What some famous and infamous Americans would have put on their twitter feeds if it had been invented.
“the truth of the matter is when you look at our actions, as distinct from our loftily expressed self-conceptions, it is difficult to see much difference between our actions in Vietnam and the Russians in Afghanistan” ( J. William Fulbright, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during Vietnam War)
Assassinations done directly by the CIA or with CIA complicity: 8 in all. Five – Lumumba, Trujillo, Allende, Schneider, Diem died violently with CIA’s role ranging from complicity to outright assistance. Castro, one of the 8, they tried numerous time to kill and failed. Duvalier died in 4/1971 after a long illness and Sukarno in 6/71 while under house arrest after being admitted to an American hospital with high blood pressure and kidney disease. [Church Committee report American Police State 1975)
“Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” [Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in his dissent in Olmstead v. US – illegal government wiretapping upheld, 1928]
“War is a racquet” (Marine General Smedley Butler, 1935)
“The reason they call it the American dream is you have to be asleep to believe it” (George Carlin, 2005)
Despite earning record profits in 2011 and 2012, Caterpillar demanded a 6-year wage freeze even though it had earned $39,000 per employee in 2012. Caterpillar Capitalism, 2011)
“For the first time in recorded history, one nation has assumed global responsibility. By its action in Korea, the U.S. set the plan for the restoration of order and progress in Asia, and to peace and freedom around the world.” [Robert Gross, Lockheed Martin, 9/50, Korean War broke out in 6/50]
