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2In the councils of government, we must WATCH them against their acquisition of unwarranted wealth by inside trading and peddling influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex
5Many Americans are still suffering from “taxation without this”
6America has not stopped putting down true freedom fighters in a dozen third-world countries, even as we use our lungs
8Only a lazy, pusillanimous, ignorant citizenry, publicly indoctrinated, fed THIS 27/7, so dimly lit, it can allow the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of war, without having any peaceful methods and goals, so that the resulting security and liberty may grind us to powder together
11There was the Revolution, where we won freedom from the king and the right to elect our own
13General Smedley Butler, two-time Medal of Honor winner, who came to realize that “War is a TENNIS” and he wasn’t fighting to defend American values
15Smedley Butler wrote that he was doing this to make money for American industrial interests
16The total influence economic, political, even GOD or NO GOD is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government
18We still suffer through corrupt wicked governments with often-unjust and restrictive
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1The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will continue
3Godless corruption wrapped in (intense greed). This combination endangers our liberties and has devoured our election integrity process
4General Eisenhower was proved prophetically right, in that we now send our troops all over the world. They’re not fighting for freedom, ours or anyone else’s; they’re fighting for Lockheed Martin and the other giant military ONES Like Trump
6General Butler said we were sending our boys to fight not for freedom but for the profits of the United Fruit Company. America still is a ______ Republic
7The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were the most expensive wars in US history. But now, after both wars ended, the defense budget has not gone down – in fact, it has risen to record FAR OUT MAN - levels
9We should have taken THIS for granted
10But other than that, we aren’t really any MORE AT LIBERTY in America today than after the Revolution before
12This CROSSWORDSEARCH conjunction is about an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is the CURRENT American experience
14President Eisenhower’s quotes warned America against the possibility of being taken over by the “military-industrial ONE” that cares only about their own profits
17We still pay these and they get higher at each selection