by Don Nash, Unknown News
Jan. 25, 2005
If America was ever faced with a politician who spoke truth to the people, no-one would know what to make of the oddity. This politician could probably not get elected to office. Sadly, Americans can’t handle the truth.
In the 'land of the free and the home of the brave', one would think that Americans should be the most enlightened people on our wobbly little planet. On paper and in theory, American democracy is a significant achievement for freedom loving people. “All men/women are created equal.” America has a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” In theory, all Americans are assured “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The actual day-to-day reality is a sorry imitation of democracy’s premise and promise.
Today’s America is “post 9/11/01”, and isn’t that just a pathetic giveaway of our rights and liberties? America’s corporate media outlets are barraging the American people with our government’s message of “danger, terrorists, Islamist extremists, threats, and remember to trust us.” Americans are caught in a Homeland Security hurricane of horrendous warnings. The official talking head for the White House, Scott McClellan, comes on the television almost daily with the official message: “Danger Will Robinson, danger!”
The world is a dangerous place and the funniest little thing is, the world has always been a dangerous place. That isn’t any kind of revelatory news. Most of the “dangers” in today’s world are the direct result of misguided American governmental intrigues. Third world countries are littered with the wreckage of dictatorships that were propped up by the United States. This global wreckage includes staggering numbers of brutally murdered innocents.
In the wake of America’s wreckage is global animosity and outright hatred of all things American, especially America’s government. The world usually views America in the shroud of the CIA, which is essentially followed by the obligatory U.S. military’s wholesale destruction of whatever third world nation is on the military’s search and destroy list. Meanwhile, since little of this murder and mayhem is reported in America's media, the American people scratch their preoccupied heads and wonder at the intensity of global mistrust and the cries for “death to America.”
Following World War II, America planted itself into the Korean conflict, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, miscellaneous misadventures in the Middle East that oddly orbit the State of Israel, the Granada War, the Panama War, more miscellaneous misadventures at the behest of Israel, the Gulf War I, and today it is the Preemptive War on Iraq. With the exception of World War II, all of these conflicts were shrouded by the American government in deceit, deception, disingenuous obfuscation, brutal murder, and little by little the lessening of America’s freedoms and liberties.
There also needs to be tossed into this mix, various proxy wars on the African continent, obscene Latin American brutalities, and blatant violations of the Geneva Conventions in Southeast Asia. The secret bombings of Laos and Cambodia by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger will someday be recorded by history as what it was, the horrific genocide and slaughter of innocent people for no reason. And Americans continue to scratch their lied-to heads and wonder why most of our planet’s peoples truly hate America.
The American people let their theoretical democracy slip away a little piece at a time. During the war on Vietnam, watching the crush of the world’s misery being broadcast into America’s living rooms and kitchens nightly on the television, replete with burning Buddhist priests and Vietcong guerillas tossed from helicopters, it all came to be entirely too much. America had to stand back and ask the burning question, “why is this happening?”
America’s government couldn’t tell the American people the whole truth and nothing but the truth -- that would have required trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The U.S. military couldn’t tell the American people how they had dropped more bombs on Laos and Cambodia than in all of World War II -- America wasn’t even supposed to be in Laos or Cambodia.
So America’s politicians stood before the American people and lied. Damnable hellacious lies that covered up for genocide and mass murder. The American people couldn’t handle the truth about what American government had, in reality, turned into -- the world’s single largest perpetrator of brutal and heinous murder without remorse, without conscience, and without restitution to the global wide families of America’s victims.
America’s politicians stood before the American people and smiled and told us that everything was fine and that America was the “light of liberty” to the world. The world knows otherwise. The world knows America to be a genocidal maniac and conqueror without moral restraint.
America had its dissident voices that tried to make its citizens aware of the actual plight of America’s victims. These voices were drowned out in the din of commercial American indulgence. Crass commercialism became America’s mantra for tomorrow, and we have passed this heritage on to America’s children. The entire world is America’s oyster, fat and ready to be harvested. Americans became brainwashed into corporate compliance and meager servitude to corporate and political America.
A dissident voice spoke out and told America that “the truth is out there,” but America decided that was too much work and it is just easier to believe what our government says. The government told America what the American people wanted to hear. The government and the corporate media conspired to blitzkrieg the American people with innuendo and half truth and the illusion of empire.
September 11, 2001 and America gets one deluxe reality check. The American people are never going to get the whole truth from the American government as to why this atrocity happened. America gets “Islamist extremists” and Osama bin Laden. America gets the collapse of the World Trade Towers, broadcast on television over and over and over. America gets “the war on terrorism,” without any explanation of why it’s become necessary to fight those that hate America. The politicians haven’t the courage to stand before the American people and explain that America’s blind allegiance to Israel and one-sided approach to the Israeli/Palestinian issues are turning the Muslim world into a cauldron of hate.
American politicians stand before the American people and lie about connections between the sovereign nation of Iraq and 9/11/01, the sovereign nation of Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, the sovereign nation of Iraq and American genocide on the Iraqi people, and the wholesale destruction of the nation that gave the world civilization.
American politicians stand before the American people and lie about how many American service personnel have really been killed in the preemptive war of lies. The politicians lie about the number of American service personnel that have been wounded, their lives are inexplicably changed forever and not for the better.
That then is the heart of a mystery -- why the American people are so fascinated by lies and lying politicians. The American people embrace the lies, and elect politicians that lie, and America calls them its own. Liars seem to never be held to account and therefore, lying genocidal maniacs that have lied their way to the American presidency are elected to second terms of office. And these lying genocidal maniacs lie to America as they swear their oaths of constitutional office.
Lies, then, are the consequential destruction of American democracy. Little by very little, the lies and lying politicians have chipped away at America’s Constitution and the American form of government. We the people no longer have access to what was once our government. That is not a lie.
What America receives is a reality-based government that is mere illusion for Homeland Deceit. The descriptive narrative of the death of America’s democracy doesn’t even receive a footnote, yet, in a history of failed states that were lied into nonexistence by lying politicians and the voters that elect them.
© 2004, by the author.
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America’s politicians stood before the American people and lied.
Damnable hellacious lies that covered up for genocide and mass murder.
The American people couldn’t handle the truth about what American government had, in reality, turned into -- the world’s single largest perpetrator of brutal and heinous murder without remorse, without conscience, and without restitution to the global wide families of America’s victims.
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