One American's Apology to the World
There is much that is wonderful about the United States.
But we, too, have a dark side that we are not facing.
I am not a scholar, historian or investigative reporter.
There is much I do not know of what the United States has done.
But I feel great shame for many things I do know.
There is little I can do as an individual, but I would like to do what I can.
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I apologize to the earth for all the poisons.
I apologize to the oceans for wanting to kill the love and light of the exquisite marine mammal beings.
I apologize to the air for the pollution, the chem trails.
I apologize to the heavens for the weapons in space.
I apologize that we in America consume the majority of the world's resources.
I apologize for our role in creating the global, usury-based, credit-driven, debt-servitude economy.
I apologize for our arrogance, our selfishness, our small-mindedness and our overbearing sense of entitlement.
I apologize for the concept and practice of planned obsolescence.
I apologize for the FDA, which is so much protectionism for corporate greed, just another hypocritical American lie.
I apologize to the Native Americans for our forefathers' acts of genocide.
I apologize to the Nation of Hawai'i for the holocaust of your people.
I apologize to Mexico for taking your land.
I apologize to Salvador Allende and the people of Chile for murder and for destroying your fledgling democracy.
I apologize to Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Greece, Iran and all the countries of the world
that we have raped and pillaged.
I apologize to Cuba for the Bay of Pigs and for despising your self-chosen form of government.
I apologize to American Samoa for polluting your happy culture.
I apologize to Africa and Black America for 300 years of slavery.
I apologize to South Africa for turning Nelson Mandela over to the apartheid regime.
I apologize to our hostages if we purposely botched Carter's rescue mission to help elect Reagan.
I apologize to the hostages we now hold and torture in violation of the Geneva Conventions.
I apologize to the people of Islam for making you an enemy.
I apologize to Vietnam for invading your country in the name of freedom.
I apologize to Korea for splitting you asunder.
I apologize to Japan for two bombs and so many deaths that were not really necessary.
I apologize to the nations that were Yugoslavia for God knows what we did or did not do there.
I apologize to Iraq for making our lust for global domination, your oil and a family vendetta the excuses for invading
your country, and to Saddam Hussein for putting you in power, arming you, pretending to acquiesce
to your plans to invade Kuwait and then acting like we didn't.
I apologize to our armed forces, Iraq, God and the earth for the abomination of our depleted uranium weapons.
I apologize to Saudi Arabia for railroading you into allowing our armed forces to occupy your country.
I apologize to Osama bin Laden for training you to be a terrorist and then making you the scapegoat.
I apologize to the people of Israel for backing you no matter what horrendous thing you do.
I apologize to Afghanistan for taking your government and then allowing things to fall into chaos.
I apologize for all the corruption, bigotry, cover-ups and lies in our Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Systems,
our corridors of power, our Supreme Court and our hearts.
I apologize to all those falsely arrested, incarcerated and executed and to all those brutalized by our system.
I apologize for letting courage, democracy, integrity and our free press nearly slip through our hands.
I apologize for letting the Office of the Presidency, in actuality, slip through our hands.
I apologize that when the US Presidency was so obviously stolen from the hands of the people, we
could not muster one Senator of true courage and integrity to stand up and say it so.
I apologize for all the lies and duplicity behind our foreign and domestic policies.
I apologize for being so blind, so naive, so easily duped, so ready to abdicate and abuse power
and so very afraid of death, truth, higher integrity and owning our own misdeeds and shadow.
I apologize that we must murder the few true statesmen we do bring forth.
I apologize for placing "security" above truth and integrity.
I apologize for our apathy and immaturity.
I apologize for all I omit due to my own lack of
knowledge, insight and truthful information.
I apologize for having become the bad guys.
And if we purposefully infested our ghettoes with drugs in order to arrest our people for using them,
I apologize to our minorities and the underprivileged who would be hard put to just say no.
And if corrupt, criminal elements in the FBI falsely arrested and imprisoned Leonard Peltier,
I apologize, again, to the First Nations, for that and for the Reign of Terror.
Perhaps, in Leonard, we have a Nelson Mandela in the making.
And if, as many believe, 9/11 was an inside job, I apologize for creating
and using it to advance the agenda of a polluted sector of our society.
And if, as millions of people in the world believe, American expertise
was involved in the purposeful development and deployment of the AIDS virus,
I kneel before God and the world and beg for forgiveness.
And if, as I believe, Paul Wellstone, John Kennedy, Jr. and Mel Carnahan
were murdered, as were JFK, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King,
I apologize to God, the Earth and all people for willfully destroying and
striking fear into the hearts of those who would be benevolent
and place the good of the people above the pockets
of wealth, control and power.
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It is wrong to start a war. It is doubly wrong to cook up a lie as an excuse to start a war.
It is wrong to covertly mastermind the assassination of a freely elected president
because we don't like his politics. It is wrong to install a corrupt dictator
because we want a strategic or resource advantage in his country.
It is wrong to use one's brother and his cronies to steal a
presidential election. It is wrong to use a national
disaster, perhaps even to mastermind or aid and
abet a national disaster, as an excuse to
undermine our freedoms
and constitution.
Each wrong thing we do shatters the soul of our nation
and tears the fabric of our integrity.
Each truth we speak, each wrongdoing we uncover,
gives us the opportunity to heal anew.
It truly is only the truth that will set us free.
I apologize for all of America's wrongdoing.
I invite all benevolent souls to join
with me in The Council of Peace.
Peace, love, thanks and blessings,
Mark L. Landau
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