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Dear America,
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We’re writing to you because you have it in your power to ensure the future of our world or consign all of us, your planetary brothers and sisters of all nationalities, to an unimaginable tragedy. Not much time remains before you go to the polls. When you go to vote this November, so momentous is this time, you “will have the opportunity to change the course of history”, writes Benjamin Creme’s Master in his article ‘America’s choice’. In the simple act of exercising your democratic right, it is your destiny to make a decision on which “largely rests the style and structure of the immediate future”.
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Did you realize that you’re that important and powerful? Perhaps you think you’re powerful because of your army, weapons and willingness to go to war. That is precisely where you are weakest; your military-industrial complex, the billionaires and special interest lobbies have inculcated in you a hawkish, militaristic conditioning that renders you willing to sacrifice the youth. Do you wonder who benefits? Certainly not the dead heroes.
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You play an important role in the world because, just as each country has its own divine destiny, you have been assigned an amazing chance to be real heroes and literally save us all.
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In 2004, Benjamin Creme’s Master appealed to you, emphasizing the gravity and potential greatness of your response: “The citizens of the United States of America are approaching a time of critical decision. On their decision, in November, this year may depend the future happiness of many millions, not alone American, but of many other countries. One would have thought that this decision would not be difficult to make, that the choice was surely obvious to all who treasure peace and right relationship.”
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Now, a full 20 years later, you are being offered another opportunity to create from this pivotal moment a time of historic magnificence. There’s literally everything to play for. And you know you like winning. Make the right choice and ‘step into your divinity’. Little you have done so far in your history compares with this: the importance of choosing wisely in this November’s election is an opportunity and duty. It is that important. It is almost impossible to describe how vital and directly connected to the future of the race (the human race) each vote is. Each vote counts. The outcome of the forthcoming election will determine how our planet and all life on it flourishes or fails.
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Do you think that you carry this godgiven ‘deciding vote’ because you are rich, have developed a great economy, are supercompetitive and play to win everything you do? Does your sense of importance lie in your dominating commercial empire as the world’s sole hegemon?
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Not so. Despite your tough approach to much of life, it is your innate longing to cooperate, to help, to be neighbourly and kind that has provided you with your true calling. It is your innate generosity of spirit that allowed you to launch the Marshall Plan, to come to aid of people suffering then from the effects of war – just as millions are suffering now – from hunger (in Gaza, it is a case of deliberately induced famine); from climate devastation, which your government’s policies (and ours worldwide) can change; from the slaughter inflicted by your allies, who cynically manipulate your idealism, so much so that they call the shots and leave you, dear America, enabling genocide and turning a blind eye to unspeakable cruelty.
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It is your idealism and courage that enabled you to join the Allied Forces in 1941. Urged on by your idealistic conscience, you have frequently appealed to your leaders and those of other countries to do the right thing. This is how Benjamin Creme’s Master describes you, and he should know! “America is a great nation with much of good to give the world. It must now awaken to its soul’s longing to serve, to live in peace and justice, and, together, in harmony and co-operation, to work with all nations to remake this world.”
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So, dear America, turn outwards to the world’s collective suffering. Turn inward and allow yourselves to hear the clear voice of your great soul calling you to act on its promptings and help the world. We, the rest of the world, need the best of you.
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Let us add more of Benjamin Creme’s Master’s voice as He makes a broader case for universal justice: “Of course, America is not alone at fault for the inequalities of the world, the basic canker in our midst, the source of all our troubles. It shares the blame with all the developed countries who ride roughshod and cavalier over the poor and struggling, and must awaken to this main source of tension – and terror.
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“Therein lies the fault of the Western world: these ‘successful’ countries owe their wealth and dominance largely to history, and their ability to manipulate the world’s economy to their own advantage through aggressive ‘market forces’. The world’s poor and destitute now demand their share. If this simple right of justice is not addressed and remedied, the world will know no peace. Terrorism will fester and grow into war, which will threaten the future of the people of Earth.
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“We, your Elder Brothers, cannot stand aside and watch while the very future of the world is under threat. America is a great nation with much of good to give the world. It must now awaken to its soul’s longing to serve, to live in peace and justice, and, together, in harmony and co-operation, to work with all nations to remake this world. This election can be a great turning point in the affairs of men.” (‘America’s choice’, Share International, November 2004)
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Writing of the response of the US administration’s ‘war on terror’ at the time [2004], Benjamin Creme’s Master explains the sad absurdity of the US government’s policies and actions ostensibly to combat terrorism: “To fight a ‘war on terror’ is to fight a phantom, a useless, costly and dangerous exercise…In its arrogance and ignorance, [it] has fallen blindly into the trap. Those who suffer are the American people, their victims, and the world as a whole. There is but one way to deal with terror, to end, forever, this canker in our midst: to seek its cause.
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“There are, of course, several causes of terrorism, but above all in importance is the unbalanced distribution of the world’s resources. This creates the dangerous gulf between the nations which drives men to use terror to realize their dreams. They are desperate men, who feel they have nothing to lose. There is an immense, untapped army of such desperate people ready to die, if necessary, for the justice they long for which, rightly, they see as theirs.
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“No ‘war on terror’ can defeat such an army. No arrogant posturing can drive them away from the bastions of the Western world. “No nation, however strong, can by itself defeat terrorism. It is born of the injustice which disfigures this world.
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“Only when men learn to share will we see the end of terrorism. Only through sharing can the goal of justice and freedom be realized. Our appeal to you, citizens of the great and blessed United States of America, is to think carefully, and from the heart, as is your wont, when you deliver your vote.” (Share International, October 2004) Signed, Your brothers and sisters from every country on our suffering planet.
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