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PATRIOTISM DEFINED BY THE GREATS

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PATRIOTISM DEFINED BY THE GREATS AND SOME OTHERS:

DEFINE PATRIOT = A person defends individual rights against presumed interference by the federal government + A person who defends his Nation that honors human freedom.

patrick-henry LIBERTY OR DEATH

“Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving Offense, I should consider myself as guilty of TREASON towards my COUNTRY..”

— Patrick Henry

“PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the GOVERNMENT and one’s ‘COUNTRY’; 2) A highly praiseworthy VIRTUE characterized by the desire to DOMINATE and KILL; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced when contemplating heaps of charred ‘enemy’ CORPSES; 4) The first, last, and perennial refuge of scoundrels.”

—Chaz Bufe, The DEVIL’s Dictionaries

“If what your COUNTRY is doing seems to you practically and MORALLY wrong, is dissent the highest form of PATRIOTISM?”

— HOWARD ZINN, historian and author

“In the beginning of a change the PATRIOT is a scarce man, and brave, and HATED and SCORNED. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a PATRIOT.”

— Mark Twain

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

— George Bernard Shaw.

“PATRIOTISM is supporting your COUNTRY all the time, and your GOVERNMENT when it deserves it.”

— Mark Twain

“Guard against the impostures of pretended PATRIOTISM.”

— President GEORGE Washington

“That we are to stand by the president (or Congress), right or wrong is not only UNPATRIOTIC and SERVILE, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

— President THEORDORE ROOSEVELT (R)

“PATRIOTISM means to stand by the COUNTRY. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official…”

— President Theodore Roosevelt (R)

“PATRIOTISM is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a BLIND desire for safety and SECURITY.

— RON PauI (R) In the Name of PATRIOTISM May 22, 2007

“The ideal of PATRIOTISM is taught to citizens of every NATION as soon as they enter kindergarten. Being gradually reinforced all through school, PATRIOTISM becomes ingrained. Most citizens accept PATRIOTISM as they accept grass being green – just a natural aspect of their lives. But PATRIOTISM isn’t natural, though it has ancient roots. Few ever consider the shadowed caverns of the mind those roots penetrate.”

— Albert Einstein, having experienced NAZI Germany, called PATRIOTISM “a loathsome nonsense.”

“PATRIOTISM is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

– Samuel Johnson

“A PATRIOT must always be ready to defend his COUNTRY against his GOVERNMENT.”

— Edward Abbey, Born Again PATRIOTS

“Understanding PATRIOTISM demands being informed beyond what standard schooling teaches and mass media conveys.”

— Lew Paz

“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of PATRIOTISM.”

— HOWARD Thurman

“The issue is … whether we want to live in a free SOCIETY or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form of self-imposed totalitarianism, with the bewildered herd marginalized, directed elsewhere, terrified, screaming PATRIOTIC slogans, fearing for their lives and admiring with awe the leader who saved them from destruction while the educated masses goose-step on command, repeat the slogans they’re supposed to repeat, the SOCIETY deteriorates at HOME, we end up serving as a mercenary enforcer state, hoping that others are going to pay us to smash up the WORLD. Those are the choices. That’s the choice that you have to face. The answer to those questions is very much in the hands of people exactly like you and me.”

— NOAM CHOMSKY

“Whether or not PATRIOTISM is the last refuge of the scoundrel, NATIONAL SECURITY can be the last refuge of the tyrant.”

— LORD Walker of Gestingthorpe 1/14/O5

“PATRIOTISM consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our COUNTRY shall be righteous as well as strong.”

— James Bryce

The PATRIOT ACT KILLED PATRIOTISM!

“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the Ieaders…tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of PATRIOTISM and EXPOSING the COUNTRY to danger.”

— Herman GOERING – GERMANY

“When a GOVERNMENT is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the GOVERNMENT CONTROL(s)… Money has no MOTHERLAND; financiers are without PATRIOTISM and without decency; their sole object is gain.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Money has no motherland; financiers are without PATRIOTISM and without decency; their sole object is gain.” THEY Finance both sides of every war!

— Napoleon Bonaparte – This CRIMINAL understood

“If the test of PATRIOTISM comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formuIa for DICTATORSHIP, – not democracy…”

— MICHAEL PARENTI

“It’s a curious characteristic of American PATRIOTISM, in fact, that most of us think we’re more PATRIOTIC than the next guy. In surveys, Americans greatly exaggerate the “PATRIOTISM gap,” dramatically underestimating the proportion of their COUNTRYMEN who say they’re extremely PATRIOTIC. In a recent Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll, two-thirds of us – and 8O% of Republicans – claim to be more PAT’RlOTIC than the average American. In short, we like to think that PATRIOTISM is a lot more exceptional than it actually is.”

— Geoffrey Nunberg

“GEORGE W. Bush and cohorts are concerned with scaring people and accusing those who criticize them as being UNPATRIOTIC to gain votes. In reality, the GEORGE W. Bush administration and those who support it are the UNPATRIOTIC ones by creating a war based on lies and spending billions of dollars that could have been used to PROTECT us at HOME.”

— Amy A. Schwab

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who goes on ‘crusades’.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who supports corporate monopolies.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who declares war on the common man.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who takes from the POOR and gives to the wealthy.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who lusts for POWER.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who declares war.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who grubs after material wealth.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who makes sure his buddies get good GOVERNMENT jobs.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who makes sure his buddies corporations land no-bid GOVERNMENT contracts.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who fails to enforce laws of his COUNTRY that are inconvenient to his buddies.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who allows his buddies to spoil the ‘commons’ with toxic waste.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who worships a patriarchal image of GOD.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who ‘bends the rules’ as the ends justifies the means.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who is in inflexible because inflexibility is seen as a sign of weakness.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one that has been born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who works under cover of darkness to hide his secrets.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one that uses fear and terror to increase his political fortunes.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who expertly stages ‘citizen’ ‘city hall’ meetings.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who expertly stages ‘mission accomplished’ entrances.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who knows what is best for his citizens.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who fears educated citizens.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one prefers ‘pseudoscientific babble’ to real science.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who uses propaganda to further political objectives.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who has underlings commit crimes and then grants pardons in order to keep underlings from squealing like stuck pigs.

A PATRIOT is not defined as one who grants a pardon to a political supporter who kills endangered and PROTECTED NATIONAL symbols – bald eagles.

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WHAT OBAMA SHOULD HAVE SAID ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY IN USA STATE OF THE UNION

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WHAT OBAMA SHOULD HAVE SAID ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY IN USA STATE OF THE UNION

STATE OF UNION 2015

ON DOMESTIC POLICY YOU CAN FIND FAULTS BUT ALSO BIG PROGRESS AGAINST GOP COLLAPSE!

ON FOREIGN POLICY ALMOST ALL OF IT WAS BAD FOR AMERICANS!

Commander-in-Chief = Defend USA Shores – Good Idea if we are attacked.

Commander-in-Chief = WAR = ?? America leads world with our $Trillions in military = BIG ARMIES = Unnecessary conflicts + MAKE AMERICA LESS SAFE

Commander-in-Chief = Smarter American leadership is use NATO for AUTOMATED WARS without Congress or American People.

Commander-in-Chief = Combine INTIMIDATION of military power with diplomacy = Leverage power with coalition building to prevent CAUTION from blinding CORPORATE or AIPAC-ISRAEL’s opportunities in new century + USE CITY OF LONDON + AIPAC-WALL STREET TO DESTROY ECONOMIES

“We Americans have NO COMMlSSlON from GOD to poIice the worId.”

 — President Benjamin Harrison (R)

POLICING THE WORLD = Commander-in-Chief = USA unified with nations targeted by terrorists = Pakistan + Paris = WAR ON TERROR = Hunt down terrorists and dismantle their networks + act with NO ONE SUPPORTING us + taking out terrorists who threaten our allies (ISRAEL + UK) + Trained others security forces (FUTURE ENEMIES) instead of sending large ground forces

POLICING THE WORLD = Commander-in-Chief = IGNORES SAUDI ARABIA FUNDED ISIS(L) but uses USA BOMBING to stop ISIL’s advance in Syria = NO BOMBING OF SAUDI ARABIA WHO FUNDED 9ll ALSO! + USA like SAUDIS are FUNDING MORE TERRORIST TRAINING CAMPS USING GULF OIL DICTATORS! = ALL FUNDED BY AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS!

POLICING THE WORLD = Commander-in-Chief = USA aligns with NAZIS and other radicals to overthrow Ukraine in favor of FAR-RIGHT OLIGARCHS. USA surrounding Russia + imposing Sanctions + Using City of London/Wall Street/Saudi Arabian OIL PRICE MANIPULATIONS to try to DESTROY Russia’s Economy. Blaming Putin for aggression as NATO/USA tries to strangle RUSSIA.

POLICING THE WORLD = Commander-in-Chief = Diplomacy with Iran and its nuclear program to orient it toward peaceful generation of power. But new sanctions passed by this Congress, at this moment in time, will all but guarantee that diplomacy fails. That is why I will veto any new sanctions bill.

POLICING THE WORLD = Commander-in-Chief = False Flag excuses for fighting hackers are used for corporate/GOV terrorism against freedom of the Internet by NSA and the other 15 USA spy agencies = Use faked threats of cyber-attacks.

POLICING THE WORLD = Commander-in-Chief = West Africa Ebola deaths due to unsanitary policies were used to have USA TROOPS invade. The False Flag hype and fear that it was going to kill us all was done by USA GOV/MEDIA. Some threatened all Americans would be killed. FAKED QUARANTINE CALLED BY BRAVE NURSE! NO CASES EVER FOUND IN USA!

POLICING THE WORLD = Commander-in-Chief = After USA-NATO PUSHED RUSSIA into the ARMS OF CHINA now Asia Pacific is USA TARGET for alliances with a

Commander-in-Chief = ISRAEL’S STAGGERING COSTS TO AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS MUST END! = Israel costs the US about $1.6 trillion between 1973 and 2003 alone! + COST OF DEATH AND HATRED = DIVORCE OF USA FROM ISRAEL IS GREATLY IN DEMAND AND NEEDED = Former director of the CIA’s bin Laden unit testifying before Congress = USA must end our Relationship with ISRAEL.

Commander-in-Chief = ISRAEL REBUFFED TWICE BY EUROPEAN UNION = ISRAELIS TERRORISM AND MASS CHILD MURDERS OF 630 PALESTINIAN CHILDREN IN 5 WEEKS = 126+CHILDREN MURDERED/WEEK — MANY IN UN PROTECTED SCHOOLS = ISRAELIS SAY THEY’RE JUST “MOWING THE LAWN”

PROPOSED TRADE DEAL TO GIVE CORPORATIONS DOMINATION OVER NATIONS! MORE LOST American citizen rights and freedoms taken by MULTINATIONAL DICTATOR CORPORATIONS that care ZERO about PEOPLE!

FUTURE = American GOV commits to minimizing carbon pollution and limiting emissions and stop global warming — Scientific fact military verified.

FUTURE = Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES do Americans or USA GOV TORTURE including enhanced interrogation and water boarding or worse.
FUTURE = Profound commitment to EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL UNDER THE LAW including POLICE OFFICERS and civilians of all races.

FUTURE = ALL of our 239 year old Freedoms and Rights and other hard fought for liberties are reaffirmed and MAXIMIZED per our Constitution and Bill of Rights = END the 16 SPY AGENCY surveillance STATE and POLICE STATE = FULL transparency and 100% safeguards against GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATE ABUSE. 

FUTURE = END THE BULL CHIOT OF American Exceptionalism, World Policemen, and Supremacy of one over another. THERE SHOULD BE NO MORE DAMAGED VETERANS! STOP THE FAKED WARS EXCEPT FOR STOPPING MASS INVASION!

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OBAMA HIGHLIGHTS OF 2015 STATE OF UNION

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OBAMA HIGHLIGHTS OF 2015 STATE OF UNION:

STATE OF UNION 2015

OBAMA HIGHLIGHTS OF 2015 STATE OF UNION:

15 years of terror touching our shores = Fighting two long and costly wars

Vicious GOP recession spread across our nation and the world.

2014 = Breakthrough year for USA Economy growing & creating jobs — 1999

2014 = Lower unemployment rate than before the financial crisis

Since 2010 = America put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined + 800,000 new manufacturing jobs

2014 = More kids graduating than ever before

2014 = Younger students earned highest math & reading scores on record

2014 = Our high school graduation rate hit an all-time high

2014 = More Americans finish college than ever before

2015 = More people with health Insured than ever before = 10 Million

2015 = Best Freedom from Saudi Terrorist Oil in almost 30 years.

2014 = Fastest economic growth in 10+ YEARS as our deficits decline 67%

2014 = Lowest health care inflation rate in fifty years

2015 = First time since 9/11 Saudi attack that Afghanistan combat is over

2015 = Shrinking deficits + Bustling industry + New Green Energy =

2015 = Great Bush Repression is OVER = Better future ahead

2015 = America is number one in oil, gas, and wind power

2014 = Planet’s warmest year on record with 14 of 15 warmest years on record since 2000

2015 = Cuba after 50 years a policy shift to end restrictions on Cuba and soon end the embargo.

FUTURE = Commit to an economy that generates rising incomes and chances for ALL = NOT JUST A FEW ELITISTS

FUTURE = No oppressive wars that set back our NATION

FUTURE = Defeat threats and protect our planet with a common purpose

FUTURE = Reverse the tide of job outsourcing and create new jobs in USA

FUTURE = Build every three weeks as much solar power as we did in 2008

FUTURE = Sensible regulations prevent another financial crisis = Save families from ruin

FUTURE = Less Monopolies and encourage more free and fair competition

FUTURE = New consumer watchdog protects us from predatory credit practices

FUTURE = Extend Middle-class economics = Expand opportunities for ALL

FUTURE = Fix our immigration system

FUTURE = Wages must rise with productivity

FUTURE = Create leveraged stepping-stones for families and our youth to build a strong Middle Class and End Poverty

FUTURE = Everyone gets their fair shot + fair share + plays by same rules + contributes to all our successes = Families are more secure in a world of constant change.

FUTURE = Help for Families with childcare + college + home + retirement + tax cut by $3,000/child/year + Guarantee paid sick leave or paid maternity leave to workers + equal pay for women + overtime pay + min wage

FUTURE = Strengthen unions to give American workers a voice

FUTURE = Stepping-stone for Americans to upgrade their skills with $0 community college cost = chance to graduate ready for the new economy

FUTURE = 21st century infrastructure – modern ports, stronger bridges, faster trains and the fastest internet = Creates strong jobs for decades

BEWARE OF ANY TRADE DEALS THAT GIVE CORPORATIONS ANY POWERS OVER NATIONS.  CORPORATIONS HAVE PROVED THERE CUT THROAT AIMS

FUTURE = 21st century businesses need American science, technology, research and development.

FUTURE = SCIENCE used to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes = NOT to line WALL STREET + BIG PHARMA POCKETS

FUTURE = A FREE protected and open internet for ALL for next generation of digital innovators and entrepreneurs to keep reshaping our world.

FUTURE = Re-energized space program to send Americans to Mars+Beyond

FUTURE = Fair share of taxes paid by ALL including BIG corporations = END Lobbyists writing rigged tax code with 14,000 loopholes for SUPER-RICH and Corporations = Riddled with giveaways to Super-Rich LIKE OFF-SHORING = MADE FAIR

WAR EVENTS 2009 to 2015 = DESTROYED LIBYA + SYRIA + EGYPT’s Elected Democracy + BOMBED YEMEN + BOMBED Iraq again + ….

Commander-in-Chief = Defend USA Shores

Commander-in-Chief = WAR = ?? America leads world with our $Trillions in military = BIG ARMIES = Unnecessary conflicts + MAKE AMERICA LESS SAFE

Commander-in-Chief = Smarter American leadership is use NATO for AUTOMATED WARS without Congress or American People.

Commander-in-Chief = Combine INTIMIDATION of military power with diplomacy = Leverage power with coalition building to prevent CAUTION from blinding CORPORATE or AIPAC-ISRAEL’s opportunities in new century + USE CITY OF LONDON + AIPAC-WALL STREET TO DESTROY ECONOMIES

“We Americans have NO COMMlSSlON from GOD to poIice the worId.”

 — President Benjamin Harrison (R)

POLICING THE WORLD = Commander-in-Chief = USA unified with nations targeted by terrorists = Pakistan + Paris = WAR ON TERROR = Hunt down terrorists and dismantle their networks + act with NO ONE SUPPORTING us + taking out terrorists who threaten our allies (ISRAEL + UK) + Trained others security forces (FUTURE ENEMIES) instead of sending large ground forces

POLICING THE WORLD = Commander-in-Chief = IGNORES SAUDI ARABIA FUNDED ISIS(L) but uses USA BOMBING to stop ISIL’s advance in Syria = NO BOMBING OF SAUDI ARABIA WHO FUNDED 9ll ALSO! + USA like SAUDIS are FUNDING MORE TERRORIST TRAINING CAMPS USING GULF OIL DICTATORS! = ALL FUNDED BY AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS!

POLICING THE WORLD = Commander-in-Chief = USA aligns with NAZIS and other radicals to overthrow Ukraine in favor of FAR-RIGHT OLIGARCHS. USA surrounding Russia + imposing Sanctions + Using City of London/Wall Street/Saudi Arabian OIL PRICE MANIPULATIONS to try to DESTROY Russia’s Economy. Blaming Putin for aggression as NATO/USA tries to strangle RUSSIA.

POLICING THE WORLD = Commander-in-Chief = Diplomacy with Iran and its nuclear program to orient it toward peaceful generation of power. But new sanctions passed by this Congress, at this moment in time, will all but guarantee that diplomacy fails. That is why I will veto any new sanctions bill.

POLICING THE WORLD = Commander-in-Chief = False Flag excuses for fighting hackers are used for corporate/GOV terrorism against freedom of the Internet by NSA and the other 15 USA spy agencies = Use faked threats of cyber-attacks.

POLICING THE WORLD = Commander-in-Chief = West Africa Ebola deaths due to unsanitary policies were used to have USA TROOPS invade. The False Flag hype and fear that it was going to kill us all was done by USA GOV/MEDIA. Some threatened all Americans would be killed. FAKED QUARANTINE CALLED BY BRAVE NURSE! NO CASES EVER FOUND IN USA!

POLICING THE WORLD = Commander-in-Chief = After USA-NATO PUSHED RUSSIA into the ARMS OF CHINA now Asia Pacific is USA TARGET for alliances with a PROPOSED TRADE DEAL TO GIVE CORPORATIONS DOMINATION OVER NATIONS! MORE LOST American citizen rights and freedoms taken by MULTINATIONAL DICTATOR CORPORATIONS that care ZERO about PEOPLE!

FUTURE = American GOV commits to minimizing carbon pollution and limiting emissions and stop global warming — Scientific fact military verified.

FUTURE = Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES do Americans or USA GOV TORTURE including enhanced interrogation and water boarding or worse.
FUTURE = Profound commitment to EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL UNDER THE LAW including POLICE OFFICERS and civilians of all races.

FUTURE = ALL of our 239 year old Freedoms and Rights and other hard fought for liberties are reaffirmed and MAXIMIZED per our Constitution and Bill of Rights = END the 16 SPY AGENCY surveillance STATE and POLICE STATE = FULL transparency and 100% safeguards against GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATE ABUSE. 

FUTURE = END THE BULL CHIOT OF American Exceptionalism, World Policemen, and Supremacy of one over another. THERE SHOULD BE NO MORE DAMAGED VETERANS! STOP THE FAKED WARS EXCEPT FOR STOPPING MASS INVASION!