When Amazon online retailers and LULU removed the entire library of Michael Walsh one of his best-selling titles, ‘For Those Who Cannot Speak’ was among those scores of books censored. The author of over 70 books is (was) said to be Europe’s most successful multi-topic book author. Nevertheless, the award-winning journalist and historian lost his entire income from the sale of his books. Here are excerpts from the banned book For Those Who Cannot Speak.

HELEN KELLER “Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings! Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction! Helen Keller. ~ Source: Told to an audience at Carnegie Hall one year before the United States entered World War I. From ‘Declarations of Independence’ by Howard Zinn page 75.

14,500 WARS AND RISING The Swiss scientist Jean-Jacques Babel found that during the last 5,700 years, humanity fought 14,500 wars with three and a half billion dead. That is half of today’s world population. In the year 1991 for example there were 52 wars or warlike crises on this earth.

U.S. GENERAL DOUGLAS MCARTHUR ~ “It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.”

CLOTHE THE WORLD ~ “Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud.  I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth.  I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.”   ~ Charles Sumner.

MARK TWAIN “It is yet another Civilized Power with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher knife in the other.  Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?”  

ALDOUS HUXLEY “The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.” ~ Aldous Huxley – English novelist and critic, 1894-1963.

FREDERIC BASTIAT “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” ~ Frederic Bastiat, (1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY “No one man nor group of men incapable of fighting or exempt from fighting should in any way be given the power, no matter how gradually it is given them, to put this country or any country into war.”  

JOHN FLYNN ‘The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with a high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilise savage and senile and paranoid peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells.’~ John Flynn, 1944.

THE GREATEST ROBBERS AND MARAUDERS ‘We are without exception the greatest robbers and marauders that ever existed on the face of the globe. We are worse than other countries because we are hypocrites also, for we plunder and always pretend to do so for other peoples’ good.’ ~ Henry Labouchere, Liberal MP and journalist.

HENRY KISSINGER ‘Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.’  Henry Kissinger as quoted in Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW in Vietnam (1990) by Monika Jensen-Stevenson and William Stevenson.  

CIVILIAN CASUALTIES 95% of American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century’s major wars. In the First World War, 5 per cent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 per cent, while in a Third World War, 90-95 per cent would be civilians: Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action.

MARK TWAIN Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.” ~ Mark Twain. The Mysterious Stranger 1916.

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THE POWER OF PROPAGANDA ~ “If a nation is to go to war, then that nation cannot afford to tell the balanced truth about the enemy nation, and anyone who does during wartime will be tried and sentenced for sedition, and possibly executed. The warmongering faction has to get its citizens mad at the enemy. It has to get its citizens to think they are fighting for the world’s good, and for Christian or other religious righteousness, and the enemy is evil and ruled by the devil. So it was with the propaganda against Hitler and Germany, and so it has been ever since.” ~ Alex S. Perry Jnr. Barnes Review, Vol. No.1.

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