i've read this author for years after she first appeared as a retired colonel making surprisingly good points about her former 'employer' and she hasn't slowed down on that count as the following will reveal;
I am indeed honored to have received the 2018 Sam Adams Award, and as
with so many things, timing is everything. The Rob Reiner movie was
released in the US last summer, a very watchable drama documenting US
government fabulations on the road to the Iraq war in 2002 and 2003.
Constructed by government political appointees and politicians, foisted
on the American people, heavy lifting courtesy of the New York Times and
the Washington Post, and the television “news”, rendered most of the
country either willfully or blissfully ignorant.
Of course, too many of our countrymen and women, and large parts of
Iraq were simply rendered, fat and black oil burning, sizzling,
stinking, dying, melting into the dust and fusing with sand.
Surely our government would not lie to, deceive, steal from and
destroy us, in the name of some hidden agenda of ideology, oil, or for
the sake of investment opportunities and a political dependency on an
old men’s entangling alliance. What kind of government would that be?
That some news agencies (Knight-Ridder) and some people got it right is good to know, and good to remember.
The ceremony last Saturday night in DC
was inspiring, and I shared my thoughts on the future of truthtelling.
Like most libertarians, I’m pessimistic in the short term, optimistic
in the long term. Like any good anarchist, I am wholly comfortable
identifying the state as the primary enemy of peace and prosperity. The
American bureaucratic state, enamored of war and enmeshed in corporate
strangleholds, empowered by debt, emboldened by bluster, is a dangerous
enemy, not just to the world but to average Americans.
We need to stop subsidizing it. But before that happens, with or
without our direct action, we really should get to know it better and
understand how it operates........https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/12/karen-kwiatkowski/the-sam-adams-award-and-me/
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