As citizen, I have a lot of love for this country (America) the land of many opportunities. I would never do a thing to harm it and would defend its soil as I have pledged to do in the past during my time in the military...  Yet I often feel a deep disgust for the hypocrisy that often manifests itself from under the banner of our flag...

White Collar criminals are slapped on the hand...

We invade other countries based on lies and propaganda about (Weapons of Mass Destruction - WMD's), when it's really about greed for natural resources and religious oppression...

Look up the definition of exactly what WMD's are...

Our governmental leaders speak of spreading democracy.  The only problem is that our definition of democracy is biased, rooted in self-interest and hegemonic machinations.

Presidential candidates openly mock grass roots community organizing (the root of the democratic concept), make jokes about killing the people of other nations and the plight of rape victims here in our own land.

Right now, today, our country (America) is sponsoring genocide in Gaza.
Sponsorship Defined: To sponsor something is to support an event, activity, person, or organization financially or through the provision of products or services.

Israel is using military weapons on civilian populations with impunity - F-16 Jets, missiles, heavy naval guns, cluster munitions. Most of which were acquired from the U.S. Yet the use of these military grade weapons on civilians violates the Geneva Convention, US Arms Export Control and Foreign Assistance Acts and Israel has been doing this for years...

Media footage verifies Israel use of Cluster Bombs and other military grade arms (classified as Weapons of Mass Destruction "WMD's") on the Gaza population and our leaders continue pledge an undying support for them. If that’s not sponsorship, I don't know what is...

We invade & threaten other countries on the whimsical notion of the existence of WMD's, yet we use and sponsor the use of them on Islamic populations. We imprison people indefinitely, without charges & Due Process, torturing them; and do it all the name of Democracy...  

If they are guilty of something, why haven't they been charged with crimes?   Constitutional Law is extolled as our patriotic operative, yet it's easily thrown out the window when it's convenient to support the very practices we condemn so fervently...

We’ve maintained a president worthy of Impeachment, who among many other things (investigations have revealed) sought to politicize the entire Department of Justice hiring process in favor of republican only hiring practices.

U.S. Corporate media, one of the most powerful forces of our time, exacted upon us daily to manufacture public opinion and manufacture consent (through inculcation) stands on the sidelines like onlookers at fist-fight - failing us and the entire world itself by not using it's power to condemn what is constitutionally illegal and morally wrong by any standards in any culture, or nation.

I could go on, and on and on....  It just all gets to be too much sometimes and I have to vent in some tangible way.

Only after we fully understand how freedom and rights are being suppressed by the managers of our nation state — while they preach peace, freedom, justice, human rights and majority rule to sustain OUR beliefs in the morality of our society while our society itself is inflicting violence and oppression upon us and others around the world — can we come to know and write honest words from the heart and speak the truth to power that will grant us some semblance of personal peace…

When an elaborate system is developed, established, maintained and refined in the name of administering justice and democracy, that is a good thing..

If injustice and illegality occurs within that system with impunity, going unchecked; sustained by indifference, collusion, codes of silence and strategic misrepresentation, then that system is corrupt and is nothing but a sophisticated system of highly organized criminality.

Anyone in that system who knowingly remains silent, or does nothing to rectify the wrong doing (criminality) in that system is just as guilty as the person(s) who actually commits the acts itself.

Thank GOD we have "Freedom of Speech”...  

But then, I haven't tried to fly anywhere recently.  There's no telling how long I'll have to wait at the airport next time for a flight after this from being indiscriminately added to some mismanaged TSA list for exercising my 1st Amendment Rights....

I Love my country & human life, I Hate hypocrisy & oppression and the intricate inner workings of Geopolitics absolutely blows my mind. . .