Support the what? Why would I do that?

Sunday, October 7, 2012 lewis1946@cox.net American Sheep my reply for many! This is something hardly anyone around me knows about, I tried bringing this up, and the fact that Iran is a nuclear proliferations treaty signatory giving them the right to develop nuclear technology for peaceful reasons, in their case to deter the US from invading their country, as well as using nuclear technology for energy reasons, and I got a whole earful of how Iran is just like Saddam Hussein and needs to be put down like a stray dog, and more and more about how I am un-American because I don’t support the troops (who are fighting for our freedom of course) and if I don’t like it here I should go live in the middle east. My response, well id like to say I cleverly countered their warmongering rhetoric with statements about how GW lied to get us into Iraq, the predator drone strikes on civilians in Pakistan, but I cannot. I was just in awe of how effective CNN and ABC and Fox are, and insulted and just shook my head and said "all of you are sheep, you have lost the ability to judge reality from propaganda, and I don’t have the patience to educate ignorant farm animals." and the left as well. Monday is gonna be a little awkward. Why is it so many people simply cannot tolerate a difference in opinion? A teacher I had in third grade had a banner over her chalkboard that said "what is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right." That has stuck with me my whole life, and is proven true on a daily basis. And it just makes me sad. We as a species are capable of incredible inventions and scientific discoveries and love and growth, but we are all too busy bitching and arguing and killing one another to make any real progress. due to misinformed, hypnotized populations, and the manipulation of our own govt. by criminal corporate entities that profit from war. Ww3 is becoming a reality but it doesn’t have to be. If every American refused to pay taxes anymore, if every US soldier put down his rifle, if people were awakened in droves to the mass hypnosis currently plaguing our country, maybe we could start moving in a different direction, destined for peace and prosperity, instead of death and destruction. We always fear what we don’t understand, but rather than educate ourselves, we react with violence. Learn how to avoid conflicts, as opposed to fabricating pretexts for war. Learn tolerance, patience, compassion. All of these virtues are stronger than fear, anger, ignorance, but only when enough people believe in them. The staged events we see that sway popular opinions, like 9/11 and the Aurora, co shootings have a way of bringing out the worst in most, but the best in a few. Like the firemen and contractors who responded immediately to help at ground zero and were turned away, the jet boat pilots who went to New Orleans during Katrina and were sent home, the boyfriends who protected their girlfriends from the gunfire in the theater, not one of whom has been recognized as the heroes they are yet we give medals to men in uniform for killing civilians redefined as insurgents even when they are women and children and elderly people. the state of affairs is unacceptable. So what’s the first step? EDUCATE! Spread the truth like wildfire to counteract the mainstream media.