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$1.05
Free? I can't even own land without paying rent to the government.
Americans are not free.
Hell, if you wanna get technical, you can't even work without owing the government money. :P
Freedom comes when you learn to stop working for money & start creating it with your mind. =)
https://kat.cr/the-nourishing-homestead-one-back-to-the-land-family-s-pl...
work towards your own freedom like this family...
Downloading now. Thanks.
First of all, what the fuck is this doing on ZH? None of us are dumb enough to believe the official story the government is telling us. US soldiers are Nazis that unquestioningly invade foreign countries and kill the people to be found there and take their resources.
Second of all, the price of freedom is $2.45/gallon at Wawa.
Didn't 1,000,000+ Iraqis die over the past decade? What about them? No one gives a shit about them cuz they are brown. I Just dont understand why the fuck ZH would post this! This is not my Daddy's ZH. YOUVE CHANGED, ZH, YOUVE CHAAAAAAAAANGED!
HOw many fatherless iraqi boys are there? ZH, you slippin hard. YOU BEST THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU DID.
Don't fool yourselves. A naive sense of patriotism may get them to the recruiter's office, but the joo money is what keeps them in the uniform. That and the fear of being rapped in the ass at Leavenworth should they go AWOL. Speaking as a veteran.
Also... this farce of a society may be a lot of things, but free isn't one of them.
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Government is the price you pay for not having freedom.
Freedom is the price you pay for not having government.
Freedom is slavery.
Never forget the price of money $1.00 = $1.04 of debt to a banker thanks to the federal reserve.
https://youtu.be/llbzUyv1CLU
Ok I might be going out on a limb here but I don't see an American flag in the picture. Could it be possible this cartoon is about freedom and the price we must be willing to pay to get it? I think it is saying a lot of people made very large sacrifices to maintain freedom. Regardless of who it is you must fight against to maintain it.
This has been a public service announcement for the CFR and MIC... Every "war" fought by the US since 1945 has been a based on a lie...
isis announced nuke possibility within 12 month...
tic tac.....
https://kat.cr/survival-seeds-the-emergency-h-m-anderson-pdf-t10690442.html
https://kat.cr/pruning-tidying-and-saving-seeds-322-vegetables-herbs-fru...
https://kat.cr/survival-seeds-for-life-how-to-survive-the-coming-ban-of-...
SEEDS ARE FREEDOM
Every war fought before WW2 was based on a lie.
All Wars are Banker Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4
"Every war fought was based on a lie"
Fixed it for you
Oh great, I can sleep at night now.
The US Civil War was based on a huge lie. Americans have had bankster wars and have been serfs since at least 1861. All wars are about murdering for money and making banksters richer. Always have been and always will be.
Hey, in this cartton, at least there are no boots on the ground.
+1
No boots on the ground (drones, f16s etc) == freedom.
Probably the biggest lie associated with that Late Unpleasantness is Mr. Lincoln's claim that it was a civil war. It wasn't. It was a secession war - which is the precise polar opposite of a civil war.
When individuals have freedom, the military won't exist.
More military = less freedom.
I was raised to believe my main purpose as a youth was to join the military. I bought into it totally. I felt an urgent need to protect American freedom from Soviet Communism in Russia and China. Our whole education was about our debt to America. Only later did I begin to understand what our military was doing and who it was doing it for. When Israel killed a mass of my fellow sailors, and our government black listed the wounded and killed, they became non - persons, because the Jews would look bad. Then I knew, America had a deep state, AND WE WERE NOT PART OF IT! Then Vietnam became known for the complete lie it had been. That really finished off my loyalty to Washington's Deep State Zionists.
Yeah but John McCain, his admiral pa and the V-22 Osprey have killed more American soldiers and sailors than the Russians ever have.
In fact, when McCain's pa recalled F-4 fighter bombers to save the USS Liberty, he also told the US navy to sail slowly to the aid o fthe USS Liberty. the first ship to arrive to try to help the wonded and dying American sailors were the Russians.
U on ur last nerve and he gettin on it.
Who gives a fuck? They'd murder every non-Muslim on Earth if they had the technological and military advantage. Open a fucking history book and learn something. The Muslims would put every non-Muslim on Earth to the sword if they were strong enough to do so. Those fatherless Iraqi boys are going to grow up and rape your children, tear town your monuments, and shit on your grave if they can.
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Hot off the presses: http://www.psr.org/assets/pdfs/body-count.pdf
Their figure, 1,300,000 for Iraq+Pakistan+Afghanistan, is, needless to say, conservative.
Not disputing the numbers, but how many of those died at the hands of the religion of peace? Not ALL blame lies with the US (prepares for downvote avalanche).
So you haven't seen the declassified Pentagon report which shows that the US and its allies have been supporting the creation of the Islamic State for years? That's why you get the downvote -- because you've somehow missed the fact that the US government and the jihadists work in tandem. Israel has been supporting ISIS with airstrikes and medical aide too.
I fail to see how any of that is Mohammed's fault.
What good would funding do if there were no batshit insane muslims?
That's a great justification for supporting jihadists.
I'm not justifiyng anything. Just spreading the blame around a bit.
Of course you are right. All they have to do is set up a situation that simmers & froths & will inevitably boil over. All the while "recruits" freely come to both sides.
The so called war on terror is really a zionist world order war on America and Americans.
the number I've seen of Iraqi dead was 1.45 million, sorry don't have the link on hand but will post next time
'Religion of Peace'?
As in 'Christianity', the immaculate religion that follows the example of the Love-thy-Neighbor guy JC, the 'Prince of Peace'? Good one.
No Shatner, the term "Religion of Peace" or "Religion of Peace and Tolerance" is an unmistakable reference to Islam - as you know damn good and well.
This phrase is used ubiquitously by Mohammedans and their useful idiots among the Western leftist elites to disguise Islam from what it truly is: a twisted satanic parody of Christianity that encourages war, rape, pillage, oppression, and mayhem. What the Mohammedans mean when they use the word "peace" is that it is their goal to assimilate all of mankind under Islam (a word that literally translates to "submission"), obliterating all other religions and governmental systems in the process. After that, there will be "peace."
The problem with Christians is that they don't always follow the example set by their religion's founder, the problem with Mohammedans is that they do.
Have you followed this example which Christ set for you by attacking your family with a sword yet?
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household."
A dishonest question does not deserve an honest answer.
You obviously don't get the sarcasm.
"Wow, that could be Obama's kid......"
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I must have misunderstood the cartoon (pretty easy to do with the inanities produced by Michael Ramirez). I thought it portrayed yet another brown child being dragged off to an early grave by the US military, and the legless soldier represents the bravery of drone pilots who leave no footprints on the ground as they courageously operate their joysticks with utmost valor.
Because the idol of liberty requires human sacrifices:
https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9325/180230117.2/0_c9f5e_44566a4a_XXXL.jpg
Stooge your explanation is the funniest thing I read in a week at least. But how did you not work the phrase "boots on the ground" into your description?
I'm pretty sure we are being subtly trolled with these Ramirez cartoons, it's the only thing that is reasonable as far as I can figure. If true: F you admins, you've been 4chaning it too much or something.
"Didn't 1,000,000+ Iraqis die over the past decade?"
Sure. But according to those that we elected it was worth it. One Secretary of State said as much
Aren't Secretary of States appointed?
And what is this 'we' stuff?
I think the point which has some value is that soldiers are people who are used by the fucking asshats that are in charge and who never change. They are lied to like everyone else. Whether you do not like the idea of someone selling their time to do violence on behalf of such people is a valid point. But there is a message worth hearing about the absolute hypocrisy and shittiness of the whole thing.
Fuck brown people. If they had the technology and strength they'd kill every white person on Earth (they try their best as it is).
Open a fucking book and learn some history you retard. When the Muslims are strong they slaughter, rape, pillage, and spread their cancerous religion over the Earth with NO MERCY shown to any man, woman, or child.
0 fucks given for the enemy who would destroy me if they had the chance.
Agreed, THX 1178
I feel bad for every guy who ever got drafted, but most likely that guy in the cartoon is supposed to be an enlistee because they need more cannon fodder. That's why you'll see war movies on all weekend -- get the sheep all worked up and into the recruiting offices.
Stop enlisting -- that would put a crimp in their profits. Of course if too many people stop enlisting they'll bring back the draft, because you can't stop the bankers and Corporations.
because you can't stop the bankers and Corporations.
Not as long as the victim gives his sanction.
Which is why they got rid of the draft. The MIC discovered in trying to keep the war going for an extended period of time that too many young people, and their families & friends, started paying too much attention & asking too many damning questions. All those demonstrations in the streets and unhappy draftees made life too difficult for our masters.
@THX1178
Man such hatred and disrespect on this solemn day of remembrance!
What has the progressive bastardization of the past 15 years wrought? We are FREE to mouth off this vile puke the vast majority call comments! Thank You Tyler for this wonderful Memorial Day tribute to our brave men and women who serve with distinction. I want to also offer my thanks to the good lord for watching over our Republic and all the NOBLE men and women who are trying so desperately to preserve it.
No matter how bad things might seem today,(and under King Obama, and Queen Yellen) they are as bad as I have ever seen them in my brief 52 years. Obama lit the world on fire when he left Iraq to ISIS and then dicked around while the Middle East really went up in flames,but all the time our men and women in uniform have preformed with bravery and distinction! If some of our 4 and 5 star brass had some balls and gone into the socialist in chief's office and laid down the gauntlet with their stars on his desk with the threat of resigning,maybe we would be celebrating a truly worthy,and much different outcome over there!
It is a sad day we are about to embark on as a country, this Memorial Day. Millions will party, grill burgers and bitch about non existent problems they really don't suffer from. While our soldier's hunker down and those home continue with their healing and the families of the dead mourn their loss! We owe them so much more than they will ever know. It was their ultimate sacrifice that allowed so many THX's to spew such dishonor for their sacrifice. Thank a vet at the local store when you see them offer the POPPY'S this weekend, drop a buck or three in the cup and then extend your hand in gratitude. They are our brothers, our sisters. Our Mom's and our Dad's, they are US!
May the good Lord bless and watch over this fragile little experiment in freedom / man's self rule we call America!
God Bless The Virtuous
I suggest you enlist or reinlist or have one of your children or grandchildren.
Try for the service that uses the V-22 Osprey. It has killed more American soliders that the Russians have. Special Forces is good too. The See Eye Aye's Seal Team 6 is a great patsy unit who kill Bin landen (sic) even though he had been dead for years. As pay back for this fake op - Obola will put you on a Chinook and give the "enemy" your flight path and a few manpads to make sure to take you out.
If you or your kid retire from Spec Ops - you can get another black op gig for Maersk out of Virginia on a ship. Then you will get murdered and they will claim you were a heroin addict just OD-eing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2564145/Two-ex-Navy-SEALS-protec...
Two American security workers have been found dead after an apparent heroin overdose in the same cabin on the Maersk Alabama, the ship made famous by the Tom Hanks movie Captain Phillips in 2013.
Suckers.Freedom. Such an ugy word.
Like most other words we have been taught to worship (yes, yes, worship is actually WARSHIP). Homonyms have us.
Freedom is actually Free (the L and R cnstrust from Fee, like fRee and fLee) and Doom.
All doms are dooms. Kingdoom. Freedoom....like that.
This need for re-languaging is actually the deepest issue, but we've been told that we are GOOD at it.
Blow your mind...
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/two-hammer-blows-and-a-rando...
Think globally .... act stupid regionally !
The Price of Freedom?
Hmmm,.. let me see:
39.6% Federal Income Tax
12.4% FICA Tax (up to $118,500)
2.9% MediCare Tax
10.3% State Income Tax
0.9% State Disability Insurance Tax
1.5% [of assessed value] Real Property Tax
8.5% Sales Tax
$150/Year [per Vehicle] Registration Tax
63.8 Cents/Gal. Gasoline Tax
If I stop paying these; I will lose my 'Freedom'...
Oooops! I almost forgot; If I want to remain "Free" I have to tolerate the following:
Being Groped by TSA anytime I need to board an aircraft
Submitting my children to mandatory vaccinations, made by companies which have immunity from products liability suits.
Mandatory government schooling [indoctrination] of my children
Waiting in line for 4 hours and paying $155 to obtain a passport to grant me the privilege of returning to the USA should I leave it at any time.
Having my phone conversations recorded by NSA
Etc...
And this is what Men and Women in the armed forces have died and been maimed for?
Meanwhile...Wall Street, banks/corporations/insurers, and politicos get rich/fat/happy living in luxury?
And the good people in the U.S. are debt serfs and/or cannon fodder?
Some long overdue hangings and a revolution if you ask me.
He needed the kids to keep the irresponsibility going and now complains about the taxes.
Ah, but even if he's missing an arm and a leg, he can then go on DWTS and get enough handicap points from the judges and pity votes from the viewers, to get him to the Finale, when he should've been the first to be eliminated from what is supposedly a merit-based dance contest.
And, at the semi-finals, when it looks like he's about to be eliminated, he proposes to his GF, everyone gets the Kleenex out, and the votes come in to propel him to the Finals. Who got eliminated in his place? Why, who else but the blonde Russian-born US Olympic gold medalist Nastia Liukin, who had perfect scores and the highest scores the entire season!
No doubt the TV chat shows are next, as an all-'Merican inspiration, that deflects and redirects the Talking Points and Issues from what they should be, to the canned and marketed version of 'patriotism'.
Feels like an episode of The Hunger Games.
How badly do you want to be free? As in, what is the price of freedom?
Don't want to be income taxed? Find a way to make less than ther taxable amount, or get paid in cash.
FICA? Don't make enough. If ou can find a way to limit your reportable income to 12K or less, you'll do just fine. Oh, work for yourself, not for a paycheck. You aren't free if you work for someone else, you're just someone's bitch.
Ditto State income tax, obamacare, other incomce derived state taxes.
Property tax? Don't own real property. Are gypsies free? Does a bear shit in the woods?
Sales tax... well, you have to buy something, but you can minimize what you buy, for money. Cash makes lots of purchases "tax free".
Vehicle registration is also hard to avoid in our culture, but again, you can walk, or ride public trasportation, or ride a horse, or a bicycle. None of these are taxed, per se.
Same goes for gasoline, tobacco, ammo, liquor (make your own), and unfortunately soon, marijuanna, but do you really need to be enslaved by all these vices (not ammo of course)?
As an ex-pilot, flying in airplanes is over-rated. Just don't do it. Same for owning a cell-phone. Until we are chipped, you have to consent to be tracked.
No-one makes you send your kids to public school. You're just not making the sacrifices needed to educate them yourself.
Slavery is a lifestyle, and so is freedom. If you want a "steady job", a house, a car, a cell-phone, and the luxury of dropping your kids off to be educated by "professionals", then you have to pay a price for these conveniences. It's your choice.
In Canada and the USA we used to own land.
Not anymore.
Freedom?
It could be worse, we aren't working in factories in Nazi concentration camps.
But the term freedom is slowly losing whatever it may have meant in the past.
There aren't any jobs left in the Nazi factories anymore. They were sent to China. Now we work in Nazi fast food operations and Wal-mart.
Fuck China .... just drove by the TJ airport .... you would not believe the factories in Mexico !
"I used to sleep at the foot of Old Glory and awake in the dawn's early light,
But much to my suprise, when I opened my eyes, I was a victim of The Great Comprimise.
John Prine
We're paying $3.99 for Premium Unleaded out here.
One ounce of gold per month. The going soldiers' wage in Roman times, and today.
Perhaps the only difference is this pesky middle class that thinks it deserves something. I blame the Presbyterians, as did King George III.
Oh wait....I am a Presbyterian (deacon). Better watch out.
Dad 7th armour , father in law 6th and 1st marine , rest in peace
Also pedophile criminals like the brainless killer machine in the picture helping, a.o., to kill one million Iraqis?
I am stretching here but I vagaly remembering from chuck yeagers book maybe duriing the war Pakistan and India ? That the use of napalm etc in his words we be better be on the right side of this. Time is short inho
On the 22nd, I was part of an honor guard at the burial of a WWII vet. It was an honor to fire the the three volleys over his casket.
Are we the only ones here who see what the illustation is really saying? The soldier has no legs below the knees, which can be interpreted literally as a reminder that we should remember and provide support to the many soldiers who have lost limbs, and in too many cases their lives, or as a metaphor for the fact that we are cutting our military off at the knees with ridiculous rules of engagement that needlessly put their lives at risk in the name of political correctness. Flame away.
Whose freedom?
The Rulers
Whose names must be said with utmost reverence.
Else only whispered, if in dissent or anger.
Otherwise it's a career-ending event, cause the 98% have been pussified. A well-armed and sometimes boisterous group, but pussifield nonetheless. If they were truly brave and true Patriots, they'd be brave enough to organize and rise up against the Rulers, instead of bombing and shooting brown people on another continent.
'Heroes', my ass! Shmucks, fools and economic refugees -- posing as something virtuous.
"This country was founded by a group of slave owners who wanted to be free... so they killed a lot of white English people in order to continue owning their black African people, so they could wipe out the rest of the red Indian people, in order to move west and steal the rest of the land from the brown Mexican people, giving them a place to take off and drop their nuclear weapons on the yellow Japanese people."
- George Carlin
A great philosopher disguised as a comic. I saw him live 2-3 times, really hard hitting funny.
It is wrong to judge people who were using the morality of another time, by using today's morality. We will be judged at some latter time too, and it will not be fair to us. Then there is the Jews, who are using the morality of 4,000 years ago today in Isriel.
Is it this "morality of another time" that helps the US doing its mass murder business without any pangs of conscience to this day.
Good clarification.
@AmCock, "morality of another time". LOL... Hey buddy, genocide, slavery have always been viewed as wrong morally - today, yesterday, and the centuries before.
Nice try cleaning it all up! "morality of another time". I gotta remember that one. Cute.
1945, was that "of another time"? Hmm... I think I may have been living then... maybe, maybe not...? I don't recall civilian atomic annihilation being decent, wholesome, and upstanding then. Perhaps my memory is failing me...
If one understands the natural rights of the individual human being then it is obvious that morality does not differ from time to time or from place to place regardless of the moral or immoral acts committed by individuals at various times in various places.
Exactly. We've all been taught to believe that there was some great "morality of another time" in operation during the years of American slavery that excuses the inconvenient truth that our POS Presidents were themselves slave "owners." The myth insists that we must overlook the the psychopaths who supposedly couldn't distinguish a human being from an animal due to their skin color because they were really good men who were just living in a different world from ours.
It's complete bullshit. The rest of the developed world harbored no such confusion. Slavery was outlawed and condemned universally in European society at that time.
The "morality of another time" in operation at THAT time was that American psychopaths were still claiming that black people were animals . . . and the wondrously idealistic American society accommodated them due to their power and position.
It was a sick time for America.
Looking around at our role in the world today, you can see we haven't fundamentally changed.
But then, you can't learn your necessary moral lessons if you never fully acknowledge the malignant truth of your mistakes.
Basic respect for life and crimes against humanity should not be things that go in and out of fashion like hemlines and architecture. It is always correct to judge the character of a people by how they treat others more vulnerable than themselves regardless of their time in history.
Correct.
And the alphas of today are basically using the morality of the alphas in a monkey troop.
So much time, so little evolution.
funny as hell when in the "7 dirty words" period.
bitter, angry man by late '80's.
For all his talk... statist.
oh, down arrow, julia.
Not a Carlin purist myself but would be interested to see documentation regarding "statist" comment.
The freedom of 300 million US freeloaders to have an eternal free lunch at the expense of the rest of the planet.
Yeah, but his lunch was better than my lunch, so he is bad, not me.....
We can sleep easy because rough men are willing to do nasty tough jobs. Plus my weapons are locked and cocked.
Your are large and erect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=618U-_8o31k
corn flakes, damn product of the American school system.
It's either "You are" or it's "You're"
Intelligence is the price of freedom and Americans are no longer intelligent. Third world intelligence equals third world slavery.
English may not be his first language. His English is better than my second language. Even Commander Data had trouble with contractions.
And Kim Darby in True Grit.
We should think of a new medical term for the anal retentive that are stuck on a simple contraction. Once they see the misuse, their minds lock up and they can't think of anything else. They should try Drano for their contraction blockage.
If you cannot communicate, you have nothing to say.
It is not up to others to "ax" you what you meant
We can sleep easy because rough men are willing to do nasty tough jobs.
Nasty jobs against who?
The bad guys. The bogeyman du jour. The enemies of Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the central bankers.
War is racket.
Too bad brave young men have to die, suffer and kill for someone's year end bonus.
Rough men doing nasty jobs for banksters and military contractors like the Crown-Krinsky family. Connected to organized crime in the early days. Connected to LBJ and the whacking of JFK plus connected to Obola.
You mean your lips are locked on cock.
Alien predator banksters have their proboscis in our collective sentiments of honor and sacrifice, and have been sucking us dry for the longest.
WMD.
Freedom from who?
Is this a joke? Because I don't think I get it if it is.
More like the cost of freedom.
Thanks to all who serve, or have served.
Stop thanking me. All I did was deliver chemical and biological weapons to our good friend, the democratically-elected and beloved-by-his-people Saddam Hussein.
"serve"
LOL. Get yourself a dictionary.
You mean the price of slavery?
Here is George Orwell's original manuscript :
http://36.media.tumblr.com/a78d174f2d448a7128ff97cfb17500f3/tumblr_mybyy...
No more kids being sent to die for banksters. The United States should be resolute, and uncompromising.
BS
"It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking." - Ron Paul
I'm a veteran and I gotta say this : fuck the troops. At this point anyone signing up has got to know they're just a pawn for Israeli/Neocon Imperialism.
What are we "defending" the country from? Canada & Mexico? The big bad Russkis or the Chinerz? Please we can't even defend ourselves from the bankster kike oligarchs!
We can't even provide dental care for most of our citizens, but it's OK to send teenagers to get pulverized in order to line the pockets of bankers and defense contractors?
I know it's not a very popular stance, but I'll stand by it.
If THE STATE is now our greatest enemy why would you support those who wear the uniforms of THE STATE?
How many out there are willing to say "fuck the police" but not willing to extend that to "the troops" too?
Military government employees are just that...government employees. We have too many of those by far...
A lot of cops are veterans. That's a big part of the problem. They see citizens as "the enemy", and every citizen is a potential enemy.
A day will come that patriotic Constitution loving veterans will be our only hope. I didn't junk you, but I can't upvote you, either.
Our only hope, eh? Then stick a fork in us. We're done.
If they followed orders up until the end of their service, despite the blatant obviousness that they were corrupting the constitution in doing so, what in God's name makes you think they'll suddenly have a change in heart?
Of course, this is irrelevant. "Patriotic constitution loving veterans" are far outnumbered by "veterans who didn't give a shit about anything as long as they got to shoot guns, fuck/rape foreign girls and get shit-faced while being paid".
You are probably right, they may be outnumbered, presently, but just like some of the valuable Veteran posters here on ZH, many will have that "change of heart."
Like Dick Cheney?
Nice.
BS. No way are the bulk of vets wicked.
As for them following bad orders it's all compartmentalized. They have better reason to trust their superiors than normal citizens have for trusting the govt, but most still do.
Some of us didn't "wake up" fully until after we left. It was a multi-year process. For me the seeds were planted in 2006 with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, but I probably didn't fully come to terms with my government's crimes until half a decade later.
For me it was Beirut 1983
"Constitution loving vets" - the ones that fight in UnConstitutional wars?
The banksters and those who fight to defend this country are not the same. I think you know that.
True, the banksters are the knowing planners and the fighters are their useful idiots (frequently willfully ignorant I imagine).
They're defending the petrodollar and the export of American debt.
The serfs are beneficiaries of American Imperialism, even if they don't get their "fair share"
And in the future, they will look up to Foxcon wage slaves as their economic superiors with comparatively luxurious lifestyles when the export of American debt can no longer be defended.
The wonderful "freedum" for banksters to charge you 29 to 30% on credit cards while they pay you 0.5% on your money market. Freedum.
The fools want USD 2.70/gal for gas and iCrap for $1 down w/ a 2-year debt servitude contract and a minimum wage at USD 8/hr (or even higher and more insane).
I don't hear almost 'Muricans (and very few ZHers) screaming "Bring on the poverty! - I am willing to stand up and pay up."
Most Americans prefer to live in ignorance of how the luxurious sausage on which they sustain themselves is actually made, or delude themselves into thinking they would still be able to afford that luxurious sausage in some fairer and kinder geopolitical kumbayah post USD hegemony world. (No wonder they worship at the altar of NeoKeynesian economists and ceteris paribus.)
Or put another way:
I'm a disenchanted vet too. And I'm ready for folks to stop trying to thank me for my service. Frankly, being a Navy pilot was a blast; and I don't deserve the thanks. But also, the wars of aggression in which we Americans have been engaging since roughly 1861 were/are all unconstitutional. If a servicemember is not considering this when taking the oath of office (to defend the Consisution), it's a mistake.
That's why I got out almost 20 years ago now. Flying missions around Bosnia had fucking nothing to do with defending our Constitution. Flying missions over Iraq had nothing to do with it either... Serious cog dis for me, and only a few malcontent misfits even remotely understood why I got out. I could not get over the bullshit, but many sleepwalked their way through bombing the brown people.
The cog dis is slapping us all silly, but most still won't see it. We don't even secure our fucking borders. If that isn't proof that it's all a lie, I don't know what is.
What are the Constitutional requirements to declare war?
Man I really fat-fingered "Constitution" in my earlier post. Ugh.
What are the Constitutional requirements for a declaration of war? Start with the fact that it must be declared by Congress - not by the leader of the executive branch. This insulates the Republic from war resulting from the reckless proclivities of one man. Had this responsibility been jealously guarded by the members of the legislative branch, none of the wars of the past 70 years would have been fought (by the US anyway).
Beyond that, one has to read Augustine, whose treatises on just war theory ought to be mandatory reading at Annapolis, West Point, and Colorado Springs - but aren't. The founding generation didn't think to put much more on this into the Constitution because, to them, this was common knowledge; and needn't be included.
You need to go make that speech in front of graduating classes because neither their schools nor their parents are telling them and they are still volunteering.
So, it is real hard for me to blame a brainwashed 18 year old kid straight out of propagand high for joining up.
Blame the "adults" who keep quiet because... well.... hurting peoples' feelings is the worse thing in the world... plus it doesn't help make you popular... might as well just say "fuck the kids" and stand for the anthem...
This veteran agrees. I was over there in 1981, helping defend our good friend Saddam Hussein, beloved leader of the freest democracy in the mid-east, against those evil, heroin trafficking Kurds (well, at least that part was true) and nasty Shiites.
Chucking 30mm grenades at donkey's ain't makin me free, I'm free because every human is born soveriegn, his own...self. He has no obligation to serve his fellow man and if he does his fellow man has no obligation to honor him for that reason. The state says one has a duty to serve but they never say what or who they will serve and if they do they are lying.
What you are watching now is the same methodology they used to build, construct, and deliver past wars. Do you really believe the history books? War just erupted in Europe and the far east because Tojo and Hitler had a bad hair day? Bad men doing bad things? Blockade American ports or saddle americans with war reperations and see how long it takes before we would stomp out onto the canadian frontier or mexican fields for their oil, their resources.
I am really tired of the wars, the bullshit. The same mother fuckers that were tossing their medals over fences and smoking choom and aghast at Nixon are the same mother fuckers running american foriegn police, domestic policy, watching you piss and molesting your kids at the airport for a government paycheck.
Millions of people die in these events just because people cannot just leave well enough alone, they have to disrupt the ebb and flow of natural conditions, fuck with cycles, shit in the swimmin hole.
Lennin, Hitler, Pol Pot would have never existed had it not been for some cocksucker plowing with some other guys heifer.
Freedom is letting stupid fucking people figure out their own problems. Freedom is staying home and not doing anything about some skinney's eating kuta and shooting up his neighborhood in Mogadisu and freedom is on a rare occation being able to forcebly shove a gun barrel up the ass of anyone trying to take yours away regardless of their perceived stature.
We used to be the model for freedom, not because we "exported" it, but because we stayed home minded our own businss and people reading books and reading newspapers wanted the same. We imported freedom loving people.
Impressive rant, Booboo. I sincerely mean that.
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Esp since the Greenspan Recession many people have no other option than to join the military
Useless eaters dying for the elites it's sickening how the disadvantaged are forced to fight and die so the fat acts can steal with both hands
I would like that statement espoused on Memorial Day
Working class and minorities die for a wealthy few.
4500 dead in Iraq died for ExxonMobil
1500 dead in Afpghanistan died for BP and She'll
Not for "freedom"
Invading Iraq didn't make me free. Quite the opposite
Fucking bullshit
the fed controls all pricing,
ask them how much it costs.
my guess is they don't care
as they just print it up,
that is their job.
Federal Reserve created December 1913. First world war began: June 1914. Disgusting what we ordinary citizens have been forced to "pay" in order to line the pockets of shell makers.
More like "price of bullshit". I don't know where this "freedom" you all are seeing is. Someone please point it out to me.
I used to do political radio interviews until a Clear Channel vet was hired as station manager and cancelled the show
One of my last interviews was with Aaron Russo. Talked about how Wilson had no choice and warned it would lead to disaster when he signed the Federal Reserve Act
Freedom to Fascism
And boy did they use that printed money and clannish Nazi minded tribal culture to fuck us goyim over. They have everything that matters sewn up, only problem is its all built on a cultural psychosis, and like the Nazi philosophy, its just not sustainable. Either they dismantle it from within or its victims will dismantle it.
I was a daily caller to local talk radio, one welcomed because of our local reform efforts, untl last fall when I opposed their establishment GOP candidate. My "buddy" the radio talk show host would no longer let me on the air.
Who's freedom?
I'm sure the word you were looking for is "whose."