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"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Elite Power is a Source of Destruction « Time to Think

The use or abuse of power over people, is less dependent on who legally owns the “means of production” or the resources, it rather depends on who and how many control those means and resources. A group of party-leaders in control of state-owned industries have just as much power concentrated into their hands as the board of directors of a large corporation.

But experience shows, that power is addictive, and it seems to work like a mind-altering drug.

The powerful soon start to believe, that they need to shape the world in their own image or better the image of their particular world-view. Shortly thereafter they inevitably develop a superiority-complex. In their minds they become the only ones who know what is right for the people under their control and for the world as a whole.

The more total their power over others becomes , the less empathy they can feel for those they control.

The powerful believe, they need to force compliance on everyone at any cost. They see critics and resistors as evil, as obstacles for achieving their aims of protecting “the greater good”, an evil which must be fought at any cost.

The powerful see themselves as the only ones reasonable enough to understand the “greater good” and what must be done to achieve it.

Elite Power is a Source of Destruction « Time to Think.

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