Is the U.S. the World's Largest State Sponsor of Terrorism?

http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/05/us-is-clearly-worlds-largest-sponser-of.html

Four headlines this week make it clear that America may be the world's largest sponsor of terrorism:

This is on top of previous stories showing that Cheney is directly funding terrorist groups out of his office, and that the U.S. is funding terrorists all over the world to promote its agenda. See also this, this and this.

And Americans dressed as Arabs have apparently been setting off car bombs in Iraq (when it was discovered that some of the cars used in Iraqi bombings recently came from the U.S., the cover story seemed to become that American cars were involved in car bombings only because they had recently been stolen from the U.S. and then shipped to Iraq -- but does it make sense that Iraqi insurgents would steal cars in the U.S. and ship them all the way to Iraq?)

Unfortunately, this involvement in terrorism is not unique to the Bush administration:

No wonder the former director of the National Security Agency said "By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism - in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation"(the audio is here).

So next time the warmongers accuse a foreign country of sponsoring terrorism, remind them that - even if that is true - the U.S. is the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism.

The U.S. is the world's largest sponsor of terrorism, but it is also the largest purveyor of disinformation and propaganda in the world. Gangsters like Al Capone would be astonished at how successfully the American public has been fooled as to the nature of their government's actions.

As one of the leading American media critics says:

"Little has been done to address the astonishing ignorance of Americans regarding the US role in the world, [including] the extensive use of terrorism by the United States . . . ."

Note: As someone who was born in America and has lived here my whole life, and as someone who loves the ideals and Constitution our country was founded on, it has been a rude and painful awakening to learn about the government's terrorist acts.

I believe that, if the American public knew what crimes the government was carrying out, they would not stand for it.

Survey says . . .

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"My third reason moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettoes of the North over the last three years -- especially the last three summers. As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam? They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent. "

Martin Luther King Jr.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html

Please also visit:
http://www.actofstate.org

Probably

The CIA alone is probably the biggest state sponsor of terrorism.

I say probably because America poses an interesting paradox: on the one hand, it is open enough that we are probably aware of more state atrocities than a closed society would allow us to know; on the other hand, the atrocities of which we are aware are fairly substantial. So, maybe there is a state (Russia, China, etc.) that commits more murder for its own gain, but we may not be aware of its crimes in as much detail as we are aware of American crimes.