War is a Racket & Not What It Seems To The Majority of People: Major General Smedley Butler
By
Arjun Walia
from Collective Evolution
Arjun Walia
from Collective Evolution In Brief
- The Facts:The highest
ranking marine and most decorated US solider at the time, Smedley, told
the truth
about war in 1935 and how it's not what we really think it is. It's not about protection from harm, it's about big business and special interests. - Reflect On:Why do so many people believe that war is necessary, and that the military establishment is here to protect our freedom? Is it true, or is it simply propaganda to blind us from what's really going on?
War
is not what most people think it is. We’re told that war is necessary,
that soldiers are and have been overseas ‘fighting for our freedom’ and
sacrificing their lives in order to keep our homeland safe. It’s a
narrative that’s still pushed today and it’s backed by a massive
propaganda campaign that beams patriotism into the hearts of the masses;
meanwhile, very few people ever question what’s actually happening. We
are made to believe that war and the entire military establishment are
necessities, but they’re not. People have been sharing this opinion for a
very long time, those of us who actually think for ourselves instead of
simply believing everything that’s presented to us without ever
questioning it. Take Mark Twain, for example, who explained the
behaviour of the global elite to which I am referring to quite well:
The statesman will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them: and thus he will by and by convince himself the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. (source)
Today, this represents so much more than
an opinion. In order to keep patriotism flowing and money feeding into
the military industrial complex, we are made to believe war is
necessary. More people have become aware of what’s known as ‘false flag’
terrorism. One of the more recent examples of false-flag terrorism
would be the supposed chemical gas attack in Syria. False-flag
terrorism means that these acts were covertly carried out by one
country (in this case it was the United States) and blamed on the home
country (Syria), all for the purpose of justifying a specific goal (US
military intervention). It’s important to keep in mind that these aren’t
just beliefs, they’re facts that are backed by tremendous amounts of
evidence, so much so that current presidential candidate and military
veteran Tulsi Gabbard, who introduced the Stop Arming Terrorists Act,
the terms of which her website outlines succinctly: “The legislation
would prohibit the U.S. government from using American taxpayer dollars
to provide funding, weapons, training, and intelligence support to
groups like the Levant Front, Fursan al Ha and other allies of Jabhat
Fateh al-Sham, al-Qaeda and ISIS, or to countries who are providing
direct or indirect support to those same groups.” Gabbard herself was quoted as saying that the “CIA has also been funneling weapons and money through
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and others who provide direct and indirect
support to groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda. This support has allowed
al-Qaeda and their fellow terrorist organizations to establish
strongholds throughout Syria, including in Aleppo.”
The idea that the latest gas attack in
Syria was fabricated by the western military alliance in order to
justify intervention in that country clearly outlines how ‘fake’ things
are. These fake terrorist attacks, both home and abroad, are not only
used to justify military action, but also to take away our rights here
at home and justify surveillance and a heightened national security
state. This article is not going to go into the Syria attacks, but I put
more information in a recent article titled “BBC Producer Blows The Whistle & Admits The “Gas Attack” Footage From Syria “Was Staged.”
Another example of false-flag terrorism would be 9/11, as all of the witness testimonies and published research suggest it was a controlled demolition, and many believe it was orchestrated by the US government.
Think about that for a second: The same
powers that claim to be protecting us from and fighting the ‘war on
terror’ could be the same ones creating it.
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This is why I wanted to share a portion of the work of Smedley Darlington Butler, a United States Marine Corps Major General, the highest rank authorized at that time, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.
What better person to hear it from than a source like this?
This is an excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933 by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC. I obtained these excerpts from Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. You can access General Butler’s entire speech here.
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket. There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its “finger men” to point out enemies, its “muscle men” to destroy enemies, its “brain men” to plan war preparations, and a “Big Boss” Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
The Takeaway
There is intelligent manipulation of
human consciousness on several different levels happening, all for the
purpose of justifying the state’s actions within the minds of the
masses. Who is responsible for this manipulation? It’s the “invisible
government,” which has been referred to by countless presidents,
politicians and academicians for decades. As the father of public
relations Edward Bernay once said, this “invisible government” is the
“true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are
molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have
never heard of.” (Propaganda, 1928)
The good news? The world is clearly
waking up to these facts, so much so that the global elite has started
censoring information. Youtube accounts have been demonetized and
Facebook reach has been limited for those sharing this kind of
information.
The stronghold the elite had over human consciousness was
much greater just 10 years ago compared to what it is today. We are
finally starting to see the truth. We’re starting to realize that the
events taking place on our planet aren’t always presented accurately to
us.Our perception of the planet and what has been happening here is changing, and that’s a very encouraging thought.
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