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The only trial on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King found the US government guilty of his murder. Corporate media did not headline this news, and history textbooks excise this essential understanding of Dr. King’s life; providing an excellent case study of what the US Senate Church Committee disclosed as an active US propaganda program to disinform the American public. For comparison, please consider the corporate media coverage to inform in every detail of O.J. Simpson’s trials.
King’s family and attorney, Dr. William Pepper, allege that Dr. King’s speech for peace, calling upon America to end the Vietnam War, Beyond Vietnam: A time to break silence, and his plan for a 500,000 camp-in for Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1968 were a threat to dominant and fascist political factions within US government and caused orders for his assassination.
“For a quarter of a century, Bill Pepper conducted an independent investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. He opened his files to our family, encouraged us to speak with the witnesses, and represented our family in the civil trial against the conspirators. The jury affirmed his findings, providing our family with a long-sought sense of closure and peace, which had been denied by official disinformation and cover-ups. Now the findings of his exhaustive investigation and additional revelations from the trial are presented in the pages of this important book. We recommend it highly to everyone who seeks the truth about Dr. King's assassination.” — Coretta Scott King, Dr. King's wife.
Let’s explore Dr. King’s plan for peace, as outlined in his Christmas Sermon on Peace written five months before his execution by the US government, on audio below. We’ll contrast this plan for peace with the Bush and Obama policies for war with empty rhetoric for peace.
Dr. King saw four parts to peace, extolling that, “modern man really go all out to study the meaning of nonviolence, its philosophy and its strategy.”
- Human beings must identify with all of humanity, not one group dominating another: “we must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools…all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny.”
- “Men and nations must embrace the nonviolent affirmation that ends and means must cohere.” This point destroys President Obama’s Orwellian Nobel Peace Prize speech, talking about endless war and escalating aggression as effective strategies to achieve peace. “It's one of the strangest things that all the great military geniuses of the world have talked about peace. The conquerors of old who came killing in pursuit of peace, Alexander, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon, were akin in seeking a peaceful world order. If you will read Mein Kampf closely enough, you will discover that Hitler contended that everything he did in Germany was for peace. And the leaders of the world today talk eloquently about peace. Every time we drop our bombs in North Vietnam, President Johnson talks eloquently about peace.”
- “The nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God…when we truly believe in the sacredness of human personality, we won’t exploit people, we won’t trample over people with the iron feet of oppression, we won’t kill anybody.”
- “We must finally believe in the ultimate morality of the universe.” This point strikes at the heart of justice under the law rather than living in fear. The heart of Christianity is love; actively loving one’s neighbor as one’s self and trusting in God with love of all one’s heart, mind and spirit.
In contrast, the propaganda of Bush/Obama is empty rhetoric for American values, Christian values, and peace while escalating mass-murder from the world’s most powerful military. Dr. King wasn’t in political authority to act upon his plan, but “leadership” of Republicans and Democrats are. Let’s review their actions to determine the Orwellian distance between what they say and what they do:
- The US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are unlawful in Orwellian degree. If people invested the time they took to watch the Super Bowl to understand this single topic, these unlawful wars would end and the sacrifice of our forefathers to constrain impulse to tyranny under law finally realized. Along with explaining the letter and spirit of these laws in an easy way to understand, I’ve written two analogies to instantly connect with what everyone already understands about constraint of violent force.
- Because there was no justification for lawful wars, the US government manufactured propaganda to manipulate American public opinion to support war. From our own government’s disclosure of the evidence claimed, we now know all those reasons were known to be false as they were told to the American public.
- Escalating war in Pakistan with no attempt for peaceful resolution of conflict or reporting that the cause of conflict has much to do from the US unlawful invasions.
- Escalating war in Yemen with no attempt for peaceful actions.
- Escalating threats for war with Iran, including obvious lies that a Super Bowl investment of time would verify. Iran has never threatened Israel, and all IAEA inspections of their nuclear power facilities have found all fissionable material only being used for peaceful use and all equipment only capable for peaceful use and incapable of production of weapons.
- Official US war policy of first-strike use of nuclear weapons against Iran because of the two lies above promoting war; that is, the US authorizes nuking Iran if we feel someday they might threaten our national security or Israel’s.
- Escalating US military buildup around Iran.
- Rejection of Iran’s three offers for a nuclear fuel swap, allegedly the heart of US concern for peace, and instead calling for the same crippling sanctions that when imposed on Iraq killed hundreds of thousands of children.
- Escalating military budget, without a Department of Peace. This includes increasing our commitment to nuclear weapons development, an unlawful act. The U.S. spends more for war annually than all state governments combined spend for the health, education, welfare, and safety of 308 million Americans.
- Refusal to honor our commitment to save a million children’s lives dying from preventable poverty every month when just 0.7% of our GNI would save their lives while reducing population growth rates.
- Rhetoric for endless war, such as Obama’s “Peace” Prize speech: "We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth: We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes.''
- Obama devolving into speaking nonsense on the topic of Middle East peace (3-minute video below), and tragic-comic “Caribou Barbie” Sarah Palin encouraging Obama to unlawfully attack Iran without corporate media defense of the law prohibiting such mass murder. Consider Palin’s “greatest hits” in the 5-minute video below.
- Official US policy to torture and assassinate American citizens upon the dictate of the US government Fuhrer (German for leader).
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Local perspective: Part of my professional duties as a teacher of economics and government is to produce competent adult citizenry. This includes realization that our nation’s policies and money are managed at a broad community level, and these issues have tremendous local impact. Of course, we all want human beings to be individually successful and enjoy their unique, beautiful and powerful self-expressions. Concurrently, we recognize our commitment to local success is strongly dependent upon the success of the community, and that government policy and economics are drivers.
Our status in early 21st Century human history is that we suffer from a long history in government and money of human interrelationship well-described as vicious antagonism. Governments frequently use war as a foreign policy, despite its illegality and dependent upon public ignorance, with horrific consequences. Economic policy is still created within a “Robber Baron” paradigm to concentrate money to an elite few families. Two examples:
1. National taxes effect you dearly, especially the tax to pay interest on the national debt. This costs the American public over $400 billion every year. This is $4,000 per year for every $50,000 of income. Do the math to understand your household’s tax burden for a monetary policy invented by banks for banks to create our money supply as debt. Your competence in this area contributes to our collective voice to simply shift monetary policy to easily pay the national debt, enjoy full employment, collectively save us over a trillion dollars every year, and finally realize what our brightest American minds have been advocating for centuries beginning with Benjamin Franklin. This would have unprecedented local benefits, and requires collective power to accomplish.
2. Ending poverty everywhere on our planet would cost just 0.7% of our income and save a million children’s lives every month. This human accomplishment will cause unimaginable joy at our local level.
To consider:
"If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone and as long as we try, the more we are going to have war in the world. Now the judgment of God is upon us and we must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools."
--Inscription on Dr. Martin Luther King’s statue, Moorehouse College, Atlanta
"The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth, there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world on the day of that great revolution." -- poet Federico García Lorca
I appreciate your attention to these facts and encourage your further study and action consistent with your own self-expression. My recommendations:
Policy response: Gandhi and Martin Luther King advocated public understanding of the facts and non-cooperation with evil. I’m among hundreds who advocate:
- Understand the laws of war. These were legislated after WW2 and are crystal-clear that only self-defense, in a narrow legal meaning, can justify war. The current US wars are not even close to being lawful. Those involved with US military, government, and law enforcement have an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution, not “always place the mission first.” To fulfill their oath they must immediately refuse and end all orders associated with unlawful wars and military-related constant violation of treaties.
- End the transfer of trillions of American taxpayer money to banksters and admitted as “lost” by our military. End poverty through global cooperation to achieve the UN Millennium Goals by developed countries investing 0.7% of their income. Support global security through cooperation, dignity, justice, and freedom. Create a US Department of Peace to help.
- Communicate. Trust your unique, beautiful, and powerful self-expression to share as you feel appropriate. Understand that while many people are ready to embrace difficult facts, many are not. Anticipate that you will be attacked and prepare your virtuous response in the spirit of competition, just as you do in other fields.
- Prosecute the war leaders for obvious violation of the letter and spirit of US war laws. Because the crimes are so broad and deep, I recommend Truth and Reconciliation (T&R) to exchange full truth and return of stolen US assets for non-prosecution. This is the most expeditious way to understand and end all unlawful and harmful acts. Those who reject T&R are subject to prosecution.
Comments policy: I welcome questions and comments that are civil and pertain to the article topic. Impolite and impertinent comments will be deleted.
Please consider that I’m among hundreds of writers who have documented our own government’s disclosure of propaganda programs to support their wars. I suspect my articles are under such propagandistic attack from comments that use typical rhetorical fallacies to distract readers from the facts. I invite readers to sharpen their ability to discern such propaganda. They are characterized by a combination of: never addressing the facts, diverting attention through unsubstantiated belief in an alleged expert, irrelevant data, straw-man attack that distorts the facts, ad hominem attack of insults to the messenger, vile comments to repulse readers, and lies of omission and commission.
I will use such comments to point-out the propaganda or delete them at my discretion. Again, all relevant and polite questions, and factually accurate comments are welcome. As a professional educator I’m in agreement with my experience and research: we learn best from multiple perspectives in mutual commitment to understand the facts, see those facts from diverse points-of-view, and consider various policy proposals of what we should do.
For those involved in support of US government-sponsored disinformation, I invite you to consider the quality of human relationships you wish to work toward. National security and a brighter future is not a function of fear, manipulation, and control. Our best security follows cooperation, justice under the law, dignity, and freedom. Working for your best imagined self-expression of virtue may include a unique contribution from the inside of your agency. Public attraction to the stories of Star Wars and the Harry Potter books/movies recognize that our society’s jump to civilized relations for all of us might require support from people within the “dark side” acting as covert agents for building a brighter future. Another option is becoming a whistle-blower; Project Camelot is a popular venue for people in sensitive positions. Ultimately, I recommend a Truth and Reconciliation process to exchange full truth for no prosecution, explained in detail at the link. Please consider the wisdom of your own “Scrooge conversion” to act for the benefit of all humanity rather than your self-proclaimed controlling, manipulating, and loveless “masters.”
“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”
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The bad guys are in total control. We have is stuff like Martin Luthor Kkng's, “The nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God…when we truly believe in the sacredness of human personality, we won’t exploit people, we won’t trample over people with the iron feet of oppression, we won’t kill anybody.”
I am still trying to figure you out:
1. Are you Christian? Why such a focus on a moral universe?
2. Why peace? Why is it better than war?
3. Here’s my fundamental purpose: our viciously antagonistic human history continues by our collective will. If we wish, humanity can evolve into an unimaginable future of cooperation. Ending poverty has reduced population growth in every historical precedent. We have energy solutions that are suppressed for the oligarchs to keep their control. Our monetary system could be upgraded almost instantly to end our national debt and provide access to credit at non-profit rates with full employment. I would like humanity to live in mutual cooperation with our shared purpose to evolve as individuals, families, and communities.
4. Care to answer for yourself, Eugene? Do you see war as a necessity? How can peace be achieved? Is life fair? Are Christian teachings true in your experience? These questions are at the heart of Dr. King’s faith to go for peace, and in my observation also at the heart of “leadership’s” fears to prefer strong-armed control.
Cont: That is, we do get what we deserve in the long-run, with unpredictable short-run adventures. I do use the teachings of Jesus to hold declared Christians accountable to his commandment of love. My observation is political “leadership” are hypocrites and use religion to dupe naïve and well-meaning Christian Americans who project their good-faith effort of living Christian values onto their leaders and aren’t sharp enough to see their hypocrisy for themselves.
2. Peace and cooperation, justice under the law, dignity with unalienable rights, and freedom work for me. War is destructive, costly, evokes retaliation, and fundamentally severs us from each other. I prefer standing for love, Eugene. I observe 99% of people want competitive cooperation with love/respect rather than war. The one percent of destructive people should be isolated through rule of law and the cooperation of the 99% who want it that way.
Hi Eugene,
1. That’s complicated: I wrote a Christmas article on the known history of Christianity and find the evidence strongly indicates Jesus was an apocalyptic Jewish preacher who was executed for challenging the existing power structure. So I completely disagree with the Christian version of Jesus’ divinity. At the same time, I find the values as probable design functions for human beings in the areas of “do unto others,” the power of love, and that life is divinely managed and completely just no matter what we may perceive from our limited perspective. From what I can tell, the universe is “moral” in that we are beings of energy that attract and repulse from what we generate. More…
@Carl:
1. You are still a little vague here. Are you saying that some mystical force exists which defines morality? In other words, you have faith in the supernatural?
2. I absolutely disagree with you here. I think you are seeing your own worldview reflected back at you in that "99%" statistic. Competition, strife, combat are nature at its very basic. Everyone competes and fights, they have to be taught to be docile.
3. I hope you do not take offense if I tell you that this is basically pie-in-the-sky nonsense. In order for everyone to exist in a state of perfectly harmonious cooperation, everyone will have to be of an identical mindset. What you are describing here is an ant colony. Humans cannot be made to act like ants except by force. Likewise full employment means no one can choose not to work, or to achieve enough to no longer work. It is not achieveable without the use of coercion.
4. You and I are not even thinking on the same level. If you believe in the supernatural and absolute morality, my worldview is one you would instantly reject. The questions you ask, such as, is life fair? Are not even worth the breath to speak aloud in my opinion. "Fairness" is a human concept, invented by people and defined differently by all humans. The concept that nature and the universe somehow move in acordance with a principle like that is positively absurd and - since the definition is subjective - impossible. The universe is neither "fair" nor "unfair" - it just IS.
Cont: Real cooperation requires the surrender of the oligarchs of their domination of monetary policy, casino capitalism, wars of conquest, and their control of information. I’m sure there’s a coalition pushing for this evolution from control to cooperation; and there’s the very real stimulus of economic debt that seems to be a driver to the issue demanding resolution. The coalition in command seems to be pushing toward expanding the current war with Iran or forcing some kind of surrender that has nothing to do with the BS propaganda of their non-existent weapons program and their non-existent threat to Israel. This coalition might be overplaying their hand and be caught this time with an awakening public. We’ll see; these people are not constrained at all with a sense of unalienable rights, but many might jump ship for cooperation if they think their time in power is over.
Anything else, Eugene?
More…Cont: And if people don’t want to work, fine; 50+ cost-benefit studies all conclude it’s cheaper to house them, give them as much vegetable and protein soup they want, and send a nurse by once a week than to leave them in the streets. I think each of these proposals would win democratic votes when the facts are clear. We already have ant-colony mentality, Eugene; workers blindly doing their jobs when innovative breakthroughs such as the above three are right in front of us. I’m proposing unleashing diversity for our mutual enjoyment.
4. Fair enough, but the question remains the same: what future would you like to build? Coming back to our article subject, a CHOICE of cooperation that’s independent of any possible and improvable morality is a possible option. I’m proposing CHOICE to shift our history of vicious antagonism to cooperative competition. More…
Cont: I agree that people, especially men, are wired for competition. I love competition and propose cooperative competition for our best ideas to go forward and be rewarded. I also propose the acknowledgement of what Dr. King points to in his plan for peace that our mutual humanity be recognized and our competition shift to working for all of our success, perhaps similar to a sports team where we compete to help each other and all work for our improvement.
3. Let’s look: poverty can be ended with 0.7% of GNI and has reduced population growth rate in every case. The question is: shall we go for it? Upgrading our monetary system and ending the national debt is simple in structure, historically lauded, but crushed by oligarchs’ propaganda machines. These two are eminently practical. Government that connects needed work, available workers and available resources, like for infrastructure improvement, is insane if it isn’t done. More…
Eugene:
1. No force is mystical; if force is present it’s real. I observe that part of what religion contributes to humanity, and embodied by Dr. King, is yet-to-be-measured forces that roughly translate into “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” I have no way to prove this; it’s consistent with my experience, observations, and rings true for people we historically look to for the meaning of life. I feel and declare my highest self-expression is with people like Dr. King and unalienable rights. I act in “good faith” with that purpose.
2. Really? That’s what you observe among children, the people in the supermarket, different cultures when you travel? If so, so be it. In my history of teaching, Eugene, where I volunteered to teach in the roughest schools in inner-city Los Angeles, I had killers for students. Of the thousands I worked with, many would kill for honor and defense, but I only met one who said he enjoyed hurting people. More…
Eugene, ultimately it comes down to hiding behind the security provided by others.
As Heinlein put it: "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay -- and claims a halo for his dishonesty."
Or perhaps the better summary: "You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
@Carl
1. I'm not trying to appear snide hear, but you are describing faith, not fact. Yet-unproven-forces, beings of energy, karma etc. It is all, to be blunt, hocus pocus. I cannot accept any of your arguments in this regard because you are relying upon premises which cannot be proven - in effect, you are asking me to believe with faith and no proof. This is something a rational person should not do. Consider: whatever proof, evidence, subjective experiences you have had which lead you to this conclusion could be interpreted totally differently by someone else. Ergo, your premise is subjective; ergo, I cannot accept it.
2. I never said people must "enjoy hurting eachother" or anything like that. Again, you are injecting morality into the argument (and your basis for morality is, as explained in #1, subjective and unprovable). All organisms compete. The human organism cooperates when beneficial, but competition is the core of nature. What you call "peaceful cooperation" I call...
con't 2. brainwashed docile behavior. I am not being a cynic about human nature: all of nature turns on a wheel of strife.
3. It is impossible to restructure society to "eliminate" poverty. No socialist scheme has ever succeeded. What central planners fail to realize is that poverty is not 100% caused by social structure, it is created by choice. Those who will fight, prosper; those who will not, fall into poverty and are kept alive only by the charity (often enacted through governmental force) of others.
Even if I accept the cost-benefit studies you point out, what you are describing is essentially treating humans like animals; shelter them, water them and feed them daily. Why is this a desireable state of affairs? Why expend resources to care for those who will not care for themselves? Consider this: suppose I am unwilling to work to provide shelter and food for a drug abuser. What then? Will you force me then, to house him, feed him and clothe him? Is that not oppression?
con't 3. If we have an "ant colony" mentality, it is because the masses have been made docile. Taught to fear death, taught lies called "morality" and "cooperation." In other words, made afraid to seize what is rightfully theirs. The destruction of your boogeyman (the "oligarchy") cannot be achieved through cooperation, only through conflict.
4. There is no "choice." Conflict, combat, violence and competition are inevitable. Pretending human beings are somehow special and distinct from other organisms is arrogant and absurd. All organisms compete. We would never expect lions, insects, germs, wolves, birds etc. to stop competing - it would be hailed as "unnatural." Why should we be so different? Furthermore, the competition itself is the benefit: it creates strength, progress and opportunity. Eliminating the struggle is (a) unnatural (b) undesireable and (c) impossible anyway.
Snark:
Good luck with your philosophy of never having freedom and the victory of lawful peace. When we eliminate the hypocrisy of unlawful and endless wars wrapped in propaganda of “freedom,” we’ll see how far we can get with having both at once.
Cont: For your questions: we have policy choice for the homeless. It’s not forced upon anyone more or less than any other policy we empower representatives to vote and spend our taxes upon. You’re forced to pay for sidewalks because that policy got the votes. If housing the homeless gets the votes in your community, it’s just another policy that some will support and others not. These 50+ studies show most people leave these very small rooms and return to independence. I personally prefer their care over their suffering and the higher social costs of their vagrancy if they can’t fend for themselves for whatever reason. I would vote for this policy because I find it morally superior, it’s safer for all of us, it provides a more pleasant environment, and we save money.
There’s a similar moral and economic argument for ending US wars that I invite people to seriously consider, including from the frame of what they would like to receive; what they would like to have done to them.
Eugene:
I’ll conclude what I have to say on this topic: karma/golden rule/etc. is not provable, I agree. I’m not asking anyone to believe anything, merely answering your question regarding whether I’m Christian. I do recommend that people answer for themselves if the plan Dr. King presents makes sense for them.
We can disagree about the possibility of cooperative competition, ending poverty, and the power of our choice to extend globally what we all want locally for civil society. When the will of the public is represented in government, we’ll move forward with useful policy and useful lessons from errors. more...
Once again, you misinterpret what is said.
Me, I'm just happy to keep working toward improving the realtive ratio of peace & freedom.
@Carl:
I think we will, ultimately, simply have to agree to disagree. However, here are my closing remarks:
1. All of your justifications and reasons require the acceptance of a moral universe for which, you admit, you can provide no proof of. Essentially: faith. Since you rest your argumetns on faith, they cannot be held any more valid than any other faith-based arguments.
2. I just have to mention this: your plan for housing the homeless, sending in state-controlled medical personel and doling out protien and vitamin fortified gruel to them is essentially the same as putting them in prison. Is this your idea of moral superiority?
I find it amusing that you claim putting human beings in zoos is "not forced upon anyone more or less than any other policy we empower representatives to vote and spend our taxes upon." Could I not make the same claim about the war in Iraq? Or racial segregation? The power of the State should be limited, but socialism only expands it.
Cont:
The war in Iraq is unlawful from what we’ve already declared are the rules. If people want to pretend it’s ok, that’s their choice, but it doesn’t make it legal. Racial segregation was in Orwellian contradiction to the 14th Amendment, and people did pretend and use violence to enforce their refusal of what we declared in law.
“Socialism” is ad hominem; we do it all the time with any public good or service. This again is what we choose, based on our sense of morals, which we cannot prove but only express in good faith and learn from trial and error.
Tying back to the article, if people find what Martin declared as just as fitting their own sense of justice, then people should road-test those values.
Eugene:
No problem; competition requires opponents for each to be his best.
What we declare we are, Eugene, exists nowhere other than our stand for what we will create. We have American values of unalienable rights, limited government under law, but there is no reality to back this anymore than a reality to support fascism. It’s choice. True, I sense a divine hand, but this is independent of what we say goes for the form of government and how we will relate in our communities.
You strawman the findings of the US Interagency on Homelessness and the hard-won experience of what’s working in hundreds of US communities. Why do you do that when you’re such a smart guy? Why not look to see what they’ve found? What do you recommend we do about the homeless, Eugene?
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@Carl
"What we declare we are, Eugene, exists nowhere other than our stand for what we will create."
This is only true so long as we have the ability to enforce our will. You may speak of "unalienable rights, justice, the divine" but these things cannot be proven; only force is real.
Let us take the "right to life" for example. If someone kicks in your door with the intent to murder you, will that right protect you? Or will strength alone prevail? When terrorists outside our borders decide to slaughter us, will our "unalienable rights" be our shield and sword? Or does that require irresistable legions armed with the best science can offer?
That is my point Carl. It's best not to get hung up on imaginary, castle-in-the-sky inventions, but to accept reality and move on. Force alone controls the world and it cannot be changed.
As for the homeless, why do anything? Create a society with ample opportunity and let those who wish to seize it, seize it...
...Why force others to provide for those who refuse to provide for themselves? A man must shoulder his own burden, if he is forced to take on the burdens of others he will be unable to bear them and collapse under the weight. Ultimately, those who are able will be unable to bear the load and societal collapse will occur. If you need an example, look at the mounting deficits the US and Europe are experiencing. We spend 60%+ of our budget on social programs and only 20% on military (Europe is even more lopsided) so it is NOT defense spending which is bankrupting us.
I suggest we create a society of ample opportunity by getting government and societal engineers and central planners out of the way of the true innovators. Then, let those who wish to seize their opportunity, seize it. Why should I donate my sweat and blood to put "the poor downtrodden" in zoos?
Eugene:
With all respect, I think we're speaking past each other. However, whatever value this conversation has for readers is well articulated and here in the comments for their consideration.
I appreciate your consideration and expression on the important topic of essential policy of security and peace.
Enjoy the day, Eugene :)
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