Richard Williams
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Richard Williams
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Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815. Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did. Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”



We are endowed with rights, as human beings. God did not grant inalienable rights in 1948 to a nation created by theft, murder, and deceit. The idea that Israel is allowed to continuously violate human rights because they have some unique “right to exist” is deranged nonsense.

BREAKING: More than 170 British Navy sailors caught doing “hard drugs” on nuclear submarines.







“So either [Joe Kent] was lying then or he’s lying now or, most likely, because he’s not a principal, he’s not a cabinet member, he is not in those meetings where that exquisite intelligence is provided. He said, ‘Iran has to be dealt with. The president is correct,’ a scant few weeks ago,” argues Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, in response to Joe Kent’s resignation as director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center. Watch the full conversation at CFR: youtube.com/watch?v=cDs1Yl…










