Are Americans Licensed to kill?

[malaise]

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2175506.htm
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One of their private companies, Blackwater, can kill anyone, anywhere, any time; any innocent woman or child or old person in any country, just so long as they "follow the correct procedures", follow "the rules of engagement". Just so long as they say "Stop! Go back!" in English and fire a warning shot above the car-driving housewife they then, with her children, blow to pieces.

Americans are licensed to kill, and the six million or so, once you count in Korea, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Libya, Somalia, Lebanon, Serbia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Grenada, Haiti and Mexico they have assisted into oblivion, devastating their 50 million relatives, enraging their 16 million male cousins into thoughts of jihad and revolution, we should not compare, apparently, to the 100,000 Fidel Castro killed. Fidel Castro is a bad man. Fidel Castro deserves to die for those 100,000 killed over 50 years.

George Bush by contrast deserves to be forgiven for the 500,000 he killed – or was it only 300,000? – in five years because it was an honest mistake. He really thought there were weapons there, weapons buried in the sand, atomic bombs and things, so those 500,000 deaths and their 6 million devastated relatives are all right; those deaths are forgivable. He meant well.

Where does this attitude come from? Where does this belief come from? Why do we believe it?
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Superb article. Read the comments.
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[barbtries]

1. i don't like being painted with that brush

where did my country go? am i really so far removed from it? i'm an american. i do not willingly sponsor the policies cited; i actively abhor what the writer abhors. i am an american. where do i go to sign up for the country i used to believe was the home of the free and the land of the brave? i don't like this home of the greed and land of the murderous motherfuckers!
all of my hopes are pinned on a change of administration, and they are slender at that. jeez i just don't know what to do.

[malaise]

2. Sadly Bush has taken off the mask and exposed all

the sores read evil deeds. This article is about the establishment and their supporters. When Australians are having a rethink, it's really bad.

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[Echo In Light]

5. In a {truly} "home of the free, land of the brave," the people would've revolted by now

Don't hold your breath.

[malaise]

6. Check this comment

Mulga Mumblebrain :

29 Feb 2008 4:21:05pm

Well, I think you go a bit far RG. After all there are many Yanks resisting their evil ruling class and Government. We ought not, I believe, victimise them for the crimes of their government. Leaving ANZUS, voting against the US at the UN, supporting the International Criminal Court if it gets the courage to prosecute US crimes against humanity, all ought, in my opinion, be enacted, and quickly. We should closely monitor the actions of the local pro-US Fifth Column that has gained such dominance in society, and remove from government those with divided loyalties. Amerikkka's bases, particularly those connected with its plans for a nuclear first-strike against Russia or China, the plans known, with trademark hypocrisy, as 'Missile Defence' must be closed. An American ought not, in my opinion, be allowed to continue to control the vast bulk of our press. There are many steps we can take to sever our bondage to the Amerikkkan Reich, but we all know it won't happen. The Yanks and their local flunkies have already terminated one Federal Government, quite peacefully. The next time we might not be so lucky.

[eridani]

10. More like the land of well-armed bedwetters with itchy trigger fingers n/t

[ixion]

11. indeed... I don't care for that brush, either

this is what people need understand, and what is so difficult to make them understand. Behaving the way BushCo and his Blackwater thugs have behaved worldwide has trashed our reputation. We're seen as killers now. Nothing more than brutal barbarians, because that is the way we've acted abroad. And in the end, that matters. Although because so many people only believe what they see on television, they fail to realize this. It's very sad, and being a pacifist, it is difficult for me to live with.

[malaise]

12. Bingo n/t

[barbtries]

18. yes.

this is why it is so important that the persons responsible for the series of boondoggles be held accountable. it is no wonder the world sees us as one body when the crimes of the administration are tolerated as they are; when we impeach one president for cheating on his wife and let the next one run hog wild over the constitution and indeed the world.

[Echo In Light]

3. "Are Americans barbarians?"

"Oh yes. But don't tell them so. If you do they'll hunt you down to Bora Bora, and blow up the mountain you're in."

[malaise]

4. That was a profound line

Imperialists never learn.

[Xenotime]

13. Yes they are. Bloodthirsty to a point.

[KG]

7. well they sure act like it, both domestically and internationally.

[Perry Logan]

8. That's how America was founded. We just came here and killed everyone.

[malaise]

9. That's an interesting hypothesis

but isn't it true for many other places.

Love your signature.:D

[asteroid2003QQ47]

14. "hypothesis" my ass!

Your Shining City On The Hill sits on conglomerate bedrock of slavery, genocide and eugenics.
Americans Licensed to kill? Licensed by their "God", there's no closed season and no bag limit. Those killed only really matter to a small circle of friends, after all.
I suppose you think Agent Orange and "Depleted" Uranium munitions, generational genocide against friend and foe alike, is but "hypothesis" too?

[malaise]

15. I need no proof of America's love of killing

It is still a hypothesis because many others societies were born of the same killing but they do not believe they have a license to kill.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

17. "Nazi's" balls and brains?

American Roots of Nazi Eugenics By Edwin Black

...the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed
master Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler. The
idea was created in the United States, and cultivated
in California, decades before Hitler came to power.
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The Harriman railroad fortune paid local charities,
such as the New York Bureau of Industries and
Immigration, to seek out Jewish, Italian and other
immigrants in New York and other crowded cities and
subject them to deportation, trumped up confinement or
forced sterilization.

The Rockefeller Foundation helped found the German
eugenics program and even funded the program that
Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.
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The superior species the eugenics movement sought was
populated not merely by tall, strong, talented people.
Eugenicists craved blond, blue-eyed Nordic types. This
group alone, they believed, was fit to inherit the
earth. In the process, the movement intended to
subtract emancipated Negroes, immigrant Asian
laborers, Indians, Hispanics, East Europeans, Jews,
dark-haired hill folk, poor people, the infirm and
really anyone classified outside the gentrified
genetic lines drawn up by American raceologists.

http://hnn.us/articles/1796.html

Economic Military Draft and dismal state of Health Care in the U.S.
wouldn't be examples of U.S. eugenics today by any chance?
Surely not! :sarcasm:

[barbtries]

19. and some people don't see genocide

in the aftermath of katrina.

[Imagevision]

16. Well, there's the Texas guy who kills the burglers while knowingly the cops were on their way...

and the msm backed off the story.