The Noble Lie

There are some really great write-ups going on at some of the other blogs I read.

• Ultraviolet Garden has a must-read exposé on the Camp Lejune Toxic Water Contamination. Soldiers who stayed at this military base over several decades were knowingly exposed to regular doses of cancer-causing chemicals.
• Paul M. Peterson puts together some information on Operation Paperclip, the large-scale integration of Nazi scientists and doctors into the United States military-industrial complex.
• Tad runs a wonderful local blog called The PLAZOID, doing the unpopular work of standing up to the powers that be for the disenfranchised and writing with passion.
• Benamar Benatta has still not received any recognition from the Canadian government for the unlawful rendition and torture he faced. The fight goes on.

Your tax dollars (and drug money?) at work.

• CIA Assassination Handbook
• CIA Interrogation Handbook
• The Torture Manuals [Wikipedia]
• CIA PsyOps in Guerrilla Warfare (thanks to Polly)

• What if China’s Orwellian Olympics Succeed?

To me, the best way to protest something is not to participate. I will not watch a second of the Olympic games. Truth be told, I wouldn’t anyway, because it doesn’t interest me in the slightest. I don’t plan to obsess over this China issue, but after yesterday’s write-up, I found a very good article on “security” in China. For the games, this includes:

• 300,000 cameras
• Every cab has a remote control microphone, GPS and lo-jack
• Remote control microphones in hotels and offices
• Ability to tap any phone, land or cellular
• Ability to hack any laptop, cell phone, PDA and perhaps digital camera
• A force of 600,000 “national security volunteers” (sort of like Obama called for) to snoop and report suspicious behavior
• Dissidents and protestors rounded up and detained before the games begin

I agree that, in a way, this is an experiment to see what the public reaction will be. It could be the stage for a world-engulfing psychodrama, too, but with this kind of security, I think we will know exactly whom to blame if that does happen.

The process of turning a man back into an animal is simpler than you think. Just treat him like one.

Prisoners know well the destructive effects of “becoming institutionalized.” Prisons are workshops of dehumanization, and very few have any hope of coming out of the system “rehabilitated” because their lives have become living in cages, being told when to eat, sleep and piss, fending off attacks from other caged people (much as animals crowded into small spaces turn aggressive on each other), subjected to torture and abuse by their “owners” whom they learn to obey. Much like a soldier who spent the last few years shooting and being shot at, it’s hard for somebody to walk out of that system and become a functional human being in a “civil society.”

Words dehumanize us, too. Our children are kids (baby goats), and man and woman are becoming male and female, also the way we describe animals. Even the term “husband” has become insulting to both men and women, because husbanding now refers to the science of livestock animals. Words are slippery like that. Have you also noticed that men are dogs and women are bitches, in the parlance of our times? The gender war has given lots of fuel to this fire.

Speaking of the gender war, and tying that back into the prison industry, states that use the Duluth model can make men criminals based on no evidence whatsoever, not even needing the word of the woman who was supposedly abused, even against her wishes. Is there a feminist naive enough to think this was done for the benefit of women?

We scoff at factory farms but we increasingly spend more and more of our tax money on human factory farms, to hold people who have for the most part committed (or didn’t even commit) minor offenses like getting high. We would never dream of subjecting human beings to such conditions, but subjecting convicts and criminals to those kind of conditions, well, no big deal.

People really need to examine the emotional content of words. It is how they are manipulated. Everybody hates a criminal. But what is a criminal? A criminal is somebody who has been convicted of committing a crime. What is a crime? Well, it’s whatever a small handful of men decide it will be. A small group of people have the power to turn everybody into non-human “criminals” with a few strokes of the pen. Before and after a law is passed, the “human” status of the person who acts contrary to the law is stripped away from them.

The definition of “terrorist” is being expanded to include anybody who criticizes the government in any way. Are you a terrorist? You might not even know you are one. You might need your children to report on you before you realize it.

If that’s not bad enough, prisons are increasingly run by publicly traded corporations like the Corrections Corp of America, who lobby extensively to create new, even more draconian laws, in order to create more “customers.”

Links

• Dillon Reed and the Aristocracy of (Prison) Stock Profits by Catherine Austin Fitts, which is also an interesting case study of how Rothschild’s men moved in on one of the big American investment houses
  
• Corrections Corp of America’s profits over last 5 years

This film is one of the first documentaries that really, really moved me. Aaron Russo has since passed on after a long struggle with cancer.

I have a feeling the topic of ID chips (mentioned late in the film) will be a dominating topic in our lives.

Some off-the-cuff Aaron Russo, having real interactions with real people, behind the cut –

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Learn well the price of trying to live outside the system. Witness the well-documented evidence of the massacre of Branch Davidian men, women and children by the FBI under Bill Clinton and Janet Reno.

WACO: Rules of Engagement website

Part 1 of 2

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Here is Gen. Smedley Butler’s famous retirement letter from the United Fruit corporation — excuse me, I meant the United States military. He was a 30s era general who saw the machinations of industry controlling the machinations of military, for their own selfish ends. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

• http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

This was the same guy who was approached by industrialists to help them with a fascist coup against the U.S. Government. Not only did he refuse, but he ratted the bastards out. Of course, since “the bastards” were the wealthy industrialists who control the US economy (names such as Prescott Bush), nothing happened to them.

I wish I could find a good documentary on the history of warfare and standing armies. Maybe I should make one. I think it could be very illuminating. In the old days, they were called soldiers of fortune, because only money-worshipping mercenaries would go from country to country slaughtering at the order of others in those days. Now in the days of scientific conditioning, we can turn your gentle son or daughter into a ruthless killer, scientifically.

The people who declare wars aren’t stupid. These fine, upstanding, philanthropic gentlemen watch their profits soar during war. More importantly, society is more malleable and more willing to be obedient and accept drastic transformation (Hitler and Mussolini, the New Deal, the Patriot Act, notice how often these things happen during wartime?) much more readily. Finally, war is well-known as a population control valve, and it was after the UN declared war on war that they said they would have to take new steps to keep the population down, to replace what they saw as the “beneficial” population control effect of warfare.

War is a slaughterhouse for human cattle. It’s one of the places we’re sent to die for profit after we’ve been fattened up.

In 1714, Britons were read the RIOT ACT.

In 2001, Americans were read the patRIOT ACT.

We have to be “read our rights” because they are the ones that decide what those rights will be. Not us. Certainly not anything we would call God. What they call God is an old man in an Armani suit.

We love our legal system but we don’t think about the gaping holes. Much of our legal system is defined by the actions a “reasonable person” would take, something which has a fluid definition and can be argued to be just about anything. How do we know what a “reasonable person” would do? What is a “reasonable person?” Does such a creature exist? If anything, “reasonable” is defined by what everybody else is doing, a collective reality, which really means it comes from television and popular culture. They tell us what a reasonable person would do and we do it. See Cultivation Theory.

When we hear the word “Patriot,” we think of somebody who loves and stands up for our country. Congressmen were shoehorned into voting the Patriot Act in without even being able to read it, on the pretext that any senator who defied by voting nay would not be a true patriot and thus ridiculed and harangued out of office. Well, the “Patriot” in Patriot Act has nothing to do with loving one’s country. It’s the “Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism” Act. Joke’s on you. They have their own definition of terrorism to go with it, too.

“Democracy” is another of those great fluid-definition words that started to mean “rule by oligarchy of land-owning wealthy white men” and today means “rule by international banking elite which allows the whole public to have a say in which one of the bankers’ representatives will be in front of the television for the next few years.”

http://www.infowars.com/?p=2748

I wanted to share this article, and I was going to write an essay about this topic and about human perception, especially in a mass-media, consensus-reality society. Then I found a posting in the comments section for this article that basically summed up the point I was going to make in a lot fewer words, so I share it here:

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neon Says:
June 19th, 2008 at 9:18 am

lol my buddy who doesn’t “believe” in conspiracies says:

” okay neon, sure. That IS a helicopter, and it IS black. BUT IT’S NOT A FREAKIN’ BLACK HELICOPTER!”

hahaha, geeez.

There you go. What else needs to be said? In 1984, Winston Smith defined freedom as the ability to say that 2 + 2 = 4. When he was being tortured, he learned that the truly correct answer to “How many fingers am I holding up,” isn’t how many fingers he saw, but how many fingers the authority figure TOLD HIM that he saw.

This article makes a point that this is “martial law training” and I agree. However, I don’t think the training is for the military. They know very well how to operate in martial law environments, urban or otherwise. It’s their job. The training is for US, the public. We’re being trained that it’s normal to see guys with camo and M16s at our airports. We’re being trained that it’s normal to see military helicopters flying around our major cities. We’re being trained to become accustomed to military checkpoints with powers to search and detain. We’re being trained that mass house searches, and barricading people out of their own homes, in times of “emergency” (including natural disasters) is normal. We’re being trained that it’s alright to be strip-searched and behaviorally profiled for the privilege of air travel (coming soon to trains and busses near you). They’re also starting to train us that we need to be CHIPPED and TAGGED like livestock so that we can be easily tracked wherever we go and whatever we do, for our own safety you realize.

Television is teaching us that it is OK by cheerleading for it, or implicity by just not talking about it. Unfortunately, most people take their cues about what are real issues and how should we feel about them from the television.

WE are the ones getting our martial law training.

(Not a real Motherland Security document… yet)

Michael Parenti is a respected progressive scholar. In this talk, he speaks out passionately against the Mafia-like thugs who run the national security apparatus of the United States and other nations, killing or conspiring against any who pose an obstacle to their agendas.

The audio is originally from TUC Radio in San Francisco. Please listen to the outro for information on how to support them.