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. ↩︎