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"war Is A Racket"

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Sheeple are to fucking stupid to learn from history! How many more lies and wars will you take while your borders are being envaded as America falls from within?

Smedley Butler on Interventionism


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. 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.
 
Mandinka2 said:
Least he's honest about it. Get used to it ,the rest of the world has. It's called "imperialism".

Nope it's called end of the empire!
 
DcupSheepNipples said:


Nope it's called end of the empire!
Every empire has an end , its in the nature of the cycle , all eventually erode from within through lack of accountability or corruption. There will be another in 30 years and another 150 years after that....
 
Mandinka2 said:

Every empire has an end , its in the nature of the cycle , all eventually erode from within through lack of accountability or corruption. There will be another in 30 years and another 150 years after that....

Or 1000! It all depends on the people!
 
DcupSheepNipples said:


Or 1000! It all depends on the people!
I would suggest that it depends more on the level to which power can be concentrated , managed and prevented from corrupting those who wield it.

On a side note: Is this the onset of the backlash against the soap opera of this board over the last 3 weeks?
 
Mandinka2 said:

I would suggest that it depends more on the level to which power can be concentrated , managed and prevented from corrupting those who wield it.

Revolutions make that void! People need to look at themselves for the solution rather than continuing to blame the "Power Elites" and sit idle while doing it!

As far as your question the answer is yes! There is a time for "Fun/Drama" and then there is time to be serious like in this thread!
 
DcupSheepNipples said:


Revolutions make that void! People need to look at themselves for the solution rather than continuing to blame the "Power Elites" and sit idle while doing it!
Revloutions do not make such a thing void ,look at Tsar Nicholas II , it was when he gave power to the serfs in terms of voting rights that they rebelled - they effectively expressed their dissatisfaction at inequities by overthrow. But I agree with your second point wholeheartedly , but in doing so , overthrow or putsch is the most easily available option. Due to most modern governments' infatuation with spying on their own people , most of these can be effectively pre-stamped out. Hence we come back to the only way of demise: crumbling from within.
 
Mandinka2 said:

Revloutions do not make such a thing void ,look at Tsar Nicholas II , it was when he gave power to the serfs in terms of voting rights that they rebelled - they effectively expressed their dissatisfaction at inequities by overthrow. But I agree with your second point wholeheartedly , but in doing so , overthrow or putsch is the most easily available option. Due to most modern governments' infatuation with spying on their own people , most of these can be effectively pre-stamped out. Hence we come back to the only way of demise: crumbling from within.

I think a Democracy even with all it's falts is far superior for the people rather than a empire/kingdom led by a Tsar such as Nicholas II! But what I was implying was a Democratic/Republic Revoulution not a Revolution with a Fasist or Socialist ending! In any event Constitutionalism in its purest form is my ideal form of goverment! This of course could be theoretically done with no bloodshed at all!
 
DcupSheepNipples said:

I think a Democracy even with all it's falts is far superior for the people rather than a empire/kingdom led by a Tsar such as Nicholas II! But what I was implying was a Democratic/Republic Revoulution not a Revolution with a Fasist or Socialist ending! In any event Constitutionalism in its purest form is my ideal form of goverment! This of course could be theoretically done with no bloodshed at all!
Havent you ever heard the famous phrase "democracy is only fair weather government"? Having said that I agree with you , making the proviso that we are referring strictly to modern day Western republics. As to the point about democratic revolution then such a thing would be a first and would likely be suppressed through effective means already available (see earlier comment). a little bit of tarnishing around the edges , say pay David Duke to attend their rallies and any fledgling group's goose would be ready to serve.... While all the clever folks on ef here talk politics and ideology they must remember that they will always make up the smaller portion of any given population (particularly in countries where such issues are not pushed....many would say deliberately). You will therefore always have to compete with the Jerry Springer audience , hell , look at this board. Hence such a thing in the US is I feel (very sadly) a practical impossibility. The best that can be hoped for is something close to Clinton's "Third Way".
 
Mandinka2 said:

Havent you ever heard the famous phrase "democracy is only fair weather government"? Having said that I agree with you , making the proviso that we are referring strictly to modern day Western republics. As to the point about democratic revolution then such a thing would be a first and would likely be suppressed through effective means already available (see earlier comment). a little bit of tarnishing around the edges , say pay David Duke to attend their rallies and any fledgling group's goose would be ready to serve.... While all the clever folks on ef here talk politics and ideology they must remember that they will always make up the smaller portion of any given population (particularly in countries where such issues are not pushed....many would say deliberately). You will therefore always have to compete with the Jerry Springer audience , hell , look at this board. Hence such a thing in the US is I feel (very sadly) a practical impossibility. The best that can be hoped for is something close to Clinton's "Third Way".

"I went across this country; I saw a lot of determination and hope, good people with good ideas for solving problems. I knew the American people could turn the country around if we had some good ideas and we acted on them. That means -- to me, that meant that we had to have, first, a government that was on the side of the people, that put the American people first, changed to meet the challenges of a new era." -Bill C


Unfortunately Bill did not practice what he preached! Words are great regardless if you belive them or not! But not to act on them they are only worth the paper they are written on! However others may be willing to actually act on them in the future! So for that in the end he may get redemption for that!

A army of one will never form the Constitutionalism Gov I wish to exist! But someday soon a "Leader" may be willing to put his/her life on the line to help guide the Sheeple to a better existence!
 
Mandinka2 said:

You got it , same went for Kennedy before him.

Trust me, I get it! Even my entertaining personality can not hide that fact! But it does help on keeping me breathing another day! Someday all will be revealed at a very high price!
 
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