@jdggearhead so asshole you like saying stupid sentences him jailed and you car bombed lol just out of curiousity are you a extremist child lol look dummy your opinions are stupid and make no sense you are a oxegen thief
I will say this: J A is a brave man who dares to do the unthinkable and reveal secrets governments around the globe wants to keep.
If he is wanted for rape, so what? It still doesnt change the fact that they released a huge amount of documents that we would never read if it weren' t for him.
I do find it a bit odd that the charges came at the time they did. It may be some government going after him OR it could be him using the celebrity status to his advantage.
@MEpianist that guy you're arguing with is a fucking us government guy, because no one is that fucking stupid like he said and i quote, "jack black totally underated" man i'd stop before they raid yor house lol oj did you hear assange is wanted for rape in swenden people like that moron you were arguing with will make sure he's jailed, fucked up ain't it?
@aim2plz89 He's (Assange) wanted by the authorities "for questioning" - there have been NO CHARGES filed against him in Sweden for rape (or anything else). The key thing here to remember is "don't shoot the messenger." A little transparency is good for the world, it's an eye-opener into the REAL THOUGHTS of ppl like Hillary and other potentates. Bottom-line: Assange is the lightbringer here, he didn't terrorize Iraqi citizens or enlist your sons & daughters to occupy foreign lands. ;-)
@TruthJockey i know man, you're american right, is the lies the media give out as easy to see over there as it is here, i'm from northern ireland, i'm sure you can apprecite there was quite a lot of murky secrets regarding the war over here that are yet to come out, i would love to see wikileaks release documents regarding that peroid of time, see the bastards swallow their words, i see there is charges to be brought aganist assange, they have to in order to get him, i hope they fail but...?
@jdggearhead who said he was the savior douchebag read my comment properly you dick, all i said is that anyone who trys to release anything the government is trying to hide is targeted by so called democratic countrys, so wake up you retard,plus if you watched the fucking documentry it says he has allies in swenden and now he's wanted there for rape ffs, not seem a bit strange to you there's a international arrest warrent out for this guy for rape? never heard of that much of a manhunt for rape
strange he's wanted for rape now in the place where he established apparent allies, lol it makes you think, in the nature of his work it was only a matter of time before they went after him, and by them i mean every fucking government in the western world, those of you who think he is anti-western think outside the box for fucks sake, wake up and realise you are being lied to on a regular basis, i reckon assanges fate is already sealed, 10-1 he's killed trying to "evade" capture Strange stuff
WikiLeaks will not die when they kill him. Many of us will gladly take over after him. There are too many on his side now, because he has the truth on his side. Ergo: Killing him will only HELP his cause!
@jults only problem there being i myself don't think the same as you, i don't believe in letting others die for my benefit regardless if it's in my power to stop it or not, ergo them killing him will not help his cause as it will be hushed up and we will not hear about it as everyone else in his line of business will be frightened to operate as the threat of death looms other them , also man your logic is mad you think him dying will help, that's fucking crazy you don't know what your saying
Further the method Assange employed is a natural progression from the Cold war days when the objectives of a hostile power's intelligence network was to secure the desired intelligence "shopping list',(i.e. what you don't know) to bring back to be analyzed within said country or proxy state.Now leaking classified material to the Western press is tantamount to "de-fanging" the threat .This way is more cost effective plus they get to make us choke on the Constitution.
@jdggearhead In a criminal prosecution it is said that intent is the hardest thing to prove in court .But,in this case ,Assange- as will boasts by Sheik Khalid Mohammed verify that the result from their respective criminal acts was calculated to achieve the maximum harm possible.
@jdggearhead One of the best scenes in fact.Even with those fangs that Squatch's diction was clear as a bell.LOL Like to see him make cameo's ( as a "flash back") in any sequel planned. Seriously now don't you think "juicy' describes the recent ruling on the tandem attack in Kenya ?
@jdggearhead But what if he DOES want to trade? By what right can others stop him? The most they can do is boycott him for daring to sell. Boycott isn’t an act of force.
@jdggearhead If FDR wanted to stop that, he should have followed the law and used his bully-pulpit to repeal the neutrality acts. If you don't believe in the "social contract," (snipurl(dot)com/1h9plx) and (snipurl(dot)com/1h9q9v) and (snipurl(dot)com/1h9xxc) then FDR was declaring war on Americans by using intimidation, threats, and coercion to stop them from selling oil. No one "has to" trade. A person can voluntarily stop selling to anyone.
@jdggearhead We have to be careful about the terms we use like "country." When you say country, do you mean the government or the people? Governments don't trade. It is the people that trade. The government doesn't produce oil. It can only stop the people from producing and then selling the oil. By what right can it do that? If you believe in the "social contract," then it was the will of the people to continue selling oil and whatnot to Japan....
@jdggearhead I agree, which is why the Japanese wanted to avoid going to war with their oil suppliers. The problem is that FDR, who is supposedly a servant of the people, didn't allow the people to decide whether they wanted to shed their blood and sweat for the war. After all, they were the ones who were going to be making the sacrifice, not FDR in his posh mansion, so it is their right to decide if it is worth it to them.
@jdggearhead The German submarine threat, although still quite dire in WW2, was not nearly as potent as it was in WW1. Submarines alone could not effectively project broad-based, large-scale offensive naval power great distances. The goal of the German U-boat campaign remained much the same as that in WW1, chiefly defensive "commerce raiding;" attempts to cut off the flow of needed supplies to Great Britain and, this time, to the USSR as well.
@jdggearhead The Germans had nothing remotely like the thousands of well-defended B-17, B-24, and B-29 heavy long-range bombers thrown at them. Germany never developed a fleet of long-range bombers, so it could not do great damage to British or Russian industry. Germany's navy was small compared to that of the British and was sunk early. The famous battleship Graf Spee went down in Dec 1939; the Bismark in May 1941.
@jdggearhead Germany could not win without the oil of Romania and the Southern USSR. The Allies continually bombed the oil fields in Romania. In their attempt to take the Soviet fields, 1,500 miles from home, the Germans were stopped at Stalingrad (Volgograd). As early as summer of 1941, the German advance against the USSR was being slowed by shortages of gas. Let that sink in. The Germans were running out of gas BEFORE the US was even in the war.
@jdggearhead ...Worse, most of Germany's and Japan's oil came from the New World on the other side of the Atlantic. After the British sank the small German navy, the German war machine was doomed to remain a horse. No oil equals no planes, tanks or ships. It isn't much of an exaggeration to say that WW2 was really an oil war. After FDR cut off the supply of Japanese oil, they began moving south to capture the oil of Southeast Asia and Indonesia. They attacked the US to clear the way to the oil.
@jdggearhead The Russians were generally incompetant, so the Germans did great damage early on, and this looked horrific in the newsreels in American movies. But the Russians soon learned how to fight more effectively, and the winter arrived; that was the beginning of the end for Germany, 9-12-1941. Furthermore, any economist in 1940 could show that the allies controlled 90% of the worlds oil supply and the Axis 3 %...
@jdggearhead Meanwhile, the Americans were producing a new jeep every 90 seconds. Japanese and Italian tanks were tin cans. When one takes an even cursory glance at the economics of the war, it becomes obvious that there is no way an invasion of America was remoteley possible. The notion of Germany transporting it's horses to the US to conquer us is absurd. When Hitler launched his mad invasion of Russia he had 3,350 tanks to fight against Russia's 15,000.
@jdggearhead The rest of the spear, the main body of the army, was foot soldiers and horses. Yes, horses. When Hitler's massive invasion force was poised on the Soviet frontier in June 1941, it was at its peak. Lined up ready to strike at Stalin were 3,350 tanks. And 650,000 horses. Hollywood devotes a lot of film to the tanks, but how often have you seen the thousands of horses? Most of the horses were used as substitutes for trucks. The Japanese had 3,000 per division.
@jdggearhead By early 1942, the desperate German army was running low on nearly everything it needed, and the factories were unable to resupply it.
What about Germany's invincible technology - and all those vastly superior planes, tanks, and guns? A little known fact is that the Germans actually had two armies - the high tech mechanized force that you have seen so often in movies and video games. But this force was small. It was only the tip of the spear.
@jdggearhead Both sides had declared war, so it makes sense they will then try to bomb each other. According to the History Channel: "In late 1944, the Nazis were on the verge of losing World War II. But they had a diabolical plan in the wings: to deliver a radioactive bomb to New York. The payload was to be equally exotic: a dirty bomb. Such a bomb wouldn't destroy the U.S. so much as be an effective political weapon, a means to sue for peace perhaps." snipurl(dot)com/1h3wj9
@jdggearhead I think I know why you think I'm a socialist that uses trickery and lying to get people to become socialist. You probably saw my PowerPoint username was anarcho-libertarian, googled it, and the first thing there was libertarian socialism. That aint me. There are anarcho-socialist libertarians and anarcho-capitalist libertarians. I'm the latter. That means that I try to get socialists to become capitalists through trickery and lying ;)
@jdggearhead The only reason WW2 became a world war was because the US decided to get involved. Other than that, it was just another war in the thousands that the Old World has given mankind. Germany and Japan were like children rebelling against adults. They caught the Old World adults by surprise, so they looked fierce early on, but after the adults were fully awake, the young rebels were smashed. The "victory" over the USSR became a German rout after the snow began to fall on Sept. 12, 1941
@jdggearhead Authors Meirion and Sue Harries disclosed in their 1992 book "Soldiers of The Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army" that for each US GI there was an average of four tons of material produced, for the Japanese counterpart, an average of two pounds. That is why the Japanese were given bayonets that were so long, 15.5 inches compared to the American's kitchen knife. They expected to need them from lack of ammunition, and were encouraged to use them whenever possible.
@jdggearhead Both axis nations' forces featured the glaring absence of sophisticated and secure large-scale supply support and sizable long-range air, sea, and ground transport capable of logistically sustaining a long offensive war which was vital to any attacking force operating over long distances in hostile territory. This major weakness was first confirmed on the Eastern Front in the fall of 1941 and by Japan early on in attrition w/China and later in the Pacific campaigns against the US
@jdggearhead Americans love to speculate about German acquisition of atomic weapons, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and other military capabilities the Nazis, in fact, never came close to acquiring. When people tell me that Germany almost conquered the world, and must be a global cop meddling in every nation to prevent the rise of a new Hitler, I reply, where is the evidence? There's an old saying that amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.
@jdggearhead I love spam, its true. Especially with ketchup, yum. The wonder weapons such as the V2 rocket were so advanced they were a handicap. They absorbed vast amounts of money and manpower that could have been used to make weapons proven to yield results. As far as debating WW2, that was brought up first by totalnerd18, I responded to him, and then you decided to respond to me, so this convo between you and me about WW2 is here because of you, not me.
@jdggearhead Oh I see why you probably thought that I'm the type that wants socialism through trickery. You saw my PowerPoint that had the username Anarcho-libertarian, googled it and saw the first thing: Libertarian socialism. I don't agree with that. Anarcho-capitalist libertarian is more accurate.
@jdggearhead You can read a great review of his book here: lewrockwell(dot)com/orig2/denson8.html It's my opinion that the real winner of WW2 was unfortunately socialism in all its forms. The US was never in danger of being conquered. For why that is so read: lewrockwell(dot)com/kreca/kreca2.1.1.html And non-interventionism did not cause the rise of Hitler: lewrockwell(dot)com/orig5/duffy-p3.html
@jdggearhead ...which he intended to correct either through negotiation or, if necessary, by force. He stated and wrote that the only war he wanted was to fight Communism and to regain some of the living space that Germany had acquired in their treaty with Russia during World War I, which was abrogated by the Versailles Treaty...
@jdggearhead ...However Victor cites no authority for this plan of Hitler to conquer the world and you will not find this in the two books that Hitler wrote nor in any of his speeches. His intentions were well known before and during the war. He stated from the beginning, before he took power, as well as thereafter, that he was against the harsh and unfair Versailles Treaty which virtually disarmed Germany and it included the inequities created for Germany in Poland and Czechoslovakia...
@jdggearhead ...Both Germany and Japan wanted to avoid a war with America at almost any cost. FDR began extensive provocations to cause Japan to abandon its attack on Russia and instead attack America which also served the purpose of giving Roosevelt the reason to enter the war. Victor sees FDR's decisions as being based upon the assumption of the truth of the following statement: "Hitler’s plan to conquer and enslave most of the world was hardly a secret."...
@jdggearhead ...He states that FDR wanted to get into the European War but he had been unsuccessful in provoking Germany; therefore, he considered the sacrifice of Pearl Harbor and the Philippines as the best way to get into the European War through the back door of Japan. Victor includes a chapter from the viewpoint of the Japanese. They were being pressured strongly by Germany to enter the war by attacking the Soviet Union, thereby creating a two-front war for the Communist nation.
@jdggearhead I misunderstood what you were implying so I apologize and take that last comment back. Just so you know, thanks to the mounting evidence from the Freedom of Information Act, mainstream historians are starting to admit that FDR knew about Pearl Harbor, but they say that it was a good thing that he did because it was the only way to get the American people into the war. For example George Victor in his book The Pearl Harbor Myth: Rethinking the Unthinkable, is an FDR admirer...
@jdggearhead From a govt. website:snipurl(dot)com/1gloy6 "Chennault’s mission was successful for although the country was still neutral, FDR wanted to help China, believing it had the potential to become a great democracy. Through the Lend-Lease program, China received Curtiss P-40 Tomahawks, powerful low-altitude fighters. And the government looked the other way as recruiters went onto military bases, looking for pilots and ground personnel." Nope, jdggearhead says it was the Russians!
@jdggearhead I want socialism? Huh? What, if someone is for non-intervention he is somehow for socialism? The two parties have flip-flopped so much over the years on this issue. But I want to abolish the UN. Would a socialist say that? I want to abolish Social(ist) Security. I want to abolish ObamaCare and Medicare and return the medical system to the free market and charity. I want to abolish welfare. I want to abolish the Federal Reserve, which Marx said is one of the planks of communism.
@jdggearhead George F. Will, a conservative American political columnist, gives this definition of white guilt: [White guilt is] a form of self-congratulation, where whites initiate "compassionate policies" toward people of color, to showcase their innocence to racism."Wow, what did I ever say that had anything to do with that? But this shows that YOU have no clue what white guilt is. Or if you do, you didn't score so well on the compare and contrast section of the SAT's.
@jdggearhead You identify with the government because as a nationalist you worship the government, and so if someone attacks an evil that the government has done, you feel that you have been attacked and so defend the unjust action in a knee-jerk way. You have been brainwashed by the government schools which have a pro-government bias. All government schools around the world do. If you don't believe me, just compare schoolbooks from different nations speaking about the same topic.
I agree with Webster Tarpley and Alex Jones that Wikileaks is a front for something. NSA, Black Ops... Who's funding this guy? Always well dressed and jetsetting around the globe...
No matter how much is released, its what we don't hear that's most dangerous.
@jdggearhead I knew you wouldn't answer that question directly and try to deflect. Checkmate. Start reading LewRockwell(dot)com and Mises(dot)org and you will slowly stop attaching your identity with the government. I don't feel guilty for white people, a classic neo-con deflection. I hate unjust actions of unjust governments, be they white, black, or spanish. I could go on and on about the unjust actions of black governments, spanish, chinese, whoever.
@jdggearhead "We were helping our friends..." Red herring argument. I'm talking about the violation of the neutrality act. Did the actions of FDR violate them? YES. His "helping friends" violated the neutrality acts that were passed by Congress which is supposedly the will of the people. Do you believe that the President should have the power to ignore the checks and balances of power by ignoring Congress and the law and the will of the people and set himself up as a dictator?
@jdggearhead Japan invaded China in 1937 and the Chinese government looked to the United States for assistance, hiring U.S. Army Air Corps veteran Claire Chennault to train its pilots to fight the Japanese. So, technically you are correct and I take it back that the Tigers bombed the Japanese. I should have said that Chennault, who would go on to organize and lead the Flying Tigers, trained the Chinese to bomb the Japanese and then trained US pilots to do the same, all before Pearl Harbor.
@jdggearhead ...This was the safest spot in the harbor. Hospital ships are not considered legitimate military targets; the Solace was not hit or damaged in any way. He got the best pictures imaginable. Coincidence? Or did someone know the attack was coming and tell the photographer to be there?
@jdggearhead ...The logs of other ships in the harbor report that the explosion was 12 minutes after the attack began. The Arizon was one of the first ships hit. So when the attack began, there on the scene within sight of battleship row, at 8 AM on a Sunday morning, was a photographer with a movie camera loaded with color film. The cameraman was on a hospital ship moored in a central location in Pearl Harbor with a view of battleship row...
@jdggearhead ...The strange thing is that in 1941, portable motion picture cameras were rare, and portable motion picture cameras shooting color film were almost unkown (it's hard for us to grasp this since everyone today has a cell-phone that can do both. The convenient videotape cameras didn't come into wide use until the 1980's). Have you ever heard anyone ask the question, how long after the attack did the Arizona blow up?...
@jdggearhead Here is an interesting fact to ponder. We have all seen the photos and newsreels of the Pearl Harbor attack. The most famous, the exploding Arizona, was shot in color (although usually shown in black and white) and is shocking. It caused those anti-involvement Americans to line up at the nearest recruiting station and erased any serious opposition to the US getting into the war. In every city and town, Americans were outraged and looking for revenge.
@jdggearhead General Hap Arnold lands in Sacremento, CA, to warn the air base that war with Japan is imminent. FDR reads an intercepted Japanese message and tells his assistant Harry Hopkins, "This means war." No one tells Kimmel (6 Dec 1941) Why has so much info remained hidden for decades? Because in WW2 it was classified "secret" and then buried in the Pentagon's warehouses. Thank goodnes for the Freedom of Information Act. It's a safe bet that much more is hidden.
@jdggearhead The Chicago-Tribune newspaper reveals "Rainbow Five," the top-secret war plan drawn up at FDR's order. Rainbow Five calls for the creation of a 10-million man army, including an expeditionary force of five million to invade Europe in 1943 on the side of Moscow and London (4 Dec 1941)
@jdggearhead ...FDR does not reveal that teh Greer had stalked the German sub for 3 hours in cooperation with a British patrol plane before the Germans turned and fired. (11 Sep 1941) FDR meets with his war council. Secretary of War Stimson notes in his diary the groups belief that US Forces are "likely to be attacked perhaps as soon as next Monday." The President is concerned about the problem of "how we should maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot." No one tells Kimmel.
@jdggearhead Admiral Turner, who is Director of War Plans, warns FDR that the Japanese are bellicose, antagonizing them further will trigger an attack (19 July 1941) FDR freezes all Japanese assets and reduces Japanese oil supply by 90% (26 July 1941) FDR tells the nation that the destroyer Greer has been attacked by a German sub, and henceforth US warships have the standing order to "shoot on sight" any German vessal west of Iceland...
@jdggearhead Congress passes FDR's "lend-lease act," which gives money and other resources to the government's of Britain and China to fight the Japanese. (Three months later, US aid will go to Stalin and anyone else who will fight Japan or Germany. 11 March 1941) FDR announces that he has taken sides with Stalin against Hitler and will send aid to Stalin. Churchill made a similar anouncement two days earlier (June 24 1941)
@jdggearhead March 1941, FDR secretly ordered US warships to begin sailing 6,000 miles accross the Pacific to encroach on Japanese home waters, including the Bungo Striat. He called these invasions "Pop-Up Cruises" because the Japanese never knew where the US warships would appear. This would be equivelant to Japan sending warships into Chesepeake Bay in Virginia or Puget Sound in Washington state.
@jdggearhead The Japanese saw FDR: Reduce supply of oil and metals to Japan (25 July 1940) Give 50 destroyers to Britain to use against Germany (Sept. 1940) Cut supply of Iron to Japan (Sept 26, 1940) Announce his intended new policy of Lend-Lease in which he will side with Britain against Germany. This is the final nail in the coffin of America's neutrality. FDR is not stopped, so the Neutrality act is now dead. The US is allied with Britain (17 Dec 1940) 24 US subs sent to Orient (1 Jan 1941)
@jdggearhead Units don't have to engage to break the neutrality act. Would u be OK with Russians training in Cuba to attack Americans? The Japanese knew the US was training to shoot thier planes. They planned on Pearl Harbor because they saw the writing on the wall - FDR was going to find a way to provoke them and enter the war because 88% of Americans were against US involvment but he wanted to take attention off of his socialist policies that were failing to lift the US out of the Depression.
@jdggearhead Most importantly, in 1941, Japanese rulers knew all about it. Japanese spies had found out about the Flying Tigers and had been watching them train. In short, by launching the Flying Tigers, FDR had declared war on the Japanese before the Japanese attacked the US. He gave the Japanese the legal right to bomb Pearl Harbor and did not tell either the American people or the commanders at Pearl Harbor.
@jdggearhead Most importantly, in 1941, Japanese rulers knew all about it. Japanese spies had found out about the Flying Tigers and had been watching them train. In short, by launching the Flying Tigers, FDR had declared war on the Japanese before the Japanese attacked the US. He gave the Japanese the legal right to bomb Pearl Harbor and did not tell either the American people or the commanders at Pearl Harbor.
@jdggearhead Most importantly, in 1941, Japanese rulers knew all about it. Japanese spies had found out about the Flying Tigers and had been watching them train. In short, by launching the Flying Tigers, FDR had declared war on the Japanese before the Japanese attacked the US. He gave the Japanese the legal right to bomb Pearl Harbor and did not tell either the American people or the commanders at Pearl Harbor.
@jdggearhead The official U.S. involvement in the operation was clandestine at least in part because it violated the U.S. Neutrality Act, which forbade taking sides between "belligerent" nations such as China and Japan. No doubt there was concern that a U.S. military operation in China would be a provocation to the Japanese."
@jdggearhead ..."Now, five decades later, the Pentagon is making amends--and thus tacitly admitting what really happened.
Secret documents obtained by Robert Schriebman, the group's attorney in Torrance, leave little doubt about the origin of the unusual war effort. Creation of the Flying Tigers "has the approval of the president and the War Department," according to an August, 1941, memo for the chief of the Army Air Corps, Gen. Henry (Hap) Arnold.
"Historians have long asserted that this group, the famous Flying Tigers, was a covert operation, orchestrated by wheeler-dealers in the White House of Franklin D. Roosevelt and supported by the War Department.
But the Pentagon has denied that the Flying Tigers force was anything but voluntary, its members ineligible for veteran status or benefits.
@jdggearhead jdggearhead: "The Japanese also had suicide bombers, is a soldier who crawls under a tank and blows himself and the tank up not a suicide bomber?The Japanese did this based on the religious belief that they where defending their god."
Gotta love a guy who starts name-calling when he doesn't even remember his own words. It wasn't a video, it was an article. As far as relevance I just simply posted a link to my on-line PowerPoint on terrorism, not directed at u. You brought this on
@jdggearhead Previously you asked about Kamikazie pilots being motivated by religion. Actually, Kamikaze pilots were pumped full of drugs before flying on missions – that was the only way they could get them to do those missions. And it is a complete and total fabrication that Japanese people worshipped thier emporer. Japanese people that lived through WW2 are surprised to hear that this nonsense is being taught to American children in school. See
@jdggearhead 2. US initiated oil embargo against Japan. This is unquestionably an act of war under international law. The US was also totally hypocritical on this point as they forced the British and the Dutch to uphold the embargo, yet secretly allowed Japan oil from the United States as a way to spy on Japanese shipping.
@jdggearhead These people did “volunteer” to fly for the Flying Tigers but they were paid employees of the US government. US pilots flying bombing missions for the Chinese was an act of war under international law by America against Japan. Even with the weak argument that these professional military men were “volunteers” (when they were actually sent by the US government), under international law, a nation is responsible for the actions of its nationals
@jdggearhead My argument is simply one that is against the idea that Japan committed acts of war against the United States first. The United States committed at least two acts of war under international law against Japan before December 7, 1941. They were: US military pilots – 40 from the Army Air Corps and 60 from the US Navy and Marine Corps – in a clandestine operation organized by and funded by the Whitehouse – flew bombing missions against Japanese forces as early as 1937.
In addition: US support increased in mid-1941, with the clandestine formation of the 1st American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers." Equipped with US aircraft and American pilots the 1st AVG, under Colonel Claire Chennault, effectively defended the skies over China and Southeast Asia from late-1941 to mid-1942, downing 300 Japanese aircraft with a loss of only 12 of their own.
@jdggearhead Yeah they started a war. But they are in a position to decide because the U.S. said it would remain neutral. If the US had said that it wasn't going to remain neutral, then your point would be valid. As wiki states: The U.S. did not stop oil exports to Japan at that time (1940) in part because prevailing sentiment in Washington was that such an action would be an extreme step, given Japanese dependence on U.S. oil,and likely to be considered a provocation by Japan.
erik ,jdggearhead, know that tempers emotions are running high .But fighting amongst ourselves won't get it done.Our enemies lap it up .It's obvious that both of you love this Country & our liberties & principles.Just scroll down a day or so that you can see a post from a Saudi ,in Arabic,communicating God knows what..This is "our house",pull together in the defense of it.
@DaDa2Phlux I agree that it's true that jdggearhead and I are patriots and love our country. So thank you for that. The difference between us though is that jdggearhead is also a nationalist. The difference is vital:
@jdggearhead I recall that the late (thankfully snuffed ! )leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine openly proclaimed .quote "...there are no innocents...") Any apologists & defenders of the Jihadist's penchant for wanton slaughter ,NOT tragic,unintended civilian casualties in the prosecution of a war -should read the history they urge others to.
@jdggearhead Because to me, the truth is more important than prevailing superstitions and taboos. What you meant was: "They started a war against the chinese and we wanted them to stop, they refused so we stopped selling them oil"...and yet FDR pretended that what he was doing was being completely neutral while still selling to Japan's enemies which is favoritism and completely un-neutral. Why are you defending FDR's lie?
Bottom line .We are alone -face it .We can't depend ,or shouldn't ,on our so called friends Britain France,Germany,-even though we've pulled the world's collective ass out of the fire including China & Russia It's about survival.We must act in our self interest.The soldiers that leaked intel of any kind during wartime should be serving life sentences or pay the ultimate.Someone here said that FDR's embargo vs ,Japan was an act of war- then the Arab embargo's of the 70's should be taken as such.
@DaDa2Phlux I'm confused about what you're talking about.. First of all, USA is not the only country in the world. There are several of them.. They generally meet in New York at the UN to discuss things.. The UN did not approve of the war against Iraq, so how can USA demand France and Germany to support them when the rest of the world don't? And, you think it's ok to kill civilians? Then you should serve a life sentence or pay the ultimate price..
@stygn Little wonder that you are confused,disquieting reality,not computer gaming,is the subject It appears that reading comprehension is now a concern for Norwegian educators as well.There is only the direct quote of the departed /dispatched leader of the PFLP ,George Habash,a folk hero to many in the home of The Peace Prize,who stated "..there are no innocents",end quote.His words and creed-not mine.Btw,thank you for not only distorting my other positions -but wishing me physical harm ..
@DaDa2Phlux I'm sorry, but I really don't understand what you're talking about.. I don't know what you even tried to say about the concern of Norwegian educators, but at least one of their concerns is to teach us English...
@mLADL2k Quit playing games-you know exactly what they are referring to.Their positions & the reasoning behind them,clearly articulated.You just happen to share the average Scandinavian's preference for spineless non -confrontation,otherwise known as appeasement.What a laugh-descendants of the once feared,ruthless Viking raiders apparently have no stomach for standing firm with a friend during challenging times-but still manage to rape and plunder the ocean for it's waning bounty.
@mLADL2k First of all, I really didn't understand what that guy was talking about, I really didn't understand what he wrote. Secondly, he seems to have removed the comment I originally replied to where he stated that it was ok for the US to kill civilians.. I also reacted to him claiming the Iraqi war was given the "green light" by the world, it was not. The UN did not say it was "ok" for USA to invade Iraq, unlike Afghanistan where the UN said it was ok. And, you want me to be a Viking? Why?
@jdggearhead And read this to see why my views are consistent, unlike conservatives and liberal ideals through the years, and why "conservatives have two brains. One sees the government as a menace, something stupid, inefficient, brutal, isolated from real life, and the enemy of liberty. The other sees government as smart, wise, and all-knowing, a friend to all, in touch with life around the planet, and the friend to liberty everywhere."
@jdggearhead A little more to go. The answer to your question of whether it is OK for the US to declare that it is neutral, yet coerce US businesses into selling to certain countries and not others, is no. U.S. companies sold to Japan for years. If the US stops selling oil to them, their economy/military collapses because they are entirely dependant on foriegn oil. If the US government wanted to stop selling but remain neutral, it would need to also stop selling oil to Japan's enemies.
Wow I didn't know Australia did not allow FREEDOM OF SPEECH! That is a basic human right. I thought only barbaric, ignorant, backward countries tried to stop people from exercising basic human rights.
@baihbalm baihbalm you're the one under a rock. The rape charges against Assange were reinstated on sept 1 2010. The victims maintained throughout that Assange forced himself on one of them. The other told him to stop when their condom broke and Assange refused.
Fans of his like you who refuse to even acknowledge this news sicken me.
@waltereg0 so guilty before proven otherwise... nice logic there idiot. I love how the prosecutors are overturning the case every other month. And yet, even without a shred of proof to his wrongdoing you automatically label him a rapist... you are truly ignorant to the process of law. It's innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around. Time for you to get an education, and please if the majority of people agree on this concept and it still makes you sick, then by all means be sick.
@jdggearhead Rothbard continued "We must, therefore, emphasize that “we” are not the government; the government is not “us.” The government does not in any accurate sense “represent” the majority of the people. But, even if it did, even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority.
@jdggearhead As for 2, Murray Rothbard said in Anatomy of the State, available for free online here: snipurl(dot)com/1fo69z
If we are the government, then anything government does to a person is not only untyrannical but also 'voluntary' on the part of the individual concerned. If the government throws a man into jail for dissident opinion, then he is 'doing it to himself' and, therefore, nothing untoward has occurred....
@jdggearhead "...neither shall you have its protections. From now on your legal status will be no different from that of a rabbit or any other wild animal outside the law." Then anyone could hunt him down and kill him or take his things or enslave him. It was none of the courts business. The victim might even hire a bounty hunter to track the criminal down and sell him as a beast of burden to other individuals or corporations.
@jdggearhead Law and govt are different institutions and don't necessarily go together. Early common law judges had no connection with government. So could a criminal simply walk away? Yes and no. If they refused to pay restitution to the victim, the judge would use a procedure called outlawry. He'd say, "We will not force the law on you. But since you don't accept the responsibilities of the law...
I have seen that video before. It is really inspiring. The problem is that most Americans believe in two things that are false. These two things cause them to believe that the US government is no different from the country of the USA. The two things are 1. The false idea that laws and the government are nearly the same thing. 2. The false idea that because we vote, "we are the government." Here is why 1 is false:
Wikileaks would be great if it made any difference, but the people here in the US are so fucking stupid (see below arguments) that no one will move on the information anyway. You could show our military and government doing any number of atrocities and we would accept any excuse they had for their actions. It's a great idea wasted on idiots. Continue on with your lib vs con argument, it's all meaningless drivel to keep you occupied while they fuck us and everyone else up the ass.
@jdggearhead I used to be a neo-conservative, Rush Limbaugh 24/7 member. I read all of Ann Coulter's books and would take bullets for the Republicans. Check out my reason for changing here. I'm Anarcho-libertarian:
@jdggearhead I'm not "blaming America," I'm blaming the US government. "It is the duty of every Patriot to protect his country from his government.” - Patrick “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death” Henry. “Where liberty is, there is my country.” - Benjamin Franklin
@jdggearhead Are you saying that Paul Wolfowitz is a moron? The man who was the Deputy Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush, a major architect of President Bush’s Iraq policy and its most hawkish advocate?
@jdggearhead If the US stopped sending foreign aid to Israel and its enemies, it would actually strengthen the U.S. AND Israel, as well as end one of the greatest impetuses for terrorism:
@jdggearhead How victory in the war in Iraq is a logical impossibility and an analysis of the fallacious line of thinking that “we’re fighting them over there so that we don’t have to fight them over here.” –lewrockwell(dot)com/vuk/vuk21.html
A partial list of past as well as some on-going American foreign policy interventions that have caused blowback:
@jdggearhead George W. Bush - “I’m not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say, ‘This is the way it’s got to be.’ I think one way for us to end up being viewed as the ‘ugly American’ is for us to go around the world saying, ‘We do it this way; so should you.’ I think the United States must be humble in how we treat nations that are figuring out how to chart their own course.”
@jdggearhead But didn’t Muhammad describe the climax of Islam on earth as one in which the whole world would be Muslim? Michael Sceuer: "Yes, but there’s as much chance of that happening in any kind of foreseeable future as the application of the Golden Rule, and ‘turn the other cheek’ and ‘love thy neighbor’ in the Christian world. There’s no chance. Bin Laden is popular and his message resonates because it is a defensive message of ‘get out and leave us to our own problems.”
@jdggearhead Wikipedia entry on Blowback: "To the civilians suffering it, blowback typically manifests itself as “random” acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the public—in whose name the intelligence agency acted—are ignorant of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge (counter-attack) against them."
@jdggearhead Chalmers Johnson continued: Some Saudis protested and began to launch attacks against Americans and against the Saudi regime itself. In June 1996, terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden bombed the Khobar Towers apartments near Dhahran airport, killing nineteen American airmen and wounding scores more.”
@jdggearhead Chalmers Johnson continued: "The last straw as far as he was concerned was the way that ‘infidel’ American troops – around 35,000 of them – remained in Saudi Arabia after the first Gulf War to prop up the Saudis excessively wealthy and fiercely authoritarian regime. Devoutly Muslim citizens of that kingdom saw the troops’ presence as a humiliation to the country and an insult to their religion.
@jdggearhead Chalmers Johnson continued: "It was only after the Russians had bombed Afghanistan back to the stone age and suffered a Vietnam-like defeat, and the United States had walked away from the death and destruction the CIA had helped cause, that Osama bin Laden turned against his American supporters.
Chalmers Johnson, CIA Consultant in his book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire: The CIA supported Osama bin Laden, like so many other extreme fundamentalists in Afghanistan who were fighting Russia, from at least 1984 on.
@jdggearhead Philip Giraldi, CIA Officer: “As the 9/11 commission report indicated, there were consequences for our presence in the Middle East and if we seriously want to address the terrorism problem we have to be serious about that issue. Giuliani indicated that he was not only not serious about that issue, but seemed to be ignorant of both the 9/11 Report and political realities in the Middle East.”
@jdggearhead Congressman Paul continued: "And if it were true that we had to deal with the people most responsible for 9/11, it was not the Iraqis, it was not the Iranians, it was Saudi Arabia – 15 of them! So if you had to declare war, that is where you should have gone.”
Congressman Ron Paul: “The confirmation of this whole idea of why they come here came from none other than Paul Wolfowitz. But what he doesn’t understand, as Michael Scheuer explains, is that the whole peninsula is holy land to the Muslims, including Iraq. So the fact that we don’t have troops right now in Saudi Arabia means nothing. We’re still over there, so the incentive is still there.
@jdggearhead Wolfowitz continued: "In fact if you look at bin Laden, one of his principle grievances was the presence of so-called crusader forces on the holy land, Mecca and Medina. I think just lifting that burden from the Saudis is itself going to open the door to other positive things. I don’t want to speak in messianic terms. It’s not going to change things overnight, but it’s a huge improvement.”
@jdggearhead Paul Wolfowitz was a major architect of President Bushs Iraq policy and its most hawkish advocate. He said that a benefit of the invasion “that has gone by almost unnoticed-but it’s huge-is that by complete mutual agreement between the U.S. and the Saudi government we can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia. Their presence there over the last 12 years has been a source of enormous difficulty for a friendly government. It’s been a huge recruiting device for al Qaeda
@jdggearhead Here is a picture of a Japanese protest of American bases: dailymail(dot)co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1247281/Thousands-protest-Tokyo-U-S-military-presence-Japan.html
Thousands of Americans gathered at a rally at Ground Zero on Aug. 22, 2010, angry at a mosque being built on what they consider holy ground. Imagine if instead of a mere mosque, it was an Islamic military base instead. That is how Muslims feel.
@jdggearhead 9-11 Commission Report, p. 51 - “Many Americans have wondered, ‘Why do they hate us?’ Bin Laden and al Qaeda have answered this question. America is held responsible for the governments of Muslim countries, ridiculed by al Qaeda as ‘your (Americas) agents,’ because of America’s support for their countries’ repressive rulers. Osama bin Laden: 'Our fight against these governments is not separate from our fight against you.'”
@jdggearhead Chalmers Johnson, CIA Consultant - “The suicidal assassins of September 11, 2001 did not ‘attack America,’ as political leaders and news media in the United States have tried to maintain; they attacked American foreign policy. Employing the strategy of the weak, they killed innocent bystanders, whose innocence is, of course, no different from that of the civilians killed by American bombs in Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan and elsewhere.”
@jdggearhead Texas Congressman Ron Paul -“Why do so many Americans feel as if we have a right to a military presence in some 160 countries when we wouldn’t stand for even one foreign base on our soil, for any reason? These are not embassies, mind you, these are military installations. The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would be if they were stationed in Texas. We would not stand for it here."
@jdggearhead L. Vance - “In 2002, after two U.S. soldiers were acquitted by a U.S. military court in South Korea of negligent homicide in the deaths of two Korean schoolgirls, Koreans demonstrated, burned American flags, chanted anti-American slogans, and demanded that U.S. troops leave the country. Hatred of the United States is not a result of our freedoms and our values, it is a direct result of our intervention into the affairs of other countries and our military presence around the world.”
@jdggearhead Michael Scheuer - “About the only thing that can hold together the very loose temporary alliance that Osama bin Laden has assembled is a common Muslim hatred for the impact of U.S. foreign policy…. They all agree they hate U.S. foreign policy. To the degree we change that policy in the interests of the United States, they become more and more focused on their local problems…”
@jdggearhead What made Osama bin Laden’s message attractive, on the other hand, was precisely that it was defensive in nature, focusing on specific grievances that resonated with his Muslim audience. That, and not a war against the West over its decadence, is what won recruits. In other words, we may in fact be dealing not with comic-book villains but with actual human beings.
WIKILEAKS PLEASE STOP ORGANIZED STALKING. torture is going on!!!
GangstalkingvictimCH 1 month ago
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DemandToAFromYouTub1 1 year ago
@DemandToAFromYouTub1 - It says the video has been removed, what was it?
KiwiBro26 10 months ago
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CAN NOT FORGET TO JULIAN DAY Assange11/01/2.
We must give our full support to JULIAN Assange.
thanks for everything you Have done.
'll always be by your side.
a strong hug. maria
melpiu1 1 year ago
the eye at 11:50 THE EYE
iamthetubeofyou 1 year ago
Fuck the Pay Pal guy, he doesn't deserve to be there!
Donavan68 1 year ago 2
is this guy a pedophile?
bob701z 1 year ago
power to the people!
satellite98 1 year ago
@jdggearhead so asshole you like saying stupid sentences him jailed and you car bombed lol just out of curiousity are you a extremist child lol look dummy your opinions are stupid and make no sense you are a oxegen thief
aim2plz89 1 year ago
case against Julian Assage is set up as a excuse to silence him, Julian has done good job of exposing hypocrisy in government's of the world.
justicepartyuk 1 year ago 13
Assange, come Saviano?
xft10 1 year ago
bradley manning & Julian Assange are the new Heros of our century!!! go and reveal the true Evildoers of our time...
marumito 1 year ago
I don't know the truth!
I will say this: J A is a brave man who dares to do the unthinkable and reveal secrets governments around the globe wants to keep.
If he is wanted for rape, so what? It still doesnt change the fact that they released a huge amount of documents that we would never read if it weren' t for him.
I do find it a bit odd that the charges came at the time they did. It may be some government going after him OR it could be him using the celebrity status to his advantage.
anzient76 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Still waiting, you brainwashed Randroid fuck.
MEpianist 1 year ago
@MEpianist that guy you're arguing with is a fucking us government guy, because no one is that fucking stupid like he said and i quote, "jack black totally underated" man i'd stop before they raid yor house lol oj did you hear assange is wanted for rape in swenden people like that moron you were arguing with will make sure he's jailed, fucked up ain't it?
aim2plz89 1 year ago
@aim2plz89 He's (Assange) wanted by the authorities "for questioning" - there have been NO CHARGES filed against him in Sweden for rape (or anything else). The key thing here to remember is "don't shoot the messenger." A little transparency is good for the world, it's an eye-opener into the REAL THOUGHTS of ppl like Hillary and other potentates. Bottom-line: Assange is the lightbringer here, he didn't terrorize Iraqi citizens or enlist your sons & daughters to occupy foreign lands. ;-)
TruthJockey 1 year ago
@TruthJockey i know man, you're american right, is the lies the media give out as easy to see over there as it is here, i'm from northern ireland, i'm sure you can apprecite there was quite a lot of murky secrets regarding the war over here that are yet to come out, i would love to see wikileaks release documents regarding that peroid of time, see the bastards swallow their words, i see there is charges to be brought aganist assange, they have to in order to get him, i hope they fail but...?
aim2plz89 1 year ago
@jdggearhead who said he was the savior douchebag read my comment properly you dick, all i said is that anyone who trys to release anything the government is trying to hide is targeted by so called democratic countrys, so wake up you retard,plus if you watched the fucking documentry it says he has allies in swenden and now he's wanted there for rape ffs, not seem a bit strange to you there's a international arrest warrent out for this guy for rape? never heard of that much of a manhunt for rape
aim2plz89 1 year ago
strange he's wanted for rape now in the place where he established apparent allies, lol it makes you think, in the nature of his work it was only a matter of time before they went after him, and by them i mean every fucking government in the western world, those of you who think he is anti-western think outside the box for fucks sake, wake up and realise you are being lied to on a regular basis, i reckon assanges fate is already sealed, 10-1 he's killed trying to "evade" capture Strange stuff
aim2plz89 1 year ago
@aim2plz89 Only problem there being:
WikiLeaks will not die when they kill him. Many of us will gladly take over after him. There are too many on his side now, because he has the truth on his side. Ergo: Killing him will only HELP his cause!
jultspub 1 year ago
@jults only problem there being i myself don't think the same as you, i don't believe in letting others die for my benefit regardless if it's in my power to stop it or not, ergo them killing him will not help his cause as it will be hushed up and we will not hear about it as everyone else in his line of business will be frightened to operate as the threat of death looms other them , also man your logic is mad you think him dying will help, that's fucking crazy you don't know what your saying
aim2plz89 1 year ago
Further the method Assange employed is a natural progression from the Cold war days when the objectives of a hostile power's intelligence network was to secure the desired intelligence "shopping list',(i.e. what you don't know) to bring back to be analyzed within said country or proxy state.Now leaking classified material to the Western press is tantamount to "de-fanging" the threat .This way is more cost effective plus they get to make us choke on the Constitution.
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago
@jdggearhead In a criminal prosecution it is said that intent is the hardest thing to prove in court .But,in this case ,Assange- as will boasts by Sheik Khalid Mohammed verify that the result from their respective criminal acts was calculated to achieve the maximum harm possible.
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago
@jdggearhead LOL !
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago
@jdggearhead One of the best scenes in fact.Even with those fangs that Squatch's diction was clear as a bell.LOL Like to see him make cameo's ( as a "flash back") in any sequel planned. Seriously now don't you think "juicy' describes the recent ruling on the tandem attack in Kenya ?
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago
@DaDa2Phlux P.S remember ' it's Everyone's .Forest :)..
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago
@jdggearhead But what if he DOES want to trade? By what right can others stop him? The most they can do is boycott him for daring to sell. Boycott isn’t an act of force.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead If FDR wanted to stop that, he should have followed the law and used his bully-pulpit to repeal the neutrality acts. If you don't believe in the "social contract," (snipurl(dot)com/1h9plx) and (snipurl(dot)com/1h9q9v) and (snipurl(dot)com/1h9xxc) then FDR was declaring war on Americans by using intimidation, threats, and coercion to stop them from selling oil. No one "has to" trade. A person can voluntarily stop selling to anyone.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead We have to be careful about the terms we use like "country." When you say country, do you mean the government or the people? Governments don't trade. It is the people that trade. The government doesn't produce oil. It can only stop the people from producing and then selling the oil. By what right can it do that? If you believe in the "social contract," then it was the will of the people to continue selling oil and whatnot to Japan....
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead I agree, which is why the Japanese wanted to avoid going to war with their oil suppliers. The problem is that FDR, who is supposedly a servant of the people, didn't allow the people to decide whether they wanted to shed their blood and sweat for the war. After all, they were the ones who were going to be making the sacrifice, not FDR in his posh mansion, so it is their right to decide if it is worth it to them.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead " Juicy " ? Quite That is rapidly becoming the most appropriate assessment of our current state of affairs.
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Well that's about the last of my spamming. This has been a fun conversation my friend.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead The German submarine threat, although still quite dire in WW2, was not nearly as potent as it was in WW1. Submarines alone could not effectively project broad-based, large-scale offensive naval power great distances. The goal of the German U-boat campaign remained much the same as that in WW1, chiefly defensive "commerce raiding;" attempts to cut off the flow of needed supplies to Great Britain and, this time, to the USSR as well.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead The Germans had nothing remotely like the thousands of well-defended B-17, B-24, and B-29 heavy long-range bombers thrown at them. Germany never developed a fleet of long-range bombers, so it could not do great damage to British or Russian industry. Germany's navy was small compared to that of the British and was sunk early. The famous battleship Graf Spee went down in Dec 1939; the Bismark in May 1941.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Germany could not win without the oil of Romania and the Southern USSR. The Allies continually bombed the oil fields in Romania. In their attempt to take the Soviet fields, 1,500 miles from home, the Germans were stopped at Stalingrad (Volgograd). As early as summer of 1941, the German advance against the USSR was being slowed by shortages of gas. Let that sink in. The Germans were running out of gas BEFORE the US was even in the war.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead ...Worse, most of Germany's and Japan's oil came from the New World on the other side of the Atlantic. After the British sank the small German navy, the German war machine was doomed to remain a horse. No oil equals no planes, tanks or ships. It isn't much of an exaggeration to say that WW2 was really an oil war. After FDR cut off the supply of Japanese oil, they began moving south to capture the oil of Southeast Asia and Indonesia. They attacked the US to clear the way to the oil.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead The Russians were generally incompetant, so the Germans did great damage early on, and this looked horrific in the newsreels in American movies. But the Russians soon learned how to fight more effectively, and the winter arrived; that was the beginning of the end for Germany, 9-12-1941. Furthermore, any economist in 1940 could show that the allies controlled 90% of the worlds oil supply and the Axis 3 %...
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Meanwhile, the Americans were producing a new jeep every 90 seconds. Japanese and Italian tanks were tin cans. When one takes an even cursory glance at the economics of the war, it becomes obvious that there is no way an invasion of America was remoteley possible. The notion of Germany transporting it's horses to the US to conquer us is absurd. When Hitler launched his mad invasion of Russia he had 3,350 tanks to fight against Russia's 15,000.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead The rest of the spear, the main body of the army, was foot soldiers and horses. Yes, horses. When Hitler's massive invasion force was poised on the Soviet frontier in June 1941, it was at its peak. Lined up ready to strike at Stalin were 3,350 tanks. And 650,000 horses. Hollywood devotes a lot of film to the tanks, but how often have you seen the thousands of horses? Most of the horses were used as substitutes for trucks. The Japanese had 3,000 per division.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead By early 1942, the desperate German army was running low on nearly everything it needed, and the factories were unable to resupply it.
What about Germany's invincible technology - and all those vastly superior planes, tanks, and guns? A little known fact is that the Germans actually had two armies - the high tech mechanized force that you have seen so often in movies and video games. But this force was small. It was only the tip of the spear.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Both sides had declared war, so it makes sense they will then try to bomb each other. According to the History Channel: "In late 1944, the Nazis were on the verge of losing World War II. But they had a diabolical plan in the wings: to deliver a radioactive bomb to New York. The payload was to be equally exotic: a dirty bomb. Such a bomb wouldn't destroy the U.S. so much as be an effective political weapon, a means to sue for peace perhaps." snipurl(dot)com/1h3wj9
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead I think I know why you think I'm a socialist that uses trickery and lying to get people to become socialist. You probably saw my PowerPoint username was anarcho-libertarian, googled it, and the first thing there was libertarian socialism. That aint me. There are anarcho-socialist libertarians and anarcho-capitalist libertarians. I'm the latter. That means that I try to get socialists to become capitalists through trickery and lying ;)
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead The only reason WW2 became a world war was because the US decided to get involved. Other than that, it was just another war in the thousands that the Old World has given mankind. Germany and Japan were like children rebelling against adults. They caught the Old World adults by surprise, so they looked fierce early on, but after the adults were fully awake, the young rebels were smashed. The "victory" over the USSR became a German rout after the snow began to fall on Sept. 12, 1941
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Authors Meirion and Sue Harries disclosed in their 1992 book "Soldiers of The Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army" that for each US GI there was an average of four tons of material produced, for the Japanese counterpart, an average of two pounds. That is why the Japanese were given bayonets that were so long, 15.5 inches compared to the American's kitchen knife. They expected to need them from lack of ammunition, and were encouraged to use them whenever possible.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Both axis nations' forces featured the glaring absence of sophisticated and secure large-scale supply support and sizable long-range air, sea, and ground transport capable of logistically sustaining a long offensive war which was vital to any attacking force operating over long distances in hostile territory. This major weakness was first confirmed on the Eastern Front in the fall of 1941 and by Japan early on in attrition w/China and later in the Pacific campaigns against the US
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Americans love to speculate about German acquisition of atomic weapons, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and other military capabilities the Nazis, in fact, never came close to acquiring. When people tell me that Germany almost conquered the world, and must be a global cop meddling in every nation to prevent the rise of a new Hitler, I reply, where is the evidence? There's an old saying that amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead I love spam, its true. Especially with ketchup, yum. The wonder weapons such as the V2 rocket were so advanced they were a handicap. They absorbed vast amounts of money and manpower that could have been used to make weapons proven to yield results. As far as debating WW2, that was brought up first by totalnerd18, I responded to him, and then you decided to respond to me, so this convo between you and me about WW2 is here because of you, not me.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
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@jdggearhead Oh I see why you probably thought that I'm the type that wants socialism through trickery. You saw my PowerPoint that had the username Anarcho-libertarian, googled it and saw the first thing: Libertarian socialism. I don't agree with that. Anarcho-capitalist libertarian is more accurate.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead You can read a great review of his book here: lewrockwell(dot)com/orig2/denson8.html It's my opinion that the real winner of WW2 was unfortunately socialism in all its forms. The US was never in danger of being conquered. For why that is so read: lewrockwell(dot)com/kreca/kreca2.1.1.html And non-interventionism did not cause the rise of Hitler: lewrockwell(dot)com/orig5/duffy-p3.html
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
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ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead ...which he intended to correct either through negotiation or, if necessary, by force. He stated and wrote that the only war he wanted was to fight Communism and to regain some of the living space that Germany had acquired in their treaty with Russia during World War I, which was abrogated by the Versailles Treaty...
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead ...However Victor cites no authority for this plan of Hitler to conquer the world and you will not find this in the two books that Hitler wrote nor in any of his speeches. His intentions were well known before and during the war. He stated from the beginning, before he took power, as well as thereafter, that he was against the harsh and unfair Versailles Treaty which virtually disarmed Germany and it included the inequities created for Germany in Poland and Czechoslovakia...
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead ...Both Germany and Japan wanted to avoid a war with America at almost any cost. FDR began extensive provocations to cause Japan to abandon its attack on Russia and instead attack America which also served the purpose of giving Roosevelt the reason to enter the war. Victor sees FDR's decisions as being based upon the assumption of the truth of the following statement: "Hitler’s plan to conquer and enslave most of the world was hardly a secret."...
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead ...He states that FDR wanted to get into the European War but he had been unsuccessful in provoking Germany; therefore, he considered the sacrifice of Pearl Harbor and the Philippines as the best way to get into the European War through the back door of Japan. Victor includes a chapter from the viewpoint of the Japanese. They were being pressured strongly by Germany to enter the war by attacking the Soviet Union, thereby creating a two-front war for the Communist nation.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead I misunderstood what you were implying so I apologize and take that last comment back. Just so you know, thanks to the mounting evidence from the Freedom of Information Act, mainstream historians are starting to admit that FDR knew about Pearl Harbor, but they say that it was a good thing that he did because it was the only way to get the American people into the war. For example George Victor in his book The Pearl Harbor Myth: Rethinking the Unthinkable, is an FDR admirer...
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
how does he risk his life? don't ask don't tell
762lenny 1 year ago
@jdggearhead I never blamed America for starting WW2. Only a nationalist would have such a knee-jerk reaction to what I've been saying.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead From a govt. website:snipurl(dot)com/1gloy6 "Chennault’s mission was successful for although the country was still neutral, FDR wanted to help China, believing it had the potential to become a great democracy. Through the Lend-Lease program, China received Curtiss P-40 Tomahawks, powerful low-altitude fighters. And the government looked the other way as recruiters went onto military bases, looking for pilots and ground personnel." Nope, jdggearhead says it was the Russians!
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead I want socialism? Huh? What, if someone is for non-intervention he is somehow for socialism? The two parties have flip-flopped so much over the years on this issue. But I want to abolish the UN. Would a socialist say that? I want to abolish Social(ist) Security. I want to abolish ObamaCare and Medicare and return the medical system to the free market and charity. I want to abolish welfare. I want to abolish the Federal Reserve, which Marx said is one of the planks of communism.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead George F. Will, a conservative American political columnist, gives this definition of white guilt: [White guilt is] a form of self-congratulation, where whites initiate "compassionate policies" toward people of color, to showcase their innocence to racism."Wow, what did I ever say that had anything to do with that? But this shows that YOU have no clue what white guilt is. Or if you do, you didn't score so well on the compare and contrast section of the SAT's.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead You identify with the government because as a nationalist you worship the government, and so if someone attacks an evil that the government has done, you feel that you have been attacked and so defend the unjust action in a knee-jerk way. You have been brainwashed by the government schools which have a pro-government bias. All government schools around the world do. If you don't believe me, just compare schoolbooks from different nations speaking about the same topic.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
I agree with Webster Tarpley and Alex Jones that Wikileaks is a front for something. NSA, Black Ops... Who's funding this guy? Always well dressed and jetsetting around the globe...
No matter how much is released, its what we don't hear that's most dangerous.
lostinmaya 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Keep your patriotism but drop your nationalism:
sobran.com/columns/1999-2001/011016.shtml
And drop your name-calling while you're at it. The only thing you're insulting is your own intelligence.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead I knew you wouldn't answer that question directly and try to deflect. Checkmate. Start reading LewRockwell(dot)com and Mises(dot)org and you will slowly stop attaching your identity with the government. I don't feel guilty for white people, a classic neo-con deflection. I hate unjust actions of unjust governments, be they white, black, or spanish. I could go on and on about the unjust actions of black governments, spanish, chinese, whoever.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead "We were helping our friends..." Red herring argument. I'm talking about the violation of the neutrality act. Did the actions of FDR violate them? YES. His "helping friends" violated the neutrality acts that were passed by Congress which is supposedly the will of the people. Do you believe that the President should have the power to ignore the checks and balances of power by ignoring Congress and the law and the will of the people and set himself up as a dictator?
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Japan invaded China in 1937 and the Chinese government looked to the United States for assistance, hiring U.S. Army Air Corps veteran Claire Chennault to train its pilots to fight the Japanese. So, technically you are correct and I take it back that the Tigers bombed the Japanese. I should have said that Chennault, who would go on to organize and lead the Flying Tigers, trained the Chinese to bomb the Japanese and then trained US pilots to do the same, all before Pearl Harbor.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead ...This was the safest spot in the harbor. Hospital ships are not considered legitimate military targets; the Solace was not hit or damaged in any way. He got the best pictures imaginable. Coincidence? Or did someone know the attack was coming and tell the photographer to be there?
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead ...The logs of other ships in the harbor report that the explosion was 12 minutes after the attack began. The Arizon was one of the first ships hit. So when the attack began, there on the scene within sight of battleship row, at 8 AM on a Sunday morning, was a photographer with a movie camera loaded with color film. The cameraman was on a hospital ship moored in a central location in Pearl Harbor with a view of battleship row...
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead ...The strange thing is that in 1941, portable motion picture cameras were rare, and portable motion picture cameras shooting color film were almost unkown (it's hard for us to grasp this since everyone today has a cell-phone that can do both. The convenient videotape cameras didn't come into wide use until the 1980's). Have you ever heard anyone ask the question, how long after the attack did the Arizona blow up?...
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Here is an interesting fact to ponder. We have all seen the photos and newsreels of the Pearl Harbor attack. The most famous, the exploding Arizona, was shot in color (although usually shown in black and white) and is shocking. It caused those anti-involvement Americans to line up at the nearest recruiting station and erased any serious opposition to the US getting into the war. In every city and town, Americans were outraged and looking for revenge.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead General Hap Arnold lands in Sacremento, CA, to warn the air base that war with Japan is imminent. FDR reads an intercepted Japanese message and tells his assistant Harry Hopkins, "This means war." No one tells Kimmel (6 Dec 1941) Why has so much info remained hidden for decades? Because in WW2 it was classified "secret" and then buried in the Pentagon's warehouses. Thank goodnes for the Freedom of Information Act. It's a safe bet that much more is hidden.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead The Chicago-Tribune newspaper reveals "Rainbow Five," the top-secret war plan drawn up at FDR's order. Rainbow Five calls for the creation of a 10-million man army, including an expeditionary force of five million to invade Europe in 1943 on the side of Moscow and London (4 Dec 1941)
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead ...FDR does not reveal that teh Greer had stalked the German sub for 3 hours in cooperation with a British patrol plane before the Germans turned and fired. (11 Sep 1941) FDR meets with his war council. Secretary of War Stimson notes in his diary the groups belief that US Forces are "likely to be attacked perhaps as soon as next Monday." The President is concerned about the problem of "how we should maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot." No one tells Kimmel.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Admiral Turner, who is Director of War Plans, warns FDR that the Japanese are bellicose, antagonizing them further will trigger an attack (19 July 1941) FDR freezes all Japanese assets and reduces Japanese oil supply by 90% (26 July 1941) FDR tells the nation that the destroyer Greer has been attacked by a German sub, and henceforth US warships have the standing order to "shoot on sight" any German vessal west of Iceland...
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Congress passes FDR's "lend-lease act," which gives money and other resources to the government's of Britain and China to fight the Japanese. (Three months later, US aid will go to Stalin and anyone else who will fight Japan or Germany. 11 March 1941) FDR announces that he has taken sides with Stalin against Hitler and will send aid to Stalin. Churchill made a similar anouncement two days earlier (June 24 1941)
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead March 1941, FDR secretly ordered US warships to begin sailing 6,000 miles accross the Pacific to encroach on Japanese home waters, including the Bungo Striat. He called these invasions "Pop-Up Cruises" because the Japanese never knew where the US warships would appear. This would be equivelant to Japan sending warships into Chesepeake Bay in Virginia or Puget Sound in Washington state.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead The Japanese saw FDR: Reduce supply of oil and metals to Japan (25 July 1940) Give 50 destroyers to Britain to use against Germany (Sept. 1940) Cut supply of Iron to Japan (Sept 26, 1940) Announce his intended new policy of Lend-Lease in which he will side with Britain against Germany. This is the final nail in the coffin of America's neutrality. FDR is not stopped, so the Neutrality act is now dead. The US is allied with Britain (17 Dec 1940) 24 US subs sent to Orient (1 Jan 1941)
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Units don't have to engage to break the neutrality act. Would u be OK with Russians training in Cuba to attack Americans? The Japanese knew the US was training to shoot thier planes. They planned on Pearl Harbor because they saw the writing on the wall - FDR was going to find a way to provoke them and enter the war because 88% of Americans were against US involvment but he wanted to take attention off of his socialist policies that were failing to lift the US out of the Depression.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
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@jdggearhead Most importantly, in 1941, Japanese rulers knew all about it. Japanese spies had found out about the Flying Tigers and had been watching them train. In short, by launching the Flying Tigers, FDR had declared war on the Japanese before the Japanese attacked the US. He gave the Japanese the legal right to bomb Pearl Harbor and did not tell either the American people or the commanders at Pearl Harbor.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
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@jdggearhead Most importantly, in 1941, Japanese rulers knew all about it. Japanese spies had found out about the Flying Tigers and had been watching them train. In short, by launching the Flying Tigers, FDR had declared war on the Japanese before the Japanese attacked the US. He gave the Japanese the legal right to bomb Pearl Harbor and did not tell either the American people or the commanders at Pearl Harbor.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
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@jdggearhead Most importantly, in 1941, Japanese rulers knew all about it. Japanese spies had found out about the Flying Tigers and had been watching them train. In short, by launching the Flying Tigers, FDR had declared war on the Japanese before the Japanese attacked the US. He gave the Japanese the legal right to bomb Pearl Harbor and did not tell either the American people or the commanders at Pearl Harbor.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
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ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Someone has to warn Bourne !
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago
@jdggearhead The official U.S. involvement in the operation was clandestine at least in part because it violated the U.S. Neutrality Act, which forbade taking sides between "belligerent" nations such as China and Japan. No doubt there was concern that a U.S. military operation in China would be a provocation to the Japanese."
Repeat, it VIOLATED THE U.S. NEUTRALITY ACT
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead ..."Now, five decades later, the Pentagon is making amends--and thus tacitly admitting what really happened.
Secret documents obtained by Robert Schriebman, the group's attorney in Torrance, leave little doubt about the origin of the unusual war effort. Creation of the Flying Tigers "has the approval of the president and the War Department," according to an August, 1941, memo for the chief of the Army Air Corps, Gen. Henry (Hap) Arnold.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead articles.latimes(dot)com/1991-07-06/news/mn-1525_1_flying-tiger/6
"Historians have long asserted that this group, the famous Flying Tigers, was a covert operation, orchestrated by wheeler-dealers in the White House of Franklin D. Roosevelt and supported by the War Department.
But the Pentagon has denied that the Flying Tigers force was anything but voluntary, its members ineligible for veteran status or benefits.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead jdggearhead: "The Japanese also had suicide bombers, is a soldier who crawls under a tank and blows himself and the tank up not a suicide bomber?The Japanese did this based on the religious belief that they where defending their god."
Gotta love a guy who starts name-calling when he doesn't even remember his own words. It wasn't a video, it was an article. As far as relevance I just simply posted a link to my on-line PowerPoint on terrorism, not directed at u. You brought this on
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead JBMD ?
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago 4
@jdggearhead Hard to translate ,Bean that makes jelly ?Is it a new weapon this bean of jelly ? lol
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago
@jdggearhead ROTF !
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago
More power to Wikileaks - stop the corruption!
butlincat2 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Previously you asked about Kamikazie pilots being motivated by religion. Actually, Kamikaze pilots were pumped full of drugs before flying on missions – that was the only way they could get them to do those missions. And it is a complete and total fabrication that Japanese people worshipped thier emporer. Japanese people that lived through WW2 are surprised to hear that this nonsense is being taught to American children in school. See
lewrockwell(dot)com/rogers/rogers178.html
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Anyone that has ever been in a band or has friends in one knows that this is art imitating life:)
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago
@jdggearhead 2. US initiated oil embargo against Japan. This is unquestionably an act of war under international law. The US was also totally hypocritical on this point as they forced the British and the Dutch to uphold the embargo, yet secretly allowed Japan oil from the United States as a way to spy on Japanese shipping.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead These people did “volunteer” to fly for the Flying Tigers but they were paid employees of the US government. US pilots flying bombing missions for the Chinese was an act of war under international law by America against Japan. Even with the weak argument that these professional military men were “volunteers” (when they were actually sent by the US government), under international law, a nation is responsible for the actions of its nationals
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead My argument is simply one that is against the idea that Japan committed acts of war against the United States first. The United States committed at least two acts of war under international law against Japan before December 7, 1941. They were: US military pilots – 40 from the Army Air Corps and 60 from the US Navy and Marine Corps – in a clandestine operation organized by and funded by the Whitehouse – flew bombing missions against Japanese forces as early as 1937.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead I Love Jack Black's the Pick of Destiny - I could use a good laugh .PEACE,
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago 2
In addition: US support increased in mid-1941, with the clandestine formation of the 1st American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers." Equipped with US aircraft and American pilots the 1st AVG, under Colonel Claire Chennault, effectively defended the skies over China and Southeast Asia from late-1941 to mid-1942, downing 300 Japanese aircraft with a loss of only 12 of their own.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Yeah they started a war. But they are in a position to decide because the U.S. said it would remain neutral. If the US had said that it wasn't going to remain neutral, then your point would be valid. As wiki states: The U.S. did not stop oil exports to Japan at that time (1940) in part because prevailing sentiment in Washington was that such an action would be an extreme step, given Japanese dependence on U.S. oil,and likely to be considered a provocation by Japan.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Full retard ? Fine..will wear it proudly.The opinion was stared & will stand.
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago 5
erik ,jdggearhead, know that tempers emotions are running high .But fighting amongst ourselves won't get it done.Our enemies lap it up .It's obvious that both of you love this Country & our liberties & principles.Just scroll down a day or so that you can see a post from a Saudi ,in Arabic,communicating God knows what..This is "our house",pull together in the defense of it.
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago 5
@DaDa2Phlux I agree that it's true that jdggearhead and I are patriots and love our country. So thank you for that. The difference between us though is that jdggearhead is also a nationalist. The difference is vital:
sobran(dot)com/columns/1999-2001/011016.shtml
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead I recall that the late (thankfully snuffed ! )leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine openly proclaimed .quote "...there are no innocents...") Any apologists & defenders of the Jihadist's penchant for wanton slaughter ,NOT tragic,unintended civilian casualties in the prosecution of a war -should read the history they urge others to.
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago 6
@jdggearhead Because to me, the truth is more important than prevailing superstitions and taboos. What you meant was: "They started a war against the chinese and we wanted them to stop, they refused so we stopped selling them oil"...and yet FDR pretended that what he was doing was being completely neutral while still selling to Japan's enemies which is favoritism and completely un-neutral. Why are you defending FDR's lie?
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
Bottom line .We are alone -face it .We can't depend ,or shouldn't ,on our so called friends Britain France,Germany,-even though we've pulled the world's collective ass out of the fire including China & Russia It's about survival.We must act in our self interest.The soldiers that leaked intel of any kind during wartime should be serving life sentences or pay the ultimate.Someone here said that FDR's embargo vs ,Japan was an act of war- then the Arab embargo's of the 70's should be taken as such.
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago 15
@DaDa2Phlux I'm confused about what you're talking about.. First of all, USA is not the only country in the world. There are several of them.. They generally meet in New York at the UN to discuss things.. The UN did not approve of the war against Iraq, so how can USA demand France and Germany to support them when the rest of the world don't? And, you think it's ok to kill civilians? Then you should serve a life sentence or pay the ultimate price..
stygn 1 year ago
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DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago
@stygn Little wonder that you are confused,disquieting reality,not computer gaming,is the subject It appears that reading comprehension is now a concern for Norwegian educators as well.There is only the direct quote of the departed /dispatched leader of the PFLP ,George Habash,a folk hero to many in the home of The Peace Prize,who stated "..there are no innocents",end quote.His words and creed-not mine.Btw,thank you for not only distorting my other positions -but wishing me physical harm ..
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago
@DaDa2Phlux I'm sorry, but I really don't understand what you're talking about.. I don't know what you even tried to say about the concern of Norwegian educators, but at least one of their concerns is to teach us English...
stygn 1 year ago
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mLADL2k 1 year ago
@mLADL2k Quit playing games-you know exactly what they are referring to.Their positions & the reasoning behind them,clearly articulated.You just happen to share the average Scandinavian's preference for spineless non -confrontation,otherwise known as appeasement.What a laugh-descendants of the once feared,ruthless Viking raiders apparently have no stomach for standing firm with a friend during challenging times-but still manage to rape and plunder the ocean for it's waning bounty.
mLADL2k 1 year ago
@mLADL2k First of all, I really didn't understand what that guy was talking about, I really didn't understand what he wrote. Secondly, he seems to have removed the comment I originally replied to where he stated that it was ok for the US to kill civilians.. I also reacted to him claiming the Iraqi war was given the "green light" by the world, it was not. The UN did not say it was "ok" for USA to invade Iraq, unlike Afghanistan where the UN said it was ok. And, you want me to be a Viking? Why?
stygn 1 year ago
@jdggearhead And read this to see why my views are consistent, unlike conservatives and liberal ideals through the years, and why "conservatives have two brains. One sees the government as a menace, something stupid, inefficient, brutal, isolated from real life, and the enemy of liberty. The other sees government as smart, wise, and all-knowing, a friend to all, in touch with life around the planet, and the friend to liberty everywhere."
lewrockwell(dot)com/orig10/lazarowitz1.1.1.html
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead You might want to watch this debate of Ron Paul bitch slapping Laura Ingraham:
youtube(dot)com/watch?v=RNHYhTySro4
And another prominent conservative, Dinesh Dsouza:
youtube(dot)com/watch?v=3BqTrhrF86o
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead A little more to go. The answer to your question of whether it is OK for the US to declare that it is neutral, yet coerce US businesses into selling to certain countries and not others, is no. U.S. companies sold to Japan for years. If the US stops selling oil to them, their economy/military collapses because they are entirely dependant on foriegn oil. If the US government wanted to stop selling but remain neutral, it would need to also stop selling oil to Japan's enemies.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
Hey youtube... don't you think it's time get this lame-ass video out of the spotlight box?
It's been a week and few people can give two shits about that pretentious albino.
incognito9887 1 year ago
@jdggearhead ONE NAME, liar-douchebag!
MEpianist 1 year ago
Wow I didn't know Australia did not allow FREEDOM OF SPEECH! That is a basic human right. I thought only barbaric, ignorant, backward countries tried to stop people from exercising basic human rights.
dejahthoris 1 year ago 3
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Tinysaad 1 year ago
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This guy raped two women in sweden. His fans don't care though.
waltereg0 1 year ago
@waltereg0 the charages of rape were withdrawn on aug 23, 2010... you can crawl back under your rock now worm.
baihbalm 1 year ago
@baihbalm baihbalm you're the one under a rock. The rape charges against Assange were reinstated on sept 1 2010. The victims maintained throughout that Assange forced himself on one of them. The other told him to stop when their condom broke and Assange refused.
Fans of his like you who refuse to even acknowledge this news sicken me.
waltereg0 1 year ago
@waltereg0 so guilty before proven otherwise... nice logic there idiot. I love how the prosecutors are overturning the case every other month. And yet, even without a shred of proof to his wrongdoing you automatically label him a rapist... you are truly ignorant to the process of law. It's innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around. Time for you to get an education, and please if the majority of people agree on this concept and it still makes you sick, then by all means be sick.
baihbalm 1 year ago 2
more like the fag blower
monsoonboy47 1 year ago
oh my, the united states did war stuff in the middle of war. morons
slapalib 1 year ago 37
@slapalib An invasion is not a war
ZA1Nable 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Rothbard continued "We must, therefore, emphasize that “we” are not the government; the government is not “us.” The government does not in any accurate sense “represent” the majority of the people. But, even if it did, even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Rothbard continued "Under this reasoning, any Jews
murdered by the Nazi government were not
murdered; instead, they must have “committed
suicide,” since they were the government
(which was democratically chosen), and, therefore,
anything the government did to them was
voluntary on their part. One would not think
it necessary to belabor this point, and yet the
overwhelming bulk of the people hold this fallacy
to a greater or lesser degree.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
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@jdggearhead As for 2, Murray Rothbard said in Anatomy of the State, available for free online here: snipurl(dot)com/1fo69z
If we are the government, then anything government does to a person is not only untyrannical but also 'voluntary' on the part of the individual concerned. If the government throws a man into jail for dissident opinion, then he is 'doing it to himself' and, therefore, nothing untoward has occurred....
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead "...neither shall you have its protections. From now on your legal status will be no different from that of a rabbit or any other wild animal outside the law." Then anyone could hunt him down and kill him or take his things or enslave him. It was none of the courts business. The victim might even hire a bounty hunter to track the criminal down and sell him as a beast of burden to other individuals or corporations.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Law and govt are different institutions and don't necessarily go together. Early common law judges had no connection with government. So could a criminal simply walk away? Yes and no. If they refused to pay restitution to the victim, the judge would use a procedure called outlawry. He'd say, "We will not force the law on you. But since you don't accept the responsibilities of the law...
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead This should work.
snipurl(dot)com/1fo20k
I have seen that video before. It is really inspiring. The problem is that most Americans believe in two things that are false. These two things cause them to believe that the US government is no different from the country of the USA. The two things are 1. The false idea that laws and the government are nearly the same thing. 2. The false idea that because we vote, "we are the government." Here is why 1 is false:
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Link might not have worked. View first page here and note there are two (dots):
mises(dot)org/Community/forums/t/20801(dot)aspx?PageIndex=1
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead I'm not saying that militias and reservists are the answer. Here is a little answer on the revolutionary war:
lewrockwell(dot)com/rothbard/rothbard171.html
Here is the answer for military:
mises(dot)org/daily/4021
And the chapters on the Police and War here:
mises(dot)org/rothbard/foranewlb.pdf
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
Wikileaks would be great if it made any difference, but the people here in the US are so fucking stupid (see below arguments) that no one will move on the information anyway. You could show our military and government doing any number of atrocities and we would accept any excuse they had for their actions. It's a great idea wasted on idiots. Continue on with your lib vs con argument, it's all meaningless drivel to keep you occupied while they fuck us and everyone else up the ass.
MrHomeChef 1 year ago 6
@jdggearhead I used to be a neo-conservative, Rush Limbaugh 24/7 member. I read all of Ann Coulter's books and would take bullets for the Republicans. Check out my reason for changing here. I'm Anarcho-libertarian:
mises(dot)org/Community/forums/p/20801/377465.aspx#377465
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead I'm not "blaming America," I'm blaming the US government. "It is the duty of every Patriot to protect his country from his government.” - Patrick “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death” Henry. “Where liberty is, there is my country.” - Benjamin Franklin
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Are you saying that Paul Wolfowitz is a moron? The man who was the Deputy Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush, a major architect of President Bush’s Iraq policy and its most hawkish advocate?
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead If the US stopped sending foreign aid to Israel and its enemies, it would actually strengthen the U.S. AND Israel, as well as end one of the greatest impetuses for terrorism:
Part 1: lewrockwell(dot)com/block/block88.html
Part 2: lewrockwell(dot)com/block/block89.html
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead How victory in the war in Iraq is a logical impossibility and an analysis of the fallacious line of thinking that “we’re fighting them over there so that we don’t have to fight them over here.” –lewrockwell(dot)com/vuk/vuk21.html
A partial list of past as well as some on-going American foreign policy interventions that have caused blowback:
lewrockwell(dot)com/cox/cox17.1.html
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead George W. Bush - “I’m not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say, ‘This is the way it’s got to be.’ I think one way for us to end up being viewed as the ‘ugly American’ is for us to go around the world saying, ‘We do it this way; so should you.’ I think the United States must be humble in how we treat nations that are figuring out how to chart their own course.”
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead But didn’t Muhammad describe the climax of Islam on earth as one in which the whole world would be Muslim? Michael Sceuer: "Yes, but there’s as much chance of that happening in any kind of foreseeable future as the application of the Golden Rule, and ‘turn the other cheek’ and ‘love thy neighbor’ in the Christian world. There’s no chance. Bin Laden is popular and his message resonates because it is a defensive message of ‘get out and leave us to our own problems.”
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Wikipedia entry on Blowback: "To the civilians suffering it, blowback typically manifests itself as “random” acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the public—in whose name the intelligence agency acted—are ignorant of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge (counter-attack) against them."
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Chalmers Johnson continued: Some Saudis protested and began to launch attacks against Americans and against the Saudi regime itself. In June 1996, terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden bombed the Khobar Towers apartments near Dhahran airport, killing nineteen American airmen and wounding scores more.”
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Chalmers Johnson continued: "The last straw as far as he was concerned was the way that ‘infidel’ American troops – around 35,000 of them – remained in Saudi Arabia after the first Gulf War to prop up the Saudis excessively wealthy and fiercely authoritarian regime. Devoutly Muslim citizens of that kingdom saw the troops’ presence as a humiliation to the country and an insult to their religion.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Chalmers Johnson continued: "It was only after the Russians had bombed Afghanistan back to the stone age and suffered a Vietnam-like defeat, and the United States had walked away from the death and destruction the CIA had helped cause, that Osama bin Laden turned against his American supporters.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
Chalmers Johnson, CIA Consultant in his book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire: The CIA supported Osama bin Laden, like so many other extreme fundamentalists in Afghanistan who were fighting Russia, from at least 1984 on.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Philip Giraldi, CIA Officer: “As the 9/11 commission report indicated, there were consequences for our presence in the Middle East and if we seriously want to address the terrorism problem we have to be serious about that issue. Giuliani indicated that he was not only not serious about that issue, but seemed to be ignorant of both the 9/11 Report and political realities in the Middle East.”
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@jdggearhead Congressman Paul continued: "And if it were true that we had to deal with the people most responsible for 9/11, it was not the Iraqis, it was not the Iranians, it was Saudi Arabia – 15 of them! So if you had to declare war, that is where you should have gone.”
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Wolfowitz Source: defense(dot)gov/transcripts/transcript(dot)aspx?transcriptid=2594
Congressman Ron Paul: “The confirmation of this whole idea of why they come here came from none other than Paul Wolfowitz. But what he doesn’t understand, as Michael Scheuer explains, is that the whole peninsula is holy land to the Muslims, including Iraq. So the fact that we don’t have troops right now in Saudi Arabia means nothing. We’re still over there, so the incentive is still there.
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@jdggearhead Wolfowitz continued: "In fact if you look at bin Laden, one of his principle grievances was the presence of so-called crusader forces on the holy land, Mecca and Medina. I think just lifting that burden from the Saudis is itself going to open the door to other positive things. I don’t want to speak in messianic terms. It’s not going to change things overnight, but it’s a huge improvement.”
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Paul Wolfowitz was a major architect of President Bushs Iraq policy and its most hawkish advocate. He said that a benefit of the invasion “that has gone by almost unnoticed-but it’s huge-is that by complete mutual agreement between the U.S. and the Saudi government we can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia. Their presence there over the last 12 years has been a source of enormous difficulty for a friendly government. It’s been a huge recruiting device for al Qaeda
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead Here is a picture of a Japanese protest of American bases: dailymail(dot)co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1247281/Thousands-protest-Tokyo-U-S-military-presence-Japan.html
Thousands of Americans gathered at a rally at Ground Zero on Aug. 22, 2010, angry at a mosque being built on what they consider holy ground. Imagine if instead of a mere mosque, it was an Islamic military base instead. That is how Muslims feel.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead 9-11 Commission Report, p. 51 - “Many Americans have wondered, ‘Why do they hate us?’ Bin Laden and al Qaeda have answered this question. America is held responsible for the governments of Muslim countries, ridiculed by al Qaeda as ‘your (Americas) agents,’ because of America’s support for their countries’ repressive rulers. Osama bin Laden: 'Our fight against these governments is not separate from our fight against you.'”
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@jdggearhead Chalmers Johnson, CIA Consultant - “The suicidal assassins of September 11, 2001 did not ‘attack America,’ as political leaders and news media in the United States have tried to maintain; they attacked American foreign policy. Employing the strategy of the weak, they killed innocent bystanders, whose innocence is, of course, no different from that of the civilians killed by American bombs in Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan and elsewhere.”
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@jdggearhead Texas Congressman Ron Paul -“Why do so many Americans feel as if we have a right to a military presence in some 160 countries when we wouldn’t stand for even one foreign base on our soil, for any reason? These are not embassies, mind you, these are military installations. The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would be if they were stationed in Texas. We would not stand for it here."
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@jdggearhead L. Vance - “In 2002, after two U.S. soldiers were acquitted by a U.S. military court in South Korea of negligent homicide in the deaths of two Korean schoolgirls, Koreans demonstrated, burned American flags, chanted anti-American slogans, and demanded that U.S. troops leave the country. Hatred of the United States is not a result of our freedoms and our values, it is a direct result of our intervention into the affairs of other countries and our military presence around the world.”
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@jdggearhead Michael Scheuer - “About the only thing that can hold together the very loose temporary alliance that Osama bin Laden has assembled is a common Muslim hatred for the impact of U.S. foreign policy…. They all agree they hate U.S. foreign policy. To the degree we change that policy in the interests of the United States, they become more and more focused on their local problems…”
ErikLiberty 1 year ago
@jdggearhead What made Osama bin Laden’s message attractive, on the other hand, was precisely that it was defensive in nature, focusing on specific grievances that resonated with his Muslim audience. That, and not a war against the West over its decadence, is what won recruits. In other words, we may in fact be dealing not with comic-book villains but with actual human beings.
ErikLiberty 1 year ago