Tag: Franklin D. Roosevelt

USS Liberty: 59 Years of Official Silence Broken

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On December 08, 1941, the day after the Japanese “sneak”1 attack on Pearl Harbor, which heavily damaged the fleet harbored there and killed approximately 2, 400 servicemen and women, President Franklin D. Roosevelt went before Congress and asked it for a formal declaration of war, which it gave without hesitation. This has been the last time that Congress has declared war, although the US has subsequently waged major wars in Korea, Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and currently Iran, plus numerous smaller conflicts which often barely raise a blip in the news. Guatemala, Haiti, Venezuela, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Serbia, et al. In all these, the Congress has hardly raised its collective eyebrows to question the need for war, let alone gotten off its collective ass to restrain the president and the military-industrial complex (MIC) which profits mightily from the destruction and killing.

“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”, Roosevelt thundered and Congress immediately gave him the authority to prosecute the war, which he did until the day he died and Harry Truman took over, bringing it to an end by destroying two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, through the (alleged) use of atomic bombs, one uranium and one plutonium.2

June 08, 1967, was a date which also lives in infamy, but instead of an enemy attacking US ships and killing US servicemen, this came from the direction of America’s staunchest “friend and ally”, also known as the State of Israel. 34 sailors died and 171 were wounded, some grievously, yet, officially the incident was swept under the rug and nothing of any significance was ever done about it. President Lyndon Johnson did his best to squelch the story and his administration actually ordered other Navy ships in the area not to interfere nor make any attempt to rescue the survivors. At the first sortie of fighter jets scrambled to help, US Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara ordered them back to their aircraft carrier, and at the second, Johnson himself gave the order with this cold-hearted, treasonous comment.

“I don’t care about a few dead sailors. I will not embarrass our ally, Israel. Return to base immediately.”

Eventually, the attack was called off and, on questioning, Israel claimed that it had been a matter of mistaken identity. The official narrative was that they had thought the ship was Egyptian, even though it was a clear day and the American flag was flying in plain sight. It is widely presumed that the ship was meant to be sunk with all hands and the the Egyptians blamed for it, causing the US to enter the six-day war on the side of Israel. Talk about a false flag! It is notable that Lyndon Johnson was also complicit3 in the false-flag incident of the Tonkin Gulf off the coast of Viet Nam, embroiling the US into the quagmire of that war which resulted in the deaths of more than 58,000 American servicemen and unknown millions of Vietnamese, both military and civilian.

“Remember the USS Liberty!”

Yesterday, June 08, 2026, 59 years after the incident, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-KY., took to the floor of the House of Representatives and delivered a blistering speech which thoroughly condemned the incident, the way it was handled, and the treatment the survivors have received over the years. Many of them were in the audience with him. One of them, Philip Torney, has done an interview with Candace Owens, which can be seen here, during which the statement that, “God saved us from God’s Chosen People.”, was made. Massie, who lost a recent primary to Donald Trump’s chosen candidate whose campaign was funded to the tune of $30 million by “special interests”, namely Jewish groups and billionaires, has only a few months left in his term and it seems as though he intends to make the most of it.

“Remember the Liberty!” “Release the Epstein files!” “Massie for Precedent!”

Watch Thomas Massie at his best here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7bRtT1xjJI

The times, it is said, they are a’changing. The mood of the country toward Israel is rapidly shifting and with the impending die-off of the Baby Boomers, most of whom (probably including myself) will be dead in twenty years, many of whom are “true believers” that the Jews really are God’s chosen people, the State of Israel has, in my opinion, just about reached the end of its miserable existence. It has been a blight on world affairs for far too long and it is time for it to enter the dustbin of history, court reporters notwithstanding.

Donald Trump could learn a few things from all this. Being a headstrong boomer himself, it’s not likely that he will change his religion.

  1. Because the US government won the war over the Japanese government, it has been able to write history according to its own viewpoint. History, as the saying goes, is written by the victors, and the official history is that the attack was completely unprovoked and even surprising and unanticipated. However, as time goes on and skeptical people keep digging in the dirt, a “conspiracy theory” has developed which postulates that Roosevelt wanted to get into the war and manipulated the Japanese via sanctions, boycotts, and blockades to lash out against the American fleet from sheer desperation. Whether this is true or not is not the focus of this article. Do your own research and make up your own mind. ↩︎
  2. Even this is open to question. See https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-nuclear-deception-2026 ↩︎
  3. Johnson was also perfectly positioned to take advantage of the situation on November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, TX. Once is an anomaly. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a pattern. He has been consistently rated as one of the worst, if not the worst, president in US history. Joe Biden might dethrone him. We’ll have to wait and see. ↩︎

To Comply with the Law–or not!

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There is a small shop alongside Hwy. 93 in Lolo, MT, which has a sign posted with this message. “Slow cars to the right. It’s the law!” It has not changed in a long time. Evidently someone has a problem with vehicles in the left lane which might slow him down a little. Considering the traffic accidents which occur in that area, slowing down a little wouldn’t be such a bad idea.

Daisy Luther has recently posted an article on her website, The Organic Prepper, which claims that the state of Virginia is considering passing comprehensive “gun control” bills and entertaining the possibility of calling out the National Guard to force local communities to cooperate with the state in enforcing them. The result of this is that a vast majority of counties in the state have either declared themselves “gun sanctuaries” or are leaning toward that status. Democratic Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly told the Washington Examiner [concerning] local county police who may refuse to enforce future gun control measures. “The law is the law. If that becomes the law, you don’t have a choice, not if you’re a sworn officer of the law.”

Apparently, the potential of such blatant disregard of the LAW is not to be tolerated.

In Nazi Germany, citizens were ordered to report and identify any persons they knew to be Jewish. It didn’t matter that they also knew what would happen to such people. It was the LAW!

In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order declaring that every person in America who physically held gold currency or gold bullion had to relinquish it to the federal government. This action was expressly unconstitutional, but it didn’t matter—it was the LAW and thousands, perhaps millions of law-abiding citizens promptly broke their piggy banks in order to follow the law.

These instances could be multiplied many times over. The point I am trying to make is that once something has been legally codified into law, an extreme psychological, social pressure is placed on everyone to comply with it. Whether the law is morally right or not doesn’t matter, it is the law and, as a consequence everyone must submit to it—even if they get hurt in the process.

We should also consider one other situation which would have had world-wide implications if the LAW had actually succeeded in accomplishing its goal.

“Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men.”–Matthew 2:16, NKJV

Over 2000 years ago, in order to eradicate any possible threat to his rule, Herod, the ruler of the province of Judea in the Roman Empire, ordered that all, that is ALL, male children under the age of two years in the city of Bethlehem and its suburbs, were to be immediately killed. This directive was carried out without mercy, causing untold anguish among the civilian population. However, due to a dream, Joseph, the father of Jesus, had earlier taken his wife and newborn baby out of the area and moved to Egypt, thus avoiding the slaughter.

Where would Christmas (or Christianity) be today if Joseph had not preemptively taken action to ‘disobey’ the law? What would have been the result if he had the idea that “the law is the law, therefore I must obey it?” What if he had given up his son to be destroyed simply because it was the LAW?

The answer, for anyone who wishes to see it, is obvious. What should be just as plain to see is that if a law, any law, is unjust it should be held in contempt. Or, as Martin Luther King put it,

“”One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

In all the above examples, only the first one has any sense of morality to it and that is because there is nothing right or wrong about driving in the left or right lane. It is just a rule of the road. All the other laws can be seen as morally wrong and hurtful to innocent persons. Whether it is the State breaking your door down to take your guns or breaking your door down to kill your newborn son is irrelevant—it is wrong and because of this, it needs to be resisted.

Ultimately, everyone must determine for himself which laws can be followed and which ones must be rejected. There is no hard and fast method for making this decision. It must come from what you know, what you believe to be true and right, and how far you will go to hold to your beliefs.

Choose wisely.