4 July
And the Striving for Democracy
By Sean Griobhtha
1 July 2023
Substack
[The hypocrisy of America is borne out, first and foremost, by its love of slavery…]
Thomas Moore
Once upon a time… the US (the Colonies) sought to become independent of the British King. For years the Colonists had fought war at the King’s side, mostly against the French and Hurons (Iroquois nations) for control of North America (a misnomer). The French and Spanish also wanted control of the western continents. But we, being loyal British subjects, at the time, fought to defeat them. Defeat of any monarch, despot, or monarchical system is a laudable goal, and so we moved on to defeating the British monarch as well. Having done so, we celebrated, and continue to celebrate this victory and independence with pomp and spectacle. As far as the British King, or any royalty goes, fuck all kings and their aristocratic ilk, always and forever.
But we need to be aware of, and accept responsibility for, the atrocities we have caused and continue to cause, even if we choose to call our King the “President” (whether Republican or Democrat). At the time, we really weren’t aware or sensible of our own faults (are we ever?) in building an empire upon the backs of slaves and wage slaves (a system based in greed and fanciful notions of superiority), and driven by false notions of destiny, and authority to thievery, preached by Kingly deities, priests, pastors, and Reverend Doctors since the Dark Ages. (Read here to understand the transformation of Jesus into a blood soaked abuser and marauder). This doctrine, Manifest Destiny, allowed Europeans (Americans) to justify theft of property, wholesale lands, and the lives of natives and African natives. Yes, we stole, raped, pillaged, slaved, and slaughtered our way to prosperity and power. The natives, who did greet us warmly at first, turned against us as we continued stealing their land, raping them, killing them, and driving them out (just like Zionists). We’ve never apologized, and we haughtily believe we had the right, because Americans to this day believe that “might makes right”. What applies to Zionists, also applies to us, being “little concerned for human blood if it is not [our] own.” (Morris Ernst, FDR’s international envoy for refugees)
We have gone from a people who were told by their leaders that a standing army is an evil thing, and we should “stay out of foreign entanglements” (mind our own business - “take the log out of [our] own eye”), to the largest military machine the world has ever known, to the tune of >1 TRILLION dollars per year, with hundreds of weaponized bases and mobile nuclear weapons around the globe.
This is NOT a new or recent thing. We started immediately after we celebrated that first victory. Clergy supported slavery and aristocracy, then and now, and the South still receives pity based upon those preachings of superiority. Circa 1900 we sent US Marines and “volunteers” to the Philippines to crush what the Marine Corps and the Pentagon call the “Philippine Uprising”. Those Filipinos were fighting to get their land back from capitalist theft, and they didn’t want to be used as slaves to collect coconuts for imperial powers (US). Thousands of Filipinos were slaughtered, raped, and tortured. Spain felt they owned the Philippines, and when the US defeated their fleet, the US decided we owned the Philippines (and many Pacific islands), and we took violent control of all food growth for the sake of money and building another base of power operations (we learned much from the abuses of the English throne, didn’t we?). We pulled this same force on Japan to force them to open their doors to capitalistic greed.
We forced Pacific islanders to stand still while we dropped nuclear test bombs around the Pacific (we also made US soldiers guinea pigs for these experiments).
We made best buddies of Japan, because they bowed to our power, and we grew them a protective shield, even after they had raped, pillaged, and murdered their way through east Asia and the Pacific, and tortured and slaughtered American servicemen. We decided to hate the Chinese for the sake of the British, and their losses of drug profits and control. Is it any wonder the Chinese drove the British out after the Japanese kicked their ass? We decided to hate the Vietnamese for the sake of the French and British. Is it any wonder that China and N Korea despise all capitalists, especially since capitalists love their most violently aggressive torturer Japan?
We invaded, yes invaded, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, etc… for the sole purpose of helping the French and English hold on to their stolen goods. If your home was invaded so others could steal your property, rape your women, torture you and/or take your lives, would you accept that?
We have invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, encroached into Pakistan, all while supporting Zionist violence (rape, torture, murder), and supporting Saudi murder; and we continue our insane ideas about invading Iran. The British are still looking to take over the “sick man of Europe”, Turkey. The British have long memories, as does the US. We toppled the the democratically elected President of Iran, and with the British installed a puppet dictator (the Shah). Arabs, who once trusted us and cooperated with us, we have lined up in front of us and stuck knives deep into their backs by kissing the Zionists’ ass.
We have much to be sorry for. While we celebrate our “independence” we come further under the control of foreign influences, majorly the British and Zionists. Will we ever be satisfied with enough? Will we ever take our responsibilities as humans as seriously as we take our greed and lust for more? Will we ever listen to our combat veterans who continually tell us we are egregiously wrong in what we’re doing? (here and here and here and here) Will we stop supporting Zionist psychopaths in their lebensraum?
“Joe Biden is not the ‘new FDR’, he’s the old Harry Truman, and that’s a serious problem.” If you think Barack Obama is a “good” man, you are seriously wrong (the meme of his wife pontificating that her House was built by slaves, and the Afghan child below says, “You have a house?!? Your husband blew mine up” pretty much says it all. If you think Donald Trump is a “good” man in search of peace, you must be living with a lobotomy, or you’re stuck in deep denial. If you think George Bush was a “good” President, then pull your head out of your ass and reread the lies he told to drag the US into war. This same analysis goes for almost every President we’ve ever had, Republican AND Democrat; lies, corruption, psychopathology of power, and much, much more. If you think even one member of Congress is untouched by corruption, you are deluded beyond belief.
This IS what we have become, a nation of war mongers & thieves, psychopaths, and sociopaths. Stop listening to the Church and political hierarchies. Stop listening to ecclesiastical and political propaganda. Start getting yourself educated. Have some pride man! Embrace the power you have as a Citizen and slap the shit out of these people. Embrace humanity and send everyone’s god and greed packing.
“It is the fate of many abstract words to be used in two senses, one good and the other bad. Morality means the will to righteousness, or it means Anthony Comstock; democracy means the rule of the people, or it means Tammany Hall. And so it is with the word “Religion”. In its true sense Religion is the most fundamental of the soul’s impulses, the impassioned love of life, the feeling of its preciousness, the desire to foster and further it. In that sense every thinking man must be religious; in that sense Religion is a perpetual self-renewing force, the very nature of our being. In that sense I would make no thought of assailing it, I would make clear that I hold it beyond assailment.
“But we are denied the pleasure of using the word in that honest sense, because of another which has been given to it. To the ordinary man “Religion” means, not the soul’s longing for growth, the “hunger and thirst after righteousness”, but certain forms in which this hunger has manifested itself in history, and prevails today throughout the world; that is to say, institutions have fixed dogmas and “revelations”, creeds and rituals, with an administering caste which claims supernatural sanction. By such institutions the moral strivings of the race, the affections of childhood and the aspirations of youth are made the prerogatives and stock in trade of ecclesiastical hierarchies. It is the thesis of this book that “Religion” in this sense is a source of income to parasites, and the natural ally of every form of oppression and exploitation.”
The Profits Of Religion – Religion – Upton Sinclair
On this 4 July, I beseech you to come to your senses which you have within you; to leave the man-made non-sense behind, to embrace your humanity and that of all the humanity of the Earth. Everyone, not just you, wants independence.
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Sean Griobhtha (gree-O-tah) is a combat veteran. His latest book is X Rubicon: Crossing Life, Sex, Love, & Killing in CIA Proxy Wars: An indictment of US Citizens: ignorantia non excusat, which details the life of Rubicon, another combat veteran. You can find him mostly on SubStack. He can be reached at O.Griobhtha+XRubicon@gmail.com.
Thank you for your honest & authentic writing.