EASY POP QUIZ

EASY POP QUIZ

By Peter Fredson

December 22, 2006

An amusing test of American intelligence or gullibility.

1. Which nation of the world poses the greatest threat to the rest of the world?

2. Which nation of the world has declared that it will preemptively and unilaterally attack any county that its President believes poses some “intention” to some future attack?

3. Which nation of the world has a President whose lawyers have assured him that he is above the law, can take any unilateral action he pleases, can seize and hold any person for an unlimited length of time, and that abuse and torture are desirable instruments to bring democracy and freedom?

4. Which nation of the world sends sycophants to the United Nations to bully or bribe them into making declarations which strongly favor that nation?

5. Which nation of the world, when the United Nations would not completely surrender to its demands, took unilateral action, then threatened to dismantle the United Nations, and later even tried to appoint the worst possible opponent of the United Nations as a “diplomat” to make the U.N. knuckle under?

6. Which nation of the world has a president who lied to the entire nation, relentlessly, in order to kill inhabitants of a sovereign nation in an illegal war, seize its resources, and destroy its infrastructure, then refuse to admit he lied about its capability to attack his country?

7. Which nation of the world has a president that constantly uses words like “liberty” and “democracy” and brings those concepts to other nations with cruise missiles, helicopters, fighter planes, cannon, tanks, humvees, and 120,000 troops that will kill at the slightest move of the inhabitants of a sovereign nation to protest in any way?

8. Which nation of the world has a president that owes his position to True Believers in The Culture of Life, but has so little regard for life that he doesn’t even count the civilians he is responsible for killing?

9. Which nation tries to stop other nations from acquiring nuclear weapons, which itself has the greatest arsenal in the world and has no hesitation about killing people to preserve its Culture of Life?

10. Which nation has the greatest store of biological weapons in history and is constantly experimenting with novel applications despite the fact that no nation is threatening it?
11. Which nation has in a few years run up the largest national deficit in the entire history of the world, is continuing to do so, and has no idea how to stop doing so, but is constantly engaged in reassuring its people that everything is going well?

12. Which country has just threatened Syria and Iran with preemptive action unless they bow down to its unique rules infringing their sovereignty and freedom? And which country had the intentions of attacking Syria and Iran ever since its president took power?

13. Which country has a president that has exploited a national tragedy for his own personal gain, has given national resources to giant corporations in return for cash and support, and constantly waves his country’s flag and thumps his sacred book as an alternative to addressing national concerns?

14. Which country has a president who has opted to change a moderate democracy for a corporate fascist-style theocracy in return for cash and unfailing votes from millions of sheep-like religious zealots?

15. Which country has violated many UN resolutions, leads the world in vetoes, has undermined many UN attempts to make peace in the world, and constantly threatens to eliminate the UN? Which country has a “diplomat” that said that if the top 10 floors of the UN were to disappear, nobody would miss them?

16. Which is the only country in the world to have actually used 2 nuclear bombs, killed several hundred thousand people, and would have killed more if they would have had any more bombs on hand?

17. Which is the only country that is presently condemned by the International Criminal Court for "unlawful use of force" against another sovereign state?

18. Which nation has more coercive military presences all over the world than any other nation? Which nation maintains oppressive dictatorships by stealth and is a major contributing factor in fueling international terrorism?

19. Which nation has provides support for violent military coups, and provides support, money and weapons for the overthrow of more regimes (including democracies) around the world, than any other nation?

20. Which nation interferes in the democratic elections of many other sovereign nations throughout the world, and has helped to overthrow legitimate administrations that would not “cooperate” with its plans?

21. Which nation is the main agent in financing and arming Israel in its direct violations of numerous United Nations resolutions. And which nation has meddled to an intolerable degree with Middle East regimes?

22. Which nation has supplied more weapons to nations and groups all over the world than any other nation, including many who were hostile and unstable? Which nation has profited greatly by the sale of armaments, planes, ships, tanks, to unstable regimes? Which nation was a profitable partner of Saddam Hussein and then turned the partnership into a “regime change?”

22. Which country has no regard for international environmental controls, and resists any attempt to reduce emissions or regulate its emissions and usage of resources?

23. Which country invaded another, promised it “sovereignty” but is building the largest airbase and embassy for permanent occupation of that “sovereign” country? Which country took control of all the oil resources of a sovereign nation, gave it to a huge multinational corporation which just happened to have a CEO that is also Vice President of that invading country?

24. Which country has so little regard for the traditional constitution that it is willing to change it to suit the religious beliefs of its major contributors?

25. Which country is overthrowing the 200 year old separation of church and state at the behest of major fundamentalist lobbyists, and is on a crusade against gays while ignoring the desperate economic state of the nation?

26. Which country is now emulating several dictatorships of the past by consolidating the executive, legislative and judicial bodies under an amalgamation of neocon corporate raiders with religious zealots?

27. Which president was covering up the “outing” of C.I.A. operative Valerie Flame? For what reason? Will truth be allowed to show?

28. Why does “privatize” sound very much like “piratize?” Can we trust, in any way, corporate executives when they get their filthy hands on billions of social security funds?
29. Why is it not labeled “treason” when a president lies to start a war and many people die as a direct result? Why does a president label criticism as “treason?”

30. Why is the president of a large country unable to accept any responsibility for his lies, or express regret, say he is “sorry”, or even state bluntly that he “made a mistake?” Is he a sociopath?”

31. Who profited from all this hub-bub, deception, corruption, and no-contract necessary? Did a president get off the hook about corporate corruption when he put Martha Steward in jail?

32. Which president swaggers, smirks, mispronounces words, loves to play dress up and play soldier even though it appears that he was a cowardly draft-dodger that never fulfilled his duty?

33. Is it not strange that warmongers are usually draft-dodgers?

ADDENDUM: No Presidential spokesperson, journalist or anyone associated with Fox Network will be allowed to address these questions. They had their turn, but they twisted truth into a Gordian Knot which only a very brave soul will be able to cut.