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Dwight David Eisenhower: President, General & ... Prophet?
His Presidential Farewell Address, January 17, 1961
15:36 Audio Text

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Is this man a hippie?
Neo-con pundits claim people who talk about the MIC are just old hippies.

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As of 2003, the American Military has privatized more than 40% of its combat support operations, which means that the American economy, industries and maybe even your job are dependent upon the United States to wage war for profit. 

Baby boomers seem to forget that this is the same military industrial complex that Pres. Eisenhower warned us against more than 40 years ago.  But, it's the same organization of politicians and unscrupulous business people whose lies we rejected during the Vietnam War, and must reject today.

 
 
Senator Edward M. Kennedy: Truth and Tolerance in America
Oct 3, 1983, Liberty Baptist College, Lynchburg, VA
29:04 Audio Text

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Recommended reading: Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
(Jefferson - 1777)

The case of Judge Roy Moore and the Ten Commandments statue in Alabama - abortion, fundamentalism and religious wars, the Pledge of Allegiance and many more current events would suggest that the separation of church and state - as a political tool - has returned to the forefront of American culture.

When considering this speech, consider that when his brother John Kennedy was elected president, many doubted the ability of a Catholic to be elected president because of the "majority status" of  Catholicism (like the "minority status" of Mormons and Muslims) in the United States. Even today, Catholicism is the largest religious sect in the United States with some 26 million members.

This speech is every bit as relevant today as it was then, and would have been in the time of Jefferson.

More about Jefferson and the documents he authored

   
  
Broken Promises: The American Indian Movement
Pres.Woodrow Wilson, Address to the American Indians, 1912
1:43 Audio No Text

 President Woodrow Wilson

The American Indian Movement

See also: The American Indian Movement, and the campaign to free Leonard Peltier

Leonard Peltier
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I became interested in the treatment of Native Americans, and the management of reservations, in 1969. It was shocking to learn of the neglect and mismanagement... Recently, I took a course at my local college, and was fascinated to learn that there were members of 5 different tribes and reservations in the class.

The funniest, saddest reservation joke one of them told had to do with the fact that when Custer, who was in charge of Indian Affairs, and his troops left the fort for Little Big Horn,  he told those left behind not to do anything until he got back. Thus, the BIA is just following orders. Like Arnold says, "Where there's smoke, there's fire."

These days, the American Indian Movement leaders generally agree on at least 3 things: if the Federal and State Governments will simply allow them to operate their casinos, and give them reparations for the mismanagement of some $100 billion,  and then just leave them alone, they would be better off... as well as allowing them to operate as a sovereign people, something to which we agreed as a nation.

This speech excerpt is another fine example of good intentions gone awry, the public face of an issue which has become facade, and how the expediency of politics in this government has again, over a period of decades, failed to keep its promises and agreements regarding human rights and justice.

It's easy to blame the failures of the nation or a group of people on citizens and corporations, when the truth is, it's often the failure of leaders to deliver the empowerment they promise at the time it's needed for those who trusted them to keep their word... from Native Americans to retirees who place faith in the promise of social security and the integrity of the Stock Market.

Consider this one more reminder.

 

 

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