The 2000th KIA - When Will Enough Be Enough?
by MG William Flatt
October 25, 2005
Last March, I spoke about the un-Constitutional war in Iraq and the illegal and immoral use of our nation's troops to militarily build a new world order through the occupation of the Mideast. I condemned this misuse of our honorable fighting men and women for the installation of a puppet government and the long-term presence of US/UN troops in the middle east.
However, the 2000th U.S. soldier was killed today, and the "lamestream" media is already cranking up the cynical partisan bickering about the significance of this moment. Our military officials in Iraq claim it's a 'non-event', and patriots would likely disagree with both positions. It is neither a 'non-event' or an opportunity for a crass character assault on President Bush, even if Bush deserves more blame than most for the state of our nation and our foreign entanglements.
In spite of delays to notify the unfortunate next of kin, the basis of official refusals to identify the 2000th KIA soldier, public information spokesman LTC. Boylan strenuously claims that "...this is not a milestone". If this is not a milestone, then why is the Pentagon dragging their feet on notifying the family? As long as that family is not notified, they are not obligated to disclose the identity of the 2000th soldier.
GOP leader Bill Frist jumped into the matter, blasting critics of the Iraq occupation; he derisively accused opponents of the occupation as "...giving aid and comfort to the enemies of our nation". Of course, if this phrase sounds familiar, it was used by John 'Give up your Liberty' Ashcroft to equate domestic dissent with treason in the "war on terror". Their belief is that ANY criticism of the Bush administration is equal to treason. Your failure to sycophantically and unconditionally support King George the 43rd in his wars of foreign aggression constitutes disloyalty to him...
230 years ago, our forefathers would have called that TYRANNY and labled Bush as a TYRANT. But to suggest that we do today what our founders did back then would get you a 1-way ticket to Guantanamo Bay and possibly an all-expenses paid visit from one of our interrogation experts authorized to use "coercive means" to find out what you know (read: torture).
It is people like those running our country today, unjust and un-Constitutional laws such as what we labor under, a confiscatory 53%-and-up rate of taxation on our labor (that's called SLAVERY), and terror organizations with names like IRS, DHS, FEMA and BATFE that create conditions under which our founders would have taken up arms and for which they wrote a 2nd Amendment to the Bill of Rights (remember that oft-ignored document?) ...to reaffirm the Right of the People (not the government) to use force to insure their Liberty.
Of course, with the federal government's criminal neglect of legitimate domestic affairs such as Hurricane Katrina; coupled with confiscatory taxes & the usurious manipulation of our unconstitutional, fiat money system that keeps the vast majority of concerned Americans from doing anything. As Thomas Jefferson so prophetically warned,
"...We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt... If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labors and in our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people...must come to labor 16 hours in the 24, give the earnings of 15 of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the 16th being insufficient to afford us bread,...We have no time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves, to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers... and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering...And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it's train, wretchedness and oppression."
Jefferson also warned about the dangers of tax-bloated government... "working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little to-day and a little to-morrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. When all government ... in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.... Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
The founders also warned about the dangers of a standing military, and how it would be usurped for the vanities and ambitions of the elites. So, here we are in 2005 with every condition that triggered the American Revolution. If we are to have a standing military, it certainly should not be in Iraq for an agenda that does not serve America. The military should be on our border to stop the daily invasion of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, many of whom end up clogging our criminal justice system, siphoning tax dollars from our admittedly un-Constitutional welfare programs, and depressing the value of labor by flooding our worker base.
So, when congresscritters call dissenting Americans 'treasonous' for righteously opposing their illegal and immoral scheme for globalism, they are the kettle calling the pot black. Even now, through sovereignty-crushing secret pacts like the 'Peace and Prosperity Initiative' between Canada, the USA, and Mexico, members of the treasonous Council on Foreign Relations are calling for the abolition of the USA and our Constitution under an EU-style hemispheric "Union of the Americas".
With the vast majority of our troops overseas in well over 160 countries, the next major national disaster (and not necessarily a hurricane) may bring even MORE foreign troops onto US soil... and if they begin confiscating lawfully-owned private firearms as happened opportunistically after Katrina-related flooding in Louisiana (see last month's editorial), we could yet see a second American Revolution.
On the upswing, if worse does come to pass, at least American patriots won't be deterred by the sight of foreigners; those UN Blue helmets and berets guarantee "easy target acquisition" in any part of the country.
Is it too much to ask for Congress, the Judicial and Executive branches to start obeying the Constitution? Maybe that's why they want our troops overseas; they are afraid that officers in our military may balk at obeying blatantly illegal orders if they're deployed domestically (something that Bush has openly lusted for, and he has pushed for the abolition of the Posse Comitatus act)!
Let's all put an end to foreign entanglements, while we still can, and before the patience of Americans runs out with their out-of-control government!
