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> New Evil Empire America has become what

Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union used to be

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> The New Evil Empire

> America has become what Nazi Germany

> and the Soviet Union used to be

 

> By John Kaminski

> skylax

> 2-28-4

>

>

> Remember the Red Menace, also known as the Communist

> threat? Or how about

> the Third Reich, the creator of which became the

> chief metaphor for evil in

> the 20th century?

>

> Most Americans, certainly those younger than 30,

> don't remember either. Hell

> they don't even remember Vietnam or Nixon or The

> Beatles. The terms and

> their connotations are totally unfamiliar, unless

> encountered in history

> texts. Millions of Americans simply do not remember

> what America used to

> stand for - freedom, justice, equality - and as a

> result, don't fully

> comprehend the appalling reality of what America has

> become.

>

> Once upon a time, back in the days of Elvis and the

> hula hoop, when I was a

> little shaver, I was taught in school that when

> Germany took over France,

> Poland and other European countries, that was wrong,

> and the United States

> sacrificed almost a half million of its own young

> people to reverse those

> situations in the name of freedom. And that happened

> twice, 1916-18 and

> 1941-45.

>

> In the same vein, I grew up being taught that the

> Soviet Union's annexation

> of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and all of

> Eastern Europe was an evil

> deed, and that for many years in a period called the

> Cold War, the American

> military objective was aimed at overturning this

> unjust oppression. Back in

> the 1950s when I was in elementary school, we used

> to have routine Civil

> Defense drills where we used to have to hide under

> our desks pretending we

> were about to be nuked by the Russians. Really!

>

> It's a new world now. For one thing, the population

> of the planet has

> doubled in those mere 50 years. And for another, it

> is the United States

> that is now sweeping the world, scooping up all

> these other countries in the

> name of capitalist democracy, and telling lies about

> why it has to go to war

> And instead of railing against the powerful giant

> stealing freedom from all

> these hapless victims, as it did in years past, the

> American press is now

> cheering it, justifying it in the increasingly

> ambivalent names of

> capitalism and democracy. Worse, the American people

> are cheering it, too,

> something that's never really happened in U.S.

> history, when the people

> support a war that they know is based on lies.

>

> Of course, the American press is cheering it because

> it is the American

> military doing it. Even the German and Russian press

> aren't really

> criticizing it in a serious way. Because there is no

> country that can oppose

> America, which spends more on its military than all

> the other countries in

> the world combined, yet still complains that it

> needs to spend more, even as

> its bridges and schools are falling apart and its

> manufacturing base has

> completely disappeared, precipitating its imminent

> economic collapse. Still

> the military spending increases, and war plans ooze

> out like an evil ink

> stain spreading across the globe.

> The evil empire, number one threat to peace in the

> world, is now the United

> States. No more Red Menace. No more Third Reich. Now

> it's a War on Terror

> executed by the biggest terrorist of all - America,

> the nation that killed

> its own people by the thousands in order to trigger

> World War III and

> capture all the world's oil fields.

>

> Now the shoe is obviously on the other foot. The

> United States has now

> assumed the role of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia

> at their worst and all

> rolled into one. It has troops poised and

> threatening in 127 other countries

> By the diabolical mechanisms of the World Trade

> Organization and the

> International Monetary Fund, it has already

> plundered most other countries

> financially, stealing their utilities and

> impoverishing their inhabitants.

> And those nations who resist this financial con

> game, like Yugoslavia, are

> simply invaded and coerced into servitude. Those

> nations who play the game,

> like Russia and Argentina, are reduced to abject

> poverty with a few

> pro-Western billionaires owning everything.

>

> And woe to those nations who won't play the game,

> like Iraq. They are

> obliterated and turned into permanent war zones.

> Their people are murdered

> in their sleep by hopped-up American soldiers who

> are told by their cynical

> leaders that they are spreading democracy, when

> really what they are

> spreading are endless opportunities for plunder by

> politically connected

> corporations.

>

> And America's leader lie about absolutely

> everything. Never at any time in

> my personal history has there been a time when an

> American president has not

> at least accidentally told the truth about

> something, but that time is now.

> Once upon a time, Americans used to preach the cause

> of freedom and justice

> for all. It's actually written in their Pledge of

> Allegiance. But they don't

> adhere to that anymore. After all, Americans have

> canceled their Bill of

> Rights, which once made them famous - made them

> loved! - all over the world.

> Now they are feared all over the world. Reviled.

> When Americans launched

> their worldwide war on terror - based on a

> treasonous event in which they

> killed large numbers of their own people - they

> betrayed the whole world.

> They betrayed every dream of freedom anybody ever

> had anywhere.

>

> The people who did it did it for a few billion

> dollars. Can you blame them?

> It's easy money blowing up countries and blaming it

> on somebody else. Even

> you might do it if you had the chance. Americans

> support such an idea. It's

> capitalism at its best, controlling the market, make

> money on the

> destruction by selling the weapons, make money on

> the reconstruction by

> involving your friends in the contracts, no public

> bids, of course. So you

> lose a few dark-skinned lives. The world is

> overpopulated anyway. Look at it

> as population control (although that it another,

> much larger topic).

>

> Things have become so ugly in the United States that

> the liberal opposition

> candidate for president tells peace activists to

> " Get over it! " That there

> will be no peace no matter who is president. That

> America is united to

> overrun and ravish the whole world, simply because

> there is no one to stop

> it. This is the America that was venerated and

> admired all over the world.

> This is what America became when there was no other

> power to keep it honest.

> It became dishonest - and a killer nation.

> More- http://www.rense.com/general49/evil.htm

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