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Cowardice Is Destroying America

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America was founded on courage.

For example, I've read a number of biographies of George Washington, who was actually a horrible general. Washington's early campaigns were disastrous, and the entire Revolutionary War was almost lost due to Washington's early miscalculations (for example, his first major battle was fought from a low, exposed position, so that the British forced a surrender by seizing the high ground).

But Washington was brave.  He always rode with his soldiers into battle at the front of the line, even when there were waves of incoming cannon balls being hurled in his direction.  (Because Washington was unusually tall for his day, that made him an easy target).  Washington's courage - and his willingness to consistently fight on the front lines with his men - was one of the main factors in the success of the American Revolution.

The courage of the men at Valley Forge was also a turning point in the war.  Slogging on through the dead of winter without shoes inspired a nation.

On the other hand, cowardice makes people stupid and docile.

Fear of Hurting the Big Banks Has Destroyed the Economy

The New York Times wrote in 2008:

“The rescue is being sold as a must-have emergency measure by an administration with a controversial record when it comes to asking Congress for special authority in time of duress.”***

 

Mr. Paulson has argued that the powers he seeks are necessary to chase away the wolf howling at the door: a potentially swift shredding of the American financial system. That would be catastrophic for everyone, he argues, not only banks, but also ordinary Americans who depend on their finances to buy homes and cars, and to pay for college.

 

Some are suspicious of Mr. Paulson’s characterizations, finding in his warnings and demands for extraordinary powers a parallel with the way the Bush administration gained authority for the war in Iraq. Then, the White House suggested that mushroom clouds could accompany Congress’s failure to act. This time, it is financial Armageddon supposedly on the doorstep.

 

“This is scare tactics to try to do something that’s in the private but not the public interest,” said Allan Meltzer, a former economic adviser to President Reagan, and an expert on monetary policy at the Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business. “It’s terrible.”

Indeed, Congressmen Brad Sherman, Congressman Paul Kanjorski and Senator James Inhofe all say that the government used scare tactics by warning of martial law if Tarp wasn't passed:

In addition, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and others in government made it official policy not to prosecute (and see this) - or even to disclose Wall Street Fraud.

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind quotes Geithner as saying:

The confidence in the system is so fragile still… a disclosure of a fraud… could result in a run, just like Lehman.

Former IMF economist Simon Johnson notes:

The main motivation behind the administration’s indulgence of serious criminality evidently is fear of the consequences of taking tough action on individual bankers.

The Obama administration is , and the government’s entire strategy now – as during the S&L crisis – is to cover up how bad things are.

Wall Street fraud caused the Great Depression and the current financial crisis. Top economists and financial experts agree that the economy will never recover unless Wall Street fraud is prosecuted.

Because of the cowardice of the government and the people to get tough and throw Wall Street fraud-mongers in jail (or  even to shut off the spigot of never-ending bailouts), our economy has been destroyed.

Fear of Terror Has Destroyed Our Liberties

Sociologists say that fear of terrorism makes people blindly accept false justifications for war.

That is why false flag terrorism - which governments around the world admit that they carry out - has been so effective for 2,000 plus years in allowing government leaders to convince the people that we should go to war.

Government officials say that 9/11 was a state-sponsored attack.  Some say that it was Iran, Saudi Arabia, the U.S., Israel or other countries which backed the attack.

9/11 was - at the least - criminal incompetence and then obstruction of justice, and blowback for U.S. support of Al Qaeda over many decades.  At worst, it was false flag terror by the U.S.

Whatever it was, our failure to be brave enough to look without blinking has ruined our country.

Specifically, top economists say that endless war bankrupts a nation.

For example, Nobel prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz says that the $3-5 trillion spent on the Iraq war alone has been very bad for the American economy. See this, this and this.

The endless wars have also been a main component of America’s soaring debt:

TAX CUTS DEBT The Failure to Investigate 9/11 Has Bankrupted America

And huge debts exert a very real drag on the economy.

We wouldn’t have launched the war against Iraq – or the endless panoply of wars throughout the Middle East and North America – if 9/11 had actually been in investigated.

The police state also started in 2001.  Specifically, on 9/11, Vice President Dick Cheney initiated Continuity of Government Plans that ended America’s constitutional form of government (at least for some undetermined period of time.)   On that same day, a national state of emergency was declared … and that state of emergency has continuously been in effect up until today.

It is beyond dispute that 9/11 was entirely foreseeable, but – due to the extreme negligence and incompetence or lack of caring of the Bush administration (remember, I’m not getting into any other theories in this post) it wasn’t stopped.  Even the chair of the 9/11 Commission said that the attack was preventable.

If there had been a real 9/11 investigation, the government's  criminal incompetence (or worse) and idiotic policies of backing Al Qaeda would have come to light.   And Americans would have learned that terrorism can largely be prevented if the military and intelligence officers are simply allowed to do their job.

Americans would have learned through any real 9/11 investigation that Cheney’s negligence and mucking around in what should have been the generals’ jobs was partly responsible for allowing 9/11 to happen (Cheney was in charge of all of America’s counter-terrorism exercises, activities and responses on 9/11. See this Department of State announcement and this CNN article.   He messed up.).

In other words, a real 9/11 investigation would have shown Americans that 9/11 should of, could of, and would have been stopped – and that America can protect itself against future terrorist attacks – simply by playing goalie well in our country.

And Americans – instead of being scared into immobility – would have been mad at our government for dropping the ball. And we would have demanded accountability and effective service from our elected officials.  (Indeed, experts have repeatedly demonstrated that fear of terror makes people stupid … and makes them willing to accept a loss of liberty and other abuses they would never otherwise accept.)

Instead - as the 9/11 Commission itself states - there was criminal obstruction of justice and a whitewash of the investigation. See this, this, this, this, and this.

The Road Not Taken

Americans were led to believe that Al Qaeda was going to get us unless we took the fight to the Middle East and North Africa.  The administration pretended that Saddam Hussein had a hand in 9/11 – one of the main justifications for that war.

Had a real 9/11 investigation been conducted before we launched the Iraq war, it would have taken away one of the two main rationales for that war. (The FBI was also instructed to blame the anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda, and high-level government officials pointed towards Iraq as the source of the anthrax, even though there was absolutely no basis for those claims. But that’s another story.)

Dan Rather was right when he wrote:

We have been so afraid; so hell bent on destroying enemies … both foreign and domestic … we have hurt ourselves and our democracy.

Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser also told the Senate in 2007 that the war on terror is so overblown that it is “a mythical historical narrative”.

And as I noted in 2008:

Former deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats, a 23-year senior CIA analyst, who “drafted or was involved in many of the government’s most senior assessments of the threats facing our country [and who] devoted years to understanding and combating the jihadist threat”, writes today in the Washington Post that the neocons have whipped us into an irrational fear of the terrorism. In reality, “Osama bin Laden and his disciples are small men and secondary threats whose shadows are made large by our fears” and our leaders.

This is no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. The BBC produced a documentary called The Power of Nightmares in 2005 that showed that politicians were greatly exaggerating the terrorist threat for political ends.

And unfortunately, many in government have intentionally whipped up fear in the American public for their own political purposes. For example, FBI agents and CIA intelligence officials, constitutional law expert professor Jonathan Turley, Time Magazine, Keith Olbermann and the Washington Post have all said that U.S. government officials “were trying to create an atmosphere of fear in which the American people would give them more power”.

And former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge admits that he was pressured to raise terror alerts to help Bush win reelection. Fear sells.

And because 9/11 was never really investigated, the government – instead of doing the things which could actually make us safer – are doing things which increase the risk of terrorism.

As such, the threats from terrorism form even more of a “justification” for a suspension of our Constitutional rights.

The failure to investigate 9/11 has bankrupted America financially and morally, and has allowed us to stand idly by while our liberty has been destroyed.

What Do Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Spiritual Leaders Say About Fear?

Fear is not a Christian value.  Indeed, real men (and women) - and all real Christians - stand up to tyrants.

Courage is being scared ... but facing things anyway.

Let's take 9/11 as an example.  Numerous mental health experts - including the following list - say that fear of questioning the government's cartoonish "we couldn't have foreseen this or done anything to protect the homeland" version of 9/11 is an unhealthy, fear-based delusion which has led to an authoritarian regime in the U.S.:

  • Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, as well as Radiology, at Duke University Medical Center D. Lawrence Burk, Jr., MD
  • Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Rutgers University Barry R. Komisaruk
  • Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine and Distinguished Professor of Global Health in the College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Michael D. Knox
  • Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Laura Schafer
  • Professor Emeritus, Psychology and Neuroscience, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Michael Gabriel
  • Former Chief Mental Health Coordinator and Director of Manpower Development and Training, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, and Lecturer in Psychology, Boston University Herbert Hoffman
  • Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago and Northwestern University Jack Sawyer
  • Professor Emeritus of Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies Ralph Metzner
  • Professor Emeritus, Psychology, University of Marburg Gert Sommer
  • Professor of Psychology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Ralph Hood
  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College. Former Major, U.S. Army Medical Corps, Vietnam Veteran 7 years service, Jon Bjornson, MD
  • Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Nebraska and licensed Psychologist Ronald Feintech

In other words, ministers, priests, psychiatrists, psychologists, trauma experts, sociologists and other mental health experts say that failure to stand up and face our deepest fears is destroying us as individuals ... and as a nation.

 

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Sat, 09/15/2012 - 21:03 | 2799601 deerhunter
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Mother Earth must have been having a bad hair day on Japan Tsunami/Earthquake day.  Mother Earth,  I don't think so.  Critical thinking and adult conversation without being labeled racist, homophobic, xenophobic pic your label has become a lost art.

Give 100 people a piece of paper and make it travel the farthest and 99 will make a paper airplane.  Wad it up and throw it as a ball and it will go farther every time.

Memorize,,, repeat,  regurgitate.  Garbage in garbage out.  Welcome to America's school system.  Chicago's striking teachers turn out 4th graders where 38 percent read at 4th grade level.  Average salary 74K.   They don't want performance based pay.  Wonder why? 

the lights are dimming on our great land. 

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 04:00 | 2800080 WTFx10
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I'd give them them 100k a year if they were allowed to teach the truth. 74 k in Chicago is jump change. How many in finance (CME) make that? What is their benefit to society to make investors,the people who definitely make more than 74k more money.

dumb ass

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 20:58 | 2799593 Clashfan
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GW, I think this is a great piece.

I think you mean "been investigated," and I'm not sure about could have/could of/etc, which I suppose to be a colloquial joke.

As for the bravery thing and the founding fathers/GW legends, I can see why you want them in the piece. They're a bit distasteful for me, but we all have our pet memes.

I might point out that I think that there are very few instances in history, including the American Revolution, in which a brave group of people actually fought to change things and won. Secret society involvement in the French and American Revolutions are often overlooked by those who regurgitate the myth of popular uprisings, and there has clearly been corruption from the get-go in our nation.

But I've read all of the comments on the thread, and I am very glad to be interacting on ZH. For two or three years I read and read threads on here, afraid to add my name to the official list of participants. I think it's a fun, smart, well-read group. I think I learn much from the disagreements, finding myself giving up arrows to Orange and LTER, for example. And most of the folks have been patient and lenient with me. Great website, great article.

What I appreciate about this piece is that you are finding the courage (and apparently the info, now, hopefully some of which you find through the comment threads on your pieces) to publicly admit the possibility (read reality) of Israeli/US involvement.

What I appreciate most, though, is your wisdom with finishing with the psychologists and therapists.

But back to the comment threads, to make my last point, I notice people giving you flack about the "courage" thing, and I wanted to, too, until I re-read the piece and thought about it. I can understand why some folks feel brave and insulted. I think the point that "representatives" might be a less offensive word choice than "leaders" is a good one, too.

But the fact remains that many Americans are too chicken-shit to face the truth about 911, and you are calling them out on it. You support this very real assertion with tons of links to professionals saying the same thing. It's very real: I encounter them all the time. I've lost friends over it. I've lost jobs over it. I press on, disappointed and disgusted at the cowardice I see all around me.

The best part, to me, is that you include the end of the AE 911 Truth video with the psychoanalysis regarding trauma. That bit is irreplaceable, necessary, and poignant.

Good work. The problem with fighting the power structure, for most folks, is that they cannot allow themselves to believe how fugly it all is, and that is fear, plain and simple. Then there are those who realize it yet believe that fighting (or doing anything to try to change things) is a losing battle. And that's dangerous because it won't make the "leaders" any more accountable: If anything, it will embolden them.

I met some people on top of the continental divide back in 91 when I, a much younger man, was hitchhiking across the country after having been instrumental in marches and protests against the first Iraq war. These older folks had been activists when they were younger, and they told me something I'll never forget: "Pick your fights, even if you know you're going to lose. Sometimes, even if you lose, you make a difference. Just don't feel like you have to fight for every cause that comes along. Choosing your battles gives you a strategic advantage regarding your life," or something to that affect.

I'm glad to see that you are picking this one, then. It's an important one. You have a fan and supporter here, regardless of any peripheral differences we may have.

This one's for you, sir. Rock on!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-1Ihwt48EM

Topper may be the best drummer in rock history.

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 00:38 | 2799933 Cosimo de Medici
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Your post is a perfect illustration of the dilemma faced by many who can see the faults in our current system, but fear the "solution".

You have a very strong view on some things about which I disagree.  On some of these things you just think you know.   On the same ones, I KNOW I know, and that you are dead wrong.  Though you only have an opinion---a wrong one---you have the venom, anger and thirst for revenge that should only accompany absolute knowledge.

So what alternative do people such as myself face?  The status quo, which is not doing especially well (very badly, in fact)?  Or the world you and GW and so many others on this site inhabit, replete with endless false flags (does anyone ever grant even a single true flag in all of human history?), manipulations by unseen powers or by families whose gene pool has been diluted with time even more than their fortunes have been disbursed, and---for many, but not all---the belief that particular ethnic groups are the source of all the world's ills?

That latter solution is superior to the status quo?  If this venom is one day released on the innocent, which it will be given how completely wrong so many of the beliefs espoused here are, that is a good thing?  Given a choice, I'd take the devil I know.  Though things are bad and not improving, the standard of living is better for more humans today---both in number and percent---than in any time in human history.  I have no doubt that your side (for lack of a better term) cannot do it as well, much less better.  One problem solved and a larger problem arising is no solution.  If there isn't enough "liberty" for some, they can always head to what Brandon Smith calls the paradise of the American Redoubt, compare firepower and share barbeque recipes.  I am quite certain nobody gives a flying F about him and his "movement".

I am of the view (this is an opinion) that many of the people here constantly spouting this and that conspiracy (complete with links....what would a conspiracy be without links?) are quite ill.  Many, I suspect, are under a physician's care.  I do not see them as a solution to anything.  Certainly I would not want them running anything of importance, though I also can see that stirring their venom is the awareness of their own impotence.

Similarly, I am baffled as to why anybody---I suppose I mean here those who fancy themselves "Libertarians"---thinks that if we did away with all government we would somehow all be in a world of total freedom and liberty.  I'm still waiting for a single example where any society did not morph into a stratified system where the few held sway over the many.  We're dogs.  We have pack leaders.  We'll always have pack leaders.  Better we have some input into whom they might be, even if money politics fogs the process.

If we all suddenly get "courage" and overthrow the status quo, are you the one who is going to decide who stands trial and what their punishment should be?  Do you intend to be Robespierre (or will that be David Pierre)?  Is GW going to stand up and say, "Hey, I was the one who wrote everything.  I should be boss!"

That is the dilemma.  It differs from "lack of courage".

If there is an alternative, maybe GW hit on it in a roundabout---and perhaps unintended---way.  We have a system.  It has failed us because we stopped particpating.  We have allowed---through our voting or lack thereof---those into power whose sole reason to be is re-election, which makes them susceptible to the contributory power of lobbyists.

 

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 02:06 | 2800014 Clashfan
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sp--participating

You're welcome. :)

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 01:57 | 2799998 Clashfan
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You misunderstand me, Cosimo, oh one who would report peaceful dissidents to the Gestapo, oh one who has visibly threatened others. I think you misrepresent me purposefully, but it matters not. All who have eyes and minds can see your lies and malice. Your intimidation tactics and gross mangling of my words shall never deter me. They strengthen my resolve and clarify my purpose.

I propose no solutions but awareness and, for me, Jesus. The fight I fight is for awareness alone. It has cost me much, and the eyes I have opened are few, but with each person who awakens, others are rustled from their slumbers in a patient concatenation of beauty, hands held and hearts fused across borders, oceans, and in spite of threats like yours.

We cannot both be right about 911. I know I am right. I have no doubts. Links? Links to gorgeous mountains of evidence that you refuse to address? Links that you despise with every discordant utterance you belch forth?

I have already posted against Robespierre once today (yesterday by now, actually). I have posted that the French Revolution was the work of evil Templars bent on revenge. Anyone can search that in my post history.

There is a difference between revenge and justice. No justice, no peace.

I abstain from voting and avoid the stain.

While I may lean Libertarian, I am not one of them, nor am I an anarchist. And I am not Brandon Smith, David Pierre, or even GW. I am Clashfan. Calling for justice and trials is not revolution. Our "system" that is such a failure already has laws in place that many of these evil men whom you support have broken repeatedly.

As is a pattern with 911 truth deniers, your refusal to even discuss the evidence is salient. You refuse to examine it and interact. All with eyes can see this, too.

You, sir, are the problem, not me. You should watch GW's last video above from AE 911 Truth and hear those therapists and psychologists, what they have to say about how the truth threatens those with failed paradigms. The truth is light, a light your ilk can never extinguish.

By "pick your fights," I merely mean that one needs to focus his or her attention on matters he or she chooses. That conscious choice is empowering, liberating. I think that's clear from the post. I think it would be clear to any alphabet soup agency you send for me, too.

Venom? Anger? Thirst for revenge? Are you looking in a mirror?

I pray for you and wish you blessings, sir. And I have been clear with you before about how I distinguish myself from others you mention in that malicious post.

The evidence for a cacophony of false flags is resplendent, mesmerizing, and acknowledged by governments and journalists alike. GW has made that astonishingly clear. The devils you know yet call innocent deserve that due process they yearn to deny others: a careful investigation, a trial, and justice.

The innocent are the truth-tellers. I do not seek public office. My job is writing and helping disadvantaged students become literate, rational thinkers, readers, and writers. It is a humble service, not a proud one, not a world filled with cocaine, hookers, limousines, yachts, and tyranny. But I would sit on a 911 jury, yes. That's hardly venomous, sir. Yes, I would stand up with any chance I had and demand trial for the culprits, each and every one. America deserves that. Humanity deserves that. We know we will never see that day, yet we continue to tell the truth in a Quixotic battle for justice, one we know we will certainly lose. I call it courage. I call it honesty. You call it what you will.

The only trial we will ever be allowed is the trial of public opinion, and surely as the brilliant moon traverses the starlit sky, the tide of public opinion is turning.

The tide, like the great earth under our feet, is turning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvTvWJWeQ2g

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 06:24 | 2800152 bigbwana
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Bravo, Clashfan. Bravo! You deserve the Truth. The Truth is the evil Illuminati controls this world. They had planned a false flag nuclear war which would've massacred 6,500,000 Souls! The Galactic Federation informed us of all their abominable plans. The GF promises all will pay for their crimes against humanity. Dec 21, 2012, approaches fast. Ascension for this planet, Gaia. and all Souls upon her, cannot be halted. This the GF also promises, and, since they come in God's name, they cannot tell a lie. God bless you, and the rest of us. Our time is near. The Dark have been defeated! 

Mon, 09/17/2012 - 08:07 | 2802568 Clashfan
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Bigbwana, I don't think that I share your beliefs, other than agreeing that the evil Illuminati controls this world. GF sounds nice. I have spent a bit of time looking into it.

But for now, I find that Galactic Federation stuff to be delusional. I am sorry to disagree and wish you blessings, though.

More to the point of your post, however, I notice that you give a date, and many of those "channeled" say that the date depends on us.

I also notice that they combine all religions to one and say that we have to accept their truth in order to ascend, or we (as individuals) shall die. That sounds a lot like the Illuminati to me, also like the fake Jesus the Bible predicts will precede the real one.

That aliens are actually angels and demons, though, makes a lot of sense--not sure if I buy it--but it does.

I am not against being somewhat open-minded w/you, discussing and learning your side, but for now, I find it difficult to accept, sorry. Even if we accept that the folks who claim this channeling are actually hearing the messages they're hearing rather than actually being Illuminati disinfo agents, cult provocateurs, or plain batshit crazy, who's to say that the beings channeling them are being honest? How do we know they're not deceitful demons?

I predict that the fall/winter solstice will pass without any great event. So will the election and the new year. The world will proceed without any intergalactic travelers revealing anything to us or arresting any evil, Illuminati figureheads. Sorry. If anything odd does happen around that time, I predict it will be a crafted hoax by the Illuminati, not alien intervention.

As far as whether or not aliens are real, I don't believe it's impossible. I read about it from time to time. So far, I don't see any strong evidence that they are currently visiting us. UFOs are clearly real (see Phoenix lights), but whether or not they are guided by aliens is, again, a whole different can of worms.

As for ancient aliens, I'm still not a believer, though I do admit that some ancient constructions are difficult to explain, so I try to keep an open mind (especially some of those in SA--wow).

Just out of curiosity, what do you think of the so-called "Bosnian pyramids?"

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 09:54 | 2800306 Cosimo de Medici
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I do hope you are being sarcastic.

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 20:57 | 2799588 Van Halen
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Do you all realize that last night government authorities showed up at the home of an American citizen - at midnight, and literally dressed in brown shirts - to haul him down to the police station for questioning because he was involved with a movie that made this administration uncomfortable?
Ask your Liberal friends who are spinning furiously to cover for this what they would think if this happened under a Bush administration.

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 06:24 | 2800151 NewWorldOrange
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Plenty of people were harassed by gov thugs under GWB, for things like participating in anti-war demonstrations. As for Nakoula, who made the anti-Islam film, he's on parole, and of course the authorities took a look at him after all the hoopla over the film, and they noted that he had violated the terms of that parole. So the "brown shirts" (Sheriff's deputies) took him in.

I despise the Obama administration and most everything it stands for. Surprised? There's very little audience on this site for wingnutry, especially when it's couched in childlike rhetoric ("brown shirts".) And the cradle will rock...heh (Van Halen is still awesome.)

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 20:47 | 2799569 nah
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i still share common values with israel

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 04:11 | 2800094 WTFx10
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Which ones? The genocide of Palestinians?

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 20:02 | 2799498 Money 4 Nothing
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Patients, reach out to LEO and Military active and remind them to honor their Oath. First illigal order, drop the one who ordered it, they'll get the hint anfer a while. 

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 20:14 | 2799519 Dr. Sandi
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Since none of the wars the U.S. is currently fighting has been made legal by an act of Congress, anybody playing has already accepted illegal orders. So it's a little late.

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 20:25 | 2799531 Money 4 Nothing
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I'm talking about a lock down and dis arming of Americans, this means you.

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 19:34 | 2799462 knukles
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This shit be givin' me a headache.

 

(ego of arguing to merely prove one's self right)

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 19:28 | 2799453 lakecity55
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There is no moon tonight.

There are at least 40 NATO warships in the AO.

If I were Iranian, I'd stay up late tonight.

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 21:18 | 2799626 diogeneslaertius
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fire cracker firecracker sis boom bah

bugs bunny bugs bunny, rah rah rah

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 19:21 | 2799441 shovelhead
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Hehe,

Zinnophilia is a horrible affliction to witness.

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 20:11 | 2799510 Dr. Sandi
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Zinnophilia? Yeah, count me in as a total lover of Zinno. Not only does new improved Zinno whiten my teeth, but it seals tile floors and has made me a much better dancer.

Try ZINNO today. You'll be a Zinnophile too!

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 16:25 | 2801176 RockyRacoon
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And it has electrolytes!

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 17:49 | 2799320 Hannibal
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You mean Americans are not just dumb but also have no balls, well what do you know,..duh!

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 04:16 | 2800096 WTFx10
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Just our leaders, how many of them have been on the front lines? They send the excess unemployed to do the fighting and killing. I'm still waiting for the invasion of miami beach or the jersey shore from all the muslims who hate us for our freedoms.

 

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 20:28 | 2799502 Money 4 Nothing
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Ball's are shown when Freedoms are encroached, say, tyranacle state of Emergency, anything before hand is pride. American's are patient group.

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 17:28 | 2799283 Hohum
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Courage to fight for a culture dedicated to maintaining slavery and pursuing genocide!  Please stop the BS about Revolutionary days.  There's enough shit we have to deal with now.

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 04:18 | 2800099 WTFx10
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"a culture dedicated to maintaining slavery and pursuing genocide!" We are not talking about the USA fighting for Israel.

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 17:22 | 2799269 bilejones
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For the past century (written 1880's, engraved 1903) the policy has been

"The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,"

 

If you actively recruit the scum of the earth, why are you surprised when things go downhill and end badly?

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 17:08 | 2799234 my puppy for prez
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This what the world should fear....maniacal and satanic attitudes like this:

 

"We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own." (You Gentiles, by Jewish Author Maurice Samuels, p. 155).

"We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent." (Jewish Banker Paul Warburg, February 17, 1950, as he testified before the U.S. Senate).

"We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world." (Chaim Weizmann, Published in "Judische Rundschau," No. 4, 1920)

"Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves." - Israeli prime Minister Menachem Begin in a speech to the Knesset [Israeli Parliament] quoted by Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts," New Statesman, June 25, 1982

"Tell me, do the evil men of this world have a bad time? They hunt and catch whatever they feel like eating. They don't suffer from indigestion and are not punished by Heaven. I want Israel to join that club. Maybe the world will then at last begin to fear us instead of feeling sorry. Maybe they will start to tremble, to fear our madness instead of admiring our nobility. Let them tremble; let them call us a mad state. Let them understand that we are a savage country, dangerous to our surroundings, not normal, that we might go wild, that we might start World War Three just like that, or that we might one day go crazy and burn all the oil fields in the Middle East. Even if you'll prove to me that the present war is a dirty immoral war, I don't care. We shall start another war, kill and destroy more and more. And do you know why it is all worth it? Because it seems that this war has made us more unpopular among the civilized world.We'll hear no more of that nonsense about the unique Jewish morality. No more talk about a unique people being a light upon the nations. No more uniqueness and no more sweetness and light. Good riddance." --Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

 

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 07:15 | 2800172 Dugald
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There is a simple cure for your madness......a lead Asprin.

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 04:23 | 2800102 WTFx10
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Please prefix Zionist in front of Jew. They are not the same. Zionism is the same as a NAZi, facist, KKK or any other hate ideology.

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 18:13 | 2799351 NewWorldOrange
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Yep, that was some pretty fucking evil stuff. And almost every nation or religion has legions of jackasses spewing the same kind of shit. Problem with Israel is, these kinds of "spokesman" are not the outliers. They're the norm. I've spent enough time in that God forsaken, self entitled, materialistic sewer called Israel to know that beyond a doubt. Fortunately, there's not a chance in hell they'd ever let me return. Not that I'd want to. They are the most disgusting, foul, racist, obnoxious, evil bunch of sewer rats imaginable. Then there are the really bad ones...they have a free wheeling slave trade going on, with women brought in and literally made into sex slaves. Of course, they're "shiksa", so it's okay. And if a few they have to shoot a few Arab kids throwing rocks across the fence at tanks, and harvest them for body parts and stuff the holes with newspaper before turning the bodies over to their relatives, oh well. They're just Arab savages.

Israelis are the creepiest fuckers you'll ever meet. A nation of satanic monters. Incidentally, I have a numeber of Jewish friends in America and Europe and they pretty much feel the same way. A hell of a lot of Israelis do to, but they're literally blacklisted from all kinds of stuff for saying it out loud. Many Israeli soldiers and officers have resigned in recent years having said the same.

Most modern Israelis don't practice Judaism, and are not racially Jewish either but are ancestors of the Kazarians (around the area of modern Poland or thereabouts) and have no ancestral ties to the Middle East (known as Ashkenazi Jews.) The ones who are racially Jewish and practice the religion (Sephardic), are mostly blacklisted and treated as second class citizens. If you marry an Arab in Israel, you lose your voting rights and lots of other rights and privileges.

America is backing the wrong horse. And is it any wonder? Almost every single person who is a major owner or top executive at any American media outlet, whether a TV station, movie studio, whatever -- is a ZIONIST who claims Jewishness. Google "jews American media list" and see for yourself. 2% of the population. MOST of those positions.You can do a similar search on just who has been "managing" our economy, Fed, FBI, DHS, etc for some years now, and get almost the same results. ZIONIST ASSHOLES mostly (even if you only count the ones who claim to be Jewish.)

Jews aren't the problem. ZIONISM is the problem. Most American Jews seem to understand this. Most American non-Jews don't. Maybe that's why Zionist Jews hold so many of these top positions in gov, media, medicine, law, the judiciary -- non-Jewish Americans are fucking idiots.

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 17:40 | 2799308 trichotil
Sat, 09/15/2012 - 17:28 | 2799286 Cortez the Killer
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Now Sharon, he was a MAN

Not soft as puppy shit like our present CIT

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 07:04 | 2800168 NuYawkFrankie
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And now he's a vegetable.

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 16:47 | 2799191 indio007
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Just for the record GW , I believe Georgie boy was a British agent that got caught. He then passed it off on Bendict Arnold. The one alleged witness to Bendicts treason was executed by a secret unrecorded trial preided over by none other than Washington. Washington waas put in place to sabotage the entire deal. Benedict Arnold saved Ticindaroga and then shipped it's guns to Boston resulting in the ouster of the British. Look at the results  All Washington did was flee until he could no longer justify it. Washington was the traitor.

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 17:49 | 2799315 NewWorldOrange
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Very interesting. I understand that Benedict Arnold was not the traitor historians once claimed, and that there is general agreement on that now. I am unaware of the angle on GW as you proscribed. Will have to look that one up. I suspect there's some truth in it. A guy like GW was almost surely torn at times over who to give allegiance to, and probably most people in his position would waver as the reality of the situation unfolded. Hell, even Mother Theresa claimed she did.

Historians, and of course the schools that indoctrinate the kids, perpetuate some odd theories about historical figures, and in amazes me how people buy into those theories no matter how absurd. About ten years ago, I was lucky enough to spend a little time in Austin, TX where they were showing a remake of the battle for the Alamo at the Imax.

The Mexican Army -- about ten thousand of them or something -- surrounded the Alamo, which at the time was on Mexican territory, and they had one demand. Hand over William Barrett Travis to them for war crimes or something. If they handed him over, they would all leave peacefully, even with their Alamo occupied by invaders.

What did Travis do? Surrender? No. Try to talk his men out of fighting for him? No. He shamed them into fighting even with the odds at about 1 in a trillion (they were outnumbered about 100 to 1, and the Mexicans had artillery and cavalry), apparently in the absurd hope he might somehow survive, or at least die in a blaze of glory rather than by hanging. Almost all of his men perished, as did he. According to every recorded witness, he never even tried to surrender himself, and instead at least implied that those not with him were cowards.

And even though Imax presented it exactly like that, right down to Travis shaming them into suicide, it was still presented in a way as to hold him up as a hero, and pretty much everyone bought it and always do whenever the story is told in some form.

THAT is cowardice. But tell that to a Texan and....crickets...Austin is in Travis County. Travis is still considered a hero. Scholarly texts all tell the same story. The kids read something a lot less detailed, of course. Got to brainwash the little sheep before they get disagreable.

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 16:37 | 2799170 snblitz
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An oddly confused article.

Why read a collection of biographies of George Washington (historical revisionism) when you can read his words as spoken and written by himself?  He was there after all.

America was founded on an interesting dicotomy related to freedom.  Starting around the 1600's people came to America seeking freedom.  Mostly freedom from British oppression.  However, when established here the freedom was sort of mixed.  Many colonies had established religions for example.

Tax cuts do not cause debt. Spending (or more exactly borrowing) causes debt.  Let us get the horse in front of the cart.

Americans or more exactly citizens of the United States do not seem like cowards to me.  The look to be more like poorly focused and perhaps poorly educated.

Lastly, even conservatives call the people in Washington DC "our leaders".  They are not our leaders.  They are our representatives.

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 00:13 | 2799905 AnAnonymous
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America was founded on an interesting dicotomy related to freedom. Starting around the 1600's people came to America seeking freedom. Mostly freedom from British oppression. However, when established here the freedom was sort of mixed. Many colonies had established religions for example.

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More likely, they were looking for a place to express their religious fanaticism, which was no longer tolerated in Europe. It soundly followed that established religion was mandatory.

There was no mix. From the beginning, 'Americans' understood the benefit of spreading tyranny under the guise of freedom, propaganda under the guise of truth and injustice as justice.

In the ancient orders, people pushed their actions under their name. They were slavers and did not proclaim freedom as an unalienable right.

'Americans' would add duplicity as a dimension. They would keep practising slavery, no longer reclaiming slavery as such but on behalf of human freedom.

The part on mixed freedom is indeed a joke as the US started as a slaver nation.

236 years later, this constant aversion for facts and supremacy of duplicity would lead to destruction of language as a means to apprehend reality, making language a means to dismiss reality only. This is what has given to the world the newspeak language, in which slavery is freedom, war is peace etc...

'American' legacy to the world.

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 03:52 | 2800058 akak
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(In)Glorious Middle Kingdom of fabled past was founded on an interesting monocot related to insanitation --- the algebraic coconut. Starting around the 240's BC people came to Middle Kingdom seeking freedom. Mostly freedom to wok their dogs, monolize the speeching means, shit on the sides of the roads, and blob-up. However, when established here the freedom was sort of mixed. Many Chinese Citizenism colonies had to be established in places such as Tibet and Mongolia for example.

Mon, 09/17/2012 - 06:38 | 2802529 TheFourthStooge-ing
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This is what has given to the world the AnAnonspeak language, in which bad weather is 'American', lumpy gravy is 'American', ingrown toenails are 'American', etc...

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 18:02 | 2799344 kwiebe
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Mostly I lurk here but was attracted to this article enough to post.  Then I read the above comment by snblitz, who must be reading my mind.  Almost word-for-word what I was about to write.

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 16:06 | 2799110 Democratic koolaid
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k

George Washington never had to accept Homos singing the YMCA in his army (Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010.)

Letter to Major Thomas Lansdale, Jan. 25, 1783

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.  

I interpret that as saying not to be a degenerate. 

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 20:14 | 2799520 supermaxedout
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Why America Owes Its Existence and Military to a Gay Man

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben,   better known as "the Baron" (he actually wasn't even a real Baron) by George Washington and America, has a statue at Valley Forge and another in Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C. Towns, buildings and a college football field have been named after him; there is even an annual Steuben Day Parade held in his honor every September in cities such as New York and Chicago (in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris lip syncs Wayne Newton's "Danke Schoen" during Chicago's Steuben Day Parade). No foreigner besides Marquis de Lafayette has been so adored in America as von Steuben. You can't teach about the Revolution without mentioning his role in the success of the Continental Army. However, the one fact that seems to be left out during lectures is that von Steuben was known to "have affections to members of his own sex" and was even identified as a "sodomite," which is rumored to be the reason he left Prussia for France where he ultimately met the American legend himself, Ben Franklin.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-ferroni/american-military-history...

 

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 19:46 | 2799480 supermaxedout
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Why America Owes Its Existence and Military to a Gay Man

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-ferroni/american-military-history...

 

 

Gays are often fanatic soldiers and militarists.   After Hitler the most powerful man in Nazi Germany till 1934 was the gay Ernst Roehm, Commander of the Storm Troopers (SA). Hitler had long been privately aware that Röhm and his SA associates were homosexuals; although he disapproved of their behaviour, he stated that 'the SA are a band of warriors and not a moral institution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm

 

 

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 06:55 | 2800163 NewWorldOrange
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Some of the most stand up, intelligent, and decent people I've known were gay. If I were a foot soldier and had to choose who I'd be fighting with, I'd choose them over some guy who spends his life hating on gays (or any other group) any day of the week. I know quite a few people who've served in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years, and every one of them say the same. So to all the folks whose chosen group to hate on is gays...just wear your pants down around your knees, so you don't have to worry about the queers admiring the shape of your ass (that's how/where that fashion trend began, in prisons.)

That's right boys. If you wear your pants down to your knees, your a torch bearer for the "I don't want no queers looking at my ass" bunch. Mom should be proud.

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 17:20 | 2799264 RichardP
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I interpret that as saying not to be a degenerate.

What does that have to do with the YMCA?

Sat, 09/15/2012 - 19:29 | 2799454 Democratic koolaid
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watch the youtube video and deduct your own conclusion.

Sun, 09/16/2012 - 06:45 | 2800160 NewWorldOrange
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Okay, the conclusion I "deduct" is that you're gay, don't know it yet, but subconsciously despise yourself for it. BTW, I'm straight, but if it will help you get over the self-loathing, feel free to imagine my long, hard...nevermind.

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