American Imperalism

You did not answer the question of whether or not you supported the attacks that occurred on 9/11. Has nothing to do with GITMO. You just haven't answered the question directly.

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Chaplain Sacerdote
Baptist Minister & Hospital Chaplain
US Army Retired


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Stalin, Hitler, Mao! Do those names ring a bell?

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Ecclesiastes 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.

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Ecclesiastes 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.

I don't support violence targeting civilians in any circumstance.

Sources would be appreciated, as I have provided them for all my facts.

1936-1958: America

• The Federal Housing Administration - a mortage insurance program that helped millions of American families to develop their own property, accumulate capital, and lift them into the middle-class - became an effective state-mandated ghettoization program under blankly racist standards that prevented black neighborhoods and families from recieving the development assistance that their taxes otherwise helped pay for. Likewise, housing deeds included 'restrictive covenants' that prohibited blacks from occupying homes in white neighborhoods, until a 1948 Supreme Court ruling was implemented in 1950 that ruled such contracts unconsistutional. Similar policies excluded most black workers from Social Security coverage and agricultural assistance programs. These policies re-inforced the status quo on the ground - the racist municipal and business practices of the dominate culture - lifting white America further above its black counterpart while encouraging urban decay and racial segregation. In terms of home ownership the gap between white and black home ownership jumped by 5.5% during the life of the program and left cities highly polarized between underdeveloped inner-city black neighborhoods and highly developed white suburbs. The black home ownership rate doesn't reach the white rate of 1900 until 1970. Fair housing legislation was passed in 1968 but subsequent court rulings show that individual acts of similar discrimination continued well into the present.
  
  • Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, by James W. Loewen.

But seriously, it is pretty wicked what many of the major powers have done to maintain their strength, but I don't you can convince them to give much of it up.

1940: The McCollum Memo.

• In which President Roosevelt's plan to provoke a Japanese attack is outlined.
  
  

1942-1945: Japanese-American internment.

Which is why I don't "support" any "state".
Every "state" exists to rationalize the using of violence on individuals.

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STATISTICS OF DEMOCIDE:

Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900

By R.J. Rummel

For citations see the Statistics of Democide REFERENCES

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Ecclesiastes 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.