Government propaganda is so insidious

It’s always the same before any sporting event. Government soldiers marching with guns. A government flag stretched across the entire field. Government fighter jets flying overhead.

Nearly everything has become a celebration of the state, and its accompanying warfare. This is, of course, not an accident.

Pretty creepy.

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American Exceptionalism

While I do understand (and share) the natural inclination to prefer one’s home — i.e. one’s community, or the land on which one grew up — I totally reject “American Exceptionalism”.

Think of it this way: I love my family more than other families. But it has nothing to do with thinking they’re smarter or better looking or superior to all others. I love my family because it’s my family.

….but if it went around like a bully beating up other families all the time, I’d start to feel much differently about it. I’d plead with it to stop, and if it didn’t, it would be very difficult to continue proudly calling it my family.

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The one question political quiz

It is ok to use violence or the threat of violence to force my peaceful neighbor to do as I say:

a) whenever I want
b) if I sincerely believe it will be good for them
c) if I appoint a government official to do so
d) never

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Government, as we know it, is the real enemy. It produces nothing except distortions of social life, through war, taxation, regulation, and the general redistribution of wealth and resources.

Joseph Sobran

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Freedom in the USA

I’m tired of being talked to like a child and told self-serving nonsense by politicians and the media about how free the USA is. A quick assessment reveals the absurdity of the cliché.

The State has first claim on the fruit of our labor, and it decides what percentage it will allow us to keep.

The State spends many trillions of dollars in debt to preserve and expand its power, and it forces us to pay the tab.

The State surveils our daily communications by collecting all phone calls, texts, emails and internet usage and even records our location at every given moment via our cellphones.

The State claims the right control our bodies, and it decides what we can and can’t put in them.

The State breaks down the doors of peaceful homes and cages those who dare to disobey its edicts about what they are permitted to ingest.

The State controls our education by setting the curriculum and requiring its approval to teach children, and it indoctrinates us with fairytales about its goodness.

The State controls our money, and it creates new dollars at will to fund its welfare-warfare empire and requires us by law to use its continually devalued currency.

The State propagandizes us daily with its subservient media hacks who dutifully repeat its lies and attack the few journalists who are willing to challenge power.

We only think this is a free country because the State has taught us to think that since early childhood.

This is not a free country.

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Independence Day!

On this Independence Day, I’ll be reflecting on what an exceptionally free country we live in. Sure, the U.S. has the largest prison population in the world, the most expansive surveillance apparatus in history, a supreme leader who claims the authority to kill any person on earth, and every American is forcibly tethered to the government’s $17.5+ Trillion of debt…but besides that and a bunch other things…Land of the Free, I guess.

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This is not a form of brainwashing.

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US “Advisers” Waiting for Legal Cover for Iraq Deployment

In advance of its third war on Iraq, the Pentagon is seeking immunity from Iraqi law, apparently in the event the military again commits war crimes.

However, a war of aggression is itself a war crime, as per the post-WWII Nuremberg principles. Indeed, it is “the supreme international crime”. It’s not yet clear how they will get around that.

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“We’re Going Back to Iraq” - by Justin Raimondo

President Obama’s announcement that the US is sending 300 “advisors” back to Iraq to stave off the rising Sunni insurgency was couched in assurances that “American forces will not be returning to combat in Iraq” – but who really believes that? A proven liar – “If you like your health insurance you can keep it” – this President has absolutely no qualms about engaging in systematic deception if it serves his purposes. Indeed, his version of the numbers is in itself a blatant lie: in reality, we are sending 575 military personnel into Iraq, including the 275 marines and troops sent to guard the now-imperiled US Embassy – and that’s just what they’re announcing publicly. God knows what the real numbers are.

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