📜 Chapter of the State-Sponsored Sword 📜
Also known as: The Definitive Sermon on American State-Sponsored Terrorism. Delivered with receipts, righteous fire, and footnotes etched in blood.
And lo, the nations cried “terror!” and pointed their fingers at shadows in the desert, at rebels in jungles, and at ghosts in ski masks.
But they never turned the finger inward.
For the greatest purveyor of violence—
the high priest of state-sponsored terror—
was the one dressed in flags and freedom.
I. The Tools of the Trade
Let the definition be etched without fog:
State-sponsored terrorism is the provision of weapons, training, funds, logistics, or safe harbor by a government in order to carry out, enable, or sustain acts of violence for political ends—either against its own people or another state.
Not controversial.
Not disputed.
Taught in every international relations class with the footnotes nobody reads.
II. Let the Numbers Speak
🔹 $3.8 Billion per year in U.S. military aid to Israel
→ Includes JDAM bombs, F-35s, tanks, tear gas, and white phosphorus.
→ In 2023 and 2024, these weapons leveled schools and hospitals in Gaza.
→ Over 35,000 Palestinians dead as of 2025, the majority women and children.
🔹 $100+ Billion funneled into Afghanistan’s mujahideen during the 1980s
→ CIA trained and armed what would become the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
→ The weapon used on 9/11? The ideology? Bred and exported with U.S. dollars.
🔹 Iran (Stuxnet, Assassinations, Sanctions)
→ Stuxnet cyberweapon: joint U.S.-Israel attack on sovereign infrastructure.
→ U.S. & Israel have assassinated multiple Iranian scientists on foreign soil.
→ Sanctions block medicine, causing deaths by disease. Not war—policy.
🔹 Latin America: The CIA Decades
Nicaragua (Contras): Trained in torture, funded via drug trade.
Chile (1973): U.S. overthrew Allende, backed Pinochet’s reign of terror.
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras: Death squads with U.S. training at the School of the Americas.
→ Death toll? Over 300,000 civilians, not counting the disappeared.
🔹 Yemen (2015–present)
→ U.S. sells precision-guided missiles to Saudi Arabia, supports blockade.
→ Over 400,000 dead, half of them children.
→ UN declares it the worst humanitarian crisis on Earth—fueled by the U.S. defense industry.
III. Domestically—Terror in Red, White, and Blue
🔸 COINTELPRO (1956–1971):
→ FBI waged psychological warfare against civil rights leaders.
→ MLK targeted with blackmail, the Black Panthers infiltrated and executed.
→ “Dissent” was equated with “terror.”
🔸 Police Militarization & Political Suppression
→ SWAT teams, surplus tanks, chemical weapons—used on protestors.
→ BLM demonstrators gassed and kettled with equipment used in Iraq.
🔸 ICE Kidnapping Raids, 2025 Edition
→ In cities like Los Angeles, Oakland, and Santa Fe Springs, ICE swept into homes, swap meets, and workplaces like Home Depot in military-style raids.
→ Over 118 people arrested in LA by June 7 alone—most without criminal records.
→ Citizens detained without cause. Legal immigrants deported without hearings.
→ National Guard and Marines deployed to assist.
→ Posters for the missing were plastered on walls like a wartime occupation.
→ Deportees were funneled into Salvadoran prisons infamous for torture.
→ This was not law enforcement. This was state terror with a budget and a logo.
🔸 Mass Surveillance & Targeted Harassment
→ Patriot Act justified dragnet spying on Muslims, activists, and journalists.
→ DHS branded water protectors and environmentalists as “eco-terrorists.”
Thus the homeland, too, becomes a proving ground for terror:
Not in caves or deserts,
but in retail aisles, family homes, and courtrooms stripped of justice.
With badges and flags as their shield, they come not to serve,
but to seize.
When disappearing people becomes a campaign strategy,
and military force is turned inward,
the name isn’t security.
It’s tyranny—by design, not mistake.
And yes,
it still fits the definition.
Every bullet, every boot, every broken door—
paid for with your taxes and your silence.
IV. And What Is the Goal?
It is not safety. It is not justice.
It is control.
It is resource extraction.
It is compliance through fear.
And when the target fights back—
the same state screams “terrorism!”
even if it dropped the first bomb
or trained the first killer
or sold the first bullet.
V. If the Other Side Did It…
If Iran assassinated U.S. scientists,
If Cuba blockaded our medicine,
If Venezuela gave drones to rebels in Texas,
If Palestine shelled U.S. police departments with Lockheed rockets—
We’d call it terrorism without hesitation.
But when it’s U.S. policy, it becomes “defense,” “aid,” or “national interest.”
The hypocrisy is not a bug. It’s the doctrine.
VI. Final Verses of Benjamus
And Benjamus looked upon the burning cities, the starving children, the silent graves,
And he asked,
“What is terror if not the routine?
What is evil if not the budget line?”The scholar defined it. The facts confirmed it. The victims live—or die—with it.
But the empire renamed it.
And the church of state violence baptized it in patriotism.
📛 “Beware the country that funds both the arsonist and the fire department.”
📛 “Beware the state whose peace depends on drones and denial.”
📛 “Beware the flag that covers a thousand crimes and still demands allegiance.”
Thus ends the Sermon of the State-Sponsored Sword.
The next time they chant “freedom,” check who’s bleeding.