Exceptionalism Means Shooting An American Citizen Four Times In The Head And Having Our Representatives Blame The Victim

"They hate us because we are free. And they are not."
Remember that li'l piece o'wisdom from George W? The "terrorists" hate us because they are not free. And, given what Israel is doing in Gaza, he's right, the Palestinians are not free. What's more, they have no recourse. The UN has sixty-five resolutions against Israel, many of them regarding it's treatment of Palestinians. That doesn't include the numerous ones against Israel vetoed by the US in the UNSC. So, if you are a Palestinian, your land is being stolen, your livelihood, your olive groves being destroyed and you can do nothing about it, or your family and friends are suffering, and you can do nothing about, what recourse do you have?
As Americans, we are taught, as Christians, as progressives, as citizens of the Earth to try and help those people who are suffering. Many people who have not sold their soul to a belief system or have been brainwashed by a media more intent on drumming up support for a rating feeding war than offering an objective view, see the people of Gaza suffering, and wish to help those people. Guess what? You are not free to do that either. And, if as an American, you are shot four times in the head trying to bring some good old fashioned justice to an unjust situation, it's your fault if our "greatest ally" murders you in cold blood. You wouldn't say that it's a soldiers fault, when, in the service of the corpocracy, he is killed by the enemy. Many people now serving in overseas wars are mistakenly believing that the people they are fighting in Iraq, or Afghanistan are the ones responsible for the attacks of 9/11. And if Harry Reid told voters that it's a soldier's fault he died because he joined the Army, the corporate media and right wing would be all over him like the IDF on an unarmed relief flotilla.
And why are the people of Gaza suffering? Because in the 2006 Palestinian parliament elections, Hamas won a majority of seats. Democracy in action, right? Well, it seems the US and Israel backed Fatah (which is probably why Fatah lost;  US citizens are the only ones who don't mind their politicians being owned by foreign governments), so in retaliation for the Palestinians exercising the "freedom" to vote as they saw fit, the Gaza Blockade began.
Many people have made comparisons to the Gaza population and the treatment of the Jewish people under the Nazi regime. There is a slight difference. What happened in the ghettos of Warsaw and other European countries under the Hitler regime was not funded by the US government. It was not condoned by our politicians.
In the end, when you treat fellow human beings as animals, with less rights than you have, you cannot expect them to respond in a civilized fashion. And as long as the US sends unmanned drones into Pakistan, or uses white phosphorus on the citizens of Fallujah, or spends nine years dropping bombs on the civilians in Afghanistan, "they" will always "hate" us. As long as we prevent the UN from issuing any punitive measures against Israel while simultaneously pushing for more punitive sanctions against countries like Iran, which hasn't been proven to be doing anything against it's obligations under the NPT, all at the insistence of Israel, "they" will always "hate" us. Eliminating American and Israeli exceptionalism may not end all terrorism, but it is a step in the right direction.

Ready To Kill You For Their Own Benefit

Is the US government trying to kill it's own people? According to congressional hearings held on January 27 of this year US intelligence agencies shielded the Christmas Day "underwear bomber" and stopped the State Department from revoking his Visa. It's strange that this story wasn't covered in the unbiased corporate media, after all, Fox News has been working overtime to embarrass the Obama administration, and this wold have been a perfect opportunity for them to do so.
So when intelligence chiefs warn of another attack "soon", is this wishful thinking, or prior knowledge of another operative allowed to slip through to justify military action somewhere else in the Middle East?

Cheney Lies To The Coast Guard Grads, And They Cheer Like The Brainwashed Pavlovian Mutts They Are

This nation has kept the commitment declared by President Bush after 9/11: to wage this battle on the offensive, to track the enemy down until he has no place left to hide, and to stay in the fight until the fight is won.-Vice President Richard Cheney, May 21, 2008
Remember the Global War On Terror? The one that the Bush administration initiated to seek vengeance against those who perpetrated the horrendous attacks of September 11, 2001?
It seems the CIA is protecting the followers of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed from extradition to Iran for terrorist acts they carried out there. There you have it folks, the whole notion of a "war on terror" is a sham, a fucking sham. The whole thing is designed to remove our freedoms under the guise of "reorganizing the government to protect the homeland; expanding our ability to track enemy movements and communications" when actually what they want to do is protect the corpocracy by tracking citizen movement and communication. In the meantime, we keep pushing for more sanctions against Iran, a country that has not attacked us, nor enabled the terrorists who did, to continue with impunity their worldwide campaign of bombings against those they have deemed their enemies. Quite auspiciously for Mr. Cheney, there are people who want to believe that their leaders aren't lying to them, that "The people of Iraq and Afghanistan.....(have)chosen the path of freedom and democracy. And no matter who lines up against them, they can know that America -- the country that liberated them -- still cares about their freedom.". If we really believed in democracy, we would have welcomed the election of Hamas to the Palestinian Authority as an opportunity to open a dialog that would set a course for peace in the Middle East. But the thick headed unevolved Cro-Magnon-like Down's syndrome sufferers in charge believe that stand-offs resolve themselves and dropping bombs on civilians stops the increasing ranks of those committed to acts of terror against the US.
These are the same social 'tards who are pushing for war with Iran, because they fund Hezbollah, a group which has not attacked the US, and only defended Lebanon from further incursions by the IDF into Lebanese territory. And these are the same people who are using the alQaeda linked Jundullah to commit acts of terror in Iran. Hypocrites!