We have been urged in many different ways to love our country and we most certainly should because it is a wondrous country to behold. But we have been conditioned by this government and the mainstream media to believe that love for our country and our government are one in the same; they are not. When I hear the patriotic "America the Beautiful" I think of this beautiful country, not the polluted and corrupted government that is headquartered in Washington D.C.
Just as there must be a separation between government and religion there must also be a distinct separation between love for our country, which should be a given, and respect for our government but only when it has earned it. We, who live in this country need to follow its laws, support it with our taxes and defend our country when that is an absolute necessity. But the people must not blindly follow the dictates of their government when it becomes evident that what it is doing is against the best interests of the people.
Using 9/11 as a means to an end our government continues to warn us about the terrorist threat and relentlessly hammers this theme into the American mind. This form of mental conditioning has radically changed this society and instilled fear and paranoia across the nation. It's not only fear of terrorists but fear of fellow Americans that is turning this nation into a "gun society" in which the need to protect 2d Amendment rights has become paramount and gun ownership an obsession. Illinois is about to become the 50th and last state to pass legislation covering "concealed carry" of weapons. This is not how a civilized society and people should act.
What is the profile of a typical American who has been and still is being victimized by this process of mental conditioning? Here are the signs and symptoms indicating that a person very likely has that condition:
It's a person who quite likely has willingly accepted, condoned and supported the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the intrusion into Libya, and President Obama's highly aggressive use of drones in the nations of Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia; it's those individuals who feel totally comfortable with contributing tax dollars to the continued expansion of the U.S. military empire and who support using taxpayer dollars to fund the massive defense industry that fuels this agenda of perpetual war.
Further indications: it's a person who lacks the ability to strongly protest against the destruction of Constitutional rights and freedoms of the American people as carried out by the Bush and Obama administrations; one who shows a lack of outrage and, in fact, apathy over the NSA spying program that monitors the communications and invades the privacy of all Americans as well as people around the world, including those of our supposed allies.
Then there are those who totally agree with the justifications put forth by the NRA, the gun manufacturers and their lobbyists to convince Americans that the protection of the rights to gun ownership is far more important than protecting the lives of this nation's children. And those who have been conditioned to also believe that concealed carry laws are a good thing for this country.
And finally: those who believe almost everything they hear coming from the Sunday "Talking Heads" who have thoroughly infiltrated and contaminated the major networks and have only one objective in mind; to get you and I to buy into what they are selling -- their own political parties and associated ideologies. Here is where the art of mental conditioning is practiced at a very high level and has proven to be extremely successful.
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