{"id":25284,"date":"2015-11-10T20:26:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T00:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=25284"},"modified":"2015-11-10T23:53:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T03:53:15","slug":"the-barbarians-are-inside-the-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=25284","title":{"rendered":"The Barbarians Are Inside The Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, CA<br \/>\nNovember 10, 2015<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/city_under_siege.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25291 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/city_under_siege.jpg\" alt=\"city_under_siege\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/city_under_siege.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/city_under_siege-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase what former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel once said: &#8220;The only thing<br \/>\nworse than a soldier dying in vain is more soldiers dying in vain!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/larouchepub.com\/other\/2015\/4244gravel_pr-club.html\">Senator Mike Gravel Returns to Washington, Joins with LaRouche<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gravel earned a unique place in American history by reading the Pentagon Papers<br \/>\ninto the Congressional Record and leading the fight against the Viet Nam War.<\/p>\n<p>The faux patriots and bipartisan neocons who are lusting to send more of our<br \/>\nchildren to kill and die to fight Cheney&#8217;s Long War need to be sent far away from<br \/>\ncontrol of our nation&#8217;s foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>Virtually all the presidential candidates are either outright hawks or ambivalent<br \/>\nones like Rand Paul. Bernie (The Socialist) Sanders is Obamaesque in his<br \/>\nimplicitly anti-war stance. \u00a0Since his emphasis on domestic issues is so pronounced,<br \/>\nit is almost impossible to hear his occasional denunciation of US imperialism and<br \/>\nharder for some to take him seriously having been burnt by the Nobel Peace Prize<br \/>\nwinner in 2008!<\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may, the situation in our country today is so surreal that most citizens\u00a0are bamboozled into confusion, delusional support, outrage or overt complicity.<\/p>\n<p>The vast array of outrages committed by our government in our name is ignored,\u00a0deflected, demonized or just plain covered up so that we can stay addicted to\u00a0Un-Reality TV as we focus on the latest Kardashian soap opera tragedy instead\u00a0of why we have become like Germans living in Nazi Germany during the 1930&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>True, we don&#8217;t have an obvious madman at the helm even though both Bush and<br \/>\nObama showed they had serious personal problems dealing with the truth.<\/p>\n<p>As the author of the following essay captures in his awkward eloquence (mimicking<br \/>\nPogo): &#8220;We have met the enemy and he is us&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;.or should I say US!?!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article43376.htm\">War On Syria: Terrorists R Us<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are we once again being manipulated to fight perpetual war against manufactured<br \/>\nenemies as Orwell predicted in 1984? Reading what Joe Contrarian has written<br \/>\nsure adds to the doubts many have, especially after hearing that:<br \/>\n1. McCain publicly bragged how a Russian plane could be shot down with a<br \/>\nmissile several days before the event.<br \/>\n2. The US along with Israel and several other countries were conducting drills<br \/>\nclose to the Sinai at the same time as the plane came down.<br \/>\n3. A near miss attack on a British tourist plane in August was covered up by<br \/>\nUK authorities to avoid panic among prospective visitors to Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The conflicting reports, rush to judgment and overt politicalization of a huge tragedy<br \/>\nby the various parties to the Syrian proxy war before a complete investigation can<br \/>\nbe completed makes it almost impossible to know the TRUTH about this event.<\/p>\n<p>Once again we as a nation and polity are thrust into the abyss of terminal vagueness<br \/>\nby dark forces who thrive on chaos to enact their tyrannical agenda. Hopefully someone<br \/>\nin my generation, or in the next one like Telsi Gabbard, will find the same courage as<br \/>\nSenator Gravel to lead us out of this morass into a world at peace.<\/p>\n<p>With the &#8220;Barbarians inside the Gate&#8221; clamoring for more power and control, the time<br \/>\nfor action is well past now. Organize instead of agonize! If the folks in Iceland can<br \/>\nput their banksters in jail and the kids in Missouri can rally to oust their school officials,<br \/>\nthink what a sufficiently outraged public can do once we decide to stop these wars,<br \/>\nend the barbarism and restore freedom to our once Great Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, CA November 10, 2015 by Rich Scheck To paraphrase what former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel once said: &#8220;The only thing worse than a soldier dying in vain is more soldiers dying in vain!&#8221; Senator Mike Gravel Returns to Washington, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=25284\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}