Posted on 08/17/2010 3:50:52 PM PDT by starczar66
Under the headline "'Without a revolution, Americans are history'..." Drudge has currently linked to a kooky article on Infowars.com which is accompanied by a somewhat violent illustration. Has Drudge gone loco? Is he just trying to increase the traffic on his website by posting something off-the-wall? Something is odd here, I smell a rat...Thoughts?
Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theories program on TLC has taken a lot of what Jones covers on his radio show daily, to a whole new audience.
Notice those words such as Empire Builders and world hegemony, and the title Ecstasy of Empire
The doctrine emerged as the Wolfowitz doctrine when Paul Wolfowitz was defense undersecretary to Cheney during the GHW Bush administration.
You may not recall but Paul Craig Roberts, the author, constantly complained about the NeoCons when they were running GW Bush's foreign policy.
A lot of people agree with Roberts about the NeoCons.
“Not surprising at all. The call for a second revolution is getting louder and louder.”
I must correct you... it would be the Third American Revolution. The second one (1860-1865) wasn’t quite as successful as the first.
I am old enough that I well remember the Great Depression.
I am not taking up for Drudge or agreeing or disagreeing with the premise of the article.
But I will point out that during the Great Depression, the US was primarily an agricultural nation.
Most people still lived across the road from Grandma, who knew everything that went on in the family.
The nation, as a whole, was very deeply religious. Blacks even more so than whites.
So stories of immorality or dishonesty immediately found their way to Mom and Dad.
today we have a huge percentage of our population who don’t even know who Dad is, who are so mobile that they are rarely close to Mom and who have little or no religion.
If you don’t think that the family had a huge influence on how people in the 1930’s reacted to the hard times and if you don’t realize that the changes in our family structure will make a big difference to the worse this time...stick around. You have a lesson to learn.
Grandma living across the street does make a difference if Grandma is as strict and as straight laced as the Grandma’s of the 1930’s.
As Obama’s friends say, “you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.”
Floridated Water was a BIG John Birch Society issue in the 1950’s, We never knew how good things were under Ike, but the Birchers thought he was a commie.
‘A lot of people agree with Roberts about the NeoCons.’
Particularly Pat Buchanan supporters who think Pat is too pro-Jewish.
Meant to add that I doubt the revolution will be one in which armed citizens march on DC shooting every pol in sight.
It is much more likely to take the direction of revolution against local laws, local officials and more in the form of “We are hungry and cold and we are going to take what we need to eat and get shelter”.
So it is more likely to take the forms of take it if you need it.
Rebellion against those who have food, fuel, property or whatever.
Infowars is run By Alex Jones....9/11 truther and bigfoot/UFO author...
I’d confirm the time of day independantly before I’d take their word it..
What's so kooky about that? Thomas Jefferson......
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
Get a shortwave radio.
I love my Grundig Yaughtboy 400, just like Tom Hank's had in Joe vs. The Volcano
To be a denier is old shtick, holding on to the old story with prejudice is sort of like saying “Blacks shouldn't swim in the pool or we'll have to drain & scrub it”.
Oooh, simple can't have it, besides, today's filters are fabulous/sarc.
Alex Jones and audience have gone exponential.
Other researchers like Paul Thompson and his amazing timeline of peripheral events are gaining traction as well.
Also see http://www.gregpalast.com/
There's always that tipping point when the rest of the herd follows along regardless, come along, golf claps for all (Men at Work ref.).
Thankfully a whole lot more, don't.
I'm not surprised either given the fact the government treats legitimate citizens like heavy luggage, in a arrogant punitive, controlling manner. Hard to believe there are still some that have failed to notice this.
Meh.
It’s certainly achieved one accomplishment. People are talking about Drudge more than they would if he hadn’t posted the link.
That’s a good point that I haven’t yet considered...
I welcome a revolution.
I would like to see American history written that Americans in the early 21st century revolted against a federal government that had grown so large and become so intrusive as to be incomprehensible and completely at odds with the foundation of ideals set for the United States.
Here are revolutionary reforms that would usher in a new golden age for the American civilization:
1. Enact the FairTax and concurrently repeal the 16th Amendment. By conservative estimates this would provide an immediate boost of 10% to GDP and start the process of repatriating $20 trillion in offshore capital. It would revive the manufacturing and export base of the United States and out the nation on a path of greater freedom in line with the ideas of the Founders.
2. Repeal the 17 Amendment with an additional amendment that would buttress state rights, ensure states seat US Senators, establish a hybrid approach of voting in Senators with State legislatures nominating candidates for US Senator who would then campaign for votes from the respective State voters. The repeal and finetuning provided by this new amendment would halt the excessive centralization of Federal power over states by halting most federal mandates and thereby slow to a crawl the growth and intrusion of federal power over states if not reverse it through a process of decentralization.
3. A reform of the Federal Reserve to include transparency in operations such as discount windows, dollar swaps with foreigh central banks, depoitary accounts that are potentially bubble creating, and overall investigations into the destructive actions on the value of the US dollar.
What rock have you been living under?
Sure, it's kooky, that's why he linked -- but Roberts is not unknown.
page hits are page hits.
Make sure you know where the link goes before you click on it.
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