The Silence of the Empire’s Lambs: Half of our Tax Money Goes down the Rabbit Hole of Military Spending
NOVANEWS
“How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God! In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!” (Jesus, New Testament)
By Philip A Farruggio
Global Research
In Jonathan Demme‘s superb 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs,homicidal manic Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) asks FBI agent Sparrow (Jodie Foster) about the killing of the Spring lambs. She relates how the lambs all went to their slaughter in silence. Such it is with most of our Amerikan public, under the command of our current empire. Many go forth to their demise in relative apathetic silence:
Half of our tax money goes down the rabbit hole of military spending, with few complaints or perhaps even FULL RECOGNITION of t...