I caught part of an MSNBC interview of William Cohen by Andrea Mitchell [Mrs. Alan Greenspan] at noon talking about Afghanistan. To the question of soldier suicide Cohen answered part of the problem was that the war was a video game to most Americans. True enough. But the real thing is very stressful. He explained it’s like a cat in your back yard: if you explode things all night long, it will be a different cat in the morning. Hard to say where he came up with the analogy—maybe the DOD did some experiments with cats when he was the Scty. He went on to say that no one likes having to kill young boys and women, but there is the stress of not knowing who is the enemy. The solution to that stress, he said, is to increase the size of the military to eliminate multiple combat assignments. Or to engage more countries in the ongoing fight against terrorism. He predicted that that will happen by December, though he didn’t go into detail.
To Mitchell’s comment that there was so little widespread involvement in the wars, Cohen’s answer was — universal service. Those who aren’t nurses and such for 2 years can be soldiers. Nowhere in the interview was there a question asked about the possibility or desirability of just calling it quits.
UPDATE My suggestion: draft Cohen and Mrs. Greenspan.
UPDATE from Bill Maida:
I saw the interview as well and couldn’t get over something Mr. Cohen said. Speaking of the WikiLeaks story, he said that if we had this type of leak during the Civil War, “we might all be speaking now with a Tennessean or Georgia accent.” I don’t think I’ve ever heard a dumber comment from a politician.
Melissa Greenfield appeared to be a slender, ordinary 20-year-old woman wearing a neck brace. The device in her hand appeared to be a commonplace cell phone.
But viewed in light of the paramount law enforcement concern, “officer safety,” Greenfield was transformed into a potential SMERSH assassin. So the heroic Sgt. Jonathan Burke of Ohio’s Delaware County Sheriff’s Office simply had to arrest her, confiscate her property, and hold her in jail for three days, reports the Columbus Dispatch.
At least, that’s how we’re supposed to view what was done to Greenfield and her boyfriend, Colton Dorich, on July 9 at a Flying J truckstop near Columbus.
Like many others their age, the vacationing couple was funding their trip across the country by soliciting donations from other travelers. While this could be called panhandling, it isn’t a crime.
Dorich’s sign — which he displayed while walking his dog — triggered a passerby to call the police. When Burke arrived, he demanded that Dorich produce ID. Melissa withdrew her T-Mobile phone and announced that she was quite sensibly making a record of the event “for legal purposes and our own safety.”
Thanks for posting this—it was a perfect way to start a Friday morning, and yet one more example of why your site is so great.You know you’re old when you can answer all the questions (except the last one) without ever having laid eyes on the show!
One quibble with the author, though: that she’d pair Chablis but not Chardonnay with oysters shows she must have acquired her wine knowledge from the Food Network, since the Chablis district is almost entirely planted in Chardonnay (for true period authenticity, she should learn that it wasn’t common for wines to be marketed under their varietal name in the 1960s). And while some sherries can pair with oysters, I’d no more serve an oloroso than a Kendall-Jackson with them!
I find it intriguing that the Chelsea Clinton wedding is an FAA no-fly zone. Not even Hyde Park in Chicago, which sits underneath the take-off and/or landing zone to Midway (depending on which way the winds are blowing) is a no-fly zone when the Mahatma Obama is home meditating in his ashram. Which isn’t often, by the way.
Lew, I’ve long believed the greatest tragedy of the whole Deepwater Horizon disaster has been the sheer amount of crude oil that has been wasted. No oil producer — major, minor, or wildcatters — would be happy about that, or would have done anything to cause this disaster given the potential losses involved. To my understanding, BP may have been careless, but no more so than they were in many other deepwater wells that did not go kablooey.
I recently posted a link to the book Dying of Money (referenced in this lewrockwell.com article that stated it was available on Ebay for $699) that was available as a free pdf download at scribd.com. Unfortunately, the book has been removed from scribd.com (“Thanks” to my post?). At hulu.com you can purchase a new copy of the book for $34.95. Though not free, it sure beats the heck out of paying $699 for a copy on Ebay.
UPDATE: Daniel Mahaffey found a free online version of the book. Keep in mind that the text is set in one long block, so some of you still may feel more comfortable buying a copy of the book instead.
SECOND UPDATE: Roger Haynes writes:
“Right-click the web page and select ‘view source.’ The text is nicely formatted in the HTML source for some reason, and can be easily cut-and-pasted out into ones Favorite Word Processing Software (FWPS).” [KRAMER NOTE: After you initially click and select, you will see a lot of html text. You need to scroll down for awhile; you will eventually see the actually book's text in the more readable format that Roger is referring to.]
Kane and Lew: Did you catch that one word from the Fourth Amendment that makes this provision an utterly meaningless “protection” from governmental searches? It’s the word “unreasonable.” You and I are protected against “unreasonable searches and seizures” by government officials. But unreasonable is a weasel-word, that must be subjected to interpretation. And who will make the authoritative interpretation?: the government courts.
Ever since the Border Patrol installed internal checkpoints in south Texas, I now loathe traveling through the area. Last night, I was on my way from Laredo to San Antonio, and came upon one of these checkpoints. Of course, the agents were nice enough, but they asked (demanded) to know where I was going, where I had been, what my business was, and my citizenship status. I was then asked (ordered) to pop my trunk so a German Shepard could sniff through my bags. Since I don’t have brown skin, and I was not transporting anything not approved by the State, I was quickly on my way. However, throughout my detainment, a single phrase kept echoing through my mind:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…”
But I guess when it comes to really important stuff like stopping illegal immigration, we shouldn’t worry about trivial matters like that silly Bill of Rights thing.
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A couple of days ago I appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio to discuss Nullification, my new book. Although the conversation was probably more civil than what would have unfolded had I been a leftist on many right-wing programs, I had my share of shocked and appalled callers. I think I handled them pretty well. WPR wrote to say they’d received some good feedback from the program, citing a woman who wrote that although she didn’t share my ideology, “to me, this is one of the most refreshing guests you’ve ever had.”
…her Royal Wedding site has been declared a No Fly Zone by the FAA. Keep in mind that her father His Royal Murderer Majesty Bill hasn’t ruled (i.e., murdered foreigners) for almost a decade—but what does that matter when you are one of those who has been blessed with the Divine Right of Puppets by the Rothschilds/Rockefellers?
And speaking of the FAA, don’t forget to read former FAA Inspector Rodney Stich’s exposéThe Unfriendly Skies about this “indispensable” government agency and all it does to “protect” passengers from the airlines, the airplane manufacturers, and the unions.
The state and its media stooges are becoming more hysterical by the minute over the fact that most of that oil in the Gulf of Mexico seems to have evaporated and/or sunk back down to the bottom, where it came from. In Time magazine’s latest reporting on the “catastrophe” of there being no environmental catastrophe after all, the magazine provides a perfect example of its famed objectivity:
The article contrasts President Obama’s hysterical statement that this is the worst environmental disaster in history with Rush Limbaugh’s skepticism over the claim. Obama is identified as “President Obama,” whereas Time calls Limbaugh “the obnoxious anti-environmentalist Rush Limbaugh.”
In order to ensure that FBI agents knew the law on domestic surveillance, they had to take a test. They were not supposed to have help or have anything around to give them answers, with Question #51 asking if anyone assisted the test taker.
Naturally, the agents cheated, and then lied about it. You and I can go to prison for five years for “making false statements,” but even though FBI agents made false statements, you can bet nothing will happen to them. This is more proof to me that we really do have a “Ruling Class” in this country, and decent people are not part of it.
The story on FOX was prefaced with the remark, “but it’s for the children,” of course. And the media bobbleheads really believe it. And I suppose most Americans believe all of this nonsense they are fed on a daily basis from the Pharmaceutical-Government-Corporatist complex that seeks to keep you a prisoner of its rent-seeking machinations. This story on perthnow (via the New York Post) is turning some heads:
Sick kids could soon be taking Viagra
The US Food and Drug Administration approached Pfizer about using its drug to treat a lung ailment that affects about 600 children a year, the New York Post report.
Viagra, which modifies blood flows, could reduce unusually high blood pressure in a child’s lungs, or pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Yes, the pool of patients offers limited revenue opportunities, so why bother? Answer:
If Pfizer’s drug meets FDA requirements for children’s treatment, Pfizer would get an extra six months of exclusive Viagra sales without generic competition. Viagra sales in 2009 were $1.89 billion. Its patents expire in 2012.
We know that the state is a gang of thieves writ large, in Rothbard’s phrase, and almost all members of the House and Senate belong to it. But with Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) we have an open crook rather than a crypto one. So stay, Charlie, to help remind us of the true nature of the government.
That’s what Glenn Beck’s August 28 “rally” at the Lincoln Memorial will be, he has announced. Joining him will be Sarah Palin, fellow pro-war neocon, and presumably thousands of other pro-war sheeple. It will be a “salute to the troops,” they say. Of course, when propagandists like these say they are saluting “our troops” they are trying to censor criticism of the Washington establishment and its foreign policy by equating criticism of them with criticism of your neighbor’s young son or daughter who, in good faith and a feeling of patriotism, joined the army.
Beck started out months ago talking about this rally in very libertarian terms, quoting Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. But, alas, it’s turned out to be just another staged neocon warmongering festival designed to pull the wool over the eyes of the booboisie once again.
The Afghanistan Papers will take time to read and process. I took 5 minutes to scan a tiny sample in one category involving checkpoints. The picture I got is of U.S. forces attempting to discover an enemy and/or prevent infiltration by occupying the country via checkpoints and reconnaissance flights. In incident after incident, Afghanis fail to stop at checkpoints or attempt to speed through them (these reports say). This leads the U.S. soldiers to open fire. After killing or wounding Afghanis, the soldiers find no arms, no bombs, no suicide attacks, and no improvised explosive devices (IED). On one recon flight, two men were seen doing something near a road. This led to a pursuit in which the pilot destroyed their motorcycle. Afterwards, no IED was found near the road. My faith that our brilliant government is insuring our national security by setting up roadblocks in a rugged mountainous country the size of Texas is undiminished from reading these reports. I only wonder why we have not solved the unemployment problem by hiring the unemployed and augmenting the roadblocks so that we could feel even more safe in our beds. I am sure that the Afghanis don’t mind sacrificing a few of their lives for the sake of our safety.
I just finished listening to your podcast with Russ Baker when I saw the Drudgereport running a story with the headline, “Will Jeb Bush Set Sights on the White House?” The article says, “The question that lingers on many Republican lips when asked about whether he should join the fray and run for President is this: ‘Is it too soon?’” One can only hope that Americans are not such gluttons for punishment as the neo-cons think.
UPDATE The Jebster, if he can be believed, says no.
That’s the spin the editorialists at USA Today put on the WikiLeaking of 91,000 pages of “top secret” documents about the failed war in Afghanistan. Apparently expecting the booboisie to believe that they read 91,000 pages of government documents in less than 24 hours, the editorial writers conclude that all of this is “not very significant” and there’s no reason to put an end to this futile and senseless nine-year “war.”
The article in the link above has a picture of an American soldier aiming a weapon with a caption proclaiming that he is ridding the world of the Taliban. However, in the background of the photo is another guy just standing around. You’d think he’d be more wary if this wasn’t just another staged photo by the Pentagon bureaucracy and happily brought to our attention by USA Today.
Just as with the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska, the oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico has..disappeared. How dare Mother Nature bug the ec-hysteriacs and the state, who now are all dressed up with no place to go.
…Jon “Maddog” Hall wanted to try to preserve some deteriorating piano rolls, but discovered (much to his annoyance) that copyright may be getting in the way. He points out that many old player piano rolls are deteriorating, and the small group of remaining collectors are hoping to preserve the music by digitizing them. Easier said than done…turns out that Hall got confused about the difference between the copyright on the composition and the copyright on the performance, and his attempt to save a more modern recording of a public domain song — even though that piano roll was deteriorating — was not allowed. After contacting one company that still makes piano rolls, he was told that he was better off not preserving the rolls in his collection:
We ended up agreeing that if I made an mp3 recording of less than 30 seconds, off an old roll, from a company that was completely out of business, kept it completely for my own use, and locked up so no one else could hear it, that I probably would not be sued. He also begged me not to use any of his company rolls in this task, as he really did not want to have to sue me. I thanked him for his time.
It only took 100 years, but it looks like copyright law in the US is finally doing what it originally intended to do: destroying piano rolls.
Intellectual property legislation is outright theft. A judge could one day order a famine by declaring certain farming methods and genetic patterns to be “owned” by someone else (probably some corporatist entity backed by the full “faith and credit” of the US—that is, anything from machine guns to nukes). Great!
Karen: Julian Assange seems to operate on some antiquated idea — probably picked up in his high-school classes — that our political system is akin to a “democracy,” with a truthfully informed public being essential to its functioning. This is why the First Amendment was the first enumerated of “rights” in the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson expressed the point in these words: “I am…for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.”
But such thinking has been outdated by our modern corporate-state plutocracy. What members of the public know and think is, at best, irrelevant; at worst, it can be downright dangerous to the security (read “national security”) of the ruling classes. The modern role of the mainstream media is not to keep people fully informed, but entertained, so as to distract their attentions from what is being done to them by “their agents.” The state’s monopoly on the use of violence can only be maintained by its monopoly on the thinking of men and women, a purpose served by government schools, the media, and other establishment voices. Such ends are served by Mark Twain’s observation that “Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.” They are also reflected in the modern epistemological standard that a lie is as good as the truth, if you can get people to believe it!
For thirty years I have been hammering away about the crucial importance of understanding “power elite analysis” or “libertarian class theory” in order to make sense of how American society operates.
I have never seen this stated in such a clear and eloquent manner. Both essays should be read by everyone, and shared with friends, family, colleagues, etc.
Dr. Codevilla’s article is perhaps the most important essay I have ever read. For the first time I have begun to understand how generations of leftist intellectuals and activists were passionately moved and inspired by the Communist Manifesto of 1848. Codevilla has written a true American manifesto for our time, a brilliant analytical framework and dramatic call to action that will motivate millions in the Freedom Movement, the Tea Parties, and in the general society at-large. His work draws on the pioneering scholarship of Bernard Bailyn and Murray Rothbard in seeing American politics as two adversarial classes at war with each other — an arrogant elite ruling class and “the country class” and the rest of us held at bay. It deserves the widest possible readership and distribution possible.
In 1975, I briefly studied with Dr. Codevilla at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Western Summer School at Thomas Aquinas College in California. I knew then that here was a man who would be making a decisive impact on the political and intellectual landscape of America. Dr. Codevilla has experienced a magnificent career at the top levels of public policy circles and academia.
Julian Assange’s technological know-how and his ethical ascendance are a great gift — and of course, mainstream media (and Mother Jones!) look the gift horse in the mouth. However, I first heard of the latest Wikileak release on 880 am radio (CBS, NYC) as the lead 30 minute news run last night, with a very complimentary and respectful verbal assessment of the latest Afghanistan files by NYT reporter (and smart guy) Eric Schmidt. Some years ago, Eric once visited me at my house; the visit was well, short, and each of us was decidedly unimpressed with the other. I think it started to go sour when I suggested that the major reporters had not done their simple and obvious job in investigating/reporting both the facts and the lies made to justify the Iraq invasion, subsequent occupation, and assorted puppetry. Today, after nearly a decade of Afghanistan destruction, and over two decades of messing with and up Iraq, perhaps our kings and deciders think it might be time for the military industrial complex to sit back on their plump and well-fed haunches and let some other government supplicant have their turn at the teat. Before it dries up for good. Or not — but it may not matter if Wikileaks can continue to jujitsu the secret keepers and their Praetorian guard in the mainstream media.
This story from Baltimore is yet one more example of the real costs of the Drug War. A woman is dead, and for what? So cops could arrest a small-time seller?
My wife and one of my daughters prevailed upon me, this morning, to make a trip to our favorite French restaurant to pick up some wonderful French pastries for them. The woman who waited on me at the pastry counter was probably in her fifties, with a decided European — probably German — accent. After boxing up my selections, she informed me that the charge was “$13.90.” I replied that “1390 was probably an interesting year.” She responded “that was after the Dark Ages,” to which I added “yes, but the Dark Ages were not as bad or as ‘dark’ as we have been conditioned to believe.” She agreed, reminding me that 1390 was “about the start of the Renaissance.” As I drove home, I wondered with how many other persons I would have to engage in such a conversation to get similar responses.
Lew: When I hear CNN and other mainstream media flacks for the institutional order criticize the Internet for anonymous and alleged dishonesty in reporting, I wonder if we shall next be treated to O.J. Simpson lectures on spousal abuse! These establishment slugs have still not owned up to their roles in repeating the state lies, deceptions, and secret (i.e., ”anonymous”) rationalizations for wars that have thus far killed hundreds of thousands innocents. One commentator went so far as to resurrect Hillary Clinton’s long-standing plea for an Internet “gatekeeper” to protect the public. The Internet — like the expansion of books published after Gutenberg’s invention — provides a means by which the public can discover the lies, fraud, and corruption practiced by the state against the rest of us. It is the corporate-state that seeks the protection of the censorship inherent in these efforts to make the Internet useful to political interests. This is a major reason why the mainstream media has been losing viewers and readers to the Internet, a fact that makes CNN’s plea as disingenuous as listening to Detroit auto-makers criticizing their Japanese competitors!
Highly paid anchors on CNN denounce the internet and bloggers for not being the regimists that they are. Oh, that awful competition. Outlaw it, and leave the CNNs of the world to lie to us. And here is Glenn Greenwald on the Pravdaists.
So the evil, conniving, unprincipled, corrupt, murderous, neocon, thin-shouldered mama’s boys who run the Canadian government, under the puppetship of the U.S. government, get Eric Margolis fired from the Toronto Sun shortly afer the Sun accepted a bundle of bribe money from the Canadian government. What a shocker. Do yourself a favor and read some of Eric Margolis’s articles here on LewRockwell.com and you will immediately notice how they are orders of magnitude superior to the puerile rantings and ravings of the Bill Kristols, David Brookses, Max Boots, David Frums, or any of the other neoconmen. That includes Rush “I will defend any crime, as long as it is done by a by a Republican” Limbaugh, Hannity, and all the other neocon media whores.
Or so the bought and paid for Sun newspapers in Canada hope, after firing him (just shortly after the newspaper chain received filthy lucre from the Canadian government). This is a medal on Eric’s chest, if an expensive one, showing exactly how much the neocons who run the administration in Ottawa hate and fear the truth about foreign policy. Of course, this tactic will not work. Eric will continue to be available at LRC and elsewhere. May he live long and prosper, for he is one of the heroes of journalism. He has, of course, long been persecuted for his views, with commissars like David Horowitz working to smear him and block his speaking engagements. As Bill Buckley said, the baloney fears the slicer.
Lew: Your post on the unraveling of the official lie regarding the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan reminded me that shortly after the Korean govt/CIA “investigation” concluded, of course, that the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan was all the fault of the pesky North Koreans, the US House, true to form, took up a warmongering, aggressive resolution to fan war flames in the direction of North Korea. Rep. Paul — along with Reps. Kucinich and Jones (NC) — made up the sole three no votes on the resolution, which was couched in crocodile tear language about the loss of the South Korean soldiers. Foot, meet mouth, Congress…
Below are the Resolved clauses of the bill (H.RES.1382) — see especially the final clause, ominously calling for “other appropriate actions in response to the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan.”
I was just reflecting on a funny comparison. My wife and I had a child 3 years ago, and I remember the bill from the hospital being in the ball-park of $4,500 (Waterbury, CT). Of course I didn’t really care because my wife had state-subsidized (she was a teacher in a public school) benefits that only made us pay a $150 co-pay.
Then, last year, my wife, 2-year-old son and I took a family vacation to Disney World in Florida. 8 days/7 nights in the middle-budget Caribbean, on-site resort (which of course had room service each day as well as amazing amenities), park-hopper tickets for all four, main parks each day, and a family dining plan for each day (which provides for more delicious food than one could ever attempt to eat in a day). I also received a $70 gift card for my birthday. The trip’s total cost, after tax and gratuity for dining: $2,500.
Now, I realize it is apples and oranges to compare the “Happiest Place on Earth” with a hospital, but when it comes down to basic economic principles, is it really that different?
To “‘appease the Ron Paul, Tea Party base.” That was the reason given by a Canadian Democratic MP on why the “conservative” Canadian government deep-sixed the long-form, mandatory census.
So since the official position of aggressive Hillary, the rest of the US government, and their CIA people in South Korea is that the North sank a South Korean warship out of the blue, we can have our doubts. Now some in the South are pointing out holes in the official tale. (Thanks to Bill Sardi)
On today’s lewrockwell.com there is an article about the not-so-well-known (except to conspiracy buffs) 1961 speech that Pres. Kennedy gave warning about secret societies and high-level cabals running the world behind the scenes. The author of the article wrote:
“And, JFK’s “United States notes” backed by silver, which were withdrawn the day he was shot, would have put the Federal Reserve out of business and returned to the Treasury Department the Constitutional power to create and issue a debt-free currency.”
I would like to draw your attention to this part of a study done on the Federal Reserve which disputes the above claim. It’s called: Myth #9: President Kennedy was assassinated because he tried to usurp the Federal Reserve’s power. Executive Order 11,110 proves it.
Though the author of the study, Thomas Woodward, may be correct about the actual implications of Executive Order 11110, he is of course clueless about Austrian economics (i.e., real economics) and, therefore, his economic views on the legitimacy of the Federal Reserve itself are 100% fallacious.
UPDATE: Jon Arden sent me this link to a very detailed analysis by One World Government conspiracy expert G. Edward Griffin in which Ed confirms basically what Thomas Woodward wrote debunking the idea that Executive Order 11110 was an order that would have destroyed the Fed.
In a previous post where I embedded a video showing a Fascist Fuzz callously knocking down a Will Griggian mundane, I commented:
“When are the sheeple going to wake up and realize that we must have a 100% ban on gun ownership—for all government employees? (That should really speed up the pace for completely replacing government.)”
As you can see from the video below of an unarmed British Fascist Fuzz callously knocking down a Will Griggian mundane—which might have led to his death minutes later—my statement above is wrong. It should read:
“When are the sheeple going to wake up and realize that we must have a 100% ban on police? (That should really speed up the pace for completely replacing government.)”
Many of you have heard about this controversial video clip of USDA official Shirley Sherrod admitting that she discriminated against a white person while working for the USDA. Towards the end of the clip, she then states that she realized it wasn’t about Black versus White—it was about the “Haves” versus the “Have Nots.” Below is the FULL video. As far as I’m concerned, she’s still being an irrational (and, of course, economically-ignorant) bigot—but a bigot about class rather than about race. At 16:59–21:04, you can hear about her “fall” and her later “atonement” towards poor white people. But she still resents the rich (Both White and Black, Shirley?). And do the rich people she resents include those super-rich who supported Obama’s candidacy such as Evelyn de Rothschild, George Soros, and Warren Buffet? Oh, and at 23:39 she says that people who are against Obamacare are racists. Finally, towards the end of the video this economically-ignorant bigot says that people should thank Pres. Obama for continuing the Bush Administration policy of giving out dirt cheap loans to people who really cannot afford them—which was one of the atrocious government policies that got us into the current mess to begin with. (Of course, those are my words—not hers!)
David: You must remember that the 13th Amendment did not end slavery, but only nationalized it. The state wanted to end government-enforced private slavery so as to get rid of the competition!
Recall the words of Ezra Pound: “A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
As the two-year investigation into the alleged wrongdoings of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) which I’ve already written about here and here comes to an end, the soon-to-be dis-Honorable (I hope, but I’m not holding my breath) Rangel wants young Americans to become slaves of the State. He has sponsored H.R. 5741 which proposes:
“To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.”
I’m still trying to figure out how a Black Congressman—who should know the U.S. Constitution which he has sworn to uphold—somehow never got around to reading the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
“Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
Maybe I’m wrong. Perhaps it’s considered “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude” if you’re forced to work for your government country.
A man and his son were pulled off of an Air Canada flight after some sheeple passengers became concerned because the boy was watching a video of the 9/11 false flag terrorist attacks.
An airline employee said:
“Safety and security as well as the comfort of all our passengers and crew is always our top concern and we take whatever steps we deem necessary to provide a safe, secure and comfortable environment,” he said…I don’t know if it was the right decision,” the employee said. “But better safe than sorry.”
I can already see the next Orwellian step: All videos and reading materials that sheeple passengers want to bring on their flights will be screened by government agents in order to determine which materials are or are not appropriate for the safety of the other sheeple passengers.
Will, I notice a number of neocons and religious rightists coming out against the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, after serving as ardent propagandists for the Pentagram. That is great. But since they and their country want Iran starved and bombed out of existence, I wonder if they simply worry that two lost wars might hinder their next one, and the other atrocities they plan. Probably I am too cynical.
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