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Ron Pauliac
Published Letters: 456
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Socialist! Communist! Bolshevik! Anarchist! Anti-capitalist!
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http://www.warisaracket.org/
The highly decorated Marine Corps general put your myth to bed two generations ago.
-- bucky1
Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
http://www.fas.org/man/smedley.htm
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Warmonger! War criminal! Communist! Socialist! Totalitarian Dictator!
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RE: http://www.warisaracket.org/
Presumably that general was referring to the war against Japan and the Nazis. What a 'racket' they were.
FDR was the worst president in American history! A totalitarian socialist and liberal fascist warmonger!
(I read it in Jonah Goldberg's new book)
He singlehandedly started WWII,. framing the innocent Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan! Pearl Harbor was in inside job to lead the sheeple into war!
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Yes!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fascism in Amerika has deep roots, going back all the way to McKinley. Except that now we call it 'neoconservatism'.
-- walter_map
The roots of American fascism go back as far as Lincoln, that evil warmonger! The nerve of him! Trying to tell plantation owners what they could or could not do with the people they owned!
Paul in KY... LVM back a ways commented about the NVA making fake broadcasts to our troops in Vietnam
Ignore that fascist, conspiracy theorist and neocon warmonger!
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Ron Paul Survival Report!
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Support Fascism! Collectivism leads to racism like Darwin leads to Socialism!
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That's easy!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]And there's definitely no market for acerbic, anti-government commentary on TV. What, for example, is the highest-rated show on MSNBC by far?
-- GlennGreenwald
The Ron Paul Show!
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Collectivist! Statist! Warmonger! Romantic Liberal!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]DEFINITELY time for a nap
In a subsequent post, I'll present Steiner's conception of individuality, grounded in his epistemology of objective idealism. -- AI
Must you? Yes, I suppose you must. What will you do for an encore, excerpts from Ayn Rand's cooking show?
(Well, that was rude of me, wasn't it? No more than you deserve, though. Really.)
-- William Timberman
For your insolence you will suffer this treatise on why...
Drunk Driving Laws Cause Drunk Driving Accidents
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/crovelli5.html
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Not to worry
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Chris Dowd... And they called me a kook two years ago...
You'll just be a gilded kook.
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Vote 4 Ron Paul!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's the Baroque Liberal!
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I own my own body, dammit!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I want to own other people's bodies! I want to own their drug addled minds, if they still have them!
Judge Gray for Pretzeldent!
http://www.judgejimgray.com/
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1589_reg.html
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Drug-Laws-Have-Failed/dp/1566398606
It's all about ME!
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Ron Paul/Beeblebrox 2008!
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