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nd up to the british government white 4 the american flag includes six white stripes meaning purity and innocence this was an apt symbol for the birth of a new nation blue 5 the american flag contains a blue background to symbolize vigilance perseverance and justice the qualities of a democratic government george washington s interpretation 6 the u s history official website see resources presents the legend of george washington s interpretation of the american flag s red white and blue the first president said the red stood for the british colors the white for getting away from britain and the blue stood for the sky youtube has howard zinn s lecture about america s three holy wars revolutionary civil and wwii zinn estimates that in todays standards the war for independence would have cost 2 5 million lives zinn points out that canada achieved independence without war and that great britain abolished slavery without a civil war obviously some of us have an understandable vested interest in seeing the u s in very pure idealistic terms as the land of the free and the home of the brave i grew in the 1950s watching superman standing arms akimbo before a waving american flag schools of journalism train reporters to use an inverted pyramid structure with some terse eye catching headline at the top it appears that my status caught the attention of a few eyes the texas school board voted to omit ted kennedy from history texts and emphasize newt gingrich who creates books and documentaries that stress the holiness and purity of american and the christian devotion of the founding fathers i grew up with republican parents protestant in name who never went to church even once i grew in the cold war era thinking that the russians were the embodiment of evil and america was the embodiment of good nowadays i am more shocked by someone who speaks of the purity of america than by someone who paints a more realistic picture of its strengths and weaknesses i guess if you read people like howard zinn you come away with a view of americas dirty underside and if you read newt gingrich you think of america as pure and noble i do thank those who take the time to read and comment i was on errands today but i pondered this thread from my blackberry one interesting experiment is to google on voting killing preserves democracy i was surprised to notice that my own post of years ago which contains my status statement does not appear in the search engines i will post some interesting excerpts though as yet nothing pops up which supports my status argument http www democracyweb org majority principles php if it be admitted that a man possessing absolute power may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries why should not a majority be liable to the same reproach men do not change their characters by uniting with one another nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with their strength for my own part i cannot believe it the power to do everything which i should refuse to one of my equals i will never grant to any number of them alexis de tocqueville tyranny of the majority chapter xv book 1 democracy in america as democracy is conceived today the minority s rights must be protected no matter how singular or alienated that minority is from the majority society otherwise the majority s rights lose their meaning http www truthdig com report item democracy_in_america_is_a_useful_fiction_20100124 excerpt our transformation into an empire as happened in ancient athens and rome has seen the tyranny we practice abroad become the tyranny we practice at home we like all empires have been eviscerated by our own expansionism we utilize weapons of horrific destructive power subsidize their development with billions in taxpayer dollars and are the world s largest arms dealer and the constitution as wolin notes is conscripted to serve as power s apprentice rather than its conscience http www commondreams org view 2010 02 09 7 excerpt the constitution doesn t mention corporations at the time they didn t exist as independent entities within a few decades many founders including thomas jefferson began to see how corporate power could subvert democracy i hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations jefferson said which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country it seems inconceivable that founders would approve the corporate influence in elections that you have just approved http www logosjournal com west htm excerpt the second prevailing dogma of our time is aggressive militarism of which the new policy of preemptive strike against potential enemies is but an extension this new doctrine of u s foreign policy goes far beyond our former doctrine of preventive war it green lights political elites to sacrifice u s soldiers who are disproportionately working class and youth of color in adventurous crusades this dogma posits military might as salvific in a world in which he who has the most and biggest weapons is the most moral and masculine hence worthy of policing others in practice this dogma takes the form of unilateral intervention colonial invasion and armed occupation abroad it has fueled a foreign policy that shuns multilateral cooperation of nations and undermines international structures of deliberation fashioned out of the cowboy mythology of the american frontier fantasy the dogma of aggressive militarism is a lone ranger strategy that employs spare no enemies tactics it guarantees a perennial resorting to the immoral and base manner of settling conflict namely the perpetration of the very sick and cowardly terrorism it claims to contain and eliminate on the domestic front this dogma expands police power augments the prison industrial complex and legitimates unchecked male power and violence at home and in the workplace it views crime as a monstrous enemy to crush targeting poor people rather than as an ugly behavior to change by addressing the conditions that often encourage such behavior i have hear people admonish those who neglect to exercise the right to vote by saying much blood was shed to empower you with the right to vote our elected representatives vote to declare war it is more difficult to say that we go to war to make voting possible except with regard to the long history of woman s suffrage and the civil rights movement which had a non violent side as well as a violent side on both sides i was told as a child that the red color in the american flag represented the righteous blood which patriots shed to make democracy possible the truman doctrine was an understandable reaction to address the fear of communist aggression and such doctrines seem to justify proactive wars to deter a possible threat there is a patriotic rhetoric in which the blood of our flag being prior and necessary to peaceful voting rights seem like the sacred religious blood of a martyr s sacrifice we speak of a war to end all wars and making the world a safe place for democracy on the other hand there are those countries and groups which see america s violent aggression as the dark side of the force if we may speak in starwars terms it might shock you the reader to realize that my status sentence was part of an argument i made in favor of a pre emptive strike of genocidal proportions i wrote about such long before 9 11 and long before tom tancredo spoke of nuking mecca now that i see tom tancredo advocating voter literacy exams which were so oppressive in the south to exclude blacks from election i have less admiration for tom tancredo and have second thoughts about laying aside ethics and values and using techniques to neutralize geographic areas and engage in cultural restructuring which would surely be the euphemisms we might employ to make such strategies sound more respectable i have also come to realize that even if we were to homogenize the worlds population tomorrow there is no guarantee that in 100 years other ideological divisions might arise which would put us back in this same terrorist guerrilla predicament tags democracy gingrich voting war zinn posted in education facebook history journalism leave a comment hemingway and war february 8 2010 i was born in 49 when i was 15 i read almost everything that hemingway ever wrote including for whom the bell tolls and also a movable feast about his years in paris my earliest memories were at age 4 or 5 waking long before my parents and turning on the television we were the first on the block to have one but i had no idea that television was a novelty each morning i watched victory at sea narrated by people like ed hurley i watched films of infantry in europe i assumed that when i grew up that i too would fight in the army like my father and kill the wicked enemy no adults were aware of what i was thinking i remember being around election booths during eisenhower s election i was curious to peek under the curtains i thought war and killing was manly i though drinking and smoking pipes and growing a beard was manly i realized that hemingway chased after wars including the spanish civil war my father saw hemingway every day for two weeks in the 12 infantry 4th division hemingway always had a canteen on his belt filled with gin or whiskey in the early 1990s i got to speak for an hour with one of hemingway s two jeep drivers during those weeks he said he had never seen a braver man under fire than hemingway and could not understand why he committed suicide around 1960 i suggested that sometimes a suicidal wish to constantly place oneself in danger to validate oneself or die can give the illusion of courage i also read the red badge of courage by stephen crane in 7th grade crane wrote it in 10 days flat and had never seen any form of battle much less a civil war battle i realize you are asking about the spanish civil war in the 1930s without google this is all i can say and i remember the name franco now i shall google i admire hemingway and do not mean to disparage him by suggesting that he manifested the illusion of courage so i ask myself what example i might find of courage which is free from the goals of self validation and i think of audie murphy who did not choose to be where he was yet did something totally courageous partly because he had to and partly because he could and partly because of luck chance and circumstance that he survived and then he went on to live a humble modest life in pursuit of very different things than the danger of armed conflict http en wikipedia org wiki audie_murphy one man is not better or worse than another both kinds of men are necessary in the world each in their own way did what they had to do tags hemingway war posted in journalism literature television leave a comment the unpleasant truth january 1 2010 the unpleasant truth is that ethical societies will never vanquish monstrous strategies except through etymology coining and then deploying the neologisms geographic neutralization and ethnic restructuring the definitions you tell me this is a pop quiz essays are for extra credit but there is a time limit windows of opportunity when our window closes their window opens and they will defenestrate in a heart beat hippocrates said that drastic illnesses call for drastic remedies what do you call the dresden fire bombing what do you call hiroshima and nagasaki what do you call the sand creek massacre so war is not murder wait watch see what happens perhaps i am wrong ah but a just war is not murder mccain was our hero blanket bombing hanoi to make the world a safe place for democracy hanoi is still communist the last time i looked bush and cheney are war criminals but there will be no hague trials the absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously henry kissinger let me ask this question does a nation pioneer the development of weapons of mass destruction while the thought of using them never enters their minds right now we are launching missile strikes in at suspected targets in yemen but we have not declared war china sends a shipload of weapons destined for zimbabwe for mugabe to wipe out his opposition but no coastal port allows them to dock but what does the world at large do about it nothing each and every nuclear sub silently circling the oceans contains more destructive fire power than all 5 years of wwii both sides combined it is not inconceivable that genetically engineered bio weapons will be designed specific to peoples with certain ancestry because of something called genetic markers these are all ideas for a sci fi screen play surely you don t think i am serious or correct about any of this lighten up no one is ready to do anything about such things until and unless they are ready to do everything about it the very fact that tom tancredo said what he did is just one of many proofs that i am not saying anything which has never been said before http en wikipedia org wiki tom_tancredo tancredo traces his interest in politics to the eighth grade when he played fidel castro in a class assignment he urges america to reject the siren song of multiculturalism and depicts islam as a civilization bent on destroying ours in september 2006 when pope benedict xvi gave a speech quoting a 14th century byzantine emperor who said the prophet mohammed had brought things only evil and inhuman 2 sparking muslim anger throughout the world tancredo urged him not to apologize in july when tancredo proposed that america respond to any future terrorist attack by bombing mecca and other holy sites john podhoretz writing on the national review s website said tom tancredo is an idiot but as we well know idiots are sometimes elected to high office http www quotecounterquote com 2009 11 hearts and minds from bible to html vietnam war quote we must be ready to fight in vietnam but the ultimate victory will depend upon the hearts and the minds of the people who actually live out there lyndon baines johnson hearts and minds speech may 4 1965 vietnam war counterquote if you ve got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow u s green berets slogan during the vietnam war when the threat decade after decade is ideological your enemy becomes the minds of a generation in which the meme dwells and breeds its offspring how does one defend against a generation or an idea you don t your choice is to be vanquished or vanquisher certain kinds of enemies may only effectively be incarcerated in ancient history notice we have not had a troublesome pharaoh for some time today switzerland is only legislating against minarets tomorrow who knows the basements http en wikipedia org wiki minaret_controversy_in_switzerland and the swiss are so flexible and lenient their knives are a bit of everything and their cheese has holes i suppose i am making fun of euphemisms like sleep management and others to be found here http www buzzle com articles 166848 html or http 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