’Comply or be crucified’ the Romans declared

To have spent a life largely in service, duty and sacrifice because you truly, honestly, believed and valued in the highest esteem the truths of Truth, Justice and Liberty, fervently held dear the rallying battlecries of Democracy and Freedom, only to one day reach a sudden epiphany of realization, in a renching horrible instant ... to understand that those beliefs had become mere hollow words, tools and lies to be mouthed by a political system long corrupted to the core for something utterly base ... greed and power for a select few ... is to understand betrayal. Without honesty and honor, above all else, all those words are nought but a mouthful of ash.

Can the average Joe ever openly acknowledge that the USA is an empire ?

Does history show us what the real cost of empire is to humanity, to ourselves ?

Could there be such a thing as a moral and realistic Empire ?

Is not the very foundation of empire exploitation and repression ?

Is it not by its very existence a supremist denial on home soil and beyond our shores of true Democracy ?

Just as the cornerstone of the Confederate States of America was morally unjust slavery, so is a Pax Amerikana. Far more subtle and euphemistically concealed, at times, but slavery all the same.

Whether the US stays or goes in Iraq or Afghanistan, the US has only performed and encouraged terrorism. Everything we went to war for has been proven to be lies.

We deny every possible tenet of the Rule of Law by detaining people in places like Guantanamo without trial, without charges, torturing, renditioning, ’disappearing’, assasinating, collectively punishing, hostage-taking, whilst proclaiming to be the worlds champion re human rights. And we do this to the cry of ’Freedom’ and ’Democracy’, when why we really do it is to preserve the empire.

The adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq have done nothing to discourage terrorism. They have created exactly what the Jihadists desired, an ever more corrupt, mendacious, openly rabid world bully increqaasingly bereft of friends and allies, effectively recruiting for the Jihadists cause.

True America has always been the big schoolyard bully since American Exceptionalism was forged in the late 19th century. Only now the ’gloves are off’. The elites that are ’American corporate capital’ think they can do what they like, when they like, to whomever they like, and are answerable to no-one.

The Bush administration can never admit when they are wrong and that only adds to people’s frustration and reeks of the arrogance of the new imperial Rome.

To those who believe the Democrats are the saviours of a lost America ... they gorge at the same trough.

Remember the Romans ? Thier civilizing hand. The ruthless, brutal, conquerors, exploiters and butchers of countless non-roman ’Barbarians’ ?

Julias Caesar sought to be emperor and in doing so the Republic of Rome was inevitably destroyed. There is always an accounting.

’Comply or be crucified’ the Romans declared.

And in the end ... the Romans fell.

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