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...working populace returns to the office after its turn-of-the-year holiday, struggling with the misery of the daily grind, with the loss of nine-to-five freedom, and (in many cases) with newly-gained weight, the last thing that anyone needs is a blunt reminder that others remain on holiday—having too much...
This, we are reminded, is the “price” of freedom, the necessary cost for a bright, democratic future. Were it not for those ashen mounds of disqualified humanity and the acres of annihilated culture and society, Iraq could never be free and secure. Destroying a major population center, its schools, town centers, mosques, cafés; eliminating an entire local society of relationships, families, friendships, and careers—all of this, we are told, is how freedom is made...
America’s decision to use solely military power to spread freedom and democracy was an initial glimpse into the true purposes of our mission in Iraq. It should not have been surprising that America’s deployment of men of war to Iraq brought that country war and not freedom. It is not at all shocking to find an “enemy” waiting to sabotage our plans in Iraq—we created the “insurgent” the moment we brought tanks and guns into the streets. America?...
...Falluja’s dazed refugees trickle back to the rubble of their possessions, they will be choked by the cold grip of American freedom. Indefinitely parted from their livelihoods, denied their history, ripped from the fabric of a vibrant society, and separated from the irreplaceable life of a city, refugees will have earned a brutal freedom to start anew, from nothing. The freedom to part their arms and legs at checkpoints, the freedom to watch idly as Americans rebuild their city according to plans drawn in Washington, and, of course, the freedom to submit to a war for liberation...
...deaths of James Chaney, 21, a black Mississippian, and two white New Yorkers, Michael Schwerner, 24, and Andrew Goodman, 20, came to symbolize white resistance to the "Freedom Summer" campaign to register black voters. The case shocked much of the country and later inspired the 1988 Gene Hackman film Mississippi Burning. Yet neither Killen, called the "Preacher" by locals, nor other Klansmen ever faced state murder charges. And most, including Killen, beat federal civil rights--violation charges in a 1967 trial in which one member of the all-white jury insisted she could never convict a man of God like...