Friday, May 11, 2012
Living in America
is becoming very difficult for anyone with a moral conscience, a sense
of justice, or a lick of intelligence. Consider:
We have had a
second fake underwear bomb plot, a much more fantastic one than the
first hoax. The second underwear bomber was a CIA operative or informant
allegedly recruited by al-Qaeda, an organization that US authorities
have recently claimed to be defeated, in disarray, and no longer
significant.
This defeated and
insignificant organization, which lacks any science and technology labs,
has invented an “invisible bomb” that is not detected by the
porno-scanners. A “senior law enforcement source” told the New York
Times that “the scary part” is that “if they buil[t] one, they probably
built more.”
Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton declared that “the plot itself indicates that the
terrorists keep trying to devise more and more perverse and terrible
ways to kill innocent people.” Hillary said this while headlines
proclaimed that the US continues to murder women and children with
high-tech drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Africa. The foiled
fake plot, Hillary alleged, serves as “a reminder as to why we have to
remain vigilant at home and abroad in protecting our nation and in
protecting friendly nations and peoples like India and others.”
FBI Director
Robert Mueller told Congress that the fake plot proves the need for
warrantless surveillance in order to detect--what, fake plots? In
Congress Republican Pete King and Democrat Charles Ruppersberger
denounced media for revealing that the plot was a CIA operation,
claiming that the truth threatened the war effort and soldiers’ lives.
Even alternative
news media initially fell for this fake plot. Apparently, no one stops
to wonder how al-Qaeda, which has become so disorganized and helpless
that it is on the run and left its revered leader, Osama bin Laden, in a
Pakistan village alone and unguarded to be murdered by US Navy Seals,
could catch the CIA off guard with an “undetectable” bomb, to use the
description provided by Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Dianne
Feinstein, who was briefed on the device by US intelligence personnel.
Notice that the
Secretary of State has committed the bankrupt US and its unravelling
social safety net to the protection of “India and others” from
terrorists. But the real significance of this latest hoax is to
introduce into the fearful American public the idea of an undetectable
underwear bomb.
What does this
bring to mind? Anyone of my generation or any science fiction aficionado
immediately thinks of Robert Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters.
Written in 1951
but set in our time, Earth is invaded by small creatures that attach to
the human body and take over the person. The humans become the puppets
of their masters. Large areas of America succumb to the invaders before
the morons in Washington understand that the invasion is real and not a
conspiracy theory.
On clothed humans,
the creatures cannot be detected, and the edict goes out that anyone
clothed is a suspect. Everyone must go about naked. Women are not even
allowed to carry purses in their hand, because the creature can be in
the purse attached to the woman’s hand.
Obviously, if the
CIA, the news sources, and Dianne Feinstein’s briefers are correct that
defeated al-Qaeda has come up with an “undetectable” bomb, we will have
to pass through airport security naked.
If so, how will
this be possible? If each airline passenger must go through a personal
screening by disrobing in a room, how long will it take to clear
“airport security”? I doubt there is any place in North or South America
that the traveller couldn’t drive there faster. Or perhaps this is an
answer to depression level US unemployment. Millions of unemployed
Americans will be hired to view naked people before they board
airliners.
As the
Transportation Safety Administration division of Homeland Security has
taken its intrusions, unchallenged, into train, bus, and highway travel,
are we faced with the total collapse of the clothing industry? Stay
tuned.
A couple of years
ago a noted philosopher wrote an article in which he suggested that
Americans live in an artificial or virtual reality. Another noted
philosopher said that he thought there was a 25% chance that the
philosopher was right. I am convinced that he is right. Americans live
in the Matrix. Nothing that they know or think that they know is
correct.
For example, our
non-truth-telling “leaders” continually declare that “Israel is the only
democracy in the Middle East.” This myth is one of the many reasons
rolled out to justify American taxpayers’ declining incomes being taxed
to provide the Israeli government with the means to murder Palestinians
and steal their country.
Israeli democracy a
myth you say? Yes, a myth. According to news reports compiled and
reported by Antiwar.com (May 8), the September 4 Israeli elections have
been cancelled, because the “opposition leader Shaul Mofaz is joining
the government.”
Mofaz sold out his party for personal power, a typical politician’s behavior.
Mofaz’s treachery
produced protests from his followers, but, according to news reports,
“Israeli police were quick to crack down on the protest, terming it
‘illegal’ and arresting a number of journalists.”
Ah, “Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.”
In truth Israel is
a fascist state, one that has been in violation of international law
and Christian morality during the entirety of its existence. Yet, in
America Israel is a hallowed icon. Like Bush, Cheney, and Obama,
millions of American “christians” worship Israel and believe it is
“God’s calling” for Americans to die for Israel.
If you believe in
murdering your opponents, not debating with them, dispossessing the
powerless, creating a fictional world based on lies and paying the
corporate media to uphold the lies and fictional world, you are part of
what the rest of the world perceives as “The West.”
Let me back off
from being too hard on The West. The French and Greek peoples have shown
in the recent elections that they are unplugging from the Matrix and
understand that they, the 99%, are being put by their elites in a
position to be the sacrificial lambs for the mistakes of the 1%
mega-rich, who compete with one another in terms of how many billions of
dollars or euros, how many yachts, collections of exotic cars, and
exotic Playboy and Penthouse centerfolds they have as personal
possessions.
The central banks
of the West--the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the
UK bank--are totally committed to the prosperity of the mega-rich. No
one else counts. Marx and Lenin never had a target as exists today. Yet,
the left-wing is today so feeble and brainwashed that it does not exist
as even a minor countervailing power. The American left-wing has even
accepted the absurd official account of 9/11 and of Osama bin Laden’s
murder in Pakistan by Navy Seals. A movement so devoid of mental and
emotional strength is useless. It might as well not exist.
People without
valid information are helpless, and that is where Western peoples are.
The new tyranny is arising in the West, not in Russia and China. The
danger to humanity is in the nuclear button briefcase in the Oval Office
and in the brainwashed and militant Amerikan population, the most
totally disinformed and ignorant people on earth.
Paul Craig
Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and
associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for
Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He
has had many university appointments. His internet columns have
attracted a worldwide following. www.paulcraigroberts.org
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