UPDATE from Paul Farah:

If the Irish would simply dump their military, they could peel 1.3 billion euros right off the budget. Ireland has not been involved in a war since it broke away from England in 1922, so I doubt the military would even be missed.  Notice how the talk of austerity always is for cutbacks for things the people need.  It's never for the zoom bang gizmos of the elite who run the government.

“‘Our objective is really to have industry have an opportunity to work with the leadership of TSA,’ WHSR Director Kay Olive” prattled. Yo, Kay: “industry” worked so well with an earlier “leadership” that the companies virtually eliminated their costs for labor — though they still had to pay the guards and buy miles of barbed wire. They also came up with a catchy slogan: Arbeit Macht Frei. I bet they'd lease you the rights.

Kay continued in accents of utter evil, “I think [TSA’s] looking every way they can to improve and increase effectiveness, and we just want to help with that. Much like every agency out there, I think they’re just looking for opportunity.”

There may be obscenities more chilling than “industry’s” bestial union with Leviathan, but I’m hard put to name them.

I fear it is hopeless. Americans worship the ground the military walks on. I don't see it letting up no matter what the military does or where the military goes. I will keep writing to reach the few that will listen.

UPDATE Whenever I hear the phrase "total war," I think of this speech praising death and destruction for commander-in-chief and country.

All-in-all it's enough to make Joseph Goebbels dance in his grave (he does have one, does he not?).

I've been reading a book about Custer's "Last Stand," by an American historian. I previously read a Native American history of the battle. What surprises me isn't the differences in the account...they actually seem fairly compatible...but the entirely different attitudes about "morality."

Custer was a rapist. The US Army that killed "Indians" was an army of rapists. Custer and his men, especially his officers, repeatedly, over long periods of time, raped their female captives. The book even says that there was a widespread phrase in the US Calvary that "Indian women rape easy."

The book passes over this rather matter-of-factly, as if it's really no big deal...and it is not allowed to color the description of either Custer's character, or the character of his officers and men.

I also recently read a book by a Seal sniper...and he said their orders in the 2003 attack on Iraq were to kill every male between the ages of 16 and 60, armed or not. Basically, this order essentially means kill every male that isn't obviously a toddler or a feeble old man. Imagine the outrage if say, the Iranians, issued their troops such an order? He didn't have a problem with it, and I suspect that most Americans wouldn't either, as long as WE are the ones doing the killing.

Responds Jack:

The CIA, Seals, and other special ops carried out a systematic plan of mass slaughter of boys and men in Iraq and Afghanistan before and during the invasions and annihilations  of those nations. The secret snipers were the spearhead of the slaughters. They were ordered off-book to shoot all boys and men who even looked like they might be al-Queda or Taliban, which they obviously interpreted to mean any boy or man who might be able to wield a weapon and fight.

These mass murderers are very proud of their gory slaughters and are now publishing books for the masses about their “brave” acts of secret slaughter of unarmed boys and men. All of this has exploded under Obama and he is gung ho for the drone slaughters now being carried out in many nations.

Henry A. Crumpton’s book, The Art of Intelligence, about his part in the slaughter in Afghanistan has just been reviewed in the Wall St. Journal [5/18/12, pg. A-11]. He proudly boasts that the CIA and special ops death squads [probably officially named only black ops units] killed thousands of Afghan boys and men.

They really had no evidence their victims were anything but peasants. In the beginning of the annihilation of Afghanistan I wrote about exactly that, based on the anonymous, written accounts of a CIA sniper who was a very close professional friend of a long time friend of mine who was an officer in the Navy. He shot peasants from a great distance so the victims and their families never knew what hit them. He was using a powerful sniper rifle so, as he said, he could see through his scope that when the bullet hit them they exploded as if they were stuffed with dust.

The Bush-Obama global terror will live in infamy long after the US has destroyed itself by enraging the world against all Americans. This and the death of democracy and the great global financial crisis will be America’s legacy of terror for all time.

UPDATE from Mark Janness:

Reading the post by Professor Douglas about the killing of Muslim men reminded me of the following scripture passage.

Mathew 2 (NIV)
16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. 17 Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:

18 “A voice is heard in Ramah,
weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children
and refusing to be comforted,
because they are no more.”

Are we any better now than the enemies of Christ?

These delusions that are a contributing factor to causing folly after folly are culturally rooted and historically-conditioned. There are reasons why Americans over-estimate the importance of technical gadgets of war, look upon other governments as inferior, look upon other peoples as inferior, do not understand foreign systems, separate the world into good guys (Americans) and bad guys (whoever doesn't agree with Americans), refuse to face realities, think that wars can be run like production lines, focus on body counts, kills and statistics, view systems that are different as threats, and on and on.

These data suggest that the War on Terror for the sake of American security is entirely fraudulent. They suggest that the unbelievably high U.S. military expenditures that are often loosely linked to terror concerns cannot be justified by any conceivable terror threats.

Further evidence in support of these inferences are data from the same report on the total deaths by country worldwide associated with terror incidents in 2010. The largest number is 3,364 in Iraq. The second largest is 3,202 in Afghanistan. The U.S. attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan have without question caused terrorist attacks to soar in those two countries. Before the U.S. made war on Saddam Hussein and on the Taliban, who ever heard of terrorism being a problem in those lands? And who in his right mind regarded whatever terrorism existed there as a significant threat to America or American lives?

As far as the passengers go, they’ve typically forgotten the pistol in their briefcase or bag. No matter: the TSA crows as though its goons have just discovered Al Qaeda’s newest recruit, not an absent-minded businessman protecting himself when he picked up rent or delivered his payroll the night before. Government pretends these innocents are terrorists, even in the absence of any crime or motivation and though they never made it near any plane. And it ruins their lives accordingly while stealing their weapons.

In Mr. Dieter’s case, he actually did take his “Smith & Wesson revolver … loaded with five rounds” aboard multiple flights — seven of them, in fact.

Never mind that guns are so effective at protecting aircraft (and everything else) that even the Feds have admitted as much with a program they call “Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO).” Never mind that this allows pilots willing to kowtow to Our Rulers via “background checks, training … and periodic gun proficiency tests and retraining” to exercise their natural right of self-defense (while turning other armed pilots who haven’t kowtowed into prey for the police-state). And never mind that Mr. Dieter’s gun didn't magically discharge, nor did it bring down even a single one of his seven flights. He defied Our Rulers — sorry, imperiled the ole Homeland and must be punished. “In today's day and age,” thundered U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr., “we simply can't afford to have anyone ignore these important regulations, all of which are designed to protect the traveling public [sic for ‘designed to disarm the traveling public’].”

Sit on it, Bill. While you’re sucking up our taxes and railroading the productive, Mr. Dieter provides a valuable service to people hoping to travel from Point A to B. And he was willing to throw in protection as well. It’s typical of the State that you’re hoping to cage this man for 10 years while extorting $250,000 from him.

You’re the criminal, Bill, not him. You and the rest of Leviathan’s sycophants.

When socialism collapsed all around the world in the late '80s/early 90s the American socialist academic Robert Heilbroner wrote an article in The New Yorker entitled "After Communism" in which he wrote, "Mises was Right." In light of the fact that America has become such a fascist police and warfare state, "Hayek was Right" would be another appropriate title for a New Yorker article. Take this course and learn why this is — and develop a better understanding of how we might go about making a U-turn on the road to serfdom. 

(Heilbroner's book, The Worldly Philosophers, was used as an econmics text for decades.  He purported to survey the history of economic thinking, but he made no mention of Mises, the most prominent and insightful worldy philosopher of the twentieth century.  In his New Yorker article he advised his fellow socialists to disguise themselves as environmentalists and make the case for socialist central planning not based on economics but on a supposed concern for "Mother Earth."  That's why statist environmentalists--to be distinguished from genuine conservationists--should properly be called "watermelons" -- green on the outside but red on the inside).  Thanks to Gary North for reminding me of this about Heilbroner.