{"id":37890,"date":"2013-12-30T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=37890"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:20:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:20:09","slug":"end-the-u-s-national-security-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/12\/end-the-u-s-national-security-state\/","title":{"rendered":"End the U.S. National Security State!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"3kings\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to the Biblical account, when the three wise men from the east, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, alerted King Herod of the birth of Jesus, the long awaited Messiah, Herod saw trouble. He saw a Messiah, in Roman occupied Judea, as a threat to his throne and to the overall power of the Roman Empire. Herod’s response, like that of all empires, was to send in the military. Herod had every baby boy under the age of two in the Bethlehem district of Palestine summarily slaughtered. The Christian church commemorates this tragic day annually on Dec. 28th<\/sup> as the Feast of the Holy Innocents.<\/p>\n

In the U.S. people are rightly horrified when innocent children are gunned down in U.S. school shootings. But that same sense of horror doesn’t seem to apply when innocent children are slaughtered by U.S. Predator and Reaper drone attacks in far away places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, etc. Or Palestinian children dying in the Holy Land today under Israeli occupation with $3 billion annually of U.S. military aid.<\/p>\n

The U.S. is addicted to violence and war. Assault weapon sales, even \u201cAK-47 Christmas sales\u201d continue to skyrocket. The U.S. military has begun to use the phrase \u201charvest\u201d to describe the killing done by drones. The U.S. has now become a National Security State, a global empire, \u201charvesting\u201d children \u2013 Holy Innocents, at home and abroad. When will it end? It will end when we stand with the children and say…<\/p>\n

Ground the Drones!\u00a0 Say No to War!<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n