After everything we've seen from the U.S. intelligence apparatus over the last few years, I'm shocked to find even a single Freeper who is willing to believe a damn thing we hear from them anymore.
It is time for Americans to tell the Military-Industrial Complex to sod off.
One of our greatest presidents Eisenhower in his farewell address to the American people on the evening of January 17, 1961 warned America about the threat that the Military-Industrial Complex is to our republic and our freedom. Eisenhower, like a biblical prophet of old, accurately predicted the situation that the American people face today:
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system — ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.”
I tend to agree with you on this.
Since the 1990's I feel that America's intelligence
agencies have ceased working for what's best for America
and it's people. Who do they represent now?
Who do they take orders from ..... ????
“After everything we’ve seen from the U.S. intelligence apparatus over the last few years”
This information originated with the US Navy.
They found an unexploded limpet mine on the side of one of the ships.
That’s nearly conclusive. And once brought into a lab, can be 100% conclusive.
Don’t get me wrong, everyone knows the US Intel community is corrupt and the very seat of warmongering in the world today.
But they have hard evidence here.