By David Musa Pidcock
The Rules of War
“Do you agree to abide by the Rules of War?” asked the Red Knight.
“Certainly,” answered the White Knight.

“Excellent,” retorted the Red Knight. “Now, having agreed upon that, we can begin the fight.”
“What nonsense you speak,” said Alice, “there are no rules in war. War is horrid and very unfair: that the strong overcome the weak, is the only, very unjust, rule.”
“Well, I noted that you wisely used the term overcome,” said the Red Knight, “and did not speak of a winner; this is quite correct, as the over-comer can often suffer as much devastation and poverty as the defeated.”
The ‘Winners’ from World War 1.
“Yes, the true winner is seldom one of the combatants,” enjoined the White Knight.
“You speak in riddles,” said Alice. “Whatever can you mean?”
“Why” said both of the knights together, “the winner of every war is the provider of the WAR LOANS of course ! ! ! !”
“It is they that win every time,” continued the White Knight. “It matters not which side claims victory – those that lend the money, especially to both sides, can never lose. First the devastation and then the reconstruction must be paid for.”
“It is only when you come to realize this,” said the Red Knight, “that you can grasp the real and hidden motive for all the seemingly unending, pointless and wasteful wars.”
“Great poverty is visited on all sides engaging in warfare,” said the White knight, “as every treasure must be yielded up to pay for the fighting. But this treasure does not disappear, as most assume; it just simply changes hands.”
“Indeed”, he continued “if you want to discover the true cause for any war, ‘follow the money;’ it’s the best way to solve crime – ask any policeman.”
“And now on to War Rule 1,” said the Red Knight, “this states that the first blow must always be self-inflicted.”
“I can’t see any sense at all in that,” said Alice.
“Oh! But one must always follow this rule and then claim to be innocent party, blaming your opponent for a cowardly, surprise, unprovoked attack…This will guarantee fear, self-righteous resentment, and a thirst for revenge from your followers,” explained The White Knight.
FROM ALICE & THE MONEY TREE BY J.M. WESTON BRIGGS
ISBN 978-1-9998485-0-7
White House insists the US has ‘very high confidence that Syria was responsible’

“When I use a word,” Trumpty Dumpty said, to Alice, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less”.
“But I/we don’t know what you mean by ‘great,’ ” Alice said. Because grate and great sound exactly the same but have entirely different meanings?
Trumpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t—till I tell you! I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’ ”
Alice objected. “But ‘Make America Great Again’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument either’,” Because both you, your arguments, gesticulations Twitters and Tweets seem designed to ‘Make you and America Grate on everyone’s nerves?’
“When I use a word,” Trumpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Trumpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Trumpty Dumpty began again. “They’ve a temper, some of them—particularly verbs, they’re the proudest—adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs—however, I can manage the whole lot! Impenetrability! That’s what I say!”

- The above passages were used in Britain by Lord Atkin in his dissenting judgement in the seminal case Liversidge v. Anderson (1942), where he protested about the distortion of a statute by the majority of the House of Lords.[24] It also became a popular citation in United States legal opinions, appearing in 250 judicial decisions in the Westlaw database as of 19 April 2008, including two Supreme Court cases (TVA v. Hill and Zschernig v. Miller).[25]
- It has been suggested by A. J. Larner that Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty had *prosopagnosia on the basis of his description of his finding faces hard to recognise. (*Prosopagnosia, also called face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one’s own face).
THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP

27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., Organizer of Yale’s “Duty to Warn” Conference
Thomas Dunne Books
The consensus view of two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation and our own mental health.
This is not normal.
Since the start of Donald Trump’s presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated the observations of concerned citizens: What is wrong with him? Constrained by the American Psychiatric Association’s “Goldwater rule,” which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to answer this question have shied away from discussing the issue at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, bad, or both.
In THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP, twenty-seven psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health experts argue that, in Mr. Trump’s case, their moral and civic “duty to warn” America supersedes professional neutrality. They then explore Trump’s symptoms and potentially relevant diagnoses to find a complex, if also dangerously mad, man.
Philip Zimbardo and Rosemary Sword, for instance, explain Trump’s impulsivity in terms of “unbridled and extreme present hedonism.” Craig Malkin writes on pathological narcissism and politics as a lethal mix. Gail Sheehy, on a lack of trust that exceeds paranoia. Lance Dodes, on sociopathy. Robert Jay Lifton, on the “malignant normality” that can set in everyday life if psychiatrists do not speak up.
His madness is catching, too. From the trauma people have experienced under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristics of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond.
It’s not all in our heads. It’s in his.




