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FROM COMPLICITY TO CONTEMPT Paperback – July 26, 2009

by Timothy V. Gatto (Author)
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From Complicity to Contempt details the changing political views of an Army veteran of 21 years. From the opening of the "Global war on Terror," this writer-patriot saw that his beliefs about his country were no longer based on truth. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were being dismantled in plain sight and the majority of his fellow citizens were either unaware of it or failing to stop it. Gatto's book provides a highly personal but also powerful look into the frustration and anger of an American who came to see that everything he'd stood for throughout his whole life was being turned into a fraud. Tim Gatto was born in 1950 and grew up in the Cold War era. Idealistically, he enlisted in the Army in 1968, though the Vietnam War soon began shaping and changing his ideas about American foreign policy, much as it did for most of his generation. While still serving, he joined the protest against the war. And later, after witnessing the fraudulent run-up to the Iraq war engineered by the Bush administration, he became politically active all over again-and began writing, prolifically and for an ever-widening audience. He lives in South Carolina, a liberal in one of the reddest states in the country.
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  1. Print length
    356 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    THE OLIVER ARTS AND OPEN PRESS
  4. Publication date
    July 26, 2009
  5. Dimensions
    5.51 x 0.74 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    098198911X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0981989112
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ THE OLIVER ARTS AND OPEN PRESS (July 26, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 356 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 098198911X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0981989112
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.51 x 0.74 x 8.5 inches
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Tim Gatto was born in 1950 in New York, and grew up in the Cold War era. Idealistically, he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1968, though the Vietnam War soon began shaping and changing his ideas about American foreign policy, much as it for most of his generation.While still serving, he joined the protest against the Vietnam War, and later, after witnessing the fraudulent run-up to the Iraq War engineered by the Bush administration, he again became politically active. He lives in South Carolina, a liberal independent in one of the reddest states in America.

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  • R. Helbig
    1.0 out of 5 stars Lies
    Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2011
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  • Peter Chamberlin
    4.0 out of 5 stars No Time for Silence
    Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2009
    The essays of Tim Gatto represent the efforts of one determined man to affect America's course in the world. The enduring testimony offered in this compilation of his work is proof that we are not powerless. Even though it might seem that the words of one man or woman are insignificant by themselves, but in reality, words reverberate after they are first uttered, playing-out their natural lives as determined by the power that propels them. Tim's questions and observations remain, alive, waiting in the void to be taken-up, or answered by others.

    Tim has a way to get people to talking about the unreported issues that will mean so much to us all in our immediate future. His articles are expressed in simple words and structure, making them readable to people who might otherwise be turned-off by too many multi-syllabic words and complex composition. His brave attempt to break out of the news filters of the national media and to reach beyond the gatekeepers, makes this book very special. More of us on the left should be so bold and follow his lead.

    Tim's writing and his activism mirror my own latest determined effort to right the many great wrongs that intensified with the election of 2004. For me, and I suspect it is the same with Tim, Bush's second inaugural address sounded too much like an American declaration of war upon the world. Bush and Cheney represented an evil that had to be stopped.

    The United States has no divine right or manifest destiny to reshape the world by force, especially not into the immoral imperial design that Bush and Cheney had in mind. A real American patriot could not stand idly by while US forces were trying to bomb the world into submission. The Bush Administration had made the entire world hate us and the new Obama Administration is making sure that the hatred will go on.

    With his website, his radio program and now this book, Tim Gatto is doing his best to lead America away from the current path of desolation. Will you be able to claim such a commitment to freedom yourself, when the time of accounting arrives?

    As a former "lifer" and recruiter in the Army, Tim has experienced something of a belief reversal, thanks to the abusive misuse of American military forces by the Bush Administration. Witnessing the death and disabling of tens of thousands of veterans in illegal wars of aggression is a powerful incentive to work for change in American foreign policy.

    Tim is like so many other Americans, both veterans and civilians, in that his activism is an act of self-defense for himself, his family and his country. Perhaps this book is the message that will reach from the left, past the gatekeepers, into the minds of the right, with the message that silence in the face of such evil is not a virtue. Healing the divisions created by Washington's warlords is the true path towards peace that Tim and so many others like him have sought to follow, the most vital task right now, for our Nation

    This war, like the Vietnam war, will be brought to an end by the people. The tide is slowly turning, as more veterans and returning soldiers find their own voices and join the call for world peace in our time. Tim, like thousands of other veterans, is mobilizing popular support for this resistance, working to get the people off their butts and into the streets, in order to bring this latest war of national aggression to an end. This book is but the latest salvo in a deadly war for the hearts and minds of the American people.

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  • BLUE INDY
    5.0 out of 5 stars Thunder On The Left
    Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2010
    Tim Gatto is a rising voice in the Liberal Left and is destined to become a major thorn in the side of the Republican Fascist Right Wing. In his first of three books, "From Complicity To Contempt", Gatto calls a spade a spade - and then he shows you how to use it to dig the truth out of NeoCon Lies.

    In this collection of articles, written from August 2005, to January 2007, we see the evolution of a man, a man who served his country for nearly 21 years in the United States Army - including the last few years as an Army recruiter. We learn how that recruitment came to trouble him as young people signed up for what would become a seemingly endless series of wars. And where were the money, and the motivation, for these wars coming from?

    It is here we see the loss of political innocence as Tim Gatto comes to the realization that a - his word - "Corporacracy" runs the country, profits from these wars, and has bought and sold both of the two major Political Parties - robbing the American people of their voice and leading into slaughter a generation of warriors dying for the Corporate bottom line. And speaking of Generations, Gatto wonders, where is ours? Where the Flower Children, where the Hippies and the war protestors of the Vietnam era that defied Nixon and helped bring down the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson? Where are those who valued social justice above all else?

    We have met the enemy, and they are US. The generation that Tim and I share, the generation that took to heart the warnings of the late President Dwight D Eisenhower about the dangers of the "Military Industrial Complex" has sold out to the same Capitalist greed we fought so righteously in the Vietnam era.

    We need to find ourselves. We need to reignite a social revolution in our country, ban corporate contributions to election campaigns and once again teach a lost generation and the NeoCon Right Wing the real wealth of a country is NOT its corporations but its people. They call us the "Grey Panthers". So be it. It's time we started to prowl again. And to the Fascist Right, beware. We hunger. We are coming for you.

    "From Complicity To Contempt" runs the course from darkly humorous to deeply disturbing. It is the start of a clarion call to action, and Tim Gatto is leading the charge.
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