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Thursday, October 20, 2011

The business of America used to be business, now it's death

glenn...
Every now and then it’s worth pausing to reflect on how often we talk about the killing of people by the U.S. Literally, the U.S. government is just continuously killing people in multiple countries around the world. Who else does that? Nobody — certainly nowhere near on this scale. The U.S. President expressly claims the power to target anyone he wants, anywhere in the world, for death, including his own citizens; he does it in total secrecy and with no oversight; and this power is not just asserted but routinely exercised. The U.S., over and over, eradicates people’s lives by the dozens from the sky, with bombs, with checkpoint shootings, with night raids — in far more places and far more frequently than any other nation or group on the planet. Those are just facts.

i'd really like it if civil liberties and endless war were to rise higher on the radar of the occupy wall street movement... behind the curtain, the financial motu's are an intimate part of the corporate military industrial government complex, and have a great deal invested in ensuring that endless war and the national security state continue unimpeded...

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