Self Preservation and Irreversible Decline [was: Electronic Freedom Foundation selective in support of freedom]

[juan]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 02:22:01 +0000
Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:


> I guess that's the ultimate propaganda success really - not being
> aware that your country is always at war, and pretty much always has
> been. 

	Yep. I'm not sure if I already linked this 

	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705933/

	http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s07e01-im-a-little-bit-country

	It's probably the best analysis of the 'american political
	system' (and history) that I know. 

	(funnily enough. it's way better than anything that
	professional political 'philosophers' say, including statist
	'libertarians')

	

> War is the ultimate rejection and domination of the sovereignty
> of other nations and individuals. So a government having their
> nation's people thinking they're not at war, and most of the time have
> not been, is the fundamental delusion of and successful propaganda of
> despotism.
> 
> Your 93% link is eye opening - I knew it was coup after coup (war
> after war) since WWII, but was not aware of how similar this was to
> pre-WWII. And it seems most 'Merrycans don't quite see it (yet?)
> either.


	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Stick_ideology



> Z
> 
> PS If anyone can get/ leak the real/ original British Queen Elizabeth
> II's (alleged) Christmas message from December 2015, that would be
> freakin punk! (That would be the one where she says "enjoy your last
> Christmas" if the allegation has any truth to it.) Any good high-brow
> British cp's round here? Onion links acceptable...