THE DEATH OF FREEDOM PART 2 By Joe American

Rome's Emperor's understood the importance of bread and circus'. The empire knew that if they kept their population in a perpetual state of war, provided cheap bread and offered the spectacle of the Roman Circus in the Coliseum, they could rule with an iron hand and no one would complain. It worked for nearly five-hundred years. Yet Romans thought themselves "free."

Today, the grain provides cheap beer instead of bread and the "circus" has become television. Just like Imperial Rome, Imperial America has been in a state of perpetual war since 1861. The Civil War, the "Indian wars", Spanish-American War, World War One, World War Two, the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Gulf War One, Gulf War Two, and the War on Terror. Then there were uncounted mini-war interventions around the world. For good measure, we also had the War on Poverty and the Drug War. Always it seems, there is room for more war, because war is good for distracting people. It adds to the "circus" atmosphere.

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