Memorial Day 2019: The Republic Is Dead
Peter Schultz
The United
States republic is dead, its need for secrecy being the cause of death. This
need began in the midst of the assassinations of JFK, Malcolm X, MLK, and RFK,
along with the massive COINTELPRO program run by the FBI, which also centered
around the assassinations of the Black Panthers, et. al., and the American
Indian Movement. Also to be included is the American war in Vietnam, begun covertly,
expanded surreptitiously, and included a massive assassinations program, the
Phoenix program, that killed thousands of Vietnamese civilians. Of course the
invasion of Iraq in 2003 required secrecy as well as there was no real cause of
war. And it too included assassinations as one of its most important tools
during the surge and otherwise. The assassinations and secrecy continued ala’
Obama’s drone “wars.”
Accompanying
this deadly secrecy, the American people are encouraged – and expected – to “rally
round the flag” by honoring our “heroes” who do the killing, thanking them for
their “service.” This is what passes for patriotism today, and is pretty much indistinguishable
from blindness to the fact that the republic is dead. Along with some “subversive”
Americans and many foreigners, the republic has been assassinated. All it needs
is a proper burial. Memorial Day would be a good day to start the republic’s
funeral by remembering that those who have died for the republic have, contra
Lincoln, indeed died in vain.
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