The Pentagon Papers showed that some 50,000 American boys died and hundreds of thousands more were injured physically and metally, by a war that was fought for... political reasons. The Pentagon Papers release fueled the North Vietnamese offensives and made them stand down at the peace talks... prolonging the war and killing lots of American Boys... by compromising their security.
The left was Ecstatic about the whole thing. Ellsburg is Democrat Royalty. Colleges pay him fortunes to speak. The NYT was lauded for their 'courage.'
Ellsburg was the guilty party. NYT was doing its job, repellent as it might seem.
Ellsburg should have been shot for treason. The NYT should have (and I think did) get a Pulitzer.) The American people got to see that the whole thing was a giant lie. Well, not the whole thing. And there were foreign policy and 'Cold War' needs to be met. But were they worth 50,000 Americans? Or could they have been handled other ways? I argue for door number 2.
That's how checks and balances work and why we need a 'functioning' Fifth Estate. Not fascist National Socialist (owned by corporate billionaires) propaganda that would make Goebbels proud. Who calls everyone else Natzees... while being actual Natzees themselves! National Socialism is still socialism...
For those not paying attention.... Just a bit North of here in
@Sean the Nailer 's AO...
Yes, they are arresting people in Canada for talking:
Justin Bieber - er Trudeau - sure seems skeered of people 'talking.' He should be after the election the other day.
Oh and the Westchester folks ousted their pet "Squad" Congressman after one term... in a shocking primary loss. I guess the idea of being Hamas biggest supporter in Congress... elected in the most-Jewish district in the USA... wasn't going to end well. Hope the 'electorate' learned its lesson? Though you know they didn't. (most expensive primary race in history... most expensive congressional House Race in history... even though not even the general election yet... )
As the tiny, vocal, violent left continues to lose ground to the fed-up (and large majority), they will increasingly lash out. Use violence. Intimidation. Arrests. Lawfare. Riots... Propaganda... to save their failing asses. Remember that 1939 - 45 was kicked off by a tiny violent, vocal minority that bludgeoned its way into power -- Legitimately. And once it had its hands on the levers, some 100,000,000 people died. More if you consider the number of people that died in the decades since -- a direct result of continuing political upheaval, cold war, divisions in the M.E. and the killing fields of China and SE Asia.
All because of a tiny vocal socialist minority with great propaganda and ruthless willingness to kill and lie... with the backing of the Industrialists and news magnates...
Does noone read history any more?
Sirhr
PS. As a trained historian... I long wondered how one of the most advanced, cultured, organized and otherwise successful societies in the early 1900's... (The Germans) could have just 'let it all happen.' Well, since we are living through remarkably similar events... and all of us are 'watching it happen' for myriad reasons. Not the least of which is that we are believers in the rule of law. And not prone to using violence to achieve our political or social 'utopia.' We believe in a Constitution that is suppsed to allow political 'forward movement' without violence. That protects the minority and defends against mob rule. We believe that the 'line is drawn' when we try and achieve 'our' happiness by imposing 'stuff' on others. We have jobs... while the tiny minority have funds to organize and spend all day looking to undermine those who are providing the funds (through an economic miracle that is capitalism) for their subversive activities. Because we think 'the system' built by our forefathers will triumph... So we sit back and say 'it's not affecting me.' Well, they came for my neighbor... Blah blah blah. I am not saying what is 'right' to do. But every day I am understanding how 1939 happened.
Einstein had a great quote that I was reminded of last month while at the Royal Armouries... "I do not know how WW 3 will be fought. But WW 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
It can't happen again. Wonder if anyone has spent enough time to think that through. And what would have happened if the tiny bands of Goose-stepping bund had been squashed in 1932... before they had their hands on the levers of power. And issued the Nuremberg Laws. And had Kristal-nacht. And the Night of the Long Knives. And Burned the Reichstag.
It all would have been so easy, methinks. But that is the problem with revisionist history. And the lesson of Cassandra.
So there ya go.
