Press TV has conducted an interview with senior editor of Veterans Today, Gordon Duff to further discuss the issue.
What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Mr. Gordon Duff the question of how the US House of Representatives did make this decision. First let us refer to the last summer’s deal according to the text that I have here, 1.2 trillion Dollars must be cut from the budget and that deal said half of that will be coming from the military but right now we’re seeing the House trying to head that off, not doing what was supposed to be done according to that deal, why is this happening?
Duff: Well, I think the figures you are using and the basic approach, I am not necessarily an activist, I represent through Veterans Today, the mainstream of the active duty military, American Veterans which is 25 million families who are suffering deeply and military contractors who were almost all veterans, both of your speakers of course are correct in what they have been saying.
The issue we have about the US government, the House of Representatives is controlled by the Republican Party, now I won’t say that the Democratic Party has clean hands but it has cleaner hands than Republican Party, my opinion only, this is my opinion.
They represent mid-level organized crime. As your other speaker brought up the opposition to NATO, there is no reason for NATO to exist, there is no potential rationale.
NATO is organized crime disguised in the military, NATO’s primary purpose worldwide frankly is managing narcotics business across the planet and as you know I worked in the military contracting, frankly, saying these things that I know to be facts will cost me money and cost me friends, I do not care anymore.
But the issues about the US and what a billion dollars is or a trillion dollars is, within the last six months the Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued 31.5 trillion dollars worth of unauthorized loans- enough money not just to pay every one in the US or the world but to buy the sun and Saturn too. There is no legitimate economy, this is worldwide organized crime.
Press TV: Do you think that there is a waste in that budget for the Pentagon? And do you think that actually security, a national security for America is the top priority not, rather, the healthcare programs? Not the food aid programs?
Duff: Well, a couple of things, I just figured something quickly. I agree with most of what the last speaker said but here in Ohio we have Republican governor John Kasich who tried to outlaw public sector unions.
The Democratic Party organized against him, we overturned the Republican Party’s attempts and every state that has attempted to end the organization by union is done with a Republican governor.
The Democrats in Ohio overturned this move by 67 to 33 percent. There are clear party lines. The other point which everyone makes frankly is that the Democratic party Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman are if anything only slightly better criminals in the Republican Party.
I would frankly, as was brought up earlier, this form of government here is feudalism, it is not democracy. I do not even call them corporations; they are gangs, the banks are gangs.
The Republican Party primarily and many of the members of Democratic Party exist, it is not about welfare for the poor, it is the US government is welfare for the rich; that is our whole point and this imaginary war on terror the idea, and if you just ask me about the military, our military budget could be one third, we do not need to be in any of the wars we are in.
Certainly we are not allowed to discuss 911 which I have my own opinions of, which I believe our own government staged as we staged these phony bombings as the French Security Services are staging bombings across Africa, I worked in the intelligence business, I see who really does things and 90 percent of the terrorism in the world is done by governments and security industry officials to raise money.
If they want to raise money they’ll go blow something up, they blow up a church, they will set off a car bomb and then show up the next day and try to sell the bomb protection equipment.
It is simple racketeering, all of this is racketeering, it’s very easy to figure out. We have flooded this country with drug money, with arms money, we have forced the American people to live as slaves, we have turned this country into a police state with no rights to organize, no rights to speak out, that is why three of us here are talking on a TV network 8,000 miles away because if I would say this in the United States I’d be in jail.
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