6 Apr 2022 10:44 am
https://www.fff.org/2022/03/31/we-have- ... like-them/
"...On a private basis, it’s always easier to identify what’s wrong with other people and counsel them on what they need to do to straighten out their lives. What’s not so easy to do is to focus on one’s self, identify one’s own faults, and then go about the difficult task of fixing them.
It’s the same with evil. It is so easy to focus on the evil in foreign regimes. It’s not so easy to focus on the evil in one’s own regime.
The classic example is Nazi Germany. Every American can easily identify the evil of Nazi Germany.
But there is something important to note: Not every German could identify the evil within his own country.
The same applies to Americans. All too many of them can easily identify the evil in Nazi Germany but are unable to identify the evil within their own government, just as all too many Germans were unable to identify the evil within their own government....Former U.S. Ambassador Madeleine Albright recently passed away. She was the one who infamously declared that the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children from the U.S. sanctions on Iraq were “worth it.” Many Americans still can’t see the evil in either her statement or the actual deed. Imagine if Russia or China were killing hundreds of thousands of children. I’ll bet every American could easily recognize the evil of such action.
Consider the CIA. All too many Americans are still unable to understand why it was evil for the CIA to secretly hire Nazis at the end of World War II. That is, they can identify the evil of Nazi Germany but they can’t identify the evil of their own government’s hiring of officials who served the Nazi regime.
Or consider the CIA’s MKULTRA program, which involved drug experimentation on unsuspecting Americans. While easily being able to identify the evil of the Nazi regime’s medical experiment on unwilling people, many Americans are simply incapable of recognizing the evil of what the CIA did to people with MKULTRA — or, for that matter, the evil of the CIA’s intentional destruction of its MKULTRA records to prevent Americans from learning the details of what they did...."
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nuckin futz Apr 05, 2022
Go to original post on Apr 06, 2022 6:01am
"...On a private basis, it’s always easier to identify what’s wrong with other people and counsel them on what they need to do to straighten out their lives. What’s not so easy to do is to focus on one’s self, identify one’s own faults, and then go about the difficult task of fixing them.
It’s the same with evil. It is so easy to focus on the evil in foreign regimes. It’s not so easy to focus on the evil in one’s own regime.
The classic example is Nazi Germany. Every American can easily identify the evil of Nazi Germany.
But there is something important to note: Not every German could identify the evil within his own country.
The same applies to Americans. All too many of them can easily identify the evil in Nazi Germany but are unable to identify the evil within their own government, just as all too many Germans were unable to identify the evil within their own government....Former U.S. Ambassador Madeleine Albright recently passed away. She was the one who infamously declared that the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children from the U.S. sanctions on Iraq were “worth it.” Many Americans still can’t see the evil in either her statement or the actual deed. Imagine if Russia or China were killing hundreds of thousands of children. I’ll bet every American could easily recognize the evil of such action.
Consider the CIA. All too many Americans are still unable to understand why it was evil for the CIA to secretly hire Nazis at the end of World War II. That is, they can identify the evil of Nazi Germany but they can’t identify the evil of their own government’s hiring of officials who served the Nazi regime.
Or consider the CIA’s MKULTRA program, which involved drug experimentation on unsuspecting Americans. While easily being able to identify the evil of the Nazi regime’s medical experiment on unwilling people, many Americans are simply incapable of recognizing the evil of what the CIA did to people with MKULTRA — or, for that matter, the evil of the CIA’s intentional destruction of its MKULTRA records to prevent Americans from learning the details of what they did...."
1 Nomination
nuckin futz Apr 05, 2022
Go to original post on Apr 06, 2022 6:01am