I see a bunch of bench warmers, arm chair quarterbacks, and do nothings, spouting off about the OWS movement. What have you done for your fellow patriots. Don't feed me the "I served in the ....services". Name any democracy created at the end of the Gun barrel. How many flee bag countries are we going to bomb into our image?? I see more of our freedoms being eroded from within than at any time of my life. We are no longer the beacon of freedom! As seen on the debates with Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), she is suggesting to use water boarding, and the morally degenerates applause this tactic on others. The Patriot Act... is not anywhere near patriotic in any sense. Insider trading by our elected officials. The Federal Reserve is no more Federal than FedEx. They are a private institution. Corporations seen as a living being???? The public groping by TSA personnel. Now at your nearest train station or bus stop. A run away deficit that will not be tamed, even with the unconstitutional super committee.
I have my magnetic support the troops sign on my car.
I fly a made in China American flag,,, plastic of course. Upside down to show a country in distress.
I read and believe mainstream media.
Ron Paul is always in last place in the polls.
Our forces fight for freedom and Democracy.. cough / choke
Everyone who is against us is a terrorist.
The police NEVER use force without being struck first.......
The above tongue in cheek!!
On a last note, we all need to take this country back by whatever means available. Whether we all agree or not how to accomplish this, it needs to continue. The OWS is a voice of many with divergent paths, all for the common good. They want people who created this mess be accountable for their misdeeds.
Good luck America, you need all the help you can get!!
Major-General Smedley Darlington Butler, a 33-year veteran of the Marine Corps who was twice decorated with the Medal of Honor, blew the whistle on the fascist plot to oust FDR. He also confessed to having been a “high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
In his book War is a Racket, 1935, Butler opens with these lines:
"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.... [and] the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
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.... I must face it and speak out."
In “Time of Peace,” Common Sense, Nov. 1935, Butler said:
"There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its ‘finger men’ (to point out enemies), its ‘muscle men’ (to destroy enemies), its ‘brain men’ (to plan war preparations), and a “Big Boss” (super-nationalistic capitalism).
It may seem odd for a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups.
I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras “right” for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927, I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested....
I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket.... I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents....
Our exploits against the American Indian, the Filipinos, the Mexicans, and against Spain are on a par with the campaigns of Genghis Khan, the Japanese in Manchuria and the African attack of Mussolini. No country has ever declared war on us before we first obliged them with that gesture. Our whole history shows we have never fought a defensive war."
