Eileen Fleming - Vanunus Wait for Liberty: Remembering the USS Liberty and My Life as a Candidate of Conscience for Us House 2012

Vanunus WAIT
for Liberty

Remembering
The USS LIBERTY
And My Life
as a Candidate
of Conscience for
US HOUSE 2012

Eileen Fleming

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Is dedicated to the crew, family and friends of the USS LIBERTY and to the career and spirit of Journalist Helen Thomas.

Remember, Remember the 5th of November. I suddenly had this feeling that everything is connected. Perfectly laid out in front of me and we are all a part of it and trapped by it. IDEAS are bulletproof.

Today is the 5 th of November 2012. As I began the editing for my fourth book, that quote from V for Vendetta came to me as I also recalled the last line I wrote in my third book, BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunus FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010 which reads, And the bottom line for me is that experience is not just what happens to you, but what you do with it and que sera sera.

IF only Israel had been just and merciful in 2004, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, or 2012; and allowed Vanunu his right to leave Israel, I IMAGINE that my fourth book would NOT be titled, Vanunus WAIT for LIBERTY, Remembering the USS LIBERTY and My Life as a candidate of Conscience for US HOUSE 2012.

You must give birth to your images [IMAGINATION]. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens.-Rainer Maria Rilke

That was the quote that came to me while I was writing my first bookKEEP HOPE ALIVEwhich was inspired by the life and memories of a 1948 Palestinian Muslim refugee entwined with my spiritual journey that became very political during my first of seven trips to both sides of The Wall in Israel Palestine.

It has been said that if you are not crazy before you get to Jerusalem-you will go crazy there.

One crazy image that I committed to dreaming began during my first of seven trips to Jerusalem in 2005. I also vowed it aloud to Vanunu that I would write his saga UNTIL Israel allows its nuclear whistle blower the right to leave the state and have a job, a home, a family which is all he has wanted since he emerged from 18 years in a windowless tomb sized cell on April 21, 2004.

The crazy dream to run for US HOUSE of Representatives came to me shortly after establishing the public service website,www.WeAreWideAwake.org. On July 22, 2005, which was three weeks after my first trip to both sides of The Wall in Israel Palestine.

A few days before this writing, while I was cleaning out a window seat I stumbled upon five photos that I had stashed inside of a stack of literature from 2005, 2006 and 2007 trips to Israel Palestine. In the midst of throwing it all out, the forgotten photos I shot in east Jerusalem spilled out. I had captured Vanunu alongside a few supporters who were on the same SABEEL trip that I was on. As soon as I saw them I remembered that during that trip Vanunu told me, I dont care about history. I dont owe history. All I want is to leave Israel and never return.

My third book covered Vanunus life from childhood, through multiple crisis of faith, conscience and identity and documented his underreported historic freedom of speech trial in Israel through his release from 78 days back in solitary in the summer of 2010 because he spoke to foreign media in 2004. This book will document Vanunus historic and underreported May 5, 2011 appeal to revoke his citizenship under Israels Citizenship Revocation Law up through the last communication I have had from him as of November 24, 2012.

Three months after publishing BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunus FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010 , I announced my candidacy as a Citizen of Conscience for US HOUSE 2012, District 5, Fl. on YouTube. That was when the crazy idea to run for congress morphed into a desire to serve in the House.

What I learned on the campaign trail is that I will never be a politician, but I will continue to write with hope to provoke change for the better in the political realm.

The Republicans held their presidential convention in Tampa, which is home to the largest population of homeless people in Florida. The Republicans cancelled the first day of their convention due to fear of Hurricane Isaac, so The Media had nothing else to do but turn out for the counter demonstration on August 28, 2012.

The Media and Police far outnumbered the few hundred diverse citizens for justice, peace and equal human rights who joined The March on The RNC. We were blessed with cloud cover and a few short drizzles before the sun broke out on the hurricane of We The People who hold these truths to be self-evident: That all [people] are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among [people] deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the RIGHT of the people to ALTER or to ABOLISH it.

The day before I reported from the Ron Paul Rally and captured guitar legend Jimmy Vaughn doing DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER for my YouTube Channel as I recalled George Orwells nightmare titled 1984.

In it, Orwell relates the tale of Winston Smith, a solitary man with independent thought that Big Brother: The Party incarnate found so threatening that they tortured him beyond his endurance in order to break him, brainwash him and strip him of his humanity.

In the Centennial Edition of 1984, Thomas Pynchon wrote the Foreword and Erich Fromm the Afterword, from which I quote:

A working prophet, is able to see deeper than most of us into the human soul. In 1948, Orwell understood that despite the Axis defeat, the will to fascism had not gone away the irresistible human addiction to power was already long in place. The means of surveillance in Winston Smiths era are primitive next to the wonders of computer technology: most notably the Internet.

Universal peace and justice are the goals of man, and the prophets have faith that in spite of all errors and sins under the illusion of fighting for peace and democracy. All the fighting nations have lost moral considerations the unlimited destruction of civilian populations and atomic bombs. Can human nature be changed so that man will forget his longing for freedom, dignity, integrity, love-can man forget that he is human?

In Orwells epic, Winston Smith played the role of the archetype of all threats to Big Brother; an individual with an open and free mind, independent thought, a memory of history and a voice of dissent who was willing to take bold action.

Orwells Big Brother tortured all threats in order to get inside their head and then to brainwash them into accepting doublethink as truth.

I contend that todays Big Brother is an Industrial Media Congressional Military Security/Surveillance Complex, which as of this writing have not yet found the way to stop the free flow of info and independent thought streaming through the World Wide Web.