THE ANISA REBELLION: AN AMERICAN UPRISING Our Manifesto- (The short version)

This American Uprising is not a revolution.

 It is a peaceful, yet determined rebellion!

We are not hoping to overthrow the government of the United States of America, nor do we wish to establish a new form of government. Our goal is to rid our government of the material, philosophical, legal and ideological barriers that are preventing it from functioning properly, including removing people from their positions and prosecuting crimes. By functioning properly, we mean, to function according to the literal and accepted interpretation of the Constitution of the United States of America that is familiar to, and understood and accepted by most American citizens. 

Based upon what we believe has been a departure from the true meaning of the US Constitution by our government and it’s adaptation of foreign ideas, objectives, policies and positions, including allowing government appointees, elected officials and employees to make pledges of loyalty to foreign countries and powers. The United States of America, in our opinion, and based upon the following facts, has ceased to act as an independent and sovereign country of, for and by the people. It has failed to serve as a representative government, and has become dysfunctional, politically paralyzed, and overburdened with un-payable debt.  It has declared war on terrorism against the US citizen, which is an act of treason.

We believe that among other things the government’s list of failures are as follow: 

The passage of laws by our Congress that brazenly violate the US Constitution and that jeopardize the very foundation of our society as a society of equal citizens enjoying equal inalienable rights, among which are rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  

They established an “Imperial” presidency that confers almost monarchial powers upon the President that are not provided by the US Constitution and some that are in fact the duties conferred upon other branches of government by the Constitution, and they have wrongly abdicated their power to the presidency. Most notable in this respect is the War Powers Act which allowed the president to declare war when the Constitution says only the US Congress has the power to declare war. 

They have passed laws granting the president of the United States the power to arbitrarily declare citizens enemies of the state without due process, or just cause, and to order their assassination by agents of the government and military. 

They have introduced and passed laws that strip citizens of the Constitutional protections of the law, allowing for arbitrary detainment ordered by the president that would deprive citizens of liberty without a legal charge or even a trial, or opportunity to defend against charges and face an accuser. This includes laws that allow secret evidence to enter courts and to be used to charge and convict citizens, while depriving them of the rights to defend against such accusations.  

They have engaged in illegal wiretapping and invasion of citizen’s privacy for the sole purpose of intimidation and chilling rights of free speech, rights to organize and assemble, and to voice dissent.

They have sought and acted to create an unconstitutional branch of government called Czars, who have been granted powers by the state without being elected or consent of the people. 

They have contracted out US monetary policy and the printing of US currency to a private institution that is not regulated and not under the oversight of the US Congress or the people.

Establishment of an unfair tax law that favors the rich and punishes the middle class and the poor.  

Established racist laws that have led to huge numbers of racial minorities being imprisoned with unfairly long sentences, while criminals from the elite go free or get soft sentences.

They have squandered trillions in our tax dollars on illegal and ill-advised wars, waged war under false pretenses and outside any Constitutional guidelines, while allowing torture and the establishment of secret prisons in foreign countries, kidnappings and targeted assassinations of American citizens. 

They financially bankrupted the country and attempted to cover it up by stealing from social security and  attempting to deprive citizens access to food stamps and other tax payer funded entitlement programs.

The courts passed laws that deprived citizens of basic rights such as the Patriot Act while also writing decisions that sought to eliminate the constitutionally mandated separation of powers.  They granted person hood to corporations and as an effect, silenced the US citizen, depriving us of the ability to effectively lobby our government. 

The formulation of a US foreign policy that counters the interests of the USA and that is being formulated in the interests and to accommodate the strategic agenda of a foreign power.

This list represents only a few of the possibly high crimes and misdemeanors that are ongoing in our government and that has given rise to a peaceful but determined response from the people of this country that we are calling an American Uprising and the Anisa Rebellion. 

Our goal is to use our numbers, will and strong resolve to undo these actions and to hold those accountable who have participated in the undermining of the US Constitutions, the arbitrary and unconstitutional restructuring of our administrative branch with the creation of a new branch of government, such as Czars, the attempt to establish a monarchical type presidency, and to assassinate, kidnap and arbitrarily detain and torture US citizens, all while creating and increasing an amount of debt for the country that cannot be paid.  

Why Khader Adnan Matters

                             

Anisa Abd El Fattah

 It is very disturbing to think about the fact that a human being in Palestine has decided to die from starvation rather than to be subjected any longer to the injustice and indignity that is the continued illegal occupation of Palestine.  Khader Adnan, a Palestinian resistance activist mounted a hunger strike in December 2011 after being arrested at his home in the West Bank and placed under administrative detention in an Israeli jail without charge or trial.  He has been without food or water for more than 64 days and many are saying that he has reached a point where his bodily functions cannot be restored, and so his death is imminent. 

When I decided this morning that I wanted to write something about Mr. Adnan, I spent more than a few minutes trying to figure out exactly what I would like to say. There is so much to say about the fact that we, the people of the world, are being forced again to witness yet another act of Israeli sadism.   It is almost daily now that Israel is carrying out a kidnapping, a killing, storming and desecrating Muslim and Christian holy sites, illegally confiscating land, poisoning water wells and destroying Palestinian agriculture, among other crimes. The list of daily atrocities committed by Israel against the Palestinian people keeps getting longer, while the patience of most decent people in the world is getting shorter.   It is as if Israel is saying to the world that not only will it not abide by any law other than its Talmudic law, it will not even recognize the humanity of the approximately 98% of the world’s population who are not Jewish.  I’ll explain more about that later.

Israel’s appeals court decided to review Khader’s case, but it will not be reviewed immediately,  meaning there is a possibility that the review will be meaningless.  The timing of the review is to be counted among Israel’s other acts of cruelty and inhumanness. Nothing prevented Israel from having this review sooner, and nothing prevents Israel from reviewing the case immediately. It seems Israel, as when it boarded a humanitarian aid ship in international waters several years ago, and subsequently killed 9 humanitarian aid activists by blowing out their brains at close range with automatic weapons, gets a kick out of shock and awe killings. Killings that not only turn our stomachs and bring tears to our eyes, but also  remind us in the harshest ways, that Gentile life simply does not matter to the Jewish state. 

Israel’s killing of Khader Adnan by hunger strike is proof that not only does Israel refuse to recognize the humanity of non-Jews; as far as they are concerned the life of the Palestinian Gentile Khader Adnan simply does not matter.  After all, Khader Adnan is only one of perhaps millions of Palestinians who have, since 1948 been subjected to numerous massacres and daily humiliation carried out by Israel. Israel kills with impunity, while the US, EU and the UN do nothing but call for Palestinian restraint.   For this reason, I will write about Khader Adnan as a Palestinian and as a human being, and why his life matters. 

Perhaps very few people in today’s world would say that a person born under Israeli occupation and who has lived as a captive all of their lives could have much value.  Khader Adnan didn’t attend or graduate from Yale or Harvard. His parents are not fake Jewish royalty. He is a Palestinian, an Arab and a Muslim, three of the most loathed and feared characteristics that can be attributed to anyone. It could only be worse for him if he were Black or Brown. 

He is poor and to seal his fate and further torment his destiny, he is also a leader in the Palestinian resistance. This alone is a cause for death in the eyes of most Israelis. As far as Israel is concerned, anyone who dare resist Israel’s domination and control is automatically doomed. And if that resistance involves arms, or a willingness to take up arms against Israel, in the eyes of Israel and its supporters, you are also a terrorist, which means in today’s world, that you not only lack any human value, you have no rights, not even a right to life.  

Israel’s repulsion to terrorism does not include Jewish terrorism. I could fill several pages with a list of acts of Jewish terrorism carried out against gentiles; the most recent perhaps is the death of the African American singer Whitney Houston who many believe was killed by Zionist Jewish operatives here in the US. They believe her possible murder was an act of revenge for her refusing to shake the hand of then Israeli PM Ariel Sharon, whose publicly extended hand was publicly rejected by Houston, who backed away.  I mention this only to deny those who will mistakenly attribute Israel’s pretend aversion to terrorism to morality. Israel’s so called war on terrorism has nothing to do with morality and everything to do with Jewish supremacism.  Their Talmud says that if a goyim or gentile kills a Jew, he or she must die, but if a Jew kills a gentile, or goyim no harm is done. 

By allowing Khader Adnan to die from starvation, Israel is sending the Palestinian people and in fact the entire non Jewish world the message that if we dare to resist their over lordship, we must die. They are teaching us that even if we kill ourselves, whether through starvation or suicide bombings that in fact they did kill us, because they left no other options. It goes without saying of course, that Israel prefers hunger strikers and peaceful protesters to suicide bombers, since the suicide bombers used to also kill Jews which reminds us that in both birth and death, the human being is indistinguishable.  None of us are hatched from eggs, immaculate conceptions, or descended from the heavens.  We also all die, and are killed by the same types of misfortunes. 

 

Khader Adnan matters because he is a human being, created by God. He was created with a soul that had a destiny attached to it. We don’t yet know the destiny of the soul called Khader Adnan except we know it was born to resist.  Khader Adnan was born to resist injustice and humiliation and to fight oppression. He was born to sacrifice his life for the sake of others.  Khader Adnan was described by the prophet Muhammad (sa) and prophet Issa (sa) as a stranger to this world.  Khader Adnan is a man who refused to sell eternity for a temporary life of ease. Khader Adnan is a man who stored his treasures where his heart is. Khader Adnan is what Imam Khomeni described as a beautiful madman. Khader Adnan is a man who sacrificed his life in a most painful and selfless way, on behalf of every human soul that is struggling for its freedom, dignity and justice. Khader Adnan is a martyr. Now, count the number of such human beings that have existed in our lifetime, and it will become immediately apparent why Khader Adnan matters. 

May Allah bless Khader Adnan and give us the courage to make his life and his sacrifice valuable and meaningful to those he will leave behind. Viva the resistance! Viva Khader Adnan!  Viva Palestine!