Reply #38: A few quotes for a blind republican [View All]

[el_gato]

I spent 33 years and 4 months in active service as a member of our country’s most agile military force – the Marine Corps…and during that period, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism… I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect money in. I helped in the raping of a half a dozen Central Amercan republics for the benefit of Wall Street… I helped purify Nicaragua for the the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-12. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American suger interests in 1916. I helped get Honduras “right” for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was operate in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents.

- Gen. S. Butler, USMC
Two time winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor




“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
(William Colby, former director of the CIA)

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's going to happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Oh, I mean, it's, not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
-Barbara Bush
March 18, 2003

"We are on the verge of global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."David Rockefeller to the United Nations Business Council in 1994
"Today the path to total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by Congress, the US President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government, a bureacratic elite which believes our Constitution is outmoded and is sure that it is the winning side. All the strange developments in foreign policy agreements may be traced to this group who are going to make us over to suit their pleasure. This political action group has its own local political support organizations, its own pressure groups, its own vested interests, its foothold within our government, and its own propaganda apparatus."- Senator William Jenner, 1954



"I know the secret of making the average American believe anything I want him to. Just let me control television. Americans are wired into their television sets. Over the last 30 years, they have come to look at their television sets and the images on the screen as reality. You put something on television and it becomes reality. If the world outside the television set contradicts the images, people start changing the world to make it more like the images and sounds of their television. Because its influence is so great, so pervasive, it has become part of our lives. You lose your sense of what is being done to you, but your mind is being shaped and molded." Hal Becker, The Futures Group



It's one thing to have your head up your ass, it's another thing to enjoy the view!!!
- someone on DU




The chairman of the entertainment giant Viacom said the reason was simple: Republican values are what U.S. companies need. Speaking to some of America's and Asia's top executives gathered for Forbes
magazine's annual Global CEO Conference, Mr. Redstone declared: "I look at the election from what's good for Viacom. I vote for what's good for Viacom. I vote, today, Viacom.

"I don't want to denigrate Kerry," he went on, "but from a Viacom
standpoint, the election of a Republican administration is a better
deal. Because the Republican administration has stood for many things we believe in, deregulation and so on. The Democrats are not bad people. . . . But from a Viacom standpoint, we believe the election of a Republican administration is better for our company."

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005669




Today American's would be outraged if troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government.
Henry Kissinger - May 21, 1992
in an address to the Bilderberg Organization Meeting, Evian, France

They... brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned. . . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features. . . They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane. . . They would make fine servants. . . With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.
Christopher Columbus
(from his log - referring to the
Arawak Indians of the Antilles)



. . . as in the case of the U.S. Constitution, we are more likely to make progress by pressing the existing instrument to the outer limits of its potentialities through creative use. . .
. . . The house of world order will have to be built from the bottom up rather than the top down. . . an end run around sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.
Richard N. Gardner - April, 1974, Foreign Affairs
from The Hard Road to World Order
(Council on Foreign Relation's Journal)




Only someone completely distrustful of all government would be opposed to what we are doing with surveillance cameras.
Howard Safir
NYC Police Commissioner - 1999


Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani - NYC
New York Times, March 17, 1994



"Saddam Hussein has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours."
Powell in Cairo on February 24, 2001

"We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt."
Condoleeza Rice, April 2001


"For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on."
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense May 28, 2003
(In case you don't know Wolfowitz is a member of PNAC, one of the key think tanks
that helped formulate current U.S. foreign policy.)