us-mideast-gaza-idUSKBN0FV04A20140730
*http://online.wsj.com/articles/gaza-health-ministry-explosions-at-school-kill-15-1406705906?mod=wsj_india_main

Two days ago, I contacted my two U.S. Senators & asked them whether actually they "consented" (or did not object) to the recent Senate Resolution that asserted, essentially, the Senate's unanimous, unconditional, complete support of everything Israel has done & may do to Gaza's population, infrastructure, housing, water, power, and food supplies — all the cruel violent manifestations of Israel's blatant design of committing genocide against Palestinians (now Gaza's, eventually the West Bank's, perhaps eventually those of the south of Lebanon).

Concerning the language & processing of the Senate Resolution, see, E.G., http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/24973-carte-blanche-for-war-crimes-passes-senate-unanimously

[The House rendered a near-identical Resolution at about the same time. See, E.G.,
http://www.imemc.org/article/68479
OR
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/211977-house-passes-resolution-to-support-israel-in-face-of-rocket-attacks ]

One Senator, Jeff Merkley (Oregon), has not replied.

The other Senator, Ron Wyden (Oregon), responded with a statement that reduces to the proposition that Israel has an absolute right to do all it has done, and may do, in Gaza to — "defend itself" against Hamas rockets.

[This begs repeating here: If Palestinians have wrought "terrorism" against Israel, the direct cause is the frequent & immensely worse terrorism Zionists visited upon Palestinians from 1945 until now — to eject Palestinians from the south Levant, to establish the state of Israel, to occupy territory legally remaining Palestinian after (corruptly) the UN carved Zionist Israel from long-time Palestinian land, land not Jewish-held or even bearing substantial Jewish numbers since the Rome-forced Jewish diaspora of 135 AD (until 1945).]

Apparently every other U.S. Senator holds a position like Ron Wyden's. Every like-positioned Senator is complicit in Israel's massive, escalating genocidal crime.

THAT reality — HORRIBLE reality — more than NSA surveillance, drone attacks, politically-motivated prosecutions lacking due process, secret solitary confinements of individuals denied legal counsel, de facto immunity accorded arch criminal Wall Street CEOs, the many government-sanctioned rapes of our environment &.......&.......& our government's myriad corruptions) — that incomprehensible horrible reality has moved me to utter an entreaty that, until yesterday, would have astonished me, as if it were a flight of some alien mind.

Emotion does not know me. Only do I feel feelings (hunger, thirst, heat, cold, joy, fear, simple love, mindless empathy........), or I think rational thoughts. I can explain my entreaty (below) only as a kindred of bestial rage. [I respect near-all non-human creatures — for their native empathy & pure honesty & absence of guile & incapacity of ecological crime — more than I do the generality of humans.]

My entreaty:

** I urge:

(a) That, respecting every office sought by election this year & forever after, you vote for an apparently empathic third-party or independent candidate not corrupted by big business (except Bernie Sanders, who, though otherwise a decent soul, is a committed Zionist, see, E.G, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders#Early_life_and_education ).

(b) That you never vote Democrat or Republican — this year or ever after.

(c) That you campaign against all Republicans & Democrats.

(d) That by every means available to you, you make clear, publically and widely, your reason of voting & campaigning [see (b) & (c) above] against Democrats & Republicans. **

Such revolt bears risk. Not-unlikely, Democrat-voters would join more than Republican-voters would. So, Republicans might control much of government & take over many judgeships.

But if you join the revolt, others will, too. Eventually, alternative political parties or independents will gain following & power enough to render successful challenges against Republicans & Democrats.

Recall, that in the 1992 presidential election, Ross Perot got 18.9% of the vote and, very likely, killed the first Bush's chance of re-election. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1992

Recall that a Socialist is now an elected member of the City Council of Seattle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kshama_Sawant

Recall that thrice a Socialist was elected mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zeidler

Right now, a socialist (just nominally Democrat) Mayor runs New York City. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_de_Blasio#Early_career

And Bernie Sanders is both an independent & a socialist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders#U.S._Senate

If our registered voter population's empathic, good-spirited members do not act courageously SOON, we will cease having even the mostly-sham "democracy" we have now. Eventually the United States will become economically & geopolitically weaker than nations of the third world.