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InjusticeUSMilitaryVsJohnBrown 23 - 22 Mar 2012 - Main.WilliamDavidWilliams
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| Due to the lack of understanding regarding John Brown's actions, I ask the question:
If the government sanctioned it, would that make it right? | | God help us."
-- DanielKetani - 22 Mar 2012 | |
> > | Daniel, you are right that we should access ourselves and our morals, but why doesn't the U.S. itself follow this creed? Why do we fail to realize what the United States' has done throughout history is extremely hypocritical, yet fail to confront it regarding what it has done wrong?
If the U.S. truly condemned the practices of Gaddafi, then why did the support the dictatorship of Gaddafi? The U.S. will condemn and kill leaders like Saddam Hussein, yet support him if it is in their best interests. It has to be considered that Saddam Hussein was supported by the United States in the Iraq-Iran war in the 1990s to keep the Soviet Union from taking power
http://links.org.au/node/2179 [See this link detailing why the West backs certain leaders, with Gaddafi being the example here]
However, citizens don't realize that the U.S. has almost eradicated Native Americans due to destructive power regimes/the quest for property. Why aren't Native Americans represented more in college admissions? The U.S. has deceptively murdered them and taken away many of their rights.
The U.S. governmental practices has resulted in the killing millions of African Americans whether through slavery, rape, placing drugs in neighborhoods, psychologically robbing them of freedom, and the "criminalization" rhetoric. Yet, we don't examine on our practices. It's one thing to claim allegiance to certain values, but not to practice them is utterly hypocritical.
The government has succeeded in framing and most people have followed with blind allegiance. It many instances because their lives are comfortable.
The econodrawf would not be happy with this analysis: race is one factor that has been used throughout this country's history for economic ends. It is not just race, but racial distinctions are part of the social psychology behind casting that Leff discusses and the econodrawf would resent. The U.S. was founded on it because it was effective in leading to property and power for the few.
It is not about disagreeing in opinion, but not being afraid to recognize the own casting and dramatization that this nation practices and calling out the nation on its practices.
I don't think many people would think it is okay for other nations to attack us, yet the U.S. has killed more people of their lives, spirit and dignity then those nations that we attack. This swindling has to stop. Leff showed us this practice. It is up to us to use it to make the U.S. and this world better. It is up to us to not use it for corruption or to disguise hypocrisy. |
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