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War profiteers are guilty of crimes against humanity and the government is full of their co-conspirator pansy lap dogs. Directly below is a short video and an article explaining the kind of profits government sanctioned criminals are making in the 1st quarter of 2012, over 10 years since the false flag inside job 9/11 operation Vigilant Warrior attacks:
This week, the three military contractors that do the most business with the Pentagon announced their quarterly profits for 2012. Their profits continue to grow while they push Washington, D.C. to protect their budgets at the expense of the rest of us.
This week’s announcement raises a fundamental question: Should people and companies be allowed to make huge profits from war? Even raising this question in today’s environment may seem trite, but we used to have different answers than those that prevail in modern-day Washington, D.C.
“Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen mouldering the dust.” –President Abraham Lincoln.
This last quote is particularly relevant to this week’s profit announcements. Lincoln referred to war profiteers making money by cheating the Union Army. Outrage at war profiteering during this period led to the passage of “Lincoln’s Law,” officially known as the False Claims Act. The False Claims Act is the very same law that two of the companies listed above, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, violated through price-fixing and double-billing the taxpayer, leading to their having to pay roughly $20 million in the first quarter of 2012 to settle suits brought by the U.S. government.
During Roosevelt’s time, the idea of a single contractor company making almost a billion dollars worth of profit in three months would have received short shrift. As Roosevelt’s quote above shows, the idea of people profiting from war’s “disaster” disgusted him, and during his presidency the Truman Committee relentlessly investigated and exposed war profiteers. The closest analogy in our time would be the Committee on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, which found that up to $60 billion (as of September 2011) was lost to waste and fraud in military contracting in those conflicts.
And yet, despite this historical lack of patience for war profiteering, and despite the current record showing gross misconduct and waste, the U.S. government keeps shoveling taxpayer money at these huge corporations. Could it be that the $5 million in campaign donations and $32 million in lobbying dollars so far this election cycle from the military contractors keep Congress intentionally ignorant of the problem?
President George Washington knew a few things about war profiteers, and he didn’t mince words:
“There is such a thirst for gain [among military suppliers]…that it is enough to make one curse their own Species, for possessing so little virtue and patriotism.”
As long as we continue to allow the profit motive to play a role in America’s war, virtue and patriotism–to say nothing of peace–will continue to be in short supply.
Occupy Haywardin SOLIDARITY with Occupy Wall St. and Freedom Plaza:
I know this is a rather late notice but a Peace North member, called for a gathering on the corner of Highways 63 and 27 South this Saturday October 15th at 12 noon. I think their idea to stand on and occupy our corner, from at least 12:00 to 1:00, this Saturday is a good idea, we should express SOLIDARITY with those who are occupying Wall Street http://occupywallst.org/ and the Freedom Plaza "Human Needs not Corporate Greed", occupation in Washington DC http://october2011.org/
Thank you all for standing in solidarity with the cause of peace and justice.
Occupy Wall Street
Thank you, people of occupywallstreet.org; for peacefully bringing the war to where the headquarters of war profiteering are. The elite that bought our government do not want to pay taxes, but they are happy to take our tax dollars through no bid government contracts. We need an agenda and real demands. 1.) Sever the agreement the government made with the international banksters called the Federal Reserve; print United States dollars based on the collective wealth and assets of the nation. 2.) Investigate 9/11/01 and bring the war profiteers, so obviously guilty of crimes against nation and humanity to justice. 3.) Force all officials who so obviously violate the constitution on a routine daily business as usual basis out of office including, Obama and a majority of the administration, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, war profiteer Daine Feinstein, the majority of the house and Senate, most of the Supreme Court. They so obvoisly bow to the bull of the Wall Street Mammon god and are treasonous to nation and humanity. 4.) After the treasonous criminals are out we must organize a constitutional convention so war profiteering and manipulation of our monetary system to enslave us rather than money being a legitimate means of exchange of goods and services can never occur again. 5.) 2012 vote in people that believe in Direct Participatory Democracy so the people can vote directly on law and appropriations, see http://whatisdemocracy.org and http://wis7thdpd.org No matter what their religious views are, we need leaders that believe that treating others as you wish to be treated, the least among us are our masters and love your enemies is a way of life. 6.) National Universal Health Care like all civilized nations have only better. 7.) Devolop a responsible educated policy to curb unsustainable unhealthy population growth including the right of each individual woman to birth control methods. 8.) Several CEOs of several colleges and universities apporved by the US Department of Education rake in $40 million a year; set a salary limit of, let say 25 times minimum wage, for higher education executives, in fact all executives of firms that do 20% or more of their annual business being paid monies that originated as government funds should be limited by law backed with criminal sanctions in cluding prison time for offenders.
This past weekend the Northland Anti-War Coalition held its 12th protest in the Twin Ports since it was founded in December of 2002. Under the theme 'demanding that the newly elected government honor the will of the people', between 200 and 250 people gathered at Duluth's Portland Square Park in the east Hillside neighborhood. Prior to rally at Portland Square, about 160 people marched from the Rose Garden on London Road up the hillside to the Park.
(Harpers) - Staying in Iraq not an option. Many Americans who were among the most eager to invade Iraq now urge that we find a way out. These Americans include not only civilian ``strategists'' and other ``hawks'' but also senior military commanders and, perhaps most fervently, combat soldiers. Even some of those Iraqis regarded by our senior officials as the most pro-American are determined now to see American military personnel leave their country. Polls show that as few as 2 percent of Iraqis consider Americans to be liberators. This is the reality of the situation in Iraq. We must acknowledge the Iraqis' right to ask us to leave, and we should set a firm date by which to do so.
We suggest that phased withdrawal should begin on or before December 31, 2006, with the promise to make every effort to complete it by June 30, 2007.
We could lead the Mideast to peace, but only if we stop refusing to do the right thing
(Los Angles Times) - The United States upset the regional balance in the Middle East when it invaded Iraq. Restoring it requires bold initiatives, but "cutting and running" must precede them all. Only a complete withdrawal of all U.S. troops — within six months and with no preconditions — can break the paralysis that now enfeebles our diplomacy. And the greatest obstacles to cutting and running are the psychological inhibitions of our leaders and the public.
Our leaders do not act because their reputations are at stake. The public does not force them to act because it is blinded by the president's conjured set of illusions: that we are reducing terrorism by fighting in Iraq; creating democracy there; preventing the spread of nuclear weapons; making Israel more secure; not allowing our fallen soldiers to have died in vain; and others.
