Steroids, Waterboarding, Global Scorching, War: One Root? Posted
Dec 15, 2007  Steroids, Waterboarding, Global Scorching, War:
One Root?  by Rabbi Arthur Waskow  Steroids pump up the muscles
so they can hit harder, throw harder - beat the “enemy” team and
individual record-holders, outdo Babe Ruth. - They bend your
body to your own will, damaging it - even torturing it - in
order to win, to control.  Waterboarding—repeated drownings—and
other forms of torture shatter someone’s else’s body to break
his mind and soul to obey your will.  Global scorching tortures
the earth, chokes the Divine Breathing Spirit of all life —our
atmosphere, our climate— in order to satisfy the unsatisfiable
thirst for oil,  for a dominant economy, for others to obey your
will and bow to your wealth.  Guns on the streets carry out the
will of the corporations we call gangs - because we have defined
as illegal the addictive drugs they push, advertise, market, and
sell as distinguished from the legal lethal addictive drugs of
nicotine,