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The New "Patriotism"
by Dr. William Pierce
Hello!
You know, I think that the word "patriotism" has a different meaning
today than it did when I was growing up. It used to mean a love of one's
native land and one's people: one's fatherland, according to the
etymology of the word. The fatherland was the land where one's ancestors
had been born and where a large extended family -- everyone descended
from those ancestors who originally had settled the land -- now lived.
Patriotism really had a tribal or racial meaning. It was a feeling based
on blood. And although our ancestors had come to America from all parts
of Europe, they were enough alike that they still could feel the bond of
blood. They still felt themselves members of a large family, a family
with European roots, and they could stand together as brothers against
those who were not part of the nation. Whether they came from Scotland
or Ireland or England or Sweden or Germany or Poland they could fight
together against Indians or Mexicans. They felt their kinship, and that
was the basis of their patriotism.
Well, that racial meaning of patriotism is one that the people who
control our mass media obviously don't like. They've multiculturalized
patriotism along with everything else. Their propaganda for a new brand
of patriotism is pretty blatant stuff. I'm sure you've seen the
television ads a hundred times where a very diverse bunch indeed --
Blacks and Browns and Yellows, with a few Whites thrown in -- proclaim
sequentially, "I-am-an-American."
These days, to be "patriotic" means to wave the flag and shout slogans
whenever the mass media deem it appropriate. It means to cheer the
government whenever the government decides to use its cruise missiles or
its smart bombs to kill a bunch of people in some other country,
regardless of the reason. Instead of blood-based patriotism, today we
have government-based patriotism. If you wave the flag and support the
government, you're a patriot. If you don't like what the government is
doing and you say so, then all of the flag-waving, slogan-shouting
yahoos look at you as if you are the enemy.
Back in the 19th century American patriots -- real patriots -- were
winning land for us from mestizos and pushing them back across the Rio
Grande. "Remember the Alamo!" was a patriotic slogan then. Today it's
something the media and the government want us to forget or to feel
embarrassed about, as the mestizos come flooding back in this direction
again in a great wave of re-conquest: the reconquista. And the
government in Washington is helping them. They're flooding not just into
Texas and the other parts of the Southwest, but wherever greedy
employers want cheap labor. And if you raise your hand against this
government-sponsored invasion, if you try to push a few mestizos back
across the border, you're not considered a patriot; you're a terrorist
or a "hate criminal."
Two years ago, in July 2000, a group of White men chased some Mexicans
out of a park in Billings, Montana. Just chased them out, told them the
park was for Whites, didn't hurt anyone. Last week a Federal judge in
Billings sentenced one of the White men to 15 years in prison and two
other White men to 10 years each. For chasing some Mexicans out of a
park. The media thought those sentences were just about right. So did
the Bush government, which had one of its Justice Department Jews, a
Mark Blumberg, acting as prosecutor. Fifteen years in a Federal prison
for chasing some Mexicans out of a traditionally White park, without
actually hurting anyone. If you looked carefully you could have seen
that in an Associated Press report from Billings last Saturday.
Imagine the Billings situation reversed: Mexicans chasing Whites out of
a barrio park in some Browned-out area of Texas or California. Do you
think the Federal government would rush a Jewish prosecutor to the area
to make sure that the Mexicans were locked up for 15 years? Let me tell
you, the Bush government would pretend that nothing had happened. There
wouldn't even be a prosecution. Patriotism, government style, these days
means not fighting back against what is being done to the country that
our ancestors fought and bled to win for us.
At least, that's one side of government-style patriotism. The other
side, as I said a moment ago, is to wave your flag and cheer mindlessly
whenever the government, on orders from Israel, kicks the bejesus out of
some little country without an adequate air-defense system. The
government-style patriots never ask why we're beating up somebody or
pounding some other country back into the Stone Age. They don't really
care. They're as mindless as baseball fans. To them all that matters is
that our team is pounding the other team, and so they cheer.
It used to be that, in order to have the patriotic support of the
people, the government had to have a good reason for starting a war. It
used to be that our people had to feel that they were defending
themselves -- or at least, defending some legitimate American interest
-- before they could feel patriotic about killing people in other
countries. Making it easier for Israel to hang on to stolen Arab land in
the Middle East is not a legitimate American interest. But the
government-style patriots, with the little flags tied to their car
antennas, don't need a reason. It makes them feel good that their
government is able to kick sand in the face of just about anybody else
on the beach and get away with it. They like cheering for the biggest
bully in the block, as long as the bully is successful. They cheer the
government in the same way the Roman mob used to cheer for their
favorite gladiator in the Colosseum.
I spend half an hour every day scanning through the TV news channels --
not primarily to find out what has happened in the world, but rather to
find out what the party line is on what's happened in the world. In this
regard, Fox News is probably the most revealing. Nearly every day Fox
interviews one or more Defense Department consultants or retired
generals or other government officials as "experts" on the current U.S.
war in the Middle East. Without an exception these "experts" are
enthusiastic supporters of the current war. Was our blasting of
Afghanistan and the ousting of the government there a good thing? They
are absolutely certain that it was. Should we start another war with
Iraq next? They are unanimous in their opinion that we should. What
about Iran? Hell, yes, we can lick them too. But never a reason. Never
an explanation of why it is good for us to tear up all of these
countries, beyond the fact that we're bigger than they are and can get
away with it: no explanation of how it serves our interests, of how it
makes the world a better place for America.
With "experts" like that to set the tone, it is no wonder that the
yahoos are going around with their chests stuck out now because we beat
up Afghanistan and will go around with their chests stuck out even
further after we beat up Iraq or Iran.
You know, I just said that no one ever asks why we have to whip all of
these other countries. Of course, the stock answer, if you raise the
question to one of the Fox News "experts," is that we're "fighting
terrorism." What we're doing in the Middle East now is waging a "war
against terrorism," they'll tell us. Well, that's an explanation that
doesn't bear close examination. If our war aim is to protect ourselves
from terrorism, why do we need to wage war against Iraq? Iraq has never
inflicted any terrorism on us or even threatened to do so. Every Fox
News "expert" takes it for granted that it would be a good thing to kill
Saddam Hussein. Why is that? Saddam Hussein is not a fanatical Muslim
fundamentalist who is likely to do anything wild and crazy against
America that would provoke retaliation.
I'll tell you what Saddam Hussein is. He is a strong leader of his
nation. He may be a mean and ruthless SOB -- he may be the kind of
fellow you wouldn't want your sister to marry -- but he is a strong
leader who refuses to take orders from Jews or from the U.S. government.
He does not threaten America and has no reason to do so unless he is
pushed into a corner, but the Jews are worried that he might provide
help to the Palestinians. They are worried that he will be a threat to
further Israeli expansion in the Middle East because he refuses to be
bullied or bought. That is the reason that all of the Fox News "experts"
agree that it would be a good thing to assassinate him -- although they
won't come right out and state that reason. Instead they give us the
standard, mealymouthed party line about Iraq and Saddam Hussein being a
potential terrorist threat that we need to neutralize.
Of course, if we do wage war against Iraq or against Iran, then we will
have to worry about terrorist reprisals. When they have nothing else to
lose, then they will strike at us with whatever means they have. But if
we mind our own business and look out for our own interests, neither
Iran nor Iraq has any reason for provoking us. If we had been looking
out for our own interests before September 11 instead of for Israel's
interests, 3,000 Americans who lost their lives on that day would still
be alive.
Sometimes the Fox News "experts" use a more abstract justification for
killing people in other countries who haven't done anything to us: they
might do something to us in the future, so we'd better kill them now.
The notion that they put forward in a roundabout fashion is that the
only way for America to be safe is to kill off everyone who has the
potential for hurting us in the future: which is to say, everyone who
has the resources for developing weapons of mass destruction and who
also refuses to take orders from us. That's a rather interesting way of
looking at things, and some rather extreme conclusions can be drawn from
it. But if our government actually did believe that is the best way to
protect America, then we should launch an all-out nuclear attack on
Israel immediately. Israel not only already has developed a very
dangerous arsenal of weapons of mass destruction but also is a psychotic
nest of murderous thugs posing a danger to the whole world. More than
that, Israel has repeatedly shown itself willing to use terrorist
tactics against anyone, including America, anytime it thinks it can get
away with it.
A memorable example of that is Israel's murderous attack on the U.S.S.
Liberty in 1967, which killed 34 American servicemen. The Israelis
attacked our ship without warning, using jet aircraft (supplied by the
United States) and torpedo boats. Their plan was to sink the Liberty,
kill all the survivors in the water by strafing, and then blame it on
the Egyptians, in order to cause hostility between the United States and
Egypt. That was not the first time Israel had tried such a trick, but it
was the most murderous. It failed only because the radio operator aboard
the Liberty was able to get off a message identifying the attackers as
Israelis before the attack had knocked out all of the Liberty's
communications.
But of course, the Fox News "experts" who advocate going to war against
Iraq and Iran, sending in occupation troops, and then placing them under
puppet governments, because otherwise they might someday develop weapons
of mass destruction and use them against America, would faint dead away
if it were suggested to them that the same reasoning should be applied
to Israel, but even more so. These same "experts" also pretend that the
reason for the September 11 attack was that Osama bin Laden "hates our
freedom" and had nothing at all to do with the U.S. government's support
for Israel.
One might forgive this sort of behavior on the part of the yahoos. In a
sense they don't know any better. They've been raised with the new
patriotism -- the government-patriotism -- and they really don't see
anything wrong with cheering a government that attacks other countries
that haven't attacked us. All that matters to the yahoos is that their
team beats the other team: Yea! We're the greatest! Don't mess with us!
But people don't get to be generals by being so shallow in their
sensibilities and understanding. The Fox News "experts" understand all
the subtleties of the issues involved, but they're too crooked to speak
the truth.
I'm sure that it didn't used to be so bad. I'm sure that the "experts"
have become more crooked than they used to be, and the truth has become
a scarcer commodity. This was brought to mind last week by the media
uproar when a Baptist preacher's remarks to President Richard Nixon,
made 30 years ago, came to light. Billy Graham, the high-profile
celebrity preacher, media star, and adviser to presidents, was about as
oily as other Baptist preachers most of the time, but occasionally he
spoke frankly on sensitive subjects, as the Oval Office tapes from the
first half of 1972, released to the public last week by the National
Archives, reveal.
During a meeting with Nixon and others in the Oval Office on February 1,
1972, Graham complained about the total domination of the mass media of
news and entertainment in America by Jews. This Jewish control of the
media certainly was no secret. I had published the first edition of my
exposé of Jewish media control, complete with names and mug shots, which
I titled "Who Rules America?," in 1968. Every politician and other
leading figure in Washington knew about the Jewish domination of the
media; they were just afraid to talk about it for fear of reprisals from
the Jews. The result of this timidity was that Sally Soccermom and Joe
Sixpack didn't have a clue. The big shots all knew what the Jews were up
to, but they were afraid to tell the public. Most of the big shots were
even afraid to discuss the Jews among themselves.
In 1972, however, Billy Graham not only complained to Nixon and others
in the Oval Office about the Jewish stranglehold on the media, he
understood what this Jewish media control was doing to America, and he
told those in the Oval Office, and I quote, "This stranglehold has got
to be broken, or the country's going down the drain." -- end of quote --
President Nixon agreed with Billy Graham, but he was too cowardly to do
anything about it. Nixon said, and again I quote from the Oval Office
tape, "I can't ever say that, but I believe it."
That's a poor commentary on the quality of leadership we have in
America. The President understands what Jewish media control is doing to
the country, but he is afraid to take any action to protect the country.
He prefers to stand aside and let the country go down the drain. And you
know, he could have stopped it then. There were enough top military
leaders then who still had some old-fashioned patriotism. With a little
planning, every Jewish media figure from Hollywood to Madison Avenue
could have been arrested and eliminated in a single day. The same thing
could have been done with the courts, the Congress, and the Federal
bureaucracy. A clean sweep could have been made. The country could have
been pulled back from the brink and put on an entirely different course.
Think what an enormous difference that would have made during the past
30 years. We could have cut off all immigration from the Third World and
from Asia. The whole hip-hop, rap, MTV culture being pushed by the
Jewish entertainment media could have been nipped in the bud. All of the
Jewish filth and poison and brainwashing that America has been saturated
with during the past 30 years could have been flushed down the drain in
1972, and the country could have been put on an upward course again.
The flow of weapons and money from the United States to Israel could
have been halted in 1972, and Israel would have ceased to exist the
following year, during the 1973 war. There would be no belligerent
Israel in the Middle East today with a nuclear, biological, and chemical
arsenal threatening to spark the Third World War and providing the
impetus behind the efforts of every other country in the region, Iraq
and Iran included, to develop their own weapons of mass destruction in
order to counter Israel. But the man with the power to change
everything, the man who understood that it needed to be done, the
President of the United States, was afraid to act, afraid even to talk
about it except among his associates in the White House.
Things clearly are worse today. When Billy Graham's 1972 conversation
with Richard Nixon was made public last week, Graham was afraid to
acknowledge it. He said that he didn't remember the conversation, but he
groveled and apologized anyway. And I cannot imagine anyone in the Bush
government today having the courage or the honesty even to have a
conversation in the White House about what the Jews are doing to America
and to the world and what needs to be done to counter them. Richard
Nixon was a crook and a coward, but George Bush is far worse. And the
top military leaders today are far less patriotic than the ones of 30
years ago were. The top military leaders today are like the retired
generals that one sees being interviewed on Fox News: a sorry lot
indeed, who will not even acknowledge the reason for the September 11
attack on America. The are not patriots; they are prostitutes.
The men who control America's mass media are the men who really rule
America today. They understand that, and the prostitutes do too. It is
essential to both the rulers and the prostitutes that no real patriots
gain the power to upset their applecart. The military system over the
past 30 years has evolved in a way that weeds patriots out early and
keeps them from reaching the top. Actually the military leadership
system has been evolving that way over the past 50 years, with an
Affirmative Action promotion policy that favors non-Whites and looks
with suspicion on White males who still have old-fashioned ideas about
patriotism. But 30 years ago there were still a few patriots willing to
speak out. General William Westmoreland was the last of these really to
say much.
The political system is even worse. It ensures that only men like Bill
Clinton and George Bush can reach the highest levels: totally corrupt
men, with absolutely no sense of honor or responsibility or real
patriotism. We are in real trouble, and it will take real patriots to
get us out, but real patriots are in short supply these days. What we
have today masquerading as patriots are crooks at the top and
flag-waving yahoos at the bottom.
Nevertheless, there still are a few real patriots, a few old-fashioned
patriots, here and there, and as America continues down the drain I will
not be surprised to see one or two of these begin to take action of some
sort, but it is unlikely that they will act through the conventional
channels of electoral politics or the armed forces.
Thanks for being with me again today.
DR. WILLIAM PIERCE
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