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The statue should be removed because it celebrates oppression, violence, justice and genocide, dozens of people argued in a virtual public forum Friday night.

Captain Blackadder's Lament: Imperialism Isn't Fun.A 16-foot-tall bronze statue in downtown San Jose, CA commemorating Thomas Fallon is pictured on Saturday, Jan.

Single-Serving Pre-emptive War: If George W.

The Gulag State, Take Two: Breyer Proposes an Amer.

Building a Fence to Nowhere: The Real Border Invasion.

Ron Paul: The Smearbund Hates What It Can't Contro.

Establishment 'Libertarianism': Better Living Thro.

By the way, I regularly link over here from LRC and love the articles. So I guess what I am getting at is that there needs to be some serious work at putting out what is needed to develop the groundwork, foundation, and context for issues like you discuss here so that it will have a broader appeal. Now that I have the proper context to understand what was being said, I can see that it was true. I recall that prior to obtaining a law degree and studying Mises and Rothbard, much of what I was hearing from people made no sense to me and thus I rejected it, even though it was true. All the preaching in the world, no matter how Truthful, will ever matter because it will lack the context to make sense. If we cannot get this information to them in a manner they will consume, then they will never wake up. Few people are going to read something like Mises' 'Human Action' or Rothbard's 'Man, Economy & State'. People can only 'wake up' to the Truth when it is presented in an easily digestible manner. It would be nice to see something that outlines all the various forgotten wars and their backgrounds. What I have not seen, even if it does exist, is a good overview of the history of our country that is NOT of the variety found in public schools. The problem is, I doubt there are many people out there that will take the time and effort to do this.

In the course of years of dedicated studying, I have been putting together much of our history in a piece meal fashion. My own education has been the result of many hours reading sites like, , and the MANY sites I have found as a result of those two. Some might move on to things like the 'History' channel and other pro-state outlets of official history. For the bulk of Americans, their education of historical matters pretty much ends with public schooling. Even what is taught is heavily biased to make America look good. Simply put, the 'education' we get in public schools is VERY selective. It occurs to me that much of the general apathy of Americans with regards to the true nature of our nation is the result of simple ignorance of our history. Known as the вЂњBayonet ConstitutionвЂќ - since, like all such acts of imperial liberation it was backed with the overt threat of punitive military action вЂ“ the charter вЂњgave all Americans and Europeans, even non-citizens, the right to voteвЂќ while denying it to the majority population of Asian laborers, explains Stephen Kinzer in his fascinating book Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.

#Imperialism 2 paul the tall full#

In 1887, that clique, with the full support of Washington, blessed the Islands with a constitution that thoughtfully removed from the native Hawaiians the burden of self-government. One of the first lands to fall beneath this esurient gaze was the Kingdom of Hawaii, which was already under the rule of a corporatist sugar plantation clique. Even before the 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee (for which twenty soldiers were awarded Medals of Honor for gallantry of the type displayed by Captain Blackadder's African regiment) heralded the fulfillment of Manifest Destiny, powerful and ambitious figures were seeking to build an overseas American Empire. Barely a century passed between America's War of Independence and the emergence of an imperial ruling caste in Washington.