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Are You Proud of your Country? I'm Not!

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I must say that LBJ suffered through that war. Westmorland just released his memoirs and he articulated that in the last three years, he knew the war in Vietnam was a lost cause. This was at the height of American casualties coming back in body bags. So much for an honest government. Too many people were making money on that war, and it wasn't us.

Near the end of the war, I was in the Army (in fact through most of the war), I went to a class at electronic warfare at Fort Bliss and I saw a Top Secret videotape of soldiers refusing to go out on patrol because they didn't want to be the last guys to die in that war. I always though Vietnam was my war, I was soon to find out that there were more coming. The Military Industrial Complex needs war to stay in business and the leaders through fear are only happy to oblige them.

During the period after the Vietnam war, after Nixon made the defense contractors rich with the blood of our young men, there were other World hotspots. Those that kowtowed to the American line got M-16's and U.S. War products. Those that fought against American-backed juntas used AK-47's. It's no wonder than that the AK-47 is the most produced rifle in the world.

In Central and Latin America we overthrew governments almost on a monthly basis. We supported right wing fascists that played along with the Washington line. If we couldn't overthrow the governments that didn't toe the line, the International Monetary Fund made loans to these countries that they could never pay back, so we nationalized their industries for American gain. Read "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins. This former employee blows the lid of the practices of the U.S. Controlled IMF.

The government wasn't content to foment revolutions and wars overseas. In the United State they opened The War on Drugs. They poured billions of dollars into the guise of fighting drug use in the United States. This money was used by police forces not only for drug interdiction, but to militarize the police forces around the nation. Drug money, boats and automobiles and houses are confiscated by the different police forces and sold at auction to finance their departments. It's a never-ending cycle.

One of the most heinous acts that the government has indulged in is the selling of spare parts for F-14's to Iran for large suns of money' Ollie North, one of the conspirators then used the money to buy cocaine to be made into crack and sold in the inner cities so that the proceeds could be used to funnel the money to the Contras, the army fighting Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas. The crack epidemic never went away, families are destroyed because of something our government initiated. Now instead of government planes landing in places like Charlotte Airport in Florida among other places, the drug cartels run the show. Just think how many Americans are behind bars for possession of crack cocaine. Thank the U.S. Government.

I'm not going to go in to 9-11. We all have our theories about that. There is only one thing I want to add. When a planes transponder is shut off, it sticks out like a sore thumb. I know this from 12 years in Air Defense. When a planes transponder is on, it emits a half circle around the blip. When it's turned off, it registers a full circle. Think about that.

The Patriot Act was ready for ratification two weeks after 9/11. It was two-thousand pages long. That's a neat trick, especially from Washington where they cant agree on a one page bill. They didn't read it before they signed it and we have been paying the price ever since. The Patriot Act Two is even more draconian. You can liken them to the "Enabling Laws" that Hitler passed by decree after the Rheichstag fire. So far we have had the government wiretap our e-mails and telephone calls, conduct search and seizure without a warrant if you are suspected of being a "terrorist" or are in contact with one, our rights of Habeas Corpus are suspended if deemed a terrorist. That means no lawyer of being told of the changes against you and indefinite detention with none, not even your family knowing where you are. You are effectively "disappeared". If you happen to be a Muslim, You may find a bag over your head and on a "Rendition" flight to a country that practices torture to gain information for the U.S. Government.

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Tim Gatto is Ret. US Army and has been writing against the Duopoly for the last decade. He has two books on Amazon, Kimchee Days or Stoned Colds Warriors and Complicity to Contempt.

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