"My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger... My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail." -George W. Bush - March 19, 2003
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it" : Adolf Hitler
"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to" : Malcolm Muggeridge
Living on the stardust of the past glories of yesterday-what could have been..Now we just send up secret military junk,call center satellites and if we want to send something wonderful we have to beg, then pay the russkies because most of our 'resources are not in education, research(save weapons)infrastructure...nope over 1/2 the federal budget is sucked up by the militarism and that boys and girls is a crime, a crime against you,against your kids and the rest of humanity...Your american,what are you going to do about it? Play dead? Salute the flag? Support the troops? Or are you going to wake up, realize your not just being screwed by lies,deception,false fears,pretexts,red-herrings but ROBBED,robbed of your future,robbed ofyour kids future so that the status-quo(your owners,who by the way-and it ain't the politician)who is ripping you off for massive profits in the military-corporate complex and their banking/wall street SHORT TERM profit margins while they glorify yesterday's accomplishments to bamboozle you by star-spangled-eyes, the sullied flag and rah rah propaganda bs for you to worship and keep your mouth shut about while the troops, your government does the most odious things like torture,murdering by drone children, medics and first responders,weddings,funerals and arms selling to virtually anyone. Aggressive violence and supporting proxies/dictatorships against nations who dare to stand up to us...We are the monster,the bully of the global neighborhood and our forces straddle 151 nations with over 1000 bases and that is not only unprecedented,it is financially untenable. This empire spends 2.2 million a day on militarism and if you spent that 2/2 million every day since Jesus was born to the year 2011, you would have spent what this 'most christian' nation spent on militarism just in one year-2011. We spend more on militarism than the whole rest of the planet combined and we have the largest military contract ever devised with one of the worst dictatorships-monarchies in the world who just happen to finance the very terrorism your leaders say they are fighting-'Whahabi extreme islam' (Wahhabi Islam, the primary religious movement behind extremist Islam, includes beliefs and doctrines not found elsewhere."). I am sure as well-informed american citizens you remember some of the members of that sect. 15 of them were the ones who performed 911 on you and yours and do you remember what Bush did? Did he go attack Saudi Arabia for fermenting anti-west hatred culminating in 911? Did he send the troops to overthrow that backward despotic dictatorship that was directly involved? Nope, he just allowed private planes to pick up his friends- 'the bin laden family' during the next couple of days(which by the way were the only flights allowed in the whole nation at the time-everything else was grounded-you, me, but not the bin ladens) and fly them home to Saudi Arabia. Now the FBI did go to Saudi Arabia later to do interviews with the bin laden family and others...But THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED! Do you understand now? Its not about principles or values or even the nation or the people within, it is about profit, profit and power and nothing else matters to them. They simply hoodwink you and take advantage of your loyalties,nationalism and patriotism for their own means. This is not conspiratorial theory. This is simply the way things are and you,we need to do something about it,for our sake, the planets sake and the futures sake... "The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and participatory to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether nazi or communist." Winston Churchill
"The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won't take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don't like to make waves-or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control.
If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn." -
Sophie Scholl - 1921 - 1943 - German student, a member of the White Rose society, a non-violent anti Nazi resistance group. The role of the U.S. in the new world corporate order is going to be to export security. That means endless wars and weapons in space. The Pentagon will send our kids off to foreign lands to suppress opposition to corporate globalization. How will we ever end America's addiction to war and violence as long as our communities are dependent on military spending for jobs?" - Bruce Gagnon Many U.S.citizens have avoided knowing that U.S. citizens, including minors, have been targeted and killed, that women and children are on the list of those to be killed, that hundreds of civilian deaths have been documented by serious journalists including victims' names and identities, that U.S. peace activists went to Pakistan and met with victims' families, that the U.S. ambassador in Pakistan said there was a U.S. government count of how many civilians had been killed but he wouldn't say what it was, that the vast majority of those killed are not important leaders in any organization, that people are targeted and killed without knowing their name, that people are targeted and killed merely for the act of trying to rescue victims of previous strikes, that the wounded outnumber the dead, that the traumatized outnumber the wounded, that the refugees who have fled the drone strikes are over a million, that the drone wars did not replace ground wars but began war making in new nations so destabilized now by the drone strikes that ground wars may develop, that some top U.S. military officials have said the drones are creating more new enemies than they kill, or that what drones are doing to our reputation abroad makes Abu Ghraib look like the fun and games our media pundits said it was. "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [i.e., securing inherent and inalienable rights, with powers derived from the consent of the governed], it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:315
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