The Pentagon and the Military Industrial Complex are one and the same,
having morphed over time to form the most lethal killing institution
the world has ever seen. Through a sliding and revolving door that
turns citizen soldiers into armament industry executives and company
officers into military policy makers, the MIC has embedded itself into
the military branch of the US government, thereby assuring itself of
unlimited contracts, access, information and profit. Military industry
executives and lobbyists have also slithered deep into top
administration positions, occupying vitally important posts that
decide national and foreign policy. Ex top government officials now
sit on boards of today’s biggest suppliers of military might. One need
only look to the Carlyle Group to find the marriage between government
and MIC. George Bush the First had until recently sat on the board of
this powerful yet clandestine group. This intertwined dancing tango of
cronyism is exactly what Eisenhower warned about. Like a virus MIC has
spread itself throughout the hallways of the Pentagon, penetrating
from top to bottom through the disease called greed. Now one and the
same, the Pentagon and MIC have a common interest, motive and ability
to shape how funds are used and wars are waged.
The Pentagon is the Department of War, not Defense. It is in business
to kill, kill, and kill some more. Without war, violence and weapons
there is no Pentagon. And so to survive, to remain a player, wars must
be created, weapons must be allocated, profits must be made and the
Military Industrial Complex must continue exporting and manufacturing
violence and conflict throughout the globe. And, as always, in the
great tradition of the United States, enemies must exist. Indians,
English, Mexicans, Spanish, Nazis, Koreans, Communists and now the
ever-ambiguous Terrorists. The Cold War came to an end and so too the
great profits of the MIC. Reductions in the Pentagon budget threatened
the lifeblood of the industry; a new enemy had to be unearthed. There
is no war – hence no profit – without evildoers, without terrorists
lurching at every corner, waiting patiently for the moment to strike,
instilling fear into our lives, absorbing our attention.
We are told our nation is in imminent danger, that we are a mushroom
cloud waiting to happen. And so we fear, transforming our mass
uneasiness into nationalistic and patriotic fervor, wrapping ourselves
up in the flag and the Military Industrial Complex. We have fallen
into the mouse trap, becoming the subservient slaves of an engine run
by greed, interested not in peace but constant war, constant killing
and constant sacrifice to the almighty dollar. Brainwashed to believe
that War is Peace we sound the drums of war, marching our sons and
daughters to a battle that cannot be won either by sword or gun.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5382.htm
We are programmed to see the world as a conflict between "Us" versus
"Them", "Good" versus "Evil," that we must inflict death on those who
are not with us and on those against us. The MIC prays on our human
emotions and psychology, exploiting human nature and our still fragile
memories of the horrors of 9/11, manipulating us to believe that what
they say and do is right for us all. We unite behind one common enemy,
fearing for our lives, complacent and obedient, blindly descending
like a plague of locusts onto foreign land, devastating, usurping,
conquering and devouring those who have been deemed enemies of the
state, those who harbor and live among them, "evilones," "evildoers"
and "haters of freedom," all for the sake of profit and pillage,
ideology and empire. Power unfettered and unleashed, our freedoms die
and are released
The so-called "War on Terror" is but a charade, a fear-engendering
escapade, designed to last into perpetuity, helping guarantee that the
Military Industrial Complex will grow exponentially in power. It is a
replacement for a Cold War long ago since retired and unable to
deliver a massive increase in defense spending. Terrorists and the
countries that harbor them have replaced the Soviet Union and
Communists as enemy number one. With a war that may go on
indefinitely, pursuing an enemy that lives in shadows and in the haze
of ambiguity, the MIC will grow ever more powerful, conscripting
hundreds of thousands of our youth, sending them to guide, operate and
unleash their products of death.
Rumblings of bringing back the draft are growing louder, and if you
think your children and grandchildren will escape it, think again. In
a war without end, in battles that do not cease, the MIC will need
human flesh from which to recycle those who perish and fall wounded.
Empire building needs bodies and drones to go with military might,
instruments of death need trigger fingers and human brains, and, with
so many expendable young men and women being conditioned in this
so-called "war on terror," MIC will continue its reprogramming of
citizen soldiers from peaceful civilians to warmongering killing
machines. After all, "War is Peace."
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| Title: Re: Your masters |
16 Dec 2003 04:35:21 PM |
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"Mark Tyme" <MarkTyme@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:el8utv0e2rak56oc42p6gd2vr2mab3bh7j@4ax.com...
The Pentagon and the Military Industrial Complex are one and the same,
having morphed over time to form the most lethal killing institution
the world has ever seen.
<snipped buzzword laden tirade>
Your kind are rolling off an assembly line somewhere, I think. For all you
fancy yourself at once rebellious and enlightened, you sound exactly like
thousands of other posters in the wide world of Usenet. Consider that there
are other selfish agendas afoot than that of the capitalists, and so many of
you march in lock step to the beat of their drum. You are the very sheep
you condemn.
Ciao for now, marionette. Write again if ever you have an original thought.
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| User: "Not Important" |
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| Title: Re: Your masters |
16 Dec 2003 05:06:50 PM |
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"Chain Smoker" <joe@noname.com> wrote in message
news:bro1b8$nn2$06$1@news.t-online.com...
"Mark Tyme" <MarkTyme@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:el8utv0e2rak56oc42p6gd2vr2mab3bh7j@4ax.com...
The Pentagon and the Military Industrial Complex are one and the same,
having morphed over time to form the most lethal killing institution
the world has ever seen.
<snipped buzzword laden tirade>
Your kind are rolling off an assembly line somewhere, I think. For all
you
fancy yourself at once rebellious and enlightened, you sound exactly like
thousands of other posters in the wide world of Usenet. Consider that
there
are other selfish agendas afoot than that of the capitalists, and so many
of
you march in lock step to the beat of their drum. You are the very sheep
you condemn.
Ciao for now, marionette. Write again if ever you have an original
thought.
Enlighten yourself: http://www.infowars.com
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Jim Scannell
jscannell@wi.rr.com
http://home.wi.rr.com/jscannell/
(Your link on things that are truly important)
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| User: "Mark Tyme" |
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| Title: Re: Your masters |
16 Dec 2003 10:21:56 PM |
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:35:21 +0100, "Chain Smoker" <joe@noname.com>
wrote:
"Mark Tyme" <MarkTyme@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:el8utv0e2rak56oc42p6gd2vr2mab3bh7j@4ax.com...
The Pentagon and the Military Industrial Complex are one and the same,
having morphed over time to form the most lethal killing institution
the world has ever seen.
<snipped buzzword laden tirade>
Your kind are rolling off an assembly line somewhere, I think. For all you
fancy yourself at once rebellious and enlightened, you sound exactly like
thousands of other posters in the wide world of Usenet. Consider that there
are other selfish agendas afoot than that of the capitalists, and so many of
you march in lock step to the beat of their drum. You are the very sheep
you condemn.
Ciao for now, marionette. Write again if ever you have an original thought.
Ha ha ha ha
You missed it by about a thousand miles.
Sorry, your Cold War mindset is showing.
This is about two camps, one for freedom, the other for Fascism,
and they are in a battle at the moment, and has nothing to do with
your "protestors". They have nothing to do with it. Nothing.
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