National Security

We are accustomed to describing the american political system as a  "democracy", but when we dig a little deeper we conclude that it is in fact a representative democracy, a "republic".

Keep digging, and we see the vast amount of influence, military, political , and economic, that the United States exerts globally, and we amend our description further, and begin to use the term "empire." 

Keep digging. When you get to the bottom, you might be shocked. What you discover is that the U.S.A. is a national security military/police state, permanently preparing for war or waging war, gradually curtailing the civil liberties of its citizens in the name of "national security".

My favortie president, Harry Truman, can be arguably viewed as somewhat of a monster, it pains me to say, the creator of our national security state. First, he dropped two entirely needless atomic bombs on Japan, then, in 1947, signed into law the "National Security Act", which placed the american military and economy on a permanent wartime status.

Semper fi, indeed. Repulbican senator Arthur Vendenberg of Michigan said to Truman "If you're going to spend all this money on the military, you had better scare the hell out of the American people". Which is exactly what he proceded to do, with endless declarations about the atheistic communist Russians waiting at our borders.

Welcome to the american national security state, where we put people like Martha Stewart in prison, along with people who use the wrong drugs, or have the wrong sexual activities.Our wars of aggression will stop only when the american people have been bled to bloodless turnipdom, and the one percent is sated with power and wealth, in a hollow shell of a dying country.

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