precedents
“THERE IS NO ONE SO HOPELESSLY ENSLAVED AS HE WHO FALSELY BELIEVES HE IS FREE. . . .”
-Goethe
An American leader Goethe was not but he aptly describes the state we find ourselves in. I mentioned previously a discussion with a family friend. In the end the poor guy continued to claim the US as the most freedom loving nation in the world even if it has slipped a little in the civil liberties department. According to him it’s actions no matter how horrendous are justified in the name of fighting freedom hating terrorists. As I mentioned before, he was only able to take things so far even when given the facts of the crimes our “freedom loving” or freedom defending government. He couldn’t handle the fact that it has long been committing crimes against it’s own citizens as well as those abroad to further it’s aim. He refused to believe it.
Here are a few of them:
Bombing the uss maine
… there is another possibility that deserves consideration. Was the explosion on the Maine a deliberate provocation by US militarists or their agents to foment war with Spain?
Also:
HUNDREDS of former US prisoners of war have begun a battle for compensation after uncovering documents that allegedly prove the wartime administration deliberately used them as a tool to whip up domestic support for war with Japan.
Tonkin gulf
American Planes Hit North Vietnam After Second Attack on Our Destroyers; Move Taken to Halt New Aggression“, announced a Washington Post headline on Aug. 5, 1964.
That same day, the front page of the New York Times reported: “President Johnson has ordered retaliatory action against gunboats and ‘certain supporting facilities in North Vietnam’ after renewed attacks against American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.”
But there was no “second attack” by North Vietnam — no “renewed attacks against American destroyers.” By reporting official claims as absolute truths, American journalism opened the floodgates for the bloody Vietnam War.
http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/signs20050820.htm and
This article gets into more details of things our government have done to us citizens and it ain’t pretty.
As we search for answers to how we got here a look back is also necessary. Clearly we did not heed the words of our leaders from the past. They were well aware of human nature and what could become of the American experiment if we do not remain vigilant. Well, we have fallen asleep at the wheel and have failed to hold our government accountable. If these leaders from the past were to rise from the grave today uttering the same words they once did, how quickly would they be accused of being “with them”….the terrorists. While Americans argue for or against the war through deception those in power continue to plunder and destroy even their own back yard.
“The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.”
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Would Franklin see us as deserving of liberty today?
