Our government cannot function without the trust of the
people. Without unshakeable faith that the people will allow the government to
proceed, the governing coalitions of politicians will not dare to implement
their own plans. Fear of popular reprisals (which could diminish their
power) restrains even the most devious politicians from acting. Even Hitler
himself would not have dared to proceed with his vile plans, if he hadn’t
believed that the people would let him get away with it.
When government plans are so repulsive that no sane person
would support them, then it becomes necessary to construct a false version of
reality to spoon-feed the people, in order to gain the requisite trust, and
with it, the people’s consent.
This is our current situation in America and throughout the
Americanized world.
Government could not function, commerce could not go
forward, human interaction would become even more restrained, if the false
“official version” of reality suddenly collapsed. For then, all we would have
left is the cold hard reality that our government has necessarily kept from us.
If the official versions of events were blown away, we could
clearly see the obvious truths and the absurdity of the lies that concealed
them.
Perhaps then, for a brief second, we would laugh at the
apparent contradictions in the “magic bullet” official explanation of the
single, undamaged bullet, which allegedly killed President Kennedy and wounded Texas
Gov. John Connally, a feat which required the bullet to change course in
midair.
Somehow, I find it hard to believe that anyone would laugh
if we all suddenly admitted to ourselves and to each other the obvious
absurdity in claims that kerosene fires reduced concrete and steel into talcum
powder in two 100-plus story skyscrapers, which collapsed at freefall speed.
Laughing over the absurdity of the official lies that have
been used to justify killing a million or more innocent souls would be a
macabre sacrilege, an affront to both God and man. Yet, isn’t that what many of
us have been doing all along, as we celebrated our retribution against the
official scapegoats, while others reveled in the brutality of our military’s
executioners, high-fiving their teammates over missions accomplished?
But none of this is happening; no absurd lies are being
exposed. No air is being cleared. For politicians, who are afraid to put on
their pants in the morning without first testing the political wind, there
isn’t the slightest hint of the piles of fetid, rotting flesh that our troops
are accumulating in invaded foreign lands, in their missions of “liberation.” They
have received no indications that We the People will not continue to allow them
to “liberate” our world into a quite real state of slavery.
Operating under the absurd delusion that American and NATO
troops (who are destroying multiple nations) are there to “defend America,”
throngs of people gather for patriotic parades, heaping piles of honors upon
those highly trained young men who kill for false visions of “God and country.”
If only these men who hold honor and service to mankind in such high esteem
(even though they are bathed in the blood of innocents) could see beyond the
carefully constructed false reality for just a moment, then their own
consciences (if they still had them) would probably convince them of their own
personal guilt and immorality. If the devil that blinds their eyes could be
restrained for but a moment, then perhaps God would come rushing back in.
But that is not happening. As a result, we stand ready to up
the ante in Afghanistan, as the American people watch their TV sets and ignore
the fact that Obama is about to make our criminal assault on the Pashtun people
a whole lot worse. Because Obama’s behavioral specialists have taken America’s
temperature and pronounced us willing participants in allowing the escalation
of the slaughter, he will hold the banner of righteous retribution over his
head, like some black knight in shining armor, leading the charge to slay the
great beast called “al Qaida.”
Obama and McChrystal will lead us into Pakistan in hot
pursuit of an apparition, chasing the great bloody “Islamist” beast which has
so obligingly preceded us into this prized territory. Wasn’t that convenient,
that these evil militants created the conditions for us, which would make it
possible to go where we have always wanted to be, Western Pakistan?
This brings us back to the greatest contradictions in the
official story of the “war on terror” (despite repeated denials and charges of
“ludicrous” and “absurdity”), the militants, who are invariably described as
“Islamists,” always create the conditions that will justify American
intervention, wherever energy interests crop-up. Claims that we are at war with
“militant Islam” justify sending US forces wherever the militants appear, and
they always appear in areas where American oil companies are already focused. Isn’t
that convenient? ”Islamists” in Central Asia are the vanguard of American
expeditionary forces, probing deeply into energy-rich territories of the former
Soviet Union. No matter what
Western media reports may say to the contrary, rest assured
that Russian investigators are aware of all this as they investigate this
week’s bombing of the Nevsky Express.
Pakistan, the great prize in the current phase of the
Imperial war project, is being pried open like ripened fruit, to facilitate
advancing American forces. The great irony here is that this is being done for America
by Pakistanis. The “Islamists” who are turning the Central Asian states into
the next battlegrounds have all received their basic training in Pakistan and
Afghanistan. Now these black crows have returned home to roost, as they ply
their evil trade in the North-West Frontier Province and FATA. Safely
entrenched there, despite recent pseudo-offensives allegedly launched against
them by the Army, the militants perform a carefully choreographed dance with
their former trainers, the ISI and the Army. Their dance creates the illusion
of tribal war, projecting the image of the Army as the great defenders of the
“Land of the Pure,” validating further Army escalations, which, in themselves, will
justify the next phase of the American occupation.
Following the pattern that was set in the very beginning by
President Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski, a bunch of “stirred-up Muslims” have
justified every American intervention in Afghanistan, just as they are now
validating steps into Pakistan and into Central Asia. It is a time-tested ploy
that has worked on the American people every time it has ever been played. It
has been so easy to sell an un-Christian assault against all those scary
dark-skinned Muslims to such a bigoted, frightened racist nation as the United
States. This is the primary reason that we have been given a black president,
to dispute the charge that this is a racist war. How could it be a racist war,
if it is being led by a black man? The cleverness of our captors is only
exceeded by their audacity. They, like their mentor Hitler, understand fully
the meaning of the “big lie”
concept -- make your lies so big and outrageous that they are beyond the
ability of the common man to question them.
Hesitation by Obama as he tried to play the “Islamist” card
once again, tells us that rising popular displeasure with this war is
undermining confidence within the ruling class that the people will accept much
more of this. Hence, before the new escalation was announced, it was revealed
that an “exit strategy” was also being sought. This act of misdirection
restored the leaders’ confidence that the people would take the bait and
swallow this latest escalation whole, hook, line and sinker.
With this renewed confidence in the people continuing to act
like sheep being led to the slaughter, Obama announced the new exit
strategy/escalation before an obedient, if not downright adoring. audience yesterday
at West Point. The only thing that will prevent the unfolding of this
premeditated act of mass-murder is a sudden revelation for our secret leaders
that the old official lies aren’t going to cut it anymore, that We the Sheeple
won’t play along with the usual bullshit anymore. The only thing that will save
our rotten souls is if we all get really mad at ourselves for allowing this
travesty of international justice to continue, and convince our overlords that
our minds have been changed. First, we must get mad, then, we must convince
them just how angry we really are.
We the People are mad as hell and we are not going to take
it anymore!
Scream it from every street corner and every other venue.
Peter Chamberlin may be contacted at peter.chamberlin@naharnet.com.