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The Truth
These are some basic truths about our society today. Look around, see for yourself. I
am not going to be sidetracked into the wasted effort of ``proving'' these things here
for people who will not listen anyway [but please see the additional reading section].
Listen to me, listen to the press, listen to the government. Who do you believe?
The United States Government tortures its own citizens. We go around the world talking
about human rights, but agents of the U.S. government have not hesitated to commit the
most vicious crimes against humanity right here at home. The political reality is that
the U.S. is the leading economic and political power in the world, and the only
superpower. Thus the U.S. government can maintain its pious hypocritical stance
without fear of ``serious'' exposure. Our government has grossly abused its current
power. It has wasted a chance to be a world role model for ethical government, and the
chance likely will never come again.
The U.S. Constitution is just a piece of paper to covert thugs. The only rights you
have are the ones you can enforce. Here in the land of High Noon, despite all the talk
to the contrary, it is every man for himself. There are plenty of people who would
love to see you literally tortured if you differ from them on the most minor political
points. We lead the world in the technology of warfare and espionage. The same
technology is used to suppress and harass so-called dissidents or ``threatening''
people and movements. If you cannot prove it happened, and the weapons officially do
not exist, then nothing really happened, did it?
``Freedom'' is an empty concept used for social control. You are free only to the
extent that you do not, for any reason, step on the toes of any ``important'' people.
You may not even know what you have done, and may never find out: The repressive
machinery will kick into gear and your life will be ruined. You may even come to
realize that a campaign of dirty tricks is being focused on you, but no one will
believe you. Most people live boring (to others) lives that do not threaten the
powerful, and therefore do not draw the attention of the repressive apparatus. Thus
the myth of freedom is perpetuated, while you are labeled a paranoid kook. The
rhetoric of freedom is at least useful in that it forces the repression into covert
channels. That is why I can openly post this list.
The elite and powerful in the U.S. are effectively immune to law. The law is a tool to
serve the ends of the powerful. Selective enforcement is the norm. Of course, the
powerful have their own sets of laws they use to attack each other. Bad policies,
based on misguided notions and a patronizing, pseudo-moralizing paternalism, produce
disastrous consequences. Politicians cynically exploit the resulting suffering to
maintain their positions of power, reinforcing the misguided policies. Police on the
street end up paying the price, bearing the brunt of enforcing bad laws.
The elite opinion-makers are not nearly as smart as they think they are. Their insular
debates are frequently characterized by ignorance and outright stupidity. This
tendency is heavily abetted by a forced conformity of belief. The price of mounting
too strong a challenge to a ``politically powerful'' idea is ostracism and ridicule by
their peers. Soon, testing ideas for political viability or against projected poll
results becomes a substitute for critical thinking.
The mainstream press will not challenge -- and at times participates in -- outrageous
governmental abuses. Watergate and the investigations of intelligence abuses in the
mid-'70s were historical rarities. The press routinely cooperates in a conspiracy of
silence -- even when innocent American lives are being destroyed and hideous crimes
are being committed. The investigations of intelligence abuses in the '70s were also
not especially effective. The investigators were completely outclassed by a group of
professional liars, trained to subvert governments worldwide. The Cold War was still
on, giving additional clout to the apologists for domestic crimes committed by our own
forces. The ``intelligence community'' is well aware of the limited attention span of
the American press, and repeatedly and effectively uses stonewalling, or worse, to
escape any responsibility or accountability for its actions. The reforms of the '70s
were subsequently largely reversed. We need a sustained, nonpartisan political
consensus to clean out our nation's dirty secrets, give the domestic victims redress,
punish the Cold War criminals, and start fresh without the baggage of secret,
unacknowledged atrocities.
The ``ruling class'' elites typically respond positively only to the threat of losing
their privileged positions or of violence. That is just how it is. It often takes a
riot or other violent actions to even draw their passing notice. But then this
violence -- often caused by their shameful neglect of gross injustice and intolerable
conditions -- is used to justify increasing police and secret police powers. In their
insulated cocoons, the elites pretend not to hear the cries of the disenfranchised --
after all, things like that do not happen in their neighborhoods. By definition, those
people must have done something to deserve it.
There need not be any official, organized conspiracy. Conspiracies do occur regularly
-- they have throughout history, and our time is no exception. But, for the
individuals who are victimized by the system, it does not matter if it is an organized
unit following orders or a system of well-understood winks and nods. Rule of law is
clearly a joke in the U.S. today.
They blame it on ``rogues'' if they are caught, but knowledge goes straight up to the
top. Even where some actions truly are the results of rogue agents, the coverups go
straight to the top. Purposeful ignorance to maintain ``plausible deniability'' is no
excuse or escape from culpability. The buck never stops...
The U.S. government is not the United States or America. Most Americans are decent
people who would be appalled to know the dirty tricks their government carries out in
their names. Unable or unwilling to accept the ruthless amorality of the power-hungry,
they tend to believe whatever lies are sent their way. And unfortunately, as in any
society, a significant minority of Americans are simply fascists. Excessive government
secrecy has even destroyed the democratic accountability of our leaders to the people:
Politicians can engage in, approve of, or willfully ignore covert operations, knowing
their actions will never be revealed to the public. Amazingly, some members of
Congressional intelligence committees are ``not cleared'' to even know details of the
programs they must vote on. (These are our elected representatives being dictated to
by a permanent, secret bureaucracy.) The public will never go to the voting booths
knowing which of their leaders participated in domestic spying, political
surveillance, and outright torture.
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