Pacific Free Press was launched in March 2007 by Dutch-Canadian Richard
Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in the Netherlands along with Chris Cook- CFUV radio journalist and Editor in Chief of Pacific Free Press. Cook is based in , Victoria, British Columbia.
The site is a sister to Atlantic Free Press and Brick Ogden an American Expatriate in Amsterdam has been a key supporter of this project.
The mission of Pacific Free Press is simple: to dig out nuggets of truth from
the slag-heap of lies, ignorance and witless diversion that has buried
public discourse today. Pacific Free Press provides a new venue for
disseminating hard news and insightful, fact-based analysis of the
harsh realities too often ignored or distorted by the mainstream press.
The American public has been berated since the beginnings of the George W. Bush, (or Iraq) phase of the War With No End, for their lack of self-sacrifice.
Amongst the American "left," it was not uncommon, before the depth of the total and entirely abysmal disaster unleashed upon the Middle East was made too obvious to ignore, "liberal" commentators chided fellow citizens who would support a war policy, but not bite the bullet at home as crass hypocrites. This despite the Commander in Chief's stated belief that Americans continuing their lives as usual, and even going to Disneyland, was the best way to show the Terrorists they couldn't win.
Those same sad commentators then invariable made
comparisons, citing the ration books and victory gardens of WWII as
the proper way to conduct a home front. This is more than a nonsense, because it both belies the truth and denies the suffering;
most Americans have sacrificed plenty, more than we know.
First to pay; the dead, and their bereaved friends and family.
More than
five thousand killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to official
figures. Three thousand more dead, killed at Zero Hour, the
commencement moment of all that has followed, in New York City,
Washington, D.C., and somewhere in the sky over Ohio.
Next are
the armless, the legless, the blind, and insane.
Their numbers rarely
mentioned, those that emerged the battlefield alive but not whole,
their illnesses contested by a corrupt bureaucracy, and left
neglected to fester, forgotten lost members, the last
inhabitants to be of a terminally wounded medical system, they and their
bereaved friends and families have sacrificed.
And at home there are innocents, numbering in
untold thousands, citizens persecuted and falsely
imprisoned, despised, distrusted, deprived of their internationally
recognized human rights, and vilified for no more reason than living
their lives under the inalienable assumptions of American citizenship.
Imprisoned, and made aliens at home, because "everything is changed;"
they too have paid.
All Americans abroad suffering apologia,
attempting unsuccessfully to reaffirm through example remnants of
national worth and decency in the face of America's too numerous and
too reprehensible crimes committed in the name of maintaining a "way of
life" feel the loss and know the sacrifice made for this war.
"But
millions didn't vote for him...and it was rigged, besides...twice..."
Gone Justice! Gone Liberty!
It's Faerie Tale's end. America has lost her
face in the eyes of the world. Where once hope, now dismay. Where virtue...
its a good question!?
Done are days of sympathy for Americans in
growing quarters, and finished its influence. Soon, none will seek
America's council, nor listen to its arguments.America has sacrificed
its' place in the world, and with that all Americans are diminished.
As
mercenary armies proliferate, filling the boots of once "principled" military interventions, the actions of their paymasters seem more mercenary than altruistic. Any faith in benign intents driving foreign policy is for normal
functioning Americans a dead illusion.
With the moral
high-ground admittedly gone, sacrifices Americans have made for this
war can too include the damning fact: Trillions of dollars of public
monies has been devoted to the destruction of a modern
nation-state, and attempted annihilation of a complete
culture; the wiping of a people from the pages of history.
Americans are now not free to be free of
complicity; their labors largely being an intrinsic part of an economy based on
industrial scale global homicide, they're all implicated.
Many nations are too accomplice, but
for the exception, the nation first among nations, the hope and light of
the world America, the sacrifice made is huge, all round.
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The American public has been berated since the beginnings of the George W. Bush, (or Iraq) phase of the War With No End, for their lack of self-sacrifice. 
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