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A Collection of Letters to the Editor written about various topics.

War in Syria

01 Sunday Sep 2013

Posted by myrthryn in Anarchism, Letters to the Editor

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Anarchy, China, empire, Government, Iran, NWO, Obama, oil, Russia, Syria, United States, War

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  With the line drawn in the Syrian sand, we find the Third World War at hand.  It isn’t just another skirmish to satisfy the oil-lust of this nation. Nor is it a small step for Uncle Sam in His Manifest Destiny for global control.  It is a last giant leap into the desperation of a nation headed to Third World status.
 
  The demise of the United States draws near quickly as there are other bullies in this playground for human lives, namely Russia and China. As in so many of its previous wars, this country has labored long to instigate a “just cause” to enter it. As these new shots are heard around the world, Russia and China will go to arms and pull the plug on this cesspool we call the American Economy and its way of life.
 
  Americans had a dream once, a dream of “Live and Let Live”.  The manifestation of that dream died with the birth of this grand ( and failing ) experiment in limited government called the United States.  Nevertheless, the ghost of that dream lingers on to provide a cover story for the injustices this nation metes out to the world.
 
  It is this injustice that brings the world to hate this nation. It has nothing to do with our freedoms, as they can’t exist alongside government.  It isn’t our wealth either, as we are a debtor nation flatlining unlike any other.
 
  There is a solution where one man isn’t forced to live for the sake of another.  It, however, is a work in progress. Its form and fruit remain unseen as long as the State continues to impede the progress of mankind to peace and freedom.
 
  This imperialist bully of a nation can not exist without the support of its citizenry.  Ganging up on this bully only lays the groundwork for another to take its place. We must not fear this monster. We must step completely away from the bully of government and starve it of our sweat, our blood, and our most precious things- our children.

State of the Union Address

22 Tuesday Jan 2013

Posted by myrthryn in Letters to the Editor, Uncategorized

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1984, Auschwitz, collectivism, freedom, Government, inaugural speech, Obama, Orwell, Politics, Social Security, socialism

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America has been in quite a decline in the last four years.  There are many indicators, yet I’d like to point out one in particular: the differences between the first and second inaugural addresses of Obama.

In both, one can see the obvious appeal to America’s “glorious” past and the greatness of its people. In the first, one sees a number of concerns to the citizens, such as health care costs, etc. Yet, the first is spoken more to Americans as individuals and that the greatness of the nation springs from them.

In the second, something else is raising its ugly head into full view : collectivism/socialism. This is apparent in such phrasing as “the preserving of individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.”

Upon a closer reading, one will find many of these things could have been written in Orwell’s 1984 as declarations made by the various Ministries:

Ministry of Peace (War) : “America…will renew the institutions that extend our capacity to manage crises abroad, for none has a greater stake in a PEACEFUL world than its most POWERFUL nation.”

Ministry of Plenty : “Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they do not make us a nation of takers.”

Ministry of Truth : “A decade of war is ending. An economic recovery has begun.”, “A free market only thrives when there are rules” , and “Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society’s ills can be cured through government alone.”

The Ministry of Love is in full swing since the passing of the National Defense Authorization Act which allows for indefinite detention of Americans without trial.

Last, and not least, let’s recall these words : “the wages of honest labor liberate(s) families from the brink of hardship”, “we must empower our citizens…to work harder” so that our nation “rewards the effort and determination of every single American.”

  Doesn’t this remind one of the slogan placed over the entrance of the German concentration camp, Auschwitz? : “Arbeit macht frei” or “Work will make you free”.

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Work Makes Free

Children are children, Everywhere

15 Saturday Dec 2012

Posted by myrthryn in Anarchism, Letters to the Editor

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Adam Lanza, Anarchism, children, Connecticut, Government, gun control, parenting, Sandy Hook, school shooting, Victoria Soto, violence, War

First of all, my heartfelt thoughts to the families of those involved in the unfortunate disaster in Connecticut.

It has galvanized people on both sides of the gun-control issue. The removal (at gunpoint) of firearms doesn’t solve the problem, as criminals (especially those of organized crime/government) will still have the guns to oppress the peaceful, who should be able to defend themselves by any means necessary.

The real issue here, isn’t too much gun-control or the lack of it.  It is much more basic: America is a country born and bred, from and for violence. We send a never-ending imperial force to the world at large. We frown on those who don’t “support our troops”. We mourn the fallen soldier who hasn’t protected anyone here, but rather has taken bloodshed to the militant and civilian populations world-wide with its near 900 bases in 130 countries.

Five children a day are murdered by their parents a day in the States. This amounts to just four days of death handed by parents to their children.

Yet, this pales to the death exported by this country and its companion the UN with its ruling elite. In 2000, a senior UN official stated that the sanctions imposed on Iraq killed a half million children under five years of age in just ten years. A UNICEF survey at the same time said that thousands were killed every month. Where was the public outrage then? We didn’t see it because it wasn’t our children, because they are on the other side of the world, and because none concern themselves with the patriotic slaughter of innocents so far removed. This psychopathic nation continues to ignore all the death it causes.

We have raised our children for far too long in this culture of war and oppression. Until we begin treating our children as well as we pretend we do, these atrocities will never end, but increase as the fruit of violence is more violence. We need our children to stop being the domesticated beasts of state and become masters of themselves. Only then will freedom ring true within the borders of this land.

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