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http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/09/19/ed.col.millegan.
0919.p1.php?section=opinion
GUEST VIEWPOINT
Americans have a duty to question government
By Kris Millegan
Published: Tuesday, September 19, 2006
The Register-Guard's Sept. 11 editorial about folks questioning the
official history of Sept. 11 was headlined "The unbelievers." When
did the story of Sept. 11 become a religious one, requiring belief?
It is healthy to question an official story that has been used as the
constant drumbeat to unconstitutionally unleash the dogs of war and
initiate secret and open repression at home, all the while
accompanied by a barrage of mistruth, mistakes and misdeeds from a
tenuously elected administration.
That there are those who question the official story at least shows
that our republic may yet still have some life in it, and that
because of such dissent, someday, we may actually have an
understanding of what happened on that fateful day. For as Albert
Einstein said, "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest
enemy of truth."
As one who has prevailed in U.S. District Court in a case pitting an
official story against what really happened, and as a son of a
repentant CIA branch chief, I can say with some conviction that the
official story is not always what it's cracked up to be. Many times
the official story may be easier for us to understand, easier for us
to digest, easier for us to believe - but that does not make it true.
And we, as a people - the people of whom Abraham Lincoln said, "...
you cannot fool all of the people all of the time" - have a right and
duty to question the official story. Not to be simply ignored or
derided and marginalized as "nuts" and "conspiracy theorists."
Time has shown that many official versions of historical events have
been exposed to be falsehoods. Some have even been used as casus
belli: the explosive sinking of the USS Maine, whose "Remember the
Maine" became the rallying cry for the Spanish-American War; the
infamous Gulf of Tonkin incident that sparked the Vietnam War; the
false congressional testimony about Iraqis snatching babies from
incubators in Kuwait during the run-up to the first gulf war; and the
non-existent weapons of mass destruction of our current fiasco.
The official "history" of Sept. 11 is, itself, a conspiracy theory,
with several competing official versions, including the politically
contrived 9/11 Commission Report. Sept. 11 has been waved like the
proverbial bloody shirt, compelling our compassion, demanding
unwavering obedience, spreading unnerving terror - and decimating our
democratic checks and balances.
As President Woodrow Wilson said, "No one who has read official
documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential
truth... ." And as he also noted, "... all our activities are in the
hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of
the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world
- no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by
conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion
and duress of small groups of dominant men... ."
And that domination has seemingly become much worse in the 80-plus
years since those words were penned. In sociology, there is current
research into a human behavior called "elite deviance" which posits
that there are elites who see themselves as above the law.
From "Elite Deviance," by David Simon:
"Because of the Vietnam conflict, Watergate, the Iran/Contra scandal,
the S&L bailout, and numerous recent incidents involving corporate
and governmental wrongdoings, elite deviance has become a major
public concern. Closer examination reveals that the deviant acts of
economic and political elites are not random events. They are related
to the very structure of wealth and power in the United States and to
the processes that maintain such structures.
"Moreover, aside from being illegal or unethical, elite deviance has
several basic characteristics:
"1) It occurs because it furthers the goals of economic and political
organizations - namely, the maintenance or increase of profit and/or
power.
"2) It is committed with the support of the elites who head such
organizations. Such support may be open and active, or covert and
implied.
"3) It may be committed either by elites and/or employees acting on
their behalf."
With billions of taxpayers' dollars currently being spent on black
operations such as the Defense Department's Proactive and Preemptive
Operations Group (P2OG), where covert operations using Special Forces
and psychological warfare experts are designed to "stimulate
reactions" from terrorist groups, which could then lead to a
"counterattack" by the U.S. military, there are many reasons to
question the "day America changed."
Are not our liberty, freedom and children's future worth a few
questions?
Kris Millegan of Walterville is publisher of TrineDay.
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