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If you approve this behavior because you deplore terrorists, you are a small minded lunatic.
Is one mans agony the price worth paying for the lives of over 340 million Americans?
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
It occurred to me that these apply just a little bit too well to the way the Washington, DC establishment operates.
War certainly is peace: just look at how peaceful Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Syria and the Ukraine have become thanks to their peacemaking efforts. The only departures from absolute peacefulness which might be taking place there have to do with the fact that there are some people still alive there. This should resolve itself on its own, especially in the Ukraine, where the people now face the prospect of surviving a cold winter without heat or electricity.
Freedom is indeed slavery: to enjoy their “freedom,” Americans spend most of their lives working off debt, be it a mortgage, medical debt incurred due to an illness, or student loans. Alternatively, they can also enjoy it by rotting in jail. They also work longer hours with less time off and worse benefits than in any other developed country, and their wages haven't increased in two generations.
And what keeps it all happening is the fact that ignorance is indeed strength; if it wasn't for the Americans' overwhelming, willful ignorance of both their own affairs and the world at large, they would have rebelled by now, and the whole house of cards would have come tumbling down.
But there is a fourth slogan they need to add to the wall of Washington's Ministry of Truth. It is this:
DEFEAT IS VICTORY
originally posted by: neo96
Is one mans agony the price worth paying for the lives of over 340 million Americans?
originally posted by: Kryties
originally posted by: neo96
Is one mans agony the price worth paying for the lives of over 340 million Americans?
Apparently not, considering a certain report just released which stated that 'enhanced interrogations' provided little or no credible intelligence.