Quite often I receive posts that merit both thought and reading. Here's one for all my readers to take to heart. We have indeed been the victims of failures by our military leaders to protect and defend our interests, as well as the victims of politicians and international bankers. Exactly how and why this is, is not difficult to perceive once one overcomes indoctrinated assumptions--- such as the assumption that our government is moral and exists to protect us.
In fact, the government protects itself first and foremost and only later
stops to consider the people and resources that are its bread and butter.
Our relationship with the government must be that of a Master to a vicious
guard dog. We may never sleep upon our obligation to impose limits on the
government for our own sakes and for the sake of the entire rest of the world.
For too long we have failed to listen to and hear the warnings that have
come to us from our Forefathers and from our contemporaries and immediate
forebears, including Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Smedley Butler, and
honest political leaders including JFK and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., both of
whom were murdered by the criminal interests that still stalk us today.
Anna Von Reitz
(And
Republican Warmongers)
Many,
many, years ago our founders warned us of the dangers of maintaining a "standing
army" and how that would hinder our pursuit of Liberty.
"In
time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the
Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War has the same tendency to
render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with
an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to
liberty. The means
of defence against foreign danger, have been
always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans,
it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was
apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the
pretext of defending, have enslaved the people."
Madison
pretty well described where we are today in a nutshell; we certainly have the
"constant apprehension of war" promoted by the media and most government
employees. To believe we do not have an overgrown Executive is to border on
insanity for has the Congress not relinquished their power to declare war to the
executive branch and most "conservatives" defend their right to do so much more
than they defend their own rights. Madison warned a standing army and an
overgrown executive are not "safe companions to Liberty." Need I say
more than the Patriot Act or The National Defense Authorization Act?
Are
we not pelted daily with claims of foreign dangers by those same forces:
government employees and the media, and have they not become the instruments of
tyranny here at home? Republicans finally got an "in your face" dose of this in
the 2016 election cycle.
What
about the Roman maxim of exciting a war anytime there exists a threat of a
revolution among the people? Would one be out of line to mention the Oklahoma
City bombing or 9/11? Did they both not excite war among the people and justify
the existence of both a standing army and a more powerful executive branch?
Prior
to WWII, America indeed did not have an organized armament industry as was
stated by President Eisenhower in 1960. We also did not have the National
Security Act and all of its attendant federal bureaucracies prior to 1947. In
what could be considered President Eisenhower's farewell address, he warned us
of just such a combination of powers. He referred to them as the
military/industrial complex. In all candor, he should have called them the
military/industrial/banking complex.
Eisenhower
said,
"In
the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial
complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced
power exists and will persist.
We
must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or
democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only
an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper
meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our
peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper
together."
Unfortunately,
another warning that has been ignored to the detriment of freedom and
Liberty.
Were
we warned even earlier than the warning from Eisenhower and after the warning
from Madison? We certainly were. Writing in the early 20th Century, even before
the winds of war in Europe that became WWI, a man by the name of Randolph Bourne
admonished the people that war was indeed "The Health of the
State." What Bourne outlined so well was how the government (state) derives
powers taken from the people and how government grows beyond its constitutional
boundaries, with the people's blessings, all the while little realizing they are
endorsing their own slavery to the forces of government. Read for yourself if
anything Bourne wrote has relevance in our world today, all these 99 years
later?
"Government
is obviously composed of common and unsanctified men, and is thus a legitimate
object of criticism and even contempt. If your own party is in
power, things may be assumed to be moving safely enough; but if the opposition
is in, then clearly all safety and honor have fled the State... The
republican State has almost no trappings to appeal to the common man’s emotions.
What it has are of military origin, and in an unmilitary era such as we have
passed through since the Civil War, even military trappings have been scarcely
seen. In such an era the sense of the State almost fades out of the
consciousness of men... With the shock of war, however, the State comes
into its own again. The Government, with no mandate from the people, without
consultation of the people, conducts all the negotiations, the backing and
filling, the menaces and explanations, which slowly bring it into collision with
some other Government, and gently and irresistibly slides the country into
war. For the benefit of proud and haughty citizens, it is fortified
with a list of the intolerable insults which have been hurled toward us by the
other nations; for the benefit of the liberal and beneficent, it has a
convincing set of moral purposes which our going to war will achieve; for the
ambitious and aggressive classes, it can gently whisper of a bigger role in the
destiny of the world. The result is that, even in those countries where the
business of declaring war is theoretically in the hands of representatives of
the people, no legislature has ever been known to decline the request of an
Executive, which has conducted all foreign affairs in utter privacy and
irresponsibility, that it order the nation into battle... The
moment war is declared, however, the mass of the people, through some spiritual
alchemy, become convinced that they have willed and executed the deed
themselves. They then, with the exception of a few malcontents, proceed
to allow themselves to be regimented, coerced, deranged in all the
environments of their lives, and turned into a solid manufactory of destruction
toward whatever other people may have, in the appointed scheme of
things, come within the range of the Government’s disapprobation. The
citizen throws off his contempt and indifference to Government, identifies
himself with its purposes, revives all his military memories and symbols, and
the State once more walks, an august presence, through the imaginations of men.
Patriotism becomes the dominant feeling, and produces immediately that intense
and hopeless confusion between the relations which the individual bears and
should bear toward the society of which he is a part... The patriot loses all
sense of the distinction between State, nation, and
government."
Time
and space prevent me from including more of Randolph Bourne's brilliance, but
readers may access the entirety of his work at their leisure.
Then,
in 1935, a genuine military hero, a two-time recipient of the Congressional
Medal of Honor, provided us with the wisdom of his 30 plus years of service in
the United States Marine Corps. Major General Smedley Butler revealed that
indeed not only was "war" the "health of the state" but it was also a "racket."
Butler told us,
"WAR
is a racket. It always has been.
It
is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It
is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits
are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives... In the World War [I] a mere
handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires
and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War[I]. That
many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other
war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
How
many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a
trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested
dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and
shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of
an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?... And what is this
bill? This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones.
Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability.
Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for
generations and generations.
For
a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not
until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see
the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and
speak out.
So,
there we have it; from two former presidents; one a founder and the other a
military leader of the free world. We also have the words of a philosopher and
the words of a genuine, highly decorated war hero. But, we still continue on the
path of destruction. We embrace American exceptionalism where we readily accept
the insane belief that if another country does something it is wrong, but if our
country does the exact same thing it is permissible and acceptable.
We
have lost our collective minds, we embrace our government which tyrannizes other
countries and ignore the fact we are victims of tyranny by that same government.
We can't understand why other countries fear the same government we fear here at
home and wish to defend themselves from it.
to
be continued...
All wars are banker's wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4
ReplyDeleteEisenhower was called the terrible swiss jew in school known amount his contemporaries as couldn't lead a parade much less an army , promoted to highest rank even though though thair were far better soldiers . He was responsible for the death of 1.2 million German POWS in what is called Eisenhowers death camps or RHine river death camps they didn't permit red cross to access them nor locals to freed them they starved them to death..
ReplyDeleteGeneral Mosby said ww2.was was for jewish hegemony throughout the world . General Patton said we fought the wrong enemy he got assassinated refused to throw German citizens out of thair homes.because some one elce wanted it they killed 13 million after 1945 end of the war.never hear the true story just zionists propaganda .
In a book called the Ruling Elite, a history of banks does reveal many wars designed years before occuring. Pricing changes drastically, trading benefits for the money changers ( central power banks) loans on all sides of the wars. Charles Lindbergh senior around world war 1 reported bankers told the congress that emergency measures must passed or no money for the war ( that they instigated) It was like 300 million of debt alleged against the people. Then products shipped out of USA were resold back in USA after the war for 17 times more than sold.
ReplyDeleteFor those of us with the eyes to see it, we've been privy to this all along, and have consequently bowed out of the racket by withdrawing our energy or consent from it. But there still exists the fundamental quandary of living with that imposed-by-the-barrel-of-a-gun system on top of you, hence more fuel for what the Living Law Firm and awake and aware Continental Civilians are doing.
ReplyDeleteMike Gaddy is on Roger Sayles Radio show every Wed. on Truth Frequency.
ReplyDeleteA lot of Patriots glorify Smedley Butler when he was a Co. man period , he helped fire up the WW1 vets that were marching on DC called the "Bonus Army" , this helped scare Congress into passing New Deal legislation in order to help squash a small civil war from getting worse after they already unleashed the Military on the rallying vets, Butler was just another pawn in the Bankers game plan in my opinion.
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