Reply #83: "THEY HATE OUR FREEDOMS" = "Arbeit macht frei" [View All]

[Moostache]

If you've been buying the line about America being a "force for good" in the world, you're a government stooge and the kind of slack-jawed lackey that allows these ignorant myths to persist. Its Nazi-style propaganda writ large and in my mind is the 21st century moral equivalent of the death camp slogan "work will make you free" ("Arbeit macht frei")...

Bennett was 100% correct in his assessment of what motivated the terrorists to do what they did - it does not excuse it, nor does it endorse it, it merely states what causality led to the actions. It was precisely the refusal to confront this truth that is the enduring tragedy of our national response to 9/11 and 10 years+ later shames me, you and everyone else who calls themself "American".

I hate the fact that so many Americans are so reactionary and superstitious that they can't even think for more than a few seconds without becoming distracted or bored and needing an influx of external stimulus to function - stimulus that usually arrives in the form of advertising or advertising disguised as programming.

"They hate our freedoms" was tailor made to service that demographic and allow our military-industrial complex to go right on garrisoning the planet and stealing resources for our corporate masters at will. Failure to acknowledge this - or failure to realize that it is happening in all our names RIGHT NOW, STILL - does not make it less true.