I will be returning to America in the next 36 hours as a publically accused “terrorist operative”, according to the Israeli military that is. It will be interesting to see how my birth nation will handle me. Especially because I headed to Gaza aboard the Freedom Flotilla in order to “train a commando unit for Hamas” (according to Israel). But before I was venturing to train commando units I was already on the US “terror watch list”.
To be honest, having the two greatest purveyors of terrorism and propaganda accuse me of “terrorism” is a massive compliment. Living as we do in George Orwell’s 1984, where black is white and white is black and the truth is nothing but a word, being a “terrorist” is a great thing. You see in this New World Order kind of world those with power speak a language in which words mean the opposite of what they seem. So when Israel and America say they want “peace”, that is Orwellian double-speak for “we are gonna bomb the bastards and steal their resources come hell or high water.”
Its funny actually, the greatest knock I have of myself is my utter failure to learn any language other than English… except for Orwellian double-speak that is. And I realise now that I have been able to understand double-speak for quite some time now. Like for instance, when I was in America on 9-11 and everybody was ready to kick some “terrorist butt!” and fight the “War on terror”, I knew plain as day that the actual plan was to carry out yet another war of terror and kill a whole bunch more innocent people. Sadly most of my fellow Americans could not understand double-speak, or I am sure they would have thought otherwise of the plan.
And so here I am, accused and/or suspected of being a terrorist, you just gotta know the language, what they are actually saying is that I am a man with a proven record of humanitarian causes based on truth, justice and the desire for peace. Israel and America are giving me a great compliment!
For clarities sake, “terrorist” translates to humanitarian and/or freedom fighter in double speak.
Now I’m no Nelson Mandela but he was paid the same compliment back when he was a “terrorist” convicted by another Orwellian agent, Apartheid South Africa. Who knows, maybe I will likewise be rewarded with imprisonment because I refuse to abandon the lawful right of self-defence?
This is a long-standing language really, back in the day of colonial Britain the “intellectuals” and “leaders” of that era also knew the “terrorists”, today we know them as the Founding Fathers of America.
For clarities sake, “leader” translates to tyrant/traitor, “intellectual” means indoctrinated minion.
And so the Orwellian language remains as it was.
I made my last trip to the States through Canada thinking my travels would be smoother through the north, but the Israeli and Canadian governments are very cozy indeed, so that was a miscalculation. My Canadian welcome included two days of “detention” in a Canadian jail before I was released without charge. Welcome to Canada, where I guess they are not able to understand double-speak and apparently thought I was a real terrorist; easy mistake to make when you don’t know the language.
For clarities sake, “detention” without charge translates to, you have no human rights.
Eventually I made it south to the “Land of the Free”, while in Hawaii visiting my mother I had a Special Agent of the FBI come to visit me; and so I we chatted for about two hours. He seemed a nice enough chap, but I made clear his boss (FBI Director Robert Mueller) was a traitor with inside knowledge of 9-11. I guess that was enough to get me firmly on the “terror watch-list”, checking in and flying became quite silly after that, but the escorts throughout the airport made me feel real secure in the homeland.
And as if I did not already know, my friends within the airline industry told me that I am most definitely “ON THE LIST!” If you want to know what it feels like to be Jihad Hussein with a massive beard and thick Arabic accent travelling from Mecca to the United States, just come on a trip with me, it is pretty much the same. Actually, it isn’t really; if I were Arab I would have long since found my way into the torture chambers of the state terrorists.
And so I return to America in the next 36 hours, planning on meeting some of the American citizens with functioning brains and hearts that do more than pump blood. There are thankfully more and more such people in the US, and beyond, and it is always great to connect with such people. I will be mostly in the Northwest; Washington, Oregon and California, with a planned visit to Kansas as well. We’ll see if expanding the visit to other places becomes possible, but maybe the good people at Homeland Security have other plans? I suspect they may feel the need to protect the homeland from the likes of me. We shall see.
So if I am sitting in a jail cell or worse in just over a day, please do not think of me alone, think of the unknown amounts of innocent people who rot in jails and dungeons, often tortured, at the behest of the embarrassing, disgusting, criminal US government. And then thank Barack Obama the saviour who ain’t helping them one bit. Nope, Guantanamo Bay and other torture chambers remain.
Now that is change you cannot bloody believe in.
Always great to return home!
September 5, 2010 at 1:46 am
may the peace and truth prevail and may the falsehood and inhumainty perish! amen
September 5, 2010 at 3:12 am
Ken—-
Will not be able to see you on this trip—–know that so many of us are very proud of you and all you are doing—-
I do believe people are waking up!
Hope to meet you “down the road”, on a ship or in a vehicle, or in Gaza—-
Viva Palestina——TJP
September 5, 2010 at 7:50 am
Thank God for your honesty. I respect your strength and determination. We need you to continue to speak the truth!!
September 5, 2010 at 10:05 am
This is a poem by Nizar Qabani, written in 1997 in response of the consequenses of the Oslo peace process…Nizar Qabani is one of the best Poets in the modern time he usually writes poems defending women in Machist society, he surprized his fans by this poem:
We are accused of terrorism
if we defended rose and woman
and the mighty verse …
and the blueness of sky …
A dominion .. nothing left therein…
No water, no air ..
No tent, no camel,
and not even dark Arabica coffee!!
***
We are accused of terrorism:
if we defended with guts
the hair of Balqis
and the lips of Maysun
if we defended Hind, and Da`d
Lubna and Rabab ..
and the stream of Kohl
coming down from their lashes like the verses of revelation.
You will not find with me
a secret poem
or a secret logos
or books I put behind doors.
I do not even have one poem
walking down the street, wearing veil.
***
We are accused of terrorism:
if we wrote about the ruins of a homeland
torn, weak …
a homeland with no address
and a nation with no names
***
I seek the remnants of a homeland
none of its grand poems is left
except the bemoans of Khansa.
***
I seek a dominion in whose horizons
no freedom can be found
red .. blue or yellow.
***
A homeland forbidding us from bying a newspaper
or listening to the news.
A dominion wherein birds are forbidden
from chirping.
A homeland wherein, out of terror [ru`b],
its writers got accustomed to write about
nothing.
A homeland, in the likeness of poetry in our lands:
It is vain talk,
no rhythm,
imported
Ajam, with a crooked face and tongue:
No beginning
No end
No relation with people’s worry
mother earth
and the crisis of man.
***
A dominion …
going to peace talks
with no honor
no shoe.
***
A homeland,
men peed in their pans ..
women are those left to defend honor.
***
Salt in our eyes
Salt in our lips
Salt in our words
Can the self carry such dryness?
An inheritance we got from the barren Qahtan?
In our nation, no Mu`awiya, and no Abu Sufiyan
No one is left to say “NO”
and face the quitters
they gave up our houses, our bread and our [olive] oil.
They transformed our bright history into a mediocre store.
***
In our lives, no poem is left,
since we lost our chastity in the bed of the Sultan.
***
They got accustomed to us, the humbled.
What is left to man
when all that remains
is disgrace.
***
I seek in the books of history
Ussamah ibn al-Munqith
Uqba ibn Nafi`
Omar, and Hamzah
and Khalid, driving his flocks conquering The Levant.
I seek a Mu`tasim Billah
Saving women from the cruelty of rape
and the fire.
***
I seek latter days men
All I can see is frightened cats
Scared for their own souls, from
the sultanship of mice.
***
Is this an overwhelming national blindness?
Are we blind to colors?
***
We are accused of terrorism
If we refuse to die
with Israel’s bulldozers
tearing our land
tearing our history
tearing our Evangelium
tearing our Koran
tearing the graves of our prophets
If this was our sin,
then, lo, how beautiful terrorism is?
***
We are accused of terrorism
if we refused to be effaced
by the hands of the Mogul, Jews and Barbarians
if we throw a stone
at the glass of the the Security Council
after the Ceasar of Ceasars got a hold of it.
***
We are accused of terrorism
if we refuse to negociate with the wolf
and shake the hand with a whore
***
America
Against the cultures of the peoples
with no culture
Against the civilizations of the civilized
with no civilization
America
a mighty edifice
with no walls!
***
We are accused of terrorism:
if we refused an era
America became
the foolish, the rich, the mighty
translated, sworn
in Hebrew.
***
We are accused of terrorism:
if we throw a rose
to Jerusalem
to hebron
to Gaza
to Nazareth
if we took bread and water
to beleaguered Troy.
***
We are accused of terrorism:
if we raised our voices against
the regionalists of our leaders.
All changed their rides:
from Unionists
to Brokers.
***
If we committed the heinous crime of culture
if we revolted against the orders of the grand caliph
and the seat of the caliphate
If we read jurisprudence or politics
If we recalled God
and read verse al-Fat-h
[that Chapter of Conquest].
If we listened to the Friday sermon
then we are well-established in the art of terrorism
***
We are accused of terrorism
if we defended land
and the honor of dust
if we revolted against the rape of people
and our rape
if we defended the last palm trees in our desert
the last stars in our sky
the last syllabi of our names
the last milk in our mothers’ bosoms
if this was our sin
how beautiful is terrorism.
***
I am with terrorism
if it is able to save me
from the immigrants from Russia
Romania, Hungaria, and Poland
***
They settled in Palestine
set foot on our shoulders
to steal the minarets of al-Quds
and the door of Aqsa
to steal the arabesques
and the domes.
***
I am with terrorism
if it will free the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth,
and the virgin, Meriam Betula
and the holy city
from the ambassadors of death and desolation
***
Yesteryear
The nationalist street was fervent
like a wild horse.
The rivers were abundant with the spirit of youth.
***
But after Olso,
we no longer had teeth:
we are now a blind and lost people.
***
We are accused of terrorism:
if we defended with full-force
our poetic heritage
our national wall
our rosy civilization
the culture of flutes in our mountains
and the mirrors displaying blackened eyes.
***
We are accused of terrorism:
if we defended what we wrote
El azure of our sea
and the aroma of ink
if we defended the freedom of the word
and the holiness of books
***
I am with terrorism
if it is able to free a people
from tyrants and tyranny
if it is able to save man from the cruelty of man
to return lemon, olive tree, and bird to the South of Lebanon
and the smile back to Golan
***
I am with terrorism
if it will save me
from the Caesar of Yehuda
and the Caesar of Rome
***
I am with terrorism
as long as this new world order
is shared
between America and Israel
half-half
***
I am with terrorism
with all my poetry
with all my words
and all my teeth
as long as this new world
is in the hands of a butcher.
***
I am with terrorism
if the U.S. Senate
enacts judgment
decrees reward and punishment
***
I am with Irhab [terrorism]
as long this new world order
hates the smell of A`rab.
***
I am with terrorism
as long as the new world order
wants to slaughter my off-spring.
and send them to dogs.
***
For all this
I raise my voice high:
I am with terrorism
I am with terrorism
I am with terrorism …
September 5, 2010 at 10:33 am
TJP
September 5, 2010 at 10:31 am
the only terrorists sit in White house, Wall street, Fed reserve,
September 5, 2010 at 10:51 am
GOD bless U buddy and protect from those tyrants…
Will pray for your well being.. DO keep us updated on how ur trip goes..
September 5, 2010 at 11:49 am
Much luck to you in your travel to the States. I wish you were coming to Vermont…or New England. Would love to meet you someday.
September 5, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Those mother fuckers! Where am I on that list? I’m insulted. All this hard work, and what do I get? Five eighths of fuck all.
September 6, 2010 at 1:07 am
Dear Marine Congratulations and welcome home to the shores of auld Tun Tavern. You have three hots and a cot here on Cape Cod. GuaRANTEED. Semper Fi! Live and Die!
Fiachra O’Luain’s natural born father.
September 6, 2010 at 1:12 am
Thank you Joe.
TJP
September 6, 2010 at 7:22 am
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.” – George Orwell
September 6, 2010 at 9:22 am
Hello Ken O’Keefe;
My name is Scott Piraino, and my website is The Populist; http://thepopulist.net
I am writing to ask your permission to post your work on my site. Of course I will attribute your work to you, and provide a link to your original post. Please reply if you are interested.
Also, I tried to send this message through your site, Aloha Palestine, but I received an error message.
September 6, 2010 at 10:49 am
Dear Ken,
You are a true hero as well as being an eloquent speaker. Please let us in California know when and where you will be making any speaking engagements. Thank you for all you do. you give hope to so many of us. We will stand strong together with you for justice and Truth!
Peace,
Juliet
September 6, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Hi Ken,
just a quickie to wish you *Bon Voyage*!! Looking fw to tales of over reaction and hilarity from your pals at Homeland Security and their reception to you…I know its not supposed to be funny, but you know us clowns take great joy from the ridiculous, and I have a feeling you are going to encounter some ridiculous reactions to your presence and words!!
With ya all the way! Ahalan Wahasalan!
Take care, good luck and safe and happy travels bro!
Sam.
September 7, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Hi Ken,
Best of luck on your return to the states!
Travel safely.
Covkid
September 8, 2010 at 3:56 am
hi, i’m a sister from Malaysia. i pray for your fight for justice and peace. i hope i can be one like you. God bless
September 8, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Hi Bro Ken, Wishing you ‘HOME SWEET HOME’. Our deepest appreciation to Mrs Ken & Ken Jr for their sacrificiation by allowing their husband/father to spend & concentrate immeasureable time toward the well-being of MANKIND. Brother, You have already crafted a name KENNETH O’KEEFE down in our World History alike Abraham Lincoln, Mathma Gandhi, J.F. Kennedy, Malcolm x, Martin Luther King etc. Stay in your best of health & take care. Predicted risk is highly supreme to unpredicted risks. Both will lead us to DEATH eventually………..
September 9, 2010 at 3:44 am
Best wishes in Amerika Ken. Too bad you can’t get on a program like Hardtalk in the U.S. and reach some of the sheople.
p.s. Unfortunately the U.S. “mainstream” media, probably will not allow your views on air.