By members of the film industry who were representative of the American
people who believed they were free. This was originally presented for
the 4th of July, but it seems just as appropriate for today.
But today…to make the sacrifice made by so many… even more meaningful, we must
certainly remember those who were responsible to make their deaths possible.
Remember Your Fruit Will Long be Remembered. There is no statute of limitation on FRAUD!
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Memorial Day 2016
Avenge US Military War Dead By Arresting Today’s US ‘Leaders’
By Carl Herman
May 30, 2016 “
Information Clearing House” – “
WashingtonsBlog” –
avenge: to take vengeance on behalf of
vengeance: from Latin
vindicare “to set free, claim, avenge” (see
vindicate)
“The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.” – President Harry Truman, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman (1974) by Merle Miller, pg. 26.
3-minute video: Police, Military – Was your Oath sincere?
Memorial Day is to honor US military who died during active duty.
Honorable US military enlist to protect and defend American values
explicit in the Declaration of Independence, and American rights
explicit in the US Constitution. Importantly, all US military and many
categories of government employees
take an Oath to protect and defend the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
But how can we the living best honor our fallen family, friends, and
countrymen when we discover that US .01% “leaders” have lied us to serve
in illegal Wars of Aggression for most of our nation’s history?
Indeed, the United States of the 21st Century has become among the most dangerous, destructive, and psychopathically vicious
rogue state in Earth’s recorded history. Moreover, this conclusion is obvious in
Emperor’s New Clothes clarity for anyone caring to look at objective and easily verifiable facts.
This article will:
- Define rogue state.
- Define United States from our values in the Declaration of Independence and lawfully guaranteed rights in the US Constitution.
- Contrast the rhetoric of what the US lawfully promises with its most prominent current policies in order to prove the US as a rogue state.
- Propose Americans demand arrests of .01% US “leaders” in government and corporate media as obvious lawful recourse to best honor all Americans, living and dead.
1. Defining rogue state:
Components of a
rogue state include:
- violate international law with focus on destruction of human life,
- threaten other nations’ security,
- rule by authoritarian regimes,
- severely restrict human rights,
- sponsor terrorism,
- proliferate weapons of mass destruction,
- lie to their own people through controlled media,
- behave irrationally and not in its own best interests.
Consider two basic definitions of
rogue state:
rogue state: A nation regarded as breaking international law and posing a threat to the security of other nations. ~ Oxford Dictionaries
rogue state: … ruled by authoritarian regimes that severely restrict human rights, sponsor terrorism, and seek to proliferate weapons of mass destruction. The term is used most by the United States…
A common presumption applied to rogue states is that they do not
necessarily behave rationally or in their own best interests. ~ common
understanding of the term from Wikipedia
Let’s prove the US of today is both rogue and in Orwellian opposition of its founding ideals and constitution.
2. Defining United States from the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution:
The
Declaration of Independence emphasizes:
- unalienable rights for everyone from our Creator,
- it is the function of government to secure those unalienable rights,
- our government only derives its power from the consent of the governed. Please
note that “securing unalienable rights” is in Orwellian opposition of
“in your face” explicit legislation to destroy those rights, and that
government only derives its power from the consent of the governed.
The US Constitution is the rules of US government; that is, the
promises by government to the public for the limits of its authority.
The essential term, “
limited government,” means the boundaries beyond which government action becomes unlawful. Limited government is the
Enlightenment’s response to end unlimited government through claimed divine rights from kings. Limited government is also
codified in the US Constitution’s 9th and 10th Amendments.
The US Constitution is the legal definition of United States what it means to “be American.” This
form of limited government is called a “constitutional republic,” with
express intent that government power is clearly understood and strictly
limited by what is said in its constitution.
Importantly, it’s explicit and required under this form of government
that if officials act beyond Constitutional limits of authority that
they face impeachment and/or
arrest to remove them from exercising unlawful power for unlawful acts.
It was from English violation of the
1689 “Bill of Rights” that
our Founding Americans petitioned their government for restoration, and
then revolted when King and Parliament refused to uphold rights that
were crystal-clear in letter and intent (here for Jefferson’s argument
in
A summary view of the rights of British America).
The specific violations included no representation in Parliament and no
vote for taxation, a standing army on American soil, open-ended search
warrants,
mercantilism that acted as a
de facto tax transferring wealth from Americans to a British oligarchy of politicians and insider merchants, and attempting to
remove the people’s arms in militias for their defense that were paid and managed by local taxes.
The
US Constitution documents
detailed rights to all “persons” in the US Bill of Rights from
prosecution by the US federal government, not “citizens.” These rights
include freedom of speech and press without fear of being declared an
enemy of the state, freedom from searches unless government obtains a
specific warrant from a judge upon probable cause of having committed a
crime, right to juries of one’s peers (both a Grand Jury to examine the
evidence before a trial, and then to determine the facts of the case for
innocence or guilt), freedom from helping the government’s case through
one’s own testimony, a speedy and public jury trial, being informed of
the government’s charges of alleged crimes, freedom to engage directly
with government evidence and witnesses, immediate right to attorney
representation, no excessive bail, and no torture.
Again, the US Constitution defines what the United States is and
“being American.” If facts prove that our government is no longer
limited by the laws in its constitution, we have to change its basic
description from “constitutional republic” to another term. Keep this in
mind.
3. Contrasting US lawful promises of limited government and rights with actual policy to match the US as a rogue state:
Now that I’ve reminded you of what the United States is as its
constitutional limits and rights, lets compare those lawful promises
with the components of a rogue state. Articles linked in this list fully
explain, document, and prove factual claims:
- Violating international law, with focus on destruction of human life: the
two most important international laws to follow for any nation are to
not engage in Wars of Aggression, and not to engage in Crimes Against
Humanity. The US ongoingly commits these crimes with:
a.
Unlawful and
lie-began wars that have
killed ~30 million and counting;
90% of these deaths are innocent children, the elderly and ordinary working civilian women and men. The sum of 30 million means the
US has war-murdered more than Hitler’s Nazis.
b.
Intentional policy to continue deaths from poverty that total ~400 million just since 1996;
most in gruesomely-slow agony, and a death total more than all wars in
human history. Policy choices for illegal and lie-started wars rather
than repeatedly promised policies to end poverty with less than 1% of
national income make the US the most viciously psychopathic and deadly
nation in Earth’s recorded history.
c. Since WW2,
Earth has had 248 armed conflicts. The US started 201 of them (81%).
- Threatening other nations’ security: the US is recognized as Earth’s greatest threat to peace;
voted three times more dangerous than any other country. Educated
people outside the US more easily recognize US ongoing unlawful wars and
threats for more war. Current threats to other nations’ security:
a. Ongoing political, financial, military, and propaganda support for
Israel’s sadistic military siege and War of Aggression on Gaza.
b. Ongoing threats of nuclear attack on Iran based on easily-proven lies.
c. Ongoing
threats and attacks on Syria.
- Lie to their own people through controlled media: the
above documented crimes, destruction of elections and rights,
terrorism, and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (as well as the US as the global leader of weapons exports), are only possible by “covering the crimes” with lies by corporate media.
- Behave irrationally and not in its own best interests: perhaps “irrational” is better understood as “psychopathic”: a veneer of socially-acceptable behavior covering viciously destructive acts. The best case study to prove this point is the King Family civil trial with
overwhelming evidence the jury found conclusive to convict the US
government as guilty for assassinating Martin. The family’s conclusion
for motive was to prevent Martin’s “occupation” of Washington, D.C.
until the illegal Vietnam War was ended, and with those funds used to
end poverty. In addition, the evidence that the US government assassinated President Kennedy is
also overwhelming. Assassinations of public leaders, illegal wars on
lies, accelerating debt, Orwellian corporate media, and destruction of
its citizens’ rights are only rational for psychopaths.
4. Demanding arrests as the required and obvious public response:
The categories of crime include:
- Wars of Aggression (the worst crime a nation can commit).
- Likely treason for lying to US military, ordering unlawful attack and invasions of foreign lands, and causing thousands of US military deaths.
- Crimes Against Humanity for ongoing intentional policy of
poverty that’s killed over 400 million human beings just since
1995 (~75% children; more deaths than from all wars in Earth’s recorded
history).
US military, law enforcement, and all
with Oaths to support and defend the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, face an endgame choice:
In
just 90 seconds, former
US Marine Ken O’Keefe powerfully
states how you may choose to voice “very obvious solutions”: arrest the
criminal leaders (video starts at 20:51, then finishes this episode of
Cross Talk):
These War Crimes and war lies are usual: I document in my
eleven section history series (hyperlinks to be updated as series is published, with original links now for your convenience):
- Introduction to define ‘rogue state’ as perfect match with US illegal Wars of Aggression, Crimes Against Humanity, dictatorial government
- The US violated ~600 treaties with Native Americans to steal Native American land. A treaty is signed by a US President, approved by 2/3 vote of the US Senate, and under Article VI of the US Constitution becomes
US “supreme Law.” These ongoing “in your face” violations of “supreme
Law” became the precedent to typical hypocritical and unlawful US
policies of the present.
- US President Polk lied to Congress (with their approval) to initiate War of Aggression on Mexico.
The result was the US illegally stealing 40% of Mexico in 1848.
Congress opposed Abraham Lincoln’s crystal-clear explanation as a member
of Congress that the Adams-OnÃs Treaty placed the so-called “border
dispute” 400 miles within land forever promised to Mexico and forever
promised as outside any US claim.
- The US violated our treaty with Hawaii and stole their country in 1898.
- The US reneged on promises of freedom after the Spanish American War to
impose colonialism on the Philippines, and install US-friendly
dictators in Cuba. US military slaughtered resisters, calling them
yesterday’s version of “terrorists.”
- The US
entered WW1 upon no national security threat to the US, and imprisoned
the 3rd party presidential candidate for challenging “official reasons”
for war.
- The CIA had several covert wars; perhaps most important in today’s context of war on Iran: “Operation Ajax” (and here)
that overthrew Iran’s democracy and installed a US-friendly and brutal
dictator. When that dictator was overthrown and Iran refused another, the US aided Iraq to unlawfully invade and attack Iran from 1980-1988; killing up to a million Iranians. If the US lied and acted twice to unlawfully overthrew Iran’s democracy within many of our own lifetimes, shouldn’t we assume first another lie-started unlawful war today?
- The Vietnam War followed US permission to cancel the election to unify the country.
The US stopped democracy to keep a friendly government, and perhaps to
have ongoing live weapons testing and development. War escalated with
the Gulf of Tonkin incident, deliberate provocation to manipulate a
false-flag event for “defensive” war.
- Perhaps most disturbing is the King Family civil suit that found the US government guilty in the assassination of Dr. King (and here).
Corporate media, including our text publishers, omit this history. The
King family’s conclusion is that Martin was assassinated to prevent his
“Occupy DC” plan beginning for the summer of 1968 to end his version of
today’s wars.
- We now know from Congressional reports that all “reasons” for war with Iraq were known to be false as they were told.
- The two “reasons” for war with Iran are as false as
the “reasons” for war with Iraq: Iran never threatened Israel, and
Iran’s nuclear energy and medicine programs are IAEA-verified as
completely safe and lawful.
Thorsten Pattberg’s 5-minute
March of the US Empire:
George Washington’s final public message was for “We the People” to recognize if the US devolved into a rogue state:
In the cumulating message of his 45 years of service with his
Farewell Address, George Washington wrote an open letter to the American public.
Please give George two minutes of your attention:
“All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and
associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design
to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and
action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this
fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize
faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in
the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often
a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and,
according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the
public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous
projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome
plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.
However combinations or associations of the above description may now
and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time
and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and
unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and
to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards
the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion…
In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and
affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and
lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual
current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course
which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. But, if I may even
flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some
occasional good; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury
of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to
guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a
full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have
been dictated.”
George’s admonition of “
impostures of pretended patriotism” to “
direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities” is exactly what the US has become:
a rogue state, and requires public voice for lawful arrests to end its vicious destruction.
It is also what Benjamin Franklin predicted would be the eventual
outcome of the United States. On September 18, 1787, just after signing
the US Constitution, Ben met with members of the press. He was asked
what kind of government America would have. Franklin warned:
“A republic, if you can keep it.” In his speech to the Constitutional Convention, Franklin admonished:
“This [U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course
of years and then end in despotism… when the people shall become so
corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any
other.” –
The Quotable Founding Fathers, pg. 39.
These warnings extend to all social science teachers of the present:
“As educators in the field of history–social science, we want our
students to… understand the value, the importance, and the fragility of
democratic institutions. We want them to realize that only a small
fraction of the world’s population (now or in the past) has been
fortunate enough to live under a democratic form of government.” –
History-Social Science Framework for California Public Schools, pgs. 2, 7-8
Do you have the intellectual integrity and moral courage to at least act with the honesty of a child to speak the
Emperor’s New Clothes truth?
Will you honor Memorial Day and fallen family, friends, and community
members who were lied into illegal wars by demanding justice through
lawful arrests of lying US “leaders” today?
If you will not demand such arrests, how much do you honor the lives
of US military who served in good-faith effort, and died from those war
lies?
**
Note: I make all factual assertions as a National Board Certified Teacher
of US Government, Economics, and History, with all economics factual
claims receiving zero refutation since I began writing in 2008 among Advanced Placement Macroeconomics teachers on our discussion board, public audiences of these articles, and international conferences.
I invite readers to empower their civic voices with the strongest
comprehensive facts most important to building a brighter future. I
challenge professionals, academics, and citizens to add their voices for
the benefit of all Earth’s inhabitants.
**
Carl Herman is a National Board Certified Teacher of US Government,
Economics, and History; also credentialed in Mathematics. He worked with
both US political parties over 18 years and two UN Summits with the
citizen’s lobby,
RESULTS, for US domestic and foreign policy to end poverty. He can be reached at
Carl_Herman@post.harvard.edu
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