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Re: The Anti-Democratic Elite Fix Was IN From The Very Start of
the USA
By: Surly1 Date: December 5, 2019, 8:04 am
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;D ;D ;D
We sure have.
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Has America Always Been Tyrannical?
By: AGelbert Date: February 3, 2020, 6:24 pm
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Thom Hartmann Program
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Donald Trump is leading America down the road to tyranny, Thom
Talks to listeners who have always seen a tyranical side to
American Democracy
Has America Always been tyranical to some populations, and if
these callers are right, what can we do about it,
Its not enoguh to just stop Trump, the tradition of tyranical
rule in America needs to be stopped, let us know how we can do
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Re: The Anti-Democratic Elite Fix Was IN From The Very Start of
the USA
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June 23, 2021
Protecting our elections
Although it was no surprise that the Senate failed to consider
the For the People Act last month, it was still tragic
🤦‍♂️. So what now? Supporters of
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provisions to protect our elections. The alternative is to allow
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balance of powers between state and national government, a
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US War violence corrupts OUR democracy BECAUSE it requires dehum
anization and denial of rights
By: AGelbert Date: November 6, 2021, 9:55 pm
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November 6, 2021 by C.J. Polychroniou 🗽, Truthout
SNIPPET:
C.J. Polychroniou: The U.S. has a long history of war-on-terror
campaigns going all the way back to the spread of anarchism in
late 19th century. During the Cold War era, communists were
routinely labelled as “terrorists,” and the first systematic war
on terror unfolded during the Reagan administration. Following
the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration renewed the
war on terror by implementing a series of far-reaching policy
initiatives, many of which, incidentally, went unnoticed by the
public but also continued during the Obama and Trump
administrations, respectively, which subverted democracy and the
rule of law. Can you elaborate about the impact of war-on-terror
policies in the dismantling of U.S. democracy?
Khury Petersen-Smith ✨: It’s true: The tactics and
beliefs that the U.S. has deployed in the war on terror have
deep roots that stretch well before our current time. I would
argue that the U.S. has never been a democracy, and that a key
reason is its basically permanent state of war, which began with
its founding. New England settlers, for example, waged a war of
counterinsurgency against Indigenous peoples here who resisted
colonization in King Philip’s War. The settlers besieged
Indigenous nations, considering communities of adults and
children to be “enemies” and punishing them with incredible
violence. This was in the 1670s.
In a different U.S. counterinsurgency, in the Philippines in the
early 20th century, American soldiers used “the water cure,” a
torture tactic comparable to the “waterboarding” that the U.S.
has used in the war on terror. This was one feature of a
horrific war of scorched earth that the U.S. waged as Filipino
revolutionaries fought for an independent country after Spanish
colonization. The U.S. killed tens of thousands of Filipino
fighters, and hundreds of thousands — up to a million —
civilians. There was also a staggering amount of death due to
secondary violence, such as starvation and cholera outbreaks,
and due to the U.S. declaration that civilians were fair game to
target (as seen in the infamous Balangiga Massacre). It was
during that episode in 1901 on the island of Samar, when an
American general ordered troops to kill everyone over the age of
10. The designation of whole populations as the “enemy” — and
therefore targets for violence — has echoes that reverberate in
Somalia, Yemen, Iraq and other places where the U.S. has fought
the war on terror.
This is to say that there are different chapters in the history
of U.S. empire, but there is a throughline of justifying
military violence and the denial of human rights in defense of
U.S. power and “the American way of life.” This history of wars
informs those of the present.
In the 20th century, labeling various activities “terrorism” was
one way of rationalizing the use of force. The U.S. did this
especially with its allies in response to anti-colonial
liberation movements. So the South African apartheid regime
called anti-apartheid resistance “terrorism,” and the Israeli
state did (and continues to do) the same to Palestinian
resistance, however nonviolent. The U.S. has armed and defended
these states, embracing and promoting the rhetoric of war
against “terrorism.”
The flip side of “terrorism” — the blanket enemy against which
all violence is justified — is “democracy” — the
all-encompassing thing that the U.S. claims to defend in its
foreign policy. But again, the 20th century saw the U.S.
embrace, arm and wage war with and on behalf of anti-democratic,
dictatorial forces on every continent. The decades of violence
that the U.S. carried out and supported throughout Latin America
in the latter part of the 20th century, in response to waves of
popular resistance for social and economic justice, serve as a
brutal chapter of examples.
All of these things helped constitute the foundation upon which
the Bush administration launched the war on terror.
To answer your question more directly, military violence always
requires dehumanization and the denial of rights — and this
inevitably corrupts any notions of democracy. War, in fact,
always involves an attack on democratic rights at large. When
the U.S. launched the war on terror in 2001, the federal
government simultaneously waged military campaigns abroad and
passed legislation like the USA PATRIOT Act, issued legal
guidelines and other practices that introduced new levels of
surveillance, denial of due process, rationalization of torture
and other attacks on civil liberties. These efforts especially
targeted Muslims and people of South Asian, Central Asian,
Southwest Asian and North African origin — all of whom were
subject to being cast as “terrorists” or “suspected terrorists.”
It is worth noting that while Bush drew upon the deep roots of
U.S. violence to launch the war on terror, there has been
incredible continuity, escalation and expansion throughout it.
Bush launched the drone war, for example, and President Barack
Obama then wildly expanded and escalated it. President Donald
Trump then escalated it further.
Full article on interview with scholar and activist Khury
Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the
Institute for Policy Studies, in which he discusses how U.S.
imperialism has undermined democracy, both home and abroad, with
the wars abroad even being tied to police brutality at home.
People Worldwide Name US as a Major Threat to World Peace.
Here’s Why.
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