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I wrote the sonnet below in 6/28/2013 after the whistleblower Edward Snowden disclosed secrets of the US surveillance state. He went to Russia. Many said he is/was a double spy. Since then the world has gone around the sun 13 times, and the questions are the same. But the meanings are diabolically more trenchant. In light of the actions of the occupant of the White House declaring an illegal war in Iran, not sanctioned by Republicans in Congress but by their silence, and in light of the mass murders in Gaza which it is illegal to label a genocide by Netanyahu's Zionist Israeli government, the questions are rhetorical.
The past is even more resonant in our present July 27, 2026.
Edward Snowden has turned the world upside down. Or have the leaders turned ethics upside down? Is black -white , truth-a lie, heroism-betrayal? Who are the traitors and who are the heroes? What are our rights anyway when you have no rights the moment you walk into your employer's building?
Who does one stand with if one's government has violated its own laws and then denies it? What do those who "spill the beans," so to speak, have to gain? All is muddied water. Clarity is needed. But what if you are born in a time without being able to see truth, a time when ethics don't really hold much sway, when success, power and money are the gods to worship? What do you do if those who profess to be looking out for and praying for humanity (Christians) are lost in the abyss following the blind?
Then they will all fall in the ditch. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Can you see the difference? Do you care? Here is my prayer. Unless there is any doubt, I am praying to the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Daniel and the prophets, and calling on Him (whom the Persian King Darius-current day Iran) made a compact with forever because the Living God saved was real and saved Daniel from the lion's den. It is the same God of the Torah (you know of Moses 10 commandments), that the Palestinian Christians, the Palestinian Muslims and the Palestinian Jews pray to, all semitic, all whose ancestors hail from the Levant for millennia. This is my prayer to that God, the God of Jesus Chriist of Nazareth.
Oh Christ, I cannot fathom all your ways,
When those parade your name and speak of peace
Yet war they bring for profit then betray
The ones who fight, who die, who pray surcease.
Oh do you listen to these war lords when
They pray increase to all their treasuries?
Oh do you grant them happiness, defend
Them from opponents and their enemies?
Those who uphold our freedoms and our rights
The tyrants see as chaff to be destroyed.
They call them traitors see them as a blight
On global plans elite groups have deployed.
Oh God of righteousness is justice slain?
Help us return to justice in Your Name.
Who does one stand with if one's government has violated its own laws and then denies it? What do those who "spill the beans," so to speak, have to gain? All is muddied water. Clarity is needed. But what if you are born in a time without being able to see truth, a time when ethics don't really hold much sway, when success, power and money are the gods to worship? What do you do if those who profess to be looking out for and praying for humanity (Christians) are lost in the abyss following the blind?
Then they will all fall in the ditch. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Can you see the difference? Do you care? Here is my prayer. Unless there is any doubt, I am praying to the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Daniel and the prophets, and calling on Him (whom the Persian King Darius-current day Iran) made a compact with forever because the Living God saved was real and saved Daniel from the lion's den. It is the same God of the Torah (you know of Moses 10 commandments), that the Palestinian Christians, the Palestinian Muslims and the Palestinian Jews pray to, all semitic, all whose ancestors hail from the Levant for millennia. This is my prayer to that God, the God of Jesus Chriist of Nazareth.
Oh Christ, I cannot fathom all your ways,
When those parade your name and speak of peace
Yet war they bring for profit then betray
The ones who fight, who die, who pray surcease.
Oh do you listen to these war lords when
They pray increase to all their treasuries?
Oh do you grant them happiness, defend
Them from opponents and their enemies?
Those who uphold our freedoms and our rights
The tyrants see as chaff to be destroyed.
They call them traitors see them as a blight
On global plans elite groups have deployed.
Oh God of righteousness is justice slain?
Help us return to justice in Your Name.
CAVEAT FOR EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS WHO SUPPORT ZIONIST ISRAEL
To evangelical Christians who support Zionist Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank, and who support the elite pedophiles named and photographed and videotaped in what has come to be known as the Epstein files, here is a caveat.
Lest we forget, to receive justice in God's name through Christ, one must REPENT. In other words,one must admit fault and be held accountable for ones' actions. If one does not do that and one says, "I have done no harm or wrong to others," and has harmed or killed them with no repentance, that individual has put themselves beyond Christ's mercy and forgiveness. Justice is love and mercy after admitting fault and being held accountable.
To love and forgive Trump, Netanyahu and all their supporters and enablers, they must admit their guilt, repent, and stop committing harm, submitting themselves to just accountability. Supporting them and loving them as they commit grave harm without repentance and admission of guilt, you are complicit and equally guilty.
