Project For A New American Century: Sack Squared
Read this “statement of principles” at newamericancentury.org and try to tell me that this document, written back in 1997, isn’t a premeditated statement of an agenda for a strangle hold on the world based on “our” national interests and values.
This isn’t my stance on their statement; they actually say it themselves! So, do you want to know who they are?
Out of the twenty-five knuckleheads that signed their names to this crap, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld stand out the most as policy influencer’s of the Dubya mentality.
This country is going to hell in a handbag.
Hm, I wonder why most of the world is burning our flag right now? Stating that one of our primary directives is to “challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values” wouldn’t read as code to any educated person would it? This document can only help improve our perception around the world, especially in Muslim nations where Islamicism is becoming more and more blistering, don’t you think?
These PNAC guys refer to hostile regimes, but when the US is the biggest bully on the block, how exactly does one define a “hostile regime?”
One that actually swings back after getting drilled into perpetual third-world status?
What a bunch of asshats we have in power. Sure, post-9/11, we need to remain vigilant in the defense of our country, but we’re on the defensive mostly due to the actions of our government for the past 50 years, very possibly because of documents like this one.
The rest of the world seems to recognize there are shades of gray in how to deal with terrorism. They also seem to recognize “our agenda” because we post it on the friggin’ internet!
Our government should enter itself into the 4×100 relay; administrations have been passing the aggressor and impudent baton to one another for decades now.
Tags: 9 11, activism, Adam Smith Problem, antiwar, capitalism, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, government, internet, Islam, Jeb Bush, New American Century, New World Order, PNAC, politics, reality, terrorism.
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The idea for a new America sucks. It is like Athens during the Peloponnesian war; they are merely a democratic empire exercising undemocractic and anti-freedom methods upon the world. They are, in essence, no more then a tyrant on a larger scale. A tyrant, at first, claims to protect justice and be honest, but in the end power devours their true ways and they need to violate others to maintain power.
Another example, Herodotus (quoted from the Perseus project on line):
“XCVI. All of those on the mainland were now free men; but they came to be ruled by monarchs again, as I will now relate. There was among the Medes a clever man called Deioces: he was the son of Phraortes. [2] Deioces was infatuated with sovereignty, and so he set about gaining it. Already a notable man in his own town (one of the many towns into which Media was divided), he began to profess and practice justice more constantly and zealously than ever, and he did this even though there was much lawlessness throughout the land of Media, and though he knew that injustice is always the enemy of justice. Then the Medes of the same town, seeing his behavior, chose him to be their judge, and he (for he coveted sovereign power) was honest and just. [3] By acting so, he won no small praise from his fellow townsmen, to such an extent that when the men of the other towns learned that Deioces alone gave fair judgments (having before suffered from unjust decisions), they came often and gladly to plead before Deioces; and at last they would submit to no arbitration but his.
XCVII. The number of those who came grew ever greater, for they heard that each case turned out in accord with the truth. Then Deioces, seeing that everything now depended on him, would not sit in his former seat of judgment, and said he would give no more decisions; for it was of no advantage to him (he said) to leave his own business and spend all day judging the cases of his neighbors. [2] This caused robbery and lawlessness to increase greatly in the towns; and, gathering together, the Medes conferred about their present affairs, and said (here, as I suppose, the main speakers were Deioces’ friends), [3] “Since we cannot go on living in the present way in the land, come, let us set up a king over us; in this way the land will be well governed, and we ourselves shall attend to our business and not be routed by lawlessness.â€? With such words they persuaded themselves to be ruled by a king.
XCVIII. The question was at once propounded: Whom should they make king? Then every man was loud in putting Deioces forward and praising Deioces, until they agreed that he should be their king. [2] He ordered them to build him houses worthy of his royal power, and strengthen him with a bodyguard. The Medes did so. They built him a big and strong house wherever in the land he indicated to them, and let him choose a bodyguard out of all the Medes. [3] And having obtained power, he forced the Medes to build him one city and to fortify and care for this more strongly than all the rest. The Medes did this for him, too. So he built the big and strong walls, one standing inside the next in circles, which are now called Ecbatana.1 [4] This fortress is so designed that each circle of walls is higher than the next outer circle by no more than the height of its battlements; to which plan the site itself, on a hill in the plain, contributes somewhat, but chiefly it was accomplished by skill. [5] There are seven circles in all; within the innermost circle are the palace and the treasuries; and the longest wall is about the length of the wall that surrounds the city of Athens.2 The battlements of the first circle are white, of the second black, of the third circle purple, of the fourth blue, and of the fifth orange: [6] thus the battlements of five circles are painted with colors; and the battlements of the last two circles are coated, the one with silver and the other with gold.
XCIX. Deioces built these walls for himself and around his own quarters, and he ordered the people to dwell outside the wall. And when it was all built, Deioces was first to establish the rule that no one should come into the presence of the king, but everything should be done by means of messengers; that the king should be seen by no one; and moreover that it should be a disgrace for anyone to laugh or to spit in his presence. [2] He was careful to hedge himself with all this so that the men of his own age (who had been brought up with him and were as nobly born as he and his equals in courage), instead of seeing him and being upset and perhaps moved to plot against him, might by reason of not seeing him believe him to be different.1
C. When he had made these arrangements and strengthened himself with sovereign power, he was a hard man in the protection of justice. They would write down their pleas and send them in to him; then he would pass judgment on what was brought to him and send his decisions out. [2] This was his manner of deciding cases at law, and he had other arrangements too; for when he heard that a man was doing violence he would send for him and punish him as each offense deserved: and he had spies and eavesdroppers everywhere in his domain.”
Our power has already entailed the use of deception, as Herodotus depicts. Furthermore, it also has created an extensive system of spys and eavesdroppers to violate our and our neighbors rights. This is no different then Tyranny on a larger scale. And even if we start out being ‘honest’, or being ‘just’, the power will result in nothing less then tyranny.
Humans are all fallable. And, furthermore, the motility of human prosperity is great, as well as the expressions of authoritative entities. In the end, we bring doom.
In conclusion,
Our voice will be heard. We the people will speak, and I educate.
Democracy and freedom are great.
Fight for them through stability, patients, and means that are equivical to democracy and freedom.
A good world is only achieved through following one’s end with one’s means - otherwise, corruption and tyranny will abound. And the ‘New Ameran Century’ establishes itself under such a foundation… Who will follow? What of the power, when passed onto the next generation, even if one can see oneself as being capable?
Please think.
For Democracy. For freedom.
Please think.
PEACE.
Jason Harter