Religions > Atheism > America's "Noble" Cause: Preserving its Right to Murder, Exploit, Torture, and Impoverish with Impunity
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10 Apr 2006 02:34:27 PM |
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America's "Noble" Cause: Preserving its Right to Murder, Exploit, Torture, and Impoverish with Impunity |
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence
without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde
"Why are we over there in Iraq?"
"To protect our freedoms."
"How are the Iraqis threatening our freedoms?"
"They attacked us on 9/11."
"If that is true, why are so many Americans against the war?"
"I don't know, but I think Cindy Sheehan and all the other war
protestors should be rounded up and shot."
I was involved in this exchange with a co-worker about two months ago.
I was utterly perplexed at how this individual managed the obvious
cognitive dissonance created by thinking that we are fighting to
protect our "freedoms" while simultaneously holding the notion that
non-violent dissidents "should be rounded up and shot".
In retrospect, why was I so surprised? As a vehement critic of the
United States government's foreign and domestic policies, I have
received numerous death threats from "patriotic" loyalists to the
American Empire over the last year. Recently, a severely brain-washed
US resident who maintains a site called American Jihad issued a "Farwa"
(his spelling) against the editors of Counterpunch, Dissident Voice,
and Uruknet and against dissident writers Mike Whitney and Kurt Nimmo.
Many of my essays have appeared on Dissident Voice and Uruknet, so I
suppose I am a target of the "Farwa" too.
Read more at: http://tinyurl.com/zrc2y
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: America's "Noble" Cause: Preserving its Right to Murder, Exploit, Torture, and Impoverish with Impunity |
10 Apr 2006 02:43:05 PM |
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On 10 Apr 2006 12:34:27 -0700, wrote:
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence
without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde
"Why are we over there in Iraq?"
"To protect our freedoms."
"How are the Iraqis threatening our freedoms?"
"They attacked us on 9/11."
They didn't. It was organised by a disaffected Saudi and carried out
mostly by Saudis. None of them were Iraqi.
"If that is true, why are so many Americans against the war?"
"I don't know, but I think Cindy Sheehan and all the other war
protestors should be rounded up and shot."
I was involved in this exchange with a co-worker about two months ago.
I was utterly perplexed at how this individual managed the obvious
cognitive dissonance created by thinking that we are fighting to
protect our "freedoms" while simultaneously holding the notion that
non-violent dissidents "should be rounded up and shot".
You said it - cognitive dissonance. They don't even notice the
contradiction. It simply isn't there for them.
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