Oppression in Amerika

[ariellyn]

I googled "oppression America" and found this gem of a website:

http://www.new-enlightenment.com/militarismindex.htm

that expresses the way I feel way better than I could. It's a long but good read.

Discuss.

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by Dr. Norman D. Livergood


"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
James Madison, while a United States Congressman


We usually think of a nation being controlled by a military dictatorship when a military leader seizes control ...as in the case of General Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan or Saddam Hussein in Iraq. The previous government is overthrown and a military strong man places himself in power with few if any constraints from judicial or legislative oversight.

But we must look for the essence of a military dictatorship, those features which are present whenever this form of oppression occurs. In essence, a military dictatorship is a form of government in which absolute power is concentrated in a repressive ruler or a small clique who use military and police power to dominate the people mentally and physically.


Taking this definition as our touchstone, in the United States we know we're living under a military dictatorship (oppression) when we see:

* a leader retaining power through stealing the election of 2004 and put into power in 2000 by a coup d'etat, not through democratic elections

* the military used to control the civilian population in violation of the U.S. Constitution

* the president ordering a US citizen held indefinitely by the military

* a shadow government being set up consisting entirely of executive branch officials in violation of the Constitution

* government informants spying on fellow citizens

* the highest amount of government funds going to military initiatives:

...taxpayer money being used to subsidize and fund domestic and foreign "defense" corporations

...taxpayer money being used to subsidize and fund domestic and foreign military operations: wars, embargoes, training, etc.

...a dictatorial ruling clique creating unnecessary, homocidal wars as a way of remaining in power

...a dictatorial ruling clique committing crimes and assuming illegal powers and not being brought to justice because of manipulated, powerless legislative and judicial branches

...the spread of militaristic values and the increasing power of the military in our society

All these conditions are now present in the United States.


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The "National Defense State" scam works this way in the U.S.:

* Congress sinks huge sums into the "defense" budget.

* Congress transfers the money to the Pentagon and the Pentagon distributes our tax money to the various defense industries.

* Corporate executives "buy" congresspersons and presidents.

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American weapons producers signed contracts for some $18.6 billion dollars in 2000, up from around $12.9 billion dollars the previous year. US contracts accounted for 49.7 percent of global sales in 2000 and the US controlled half of the developing world's arms market with $12.6 billion in sales. The US routinely sells weapons to undemocratic regimes and gross human rights abusers (Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Kuwait, Turkmenistan and Turkey), which the Bush junta views as "trustworthy allies"

...The "High Cabal" lies to the American people about how much it spends on military expenses. The Bush puppet regime tells the American taxpayers that only about 17% of the federal budget goes to the military expenditures. However, in reality at least 58% of our tax dollars are going to the military!


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A major part of the overall world dominance strategy is:

* Sell armaments to a regime (for example, Panama, Iraq, Yugoslavia/Kosovo, Afghan/Pakistan/Taliban Mujaheddin).

* Demonize the regime to which they sold the armaments and declare war on it (e.g. Panama Invasion, Gulf War, UN Kosovo war, Afghanistan war, Iraq war).

* After the war, they station permanent military bases in the country and use the military bases to control the energy resources in the surrounding countries.

* They impose the current U.S. foreign policy doctrine called "full-spectrum dominance": the U.S. must control military, economic and political developments everywhere.



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We do not enjoy having to use such extreme terms as "police state" and "military dictatorship," but in such extreme times as these it's necessary to speak the plain truth to help the American people wake up to what's happening.

In a television program, Phil Donahue spoke with swindled employees of Enron, World,com, and other criminal corporations. Many of the workers who had been fired, without severance pay, by these companies days after the senior executives had stolen millions, were still dazed. These were well-intentioned, hard-working people who had been completely savaged by corporate fat-cats. "What can we do?" they asked.

Well, certainly the first thing American workers must do is wake up to what the Bush regime is doing: fostering and allowing corporate crime to run rampant, destroying the life savings of hundreds of people.

We must be aware that the Bush regime is actually a military dictatorship which will inevitably lead to the total destruction of our civil liberties unless we make sure that doesn't happen.

It's easy to miss the unmistakable aspects of the "High Cabal's" dictatorship if we assume that tyranny in the United States will necessarily take the same form as in, say, Nazi Germany, the communist Soviet Union, Sadam Hussein's dictatorship in Iraq, or other instances of despotism.


"If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied."
Rudyard Kipling

[flordehinojos]

1. thanks for this informative link.....

:hi: :yourock:

[pnorman]

2. That was a good find.

But I notice a reference there, to "Report From Iron Mountain". I, like many others at that time, (late 60s) 'fell' for that book. Quite a few others to this day, still accept it as factual, including some faaaaar-right whackos.

However, it was a deliberate hoax, by some people with good credentials. The intent was to get peoples attention to what is going on, under the layers and layers of Orwellian lies. As we can now see by the PNAC agenda, it wasn't too far off the mark. Here's a statement by the author of that book: http://www.prouty.org/lewin.html

I mention this only as a word of caution. Personally, I think that such an attempt at satire in that period was ill-advised. Fortunately, it didn't have the same effect as that Orson Wells "War of the Worlds" broadcast did, 60+ years ago. People were a LOT more 'trusting' then ... somewhat less so, 20+ years later. Nowadays, most people seeing that sort of stuff would immediately think: "Aha! The Onion!".

pnorman

[ariellyn]

3. I had no idea about Iron Mountain...however, I believe most

of what he says is true nevertheless.

[tinonedown]

4. Tell it to Mexico

Maybe the tide of immigrants, once educated about 'Amerika" the oppressor, will cease to flow.
NOT.

[ariellyn]

5. It doesn't matter whether immigrants cease to flow--or not

what does matter is that once they come they too will become part of Amerika's oppression along with everyone else. Of course, immigrants often come from more oppressive societies. The problem is, America has not historically been on par with these kinds of places--until now.