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"As long as the Big Lie of 9-11 is accepted, you are lost!" --RBHam
What does "lost" mean?
It was something like 20 years before the Warren Commission's 'lone gunman' lie about JFK's assassination was finally exposed, and debunked (by a Congressional committee), and by then it was too late to pick up the pieces of that crime and identify and catch the perps. We have been living with that lie to this day, even thought it has been quite convincingly proved to be a lie.
Maybe that's the "mother of all lies"--the one that has inflicted this country with a kind of psychosis. There have been so many lies. I think now, looking back through the filter of recent events, that JFK's assassination had to do with his curtailment of the war profiteers' plans for manufacturing war with Cuba and Vietnam. The situation at the end of WW II was that the war profiteers had created a completely reconstructed US economy, based on war readiness and on war, that was not--and possibly could not--be demobilized. They were on welfare, big time--a humongous wart on the backs of US taxpayers. Their purpose was to perpetuate that welfare at any cost. At the cost of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union (which we now know would have ended all life on earth). At the cost of upwards of 2 million Southeast Asians, and over 55,000 US soldiers dead, and Vietnam laid waste. Given what we NOW know about this war establishment, I don't think that its biggest profiteers and decision-makers would have balked at offing a president who had peaceful inclinations. And these covert agents that Nixon later used were probably among the agents of it (when the issue again was peace--peace candidate George McGovern running in '72).
And it hardly can be viewed as a coincidence that we lost three major peace figures in a row, in the space of five years--JFK (who had refused to invade Cuba, and who had pulled the US "advisers" back out of Vietnam), and, then, in 1968, Martin Luther King (who had come out publicly against the Vietnam war only a year before), and RFK (who was winning the Dem nomination in the primaries in 1968 on a genuine peace platform).
Bang, bang, bang. Will we ever know who really committed these terrible deeds--that struck at the very heart of all hope for a peaceful and just United States?
I lived through those times--and also lost someone close to me to the Texas Tower Sniper. For me, it went like this: 1963: JFK (big hero of mine; I worked on his campaign when I was 16, where I met my fiance who was later killed). 1964: Father died in a truck accident; 3 civil rights workers killed in Mississippi. 1965: went to Alabama to join ML King, work on voter registration. 1966: Fiance killed in Austin by the Sniper. 1968: ML King assassinated in March; RFK assassinated in June.
I think that a big frozen place developed inside of me, that could not respond to these events. It was just too traumatic. Although I had personal traumas added to everything else, I'm sure a lot of people went through something similar. All our antiwar heroes dead. 2 million people being slaughtered in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Body bags of US soldiers every day in the news. More and more death. How could we take on the military/industrial establishment that had done this? We really could not. We were just babes in the woods at that time. Smart as we were--and transformed as we were, as a generation, by some intervening spiritual force in the universe (I just don't know what else explains my generation)--we didn't have much of a clue. We didn't have the internet, for one thing. Musical records were our means of communication. We were plugged in; but we were not smart enough or strong enough to be able to turn this Dark Force around, and tackle it in a practical way, and dismantle this military-industrial machine and conspiracy, as we should have done.
The psychosis is that everything is okay--and American democracy just tootles along, sometimes stumbling, sometimes working right, generally able to right itself when it goes too far off course.
That is the psychosis, reinforced every day by the war profiteering corporate news monopolies. And you cannot address a psychosis--or heal it--by dire warnings, or any kind of histrionics, or even by the facts and truth. And maybe you can't heal a mass psychosis at all. Maybe it just has to run its course. It is a natural phenomena that is shielding the mind from serious trauma--in this case, shielding many millions of people. People who cannot face what we did in Vietnam--a war crime of the first magnitude. Cannot face the combined loss of all those good leaders. Cannot face what our country has become, after all the sacrifices of the Great Depression and WW II, and all the hopes of the '50s and '60s: a monstrous murderer, a producer of monstrous weapons, a killer of other democracies, and a corporate-run exploitation machine for raping other economies and peoples.
American democracy just tootles along, sometimes stumbling, sometimes working right, generally able to right itself when it goes too far off course.
Feel familiar? To me, it is a haunting description of where I retreated to, sometime around 1970, and only began to wake up from, in 1980, with the death squads in El Salvador, the assassination of John Lennon, and the ascendancy of Reagan.
I don't know if we can take the truth of 9/11--and I don't know that, if we can't take it, we will be "lost." Right now, I'm clinging to the notion of election reform--that it is not truth that is needed so much as practical power, restoration of our right to vote--the only mechanism of our sovereignty as a people.
I think that all these psychotic people we see running around, thinking on the surface of their minds that everything is okay, we'll muddle along and right ourselves--know the truth deep down, but it's so big and so monstrous, they don't know what to do about it, and most of them don't know that their power to do anything about it has been taken away.
Get that power back--our right to vote, our sovereignty--and you will see change, fast. And THEN we (as a people) will be able to face the truth, when we have the power to DO something about it.
I think the empowerment has to come first, and then the truth (or the full truth--for some know parts of the truth) will come second. Otherwise, the truth about 9/11 is just one more reason for feeling disempowered and helpless and retreating into mass delusion and denial.
I'm not saying, don't speak the truth. I'm just saying, don't expect people to be able to hear it and act on it, when they feel powerless and have, in fact, been stripped of their mechanism of power. First they have to realize THAT--that their power is gone--and do something about it, in the narrowing window of opportunity that we still have.
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Throw Diebold and ES&S election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!
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