‘Tear Down the Empire’: Socialists Respond to Wikileaks by Calling for U.S. Demise
While most of the nation fears the fall out from the latest release of secret documents by Wikileaks, some groups are seeing it as an opportunity. Take the socialists, who have called on democratic socialists to use the leaks as motivation to “tear down the empire,” otherwise known as the United States.
Trevor Loudon sets it up:
Andrea Pason and Billy Wharton are co-chairs of the Socialist Party USA. They just published this statement in LINKS, an international marxist journal run by the Australian Socialist Alliance.
Now the statement (emphasis added by Loudon):
The latest Wikileaks revelations should be a call to action for all Americans. It is time to tear down the empire that has been created in their name. Two tasks are first and foremost. We need to create a vibrant movement to end the wars being waged in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. No more occupations, no more military surges and no more drone attacks. Simultaneously, we must demand that the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay be closed immediately. Achieving such demands will open a political space to more directly challenge the centre of the military industrial complex by calling for an immediate reduction of the military budget by 50% and the closing of all US military bases abroad.
As democratic socialists, we imagine another society, where the great wealth this world produces is put to use to meet human needs. Such a world would not need the secret cloak that covers the operations of the US empire. It would, instead, be based on notions that seem very distant from our current reality – democracy, free association and self-determination. We think that democratic socialism holds the potential to live up to these lofty ideals. Let the Wikileaks disclosures provide the motivation for you to join in this struggle.
Read the entire anti-U.S. statement here.
” While most of the nation fears the fall out from the latest release of secret documents by Wikileaks, some groups are seeing it as an opportunity. Take the socialists, who have called on democratic socialists to use the leaks as motivation to “tear down the empire,” otherwise known as the United States.” (from the article)
I have said in the past that I believe Americans working toward seeing our own nation destroyed is on the verge of treason. If it is treason for White Nationalists then it is treason for Progressive Socialists too. We can’t have one standard for White Nationalists and another standard for Progressive Socialists. Both DREAM and WORK toward the day that the United States is destroyed. I will not keep silent and only condemn one group because it is political correct to give Progressive Socialists a free pass.
I never thought I would see the day when I would live in a country where MANY AMERICANS WANT TO SEE OUR OWN NATION DESTROYED. As a Political Daughter of the American Revolution it breaks my heart that we have so many Americans who have NO REAL PATRIOTIC LOVE FOR OUR NATION OR OUR HISTORY. WE LIVE IN A NATION FOR MANY AMERICANS DON’T KNOW OUR NATION’S HISTORY. SOME DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHO WE FOUGHT THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AGAINST AND WHY WE FOUGHT? As a Daugher I feel I failed the younger generation by not making sure they were taught American History and helped developed a love for country.
Yesterday we had a couple over who are moving to TX. We will miss them. Yet, they are lucky to be getting out of AZ. She is also a Daughter like my mom and I are. Someday the Daughters might just understand me and why I do the things I do and might be a little proud that they helped foster the love and loyality I feel toward this country. Again, they may never know the truth and like many otherwise good people remain silent because they are afraid to rock the boat. EVIL WINS WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DO NOTHING AND REMAIN SILENT.
WE HAVE AMERICANS IN THIS COUNTRY ON BOTH THE LEFT AND RIGHT WHO WISH FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR OWN NATION. YES, OUR GOVERNMENT IS CORRUPTED AND THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED BUT DOES THAT EXCUSE WISHING YOUR OWN NATION TO BE DESTROYED AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO SUFFER?
Yes, we must fight the corruption, greed, and crime in our government and leaders. We must be smart, have the courage to fight to save this country and be strong defenders of our Constitution and Bill of Rights that our Fore Fathers gave us. We must run for office those men and women who will not be co-opted on arrival. We must vote for men and women who have earned our vote and respect by their moral character and not by how good a speech they can give with a telepromter.
George Washington said the most important quality a President must have is HONESTY. To our nation’s misfortune we have had a long line of DISHONEST MEN WHO HOLD THE TITLE OF PRESIDENT. IT IS A PROBLEM WHEN YOU HAVE AMERICANS WHO DO NOT BELIEVE ONE WORD THE PRESIDENT OR MEMBERS IN CONGRESS TELL US. THEY HAVE LIED SO MUCH THAT NO ONE BELIEVES ANY THING THEY SAY. WE HAVE ALLOWED LEADERS TO LIE TO US AND DECEIVE OURSELVES INTO THINKING THAT MORAL CHARACTER DOESN’T COUNT, BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT IT DOES COUNT.
I was talking to my neighbor who is also a Republican this morning. I was sharing with him that I was watching Sarah Palin’s show. I told him that she seems like a lot of fun that if we met at a Republican Convention that she would be a hoot to hang out with, yet, I think it would be a big mistake if Republicans picked her as their candidate for President. We both agree that the right candidate hasn’t come through yet. Sarah Palin I believe does LOVE this country. She has PASSION. Yet, I don’t think she has all the qualites that a good President needs at this time in our nation’s history. Because she didn’t finish out her term as gov. I wonder if she has the will power needed to stay and finish something even when it is tough going. I feel that is a valid concern.
The Left love to attack Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol is caught in the cross fire. I know what it is like to be hated because of people not liking the mother. What is Bristol’s crime that she has so many people who HATE her and even SEND DEATH THREATS? She is Sarah Palin’s daughter. She is a Christian who believes like many of us Catholic women and men believe that one strives to save themselves for the person they marry. We might fall into temptation, but the important thing is that we pick ourselves up and try and do better in the future. The Left like to mock those of us who want to try and live a good moral Catholic/Christian life. They also like to mock those of us who happen to be Republican. Progressives love to make it sound like it is ALL REPUBLICANS WHO ARE THE ENEMY OF THE PLANET. WHEN THE TRUTH IS THAT THERE ARE REPUBLICANS WHO LOVE NATURE AND FIGHT TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT THAT GOD CREATED AND LOOK AT OUR BEING GOOD STEWARDS OF THE PLANET AS ONE OF OUR DUTIES AS A CHILD OF GOD. We have Republicans who are members of leading environmental groups like the NRDC, yet to hear Progressive Democrats talk REPUBLICANS ARE COMMITTING CRIMES AGAINST THE PLANET. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ALL REPUBLICANS STOPPED THEIR MEMBERSHIP IN THE NRDC? I THINK THEY MIGHT FINALLY REALIZE THAT THERE ARE REPUBLICANS IN THIS COUNTRY WHO ARE FRIENDS OF THE PLANET. I am not saying we Republicans should do that at this point in time, as I hope that Progressives will start to see the truth and realize that in order to stop evil practices like mountaintop removal mining it is going to take all of us (Republicans and Democrats) working together.
I don’t see Democrats keeping the Progressive Socialists in line anymore then I see Republicans keeping the White Nationalists in line. Both Parties have allowed and continue to allow the fringe within the party to hijack the party and to move the party in a direction that is far away from where the American people are at.
We must keep looking for answers and keep thinking of things outside the box we can try to change things. We might not succeed and both Progressive Socialists and White Nationalists get their wish and our nation is destroyed off the face of the earth and Americans will be suffering. Do they ever think of the children who will be suffering? They both say they love children and want them to have a bright future, but do they really when they wish bombs to go off that kill people? They justify their desires by saying that they hate the government and not the american people. They say it is the American government they want destroyed and not the American people, but who are the ones who will be injured, murdered, and suffer in the next attack that will be made to help bring us down? It is the neighbors and people in our community who will be the ones who pay the price for your dream of a global socialist world.
Yes, I am part of the old world and don’t like the new world very much. While other Americans dream of the day our nation is destroyed and there is no more United States of America; I would rather die fighting in battle. I know that there are true American Patriots left in this country. We are the older generation who are dying out, but I believe that there are still some youth that have a love for nation and don’t believe the LIE that the United States has to be destroyed for the sake of their NEW WORLD GLOBAL ORDER. I WOULD RATHER DIE IN BATTLE FIGHTING THEN TO LIVE IN SLAVERY IN THE NEW WORLD GLOBAL ORDER OF SOCIALISM.
Yes, I might be murdered someday but I would rather die in battle doing the right thing then to live and know I did nothing to stop the evil from WINNING.