It Can’t Be Repeated Too Often (Until It Sinks In), Again
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." —Orwell
(Things that are known but which Americans do not acknowledge or discuss.)
Ruby Ridge. Your President George H.W. Bush sent a foreign assassin to murder (from hiding) an American woman standing in the door of her own home holding her baby.
Waco. Your President Clinton sent a military expedition to incinerate children who were unfortunate enough to be in company of adults who had offended the federal police apparatus.
9/11. Your federal government, with a $30 billion intelligence budget, could not prevent a bunch of unarmed felaheen (who should not even have been in the country to begin with) from killing over 3,000 people in our economic capital and destroying part of the military headquarters of our vaunted global empire.
Iraq. Your President Bush Minor lied to justify a failed war of agression. He sent the forces into an unnecessary war with inadequate equipment, despite a multibillion-dollar "defense" budget, and without a viable plan.
Many American citizens, probably in the thousands, have been murdered and otherwise victimised by illegal aliens because of your presidents' deliberate decision not to enforce the laws, in order to put the interests of foreign politicians and domestic rich people over the welfare of citizens.
The Supreme Court and the federal bench for more than a half-century now have been dominated by evil people, unscrupulous petty tyrants, who have subverted the Constitution and laws, protected criminals from punishment, interfered in countless matters that are none of their business, overturned solemn decisions of the majority, and placed unjust burdens upon the people.
Nobody has ever been reprimanded (as far as I know), much less fired or punished for the above.
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Meng,
I was set upon by evil companions, I have shot all my lead,my sword is broken, there is blood on my hands. I am retiring from the field for the evening as a weary man. Don't think great thoughts or take offense at anything I may have said in the heat of battle, just re-read the thread. I am finished for the day-- maybe until Easter.
Robert @93: Not to belabor the point, but as Belloc notes, the looting of the Catholic Church properties came after a period of twenty years or so when those who had revolted against the Church were "closely intermixed with a very legitimate determination to reform abuses." He goes on to say, "there were grave corruptions in the Church and grave discontent with the organizatin of the Church on the part of masses of men who never dreamed of destroying Church unity or interfering with the great mass of Cchurch doctrine and custom. This was especially the case in England, where the Church was less corrupt than elsewhere and where the people were by nature conservative....But at the end of these twenty years there came--round about 1536-40--a change in what had hitherto been a confused movement....This change was primarily caused by the great effect of Calvin, who set out with the greatests lucidity and unparalleled energy to form a counter-Church for the destruction of the old Church. He it was who really made the new religion, wholly hostile to the old one. At the same time the temptation to loot Church property and the habit of doing so had appeared and was growing; and this rapidly created a vested interest in promoting the change in religion. Those who attacked Catholic doctrine, as, for instance, in the matters of celibacy in the monastic Orders, or of a divinely appointed Hierarchy with the Papacy at its summit, opened the door for the seizure of the enormous clerical endowments, monastic, episcopal and parochial, by the Princes and City Corporations....Such an economic change in so short a time our civilization had never seen....It had for effect the firm establishment of a permanent motive for confirming the success of the Religious Revolution. The new adventurers and the older gentry who had so suddeenly enriched themselves saw, in the return of Catholicism, peril to their immense ne fortunes." (Introduction of Belloc's CHARACTERS OF THE REFORMATION, pp. 3-4, Tan Re-Publication 1992)
Well, I don't know about you folks but I spent all day planting norton grape vines, and I'm only half done. But in 3 years I plan to produce a batch of home-made wine. I'm not too bright either because my SATs were 930. No matter how bad things get, I will never take a federal government check again, I did it in the navy and it was my hardest lesson.