By Andreas Toupadakis PhD(Wake Up World) Instead of searching to find terrorists, why don’t we search for justice? Instead of searching to find new weapons technology, why don’t we search to find the starving millions and feed them?
Wisdom + Compassion = Action
Nothing happens until our words turn into actions. The difficulty that our generation has is that when it comes to direct action, we stall. There is no solution to terrorism but one, no matter how much money the citizens of the world will invest to stop it. It will simply increase. Why? It is because terrorism is the result of the increasing gap between the rich and the poor. Humans with great offices and power in this world will tell you that the cause of terrorism is something else. Do not believe them. They are trying to protect their power, which has been accumulated at the expense of the starving millions of the world.Personal responsibility is the only solution to stop terrorism and the lack of personal responsibility is the beginning of terrorism. As long as people around the world are starving by the millions and other people around the world are living in a world of plenty, terrorism can not be stopped.
Let the people of this world with their credit, stocks, saving accounts, and retirement plans to give a piece of bread to their starving brothers and sisters around the world and see what will happen. If they want to have peace and have a future, let them non-violently force their governments to use all the immeasurable resources they use for bombs and spying on one another to give a clean cup of water to those who have none.
If you want to make a difference in our world and therefore to your own life, then you start with yourself. And what do you do? You renounce the securities of this world and you give them to those who have less than yourselves. Gandhi said: ‘You become the change you want to see in the world.’
If any one of those who want to see a better world is sincere let him/her start with the self. If any kind of leader of this world desires to offer leadership for a better world let him/her renounce all material possessions like Gandhi did and follow his example. If citizens desire to see a future for their children let them follow the example of Gandhi’s
and the early Christians.
The leaders of this world are ready to stain the whole world with innocent blood again. It would not be the first time but the third and most likely the last one. Military force will intensify the hatred toward the countries using it and terrorism will continue to be a threat to everyone. We have become again the evil we deplore. We already have ignored the fact that biological, chemical or nuclear terrorism would be thousands of times worse. If the people of the world stay in the phase of just talking without using non-violent civil resistance and direct action, we will soon see the global catastrophe that no one would like to see or can even imagine. If we choose to stay simply talkers, that day is not very far from us.
It Starts With Us
The world’s war and peace situation will never be addressed as long as the major powers continue to hold on to their weapons of mass destruction. Inspectors are not needed in countries like the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, and China in order for the world to know that they already possess these offensive and criminal nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and long-range missiles. Yet children in those countries are not dying from sanctions.
Permanent members (U.S., Britain, France, Russia, and China) of the security council are promising security to the world while their arsenals posses such destructive power that it is enough to destroy, even by mistake, what they claim to secure. Would it not be wise for the people of a planet tormented by fear and greed make a Security Council for themselves made up of countries that do not posses weapons of mass destruction? And would it not be wise for that Security Council to be a group of countries that represent all religions? Would a mature humanity still talk about crusades and holy wars? How objective could a world security council be when four out of five of its members are Christian nations? Would Pakistan, a Muslim country, be a permanent member of the Security Council if it had 6,000 nuclear bombs?
If today’s authorities in every country were honest enough to entertain these thoughts, perhaps the world could be saved from the coming omnicide. But in reality, the politicians or the soldiers cannot save the world, only the ordinary peoples. Only when the people heal their fears and greed and give their extra money (resources) to relieve their neighbors, will omnicide be avoided. If people cannot do that, then it seems like they will run to the caves soon. Their leaders will not be able to save them. They will realize that all writings and talks were in vain because they did not accept and practice the truth that “your brother is the same as you”. Probably the very few who will survive will learn to share in the caves, and they will finally learn that we are all one.
In matters of conscience, numbers are meaningless. If we do not care for the beggar at our doorstep, we will not care for the thousands of people dying everyday in our world in agonizing death inflicted by our tax money. Only if we unconditionally care for our friends and family will we care for the suffering of the people on the other side of the globe.
We need to start where we are. How many people practice the exhortation “if you have two, give one to the one who has none?” If we know the answer, then we know the future.
Do not judge this message as religious, atheist, political or propaganda. Just try to practice what you know is the only way to have peace on earth. You might say “But there is no hope because there is too much ignorance around ready to destroy life.” That might be true, but do it anyway because that is our duty and that is the way we find true happiness and meaning in life. Socrates said: “An unexamined life is not worth living.”
How does the abolition of these terrible weapons start? It starts with us.
Andreas Toupadakis PhD received his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1990, and spent his career in industry, academia and two US Government laboratories. His career included roles at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Crete, and Dow Corning, where he honored with an ‘Inventor’s Award” in 1994.Source: Wake Up World
In 1998, Dr. Toupadakis was appointed to a permanent, highly paid, classified position in the nuclear Stockpile Stewardship Program at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California. Through this work, Dr. Toupadakis soon realized that environmental and nuclear non-proliferation work was an illusion, and that purely academic projects are sustained in order to lure well-intentioned young scientists into the national labs and steer them into weapons development programs — “for the benefit of humanity”.
In January 2000, Dr. Toupadakis resigned his position at LLNL and took his story public. His landmark resignation is a rare and inspiring case in which a scientist has left a weapons program to actively contribute the peace movement. Among other recognitions, Dr. Toupadakis was awarded the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) Certificate of Honor in May 2000, “for moral integrity of the highest order in refusing to work on nuclear weapons research and encouraging his colleagues to renounce this work as well”.
Currently a lecturer for U.C.Davis Department of Chemistry, he continues to shine a light on what he calls “the world behind the security fence”, lecturing on environmental issues and peaceful solutions at universities and colleges, including MIT, the University of Notre Dame, San Francisco State University, and Waseda University in Tokyo.
This article © Andreas Toupadakis PhD.
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