Tag: standing armies
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A Modern Day Fable: The Scorpion and the Frog
“AN INSTRUMENT OF TYRANNY” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jul. 9, 2016) — Anarchist Emma Goldman correctly stated, “Most human beings only think they want freedom. In truth they yearn for the bondage of social order, rigid laws, materialism. The only freedom man really wants, is the freedom to become comfortable.” No better…
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What Are the Results of a Standing Army?
“THE CRIME AGAINST PEACE” by Michael Gaddy, ©2015 (Nov. 12, 2015) — Yesterday, Veterans Day, I wrote of my concerns on the adulation and “supporting” of the troops when the government does not in turn support them. To confirm my point I offered several examples. From some of the replies to my posting, I see…
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Perpetual War: A Detour to Suicide
“A DIABOLICAL MERRY-GO-ROUND” by Michael Gaddy, ©2015 (Nov. 11, 2015) — “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are…
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Murder, Mayhem and Monsters
“HOW SAFE DO YOU FEEL?” by Dwight Kehoe, Editor-in-Chief, TPATH, ©2015 (Jan. 19, 2015) — Many of us who are old enough to have been around back in what are sometimes glowingly called the “good ole days” remember too, how the decisions on who set the rules, who got to play and who didn’t, what…