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ISRAEL DEPLOYS THE CONTROLLED PRESS AND CONGRESSIONAL STOOGES AGAINST AMERICA

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

Even before 9/11, Cheney and Rumsfeld started weeding any intelligent life out of America’s military command structure. Anyone who would ask hard questions or say “no” when asked to betray the United States, violate the Geneva Convention or be willing to wage aggressive war was cashiered. A pack of rank amateurs led by famed military genius Karl Rove and listening to continual whisperings from Tel Aviv started America on the road to ruin.

A massive dossier was accumulated on nearly everyone, covering falsified intelligence, payoffs from military contractors, a rendition program now admitted to have averaged over 90% “innocent bystanders” and more. Mostly, however, it was contracting fraud, hundreds of billions of dollars of over payments, missing weapons, unfinished but paid for projects and defective everything from poisoned drinking water to electrocuted troops living and working in defective buildings. With AIPAC controlling congress for Israel and everyone else “on the take,” running America around by the nose was simple.

The movie, Green Zone, covers our attack on Iraq with considerable accuracy. The film clearly outlines how, in order to justify an illegal invasion, an American government created “false flag” intelligence. Despite any crimes Saddam may have committed, currently America has caused more civilian deaths in Iraq than Saddam in 30 years, the invasion was illegal and any and all involved in its planning, according to international law, should face tribunals. Those who were misled are innocent. Those who did the misleading are war criminals, exactly like Saddam. Our war to save Iraq from a brutal dictator was simply cover for a bank robbery and some “dirty work” that needed to be done, work that opened the door to country after country being destabilized.

All of this was done to deal drugs, steal gas and oil and loot the American economy. Oh, they forgot to tell you that on Hannity last night? Sorry about that.

This is how Iraq was destroyed, over a million killed and untold damage was done to America. In the process, the balance of power in the Middle East swung to Iran, who now largely controls Iraq and to the India/Israel alliance. The United States is no longer a factor, bogged down in Iraq, over its head in Afghanistan and flat broke at home. The surrogate wars fought for Greater Israel left America castrated. Now Israel is laughing at us.







The original plan, the Bush/Israeli plan was to use NATO as cover to expand into oil and gas rich Asia, flank Russia and gain control of key hydrocarbon supplies worth trillions of dollars, supplies that would give defacto control of China, India and Western Europe, not to America, but to key international groups in bed with Israel. The whole thing was going to be kept going with timely terror attacks, staged conflicts like the Georgia/Russia war and lubricated with billions in heroin profits that would undermine the governments of the narco-republics, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and last, but far from least, Afghanistan.

Managing Afghanistan would be easy. President Karzai is a puppet of India, a country willing to sell its soul to get into Afghanistan and organize terrorist groups to attack Pakistan. Kids there go to schools surrounded by fully armed military. If you want to see the real cost of the war in Afghanistan, you can see it in the faces of school children in Pakistan, who risk death daily because their army is fighting beside ours.

WHY IS IRAN A TARGET?

Russia was supposed to sit around stupidly while Bush and company put the Ukraine, Georgia and the other break-away republics into NATO. Weak and corrupt governments would quickly become corporate puppets, greased with drug money and ready to pump millions of cubic feet of natural gas into Israeli controlled pipelines for pennies on the dollar. However, Russia had different plans. The Ukraine fell away from the west. Hungary is doing that even as we speak. Kyrgyzstan threw out its narco-dictatorship and Russian owned Gazprom got control of the regions natural gas supplies.

All that is left to steal is Iran’s natural gas, the world’s largest supplies. The excuse to go after them, of course, will be imaginary nuclear weapons and, as nearly everyone has predicted, some “9/11” type attack that can be blamed on Iran. This contingency plan, war on Iran, using the same falsified intelligence or a “false flag” attack, is the only way of moving plans for an economic empire forward, a cabal of Israeli and Christian Zionists, “robber baron” Wall Street types and oil companies.

Expect some type of international tensions or an incident to spike gasoline prices during the summer of 2010, something meant to push America toward ruin and financial desperation and to condition them for another war.

WHY GO AFTER THE U.S. ARMY, WHY ARE THEY STARTING TO RESIST “GANGSTERISM?”

The CIA and other American intelligence agencies all agree that Iran has no nuclear program. Pat Buchanan probably states it best:

“Diplomacy has failed,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told AIPAC, “Iran is on the verge of becoming nuclear and we cannot afford that.”

“We have to contemplate the final option,” said Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., “the use of force to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.”

War is a “terrible thing,” said Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., but “sometimes it is better to go to war than to allow the Holocaust to develop a second time.”

Graham then describes the war we Americans should fight:

“If military force is ever employed, it should be done in a decisive fashion. The Iran government’s ability to wage conventional war against its neighbors and our troops in the region should not exist. They should not have one plane that can fly or one ship that can float.”

Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute, Neocon Central, writes, “The only questions remaining, one Washington politico tells me, are who starts it, and how it ends.”

As to who starts it, we know the answer. Teheran has not started a war in memory and is not going to launch a suicide attack on a superpower with thousands of nuclear weapons. As with Iraq in 2003, the war will be launched by the United States against a nation that did not attack us — to strip it of weapons it does not have.

Before Israel can put its forces into motion, starting with Rupert Murdoch and his media empire, Fox News, Limbaugh, Beck, Palin and the WSJ, and the congressional hacks fall in line, Secretary Gates, Admiral Mullen and General Petraeus have to be flanked. They are the voices telling us, not only that an attack in Iran is unwarranted but that war would be a disaster for America. The easiest way to destroy the credibility of the military is to marshal assets, the press, President Karzai and so many others. How has this begun?

WIKI-LEAKS, A SMALL “PEARL HARBOR” ATTACK ON THE ARMY

Kablam! In one fell swoop, we learn the Army has been lying all the time, murdering reporters, gunning down children and lying thru their teeth. Followup stories seen everywhere now claim this was done every day. Then we hear that the Special Forces use their knives to dig bullets out of bodies. When you think of an 5.56mm rifle ammunition of 5.7 mm pistol ammunition, all designed to penetrate body armor, either capable of passing through a human body with little reduction in muzzle velocity having to be dug out of a poor innocent Muslim woman with one of those huge butcher knives that the Special Forces carry, I have a bad moment. I begin to feel the pressure of a myth coming on, a story, a legend, perhaps even a movie script. I think Israel.

When I see poor hapless President Karzai telling the world he plans to move into the hills and command the Taliban in its war against the American occupiers, all the while his friends, family and associates are drowning in drug profits and massive American contracts, that same “Tel Aviv tango” seems to be playing in the background. Isn’t this the same Karzai, who in the last two weeks tried to set up a permanent commission to rig elections in Afghanistan? Is this the same Karzai given a “no confidence”vote from a tribal Shura last week? Someone should search him for his secret Israeli decoder ring.

Did General Stanley McChrystal admit to broad failures in “collateral damage” as is being reported? Is the Army “out of control” as claimed my the press? Moreover, recent operations in and around Marjeh, we are told, have now led to a reassessment (again) of policy toward drug eradication. Have we, as the news claims, embarked on a path of nation building that coincides with maintaining a narco-republic, an economic model deemed impossible to maintain?

Is this flood of reported failures, combined with destabilization of Iraq, renewed defense spending scandals there, part of a pattern meant to discredit the Army, discredit them at the same time they are the only institution in the United States supporting the executive branch in resisting demands for a preemptive strike, perhaps even using nuclear weapons, against Iran?

CAN ISRAEL FORCE A GEOPOLITICAL REALIGNMENT?

Both Pakistan and Iran feel they are targeted by Israel. Pakistan feels Israel is using its massive influence in the US to fill the news with rumors of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists and of Pakistani complicity in world terrorism, despite the recent successes Pakistan has had militarily. In fact, Pakistan is the only US ally to have any successes against terrorism at all. Pakistan is also under daily attack by terrorists they feel are armed and trained by the Indo-Israeli alliance, trained in Afghanistan, under the eye of President Karzai and also under circumstances that the United States could effectively oppose were the terrorist operations not being managed by Israel.

When the destabilization of Pakistan is considered, certain inherent problems come to mind, in particular, corruption and lack of national cohesion. The exacerbation of these problems by a concerted terror campaign coordinated with the American military operations in Afghanistan, operations that have pushed Pakistan into long term military operations well beyond their financial capabilities, has pushed Pakistan to near collapse.

Thus, Pakistan’s options are few. She can be dismembered by India and Israel or she can form an alliance with Southern Afghanistan and Iran, providing a nuclear umbrella for Iran in exchange for oil and gas revenue. The oddity of this, of course, is that, despite what is reported as news, Pakistan is still very much allied with the United States and has always been so, to as much a degree as Israel and, currently, more.

Such an alliance, which could be expanded easily to include Iraq, even Syria, could provide economic stability to the region, end any discussion of nuclear proliferation except that of Israel, and establish a basis for a regional trade zone capable of engaging India and China in a productive way, something Pakistan, as it now exists, is unlikely to be able to accomplish. This would also represent the recognition of the waning influence of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, the reactionary Bedouin cultures that have so long been the external face of Islam.

SOCIAL REALIGNMENT AND REAL DEMOCRACY

It isn’t only the Palestinians who are being removed from their land or “ethnically cleansed.” The Kurds, through Turkey, Iraq and Iran have, for centuries, struggled for identity, as have the Baloch’s, millions of Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan and many other groups. The “economic pie” has always been cut to favor Israel, the oil princes, the Punjabi’s and a series of oligarchic families whose control stretches, not only thru Islam but India as well. Oil culture, drug culture or gun culture, even brushes with Islamic extremism and socialism have all led to political and social inequities.

Israel, once technically the region’s only democracy, is now looked on as a thinly veiled military dictatorship with controlled press, a brutal justice system and racist policies. If we are demanding democratic governments in Islamic countries, governments that comply with UN Resolutions, international law and civilized practice, then why aren’t we asking the same of Israel? From being presented to us for years on TV and in the news as a “beacon of light” we now see the truth. They are made of the same cloth as our other dictator friends, Noriega, the Shah, Diem and so many more. Noriega helped us run drugs, the Shah kept Russia out of the Persian Gulf and Diem helped create the Viet Cong to keep a generation of Americans off the street. Maybe Israel is doing what Diem did, starting wars so unemployed Americans can fill body bags, wars started by insane policies, greed, hubris and lots of phony talk about democracy.

With ethinic cleansing in Palestine still going on and similar issues in Darfur and earlier in Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Kashmir and elsewhere, this and other issues of human rights have to be addressed through whatever international conventions we currently have. Currently Iran is under sanctions and facing more. Israel faces sanctions which are vetoed by the United States. Leaders of more than a few countries, including even the United States and Israel, but many others also, face war crimes prosecution, an imperfect protection.

Over 60 years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt helped establish these principles which need full force of law, military force if necessary, to guarantee:

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

PREAMBLE

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,

Now, therefore,

The General Assembly

proclaims

This Universal Declaration of Human Rights

as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

Article I

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8

Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11

(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.

(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13

(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.

(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14

(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.

(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15

(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16

(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.

(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17

(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20

(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21

(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.

(2) Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his country.

(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23

(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25

(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26

(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27

(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28

Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29

(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.

(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.

(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

60 YEARS OF MOVING BACKWARDS

If you asked Americans today if their country fulfilled the promise of the 1948 declaration, a majority would admit we are moving backwards. Some would say so based on massive foreign propaganda that has infiltrated our media to destroy confidence in our ability to rule ourselves. Those talking “birth certificates” or “socialism,” the “tea bag” revolutionaries organized by monied interests and Israeli pressure groups are using fear and our history of class warfare and racial hatreds to cripple America. Driven by a plummeting standard of living and a massive realignment of wealth from the middle class to the upper 3 percent, a group that no longer invests in America, no longer provides jobs, develops technology nor advances productivity and innovation, a group that simply buries money overseas and “vacations” in America, living in gated communities and parking their yachts in our harbors, class warfare may be a real threat. In fact, Americans have been living it for years.

While Fox News and Glen Beck have been lulling America to sleep, America’s wealth has disappeared and with it, America’s standard of living. 70% of America’s families face homelessness based on a job layoff, and half the jobs in the country are in doubt. Yet, million of Americans are ready to take to the streets to support the same groups that planned it all, simply based on what they see on television.

When America lost its free press, it really lost all its rights.

DEBT, SLAVERY AND FEUDALISM

When the World Bank and IMF show up in a country to loan them money, the result is always the same. Within a few years, people are starving, a few wealthy have everything and the government that supports the process is always corrupt and totalitarian. The basic concept is that debt services itself and never delivers development, education, health care and human rights. As with dozens of countries around the world, the United States, as it buries itself further and further in debt becomes, as the Heritage Foundation points out, “less free.” We now have a Department of Homeland Security, an analog for Hitler’s GESTAPO, and a pattern of subterfuge, from controlled news to rigged elections to a looted economy, all with a backdrop of endless wars and threats against our “security” that have taken the focus off our loss of freedoms and blame a world of “terrorists” and “extremists.”

These enemies are all people who have been helped into extremism by debt, by the IMF and World bank, and are all living under military threat from the great enforcer, the United States.

Calling such a political system socialist is wrong. Calling it Fascist insults the social programs and efficiency delivered by Italy and Germany. It is Feudalism, the rule by armed thugs and ignorant despots that kept the world in a dark age for centuries. Instead of “serfs” we have “guest workers.” When Saddam invaded Kuwait, hundreds of thousands there lived in slavery. The United Arab Emirates, a close American ally has over 80% of its population as foreign workers.

Today, Israel is displacing the Palestinians who grew the food and worked in the factories for foreign workers, soon to number over 1 million in that tiny country, workers who are paid a tenth the wages of even a Palestinian. In Thailand, the fishing industry is run on slavery. In Burma, oil workers were cheaper to murder and replace than to pay. India is ready to send a man to the moon yet the majority of her population is the poorest on earth. 40 families control a country with over 1 billion people.

If you ever wondered why the water cannons and demonstrators, the mass arrests when the “Big 8” get together or what it is all about, those are the people who “get it.” They are out there screaming for you to listen. Their message is that your world, the wars, the poverty, the job losses, the mortgage scandals, the rigged elections and the insane lies we see on the news are all about they money boys playing with debt. Is there a “new world order” or some other secret organization? Who needs one when we are all slaves to debt. If you think you owe money personally, you have no idea. You have lent billions you will never have, money you will owe for generations, to countries that could never hope to pay it all back.

Is it all as imaginary and sinister as it sounds? No, it is actually far worse.

ELIMINATING THE THREAT, DESTROYING THE INSTITUTIONS OF FREEDOM

Information is the basis for all decision making. If someone walks up with a gun and robs you, you see their face. Now, when it is done, we see no one. The robber controls newspapers or has a “think tank” blame someone else. In America, the robbers of the health care industry bought half our government, spending hundreds of millions on bribes, hired thousands of liars, really just paid thieves, all to continue control of one of the greatest financial frauds on earth, a health care system based on a mix of private insurance, public charity and millions of untreated sick, all being done at astounding cost and with incredible inefficiency. Health care costs are the major reason America has almost no manufacturing jobs.

With a two party political system where both parties receive massive contributions from Israeli/AIPAC sources and America is continually at war, fighting the imaginary enemies of Israel, most powerful country in the Middle East, our “free government” has become a joke. If a small nation like Israel can buy us into war, imagine what our own banking/insurance or oil industries can do? With enough phony religious “hoopla,” and more Israeli reminders of the holocaust, some “mysterious group” could blow up a school and we might invade anyone, even ourselves.

We have simply given away any rational control of our lives.

FIGHTING BACK

300 American members of congress signed a letter of support for Israel, a letter meant to tell our government that, even if Israel is getting our troops killed because of their war crimes, 300 bribed criminals sworn to support the United States will become traitors. They have to go, every single one of them and anyone else who accepts money from a foreign power unfriendly to the United States has to leave office.

We must admit that Fox News and its affiliates are part of the Israeli government. We also have to admit that some Jewish Americans, those who support AIPAC, or who have dual citizenship, are foreign agents and should be registered as such. Our laws require it. No one should be above the law.

If the United States Supreme Court continues to operate outside the Constitution, as it has for some time, the members, 5 that we know of, who are no longer loyal to the United States should be removed from office. The entire concept of the Supreme Court is one the Founding Fathers never thought out that clearly. SCOTUS is a form of tyranny protecting the interests, most often, of criminal classes in the United States from lawful government. When they started deciding elections, they had gone too far. When they authorized endless bribes, turning our government over to multi-national corporations, they became a threat. We are capable of governing ourselves without Clarence Thomas and those of his ilk, people no decent American would trust to watch a parakeet, ruling over us like Princes.

ONE COUNTRY, PART OF A WORLD OF PEOPLE, NOT IDEAS

It is time that we admitted that the ideas we hold have become our enemy. Our ideas are seldom our own. They always come from others, other that profit from convincing us that we are going to be safe from terrorism, have eternal life or “get rich quick” if we only accept their ideas.

Every idea is a denial of our innate goodness, decency and intelligence. If someone stops to help a stranger change a tire, they are a “liberal.” If someone fails to give a panhandler money for drugs, they are a ” conservative.”

The people who invented those terms have made fools of everyone who uses them, people who gave up their common sense for a promise of something that never existed and never will. All ideas offer the same thing, something for nothing. Free lunch.

There is no free lunch.

Author Details Author Details Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. He is a disabled veteran and has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades. Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues. Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology. Gordon’s Latest Posts