Your thoughts on this political rant

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    Link04

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    This seemed to spark some debate at another forum I go to, so happy reading:




    "America has become what Nazi Germany
    and the Soviet Union used to be
    By John Kaminski
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    2-28-4

    Remember the Red Menace, also known as the Communist threat? Or how about the Third Reich, the creator of which became the chief metaphor for evil in the 20th century?

    Most Americans, certainly those younger than 30, don't remember either. Hell, they don't even remember Vietnam or Nixon or The Beatles. The terms and their connotations are totally unfamiliar, unless encountered in history texts. Millions of Americans simply do not remember what America used to stand for - freedom, justice, equality - and as a result, don't fully comprehend the appalling reality of what America has become.

    Once upon a time, back in the days of Elvis and the hula hoop, when I was a little shaver, I was taught in school that when Germany took over France, Poland and other European countries, that was wrong, and the United States sacrificed almost a half million of its own young people to reverse those situations in the name of freedom. And that happened twice, 1916-18 and 1941-45.

    In the same vein, I grew up being taught that the Soviet Union's annexation of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and all of Eastern Europe was an evil deed, and that for many years in a period called the Cold War, the American military objective was aimed at overturning this unjust oppression. Back in the 1950s when I was in elementary school, we used to have routine Civil Defense drills where we used to have to hide under our desks pretending we were about to be nuked by the Russians. Really!

    It's a new world now. For one thing, the population of the planet has doubled in those mere 50 years. And for another, it is the United States that is now sweeping the world, scooping up all these other countries in the name of capitalist democracy, and telling lies about why it has to go to war. And instead of railing against the powerful giant stealing freedom from all these hapless victims, as it did in years past, the American press is now cheering it, justifying it in the increasingly ambivalent names of capitalism and democracy. Worse, the American people are cheering it, too, something that's never really happened in U.S. history, when the people support a war that they know is based on lies.

    Of course, the American press is cheering it because it is the American military doing it. Even the German and Russian press aren't really criticizing it in a serious way. Because there is no country that can oppose America, which spends more on its military than all the other countries in the world combined, yet still complains that it needs to spend more, even as its bridges and schools are falling apart and its manufacturing base has completely disappeared, precipitating its imminent economic collapse. Still the military spending increases, and war plans ooze out like an evil ink stain spreading across the globe.

    The evil empire, number one threat to peace in the world, is now the United States. No more Red Menace. No more Third Reich. Now it's a War on Terror executed by the biggest terrorist of all - America, the nation that killed its own people by the thousands in order to trigger World War III and capture all the world's oil fields.

    Now the shoe is obviously on the other foot. The United States has now assumed the role of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia at their worst and all rolled into one. It has troops poised and threatening in 127 other countries. By the diabolical mechanisms of the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund, it has already plundered most other countries financially, stealing their utilities and impoverishing their inhabitants. And those nations who resist this financial con game, like Yugoslavia, are simply invaded and coerced into servitude. Those nations who play the game, like Russia and Argentina, are reduced to abject poverty with a few pro-Western billionaires owning everything.

    And woe to those nations who won't play the game, like Iraq. They are obliterated and turned into permanent war zones. Their people are murdered in their sleep by hopped-up American soldiers who are told by their cynical leaders that they are spreading democracy, when really what they are spreading are endless opportunities for plunder by politically connected corporations.

    And America's leader lie about absolutely everything. Never at any time in my personal history has there been a time when an American president has not at least accidentally told the truth about something, but that time is now.

    Once upon a time, Americans used to preach the cause of freedom and justice for all. It's actually written in their Pledge of Allegiance. But they don't adhere to that anymore. After all, Americans have canceled their Bill of Rights, which once made them famous - made them loved! - all over the world. Now they are feared all over the world. Reviled. When Americans launched their worldwide war on terror - based on a treasonous event in which they killed large numbers of their own people - they betrayed the whole world. They betrayed every dream of freedom anybody ever had anywhere.

    The people who did it did it for a few billion dollars. Can you blame them? It's easy money blowing up countries and blaming it on somebody else. Even you might do it if you had the chance. Americans support such an idea. It's capitalism at its best, controlling the market, make money on the destruction by selling the weapons, make money on the reconstruction by involving your friends in the contracts, no public bids, of course. So you lose a few dark-skinned lives. The world is overpopulated anyway. Look at it as population control (although that it another, much larger topic).

    Things have become so ugly in the United States that the liberal opposition candidate for president tells peace activists to "Get over it!" That there will be no peace no matter who is president. That America is united to overrun and ravish the whole world, simply because there is no one to stop it. This is the America that was venerated and admired all over the world. This is what America became when there was no other power to keep it honest. It became dishonest - and a killer nation.

    People overseas make a mistake when the say they have nothing against the American people, that it is simply the American government they loathe and fear. It is the American people who have permitted this to happen, and they who bear the blame and will reap the whirlwind for their inaction.

    Once, America set an example for the world to establish representative government and take care of its less fortunate. Today, America is still setting an example for the world, an example that democracy is a hoax, and that all we can expect for our children's futures is a dark abyss of endless war based on phony pretenses.

    The thing that made the episodes with Nazi Germany and Soviet Union have happy endings was that there was somebody to fight for freedom ready to rescue those oppressed by military tyranny from a foreign power.

    But now, who is ready to defend the freedom of those in Afghanistan, or in Iraq, or in Macedonia, Serbia, the Philippines, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, Nicaragua, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala ... or Palestine?

    Who is ready to defend freedom now that the Americans have declared freedom incompatible with security?

    But these things tend to even out over time. Rome wasn't built in a day and it took centuries to fall apart, but eventually it was picked apart by jackals and sycophantic traitors from within.

    The world will yet have the last laugh on America, after its own leaders have finished picking the bones of its financially depleted carcass.

    Because Americans have given up defending true freedom around the world, the day will soon arrive (sooner than they think) when they will have to defend their own freedom against the very monster they have created by their own selfish indifference. The corporate beast that consumes freedom around the world will one day soon turn its gaping jaws on America itself, and the Americans, who have decided to forget how to defend true freedom around the world, will necessarily have forgotten how to defend their own.

    Once upon a time, when I was a little shaver and the president was some guy named Ike, I was told that America was the greatest nation in the world because it was a champion of freedom and justice, and rescued the oppressed whenever people were in trouble.

    So ... were they lying then and telling the truth now, or telling the truth then and lying now?

    And when the rest of the world comes calling to rectify this murderous tyranny and worldwide oppression that America now practices, what will you say to them when they aim their guns at you? That you didn't know?




    John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a collection of his Internet essays published by Dandelion Books and featured on hundreds of websites around the world. For more information on how to get this book or to financially support his work (seriously needed now), go to http://www.johnkaminski.com/. Or, to read some more of his recent essays for free, go to http://www.rudemacedon.ca/kaminski/kam-index.html
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    hmm....its extreme, yet true in a way. the author does make some good points
     
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    That's what I felt. We never burned millions in ovens based on their race, or gassed them, but he made some good points.
     
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    Well there are kinda similarities between these evil governments and our picture perfect government... for example my little brother was watching Nickelodeon and I walked into the room and they were having some cartoon about all the styles of government and how better democracy is than them. So they talk about dictatorship and all they show is tanks and missiles.... seems kinda familar...
     
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    Nothing like a good ol' brainwashing I suppose :whistle:
     
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    Maybe I'm the only one that thinks this, but comparing Modern Day America to Nazi Germany is just ######'' insane.

    I think the America bashing in the last 4 years has reached a new low.
     
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    I don't think comparing the US to Nazi Germany is an accurate description, but the guy has courage to go there.

    But I do agree with most of his points, they're all pretty valid. I believe the old addage "absolute power corrupts absolutely" comes into play here.
     
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    Accurate?

    They're basically saying George W. Bush & Co. are the Modern Day equivalent to Adolf Hitler & The Third Reich.

    EDIT: Which is, in my opinion, insane. You can say Bush went to war on purpose to get our minds off of 9/11, etc. but Bush is not a cold-hearted mass murderer, like Adolf Hitler is.
     
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    Accurate?

    They're basically saying George W. Bush & Co. are the Modern Day equivalent to Adolf Hitler & The Third Reich.

    EDIT: Which is, in my opinion, insane. You can say Bush went to war on purpose to get our minds off of 9/11, etc. but Bush is not a cold-hearted mass murderer, like Adolf Hitler is. [/b][/quote]
    I don't suppose you read the part where I said "I don't think comparing the US to Nazi Germany is an accurate description." Don't miscontrue my words. That means I disagree with it. ;)
     
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    Ya but he has killed hundreds of soliders in Iraq in the attempt to find the "weapons of mass destruction"... well he probably made up the weapons of mass destruction part up when he was smoking up a doobie trying to figure out excuses to go in Iraq in a meeting room with Rumsfield
     
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    summery anyone? :lol: im sorry, that thing looks to long.
     
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    I have to agree that it's way to extreme to compare the U.S. to Nazi Germany. Yeah, maybe some things are really ####ed, but we're not rounding up a certain religion/race/etc and putting them in gas chambers.
     
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    As some has said, extreme in cases...but very true!

    While literally America is not, of course, another Nazi Germany or Communist Russia! This is because America has learned it is easier to control countries with its economic power while brainwashing its citizens with the "Democracy, justice, and freedom" propagnda. Its not like Nazi Germany in a way that they aren't out killing everyone, but they are manipulating/controlling everyone through money. A much more efficient and long-lasting option. And of course, intimidation of opposition through a large military.

    This goes against what he has been saying. He has been talking about the corporate power that has taken over the country and its ideology, controlled by few. Then he blames the people of America! Really, the majority of citizens, through their ignorance which they were raised in, do not realize the devestating poverty of the majority of the world and so do not fully exercise their democratic rights, which have been gradually weakened to the point where its not really much of a democracy any more and really hard to change anything. So, most citizens choose passivity, which painfully is really just ignorance, even though they don't mean it that way.

    But he has a good point i think.
     

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