New Zealand has a gun massacre & in 10 days they'll be changing their gun laws. EVERY WEEK there's gun massacres in the US & guess what?
America id dumb
Why did the cia help to overthrow the govt. in Guatemala in 1954?
The USA organised a military coup in Guatemala to remove the president, Jacobo Arbenz. Arbenz was the successor to the popular and reforming president, Juan José Arévalo. The country had been democratic since 1944; Arévalo had permitted free expression, legalized unions and diverse political parties. The USA Embassy had described the government as having "an unusual reputation for incorruptibility"; the Guatemalans had described the previous ten years as "Ten Years of Spring". After the coup, and for the next 31 years, repressive governments would rule with USA support. The CIA gives the new government lists of people to be eliminated, identifying political and intellectual leaders as military targets. Arévalo was driven out of Guatemala and died in exile. Peasant cooperatives were destroyed, unions and political parties crushed, and dissidents hunted down. Many indigenous villages were cleared leading to urban sprawl and poverty. Thousands were killed by government death squads and many more fled the country. Interestingly, one of those fleeing was a young physician, Che Guevara. Within a few years over 100,000 people, mostly the Maya, would be killed. The USA declared that the reason for the coup was to stop a takeover by the USSR. In actual fact, the USSR had little interest in the country, not even maintaining an embassy. The real reason was economic - American companies (especially the United Fruit Comany in which CIA director, Allen Dulles, had an interest) would benefit from cheap labour, lax safety laws and a helpful government. The American company, Coca Cola, benefited when striking workers were killed by the military. A USA document (US Policy Towards Latin America) admits that the major threat to USA interests was "nationalistic regimes [that implement] immediate improvement in the low living standards of the masses". This story has been repeated in many Latin American nations (Chile, El Salvador, Surinam, Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador etc, and in nearby Haiti & Dominican Republic)
Can you be a registered Socialist and join the military?
Yes you can be a socialist in the US, ignore the person above me. This one kid at basic got off the bus in an Che Guevara tshirt. He got picked on it throughout the entire time but he made it and was able to have a succesful career in the military. The military does not look at ones voting record or political prefrence. As what the first person said, just as long as he is prepared to deal with a nunch of clueless, heartless conservatives then he is ok.
Was Timothy McVeigh a Republican who hated Government so much?
Political views and religious beliefs McVeigh was a registered Republican when he lived in Buffalo, New York in the 1980s, and had a membership in the National Rifle Association while in the military,[82] but voted for Libertarian Party candidate, Harry Browne, in the 1996 presidential elections.[83] McVeigh was raised Roman Catholic.[84] During his childhood, he and his father attended Mass regularly.[85] McVeigh was confirmed at the Good Shepherd Church in Pendleton, New York, in 1985.[86] In a 1996 interview, McVeigh professed belief in "a God", although he said he had "sort of lost touch with" Catholicism and "I never really picked it up, however I do maintain core beliefs."[84] In the 2001 book American Terrorist, McVeigh stated that he did not believe in Hell and that science is his religion.[87][88] In June, 2001, a day before the execution, McVeigh wrote a letter to the Buffalo News identifying as agnostic.[89] Before his execution, McVeigh took t
Is the Tea Party a mainstream or fringe group?
They've certainly caused quite a ruckus and put vulnerable conservative candidates on edge. Mind you, I'm not even in their camp, but they have been * far * more effective than the other "fringe", which didn't do much more than crap on cop cars, score free pizza and roll around in tents, banging hippie girls wearing newly-purchased Che Guevara t-shirts.