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Americans Are Brainwashed

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We're not evil terrorists. We're not some die-hard feminazis. We don't hate the United States. We're two people who care. This profile was created to accept anybody who sends a request, who has opinions about our government and the direction that we as a society (and a human race, even) are headed. There are images on this page that you may agree fullheartedly with. There are images on this page that you may completely disagree with. The point is that they're stimulating some part of you to acknowledge an existence of an opinion other than your own. We promote a "live and let live" attitude, without aggression toward our peers. Without aggression toward any other living thing. Equality for people of all skin colors, religious backgrounds, and GENDERS. Careful consideration of the carrying capacity of the earth upon which we live, and how we can utilize our resources to ensure a healthy, happy life for all. One that will have clean air and clean water for us all. Is it an impossible ideal? Perhaps, but, whether or not we take even the steps in the right direction is completely dependent on each and every one of you. Consider it.

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"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure."

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."

"Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

-Abraham Lincoln

"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

-Benjamin Franklin

"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs."

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security."

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God."

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

-Thomas Jefferson

"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

"It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world."

"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."

"The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure."

-George Washinton

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The following links are for research and reference, they do not necessarily represent the personal views of those who edit this profile. They're to be used to gather information and allow you to form your own opinions:

Prison Planet

Info Wars

Propaganda Matrix

Opposing Digits

I Am The Witness

The Truth Seeker

What Really Happened

Above Top Secret

The Truth Will Set You Free

Save The Internet

We The People Will Not Be Chipped

Arnold Exposed

Jeff Rense

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Information Clearing House

Guerrilla News

Crooks and Liars

News Hounds- We watch FOX so you don't have to.

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The 14 Symptoms of Fascism

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.

6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.

9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncomm on for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

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Iraq For Sale directed by Robert Greenwald

JFK Speech on Secret Societies and Freedom of the Press



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