By Simon Black of Sovereign Man
Meet the veteran who’s been reduced to peddling for change online to buy a new leg
Historian Will Durant once wrote “in the last 3421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.”
This is astounding. Warfare is constantly with us, often for the most absurd reasons.
These days we’re told that the War on Terror makes us more free.
We’re programmed on days like Memorial Day to sing songs about our freedom and to thank the people in uniform for making us more free.
The question I would respectfully submit is, do you feel more free today than you did 5, 10, 20 years ago?
We now live in an era of unprecedented government intrusion.
Senior citizens are thrown in jail for failing to file disclosure forms.
Spy agencies arrogantly engage in illegal surveillance on their own citizens.
And excessive force is so commonplace it barely registers as newsworthy any more.
Curiously a number of polls from 2013 and 2014, including Gallup and the Washington Post, actually show that more people are afraid of the government than of terrorism itself.
This isn’t freedom. And it’s a complete myth that soldiers fight and die in the name of freedom anymore.
Warfare today means that a few people at the top of the military industrial complex, banking, and oil services companies become extremely rich. And everyone else pays the price.
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