"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." - James Madison.
As long as America's politicians continue to involve us in wars that bankrupt the nation, jeopardize our servicemen and women, increase the chances of terrorism and blowback domestically, and push the nation that much closer to eventual collapse, "We the people" will find ourselves in a perpetual state of tyranny.
Policing the globe and waging endless wars abroad isn't making America-or the rest of the world-any safer, it's certainly not making America great again, and it's undeniably digging the U.S. deeper into debt.
What most Americans-brainwashed into believing that patriotism means supporting the war machine-fail to recognize is that these ongoing wars have little to do with keeping the country safe and everything to do with propping up a military industrial complex that continues to dominate, dictate and shape almost every aspect of our lives.
We are a nation that makes a living from killing through defense contracts, weapons manufacturing and endless wars.
The American Empire-with its endless wars waged by U.S. military servicepeople who have been reduced to little more than guns for hire: outsourced, stretched too thin, and deployed to far-flung places to police the globe-is approaching a breaking point.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, this is how tyranny rises and freedom falls.
Friday, February 25, 2022
Perpetual Tyranny: Endless Wars Are the Enemy of Freedom
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