"Get over the idea that only children
should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have
something to learn, and this will mean all your life." ~Henry L. Doherty
The year was 1969 when I left home... just 19 when I got my
first look at the USS Kitty Hawk in a Bremerton Washington dry
dock. I knew little about the workings of the world back then, and as I looked
over the rail in my new dress blues, I saw that metal titan braced by great
chocks, polished and painted for another leviathan assignment, the West Pacific
and Vietnam. Below, between the hull and a 250 foot wall of cement platforms,
lit by great portable lights on wheels... and the flicker of welding arcs, men
moved together as one unit. One unit to get this huge task done... One unit of
American servicemen, and my new brothers.
I didn't own a camera back then, but the spectacle I saw
there, and the next two years as well, is indelibly imprinted on my mind. I
grew up on that ship, and it jump-started my need to know and understand the
workings of my world by both an education of my doing, and the happenstance of
experience. And yet, even after all of these years I have come to realize how
much is still hidden from view, and how very little facts, and truth, are
actually known to me. But one thing I have grown to realize above all else, and
without a doubt... I have been played, as we were, I think, to the very last
man.
I only recognized the thin green ribbon of Vietnam three times
on the horizon, twice during the daytime and once at night by a cluster of
lights. But I couldn't see it right off... it was the flash and pan of some
incendiary bomb that first caught my eye, the hot-white and gold of napalm. I
knew, most likely, that people were suffering and dying there, and close
enough, I thought, to possibly hear their screams... but I felt the concision
of those blasts 50 miles away... And I was in awe. Awe, because I was just a
little pawn in a machine so big I didn't even have the ability to ask a proper
question... and the world beyond my little microcosm seemed more a dream, a
dark dream, a nightmare.
I had indeed enlisted, and one would think that some form of
responsibility would have embedded itself in my heart. Empathy perhaps, but I
knew then as I know now, that the responsibility for my actions were not my
own. I had enlisted without choice, 57 on the draft. And I knew even then, and
without a doubt... that if I had not enlisted in the Navy, I would have died
with a gun in my hand. I would have died, without the remote understanding as
to why... as so many of my countrymen have.
At the time I thought we were fighting an ideal called
Communism. And today I say with the utmost disgust...that what is now in the
White House (shadow government) is the same as any Communistic dictatorship we have ever thought to
fight against... and it is found on both sides of the isle. To me, these men
are traitors. These men are bought and paid for, and they care little or
nothing for the standard of America, or the lives lost. President Trump seems to be our last stand against an external power, an international banking consortium, a leviathan called the military industrial complex, a Hollywood and Media Progressive mindset Powerful countries promote their own interests by lobbyists and un-elected officials with duel citizenship pull the strings behind the screens. We have the fat tick called the Federal Reserve System, who has brought us to financial ruin, from 6 to 12 trillion in just ten years... and above all law, unaccountable to anyone, even the president, or congress... Truly, they own us...
Part one
With 24-7 flight ops, we had plenty of opportunity to witness
the events unfolding, even by the mail that pored over my desk as the Captain's
yeoman. But my understanding of it was limited and misunderstood, and the
redundant elements soon became normal to me, running through my mind as vivid
as yesterday... For instance, just prior to landing, each and every jet would
dump their extra fuel, and whatever was left of the bomb-payload as well. I
have never witnessed this happening, but saw the effects... a rainbow
glistening on a azure crystal-clear Tonkin Golf, by a layer of JP-5 jet fuel
floating on its surface as far as the eye could see in any direction. What a
shimmer as the sun set, and the trails of flying fish as their wings touched
the surface is haunting... and I still see that sea turtle with blind-white eyes... But a
spectacular event, never reported by the news, was the 10 hour mistake of
dumping oil, a 140 mile swath that could have been visible from space, and
blamed on a seaman not paying attention, and a broken valve...
Part two
I remember the never-ending bomb-handling working parties
who wrote hate-filled graffiti on the casings... but then, the line of fifty
men handing off what was called broken electronics was an amazing thing to see
as they were thrown over the side... hundred and hundreds of televisions, and
circuit boards of every description, old electronic inserts handed one to
another from deep in the ship's interior... And from the after brow, countless
bags and containers of trash were dumped into a churning florescent line that
disappeared over the horizon... the exact same place a crewman had committed
suicide... a man who could not fit in.
The above thoughts are meant to illustrate that the military
is beyond control, beyond comprehension and understanding, and beyond any human
law or moral compass by the average person... Looking back at my immediate
supervisors, I really don't think they had even a remedial grasp of the reality
of that venture, even the hard-core lifers... None of my bosses ever mentioned
any doubt or concern for what we were doing, but that there was a growing
amount of traitorous fools who were protesting back home. Some of them were
even fleeing to Canada. But my piers were another matter...they had a mixed bag
of thoughts, with some saying they were cowards, and others heroes... but I, at
the time, could not emphatically make up my mind one way or the other. I just
wanted to become a man. And, yes, I wanted to go home.
I know now that America's wars are not, and never were
designed to bring so-called "democracy," but corporate profit. It is
a racket. It isn't used for the defense of freedom anywhere, though that is
used as the primary justification. It is bound only to the interests of the
power elite, corporatism, and their bottom line.
In 1931, Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler
retired. He is one of only 19 Marines in U.S. history to ever receive two
Congressional Medals of Honor... and he opened the door to a world that few
knew anything about: that corporations control our congress, and orchestrate
war for unbelievable profit. A profit that is generated from the bottom up and
the top down, from thousands of contractors and international corporations, to
a banking cartel in league with the Federal Reserve... and what he described
back then has grown exponentially. He saw from the eyes of a true leader of
conscience, with the honor of a patriot, that the primary motivations and
intentions of the military industrial complex, and the scope of its amazing
power over our country, is for their own good only, with no regard for
consequence.
Today, America pays more to support a military then the top
ten largest countries rolled into one, with money printed out of thin air... and amazingly, we are building up our forces... Our
children are straddled with a debt that can never be paid, 20.2 trillion... And
this sum is so great that more money has to be printed, as needed, to pay the
interest. A sum so great, and yet, few Americans can see it, as 10.3 trillion of
that 20.3 trillion was added under Obama's watch, and 4 trillion under Bush Junior. Unsecured money printed out of thin air, on the back
of America's future, and all of it unaccountable.
No way do I consider myself un-America, or anti-American. I
have, in good faith, paid my taxes, given my time to what I thought was the
defense of Freedom and Liberty, as I also have taken an oath to protect and
defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies both domestic and
foreign... I do not take that oath lightly. And as I have lived long enough to
see recurring trends... I am concerned not only by the constant and unrelenting
destruction of earth and its people carried out in the name of my government,
the government I have sponsored... But it is the same entity that has lied to
me, used me as cattle and pawn, for the false promotion of freedom and
liberation. A government, bought and paid for by corporations.
The so-called Progressive government we now have in place,
without a shred of doubt, is controlled and manipulated from an outside force beyond
our borders, and so too is the Right. It is all a charade... It is a force so
powerful, they can crush the mind and spirit of a person or a country, bankrupt
or promote our economy on a whim, enslave us in a debt, and have us
participate, unwittingly, in constant and unrelenting war for reasons unknown
to us, while we wave our precious flag... a flag that they themselves abhorred.
Yes, it is a war without end, open ended, with an undefined and nebulous enemy
without a face or uniform, and physiologically designed.
Since WW2, America is less safe and more hated than ever
before. And as we have seen a tremendous proliferation in military spending and
unconstitutional ventures, we participate in one act of violence after
another... And of all the interventionism, the imperialism around the world,
what good has come of it for America? Have we ever promoted our Republic based
on law? No, and the reason is a simple one.
Those so-called elitists, those few
men who actually pull the strings of war and its reconstruction, do not like
our civil liberties. They do not like our Constitution. They do not like our
Republic based on law, and why? Because those primary elements, the elements
that made America the freest and most prosperous country in the world, gets in
the way of their profit, their control. Instead, they will milk us dry by
increments, eating at us from the inside out, like a cancer. And we are so
trusting, our spirits so honorable, we would send our sons and daughters to
risk their lives for unanswered questions and lies.
Have we promoted free trade? Have we promoted peace and
security for the world? Have we promoted anything that can be emulated but more
death? No, and just the opposite... with a failing economy and a dying middle
class, a welfare state who have learned to milk the system, our private
communications compromised, due process abolished by constitutional
dis-membership, coerced by the NDAA and Patriot Act... and a growing top heavy
government that is vying to control every aspect of our lives... And then, let me reemphasize, we
have men with duel citizenship controlling our congress by bribes, taboo, and
fear, and international corporations who profit in destruction and
reconstruction are beyond the law and any Christian moral compass... and as new
nations come under their dominion, our workers, our industry, our American
exceptionalism, our creativity is given to them, as slave labor. And if any
country opposes them, they are singled out for immediate destruction, and from
a wide variety of methods...
And the ultimatum is simple, a central bank, or
death, so choose... and in the process, our men die on foreign shores, with the
same trust I had at 19... A trust betrayed by the false flag of the Tonkin Gulf incident. And as I reflect,
history is rewritten, ideals and ideologies redesigned, and truth is no longer
distinguishable from an outright lie, fed to us by a controlled media.
When we left Vietnam, when our WestPac tour was over, we
were escorted not only by Russian spy boats, by a Bear so big our fighter
planes looked like dots under its wings. It seemed like a game, a game played
with the lives of good and honorable men, trusting men of virtue. And it left
me with an empty feeling... A feeling a slave must have as he sits and watches
the world move past, out of his control. A feeling, like my life, and
everything I so hold dear, is ether granted or denied by a machine devised by
men with the blackest of hearts... Men who set themselves above all others.
"I couldn't help but say to [Mr.
Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings
that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet.
[We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on
this earth together. "~Ronald Reagan, 1985
"Every act of conscious learning
requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why
young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so
easily."
~Thomas Szasz
Summer reading...
Review: Interventions by Noam Chomsky....
Though this book is a compilation of articles syndicated by
the NY Times, they were rarely published in the US. Our mainstream media
considers Chomsky's point of view to be adjectivally dissident, and wantonly
unorthodox, (tong in cheek). Whether you agree or not, his ideas on
"Universality" is changing the world rapidly, and should be
understood.
And this makes it a must read.
Review: Bush at War by Bob Woodward....
This book is focused from the epilogue onward. It is a
complex, well researched, and mostly unbiased account of the Bush
administration post-9-11. Definitely considered an insider perspective, it
gives the reader the ability to draw their own conclusions, something rare in
our current political climate.
Yes, a must read.
Review: War Law by Michael Byers...
It is understood that Americans are ignorant of
international affairs As most struggle reading of our own Constitution and Bill
or Rights, few understand our convoluted relationship with the UN, and our
surprising position on international law.
War Law: Understanding International
Law and Armed Conflict, by Michel Byers, tackles the tough questions
that our biased media won't say, or can't. If you are looking for either a
catalyst or a primer for how the US destabilizes International Law, and how
that concept applies to our current and sometimes precarious position
world-wide, this book is a must read.
Review: Paleoconservatives: new voice of the old right
"Paleoconservatism" as a concept was
defined during the 1980s as a response to the rise of Neoconservatism. It is a
particular brand of conservatism that rose up in opposition to the New Deal,
setting itself against the ideas of the centralizing trends that define modern
politics today, on both sides of the isle. It expounds on an understanding of
Republican virtues of self-governance and is a celebration of the nation's
varied and colorful regional cultures, with warnings as well.
This book brings together key "Old Right" writers
of the past and present, and is a must read.
Review: The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals
and the Shaping of Public Policy by Murry Friedman
This very engaging study describes the post-war migration of
Jewish intellectuals from Left to Right. Friedman is a self-avowed Jewish
neo-con who investigates his fellow Neocons from socialist salad days to the
Cold War shift towards liberal anti-Communism. Ready or not you will see from
his eyes the disgust of the counter-cultural excesses of the New Left and the
final desecration of Reagan Republicanism.
A must read.
Review: The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton. and the
sixties radicals seized control of the Democratic Party By David Horowitz and
Richard Poe
- The Shadow Party's plan to rewrite the US Constitution.
- How the Shadow Party overthrows foreign governments--and why it may attempt to use the same methods here.
- The vast network of private think tanks, foundations, unions, stealth PACs, and other front groups through which the Shadow Party operates in America.
- The network's voluminous contributions to the Democrats, which totaled more than $300 million in the 2004 elections, and its growing influence over the party's message and policy.
- The politicians on both sides of the aisle who have exchanged political favors with George Soros and his "government-in-the-wings."
- The Shadow Party's efforts to conceal its radical agenda behind the "moderate" pose of Hillary Clinton and other public figures.
- The radical network's plan to seize power in 2008.
- A must read...
Review: George Soros, on Globalization
Straight from the horse's mouth... Soros equates
globalization with "the free movement of capital and the increasing
domination of national economies by global financial markets and multinational
corporations." Whereas, Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) for international
assistance i.e., international reserve assets a process that shares the burden
equitably, with the United States paying its fair share.
Better pay attention...
This is a must read.
Review: The Transfer Agreement: The dramatic story of the
pact between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine by Edwin Black.
The Transfer agreement is an award winning and compelling
story of the negotiated arrangement in 1933 between Zionist organizations and
the Nazis to transfer 50,000 Jews and $100 million of their assets to Jewish
Palestine is exchange for stopping the Jewish led boycott of German products.
This book is 25 years old, and still applies.
"A fascinating book creating controversy all across the
country. Black applied his established investigative journalism techniques to
history. The result is an extraordinary book." -- Bill Kurtis, CBS Morning News
"A struggle to write a painful chapter in Jewish
history. What Black began uncovering was a tangled account of an anguished
moment in history, one that he at the center had to piece together
from...forgotten archives, pre-WWII newspapers, and government records.: --
Jan Cawley, Chicago Tribune Magazine
This is a must read...
Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are
Tearing America Apart by Pat Buchanan
Some say this is the very best of Buchanan writing. Ideology,
writes Buchanan, is a Golden Calf, a false god, a secular religion that seeks
vainly, like Marxism, to create a paradise on earth.
Powerful and to the point, Buchanan pulls no punches. His
imperative to save America is to identify and remove from power the ideologues
of both parties who have nearly killed our country. In his final chapter
Buchanan lays out ideas to prevent the end of America.
Ahead of its time, and the key to our division. A must
read...
Part 3
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