Rene Wadlow from ipeace.com

The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed in Resolution A/61/L22, the year 2009 as the International Year of Reconciliation “recognizing that reconciliation processes are particularly necessary and urgent in countries and regions of the world which have suffered or are suffering situations of conflict that have affected and divided societies in their various internal, national, and international facets.”

The Resolution was introduced by Nicaragua’s representative who stated that “reconciliation between those estranged by conflicts was the only way to confront today’s challenges and heal wherever fraternity and justice were absent from human relations.” Yet we need to ask how can genuine reconciliation take place between people and groups with bitterly held beliefs and a violent history? How can the needs for national healing be reconciled with the demands for justice by the victims of terrible violence?

The General Assembly resolution gives a partial answer by stressing that “dialogue among opponents from positions of respect and tolerance is an essential element of peace and reconciliation.” For there to be a respectful dialogue among opponents, certain barriers that prevent negotiations must be dismantled as a sign of a willingness to enter into a process of negotiations. Some barriers are physical, some psychological, others ideological. These barriers must be overcome if we are to progress on the long road to reconciliation.

Let us, with the New Year, start now both as individuals and as members of movements to work for reconciliation. Rene Wadlow, Representative to the UN, Geneva, Association of World Citizens

[ Speech Retrieved from the Internet May 15, 2008, http://www.drmartinlutherkingjr.com/nobelpeaceprize.htm]

Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

December 10, 1964, Oslo, Norway

Audio Excerpt Of Speech

Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen:

I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when twenty-two million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice. I accept this award in behalf of a civil rights movement which is moving with determination and a majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice.

I am mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, our children, crying out for brotherhood, were answered with fire hoses, snarling dogs and even death. I am mindful that only yesterday in Philadelphia, Mississippi, young people seeing to secure the right to vote were brutalized and murdered. And only yesterday more than 40 houses of worship in the State of Mississippi alone were bombed or burned because they offered a sanctuary to those who would not accept segregation.

I am mindful that debilitating and grinding poverty afflicts my people and chains them to the lowest rung of the economic ladder.

Therefore, I must ask why this prize is awarded to a movement which is beleaguered and committed to unrelenting struggle; to a movement which has not won the very peace and brotherhood which is the essence of the Nobel Prize.

After contemplation, I conclude that this award which I receive on behalf of that movement is profound recognition that nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time -- the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression.

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts. Negroes of the United States, following the people of India, have demonstrated that nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.

If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. The tortuous road which has led from Montgomery, Alabama, to Oslo bears witness to this truth. This is a road over which millions of Negroes are travelling to find a new sense of dignity.

This same road has opened for all Americans a new ear of progress and hope. It has led to a new Civil Rights bill, and it will, I am convinced, be widened and lengthened into a superhighway of justice as Negro and white men in increasing numbers create alliances to overcome their common problems.

I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom and jetsom in the river of life unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

I believe that even amid today's motor bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow. I believe that wounded justice, lying prostrate on the blood-flowing streets of our nations, can be lifted from this dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.

"And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and every man shall sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid."

I still believe that we shall overcome.

This faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future. It will give our tired feet new strength as we continue our forward stride toward the city of freedom. When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.

Today I come to Oslo as a trustee, inspired and with renewed dedication to humanity. I accept this prize on behalf of all men who love peace and brotherhood. I say I come as a trustee, for in the depths of my heart I am aware that this prize is much more than an honor to me personally.

Every time I take a flight I am always mindful of the man people who make a successful journey possible -- the known pilots and the unknown ground crew.

So you honor the dedicated pilots of our struggle who have sat at the controls as the freedom movement soared into orbit. You honor, once again, Chief (Albert) Luthuli of South Africa, whose struggles with and for his people, are still met with the most brutal expression of man's inhumanity to man.

You honor the ground crew without whose labor and sacrifices the jet flights to freedom could never have left the earth.

Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live -- men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization -- because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.

I think Alfred Nobel would know what I mean when I say that I accept this award in the spirit of a curator of some precious heirloom which he holds in trust for its true owners -- all those to whom beauty is truth and truth beauty -- and in whose eyes the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.

There comes a time in our evolutionary cycle that as an educated culture, that love for one's family members enters into the equation of national security. When people in authority have the power to strip an individual or a family of assets, liberty and indeed life itself - does not go unpunished.

When people of all races and relations - regardless of lineage, station or the circumstances of conception are all respected equally. We should be at the point that we do not destroy the lives of innocent children for a couple's act of love no matter how conception occurred. Regardless of the demographic or socio-economic station, how much money or prestige the lovers may have had shall stop hurting the innocent babies, children, parents and uncles, cousins and friends for years, decades and generations to follow. The children of Love should be acknowledged.

Throughout time, but especially in the Swinging Sixties (1960's) values and social mores underwent vast change. The Summers of Love children were born and brought up by the legally married couple or adopted generally, as opposed to the next generation that kept their babies . Now adults, the kids are well into families of their own. What is not known is that inside the "Royalty of America" and real royalty abroad, children of what has been defined through the ages as the products of illicit love affairs suffer the consequences. They are expelled from their castles and homes, brutalized, beaten, raped and turned into stone cold emotionally incapable human beings or raised abroad torn from their parents arms, suffering profound psychological impact for parent and child alike. These are children of the leaders of the world. One must examine those which fate has selected to lead. They must be worthy. This is the time to halt the Vendetta... this has been going on with much loss of life for over 50 years...I ask of my family and this nation. Halt the violence - end the 50 year governmental fatwa on me, let me live on every level in peace and harmony.

Or Why Fight For Any Other Rights for that Matter?

We as an educated people should be able to live, work, be happy and free to live without the harassment of the "State," without being deprived of our rights and shunned for false imprisionment where bones were broken and mind and body altering drugs were forced upon while the innocent scream for their life, that they, "do not want to die." [2005]. You ask what secrets, well, big ones that have nothing to do with me, Sins of the Fathers. Starting fifty years ago. Many thousands of people in positions of power know what deprivations, hardship, criminal and institutional abuse I have endured, and through the Internet and back up data, eventually the full truth will be told - my truth in America is not dissimilar to the loss of lives in the Nazi Concentration Camps that focused on "medical experiments" to silence and kill the Jewish people one by one, totalling in millions in WWII.

Many of my friends and relatives have been murdered, and I and my husband have been mentally and physically "neutered." They call it 'duvet,' as in 'do vet.' Spray and Nueter, physically and fry the brain cells using whatever available and multiple means repeatedly, drugs to cause stroke and DNA engineered designer drugs to cause fat to grow inside the organs like heart, kidney, liver, stomach, etc., until the Stafish is gone and a only a lonely Shellfish remains... "Lest we not forget."

There are many reasons a person chooses a career path or is forced into it, to fight for what they believe is right for America. I simply seek the enforcement of my Civil Rights as described in the US Constitution. This is my long and so far unsuccessful battle for justice, that I as a individual and a warrior against my own country's actions, I have fought long and hard to achieve justice, in defiance of all things taken. Liberty and assets - things that most Americans take for granted, taken repeatedly and unjustly due to the abuse of power, combined with the greed of 'family' members, my sister at the helm. Secrets over 50 years old - Sins of the Fathers having nothing to do with me, except that as a child I saw and as adult I have met and loved. And, as a result, my career has been shaken, even my husband taken. Sorry, but I feel like it's time to begin to discuss specifics.

Now is the time for lawmakers to step up to the plate of justice and restitution and right the years of legal harrassment and deprivation of my rights. The Laurels of Righteousness should be awarded to those who uphold the Constitution. Yet for many years, I have seen little or no courage in bringing the wrong doers to justice. What has become acceptable in light of corruption, perhaps instead this example can be leveraged - not traded - for change to affect the positive betterment of America, the Right to live Free in this Land of "Liberty". But not at my expense yet again.

There are mountains of files upon files, movies, tapes of what has been done to me, let alone others in my family. Stop the violence and political abuse of the legal system. She, whom I have not spoken to in over two years, who despite her own achievements is so ashamed for anyone to know her approval of politically motivated feloneous, Nazi style medical experiments upon me including sterilization and approval of experimental injections designed to kill, "the use of money" and influence instead of wisdom, character or decency to prevent the exercise of my Constitutional Rights, leave me alone so I may work and conduct business in this community. And then there is my non-approval or knowledge of a probable child of me and an unconsumated red hot love affair through genetic and artificial means. Major case law issues that I haven't even been party to. Big bucks at stake judging by the expenditures. This appears to the the root cause of the custody battle and all that has been done. I am older and wiser now but still capable of love, are you?

One would think it would never happen here - this is the United States of America, yet it does, as the very abreviated story below lightly outlines. It is just the tail of the whale. In Sunny South Florida - from sea to shining sea. Yet I have a wonderful nephew and neices and cousins I want to see. New found siblings, a brother and sister or two are here, along with a dear girlfriend going back 30 years from Germany. She was like how a sister could be. And the dad, he did't want to share custody, and I advised him to do so. So where is my nephew and what is with this family tree?

"The Breeder Is Me"

by Terry M. Hammes, MBA, MIT, MEd ©2008

Soft wind blows on the face of the dead as the body washes out to sea

Where or has life passed by me by oh woe is me

A shining moment too few to hold - whisper a kiss and nothing left to tell

The heart the mind wanting in harmony

A shining star with Lessons to tell

Due to the depths of an Inflicted too private hell

He hopes, she prays for a better day

Fought long and hard to return to her old way

A wasted life a love life lost a family denied at every cost

A brighter day can we show them the way within hostility and strife

That has become my life

How does one explain all that been ripped from my grasp,

My heart my life my assets all taken in strife

A pawn I but am to the gross enrichment of corrupt power

Just yet another opp run for spoils of the hour.

Incest is best

To build the family tree

Just look at what's been done to the breeder is me.

And all for a love

A family gone bad

Look what you had

Gee aren't we so glad.

[Well, not everyone is.]

Terry (Therese) Marie Hammes, b. March 27, 1955 - Dedicated to Howard John Hammes, My father, 1924-1974 and me.

"Angels Wings"

Late at Night

With profound delight

I have been enveloped

in a lovely light.

Angel's Wings caress me tight

A mild hug

My true comfort

That brings delight

When I've been sad

Is when an Angel comes

Bringing comfort and love

Direct from Above.

© 2003-2008 Terry Hammes

FREE by Terry Hammes (c) 2000

I long to be free

To smell the flowers and fly like a honey bee

To taste the sweet nectar of life

Devoid of never-ending strife

I long to fly to three - not just in fantasy

I yearn for warm kisses, mixed with love

And the blessings of God above.

To work to, to play faraway from today

Without the ‘state's' stranglehold over

Each and every day and way

When will I be free again?

In this Land of Liberty?

Where they have taken all I have worked for that is precious to me.

To somehow erase the injustices that have been heaped upon me?

Where have they gone - these Rights we hold dear?!

There's a Constitution!

Remember!

This isn't a Communist Nation....

Oh hear my plea, and

‘Get me outta here.'

My heart aches

For the warmth of the sun

The lapping

Of waves and rustling of leaves

Under a canopy of trees

Yet I am but an eagle longing to be free

Don't they know eagles die in captivity?

Please Dear God, don't abandon me!

This is not Communist Russia, Cuba or Nazi Germany!

Stripped of my assets and freedom and all that is dear to me.

Hear my cry

I need to be free!

But instead broken in Spirit

And in Faith in God and Country

As is my arm from the

Attack upon me.

I need to be free.

Please someone rescue me.

Terry M. Hammes © 2000

This was used to win my freedom in 2000 and written after 9 months of extreme chemical lobotomization. Other attacks upon me include confiscation of real estate, sterilization, economic blackmail, abuse by the legal system, injections of drugs to promote disease and death. etc. Stop the violence, stop the vendetta upon the innocent siblings - like me.