I AM OFFENDED
Contributed by Stuart Thompson
Mat-Su Valley/ Anchorage - I am offended by the boot-licking spectacle of Congress entertaining Ukraine’s Zelenski lobbying--- for support of an undeclared World War III. So Zelenski is Time’s Person of Year---an obvious propaganda whitewash. Adolph Hitler was Time’s Person of the Year in 1939 for a similar purpose.
I am offended by Congress and the President repudiating Rule of Law by directly (financially and with military equipment) supporting the Ukraine War before 1) compliance to the Constitution’s requirement of a legal Declaration of War against Russia, or, 2) compliance with the US War Powers Act’s requirement to have a defensive purpose to legitimize use of military-relevant funding and resources. This is either dishonoring oaths of office, or being too functionally illiterate to understand what the oaths cover.
I am offended by the public use of propaganda and censorship to achieve selfish objectives through mental enslavement of human audiences. Propaganda is basically bearing false witness (which encompasses clever lying, demonization, or telling half-truths). The immorality of propaganda is declared very simply in God’s 10 Commandments: “Thou shall not bear false witness”. History and the experience of every human being are replete with the misery and evil traced to propaganda and propaganda wars. Naturally, in a propaganda war, each side calls the output of the other side “disinformation/misinformation” ---not letting the audiences inspect verifiable facts or evidence to make up their own minds.
I am offended by elements of American aristocracy (read leaders and experts) ---who see advantages in conflict and war. They intentionally suppress world peace by using propaganda to justify use of the Just War Theory and its handmaiden: “Conflict Resolution always results in Appeasement of Evil ''. Furthermore, those who support escalating the Ukraine War into a hot international war are doing so when the US military is not really war-ready. Nor are the US and its allies industrially geared up for a conventional war. This means that the insane people on all sides would catapult us into a nuclear war when conventional warfare fails. It would then no longer be an issue of dominating the world. There would no longer be a world--- indeed life--- to dominate. That makes the warmongers of today worse than Hitler by far.
Stuart Thompson
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