The Ongoing, Never-Ending U.S. Death Star By Jacob G. Hornberger !!!!
(2019-03-14 at 16:05:51 )

The Ongoing, Never-Ending U.S. Death Star by Jacob G. Hornberger

The United States national-security establishments death star continues operating at full-speed and on auto-pilot.

According to "an article" in Newsweek, the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency have now killed half-a-million people since 9-11-01.

The article did not say how many of those dead people are estimated to have participated in the 9-11-01 attacks but I would say that a reasonable estimate would be maybe 10 or 20 at the most.

That would mean that 498,980 people who have been killed by the United States death star since 9-11-01 had absolutely nothing to do with the 9-11-01 attacks.

Moreover, those half-a-million deaths do not include the hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed in the United States-incited civil wars in Syria and Lebanon.

That is a a lot of dead people at the hands of the United States national-security state. It has surely got to be some sort of record. And it has not stopped. The United States death star continues operating apace.

This week "an article" on splinternews.com stated that in 2018 United States forces operating in Somalia killed 326 people. So far this year, the United States death star has killed 225 people in Somalia.

Somalia? Yes, Somalia! Why Somalia?

Well, apparently all those dead people in Somalia were considered to be threats to United States "National Security," whatever that term means, and therefore needed to have their lives snuffed out by the United States death star.

Ever since the United States death star began operating in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States mainstream media has expressed concern for civilians who are killed as part of the death stars operations against "terrorists." That, of course, is a valid concern.

But hardly anyone questions the legitimacy of the death star itself. That is, the underlying assumption is that the death star is operating legitimately when it targets "terrorists" or "combatants" or "insurgents."

Therefore, the notion goes, it is no big deal that they are killing those people. They just have to be more careful, the media feels, about killing innocent civilians in the process.

Consider the following sentence from the New York Times in "an article" about the United States air war in Somalia:

-A surge in United States of American airstrikes over the last four months of 2018 pushed the annual death toll of suspected Shabab fighters in Somalia to the third record high in three years.

Do you notice the operative word in that sentence??? It is the word "suspected."

Why is that word important???

Because the people who are operating the death star are not really sure whether the people they are killing are actually guilty of being "Shabab fighters" or, in more common parlance, "terrorists."

They might believe they are terrorists. But they can not be sure. But for the death star that does not matter. As long as there is a reasonable possibility that the targets are terrorists, that is good enough.

Or maybe the standard of proof for these state-inflicted assassinations is "a preponderance of the evidence" or maybe "clear and convincing evidence" or maybe just "reasonable suspicion."

We do not really know how they determine which people are going to have their lives snuffed out today. They insist on keeping that part of their operations secret. They say that we just need to trust them.

In the early years of the United States national-security state after World War II, the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency did their best to keep their assassinations secret.

They did not want United States of Americans to know about their assassinations.

Today, much of their assassination program is obviously out in the open. Their ongoing, never-ending death star continues assassinating people openly and with impunity. The secrecy is with respect to how they decide whose life is going to be snuffed out today.

At the risk of belaboring the obvious, people in foreign lands do not like being assassinated, especially by an all-powerful imperial force like the United States government.

Families of assassination victims oftentimes do not forget. Some of them inevitably seek vengeance.

Let me tell you what United States death-star officials are going to say if there is a terrorist attack in retaliation for the massive number of deaths inflicted by the United States death star.

They are going to say the same thing they said after the 9-11-01 attacks: "The terrorists just hate us for our freedom and values. That is why they have struck.

Pay no mind to libertarians who are pointing out that this attack is more blowback arising from the United States national-security states ongoing, never-ending death star."

In fact, they will say much the same thing if there is another act of mass killing here at home without any apparent justification: "This random act of mass killing has nothing to do with our death stars total indifference to the value of human life overseas. We just need gun control to resolve the problem of mass killing here at home."

Meanwhile, as the death star continues on auto-pilot, the United States of American people continue going to church every Sunday, where they are exhorted to pray that the death star be kept safe from harm as it continues to wreak its death and destruction in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and, now, Africa.

Perhaps it is worth mentioning that the same Newsweek article that detailed the number of deaths at the hands of the Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency points out that the United States government has spent $6 trillion dollars in these forever wars that have killed half-a-million people, almost none of whom had anything to do with the 9-11-01 attacks.

That is worth mentioning in the context of the 23 trillion federal debt that is now hanging over United States of American taxpayers, and growing by the day.

It is also worth mentioning that the threat of retaliation from all this death and destruction is what has been used as the excuse to destroy the freedom and privacy of the United States of American people.

That is how we have come to live under a regime in which the military and the Central Intelligence Agency wield the legal authority to detain, torture, spy on, and even assassinate United States of American citizens, totalitarian powers that have been fully confirmed by an extremely deferential federal judiciary.

Obviously, there is but one solution to all this death and destruction: Stop the death star at once, bring it home, and dismantle it. That is a necessary prerequisite to restoring freedom, peace, prosperity, and harmony to our land.

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!