America’s "noble" cause:...

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

By Jason Miller
Online Journal Contributing Writer

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_674.shtml

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Inalienable Rights of Select Citizens of the American Empire

1. We have the right to preemptively attack the nation or region of our choice simply based on our belief that they may be a threat to the Empire. No evidence necessary.

2. We have established and will maintain the right to murder an unlimited number of innocent civilians so long as our military machine does the killing and we label the victims as “collateral damage.”

3. We have the right to label whomever we choose as “terrorists” or “enemy combatants” and to hold them indefinitely without a trial.

4. We are exempt from the Geneva Conventions and have the right to commit acts of torture or to rendition our unconvicted prisoners to other countries which will torture them.

5. We have the right to continue glorifying and justifying the land theft and genocide we committed against Native Americans...

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[Faux pas]

1. Sounds about right. Hmmm wonder why we're such an

attractive target for terrorists? :sarcasm:

I am ashamed.

[Kutjara]

2. He hits most of the high points...

...of our 100 year spree of self-indulgence and hyprocracy.

Perhaps, if we survive Bush, we will learn something important about the interdependency of all human beings and the inadmissability of state egoism. As W. H. Auden wrote:

All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

3. Great words for our troubled times. nt.

[Faux pas]

5. Very good. I'm keeping that. n/t

[OneBlueSky]

4. good (and disturbing) summary . . . recommended . . . n/t

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[ixion]

6. wanna snapshot of the 'new' 'Murika? Read this...

very sad, indeed. :-(