Sunday, December 10, 2017

3 Important dates...


3 dates in history...short summary of a larger paper I intend to write.



In July of 1776 A document created a rogue country.  This country was born with fire, rebellion and a search for the concept of freedom from oppression.  The wording of that document was fussed over, fretted over, edited, rewritten and scrapped several times over.  The words that were left are haunting, and should be familiar to every citizen of these United States.

"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

This opening is tantamount to treason of the highest order, and the wording is strong and succinct.  It tells us that from this point in time, there is no return to the past.   And from this moment a new nation was conceived, fought for and born, as it emerged it broke the boundaries of what a nation could be and what a nation was formed from.

December 7, 1941 was a day that lives on in infamy.  The attack on Pearl Harbor wasn't just a call to war, it was a call to industrialization, to militarization and the end of the separate peace that had been tantamount to national policy.

Just days prior to December 7, there were many political factions with different ideas on how to best handle "the War in Europe" and "the War in the Pacific."  But after the attack the consequences were certainly not what the Japanese rulership expected.  The US became resolved, steeling themselves to the task of a war footing.  Production of war materiel, combat vehicles and preparation of a massive armed forces followed.    As Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy also declared war, the die was cast and the US was  left no choice but to abandon any thoughts of isolationism.

The call to war by the USA also taught American industry that war, in and of itself, is profitable.  As corporate profits throughout the country almost doubled during the years between 1941 and 1945.

The third impactful date is September 11, 2001.  This date was the date of a well orchestrated attack by a terrorist group labeled "Al Qaeda" by the US government.  The attack consisted of coordinated hijacked airliners crashing into the World Trade Center's building 1 and 2, as well as the Pentagon.  The 4th hijacked plane crashed in Pennsylvania, with it's intended target possibly being the White House, or the US Capitol building.

The net result in this event was the creation of a worldwide electronic surveillance state, the voluntary and systematic loss of freedoms for the American public, and of course several wars in the middle east.

At the moment, this is a working thesis and will be researched and discussed in later posts.