An Odd Twist: What Slavery and Wars Have Taught Us

In this post on the 9/11 tragedy, I turned my thoughts from the tragedy to some other ideas and thoughts, and came up with this odd twist. Much of it has little to do with 9/11, but in the end 9/11 did what the 20th Century wars did, created enemies and fear.

An Odd Twist:

Is this about the South losing the Civil War? Are Southern politicians still holding a grudge? Or is it a culmination of the wars we have been involved in?

Abraham Lincoln was the first president of the United States to represent the “Republican Party.” Apparently, back then the Republican Party stood for quite different beliefs. In an odd twist, the GOP (Grand Old Party, the nickname of the Republican Party), now seems to stand for much of the opposite of Lincoln’s Party.

We are ignorantly becoming slaves to the government. I know what you think. This isn’t possible. No, I disagree. The more we give up our rights, the more we allow someone to tell us what to think, do, and say. The more our nation is in debt, the more we as citizens must pay with taxes to get the debt lower. And the more we are slaves to the government.

It is not just the Republican Party doing this, it is the Federal government in general. Just look back at the twentieth century.

The United States learned a lot about governing people through World Wars I and II. And a lot has changed in our government structure. World War I was more about the Eastern front, and how the Russians Tsars were overthrown, for the good of the people. The U.S. learned that maybe socialism was not such a bad thing, but how does a country strip some freedoms to bring about some form of socialism? Hey, how about restricting right and then a catastrophe? Well, lo and behold, U. S. citizens were stripped of the right to sell alcoholic beverages (prohibition), and then, just a bit later, the catastrophe and not something small either. It was named the “Great Depression.” During the Great Depression, the government began offering jobs to people, and began working on a deal to make sure that the people would be “taken care of” through social programs (ah, the dawning of Social Security and Medicare).

The citizens of Germany became slaves to Hitler’s Reich in World War II, and I don’t believe that most of them knew what their country was going to do, nor do I think they wanted it to happen. They were just doing what their country wanted them to do.

Ironically, the United States seems to be following the same types of patterns of a government’s rise to power. U. S. citizens are slaves to the propaganda and the will of the government, and the rising debt of the nation. Freedom is becoming more and more just a meaningless term of endearment over the previous convictions of the Founding Fathers. Freedom and liberty are now just terms thrown around to make people believe that it still exists.

An interesting article about what internal terrorist groups our government find threatening, and those groups overlooked that actually kill people. Makes me wonder, who is our friend and who is our foe?

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=549