© Ian Waldie /Getty ImagesA survivor of the Holocaust, Leon Greenman, displays the number that was tattooed on his arm at Auschwitz. The number is courtesy of IBM.
Unless We Learn Our History, We're Doomed to Repeat It
Preface: I am a patriotic American who loves my country. I was born here, and lived here my entire life.
So why do I frequently point out America's warts? Because - as the Founding Fathers and Supreme Court judges have explained - we can only make America better if we honestly examine her shortcomings. After all:
Only when Americans can honestly look at our weaknesses can we become stronger. If we fail to do so, history will repeat ..."Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
While Americans rightly condemn the Nazis as monstrous people, we don't know that America played both sides ... both fighting and supporting the Nazis.
Americans also aren't aware that the Nazis were - in part - inspired by anti-Semites in America.
Comment: All of this certainly begs the question: with such a strong undercurrent of Nazi-like or fascistic thinking in existence in the U.S. for so long, where exactly is all this psychopathic machinery leading towards? And what are their goals now besides making a boat-load of money? If past is prelude, what can we expect to occur in the future? And how much of the Nazi mentality has just gone 'underground'?
If any of these questions may be answered with the name of a single intelligence agency or organization, we can certainly single out the NSA or National Security Agency for this one. What the expletive do they do anyway?? By all accounts, they are several times larger than the CIA, several times more secretive, and are funded tens of Billions of dollars every year from U.S. taxpayer money. How exactly do they keep us secure, one might ask?
Perhaps the job of the NSA was never to keep the lives of Americans and its "allies" secure at all. Perhaps its raison d'etre has more to do with the absolute totalitarian control and domination of U.S. and world citizens than anything else. They do, after all, have technology and supercomputers that keep tabs on the activities of law-abiding citizens down to the minutia of when, exactly, one might be reading these words here. And that's just what we know about.
The NSA's systems of surveillance are not unlike IBM's Nazi punchcard system; only several orders of magnitude larger and more powerful. So what the hell are they going to do with it? To what end do they even see the need for such a thing?
For some more background on the NSA and an exploration of this subject, read: Project L. U. C. I. D. by Texe Marrs.
Then, to put the NSA into an even broader context, read the incomparable Wave Series by Laura Knight-Jadczyk.