Profound Quotes

"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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Drug Czar Calls for end to “War on Drugs”

Despite the Obama administration’s disturbing grasp on “continuity” with previous Bush administration policies, vis-à-vis state secrets, US attorneys, and the policy prescriptions of a coterie of surgin’ generals, a dose of domestic sanity seems to be permeating some reaches of the White House, as Obama’s “drug czar,” Gil Kerlikowske, has called for an end to [...]

May 14th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: prohibition | Leave a comment |

OpEdNews » Obama Employs Bush Administration Tactic to Halt Release of Detainee Photos

On Wednesday, Obama said he “would try to block the court-ordered release of photos showing U.S. troops abusing prisoners.” The release, which was to be the result of a Freedom of Information Act request made by the ACLU, had been reasonable in the final weeks of April, but today, Obama chose to come out against [...]

May 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: crooks, torture, totalitarianism/corporatism/fascism, war crimes | Leave a comment |