Got Justice? Closing Reflections 2018!

Fundamental Types of Justice
  • Victor's Justice
    Resistance to victors, occupiers, oppressors, tyrants, is always a crime regardless.
    • Atrocities victors, occupiers, oppressors, tyrants commit are not crimes;
    • atrocities victors and vanquished both commit in common, or when there is stalemate, are glossed over in the name of fairness;
    • atrocities the vanquished commit are crimes.
    • Justice is in hanging the vanquished, occupying their lands, balkanizing their territories, remaking their laws, saddling them with war reparations, creating permanent client-state, stationing victor's troops permanently in the vanquished or occupied territories in the name of peace.
  • Victim's Justice
    Destroy and burn everything in sight.
  • Sovereign's Justice
    Only the King shall wear the crown.
    • “When the King asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: 'the same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.'” --- The City of God against the Pagans, Page 148.
    • “Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” --- George W. Bush Jr., speaking before the United States Congress, 09-21-2001
  • Hinduism's Justice
    None on this earth. Fated. Karma. Rebirth into higher form when good, into lower form when bad.
  • Judaism's Justice
    Eye for an eye. Vengeance.
    • “And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.” --- Exodus 21:23-25 King James Version (KJV)
  • Christianity's Justice
    Turn the other cheek. Forgiveness. Repentance.
    • “38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
    • 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
    • 40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.” --- Matthew 5:38-40 King James Version (KJV)
  • Islam's Justice
    Eye for an eye but do not transgress Allah's limits. Forgiveness. Repentance.
    Fight only the oppressors, cease if they cease, and when they cease, be forgiving and merciful toward them just as you wish Allah to be Forgiving and Merciful towards you; otherwise kill them if they persist, and continue fighting them to your very end.
    • “2:190 Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you but do not transgress. Indeed. Allah does not like transgressors.
    • 2:191 And kill them wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and fitnah is worse than killing. And do not fight them at al-Masjid al- Haram until they fight you there. But if they fight you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers. 2:192 And if they cease, then indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.
    • 2:193 Fight them until there is no [more] fitnah and [until] worship is [acknowledged to be] for Allah. But if they cease, then there is to be no aggression except against the oppressors.
    • 2:194 [Fighting in] the sacred month is for [aggression committed in] the sacred month, and for [all] violations is legal retribution. So whoever has assaulted you, then assault him in the same way that he has assaulted you. And fear Allah and know that Allah is with those who fear Him.
    • 2:195 And spend in the way of Allah and do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands into destruction [by refraining]. And do good; indeed, Allah loves the doers of good.” --- Holy Qur'an, Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:190-195
    • “5:32 Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.
    • 5:33 Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,
    • 5:34 Except for those who return [repenting] before you apprehend them. And know that Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.
    • 5:38 [As for] the thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they committed as a deterrent [punishment] from Allah . And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.
    • 5:39 But whoever repents after his wrongdoing and reforms, indeed, Allah will turn to him in forgiveness. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.” --- Holy Qur'an, Surah Al-Ma'idah, 5:32-34. 5:38-39
  • Got Justice on Earth?
But of course!
The divine prescriptions have obviously failed man. Or, perhaps man has failed them.
Below are some futile reflections on achieving justice on earth given that sovereigns have always existed, and always shall exist. One tyrant can only be replaced by another. One sociopath by another.
So long as man's power exists to make war, to transgress another man's limits, injustice will continue to raise its head regardless of what's written in lofty divine books.
The journey of the descent of man from the tree-top to the ground continues...


Begin Excerpt
When justice comes to pass, as it surely will – how does one administer justice to monumental criminals for their monumental crimes?
What mortal punishment can ever atone for what they have done to the tabula rasa of civilians across the globe? Imprisoning them for 10,000 lifetimes in cages in Guantanamo Bay, continually torturing them stripped naked with dogs biting at their genitals to see who defecates first, tying them up in contorted positions without food and water, or putting them to death 100,000 times repeatedly, is obviously quite impractical if one is to levy on them the Biblical “Thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot” justice from their own books.
There is indeed no adequate punishment possible for monumental crimes – the crimes of conquerors. That only leads one to think that such monumental crimes, even the possibility of such monumental crimes occurring, must be prevented at all cost. That the traditional mantra of War Crimes Tribunal is a red herring, perhaps invented by the same monumental criminals for getting off easy if they are defeated or caught, because no earthly punishment can match their crimes.
Indeed, one can see the hypocrisy with which the Tribunals in Nuremberg and Tokyo were conducted. Just the legal definition of a War Crime was set by the victors to reflect all the “bad things they did that we didn't do” and “all the bad things we did are not war crimes for either side”. Thus the Allied carpet bombing of civilian population centers in Dresden and Tokyo, as well as the dropping of two Atomic bombs on the civilian industrial cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were not classified as war crimes, and neither were the city bombings by the Nazi's all over Europe. President Truman obviously was not tried for war crimes for ordering the deaths of millions of Japanese civilians. But many were hung for breaking treaties and invading Eastern Europe, as well as for the Holocaust, all were declared as war crimes – neither of which the Allies themselves had done.
The Geneva Conventions that have since evolved for the “civilized” conduct of war and protection of Human Rights, does not explicitly state that dropping a Nuclear bomb is a war crime, possessing a weapon of mass destruction like a Nuclear bomb is a war crime, pursuing or adopting an aggressive policy of preemptive nuclear strikes on non-nuclear nations who cannot protect themselves for want of a similar deterrent, is a war crime, or, that war itself, is a war crime.
Thus while My Lai massacre in Vietnam is classified as a war crime, the sustained million ton bombing for a decade of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia with napalm and assorted cocktails of horrible deaths is not called a war crime. It's perpetuators in the name of ideology, American Presidents JFK, LBJ, and Nixon, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (LBJ), and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (Nixon), were never charged with the deaths of dispensable innocent civilians caught in a proxy war between super powers on their soil. What led to Richard Nixon's downfall? Not the million deaths he caused in Vietnam through a deceitful escalation of the war, but that he lied about his role in the bugging of his political opponent's headquarters!
Similarly, the team of President Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ronald Reagan and George Bush, all scot-free from any stains of war crimes in 1979-1988 in Afghanistan on their fine white civilized garments. Nor on the team of President Clinton and Madeleine Albright for the civilian deaths in Iraq in the 1990s under their dutifully maintained economic sanctions.
Wars fought by the West along ideological lines are not war crimes!
There is indeed no major deterrence for them, as victors in those Tribunals of WW II, for once again bombing densely populated cities in Iraq in this 2000's decade, destroying Faluja to rubble, or dropping a million tons of Depleted Uranium bombs each on both Iraq and Afghanistan that will continue to kill civilians mercilessly for generations long after the actual wars of plunder on the 'Grand Chessboard' are over.
And if eventually caught through sheer bad luck for crimes that were actually classified as war crimes, and subsequently endorsed in the Geneva Conventions and Human Rights Conventions – such as torture - they hope to play the same legal games that Augusto Pinochet and Ariel Sharon have been playing to prevent prosecution, and Henry Kissinger has been playing to not even be charged with any war crime.
Which is why the new Attorney General of the United States, Mr. Alberto Gonzalez has argued in his written memos to the White House that these Geneva Conventions on Human Rights for civilized and humane treatment of prisoners are now antiquated, and the United States should not feel compelled to abide by these treaties as it only gets in the way of fighting the “war on terrorism”.
Thus even if these monumental war criminals are eventually busted, they will at best serve out their remaining few years of life sentences in the relative comfort of “suitable” jails as the worst outcome – not in Guantanamo Bay, not stripped naked, not with rods up their assess, not as enemy combatants against humanity who should be brutally tortured day and night to extract all the secrets from the depths of their bowels, following their own Biblical “eye for an eye” notion of justice – neither to exceed nor reduce in punishment.
Indeed, Christians of all stripes will rush to show what it means to bring Jesus to these criminals with “forgive thine enemy” and “turn the other cheek”, but who remain impotent when George Bush brings his own Messianic brand of Christianity to bear: “Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done” with million tonnage of bombs, and brutality that knows no bounds.
The present understanding of “war crimes”, and any ex post facto construction of “war crimes Tribunals” is indeed anemic to say the least. It sets no precedence for prosecution of monumental Criminals (with a capital C) from among the victors of WW II. It presents no deterrence against committing crimes against humanity. Just witness Ariel Sharon – although indicted for war crimes against the Palestinian people in Lebanon for the massacres in Sabra and Shatila camps, and the Israeli Knesset itself held him accountable – yet he now roams as the famous “man of peace” and is committing new monumental crimes against humanity on a daily basis in occupied Palestine. His attack on the city of Jenin in 2003 was only mildly rebuked as he continues to boast: “Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.”
The “war on terrorism” and all its sponsors in the American Govt. – from the President down to the last advisor in his cabinet – all directly responsible for every single civilian and innocent death – and yet remain undeterred by any fear of accountability as they continue to wantonly wage even more horrible death and military occupation on civilian populations.
The people in the American nation, without fear of accountability or remorse, reelected the same war criminals for a second term who now talk of attacking Iran.
There is so little deterrence indeed, that the Neocons can blithely and publicly disclose their PNAC plans, Brzezinski can blithely accept responsibility for the destruction of Afghanistan as “some agitated Moslems”, and subsequently even print his new imperial quest in the book “The Grand Chessboard”, the White House can publicly disclose on its web site the National Security Council strategy of preemptive nuclear strikes on non-nuclear nations in contradiction to its earlier pledges to protect non-nuclear nations from nuclear strikes by anyone including the United States if they signed the NPT and did not seek this nuclear deterrence of their own!
No fear whatsoever.
Not having succeeded in deterring and preventing any barbaric Criminals from executing their monumental Crimes upon humanity once again, a new model for Monumental War Crimes Tribunals must be developed for the benefit of preventing new victims.
It must pack the power punch necessary for real deterrence of monumental war crimes by the next set of potential imperial conquerors in the future, ensure as fair a sense of restitution and compensation to the victims as humanly possible, and implement enormous national and international level retribution and punitive damages on the aggressor nation.
It must make the price for war crimes so high indeed, that nations and their peoples will be forced to rein in their own governments or become bankrupt into slavery for generations in posterity in paying compensations and punitive damages!
Entire nations must be held liable and called to account for creating and supporting these war criminals from among them. All those with “United We Stand” and “We support our troops” stickers on their cars are as much war criminals as the leaders they support.
Excuses like: 'I did not know', 'I was misled for waging a war in self-defense on another's soil because I am stupid and cannot think properly', or 'I reelected Mein Fuehrer President a second time because god talks to him' must not absolve the self proclaimed “naive” and “misled” war-mongering people of their own complicity in the monumental crimes, nor from paying compensation and punitive damages to their victims for generations.
They must pay the due ransom in order to reclaim their innocence only generations later. Such ransom, in trillions of dollars and no less (in 1950's dollars when it actually had some value), to be paid for generations by the culprit nations directly to the victims and their successor generations – for at least 200 years or however long it takes for all lingering effects of the injustices to physically, mentally, socially, and psychologically disappear. If we go by the example of the Jews, perhaps add another zero to that number as the former victims still continue to suffer from the 'victim complex' and continue to lash out to create new victims of their own in Palestine and in the world by being the key 'ubermensch' masterminds behind “imperial mobilization” and “all the evil that follows” its barbaric implementation.
The cleanup, reconstruction, and rehabilitation costs must all be borne by the culprit nations – with the restitution taking precedence over any domestic spendings.
Monumental crimes require monumental punishments. Only then can it deter.
If one is deemed smart enough to be entrusted a weapon to make war, one must also be deemed smart enough to know when not to do it - when the cost for doing so is made monumental!
Such principles as outlined above compel people to hold their leaders accountable – rather than adopt a laissez faire attitude that it does not concern them, or that they do not have control over their government, or there is no choice, or that they will be reviled and interned if they protest too loudly.
The consequence to not protesting efficaciously and allowing the injustices to prevail in their names now incurs a monumental penalty. Antiwar protests are not a career or a fun outing over the weekend with the family. It is a serious life and death struggle – as much a struggle for the people of the aggressor nation as for the ones at the receiving end of the warfare in remote nations!
People must feel compelled to acquire control over their governments and forever remain vigilant to what their government does in their names, in turn holding politicians, institutions, media, and press accountable for presenting a true and accurate picture of what transpires in the corridors of power. For not doing so also has a price associated with it. Living in a democracy is a privilege, as well as a responsibility. With responsibilities also come accountabilities.
It is the peoples job to ensure by any means necessary, by creating new institutions and new laws if necessary, and by abrogating old laws and old institutions when necessary, that the power entrusted to their government by them is only wielded in what the people deem to be in their nation's best interests, and in conformance with international laws for peaceful and equitable co-existence with other nations on the planet, even when these other nations be composed of weaker 'lower order life forms' or aliens from outer space.
Social and political Darwinism by parasitic leaders must extract a monumental penalty from their entire nation! A responsibility for which now ordinary people are held liable, draining essential wealth from their own social spendings and livelihoods to pay for generations in restitution costs.
Or else all pretenses to civilized existence be universally abandoned in favor of “Daarth Vaider Darwinism” – remembering that political pecking order continually evolves and is always supplanted by a new barbarian more vicious than the one it replaces.
Thus motivation towards equitable co-existence, of necessity for self-preservation, is a powerful impetus for heralding genuine non-fiction people powered Democracies (with a capital D) throughout the world, by setting the example first in the United States of America itself.
Such is the justice that shall be genuinely wrought by the innocent victims of this war on terrorism for a real non-fiction “Never Again”, for the benefit of all of mankind.


Begin Excerpt
I often wonder if Jesus really has the power to wash away the sins of mass murderers of humanity who commit these monumental crimes in his name or to bring his arrival sooner? Is there some special exclusion clause that makes these monumental criminals exempt from Divine Justice?
Hmmm, perhaps I am in the wrong religion - my God assures us of Divine Justice - take a misstep in this life and you shall pay in the next. Kill one innocent person and it is akin to having killed entire humanity.
Wow, I dare not commit murder or become a suicide bomber out of sheer desperation while I am Muslim, or else I will have eternal damnation to look forward to.
May be I should become an Evangelical Christian first if I ever get mad enough? Or perhaps a Christian Zionist? Or maybe just a Zionist? For then I will be in the company of George Bush and he will surely save me. Doesn't he walk with the lord and communicate with him directly?
Na, such a hypocrite 'religion', whatever the name, and such a hypocrite 'savior', whatever its name, is not for me!
I just as soon take my chances in Islam where at least the God claims He is the "Most Just". For what other philosophy is there that is so firmly rooted in justice? Which other god has the same emphasis on justice? Perhaps the humanist's god? But they have no god, and with them, justice denied in the world, is justice denied period. But in Islam, there is a promise of fair justice that keeps a victim's hope alive. But I generally tend to be too impatient. Justice meted out elsewhere is also justice denied here - even when there is the firm promise of it in the future - I like to see it administered right here and now, for the victims too are right here and now.
But how is it even possible to punish for 100,000 murders? Rigorous imprisonment for 100,000 lifetimes with dogs snapping at the genitals 24x7 in a small hell hole in Guantanamo Bay seems so inadequate, even if taken straight from the Old Testament Commandment of eye for an eye, for we certainly don't want to exceed in the punishment, eye for an eye is just fine. But the problem is that the butchers of a hundred thousand, or a million, with devastation of entire civilizations, and directly responsible for “all the evil that follow[ed]” from their first aggression, with Depleted Uranium everywhere that will continue killing for untold more generations, the total crime can be in millions of 'human units'. Never mind the collateral 'environmental units'. Which is why I refer to their crimes as monumental. But the cowardly murderers will be dead in a few years, if not right off the bat the first day they see the dogs sniffing at their crotch as they are tied upside down and their heads dunked in their own urine and a rod up their hidden cavities - all the stuff meted out by the imperial soldiers of fortunes to innocent Muslim civilian prisoners arbitrarily held in prison camps dotting the destroyed landscapes of Iraq and Afghanistan in the most inhuman condition imaginable - eye for an eye, punishment from their own books.
How to administer it? For once administered, only then will it deter future monumental crimes. Otherwise what did the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunals ever deter?
Indeed, what earthly punishment can any genuine war crimes tribunal ever implement on a monumental war criminal to affect justice?
These bastards will croak in a day, they are already in their 60s.
How can one subject a monumental war criminal to an explosion of each Daisy Cutter that he authorized dropped, and each missile that he authorized fired, in accordance with the eye for an eye justice?
True eye for an eye justice is infeasible in modern times, isn't it? Which is why shouldn't modernity forcefully deter, and make impossible, monumental crimes before they occur?
Since modernity and its civilized harbingers have continually failed at that endeavor, I guess one would, after all, have to rely on Divine Justice to get real justice now wouldn't one?
I pray every time I remember my God, which these days is not too often any more, to execute His promise of Divine Justice. For it is indeed only such a promise that keeps me a bit sane every time a child falls with a bullet to his head in Palestine and I see another Zionist happy, another wedding party blown to bits and a Neo-con from the Pentagon stating they do not keep track of Iraqi and Afghani civilian casualties. But enough digressing.


Begin Excerpt
Some reflections and musings
In my own mind, I often see myself shouting at the perpetuators of these monumental crimes inflicted upon humanity in the name of “war on terrorism”: 'You are despicable war criminals and I publicly call for your indictments for war crimes against humanity in an open public trial conducted by the victims, as the one held for Eichmann in Jerusalem.' But I cannot imagine what punishment on earth would atone for “Shock and Awe” bombing entire civilizations with depleted uranium bombs, murdering tens of thousands of innocent civilians including defenseless men, women, and children, and depriving many more of their kin, breadwinners, and loved ones. What does 10,000 years of rigorous imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay mean anyway – these guys are already in their 50s, 60s or 70s. Shouldn't punishments match the crimes? Isn't is as unfair to punish a black child who steals chocolates with the 'three-strikes and out for years in jail' law, as it is to ask perpetuators of monumental crimes to simply vacate their posts by the fancy names of “impeachment”? What do you think?
Monumental crimes must deserve monumental punishments.
We know what monumental crimes look like. We have seen them rehearsed not just over the past couple of years, but continually over several millennia of human history. Thus most people, possessing even a modicum of humanity, and an iota of commonsense, must easily recognize monumental crimes. But what is a befitting monumental punishment that can be awarded for these crimes? There can be no adequate atonement and compensation made once monumental crimes have occurred, try as a nation may for generations. Impeachment and getting the criminals out of office is hardly sufficient (though rather necessary if only to hold up the pretense of an advanced civilizations' justice at work). This begets the axiomatic truth that monumental crimes must be prevented from occurring to start with. One cannot wait until the receipts for the ordering of such crimes are found, as the perpetuators seldom leave one behind, and generally maintain the alibis of “plausible deniability”. By the time people wake up to their deeds, the bomber bays have already dropped their payloads.
To stop these handful of misanthropes who command the vast armies of State to indulge in their various ideological fantasies, before they can commence their monumental offenses against humanity, is a responsibility jointly shared by all human kind. But a responsibility more closely shared by the people whose leaders engage in it, especially when they live in a democracy.


Indeed. We may have descended from the tree-top, we have yet to lose our tail.
Only the dead have seen the end of injustice. The living must continue to endure it.
Happy New Year 2019!


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Got Justice? Closing Reflections 2018 by Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org



Pakistan Case Study in National Loss of Ethics

November 21, 2018 | Last updated November 30, 2018
Précis
The academic fraud I had serendipitously uncovered in 2011 is simply momentous in its implications of how a corrupt system itself creates the self-sustaining problem of fraud and deceit in Pakistan's academe. The system automatically creates a state of equilibrium where people are inextricably caught in the very “banality of evil”, rising to the highest levels of mediocrity in the course of natural adjustment to it. Intellectual and ethical corruption is systemic in Pakistan's academia. Those tasked with policing are themselves co-opted and thriving comfortably in the system without ethics, in the society without ethics, in the nation without ethics --- and from which all the rest of the evils naturally follow!
Not having ethics and moral compunction in Pakistan is considered being pragmatist, savvy, street smart and going places; those with any moral compunction simply languish in obscurity and are thought to be plain stupid. A nation of cowards and sycophants living off the public exchequer deserve a lot more... From top to bottom, our national character has become thuggery in virginal dresses and white shirts. Every one of them a scholar and saint!
Is this state of affairs by happenstance alone due to Pakistanis' inexplicable innate mediocrity and poor sense of ethics compared to other nations --- or, is this state of affairs by Machiavellian design? Pakistani society has systematically eaten itself up from within from its once stellar position in the early 1960s through early 1970s when ethical standards and intellectual calibre stood out.
The destruction of Pakistan's higher and lower education systems ever since Pakistan became a nuclear power, has visibly manufactured mainly multi-generational human resource supply-chain fodder, of fanatics, useful idiots, mental midgets and mercenaries as the main bulwark of its intellectual, political, social, economic, and military fronts --- is it merely coincidental that nuclear Pakistan ever since, is also ruled by house niggers always out with a begging bowl, irrespective of the style of government, from military dictatorship to faux democracy?










Pakistan Case Study in National Loss of Ethics 2011-2018 By Zahir Ebrahim





Letter to Climate@MIT : Is Climate Science Religion or Science?

To: The 22 distinguished faculty members of the MIT Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate who wrote a letter to President Trump
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 12:00 pm
From: Zahir Ebrahim, Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Email: humanbeingsfirst@gmail.com
Email: zahir@alum.mit.edu
Dear respected 22 MIT Professors and Scientists of Climate@MIT :
Hello.
You collectively signed a most carefully worded letter to President Donald Trump over a year and half ago (dated March 2, 2017) in which you stated that you did not share the views of your colleague Dr. Lindzen who had previously written a letter (dated February 23, 2017) to the President asking him to withdraw from the UN climate convention, and that in your, and other overwhelming majority of scientists' who have devoted their professional lives to the careful study of climate science, collective view, the risks to the Earth systems associated with increasing levels of carbon dioxide are almost universally agreed by climate scientists to be real ones. [ Lindzen's followup letter to the White House (dated March 09, 2017) ]
I found your short letter particularly careful in its omissions. You carefully chose not to make any observation on your beliefs on the actual cause of this increase in CO2 levels, nor advocate any solutions. In your letter you made it clear that your collective view disagreed with your colleague's call to withdraw from United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Whilst you explicitly raised the alarm on the potential dangers of high levels of CO2, your omissions make it un obvious to me just from reading your letter whether you also believe that the CO2 levels are man-made, and must be regulated down by international programs such as the Carbon Credit scheme, and the UN Agenda 21. In this letter I presume that you do. I invite correction on any misimpressions of which I am sure there may be a few. None are all knowing, including yourselves.
Of course, no sensible person, let alone a science professor at MIT, will think not to first massively plant new trees and replenish Rainforests and jungles on urgent war footings; not to first stop cutting down trees for housing for the Western world that principally uses timber for structures, and not to first stop clearing forests for cattle-feed farming and agriculture, especially in the Amazon basin and the Americas, that has pretty much drained the primary cleansing sink of human generated CO2 in the delicately balanced human-plant natural eco-system of earth.
Also, no sensible person will think not to first cut down on the pollutants created by heavy industries and multinational corporations; and not to first stop discharging pollutants into rivers and streams in the developing nations where regulations are not as strong as in the developed nations, whereby profit-optimizing multinational corporations headquartered in the West, easily get away with cost cutting short cuts of simply dumping many pollutants outside their factories untreated that they can't do in developed nations due to stricter laws and their stricter oversight.
If China is filling the air with industrial pollutants more than the United States today, the bulk of the end products of that pollution are still exported to the United States and Western countries. All the iphones are made in China but the biggest market and beneficiary is in America. The stock of the most valued company on earth, now surpassing one trillion dollars, and headquartered in California, USA, is traded on Wall Street USA. It goes up or down depending on how many iphones will be sold.
So, what sensible person will not think of first enforcing regulations at the parent source commissioning that pollution in China, before the pollution even gets manufactured downstream and is discharged into the environment 7,000 miles away?
What sensible person will not think that first all multinational corporations manufacturing or harvesting in developing nations for their lower labor costs and resource-richness, bear the cost of discharging their environmental pollutants and waste byproducts as if they were manufacturing in the advanced developed nations of the West where they are headquartered, and pay for the cleanup cost for their past sins?
After all, it is the same earth's atmosphere whether it is over China, Bangladesh, or the United States of America.
MIT in its LEES Lab under the directorship of the late Professor James R. Melcher, who was also my 6.013 teacher, had focused on research and development of advanced technological devices that clean up industrial effluents and air pollutants before these are discharged into the oceans and atmospheres, like the electrostatic precipitator, etc.
These high technologies take investment on the part of multinational corporations to develop and deploy even after these have left the research labs years ago, and why should they do that when they are not forced to, due to the weak regulations and special concessions under which they usually operate in poor nations? The burden then has to be carried by the common man in these impoverished nations who must suffer that cost in all its human and national dimensions, while the stock prices of the multinational corporations go up when their profit margins are higher, and the developed nations rejoice in their economic success. That success, of greed and primacy, creates a self-fulfilling prophecy for creating more environmental pollution – why alter the recipe for higher profit margins, and economic hegemony which comes with it, when one is not forced to?
Therefore, which sensible and moral human being concerned about the environment would not address that most significant bit of the matter first, by creating regulations for responsible manufacturing and subjecting all multinational corporations to these standards regardless of where they operate their industries, manufacturing bases, and agricultural farms for global food production, irrespective of whether manufacturing and work is subcontracted to other local corporations or not, and irrespective of what local incentives they might get from tin-pot governments and banana republics who help in the rape and exploitation of their own resource-rich and yet continually impoverished nations as surrogates of the Economic Hit Men who craft these mega deals?
Which sensible intellect will not first institute accountability for this mega corruption and exploitation upon the multinational corporations by the fiat of new regulatory laws that define standards for how multinational corporations must operate anywhere in the world, despite these corporations also being the backbone of the advanced military-industrial complex of the West that lends the Global North its supremacy and primacy over the Global South?
All commonsense and goodness first principles for having a cleaner global environment for all its peoples and future generations regardless of any existential crisis today including global warming, global cooling, climate change, or aliens landing.
But, just as no sensible person would think of living in a police state just because it makes the most stable system of governance and offers the most safety from common criminals, no sensible person will also think to put human beings in growth chains and to enslave mankind to the agendas of the elites in a global police state just to get rid of the high levels of CO2. [ See Footnote ]
Would you agree with these general statements of commonsensical principles?
Who in their right human mind will not agree, except the Übermensch for whom mankind is mere cattle to be herded, culled, and harvested, and therefore, this is only a rhetorical question.
I wonder though, whether you, the distinguished climate focused scientists and narrow-gauged super-specialists at MIT who have devoted your professional lives to the careful study of climate science, are simply unaware of the actual forces driving the solution-spaces in the United Nations based on the alarmist attitude of climate scientists that global warming is man-made?
Are you scholars simply innocent of knowledge of the principal underlying political motivations that is funding your science globally?
These are not classified state secrets.
If you were indeed unaware, and truthfully believed in the nobility of tooth-fairies and their great concern for humanity and the earth's environment, so generously funding your climate science, and you only now become aware of the true dimensions of the impact of your life's work as a consequence of carefully reading this letter and the attached document, what would you do?
These are not rhetorical questions. These beg reflection and some soul searching.
Would you at least attempt to dig deeper into the matter I bring before you at my ordinary lay person's level, to ensure that you understand it at your own greater intellectual capacity such that if you still wish to be a willing part of this political agenda, someday in the future, you cannot, in good conscience, and on record, disclaim the famous oops: “I did not know” or “I was misled by ...”, or the famous mea culpa: “I was only following orders”? I would like to have you on record now. You really can't think the world is made up of only fools and useful idiots, or intellects that are easily bought.
May I take the liberty to remind you, and other scientists reading this letter, of the fate of the Nazi philosopher at Nuremberg. He was hanged. The German scientists who had willingly enabled the Nazi war machine were of course more useful to keep alive than the Nazi philosopher who embellished the Nazi theology of the superiority of the German race, and were instead secretly squirreled over to the United States in Operation Paperclip to reenlist their talents and services for the war machine of the land of the free under new identities.
No moral grounds is the empirical reality of not just state power, but also those brilliant intellectuals whose lives and livelihood depend on the benevolence of the state. It is considered being shrewd and pragmatic to cut any deal. The Nazi rocket scientists were perhaps the most pragmatic scientists the world has ever seen.
Who said this:
“Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department”
It is a shame that Donald Trump did not think of including their example in The Art of Deal. As post President, he may yet do so in its sequel as he is getting first hand experience of uber pragmatism in the international arena. The power of the superstate to corrupt and co-opt is not fairytale.
In the case of United State of America, unlike in the former USSR and Nazi state with their monolithic state control, the American superpower state is reflected not just in the political corridors of power that changes periodically like clockwork, but principally in its vast, mostly privatized, but state supported via contracts and grants, distributed, long-living military-industrial-academe-thinktank-trusts complex.
MIT is an integral and arguably a most important technological part of that global infrastructure and much of its funding comes from it, including the Pentagon, the NIH, and other federal bodies and corporations depending on the priority of the state at any given time.
So, it is not unfair to assert that all who work at MIT work for the military-industrial complex of the state in some capacity, by way their salaries are paid and their research funded. They are funded in their research only if they follow the values, policies, agendas and priorities of the military-industrial complex of the state. Scientists and researchers whose livelihood depends on grants, just naturally know this by how to get their grants approved, and how to get their papers published, and no one need come tell them what the state wants, or strong-arm them with an order as in petty dictatorships.
One can easily tell the priority of the state by what is funded and what isn't, what is published and what isn't, who or what is glorified and who or what is marginalized. One “chooses”, voluntarily, to be part of that privilege of being funded and rewarded when one cares more dearly about career, opportunities for advancement, social standing, accolades that follow, than take unpopular positions and go against the grain when it is clearly career limiting. Having tenure isn't propulsion for scientists dependent upon research grants to advance in their profession.
Today, opportunities for advancement in climate science is in finding scientific justification for global warming aka climate change as being man-made.
I suspect that all such climate researchers are well-funded who make that presupposition their axiom of research. The skeptics are left in want of research grants. In other words, the science of global warming is done, one way or another, and now they are hoping that empirical reality will catch up to their synthetic science!
Who said this:
“If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn't being political, it is being selfish.”
Speak of putting the cart before the horse!!
By the chauvinist attitudes betrayed, it is easy to conclude that establishment's climate scientists are hoping that the world would buy the sheer brilliance of their climate science with their eyes wide shut, because most normal people and governments are obviously not climate research specialists, and the gods of climate research proclaim that their unassailable gospel, which they also declare no one else may comprehend since they are not climate specialists, must still be accepted on faith in the expertise and anointment of the chosen climate scientists.
I have news for the new wannabe gods. That was the way of the Roman Catholic Church in antiquity, and it took an outsider to drive that nail through its front door.
Science has no gods, no popes, no faith based axioms that cannot be challenged and scrutinized repeatedly. Unlike religion, dissent is part and parcel of science, not outside of it.
You scientists have turned climate science into religion by asserting god-like authority of the climate researchers upon a wholly empirical matter, anointing yourselves as its only credible high priests capable of understanding it.
Anyone who dissents with your version of climate science is dismissed as not being qualified to disagree with it. Just take a look at the annotations by the Union of Concerned Scientists on Dr. Lindzen's letter.
Take religion and self-interest out of science.
This means, you don't have exclusivity to thought, knowledge, understanding, wisdom, reasoning skills, and you should stop pretending that you do. It makes a poor impression of your field.
Your blanket rejection of all dissent with your synthetic construction by men of science, including the 300 who signed Dr. Lindzen's petition (I have not seen their names), and more than a 1000 international scientists listed in the U. S. Senate Minority Report 2008 to 2010 (I have read each one's statement), and your claim to validity by appeal to “almost universally agreed” among your own well-funded coterie of insider climate scientists, is not just pathetically arrogant, but also specious.
When the system auto-rejects those who don't a priori accept its core axiom, then those left behind are self-selecting, and automatically agree among themselves.
What is the intellectual worth of such incestuously self-reinforced “universal agreement” in science?
Let alone it commanding the political power to influence the formulation of a draconian global policy prescription based upon such a meaningless “consensus” among a tiny group of overly specialized climate researchers which will directly impact all seven billion human beings on earth!
I might as well be visiting Alice in Wonderland for the absurdities that do not seem to bother the participants at the tea party.
I am troubled by this absurd chauvinist attitude. Primacy and humility obviously can't live together.
Apart from the topic at hand, MIT professors are not just professional scientists, but also professional teachers in the world's most prestigious institution. Kids die to come learn here. And MIT enrolls some of the brightest starry-eyed teenage applicants from the world over. Many of them go on to become leading scientists and scholars. And what kind of future intellectuals shall they make when their own teachers are cheerleaders for conformist thought, prostituting science in the service of a political theology --- and perhaps not realizing that that's what is being taught by the attitudes displayed in one's own profession? No wonder there isn't a Galileo born to funded science.
Who said this:
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual”
Today, the major thesis of establishmentarian climate scientists who have devoted their professional lives to the careful study of climate science, but evidently under the prevailing political axiom that brings funds to their research, is that the crisis is man-made global warming; tomorrow, the thesis may become man-made global cooling; and the day after, something else man-made catastrophe; unless of course the crisis creation is alien invasion or heavenly collision.
And establishment scientists will create the science fantasy to support all of these. Even good science is funded by political goals, just as militarization is funded for political goals. So what of the pseudo science that is to directly serve a political agenda? Pick the data and the computer models to support the political theory du jour. Who can ever know what's in it?
And the world would surely have not known what's in the kitchen sink of climate science without the revelations contained in the East Anglia Emails. I have had the opportunity to read some of them. These candid conversations among the inner circle of climate scientists is disturbing to say the least. To a sharp mind, it is obvious that they are creating a phony science and hoping the reality will catch up with their construction, or, that no one will notice, or ask too many perceptive questions about the inside workings of their models and data. Someone did. And the rest of us did too --- and we don't have to be particularly superior climate scientists to distinguish snake oil when that's what it is.
My analysis in the attached document is not altered by which crisis and which science is the currency du jour as the purpose of, and solution for, all these crises is singular and the same:
To motivate the transition of independent nation-states to Global Governance; to a one-world government under the central control of an elite class who shall decide what's good for the rest of mankind.
You must know that this feudal architecture was forcibly overthrown at the revolutionary founding of the Untied States of America. It appears that a new global revolutionary battle is required to overthrow it once again before it succeeds in constructing its global empire in complete fait accompli.
As principal stewards of global thought from the premiere academy of science and technology in the world, and my alma mater, I invite you to read and reflect upon the attached document. I hope that you will correct my misimpressions so that others may also benefit from your honest intellect and not be misled by an enthusiastic ordinary layman only able to do basic arithmetic correctly.
Who said this:
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
Remarkably, I can do simple addition rather well, and also proclaim the result without being beholden to a license from authority figures to grant me that freedom to speak.
To seek a license before one can find the noble courage to do commonsense arithmetic correctly and speak of the unspeakable result, is to succumb to moral cowardice. The labors of Socrates (whether legend or reality is irrelevant) showed the world the lengths and distances one must go to uphold intellectual integrity if one is a real seeker of truth about reality. And that's what scientists are, or supposed to be, and which is why most of us become scientists in the first place. But along the way reality meets morality and guess which one takes the back-seat?
Interestingly though, I did not learn this basic arithmetic skill at MIT, nor the courage to proclaim it freely, despite learning higher mathematics and electrical engineering among many other things.
Chances are, based on sheer statistics of the number of learned people in the United States of America with advanced post graduate degrees from its more than 2000 colleges and universities still unable to call a spade a spade, you may also be the victim of the same absurdity: being able to solve complex differential equations easily, but not able to correctly add two plus two to make four, and speak it out loud.
Our higher education systems of course, and our social values, leave much room for improvement, especially in the use of basic commonsense. Exercising commonsense under some circumstances takes for more courage than is evidently common, which is why it takes uncommon courage to add two plus two to make four and to speak the unspeakable. It is far easier to say five. And even easier to think five! There is no cognitive dissonance in that case.
Virtually all learned scientists, scholars and experts in the Third Reich had also become victim to the same absurdity, whereby, its best minds enabling the Nazi technological war machinery with highest levels of science and industry in the world at the time, united we stood with Mein Führer and his grotesque geostrategic imperatives for Lebensraum without a qualm. This was only two to three generation of scientists ago.
Indeed, no civilization can escape this failing of conforming to the diktats and wisdoms of their ruling power and authority figures, which, in our modernity, is not always exercised at the point of the bayonet as it was in the Third Reich, or the former USSR, or in room 101.
Unless the best minds in society rise to challenge their own banality of evil first, they cannot break through the myriad forces that ensure obedience and silence on truth. Brilliant intellectuals just as easily become obedient slaves to this system United We Stand as the rest of the ordinary public who would do anything to pursue their “American Dreams” including sell their conscience, but under carefully managed illusions. This is just a statement of empirical fact, and quite self-evident. When intellectuals seek, and are dependent upon, “universal agreement” to sell their “wares”, they dare not stand alone lest they be forced to drink the hemlock like Socrates, and recant like Galileo.
Conformist thoughts lead to conformist behavior, and vice versa. It does not take a great deal of intelligence to see that this obedience to authority leads to corrupting all paradigms of objectivity, of science and scholarship, which demand non conformity and independence of thought as first principles in order to break the mold of entrenched dogmas. Be it in hard sciences, or in social sciences, art, literature, humanities, and policy-making. Under its dominance, both Socrates and Galileo were made to suffer the courage of their convictions as we all learn in elementary school.
That's generally too hefty a price to pay for most normal people. Especially for those whose bread and butter begins and ends in prestigious establishment universities that form an integral part of its vast military-industrial-academe complex.
As is obvious, if you want to do science, you must play ball with those who control your purse strings, or your funding will dry up. Without funding, your research and your publications and your promotions will dry up as well. That's how the academic system works in the United States (and elsewhere in the industrialized West) and we all know it.
Surely no MIT scientist can believe that they are uniquely insusceptible to these universal forces?
So, I must ask once again, in all the humility that is the station of a common man harboring no illusions of the Übermensch and their imperatives, but still must ask due to its import in discerning motivation and intent which are never divorced from one's work:
Are climate scientists, especially those at MIT including yourselves, genuinely innocent of knowledge of the unhidden forces driving transformation towards Global Governance from the elite top? A global empire that has been the dream of all conquerors throughout world history? And that all of you are equally complicit in providing one of the many enabling pretexts?
The spirit of primacy which fuels every sociopath's dream of ruling the world remains quite untamed.
If anything, our Technetronic Era has made it not just possible, but quite practicable, for a handful of people to control the world and rule all humanity. This was already much anticipated, even speciously dignified, and also planned. Surely you are more than literate in Zbigniew Brzezinski's clairvoyant classic Between Two Ages: The Role of America in the Technetronic Era; Bertrand Russell's equally seminal prognostications of the impending future in The Impact of Science on Society; H. G. Wells' similar self-serving predictions in The New World Order; Carroll Quigley's troublesome confirmation of the secretive role of the handful of financial super-elites behind the pyramid of political power in the West and the affairs of the world, in Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time; etc. The bibliography is extensive and blueprints modernity rather accurately.
The instinct for primacy remains unabated. At the top of its hierarchy in our Technetronic modernity is the instinct for intellectual primacy from which supremacy and hegemony follow. Science and scientists are part of that primacy. That's just self-evident.
As someone once said, we may have descended from the tree top, but we have yet to lose our tail. This appendage is clearly visible in all the technological barbarism the super militarized state regularly visits upon the Üntermenschen without its freedom loving free peoples and brilliant scientists batting an eye.
Have you been to a zoo lately? Just watch the primates for a while on your next visit with your children and grandkids --- others remain quite unconcerned as the alpha male beats up his closest reach. Our reach is much greater, but little else appears to have changed.
As I stated in my recent letter to one of the more aggressive PR spokesperson for Climate Science, who is also the uber skeptic of all normal skeptics of global warming mantra, and I reproduce that thought here because of its relevance to all scientists everywhere:
“As much as uber scientists might like to believe that they are Mr. Spock, science for us earthians is not divorced from social science, specifically political science, social psychology, and psychology, since those doing science are social beings, given to all the same failings and limitations of human beings. This include primacy, co-option, greed, the banality of evil, will to power, and the list is long.”
I am sure that as learned scholars you are more than familiar with all these basic human failings which apply to all human beings, and also with the human potential to rise above our limitations.
But, as we all know, it does take working against the force of gravity to rise even a step beyond ground level. To escape its clutches altogether takes the exercise of a counter-force greater than gravity to be able to reach escape velocity! And risk going up in smoke on the launch pad, to boot.
I would be pollyannaish if I believed that MIT scientists are immune to such pressures to conform to the political and professional wisdom du jour, and that they are all rocket propulsion specialists.
But I am also certain that good human beings everywhere daily resist making any kind of Faustian bargain. MIT scientists included.
How successfully? Let's see.
The Source URL for what follows is:
I look forward to your comments on my analysis and precautionary advocacy in that report and in this letter. I tend to agree with your own advocacy in your letter to President Trump and I do not suggest that the United States unilaterally withdraw from international climate conventions as did Dr. Lindzen in his letter. I believe these UN conventions can serve a useful purpose, though not the one the political elites have in mind. But I also agree with what is commonsensical in Dr. Lindzen's more explicit letter, irrespective of whether or not he may be funded by the lobby on fossil fuels as is often alleged to dismiss all his rational and pertinent critique of climate science. I am more scrutinizing and discerning in all matters and do not foolishly throw the baby out with the bath water.
Instead, I advocate that climate scientists transcend their typical a-moral and “pragmatic” attitude towards science. This will automatically compel their awakened consciences (I presume they have one which lies suppressed) to stop deceiving themselves. This in turn will lead them to use their participation in international bodies to speak the whole truth, not half-truth, not establishment's truth, not the IPCC's truth, and not the truth convenient to advancement of careers and social standing.
I advocate conscionable climate scientists offer commonsensical alternatives to nations other than what's pitched by the political elites from their tower of babel.
If you distinguished scholars of climate science simply pursued the commonsense principles expressed in this letter, conveyed this commonsense to the president of the United States, and to the convention participants, you could more effectively forge a real consensus internationally to commence a less draconian solution-space based on these principles, and defer making decision on the sky is falling global catastrophe of global warming destroying earth, until climate change due to natural causes is specifically ruled out by empiricism (and not by synthetic computer modeling).
If nature is indeed the culprit today as it has empirically always been in the past, then there is little that man can do about it. There is certainly no political mileage to be derived from that assessment. In fact, it would derail the political agenda of man-made global warming altogether. It may yet be replaced by man-made global cooling before too long.
Some establishment scientists will again rush to define new environmental markers to suggest that the first cause is again man-made; new threat scenarios will be outlined, and principally the same solution-spaces outlined in Agenda 21, or its newer version, pitched to put mankind in growth chains.
I dare to think that only conscionable scientists who are not “pragmatic” like the Nazi scientists, shall be the effective moral impediments to all such scams. Beyond that, only a global rebellion.
May I conclude this long letter from my voice of conscience by humbly suggesting that MIT's talented and distinguished climate scientists step out of their ivory shells as the narrow-gauge super-specialists that you are, and dedicate some time to acquiring the wherewithal of all the forces driving the agendas at the UN and its conventions. If you knowingly wish to be part of that political game, and knowingly wish to become enablers of the draconian agendas of world government as its petty technicians, that's your cross to bear. And mankind's misfortune. You better choose your Faustian bargain with great forethought because your progeny shall sail in the same boat. None of us, including yourselves I am sure, wish to live in a global police state anymore than we wish to live in any police state. However, Nazi scientists were quite happy living in their police state. So were Soviet scientists. But we are already spoiled. And we might indeed be the generations caught between two ages. Those who are born in a police-state after this transition age, will have no angst.
But I dearly hope that many of you, nay all of you, and all those scientists who might read this letter, wish to make this a better world in the true sense of the word, for all its ordinary peoples. Benevolent science and technology research programs that MIT Spectrum continually brings to my electronic door every now and then, and MIT's altruistic science and technology open education programs that bring life-long learning to far away lands, alone cannot bestow benevolence, nor un militarize a highly militarized world hurtling at breakneck speed towards dystopia. Making sense of an apparently senseless world takes seeing all the forces that shape events, not just those near to you.
Who said this:
“Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and
solid foundation that the strongest earthquake
cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest
enterprises of common men seem insignificant
from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high
as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly.
And you can see all the forces that shape events;
not just the things happening near to you.”
As Socrates might have pleaded before the elites of his time in his own defence against their charge of corrupting the youths of Athens and disrespecting their gods with his non-conformist intellect:
‘Agree with me if I seem to you to speak the truth; or, if not, withstand me might and main that I may not deceive you as well as myself in my desire, and like the bee leave my sting in you before I die. And now let us proceed.’ (from classicist Edith Hamilton)
Thank you.
Best regards,
Zahir Ebrahim


Footnote
[ Extraneous Clarification Note Oct. 31, 2018: See attached document to observe that this matter of high levels of their environmental degradation marker CO2, is itself highly contested by non establishment scientists. Here, I am prima facie accepting establishment scientists on their own reported principal axiom driving their climate science, that CO2 levels are unbearably high. The logic of this letter does not depend upon it being true or false, only that it be falsifiable.
High levels of environmental pollution itself is a self-evident fact, visible to everyone. To agree or disagree on axioms and presuppositions that are intended to scientifically understand its make-up, and to make differing observations based on the starting point, is itself an integral part of science whose falsifiability, and not religiosity, is what incrementally advances the overall understanding of nature forward.
Yesterday, upon receiving my letter, Dr. Lindzen generously sent me the PDF of his second letter to the White House dated March 07, 2017, as response to my letter, in which he had explained in more detail to the President of the United States, why his petition signed by approximately 330 scientists, called for withdrawal from UNFCCC of all governments, and not just the United States.
Dr. Lindzen pointed out in his letter that UNFCCC was in fact created 25 years ago to “find support for dangers from increasing carbon dioxide.” Dr. Lindzen continued: “While this has led to generous and rapidly increased support for the field, the purported dangers remain hypothetical, model-based projections.”
In plainer words, paraphrasing without syntactic sugaring, the purpose of UNFCCC was to find scientific justification for high levels of CO2 causing climate change attributed to man. See Report from Iron Mountain in the attached document for the idea of climate change presenting a useful political crisis, being floated decades earlier, in the early 1960s.
I now have to agree with Dr. Lindzen that all governments ought to withdraw from this farcical UN convention if that is the presupposition of the convention and its raison d'être. However, until such time that governments do withdraw, my advocacy outlined in my letter is based on shrewdly using the Jujitsu principle to turn the tables on one's opponents. Using their own strengths and power to mold public opinion, disseminate the whole truth of the matter from the same UN conventions. I am not privy to the mechanisms of these UN conventions to opine further beyond expressing this general theme from the pragmatic art of war. For, this is indeed just that, a war of intellectual primacy, in which one side is much weaker than the other, despite visibly being on a higher plane of scientific integrity.
Furthermore, my approach to technical disagreements is that these are an integral part of science --- so do science; falsify others' axioms, methods, models, data, observations and predictions if yours are different. This is exactly what the dissenting scientists appear to be doing. While the establishment scientists appear to be resisting doing science in favor of religion, by their insisting upon their specious consensus and special anointment as their principal epistemology.
As a common man directly impacted by the current instantiation of climate science, in this letter I have mainly questioned the insanity of instrumenting a global policy based upon an incomplete and incoherent picture of nature that reeks of political theology more than science.
For MIT climate scientists, of all peoples, becoming part of a political ideology with respectability of science stamped all over their credentials, is a disgrace to science whose only primacy over the dogmas of religion is that it is objective and not ideological. It reeks of the time when eugenics was scientifically couched to formulate immigration policy in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, to keep out the untermensch and only admit the preferred races and peoples.
Eugenics science remained in vogue as a respectable pursuit throughout the early decades of the twentieth century. Even philosophers were in on it to cull the “useless eaters” who they stated never contributed to civilization and were a burden upon the productive white races for their high birth rates. See Bertrand Russell's misanthropic arguments for birth control of the untermensch races in The Impact of Science on Society, so that the preferred races could procreate to their heart's desire.
It was Adolf Hitler who gave eugenics a bad name with his concentration camps. But the pseudo science did not die away. It was simply reborn as the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), for a more benign sounding public relations approach to eugenics. The agenda is the same. See the declassified United States National Security Strategy Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200) dated 1974, drafted by then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and signed off by president Gerald Ford as NSDM 312 in 1975. Who lives and who dies is again decided by race and usefulness to the advanced white civilizations of the world, but syntactically sugared to map to the Least Developed Countries (LDC) with significant over populations. High growth rates in the 13 LDC listed is presented as threat to the national security of the United States of America (and its Western allies obviously). The racial eugenics bibliography is extensive, the dominant role played by scientists and scholars harboring a political ideology, not particularly being a secret.
It raises the dilemma of whether there should be statutory laws to police the corruption of science by scientists in the service of a political agenda. If there is any respectable place for debating this, it is at MIT, especially with climate science being given so much importance by its own administration as noted by Dr. Lindzen in his second letter to the White House. Be part of America's military-industrial-academe complex, as that is the lifeline and raison d'être of MIT, but not by supporting the corruption of science and mathematics, by creating pseudo versions of these, in the service of misanthropic ideology at least on its own academic territory.
Climate science is not the first to put pseudo science in the service of primacy. See John Perkins' Confessions of Economic Hit Man, for his revelations on how he employed an Indian mathematician working at MIT in the 1970s, to construct advanced pseudo mathematics based on complicated and indecipherable Markov model gooblydocks which no one could comprehend (just like today climate science would prefer it), and got it published in peer reviewed mathematics journals (just like today climate scientists follow that template). Perkins and this MIT mathematician took the academic respectability so gained from this contrived publishing of junk math, to third world countries to encourage them to take on mega loans for mega construction projects under the false projections from the mumbo jumbo of this pseudo math, that return growth rates from building bigger than necessary, would be in double digits and sufficient to pay back the monstrous loans.
The foolish and often mercenary leadership of these nations bought into it by various means of persuasion (just as foolish nations today are buying into the wares of climate scientists with copious help from NGOs and the Mighty Wurlitzer's global propaganda machinery). The projected high growth rates of course were fictitious and based on hypothetical models that could never transpire in reality; sounds familiar? These resource-rich but impoverished nations all ended up in the World Bank's debt enslavement trap, with the WB-IMF tag team forcing these nations to restructure and privatize their economies and their public commons (primacy through neoliberalism) in order to be given additional loans to pay just the interests on the mega loans. Yes indeed. See Chapter 17 of the Economic Hit Man, titled Panama Canal Negotiations and Graham Greene, or see the pertinent excerpts in reference [2] of the attached document.
History is evidently repeating with Climate @ MIT. There may be other cases as well in other departments of MIT serving similar interests of primacy with the wonderful magic of numbers and computers.
It is high time that, at least in this day and age, MIT forged its own institutional policy and mechanisms for policing this subversion of ethics, science, and academic integrity – if they care for any of these matters as they proclaim, and daily indoctrinate their impressionable young minds to believe.
Responsible Citizenship begins right here, which also happens to be a hot button for the President of MIT, Dr. Rafael Reif, these days. In the lofty exercise of that virtue, it will require far more courage to take a principled stand on this pernicious corruption of science and ethics in the pursuit of misanthropic ideologies as its President, than it has taken me to write this letter as its ordinary alum. MIT administration and MIT Corporation will have to tradeoff institutional integrity against the establishment's funds so generously available to anyone willing to compromise themselves.
That principled stance of saying “No” to the institutional banality of evil, will teach the value of Responsible Citizenship at MIT to its individual members more than any platitude scribed on sacred parchment ever can. ]




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Extraneous Clarification Note added as Footnote October 31, 2018 at 4:00 pm
Link to Lindzen's followup letter to the White House added December 13, 2018





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