Thanks for pointing out Burdeshaw’s conflict of interest. It was disgusting when some of these people signed the document concerning Hunter’s laptop, and they are trying to play a rerun now. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me “.
Once again, Sam puts his finger on the enablers of the Deep State. The myriad of companies in the military industrial complex need lobbyists like Burdeshaw -- and it's former Admiral Vice President with his Pentagon connections -- to continue to corrupt Congressmen and Senators.
“We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions.
We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all US corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience.
The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government.
We recognize the imperative need for this development.
Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications.
Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved: so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplace power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
I was a teenager when Ike gave his farewell address January 1961.
Ltr to Ike 1/ 17/1966 from American Veterans Committee: “This veterans’ organization, founded during World War II, is contemplating a long-range study of some of the implications of the military-industrial complex. We could be very grateful indeed to you for our views on this subject today, as all of us are concerned with maintaining this nation as an effective force in the world-wide struggle between freedom and Tyranny – Communist and otherwise.”
Ike reply 2/7 1966 pertinent part: “The influence of tremendous munitions expenditures is felt in every phase of our national life – millions today owe their prosperity, indeed their livelihood to this kind of production. Communities, and manufacturers, compete for new munitions facilities or contracts; to obtain such favorable situations political influence is sought and often given. Manifestly all of us should be alert to the possibility that munitions production could become so important that whole communities will look upon it as a way of life: we may forget that these expenditures are merely for the purpose of defending ourselves and what we now have. Our Struggle against world Communism involves military, economic and spiritual factors Each is equally important and it is up to us to see that we maintain the necessary strength in each and the proper balance among the three.”
Amen. I make comments to friends that America is not recovering from this (reckless spending and debt, illegal invasion, defund the police and no regard for law unless you can use it to imprison political opponents) but I don't think I can grasp just what lies ahead. God help us.
I worked directly with 3 of the men who signed this.
They were all intelligence, exquisitely educated in America's most distinguished institutes of higher learning and trained in their government service at great expense to provide service to the country. And did good jobs, growing into important jobs by and large.
Then they retired and the grift set in. For many the notion they should just shut up and go away would never occur to them, as their entire persona and hopes of greater income and influence seemed to require them to stay close to WDC and continue in some capacity.
Whatever remaining regard I had for them evaporated when I saw their names and their trafficking in their government careers to make such a partisan political statement.
Thanks for pointing out Burdeshaw’s conflict of interest. It was disgusting when some of these people signed the document concerning Hunter’s laptop, and they are trying to play a rerun now. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me “.
Once again, Sam puts his finger on the enablers of the Deep State. The myriad of companies in the military industrial complex need lobbyists like Burdeshaw -- and it's former Admiral Vice President with his Pentagon connections -- to continue to corrupt Congressmen and Senators.
“We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions.
We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all US corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience.
The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government.
We recognize the imperative need for this development.
Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications.
Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved: so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplace power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
I was a teenager when Ike gave his farewell address January 1961.
Ltr to Ike 1/ 17/1966 from American Veterans Committee: “This veterans’ organization, founded during World War II, is contemplating a long-range study of some of the implications of the military-industrial complex. We could be very grateful indeed to you for our views on this subject today, as all of us are concerned with maintaining this nation as an effective force in the world-wide struggle between freedom and Tyranny – Communist and otherwise.”
Ike reply 2/7 1966 pertinent part: “The influence of tremendous munitions expenditures is felt in every phase of our national life – millions today owe their prosperity, indeed their livelihood to this kind of production. Communities, and manufacturers, compete for new munitions facilities or contracts; to obtain such favorable situations political influence is sought and often given. Manifestly all of us should be alert to the possibility that munitions production could become so important that whole communities will look upon it as a way of life: we may forget that these expenditures are merely for the purpose of defending ourselves and what we now have. Our Struggle against world Communism involves military, economic and spiritual factors Each is equally important and it is up to us to see that we maintain the necessary strength in each and the proper balance among the three.”
Amen. I make comments to friends that America is not recovering from this (reckless spending and debt, illegal invasion, defund the police and no regard for law unless you can use it to imprison political opponents) but I don't think I can grasp just what lies ahead. God help us.
I worked directly with 3 of the men who signed this.
They were all intelligence, exquisitely educated in America's most distinguished institutes of higher learning and trained in their government service at great expense to provide service to the country. And did good jobs, growing into important jobs by and large.
Then they retired and the grift set in. For many the notion they should just shut up and go away would never occur to them, as their entire persona and hopes of greater income and influence seemed to require them to stay close to WDC and continue in some capacity.
Whatever remaining regard I had for them evaporated when I saw their names and their trafficking in their government careers to make such a partisan political statement.