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   %FOUNDATIONS FOR WAR TERRORISTS CRIME GANGS EVIL+960523
  %DISHONESTY COERCION VIOLATIONS VIOLENCE PRETENSE 960523

     In order to deal effectively with the  disintegrative
effects of wars,  terrorists, crimes,  gangs and corporate
criminals---we   need  to  discern  the  nature   of   the
foundations upon which they operate:  respect for secrecy,
pretense, manipulations, dishonesty, coercion,  integrity-
violations, power-politics, corporate-dominance, etc.

     The  disintegrative   aspects   of  religious-crimes,
corporate-crime, gangs, street-crimes, terrorists and wars
are  the amplified  disintegrative  aspects of respect for
secrecy,  pretense,  manipulations, dishonesty,  coercion,
integrity-violations,    power-politics   and    corporate
dominance.

     The spectrum of disintegration is a continuum.

     Moving from  one  place  along  the  spectrum  to the
adjacent place along the spectrum always seems logical and
reasonable---once   you  have  move  that  far  along  the
spectrum.

     The  crucial first disintegrative step is to start to
move along the spectrum of rationalizations of steps along
the spectrum.

     Once   one  has  taken  that  first  step  into   the
disintegrative spectrum it is  difficult if not impossible
to  argue convincingly that  the  next  step is illogical,
unreasonable, improper, and/or disintegrative.

     Taking  the  first step is the abandonment of  honest
logic  and  reason;  it  is the abandonment  of  the  most
fundamental principles of personal and communal integrity.

     Once  we have taken the first step we have  abandoned
being  true  to  self and other, and so we  have abandoned
personal   integrity   and  communal   integrity.     Thus
everything falls apart.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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