FACEBOOK
TWITTER
COWARDS: "HE KEPT US SAFE"
THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN CHARACTER
THE "CRINGING WIMP" GENERATION
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER
For years we hear little else, "But he kept us safe." The "but" refers to bankrupting the country, stealing elections, suspending Constitutional Rights, poisoning the air and water and turning the country over to racketeers from oil, drug, insurance and crooked financial services.
We lost our free press in a propaganda blitz coordinated illegally with tax dollars and endless "organizations" that all track down to war profiteers, big polluters or financial scamsters working with our former government as full partners in crime.
Never has any American generation, and we have had some real doozies, the isolationist "pro-Nazi" and lynch mob group of the 20s and 30s whose kids grew up to fight WW2, failed so miserably at being American. This one danced with the devil in the name of "family values" while killing hundreds of thousands, mostly innocent, torturing prisoners of war and raping and pillaging both domestically and abroad.
Protests were banned, censorship was enforced, albeit "informally" and the entire federal government became part of a criminal conspiracy, from the Supreme Court and White House downward, subverting laws, prosecuting and jailing, not only "enemies" but protesting veterans and their families. There were 2000 such cases against vets.
Nothing was investigated. Why would 9/11 be covered up if there wasn’t some reason? Our military and intelligence community is filled with people who have gone public about 9/11. Few questions were answered and it was just too convenient, falling right into the middle of a plan we now know for certain was designed to create a reason to invade Iraq. Only cowards refuse to demand answers.
Our crimes are so heinous that our new government is fearful of allowing trials for the criminals, believing the entire world would rise against us if they knew what we had done. The process of declassification intended to bring the truth to the world has stopped as we are faced with unimaginable acts of cowardice, brutality and greed, all hidden behind the words, "But he kept us safe."
For 8 years we have been at war. 90% of our fighting has been against an enemy of choice, an immoral and illegal invasion of one of the endless dicatatorships that were once our closest friends. Saddam’s Iraq was a "mild" dicatorship compared to some. We put many in place far more brutal, including one in Iran, the reason that country has been irritated at us for so many years. We destroyed Iran out of greed and fear. Now the cowards among us live in fear of them.
We did this in latin America, overthrowing free governments because sugar companies and banana importers didn’t want to pay workers a fair wage. What others have done, others we have bombed out of existence, we have done also.
Now we are brutalizing a generation of our own children, not only murdering off 5000 and maiming tens of thousands, all done under the "durable cover" of "war on terror" while calling them "heroes." They are the scapegoats of a raid on Iraq’s oil and our own treasury. The war on terror hasn’t even begun yet. What do you think is going on in Pakistan and Afghanistan?
Is it "Mission Accomplished" or "Nothing Accomplished?" We did accomplish something, we have, not only destroyed many of our young people physically but have emotionally destroyed, not only them but their families. 65 years ago, we were infamous for pampering and over feeding POWs while our own people had food rationing.
Now we will spent our years with a generation of concentration camp guards among us.
We allowed war to become so much of an institution that we hire more kitchen workers than we have soldiers. We actually have foreign armed guards protect our army in combat. Can someone please explain this for me. The concept boggles the mind.
Why would we spent trillions of dollars on a military that the world fears and have to pay billions for half trained 3rd world rent-a-cops to protect them? Why does the most powerful army in the world need protection? Does the concept have something to do with greed?
Every day I receive endless emails demanding our president’s "birth certificate" or blaming everyone from Santa to the Easter Bunny for the political and economic crimes of the last 8 years. To the rational mind, this endless drumming, heard by fewer and fewer cowards and fools, is a desparate attempt to rally the terrified, the hate filled and the disturbed among us behind crying, whining liars and cheats acting as puppets for the criminals who still remain at large.
The scandals, Vitter, Craig, Sanford, Ensign, not among the "drugs and free sex" Democrats, but, one by one, those that love war but refuse to fight, those who hate "queers" except when being "serviced" in a public restroom, those that love G-d, except when sinning, those that respect family, except when betraying their own and the dozens, may be hundreds yet to be caught…..
The fallen, the gang that screamed so loudly for moral leadership while lying, cheating and stealing are not being punished. A nation of cowards can only persecute the weak and poor.
Every time I see a coward wrapped in a flag or standing next to a soldier or busy patting himself on the back while throngs, smaller than before, I admit, of bigots, fools and cowards cheer them on, I am drawn to the lessons of history.
What is a term that described the opposite of a "golden age?"
Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.
Related Posts:
Short URL: http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=7547
Posted by Gordon Duff on Jun 26 2009, With 0 Reads, Filed under Heroes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
COMMENTS
To post, we ask that you login using Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, or Hotmail in the box below.Don't have a social network account? Register and Login direct with VT and post.
Before you post, read our Comment Policy - Feedback
When I was a KID I loved adventure and the boy scouts were a lot of fun but, there are the ONES that are there for other reasons. It always seemed as though those that,—-well ya just discover those things and stay away from those individuals or don’t share your tent with any of them. They were from upper-middle class families. And always recruiting victums. I didn’t discover that they are all QUEERS till I saw some that hung out with older boys that acted peculerly sisified, the boys that did that kind of stuff. Well I quit the boy scouts. I didn’t want to hang out with a bunch of sisies that were and still are QUEERS. I perfered rabbit huntin. Thing is 20 years later in life after I was in the military I discovered that the boy Queers that I knew abvout became community leaders. Politicans Policemen realtors chiropractors ect. I really thought that, this is intresting. The segment of population divided among the men and the sisies the sisies became POLITICAL LEADERS. There is something very wrong with this picture. As time passed Our Government became QUEER. Do you think it was born that way ?
Just one more thing. I noticed the majority of these FAGET QUEERS, married women and had children. Now there has to be at least 200 million out there that KNOW THESE THING S TO BE “TRUE”. Just thake a long look at Bur–yankee and his counter part and think about them as kids, look at how they move their mouths, kinda raises question as to just who’s intrest they have in mind dosen’t IT ? Could you see any of the bird Hunting ? Nope. I’ll bet their hands are as soft as a babies butt. Just think them and Barney can all camping togather and bring along a few congressional aids.
1. yes…born that way
2. think of it this way…what if it was your kid?
i have close friends that are african american or just plain african. yesterday, an african american 15 year old knocked a prominent local man off his bike with a brick…seriously injuring him.
the kid is an advertisement for hating all black people.
this is the danger.
we need to learn to hate people, one at a time.
g
No one is born that way ! They are INDUCED. THE PROBLEM IS OVER DEVELOPEMENT, WHICH IS RECIPE FOR OVER POPULATION, WHICH is being induced to BREAK THE BACK OF GOVERNMENT, IS THE OBJECTIVE, INDUCED BY NOT ALLOWING FAILURE. iF ONE DOSE NOT HAVE MEDICAL INSURANCE, THAT PERSON DOSE NOT NEED A BY-PASS OR A TRANS PLANT. In similarity, If One is to take a vacation and drive it is a good idea to fill your tank and take along some cash. OR you will be stranded. SO YOUR CHOICE IS DEATH. In that case I’d suggest some burial insurance. Only be wise, unless you are a flake who dumps their responsibility on others ! JUST LIKE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT !
I would be happier if we could get some commentary and feedback from the gay vets who read the site. We certainly have gay readers, more than a few.
Is Barney Frank bad because he is gay and admits it and let’s just say that George W. Bush is gay and doesn’t admit it. This makes him better?
Bush seems to be able to pull younger guys than Frank.
g
To: Duff~~~~The answer is SIMPLE… Earl Nightingale put is in its best form: “YOU BECOME LIKE THOSE WITH WHO YOU ASSOCIATE MOST.” Even the most uneducated can grasp this “FACT of LIFE” . If you hang out with COMMUNISTS would seem that, THAT influnces your thinking pattern. Scientific proof exist to prove just this !!!!!
I am sure you are correct in your comment. Bacisly you are saying all the little COCK SUCKERS became Politicans and insurance salesmen along side the lobbists. Yep I see your point.
Wow, unbelievable the level of hatred and ignorance and bigotry of the commentors.
But your piece was wonderful, Gordon! Thank you!
"They can’t handle the truth"
thanks for you support.
g
On this: “believing the entire world would rise against us if they knew what we had done”, they already know, a few have participated, but more important in the two theaters of occupations they knew long before us here on the “homeland?”, and not just in the occupation zones but the whole region. They had already started growing their ranks, taking to retaliation and the knowing blowback, these acts only adding to those committed against them in the invasions and now long running occupations. Killing and maiming the U.S. and other nations soldiers, anyone working with the occupation, and the citizens, women and children included, who we also killed, not joining them in their brutal attempts to rid their countries of the occupiers and puppet regimes!
Everyone who passively supported war crimes is of the same character as the Germans who had to be led thru the concentration camps near their homes in 1945.
Thousands of decent Germans who stood against the Nazi’s died in the camps.
We can remember their honor and accept blame for our own crimes.
Anyone who didn’t speak up has earned a place in hell.
g
Wellllllll, as I’m not gay, it makes it clearer to see by the comments of those bashing gay’s that there are more that Need to Come Out Of That Closet. Only reason, like racist, they condemn others so harshly and denie they are!!!!
So “Who Are” and “Fag Nation” come clean, you’ll feel better!!
Yes…we do have some that "doeth protest too much."
Without closeted gays there would be no "neocons."
g
Gordon
No matter how hard we all try, it is the deranged bigots among us who are let loose every time we try to tell the truth about our nation – the truth about the country we all love deeply.
I’m not sure how the reaction to your exceptional article immediately degenerated to ditatribes against homosexuals. I can only believe that these nuts are sitting out there with their canned anti-"fagget" (sic) little speeches stewing in their ignorant minds.
We should be thankful that we can’t see inside the skulls of people like "American Government is a Fagg Nation". Beside finding a pea-sized brain, a true patriot would retch at the sight of what is stewing around in there, I am sure.
Your fine article raises the basic issue of the Founders, which is that we must all work toward a "more perfect union". If we don’t identify the faults, we cannot correct them. We can, of course, excuse those accidental fautls of the well-intentioned. If we don’t identify and punish those who err intentionally, however, we are not patriots, we are fools.
I know you will continue to produce these fine pieces, and will ignore the ravers, but I couldn’t resist the opportunity to both compliment you and condemn them.
As for the "fagget" question, I recently received a letter from a serving senior Army officer who said that we would all be better off if the services used their energies to drive out the homophobes, the white supremacists, the convicted felons, and the bigots. I agree.
Sandy Cook, LTC USA (Ret)
Sandy
There are discussion boards at the Bush/Pentagon website, military dot com, where the scum of the earth express their beliefs. Now that their unelected President is in hiding, they are little but toothless cowards.
Occasionally, they roam over here.
Their evil reminds me every day why fighting for freedom is an important responsibility for every decent American, a responsibility that has to be a part of every day of our lives.
g
YOU can be assured SANDY COOK , The individual Senators Congressmen and Judges I associate while enjoying hunting fishing and many foot ball games utter mirror immages of my words. So JUST maybe, someone needs to take a long look into your head, OR are you just low on batteries. QUITE POSSIBELY you Sandy Cook perfer Politicans who LIE and confer in language which dose not express actual truth. Are you a DEMOCRAT ? or Just a closet Socialists ?
Sandy,
You now have a fan among the nameless cowards and bigots. We will stop getting this kind of idiocy as soon as they cut off internet access at halfway houses for sex criminals.
Actually, I might miss them. They remind me how intelligent pets are.
Is there some kind of award we can give you?
g
These Damm Prison Computers. I’m going to file a complaint with the Guard. for now I’m going to cuttle up with the x Senator. We’ll talk about our new friend MADOFF. It is really intresting how the spooks jump on this kind of YAP.
OK,this is NOT a bush bashing comment,it is NOT a tribute nor a diatribe against the VA but it IS a comment on HEROS and I use that term in respect.I recently came upon some information that I realy hated to find,in 1959 at the age of 18 I was sexually assaulted by a fellow GI in South Korea,this incident and it’s after effects almost ended my military career,after many years of psychoanalization,psychotheraphy and psych medication,bouts of depression,suicide attempts and struggling with ptsd I finally received an honorable discharge and va benefits.But now I find that this pedophillic scumbag went on to become a u.s.army sgt.received and honorable discharge and apparently went on in a bussiness as usual life style,upon his death he received full MILITARY HONORS and is buried in a NATIONAL CEMETARY next to REAL HEROES. To me that is the utmost travesty of justice and it adds insult to injury but the only option I have now I guess is to pay a visit to his grave site and piss on it.Well thats what I feel like doing anyway.But I probably,maybe might not do that.
I must be missing something! I was in the boy scouts, was a Catholic altar boy, and was in the military and never once, was there any attempt at molesting me! I have gay friends and straight friends. I really don’t care. Why the fixation with gays? You guys either hate them or love them!
Duffy, you want so badly for everyone to be gay so you can bash them! How do you know so much about people’s sexual preference? Are you making assumptions because of your own? Why do you want George Bush to be gay so badly? Why does it matter?
You need some help. Not everything is a conspiracy. Sometimes, it is what it is! Get a life.
Duff,
KEEP THE HEAT ON!!!! You usually nail it…this is no exception.
D. Tracy
So what do we do? There seems little appetite in the Justice Department for pursuing justice. A blue ribbon investigation like the 9/11 Whitewash Investigation? Who would believe the outcome?
Maybe an independent, self-appointed panel could take on this job. What if a group composed of distinguished veterans, respected academics and investigative reporters got some funding and set about an investigation? Of course such an investigation would lack subpoena power, but it would have more credibility than any investigation established by politicians.
Action should be acomplished by small groups. Slicing the throat of stregtic targets, rallying support growing forces arming citizens excaviting stragitic arms storage piles and putting those arms and explosives to good use recriut activity duty army personnal, showing them the truth as to what invasion has pentrated the American Government.
Just read your piece brother Duff.
Nothing ticks off ignorant blowhards more than a soldier with a conscience and a brain.
Cowards, politicians, trust fund and/or dividend brats, bankers and others of the privileged class have won the war against the middle class. The electorate that keeps voting against their own best interests and the true betterment of a potentially great nation.
Some of these comments are particularly pathetic and show how effectively the oligarchy has brainwashed the masses that they can even use our patriotism against us.
Cheers from Asia
Great article Gordon and I posted it in our forum too:
http://fayfreethinkers.com/forums
But the 9/11 “truther” stuff kind of blows your credibility! None of that conspiracy stuff holds up to examination.
Darrel.
Darrel,
I would like one thing explained about 9/11… (well, actually more than one, but this one has been fairly ignored).
When they couldn’t even find black boxes in the wreckage, how did they find Mohammed Atta’s wallet, completely intact and unharmed on top of that steaming pile of burnt metal?
Do you refer to the conspiracy theory that has been promulgated by the Government? Because NONE of those theories hold up even under the slightest scrutiny. Anyone who believes the “Official Story” ™ is a willful idiot. The truth hurts but lies destroy. As long as the citizens of the country allow the government to lie to and deceive them, we are noting more than ignorant slaves. Since 1963 I’ve been waiting for truth, but I am sad to say that I think I will die before that happens. It’s too bad because the idea of a democratic republic was a good one. Anyone who practices bigotry is just evil…
It must feel good to get that off your chest.
Thanks for reminding us of Central/South America and the unbelievable havoc we wreaked there. Reagan’s secret Army, Navy and Air Force underwritten by US billionaires filling Swiss bank accounts. What that didn’t pay for, was made up by selling weapons to our avowed enemies. The planes that supplied the Contras returned loaded with cocaine that fed the crack epidemic.
St. Reagan and his evil minion George Bush Sr. have a lot to explain at the pearly gates. Imagine Bush explaining our first “preemptive” war.. Panama. He invaded Panama to capture the puppet that he had earlier put into power. We killed 4,000 civilians and buried them in mass graves with bulldozers. Then the US military burned several cities. Then we brought Noriega here to be tried by our laws. What was Noriega’s crime? Bush said that he was a drug dealer, but we know that the Contras were sending in the dope. I think Noriega was holding out on Bush and needed to be chastised.
Many of the Iran/Contra crowd flourished in Junior’s administration. Pondexter, Abrams, Noriega, Cheney, Negroponte. These men are war criminals and still had the public reins even while they trumped up another “preemptive” war.
If the US would finally pull its head out of its ass to pay attention, the resounding pop would register as a 7.0 earthquake on the seismic monitors.
I tried to post twice under the above thread but it wouldn’t take the code.
***
Blaze, thank you for your question. I haven’t heard this one about the black boxes and the wallet, so I’ll look into it.
A quick snoop around doesn’t find anything. What is the source for YOUR claim? There is so much breathtaking junk on the internet you have to tread very carefully.
A rather indepth look at most of the conspiracy claims can be read here:
Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html
I have never seen a 9/11 conspiracy claim that can stand up to scrutiny. Not even close.
If the above article doesn’t swat them all down for you, post them in our freethinker forum and I’ll roast them. Easy.
D.