Sep 11, 2022·edited Sep 11, 2022Liked by Cindy Sheehan
It saddens me that 9/11 woke people up about the rest of the world not wanting USA interference, and then soon after they bought into WMD lies. Admittedly, I wanted to trust our government at that time, the media propaganda for a united front was overwhelming. Since then, I think dissent is more important to a free America than unity. I grew up during the Vietnam War Era when we all eventually questioned the establishment even without the "Information Superhighway", so I eventually questioned everything about 9/11 and Iraq War and Afghanistan War. Unlike the Vietnam War when network news and Walter Cronkite worked on our behalf as WATCHDOG FOR THE PEOPLE, today's corporate MSM is simply a mega-mouthpiece for the Deep State swamp. So, I watched independent media as diverse as Michael Moore and Alex Jones, international news including Russia Today and Al Jazeera and learned about Neocons/PNAC from these "alternate news" sources. I rooted for whistleblowers such as Karen Kwiatkowski and Chelsea Manning. Of course, I followed peace activists especially Cindy Sheehan, David Swanson and Code Pink, and supported peace candidates like Dennis Kucinich, Cynthia McKinney and Mike Gravel. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead
Amazing to read this, Cindy, and remember my own dream from the morning of 9/11/01: I dreamt that there was a huge disaster, like an earthquake, and there were many people trapped and screaming under concrete rubble. It was so vivid that I had to tell my family about it. I went to the room where they were and the TV news was tuned to New York and the World Trade Center.
"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery."
I'd be willing to say that the founders themselves were not all that bad since what they were - in those times - was quite "normal". But when such attitudes and beliefs as they had were then transmitted forward into greatly different and possibly more enlightened times, the founders' several generations of clones became truly wicked. More and more so with each generation, in fact.
It saddens me that 9/11 woke people up about the rest of the world not wanting USA interference, and then soon after they bought into WMD lies. Admittedly, I wanted to trust our government at that time, the media propaganda for a united front was overwhelming. Since then, I think dissent is more important to a free America than unity. I grew up during the Vietnam War Era when we all eventually questioned the establishment even without the "Information Superhighway", so I eventually questioned everything about 9/11 and Iraq War and Afghanistan War. Unlike the Vietnam War when network news and Walter Cronkite worked on our behalf as WATCHDOG FOR THE PEOPLE, today's corporate MSM is simply a mega-mouthpiece for the Deep State swamp. So, I watched independent media as diverse as Michael Moore and Alex Jones, international news including Russia Today and Al Jazeera and learned about Neocons/PNAC from these "alternate news" sources. I rooted for whistleblowers such as Karen Kwiatkowski and Chelsea Manning. Of course, I followed peace activists especially Cindy Sheehan, David Swanson and Code Pink, and supported peace candidates like Dennis Kucinich, Cynthia McKinney and Mike Gravel. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead
Amazing to read this, Cindy, and remember my own dream from the morning of 9/11/01: I dreamt that there was a huge disaster, like an earthquake, and there were many people trapped and screaming under concrete rubble. It was so vivid that I had to tell my family about it. I went to the room where they were and the TV news was tuned to New York and the World Trade Center.
....even stolen elections
How many red-pill events will it take?
"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery."
Leo Tolstoy
I'd be willing to say that the founders themselves were not all that bad since what they were - in those times - was quite "normal". But when such attitudes and beliefs as they had were then transmitted forward into greatly different and possibly more enlightened times, the founders' several generations of clones became truly wicked. More and more so with each generation, in fact.