We Don't Have Democracy When It Comes To Foreign Policy

We don't have democracy when it comes to foreign policy. And we should. Spoken by a master of thought, Howard Zinn.

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[DaHonestAbe]

I really am beginning to think that whole "freedom" thing is a hoax.

[AAAPatriot]

Supreme Court justices are political appointees and they do the bidding of those who appointed them. RIGHT ON!

[RedTulie1]

It's NOT a democracy. Most of us have been brainwashed into parroting this word...it's a REPUBLIC. Otherwise, good comments by Zinn.

[fortnightshowcase]

Oh yes and Kerry too regardless that they did not deserve it. Have you ever seen the video of Kerry standing silent on a stage as a young man who campaigned for him

dkiscusses the stolen election and is then stunned with taser guns by some campus

corporate cops or whatever they were. Kerry just stood there said and did nothing.

If that kid had been a member of the Iranian Green-Reform movement and Kerry an Iranian politician do you think Fox and CNN would have had something to say about it?

[227Morgan]

@fortnightshowcase

Oh I completely agree. I was simply making the people that the American people rarely get what they vote for and almost never get what's actually in their interest. They didn't care to dispute the elections because they are supporting the same people as Bush, but the fact remains that the people elected Gore whether we would have helped anyone or not.

[fortnightshowcase]

@227Morgan

Al Gore did not care about the people or democracy nor did John Kerry

both elections were stolen and both candidates declared that internal ruling class

loyaly by refusing to challenge the theft. Those two elections were far more corrupt

than the disputed election in Iran but in Iran there was a massive protest and the

opposition candidate came out onto the streets with the people. While Gore and Kerry who faced no Iranians style punishment were still gutless cowards.

[7jerryv7]

There is overwhelming evidence that Bush had the intelligence community fabricate evidence to justify invading Iraq. The Nazis fabricated an attack by Poland to invade Poland (the Gleiwitz incident). Keep in mind that Hitler announced to his generals that he was also going to attack civilians. Such a man needed an excuse to start hostilities. We should be ashamed that a US President acted like Hitler. Fucking shameful.

[ddaly1]

@CWSmith1982 Once again, very vague. When I said "your opinion" I was referring to the fact that you said, "And its good that we dont." Also, whether it's the opinion of you or the founding fathers it's still an opinion nonetheless. The founding fathers of course had some self-interested reasons for setting up the framework of the country the way they did and regardless of what people like you believe they were most definitely not infallible

[HalfLifeFan91]

@HalfLifeFan91 - And don't forget, Karl Marx wrote letters to the REPUBLICAN President Abraham Lincoln. And the IWW Wobblies, and the Populists - socialists that campaigned and fought for the USA's often abused civil liberties.

And what was Zinn's contribution to the CPUSA? A lecture on the basics of Marxism... oh no... he was practically destroying America... lol

And don't give me that shit, Stalin had a larger population and a much larger country, so of course more people died.

[HalfLifeFan91]

@CWSmith1982 That's because it is a cult, they were racist leeches who benefited off the murder of Native Americans and European Americans while they were British aristocrats.

Oh no! Eeeeeeek! He was a member of the CPUSA! Run for the hills!

So what? Many people at that time were members of socialist and communist parties, or sympathisers - Mother Jones, Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein, John Reed, Eugene Debs, Paul Robeson. Debs had plenty of nationwide support back in his day...

[CWSmith1982]

@HalfLifeFan91 Of course you would call the founding fathers a cult and dismiss them as anything other than the virtue they represent. Your in love with Zinn, a man who's FBI documents (that were just released under the freedom of information act) showed that he was a card carrying member of the radical Communist Party USA as they were being funded by the USSR under a man that murdered more of his own people than Hitler. If thats what he advocates then I question his motives and his history.

[CWSmith1982]

@ddaly1 No. thats the opinion of our founders. Thats a fact. thats why they wrote it in the constitution.