A Note to the American People

Sunday, August 07, 2005

Think of what would happen if the strategies of using the atomic bomb on the Japanese were used on the USA. Say a radical group steals two mini-nukes from the US government. They demonstrate that they have them by blowing one up in the Nevada desert. The second one they say they will use on a US city if the American military doesn't start moving its troops out of the Middle East in three days.

After the bomb in the desert is exploded, a note is sent to the media like one that was send to the Japanese after the bombing of Hiroshima.

TO THE JAPANESE PEOPLE:
America asks that you take immediate heed of what we say on this leaflet. We are in possession of the most destructive explosive ever devised by man. A single one of our newly developed atomic bombs is actually the equivalent in explosive power to what 2000 of our giant B-29s can carry on a single mission. This awful fact is one for you to ponder and we solemnly assure you it is grimly accurate. We have just begun to use this weapon against your homeland. If you still have any doubt, make inquiry as to what happened to Hiroshima when just one atomic bomb fell on that city. Before using this bomb to destroy every resource of the military by which they are prolonging this useless war, we ask that you now petition the Emperor to end the war. Our president has outlined for you the thirteen consequences of an honorable surrender. We urge that you accept these consequences and begin the work of building a new, better and peace-loving Japan. You should take steps now to cease military resistance. Otherwise, we shall resolutely employ this bomb and all our other superior weapons to promptly and forcefully end the war.

TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE:
The People of the Middle East ask that you take immediate heed of what we say on this leaflet. We are in possession of another nuclear suitcase bomb (Special Atomic Demolition Munitions), similar to ones the being develop by the US military with the purpose of using on "foreign" peoples. Like the one that just was exploded in the Nevada desert, it contains a yield of 10 kilotons of explosive power--a Hiroshima-size weapon. It will now go off in one of your cities in the United States in three days if immediate withdrawal of all military and corporate operations in the Middle East does not occur. This awful fact is one for you to ponder and reflect on what happened to the cities in Japan in 1945 after A-bombs exploded. The same fate will happened to you, if you do not halt your war in the Middle East. We strongly urge you to petition your President to end war now. Our committee has outline for you two principles of an honorable withdrawal:

(1) total nuclear disarmament. Since you hold most of the weapons of mass destruction in the world, it is time you became the leader of nuclear disarmament.

(2) Total reconstruction cost paid to the Iraqi people to rebuild Baghdad using ecological city principles, advanced solar power technologies, and Cradle to Cradle industrial design/science principles. For too long science has been used to suppress and kill us rather than to liberate and save us. Now is the time for complete reversal of policy. We urge that you accept these consequences and begin the work of building a new, better and peace-loving America. You should take steps now to cease your global military/corporate domination. Otherwise, we shall resolutely employ this bomb the way you have used it on others.

Of course this note is fiction. But it certainly is not out of the realm of possibility that someday the United States will experience the karma of blowing up the world with WMD.