1. “Is There a Natural Anti-Liberty Mindset?
The immediate and obvious answer to this question might be “Yes, of course there is.” An anti-liberty mindset would explain our wars — at home on freedoms we like to think were sanctified in t he first ten amendments to the Constitution, and abroad on other people and other countries who do not quickly enough bend to our great will.
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Finally, in spite of our ostensible regard for those who serve the state as members of the military, the long-term trends bear out that it is less respect we have for these people than it is fear and dislike of them. America has already evolved a Praetorian class, with a volunteer military made up of people groomed socially, genetically, and geographically to serve the state, and who are socially, economically and geographically unwelcome in most communities after their service. Most military retirees who identify as such, cluster in certain state supported locations near atrocious domestic military bases and expensive government health care. The mentally and physically wounded from our wars are kept unseen, unheard, often heavily medicated and out of journalistic view. Those others who truly integrate into civil society do so without reference to their military service, and keep it thankfully buried like any other mistake that is in the past.”
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=164
2. Of course the article didn’t mention Turner Construction:
“Demolition Access To The WTC Towers
Several facts are clear from this review of the companies and people responsible for revamping the security systems for the WTC buildings, and securing New York City, on 9/11. One is that many of the people involved were deceptive and/or corrupt, and appeared to have benefited from the attacks. Another is that many of them were connected to each other and to the investigations into previous acts of terrorism and the terrorist financing bank BCCI. Yet another striking similarity among these organizations is that they all did major work for the Saudi Arabian government, or the royal family of Kuwait. Finally, the history of some of those involved, like Terry McAuliffe, shows a level of greed and corruption that overshadowed all preconceptions about US politics.”
http://www.911blogger.com/node/20880
3. “Israeli Troops Killed Unarmed Gazans Carrying White Flags
Israel’s own probes into the Gaza War have largely stalled without result, most notably when it abandoned an investigation stemming from the direct public testimony of several of its own soldiers who reported indiscriminate killing of civilians just days after announcing it.”
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/08/13/report-israeli-troops-killed-unarmed-gazans-carrying-white-flags/
4. Unbelievable:
“National Guard drill at high school to prepare for possible H1N1 riot”
http://www.sunjournal.com/node/105339/
5. Nice protection of free speech and free religious expression:
“Swiss move to ban minarets as ‘symbols of Islamic power’
These “town meetings” are really nothing but propaganda sessions run by members of Congress who are trying to burnish their fraudulent credentials as public servants, and trying to perpetrate a huge fraud of a health care bill that purports to be a progressive “reform” of the US health care system, but that actually further entrenches the control of that system by the insurance industry, and to a lesser extent, the hospital and drug industry.”
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/08/obamacare-is-to-health-reform-what-bank.html
7. “Britain’s Big Brother: A request to snoop on public every 60 secs”
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14760
