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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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Rachel Maddow: Partisan Hack? | Tenth Amendment Center

Patterns exist that describe how unjust the Federal government can be if you happen to be a person of color. Racially disproportionate prosecutions are ongoing and have been a significant source of our prison population in the US, which now includes 500 out of every 100,000 Americans. We are the most imprisoned population per capita in the western world and it would not be possible without the massive consolidation of power known as the Federal Drug War.

Most of those non-violent minority prisoners were arrested per Federal mandate after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Why then, would Maddow’s analysis conclude that ‘the only way black kids are going to be able to swim or date white people is if the all-powerful Federal government steps in’. It’s a common view amongst statists really- the impression that Federal decree is the only way to keep all of us human animals from enslaving and/or exploiting each other.

The founders had a different idea. They thought that horrible things such as racial injustice or destruction of natural resources would best be dealt with on a level close to our system’s sovereign (We the People). They knew from experience that a centralized behemoth sending orders from afar was a bad way to govern, so they set out to do things differently here in the new world

Rachel Maddow: Partisan Hack? | Tenth Amendment Center.

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