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"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government,
so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution
so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." 

-- Thomas Jefferson

It is one of life's ironic twists that tactics first employed in battle are often later used back at home. This may be nature's way of evening the scales by exposing those on both sides to similar treatment. Fact is, we humans seem to find it a whole lot easier to blame those not like us (due to race, religion, customs, etc.) with glib sayings like "they hate us for our freedoms" or trying to disguise torture with terms like "enhanced interrogation techniques". By the way, what might those techniques actually be? Stock answer: "Oh, we can't discuss actual methods that are used - it's a matter of national security." Think the fact that we regularly bomb, drone and occupy overseas territories might have anything to do with their dislike of us? "No way - we have to fight them over there so they don't come over here."

Confronted with this unbounded chauvinistic approach to world affairs (everything we do is right, it's just the other guy that wants to do us harm, so we must 'do' him first), it should come as no surprise when a leading political figure (a presidential candidate) who responds to a question from the media with the suggestion that the Golden Rule should be applied when dealing with other nations is booed and jeered by the audience. Crazy fool! What are you trying to do - get us all killed? This - ironically, from a country which claims to have a large majority who follow the teachings of the originator of that sage piece of wisdom. And even more curiously, also from the political party claiming the largest number of his devoted followers! But - like charity, it can also be said that hypocrisy begins at home!

In the end though nature always takes its course and this will likely happen as things come full circle. Only then may those on the home front really make an upfront and personal determination as to how accurate those drones truly are in minimizing 'collateral damage' (they're now flying over home skies) and how humane those 'enhanced interrogation techniques' really can be. FEMA camps and indefinite detention laws will soon introduce large numbers of first-timers to discover the truth for themselves.

Meanwhile, curious onlookers are still free (for the time being) to exercise their rights to a preview. The lead video shows us what daily life is like for many who supposedly "hate us for our freedoms", while the video following draws an ominous parallel for someone who was somewhere he shouldn't have been - at home when the security forces decide to perform an impromptu raid without warrant. After all, he should really have known better than to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time!

Come to think of it now, maybe that 2000-year old nutty-sounding advice - you know - the one about doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, wasn't so crazy after all. You never know - it may even have led us toward adopting a different approach and in the end spared us the boomerang!

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Suppose

by Laurence M. Vance

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"My point is, if another country does to us what we do to others, we’re not going to like it very much. So I would say that maybe we ought to consider a golden rule – in foreign policy. Don’t do to other nations what we don’t want to have them do to us" ~ Ron Paul
The war-crazed conservatives in the crowd at one of the Republican presidential debates recently held in South Carolina booed and jeered when Ron Paul called for a golden rule in U.S. foreign policy. "We endlessly bomb these other countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?" added Dr. Paul.
Naturally, the bloodthirsty warmongers at Frontpagemag.com consider Paul’s foreign policy to be absurd, dangerous, and clueless.
But just for a minute, let’s suppose a few things –
Suppose that a presidential candidate in another country said that the U.S. president needs to be taken off this planet. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that a presidential candidate in another country said that the U.S. president would go to hell if he died. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the government of another country said that the U.S. president needed to step down. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the government of another country forbade its citizens from traveling to the United States. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the government of another country imposed sanctions on the United States. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the government of another country had a secret program to develop nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the military of another country insisted that it had the right to build over 1,000 military bases in foreign countries. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the military of another country insisted that it had the right to station hundreds of thousands of troops on foreign soil. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the military of another country insisted that it had the right to build bases and station troops on American soil. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the government of another country spent more on defense than all the governments of the rest of the world combined. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the government of another country claimed it had the right to assassinate anyone in the United States. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the intelligence agencies of another country insisted on infiltrating the U.S. government and its intelligence agencies to spy on them. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the government of another country spent a trillion dollars on defense, most of which was really for offense. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the government of another country said that the United States must get rid of its nuclear weapons. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the military of another country bombed American soil. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the military of another country invaded the United States. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the military of another country occupied the United States. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the president or secretary of state of another country said that the United States needed a regime change. How would Americans feel about it?
Suppose that the intelligence agencies of another country flew drone planes at will over the United States. How would Americans feel about it?
You know exactly how Americans would feel about these things. So why is it that foreigners aren’t expected to feel the same way?
It is U.S. foreign policy that is absurd, dangerous, and clueless. Ron Paul is the only sane voice that one will hear in the remaining Republican presidential debates.

February 6, 2012