What Kind of America Do We Want?
“In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.” - The Great Law of The Iroquois Confederacy.
I’m telling you, we really need to determine what kind of government we want here in America. It really is time to wake up and debate these things and come to some sort of reasoned, thought out conclusion.
This article from CNN highlights the story of a German man suing the United States Government. Apparently, he was held prisoner for five months in a secret prison in Afghanistan. Also, it appears as though Bush and Co. did let Germany know, after the fact, that he was detained mistakenly. According to the man, he was beaten and drugged while detained. The Justice Department will neither confirm nor deny the reports. According to them, it would compromise national security (LMFAO!). The Supreme Court will not hear the case and gave no reason why they will not hear the case.
Okay, I do not know about you, my readers, but personally, I am really against the brute tactics currently being utilized by the executive branch of our federal government under the George W. Bush presidency. I do not know if this is how our government has operated for an extended period of time, but if so, that does not make me happy or content and certainly does not lift blame from GWB. Simply put, our government needs to first-and-foremost respect and defend the right of Habeas Corpus. This is a primary responsibility of our federal government.
Lately, I have been reading more and more of what I consider clear abuses of executive power in our federal government. It is really sad and insane. It is one of a the primary reasons I so avidly support Ron Paul for president. Our government simply needs to chill out. It exists to protect our liberty. Not to seize liberty from individuals at its whim. Secret wiretapping without warrants, secret detentions, no ability to appeal or gain reason for a detention, torture, etc. These are all activities that are extremely totalitarian in nature. These are activities that absolutely do not represent what the United States of America has or should stand for.
Look, I know most people are pretty content, complacent and generally fearful of authority or various “threats”. I realize this. But people, we can’t be terrorized by our own government. We can’t be made into ignorant or complacent or fearful sheep who simply bow down to master. Come on. Our government exists to serve us, the citizens of the United States. The government needs to ease back. George Bush and Co. have done a terrible job and have simply abused their position and power, to the extreme long run detriment of all American citizens, and especially for future generations. This guy has sullied the American brand beyond anything I could have ever believed I would have seen.
If there is some valid reason to do these types of measures, as an example, fears of imminent nuclear threat (not some disprovable threat like the Iraqi mumbo jumbo), then they need to clearly explain to the American people what the exact threat is. I hear no speak of clear threats. I hear general broad statements of fear of “Islamo-Fascists” and “Iran getting the bomb”. These are not direct threats that are spelled out and laid out to the American people that could potentially justify extreme expansion of executive powers. The reasoning is just not there.
I have heard many people speaking of the Islamo-Fascists. Yes, there are some bad Islamo-Fascists out there and they should be roundly ridiculed and proven the frauds that they are. But we can’t let some extreme minority of overseas nutcases turn OUR COUNTRY into a land of nutcase fascists ourselves.
What we need to do is stand up, speak out, be BRAVE, and demand a land of liberty, freedom, independence, and personal responsibility. Being content or complacent in the face of growing executive abuse is so weak. Being fearful of authority or ignorant of abuses is even more cowardly. Attention People: do not be weak cowards. Be FREE MEN and WOMEN who are brave and understand what it takes to achieve individual sovereignty.
I personally do not want to see what was once known as the land of the free and the home of the brave turn into the land of the terrorized and the home of the cowards. Stand up to the BS and speak out.
Filed under: Politics, Social Mood
you should get some guns and learn how to use them. be prepared for when the war pops off in the street.
That makes me sick (about the German man). Depending on the interrogation drugs, they could have caused permanent harm (to say nothing of the psychological horrors the man will have to endure for the rest of his life). And what does the administration have to say about it? Ooops.
Flags, freedom, and apple pie will forever be their dog for hearding the sheep into their respective pens.
Tut Tut.
check it out, vicente fox last night on larry king confirmed a plan by bush to make a new regional currency, the Amero:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58052
I don’t give a rat about the German man running around in Afghanistan. There is a war going on there, and innocent people get killed all the time in wars. If you are stupid enough to run around in a war zone, you should be thankful you are not dead rather than complain about being drugged and tortured. Had he been a Jew, the Muslims would have cut his head off. We are presently in a war for the survival of Western Civilization, and as far as I can tell, we are losing. Nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed a lot of innocent people. Do you think their relatives should be able to sue us? And the Taliban Muslims in Afghanistan would be happy to Nuke Munich and Berlin and kill millions of Germans if they ever acquire some nukes from Pakistan or somewhere else. We have already lost most of the rights Americans enjoyed before FDR came along, and that was long before Bush became president. Between the flood of immigrants and the mis-education of our society, a majority is now willing to vote away most of the rest of our rights when it is packaged properly. And I’m all in favor of torturing or killing the terrorist combatants we capture. The Geneva convention agreement regarding prisoners of war only applied to uniformed troops. Spies could be tortured and then shot under the Geneva convention and that should apply to the non uniformed combatants we are fighting who would only be too happy to kill civilian Americans by the million.
I believe the forces that are acting against America are much less powerful than you believe. Additionally, we strengthen our enemies and expand the list of potential enemies by acting brazenly, acting out of fear, and wildly adjusting our activity in relation to the respect of individual rights.
I agree that FDR set in process a number of actions that destroyed many basic rights of individual US citizens. This followed actions by many within the turn of the century “progressive” movement and certainly Woodrow Wilson played a large role in that.
Also, in relation to the nuking of Japan, couldn’t it have been possible to inform the Japanese leadership that in the very near future we were going to detonate the largest bomb they had ever seen, somewhere near off the coast of mainland Japan? Then, go ahead and detonate it. Casualties are minimized. Let them know there is more coming and it will come ashore if they do not end their side of the war. I really believe actions such as those would have given America more of a moral stance in regard to the action of using a nuclear weapon. I also believe that course of action would have been successful.
In relation to the “global war on terror” that fascist-wannabes in America use on a DAILY BASIS to scare the crap out of people and allow them to further give in to broader government powers, don’t we now feel pretty damn stupid for going into Iraq for WMD? Four things happened: we were proven to be fools in terms of intelligence; we opened the door to a huge vacuum where the uber-feared Muslim extremists could expand their scope; we pissed tons of money down the drain, while losing many honorable soldiers; and, we lost, here at home, further freedoms and expanded the scope of our own government massively.
Nice job with that!
There are many secret CIA prisons around the globe, known to torture prisoners. Very sickening. More info about it here:
http://nyletterpress.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/redefining-torture/
Also, don’t let the legal word manipulation fool you. They’re being called “detainees” instead of “prisoners” in a backward attempt to justify the inhumane interrogation techniques.
I for one am not willing to trade liberty for security or humanity for preservation, they’re both fraudalent ideas. The reality is that there are dangerous groups of people who are misleading the country and their propaganda seems to have blinded many Americans.
Regarding Japan, you could not be more wrong about the warning/ surrender idea. The Japanese military did not want to surrender after both bombs were dropped and were foiled in a plot to kidnap the emperor and hold him while they continued the war. America had broken the Japanese codes and knew exactly what the Japanese intended to do, and that was one of the key reasons for deciding to drop the bombs. Japan and the US were lucky Japan surrendered. Seven more nuclear bombs would have been ready for use in the invasion of the Japanese mainland scheduled for November 1st, and the plan was to use them to clear the way for the troops. Our own troops would have been sick and dying from radiation had the emperor not been successful in forcing Japan to surrender.
As far as believing that the terrorists are not as dangerous as I believe them to be. If you are wrong, a successful nuclear or biological attack could turn us into a third world country with millions dead. If I am wrong, we would still have a functioning society.
Pakistan has over 30 nukes now, and Pakistan would welcome a Taliban government to replace the present military dictator. Iran will soon have nukes as well. Iran’s leader has said it worth losing half the population of his country to destroy Israel (40 million dead out of 80 million)
Give me only $50,000 and 8 fanatical terrorists, and I know how to kill tens of thousands and cripple the economy of our country with that. It shouldn’t take Al-Qaida too many years to figure out what I know, and they may already be working on those plans.
It is a dangerous world getting more dangerous each day. The FBI made a little mistake which led to missing out on foiling the 9/11 attack. If we make another little mistake, it could be two cities disappearing rather than two buildings.
Well, it is unfortunate that a long list of unwise overseas policies have helped create the fanaticism towards America that would lead individuals to carry out such ridiculous attacks.
It would have been nice if we had maintained a limited government, a more humble foreign policy, worked on our country more in terms of fostering individual intelligence and initiative and promoted personal responsibility, while focusing the government’s efforts on self-defense against nutty threats like you describe.
Unfortunately, over time, all that has happened is that our government has expanded pretty much non stop in size and scope, both domestically and in terms of action abroad, and we as citizens are far worse off because of it.
The idea that we are hated because of our freedoms is ludicrous. We are hated because our government is too large and has had a hand in every major world conflict of the past half century and has projected far too much overseas intervention. Intervention in the internal affairs of so many countries around the world has bred extreme hatred.
Do we continue down the path we are on?
Free and courageous people, good people, are less likely to be attacked than those who accept brutality and live in fear, IMHO.
And the rational self defense of our country SHOULD certainly be, by far, the highest priority of our government, regardless of its size or scope.