Posted by Charles R Marquette
"All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."-David Rockeffeller
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"Those who are able to see
beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone
believed, by the masses."
NO YOU WEREN'T! I sharply replied. I never asked you to! What you are doing right now is insulting my intelligence and expecting a "thank you" from me. And if you took the liberty to "fight for my freedom," don't you think you should have consulted with me first? Since it is my freedom we are talking about, don't you think I should have some say in it? If you took upon yourself to "fight for my freedom" without my approval or consent, you are simply encroaching on my rights to decide for myself one way or the other. You did not ask me and I did not approve for you to go into some poor black and/or brown people's land to kill them on my behalf. Had you consulted with me, I would have never agreed to any such a thing.
"I was fighting for your freedom—spewed an overtly patriotic ignoramus
with an air of righteous indignation—and you should be thankful to
people like me."
NO YOU WEREN'T! I sharply replied. I never asked you to! What you are doing right now is insulting my intelligence and expecting a "thank you" from me. And if you took the liberty to "fight for my freedom," don't you think you should have consulted with me first? Since it is my freedom we are talking about, don't you think I should have some say in it? If you took upon yourself to "fight for my freedom" without my approval or consent, you are simply encroaching on my rights to decide for myself one way or the other. You did not ask me and I did not approve for you to go into some poor black and/or brown people's land to kill them on my behalf. Had you consulted with me, I would have never agreed to any such a thing.
I have never been oppressed. I have always
been free and I have always been able to move about freely—within the U.S. and
outside the U.S.—and never had anyone coming up to me, or after me, attempting
to take my freedom away. I have walked the streets of countries you call the
"bad guys" and not once I felt threaten. Nobody has ever threatened
my freedom except my own government. What you and others have been
fighting for has absolutely nothing to do with me and my freedom, or
even your own for that matter. And any alert and well-informed observer, who
has not been brainwashed, would readily recognize that.
Do you think of yourself as being a
"hero" or a "freedom-fighter" or a "liberator" or
a "peace-keeper" or a "defender of democracy," or a
"peace maker"? Well, here is the naked truth. You are not any of
those things! What you are is a gullible, perhaps sincere, pawn used by big banks,
big corporations, the military industrial complex and its associated discourse
of America hegemony which dominates domestic and foreign politics, and by
globalists to rubber-stamp policies of folly. What you are is a brainwashed,
expendable, and trained killer to do the killing, and the dying, for an
interventionist, monopolist, expansionist, and absolute hegemony agenda in
which there is absolutely nothing for you except—if you are lucky and can make
it back in one piece (or half)—is a fucking medal and a meaningless speech by
those who do not really give a shit about you and your family.
What you are doing—and I would grant that
not necessarily consciously—is helping to further destroy this nation whose
bloated "defense" (a
misleading use of the term) spending (43% of the world total) remains at the
same level of that during the Cold War. Yes, we spend more in so-called "defense" than all the rest of the world put
together--despite our massive budget deficit. Someone said: "The point of war is not
to win but to prolong it." In
order to operate, the Military
Industrial Complex necessitates
perpetual wars because war is a racket with incredible returns. What you
are doing is aiding the corrupt banking system to consolidate a vast wealth
into fewer hands. You are a participant in the illegitimacy of the U.S.
unilateral policy in international affairs. U.S. holds in only 5% of the
world population, yet it consumes 50% of the world's resources--particularly
energy. Your work is contributing to the terrible impoverishment and
gradual enslavement of mankind to a few incredible rich. One third of our
children do not graduate from high school. We are 26th in the world with respect to
education. Our health system is in a shambles. American jobs have been shipped
oversea for a chipper labor thus the high unemployment rate. A government that
has allowed the Federal
Reserve Bank—which is no more "federal" than Federal Express and
possesses no "reserve" except the
self-granted unchallenged right to print money out of thin air—the greedy
corporation giants, thieves, murderers, psychopaths and
unscrupulous liars to run amok and hijack this nation with zero
accountability. But then again, these are the same people running our
government, and that perhaps could help to explain why 2.3
trillion dollars of the Pentagon's budget is unaccounted for. Now, I am
very clear that being "unaccounted
for" does not
necessarily mean that the money is missing or outright
stolen, however, how do you lose track of that much money? Where did
that much money go to? A at minimum, this unaccountability of 2.3 trillion
dollars reflects a high degree of incompetence on the part of our government. What
happened to the 8.8 billion dollars assigned to the "Development
Fund for Iraq"? Our internal infrastructure is falling apart.
U.S. national debt is now 7.7 trillion dollars. The average Americans now spend
a record amount of their money just paying off the high interest on their
loans; and yet I am constantly hearing dumbasses parroting the same phony,
delusional, and self-flattering bullshit ad nauseam: "Oh, we Americans are the
smartest. We're the #1 in the world. We're the best in the world. People hate
us for what we are, for what we got, and for what we stand for"--disingenuously glossing
over the real reasons why those nations, that have been victims of
America's unipolarity, hate our guts. And this is what you are fighting for!
These are the same criminals who send your patriotic dumb-ass oversea to
kill people who have done nothing to you and get killed while they rob your
country blind!
"I'm fighting to support and spread
democracy." NO, YOU'RE NOT, YOU FOOL!
You are, to the elitists, the warmonger profiteers, AIPAC and the Neo-Cons, an insignificant disposable pawn used to further the imperial mission of economical, political and military control of foreign lands. All predicated upon its deeply-held belief of moral superiority--which constitutes but a false pretenSe--and the self-deluded myth that America is the epitome of "freedom and democracy." America crusades and demands that all the world accept the American "way of life" or else while, on the one hand, giving weapons and diplomatic support to corrupt royal families of Bahrain in Saudi Arabia and the other tin-pot tyrants of the Persian Gulf who have banded together in a savage repression of their own democratic oppositions, and on the other hand, toppling governments that do not toe its line. And this exposes the hypocrisy and the irreconcilable dichotomy in the thinking and claims of our leaders.
You are, to the elitists, the warmonger profiteers, AIPAC and the Neo-Cons, an insignificant disposable pawn used to further the imperial mission of economical, political and military control of foreign lands. All predicated upon its deeply-held belief of moral superiority--which constitutes but a false pretenSe--and the self-deluded myth that America is the epitome of "freedom and democracy." America crusades and demands that all the world accept the American "way of life" or else while, on the one hand, giving weapons and diplomatic support to corrupt royal families of Bahrain in Saudi Arabia and the other tin-pot tyrants of the Persian Gulf who have banded together in a savage repression of their own democratic oppositions, and on the other hand, toppling governments that do not toe its line. And this exposes the hypocrisy and the irreconcilable dichotomy in the thinking and claims of our leaders.
DON'T PATRONIZE ME! You are not fighting
for my fucking freedom and I do not want you to! Further from "spreading
and supporting democracy," the records of the U.S.A. undermining democracy
and provoking anti-American sentiment around the world are overwhelming and
well-documented. In fact, our government's intelligence entities have worked
tirelessly day and night to destabilize democratically elected governments in
South-East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin-America that did not toe its
line—bringing their leaders down and installing cut-throat dictators whose
atrocities of human rights and corrupt dealing were/are well-known to our
government and everyone else. Here are just a few examples which demonstrate
that "spreading and supporting democracy" is nothing but boldfaced
lies:
U.S. occupied and ruled the Dominican
Republic between 1916 and 1924. Shortly thereafter a military general by the
name Rafael Trujillo,
took control of that nation with the National Guard which was created and
placed under his control by the U.S. government. Back in the '30s, this
puppet-thug, general Trujillo, killed some 30,000 Dominicans and Haitians in an
attempt to make his side of the country "more
white." This
puppet-thug had the U.S. backing until the mid '50s when he was placed under
economical sanctions for his attempt—among other crimes—on the life of
Venezuelan president Romulo
Betancourt. Not too long after, the U.S. supported the conservative
opposition that overthrew him and then killed his thug-ass in 1961.
In 1953 the CIA, in cahoots with the British Secret Service—under
the not-so-cover operation termed "AJAX"—orchestrated
the overthrown of the then Iran's Prime Minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh,
who came to power through electoral process, and put their yes-sir puppet, the Shah, back on the
throne who then ruled Iran with an iron fist with the blessing of the United
States and the British. The British and the Americans were sucking the oil out
of Iran, while majority of the Iranian common people were living in poverty.
Why should strangers, who do not even look like you, be in absolute control of
the resources in your own house? You would not allow it, would you? Mr.
Mosaddegh nationalized the oil of his nation to eliminate poverty and raise the
living standard of his people; but to the west that was an act of insolence and
an affront, and they were bent on making Prime Minister Mosaddegh to pay for
his crime, and that they did because the U.S. will not accept any exercise of
sovereignty by any nation if their sovereignty interferes with the U.S.
imperial hegemony. No, it is not by accident that the oil richest
continent is embroiled in a seemingly endless conflict. The West—primarily the
U.S., the British and the French—bear a great deal of responsibility for much
of the Middle-East turmoil. This, and United States' double standard, bankrupt
foreign policy, has been in essence the Islamic main motivation for fighting
Americans and not the conceited, self-deluded, and self-flattering platitude
that "they just hate us for what we are and what we got."
After Indonesia long struggle against the
Dutch colonialist thugs who ruled that nation for 350 long years, and then
against three and a half years of Japanese occupation, Sukarno, the first
elected president of Indonesia, wanted to implement national policies he
believed were right for his country and his people; and that should have been
nobody's business. In his attempt to do so he created enemies with outsiders;
mainly, of course, the U.S. and the U.K. who had their fat hands on that
nation's mineral, agricultural and energy assets. Well, guess what happened?
Yep! You probably guessed right. The CIA was behind the bloody overthrow of Mr.
Sukarno in 1965-66 that left a death toll of more than half a million people.
The CIA itself called it "one of the worst mass-murders of the 20th century." But the CIA attempts to
topple President Sukarno started much earlier back in 1958, but the attempted
coup was unsuccessful. Sukarno was, it is said, a dictator because he was
president for twenty years; however, it is left out the fact that in his two
decades of reign, he wielded real power only in the last six years of it. And
nothing or very little has been said about the Guided Democracy—the
executive dominated electoral system he instituted earlier in 1959. Surely he
was not perfect, but he was not even close to the like of U.S.-backed ruthless
and mass murderer dictator Mr. Suharto,
who in his thirty-two years of ruling killed just as much people—if not more—as Pol Pot in Cambodia, and imprisoned almost as
many people. But he was serving the economical and geopolitical interest of his
masters in Washington so that makes it ok. So as you can see, no
"democracy" here.
The Phillipines: 1898-1914
U.S.
Brig. Gen. Jacob H. Smith: "I want
no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn.
The
more you kill and burn the better you will please me. I want all persons killed
who
are capable of bearing arms in actual hostilities against the United
States."
Major Littleton W. T. Waller: "How
young?"
Smith: "Ten years and up."
-Exchange on October 1901. Quote from the
testimony at Smith's court martial by the New
York Evening Journal (May
5, 1902) General Smith was a well-known veteran of the Wounded Knee massacre.
The Congo's vast mineral wealth has
always been the focus of western interest—not "democracy." The
assassination on January 17, 1961 of Patrice
Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Congo who had the best
interest of his people at heart, was masterminded by western governments. The
same western power then brought Joseph
Mobuto to power. A
fuckup clown, a traitor to his people, and an Uncle Tom of western powers who
ruled the Congo for thirty-two years with the accustomed despotism of
tyrants—all with the blessing of the Belgian government and Washington. Nope!
No "democracy" here either; only colonialism and exploitation, not
just in the Congo, but throughout the entire African Continent. The Europeans
had colonized the whole Continent of Africa for hundreds of years. If there was
any genuine desire and genuine attempt to develop and democratize Africa we
would have seen that taking place by now; yet, there has been in Africa very
little to nothing that resembles "democracy."
Salvador Allende, in Chile, was democratically elected
with a margin of votes far exceeding that of Mr. Bush in the state of Florida.
But President Nixon, under the advice of his buddy Mr. Kissinger, ordered the
then CIA director, Mr. Helms, to "save Chile"; so on [9/11] of 1973
President Allende was viciously gunned down during a coup carried out by the
military chief at that time named Augusto Pinochet. This
psychopath thug, Mr. Pinochet, then took over the governance of Chile for
17 years. During his reign, according to different verifiable sources, some
3,000 people were murdered, 30,000 tortured and 70-80,000 were placed in
detention centers (concentration camps). So tell me, Mr. Hero, what
the heck all of this crime against humanity has to do with my freedom?
"Lest this seem to be the bellicose
pipedream of some dyspeptic desk soldier, let us remember that the military
dealing of our country has never been defensive warfare. Since the Revolution,
only the United Kingdom has beaten our record for square miles of territory
acquired by military conquest. Our exploits against the American Indian,
against the Filipinos, the Mexicans, and against Spain are on a par with the
campaigns of Genghis Khan, the Japanese in Manchuria and the African attack of
Mussolini. No country has ever declared war on us before we first obliged them
with that gesture. Our whole history shows we have never fought a defensive war.
And at the rate our armed forces are being implemented at present, the odds are
against our fighting one in the near future." -Major General Smedley D. Butler
(America's Armed Forces: 'In Time of Peace', 1935)
"He who accepts evil without protesting
against it is really cooperating with it." -MLK
From the Spanish-American war in
1898—which started with a well-orchestrated hoax—to the invasion and occupation
of Iraq in 2003, our government has been consistently deceitful. Since 1946 it
has been running a [terrorist] training camp simply called the "School of
America" initially, and later in 2001 renamed as "Western Hemisphere
Institute for Security Cooperation." That is quite a long and fancy name
and charade for the kind of training that was (is?) actually being conducted in
that "School." The "School" has trained more than 60,000
Latin-American soldiers and policemen. Among its graduates are many of the
continent's most notorious torturers, mass murderers, dictators and state
terrorists.
This is not a false and unfair indictment
of our government. All of this and much more is well-documented in an almost
700 pages document called "The
Family Jewels"—officially made public on June 26 of 2007, and
available to anyone who cares for truth.
"America is false to the past,
false to the present, and solemnly binds itself to be false to the
future."
-Frederick Douglass.
Circumlocution and modulation of
demagogy—from one minute to the next—intrinsically dominates America's
political culture. When, and only when, it suits them they would call an act or
deed for what it is; namely when it is a wicked deed committed by another
nation…….that is not, of course, part of its circle of "friends" or
so-called "allied." When similar act(s) or deed(s) is carried out by
America then different terminologies—old and new ones—are uttered in a
deliberate attempt to be vague, evasive or to gloss over its negative
connotation. A strongly valid legal argument can be made that the economical
and military sanctions, imposed by the U.N. Security Council on Iraq at the
request of the U.S. in 1990 have come—after 12 years of large scale devastation
of that nation that took the lives of nearly one million people (half of them
children)—amount to no less than GENOCIDE.
LET US FUCKING CALL IT WHAT IT IS! Now add to that tragedy another human cost
of more than 100,000 innocent civilian casualties, due to an all-out unprovoked
invasion by a gang of former colonial powers, headed by the United States, in
2003. All predicated upon what turned out to be a cooked up lie that Saddam Hussein had WMD,
and their typical charade that "Saddam Hussein was killing his own
people"—when, in fact, with the sanctions they were killing more Iraqi
people than Saddam Hussein did [if] in fact that is true. Saddam's or anybody's
evil does not justify yours! And the whole world sits back, watches this evil
being perpetrated, and does nothing! So we are not allowed to get out of the
grip of the violated law of the whole on any pretense of individuality or
limited liability. January/February 1998 magazine, Catholic Worker, explains it
this way:
"[A] war of collective
punishment, a war of mass destruction directed at the civilian population of
Iraq. The U.N., at the request of the U.S., and contrary to international
conventions and treaties, has created in Iraq a zone of misery and death--with
no end in sight. The toll of these sanctions on an entire generation of Iraqi
children is incalculable. What are the implications of Iraqi children
growing up traumatized by hunger and disease, if they survive at all? How can
the deeds of one leader, or even an entire government, be used to justify this
unprecedented, internationally sanctioned violation of human rights? The
devastating effects continue to harm the environment, agricultural production
and health of the Iraqi people significantly."
And while all of this evil was, and still
is, perpetrated against other sovereign non-western nations, the Bill of Rights of our own nation has been trumped by
the so-called "Patriot
Act" right along
with the "NDAA"—by
far the most draconian pieces of legislation which involve many
unconstitutional provisions and were passed without any public debate. And let
us not forget the unprecedented intrusion of the NSA in our lives--playing fast and loose
with the Constitution and shitting all over the 4th Amendment in particular,
and ostensibly telling us that embedding their noses deep in our
asses is a good idea and it is all for our own good. The
gullible citizens of the United States have been conned into accepting a
system of oversight and surveillance disguised as "Home Land Security" (a euphemism for a pre-fascist
surveillance state) by creating a psychological sense of need to be
protected from a dreadful monster the government itself created or helped to
create—giving them the ostensible idea of absolute security. Creating a
negative consequence and offering a solution to such a consequence is Mind Control
101. Fear is the #1 pressure point that is applied to propagate something and
gain support for any proposed solution. And this dealing of our own
government in both inside our nation and around the globe, more than anything
else, has been the real threat to our freedom and liberty and not any so-called
"Al-Qaeda Terrorists." If you genuinely want to fight real terrorism
and terrorists, then you need to go to its network--YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT!
The neo-cons sent you oversea, presumably, to hunt down the Taliban and
Al-Qaeda terrorists, now they are arming and supporting--using our
tax money--the same groups in an attempt to bring down the current government in
Syria. How the fuck does that add to our safety?
"Find out just what any people
will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and
wrong which will be imposed on them." -Frederick Douglass.
No, we never, EVER, brought any peace and
democracy anywhere we have gone in this world because that has never been the
underlying desire and intent; particularly in the Middle-East—an oil-rich
region—Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin-America. What we have brought with us
to those places is warships, warplanes, tanks, bombs, guided missiles, and
hundreds of thousands of indoctrinated disposable fools and gun-hoes filled
with all kinds of prejudice and hang-ups willing and ready to crush any
opposition to U.S. world domination. And I have never, and will never consent
to any such barbaric acts. And my soul surely will Rest In Peace free of
such a burden. My alliance, pledge and loyalty is uncompromisingly to
the truth and nothing else. So don't you dare to tell me: "We're
fighting to preserve your freedom." FUCK YOU!!! Whatever your
reason or motive may be for enlisting in the military and go oversea
to slaughter people who never wronged you, you happen to be, by all
accounts, on the wrong side of history. And I will surely tell you that you
will be better off if we, atheists, are right and it turns out that there is no
god--particularly a just god. I know that the idea of being a "freedom
fighter" makes you feel
proud, warm and fuzzy, but it is a false idea sold to you by those
criminals who would not put on the uniform and go and do the killing and
the dying themselves. Ask yourself this basic question. Why is it
that our political culture, presumably the highest expression of ideals
of freedom and democracy, has routinely gone around
the globe overthrowing elected governments, offering support to corrupt
and brutal dictators, training and funding terrorist cells and unleashing
merciless attacks on civilians when our country wages unprovoked war
against other nations? The U.S. has a terrible historical track
record when it comes to establishing so-called "democracy"
when they have invaded other nations under this false banner. And it is
in the Middle East, perhaps more so than any other place, where
they bear the worse of this record. You must understand that the use of
military force against any nation attempting to impose a "democracy"
they never requested, is the height of arrogance. It is a dichotomous action
which undermines precisely the very principle of what democracy really
means. And if you cannot comprehend this, then there is something
fundamentally wrong with your thinking process. The claim that the
U.S. is the ultimate
fulfillment of the values of justice is
but a false claim. It runs counter to its long history and record of
brutality, both at home as well as abroad. And if you have any doubt
about this indictment, then let us ask the native people of this land, the
Africans and their descendants, and the citizens of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and
Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia. No, you are not a "freedom
fighter." All
things considered, what you are is a pawn-agent of death and destruction.
-Plato.
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