Is the U.S. public aware that dozens of secret government agencies & corporate entities working with them are spending in the TRILLIONS of dollars in taxpayer money for assassinations around the world, often by unmanned drones, & that this money is hidden under the categories of "national defense" or "law enforcement?"
In their 2011 book, "Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State," Washington Post writers, Dana Priest & William Arkin, who have long connections to the U.S. military & "security" agencies, are supportive of them, & take their word about who are "the bad guys," nevertheless, document in detail the increasing thirst for & action in, using drones & other means to assassinate people in various countries.
The authors have a couple telling quotes, such as one senior officer stating that "The Department of Defense is no longer a war fighting organization, it's a business enterprise," & another describing the U.S. intelligence-security world as "a living, breathing organism." And it is chilling to read how people using our taxpayer dollars can calmly sit at a computer & kill people thousands of miles away, as though it was all a video game.
With increasing repression of dissidents, like of those in the "Occupy" protests, how long will it be before drones are used to kill people in the U.S.? Already, many "law enforcement" entities are using them or requesting them for surveillance!
All this & The drone assassinations this past week that inflamed the Pakistanis should make Americans start to give a damn about fixing our $14 TRILLION NATIONAL DEBT problem by demanding that ALL assassinations stop & that ALL the funding cutbacks be to the military-intelligence-security monster!!!
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