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The Mother of all Empires is done with...

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Thomas Jefferson declared the American way of interacting with the world to be "Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship with all Nations – Entangling Alliances with none." However, over the past seven decades, the US Government turned this admonition on its head.

Peace? The US Government has waged Wars of choice almost constantly since the end of World War II. It has distributed Death and Destruction around the world for nearly 70 years straight in Overt Warfare, Covert Warfare, Coup D’états, Assassinations, Cold Wars, Drone Wars, etc.

Commerce? Through Sanctions and Embargoes, the US Government has carried out Economic Warfare against entire Countries due to Political disagreements with their Leaders. This resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents who were denied the opportunity to buy Goods and Services from the rest of the world. It also prohibited the ability of Americans to Travel and Trade freely.

Honest Friendship? The US Government has cynically manipulated Nations into serving its purposes for decades. It propped up Foreign Dictators and Oligarchs when Government Officials deem that they benefit their objectives. It has overthrown Democratically Elected leaders and installed Puppets who will serve its agenda. It has created so many Entangling Alliances that the entire world is laid with Tripwires that could pull the United States into conflicts at any moment.

The complete abandonment of Jefferson’s foreign policy prescription has been devastating to Americans who value Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Just in the time since WWII, over 100,000 US Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines died in Warfare and hundreds of thousands more were wounded. US Veterans kill themselves at more than double the civilian suicide rate (this number includes almost one active duty soldier suicide per day). Nearly 3,000 innocent Americans were murdered on September 11th 2001, caught up in Blowback and Unintended Consequences from their US Government’s Foreign Policy and the hatred it breeds. Saudi Arabia and their policies with the United States is the EMBODIMENT of all of this, the truth is out and let the chips fall wherever they may. After all, TRUTH IS TREASON IN AN EMPIRE OF LIES...Frankly, there should NO Sovereign Immunity for any country around the world that commits Crimes against Humanity and therefore Crimes against the Peace. Everything with the REAL truth of the September 11th 2001 Terrorist Attacks was exposed for all to see and the American Public's wrath will be Fast and Furious!

Warfare steadily eroded American Liberty and Freedom and has nearly eliminated the Bill of Rights. The deceptively named Patriot Act led to the most expansive Surveillance Apparatus in World History. The NSA collects billions of Phone Calls, Emails and Cell Phone location records every month without a warrant or even probable cause. The notion of being secure in one’s Person and Property from Government intrusion is virtually gone.

The massive cost of Warfare requires Americans to pay an ever-increasing tab. The Federal Reserve causes Inflation to fund unaffordable Wars of Aggression and Attrition, which secretly picks the pockets of every American. Each person in the US is tethered to an ever-growing $38 Trillion in Debt (war related) and must pay for the hundreds of Billions of Dollars as in annual interest on Warfare Debt. The U.S. has still not paid off its Debt from the first World War.

James Madison recognized the dire threat that Warfare poses to a Free Society:

Of all the enemies to Public Liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of Armies; from these proceed Debts and Taxes; and Armies, and Debts, and Taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

He concluded by saying, "No Nation could preserve its Freedom in the midst of continual Warfare."

It is in the interest of every American to understand why Warfare is dangerous to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Taking a stand against Warfare, and particularly against unconstitutional, unnecessary, unjust wars (which are the only kind we have seen for seven decades or more), is very much in keeping with what it actually means to be an American.
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My understanding is that the fledgling USA during the Jefferson presidency didn’t have the military strength to take on Great Britain or France (or Spain for that matter) and wanted desperately to stay neutral during the European wars (napoleonic wars) — it had enough trouble dealing with pirates from Tripoli. Jefferson’s wish for peace was self serving and he later in life admitted that the USA had to be better prepared militarily because other nations aren’t always peaceably inclined.