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The complete statement partially made on January 21, 2003 by the High Ideologue of the House of Ideology before the City Council of West Hollywood Hi,
My name is Kevin Michael McDaniel.
I am the High Ideologue of the House of Ideology. My official website is located
on the Internet at Http://www.4iam.org . The
House of Ideology is a non-profit spiritual association with an office located
in West Hollywood, CA. The High Ideologue is the director of the House of
Ideology. In order to protect myself from risk of liability, I have incorporated
the office of the High Ideologue in the State of California as High Ideologue, A
Corporation Sole (Entity ID # 2255186). Article XI of the Articles of
Incorporation of the High Ideologue, A Corporation Sole states that no
substantial part of activities of this corporation shall consist of attempting
to influence legislation and or the
Corporation shall not participate or intervene in any political campaigns
(including the publishing or distribution of statements) on behalf of or in
opposition to any candidate for public office. Therefore I cannot say whether I
am opposed or in favor of the proposed resolutions in opposition of the United
States’ Proposed Military Action Against Iraq that the City of West Hollywood
is considering tonight. I can speak in terms of generalities. I wonder: How many
Americans are aware that America has a serious strategic vulnerability? It is a
little known fact that lying underneath one of the United States largest and
most picturesque National Parks – Yellowstone Park – is one of the largest
‘super volcanoes’ in the world. The term ‘super volcano’ has no
specifically defined scientific meaning. It was used by the producers of The
BBC TV show Horizon in
2000 to refer to volcanoes that have generated Earth’s largest volcanic
eruptions. As such, a super volcano would be one that has produced an
exceedingly large, catastrophic explosive eruption and a giant caldera or large
crater formed by the eruption of a super volcano. A
super volcano is one of the most destructive force on this planet. Only a few
exist in the world and when they erupt they do so with a force tens of thousands
of times greater than other eruptions. They lie dormant for hundreds of
thousands of years as a vast reservoir of magma builds up inside them before
finally they unleash their apocalyptic force, capable of obliterating
continents. They threaten the survival of mankind. The last eruption of a super
volcano was in Toba, Sumatra, 75,000 years ago. It had 10,000 times the
explosive force of Mount St. Helens and changed life on Earth forever. Thousands
of cubic kilometers of ash was thrown into the atmosphere - so much that it
blocked out light from the sun all over the world. 2,500 miles away 35
centimeters of ash coated the ground. Global temperatures plummeted by 21
degrees. The rain would have been so poisoned by the gasses that it would have
turned black and strongly acidic. Man was pushed to the edge of extinction, the
population forced down to just a couple of thousand. Three quarters of all
plants in the northern hemisphere were killed.
Super volcanoes differ from normal
volcanoes in many ways. The stereotypical volcano is a towering cone, but super
volcanoes form in depressions in the ground called calderas. When a normal
volcano erupts lava gradually builds up in the mountain before releasing it. In
super volcanoes when magma nears the surface it does not reach it, instead it
begins to fill massive underground reservoirs. The magma melts the nearby rock
to form more extremely thick magma. The magma is so viscous that volcanic gasses
that normally trigger an eruption cannot pass, so a massive amount of pressure
begins to build up. This continues for hundreds of thousands of years until an
eruption occurs, which blasts away a huge amount of ground, forming a new
caldera.
Not all super volcanoes have been
found, but one of the largest is in Yellowstone Park, USA. Scientists searching
for the caldera in the park could not see it because it was so huge - only when
satellite images were taken did the scale of the caldera become apparent - the
whole park, 85km by 45km, is one massive reservoir of magma. The idyll landscape
of Yellowstone (below) could soon explode with devastating consequences.
Immediately before the eruption, there would be large earthquakes in the
Yellowstone region. The ground would swell further with most of Yellowstone
being uplifted. One earthquake would finally break the layer of rock that holds
the magma in - and all the pressure the Earth can build up in 640,000 years
would be unleashed in a cataclysmic event.
Magma would be flung 50 kilometers
into the atmosphere. Within a thousand kilometers falling ash, lava flows and
the sheer explosive force of the eruption would kill virtually all life.
Volcanic ash would coat places as far away as Iowa and the Gulf of Mexico. One
thousand cubic kilometers of lava would pour out of the volcano, enough to coat
the whole of the USA with a layer 5 inches thick. The explosion would have a
force 2,500 times that of Mount St. Helens. It would be the loudest noise heard
by man for 75,000 years, the time of the last super volcano eruption. Within
minutes of the eruption tens of thousands would be dead.
Now I ask the honorable City
Council Members: What would be the effect of a terrorist detonating a single
nuclear weapon in Yellowstone Park? Nobody knows for sure, but I wonder if such
a nuclear attack would trigger the eruption of the super volcano in Yellowstone
Park if the mega tonnage of the weapon were large enough. As many as 30,000
nuclear weapons might be fired at the United States in the event of War World
III. What is our president doing to protect us against this possibility besides
demanding of the international community that we be permitted to enter into war
with any foreign power whose ideologies we don’t like and who might be
developing nuclear weapons.
If we continue to turn potential friends around the globe into our
enemies by entering into their countries to kill people, destroy property, and
desolate the environment for the sake of achieving and maintaining a dominant
position within the global culture and if we continue to underestimate the
intellectual abilities of those residing in these countries, and if we break
international law then America and the global culture may be setting itself up
for a great fall. It is my opinion that many of our nations are peace loving
however they will only allow themselves to preyed upon by a beast of an
international military industrial complex for so long before they will strike
back. Presently America feeds the beast of an international military industrial
complex by far the most money and resources. Is it any wonder than that many in
the Islamic world equate America with the beast of an international military
industrial complex and vilify America as the ‘Great Satan’? Starving a beast
can be dangerous as it might choose to turn its’ weapons of mass destruction
against us. It seems that the beast of an international military industrial
complex has been used as a tool by the plutocrat few to exaggerate the
stratification of wealth and poverty within the global culture and thereby
consolidate authority, power, order, and control over the many nations. It seems
to me that we cannot win a war on terror by spreading terror in war. It seems to
me that we can win a war on terror by spreading humor in peace.
Blue Text used with permission from original author Michael Lewis.Here is a link to Armageddon Online the web site created by Michael Lewis. His web page with Super Volcanoes as a topic is the source of blue text I used.
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