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Tace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-14-06 07:39 PM
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JASON MILLER: Terror Nation
Lies, Injustice, and the American Empire’s Way

By Jason Miller --World News Trust

Remember, good patriots, we are at war with Islam, Socialism, Communism, drugs, crime, illegal immigration, Gays, labor unions, liberal university professors, peace activists, environmentalists, Anti-Semites, secular humanists, and all those who pose a threat to the United States. Each of these groups shares culpability for the terrorism which has killed several thousand of U.S., British, Spanish, and Israeli citizens since 2001. They are a cancer upon the American Way and must be excised. Freedom and liberty will prevail despite their onslaught of evil.

Suspension of civil liberties, concentration of power into the hands of the Executive branch, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocents civilians, collective punishment of millions through wanton destruction of infrastructure, widespread dissemination of depleted uranium, reduction of wasteful spending on “useless eaters” via massive cuts in entitlement spending, ongoing ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank, torture, denial of justice to “enemy combatants,” massive tax cuts to the wealthy, obscene increases in defense spending, propaganda blitzes to keep the public believing horrendous lies, preemptive war, reduced government restriction of corporate exploitation of humans and the environment, and continued neocolonial expansion are all essential to the United States fulfilling its Manifest Destiny and ending the terrorist threat. Remember, they hate our freedom.

A pleasant fiction indeed for the United States’ ruling elite and their loyal supporters who violently reject challenges to their hubristic and fanatical devotion to American Exceptionalism and entitlement.

Yet for those of us who prefer reality, the burning question arises. Who are the real terrorists?

Are they the relative handful of militants (amongst the billions of oppressed people around the globe) who are ready to sacrifice their lives to strike at the deeply corrupt machinations of the socioeconomic system which supports a few wealthy elites ruling the United States, Israel and their sycophants (i.e. Great Britain, Saudi Arabia)? Osama bin Laden, the face of “terrorism” in the minds of many Westerners, has repeatedly stated that Al Qaeda will end its violent actions if the United States withdraws its military from the Middle East and ends its support of Israel. Reasonable demands, actually, when one considers the millions of Arabs, Persians, and others indigenous to that region who have suffered or died as a result of Western intervention in the Middle East.

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erik-the-red Donating Member (45 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-14-06 08:07 PM
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1. Still exists
As long as editorials like this still exist (ie. people can write freely without censorship), then our freedom and liberty will prevail.

Osama bin Laden...has repeatedly stated that Al Qaeda will end its violent actions if the United States withdraws its military from the Middle East and ends its support of Israel.

In the case of the Palestinian people, I would like to see them model their resistance after the Provisional IRA (ie. abandon the armed campaign in favor of purely political and nonviolent methods). It has been over a year since the IRA declared their cease-fire, and I haven't heard much from them since then.

However, I doubt as to whether or not bin Laden will follow through on his offer.
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rubberducky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-14-06 09:08 PM
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2. Excellent article!!
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manhunter2006 Donating Member (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 04:01 AM
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3. As long as editorials like this still exist ....
"As long as editorials like this still exist" (ie. soap box pedagogues previal), then our freedom and liberty are definately
in in peril.

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