Our fourth American President,
James Madison (1751-1836), made some most profoundly prescient statements
about foreign wars.
No nation could preserve
its freedoms in the midst of continual warfare.
If tyranny and oppression
come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
The means of defense against
foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny.
For the last century,
America has been led by one war party or another.
Democratic
administrations brought us into the evils of World War I (Woodrow
Wilson), World War II (Franklin Delano Roosevelt), the Korean War
(Harry S. Truman), and the Viet Nam War (Lyndon Baines Johnson).
A Republican
administration (George W. Bush) brought us the wars in Afghanistan
and then the Shock and Awe of
Iraq.
Since 1980, the
American military has bombed, invaded, or occupied fourteen
countries, causing devastation and death for millions of innocent
people all the while claiming that we were bringing those people
democracy.
By withholding
important data and using outright lies, leaders of both our political
parties have justified all our wars during the past century; but have
remained appallingly quiet about their ever-growing theft of our
freedoms.
So which party is the
War Party the Republicans or the Democrats? Both are War Parties
that have stolen our liberties for over one hundred years.
But with the
Republicans recently gaining control of the Senate, warmonger Senator
John McCain is poised to become our next Armed Services Committee
chairman.
With this eventuality,
the Republicans are likely to become our most virulent war-like
political party yet and that is saying a lot considering the
war-crimes record of the Democrats.
The great French
historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) wrote …
No
protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic
country.
A hundred years of wars
have all but destroyed the American economy with taxes, while putting
us in such a debt-debacle there is not enough money in the world to
pay off the interest and principal the private and foreign shylocks
claim we owe them.
Worse yet, these wars
have taken a most savagely devastating toll on the personal freedoms
of those whose nation was once the freest in the world.
The
best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to
take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a
thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way the
people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until
past the point at which those changes cannot be reversed. - Adolf
Hitler
The burgeoning
expansion of any slave state depends on foreign wars and the nation’s
prior economic freedoms; as such freedoms create widespread
affluence.
This wealth attracts
thieves and parasites into the country’s banking establishment and
its government, causing the country’s affluence to metastasize into
the cancer of a corrupt state. Of course this malignancy is caused by
governmental borrowing, the progressive income tax, the offshoring of
jobs, and continual wars.
Our country, the United
States of America, is the world’s prime example of a nation so
eaten up with cancer of the spirit that we have become the foremost
terrorist threat on earth, while dying and being enslaved
internally.
Those of us ignorantly
locked into the engineered left/right paradigm are being imprisoned
in the very jails we refuse to recognize.
The British author of
such dystopian classics as 1984 and
Animal Farm, George
Orwell, was far more than a mere novelist. Read his prophetic words
below.
Every
war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war
but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
War
against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think
they are going to profit from it.
Political
language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder
respectable.
All the
war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes
invariably from people who are not fighting.
The
nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by
his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing
about them.
How many Americans have
heard about our torture of thousands of men, women, and even children
in hundreds of military bases around the world?
Since the
administration of George Bush II, torture has become an official US
policy, but called by the specious and beguiling pseudonyms of
enhanced interrogation or
extraordinary rendition.
Of all the war crimes
committed during the Bush/Obama administrations, the torture of human
life is the most hideous and the most difficult to forgive.
CNN tells us that
returning US combat troops are killing themselves at the rate of more
than twenty-two a day. Could this be a reaction to the horrible
things these soldiers did to innocent victims while on combat duty?
Alexis de Tocqueville,
traveled extensively throughout America during the first third of the
19th Century. He
wrote, America is great because she is good,
and if she ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.
How
many people know about the legislation called the National
Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which
allows “our” government to imprison any American indefinitely
all without the burden of the government proving its case to an
independent judge. So much for our Sixth Amendment guarantee of a
right to trial.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
who brutally knew enslavement first-hand in the Soviet gulags wrote
some truths every American should heed.
A state
of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
The
next war may well bury Western civilization forever.
Mahatma Gandhi said,
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
Will you foster peace
by opposing the War Parties?
I hope so.
J. Speer-Williams
Jsw4@mac.com |
