Maybe Fixing Government Really Starts in the Classroom

“Washington Corruption”, “Politicians on the take”, and “Government Cover ups” are phrases that we hear sprinkled through peoples conversations every day. The underlying question is how do we stop this increasing avalanche of destructive behavior? I believe that much this behavior of subtle deceit and “White Lies” starts in our children’s homes as well as, and more importantly today, our school classrooms that teach history. Every country in their zeal to foster nationalism, and patriotism uses words such allegiance, loyalty, trust, patriotism, duty, self sacrifice, etc. to instill in the minds of our youth that the nation that we live in is omnipotent and always noble in it’s leaders behavior. Because we are not transparent in our teaching of history and do not stress critical thinking and questioning in our dissemination of knowledge, how can we expect to develop leaders for our country that act with a clear moral compass and acceptable ethical standards? More emphasis is placed on writing textbooks that place our nation in a stellar light and building love of country, then making a concerted effort to be forth right and transparent in teaching young students the truthful events of US history. Adolph Hitler was the consummate propaganda artist, he said, “Give me the youth, and Germany will rule the World". Well the American textbooks are not that far off the mark, with down-playing or omitting the mass barbarism of Columbus, the oppression and tortures of slavery, US imperialism and theft of Native American land through the doctrine of manifest destiny, and our role as a pre-emptive war mongering aggressor with hundreds of military bases and covert campaigns ongoing throughout the world. For over twelve years of their life, from the age of six to eighteen, children in America and around the world attend a local school where they supposedly are equipped with the tools necessary to attend college and get a career. But how pure is the knowledge provided by their textbooks? How much do textbooks shape the ideas and philosophies of young moldable minds? Textbook propaganda is a tool that has been used since the invention of the printing press by communist dictators and democratic capitalists to mold the thoughts of a child into the goals of the state. Hitler's training of the German youth was key in his dominance for a good part of the WW11. Without his youth soldiers and supporters, Hitler may not have had the same success. The declaration of the American Legion was not that far off the mark of propaganda by stating (the nation's largest Veterans organization who in 1925 declared that the ideal textbook "must inspire the children with patriotism... must dwell on failure only for its value as a moral lesson, must speak chiefly of success... must give each State and Section full space and value for the achievement of each". Basically, history textbooks should make children feel warm and fuzzy on the inside, as well as be fair to everyone-instead of giving children the cold hard facts. Students should feel safe to deeply question the reporting of history. How many people know about the attempted assassination of FDR by a Fascistic cabal of the leaders of General Motors, Dupont, U.S, Steel, General Electric, IBM, etc. who were so concerned about the inroads of communism in the US that they tried to use Marine Major General Smedley Butler to carry out the criminal murder of a US president. Most students truly believe that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor came about with total surprise, when in fact the US received multiple warnings, that if taken with responsibility would have saved countless lives, several weeks before the attack. In reality the attack is what FDR needed to galvanize the minds of Americans to support our entry into WWII. The “Official Report” on 9/11 has so many anomalies, contradictions, and missing pieces of evidence that only a blind fool could give it credence. Any teacher in the public school system who encouraged critical thinking , who tried to openly question the false information spoon fed to us by our deceitful government leaders about 9/11 would probably be censored or fired for speaking the truth and encouraging intellectual integrity. Textbooks have been a major tool used by countless nations to control what their people learn. From tyrannical leaders such a Hitler in Germany or Arafat in Palestine, to world powers to this day, such as the US and Britain, publishers have filled their textbooks with politically correct stories. Textbook propaganda works. Hitler successfully raised an army, and today most American children believe in the old stories of evolution. What can be done about textbook propaganda? Not much, its effectiveness has been proven useful in the past, and will remain the favored tool of dictators and tyrants. But here in free America, things can be changed. It is impossible to have a completely unbiased education system, for if we were to base our education system only on the truth of God's Holy Scriptures we would be no different that the humanists of today. Textbooks should present accurate facts, motivating stories and competing viewpoints. While in our school system, students should be free to form conclusions and develop personal worldviews. How many textbooks teach that Federal Reserve is secretive corporation made up of an opaque cabal of mega bankers, that have little direct connect to government. I never read in any of my textbooks that wars are primarily motivated out of economic demand, needing to steal another country’s resources, or to build up the national debt for the benefit of bankers profits. To the contrary I was brainwashed into believing that we wage war only for “Freedom and to spread democracy”. The major text book publishers who are owned by corporate media conglomerates, have nothing to gain financially by honestly reporting history that may alienate consumer oriented corporations, or the Pentagon who spends billions on public relations and advertising propaganda, or corporate contractors whose primary revenue source is the government tax trough. I believe that if we as parents protest the twisting of facts and incomplete reporting of history in school textbooks that we can turn around this system that encourages deceit and erosion of our youth’s moral fiber. But good luck on that noble effort to clean up our school history books. In Texas for example ignorant bible thumping patriots were concerned about too much candor about how Black Americans were really treated, that if we inform our youth about LGBT behavior that we are encouraging homosexuality, and that evolution can only be taught along with the mythical concept of “Intelligent Design”. We cannot expect moral and ethical behavior from our government leaders, if we as parents do not instill a culture of transparency, ethics, and morality all the way down to the level of the school classroom and the history textbooks. Major emphasis on materialism and acquisitiveness does not encourage healthy spiritual foundations and building of moral fiber. The home and the classroom is the breeding ground for future ethical politicians and leaders. Without a major change in the paradigm of our thinking and value systems, how can we naively expect to have a better nation?

Is OWS fading away?

The news about OWS seems to be cropping up less in the media this holiday season. Is it getting too cold out there on the streets for protesters to show their faces? Are there fewer incidents of drama and histrionics for media to create a buzz about? Are the participants to the movement dwindling in numbers? Are we just getting anesthetized to the phenomenon? Have the participants become so docile and passive in their behavior that there is no charge to showcase for the newscasters? Or maybe this just a place of evolution for the movement on the “Bell shaped curve” where it is moving toward its nadir? Well for the sake of this country and most of our citizens I surely hope that the momentum of OWS is not fizzling out. Unfortunately the financial and political influence of our major corporations, specifically the major financial institutions and the Military Industrial Complex have over taken our country’s body politic like a fast growing cancerous cyst. For example Lockeed-Martin who receives $45 billion in annual revenues, or $260 for every tax payer creates jobs and profits by manufacturing weapons of mass destruction. Their financial tentacles have direct influence over every major political candidate in our country. A major New York bank conveniently donated approximately $4 million to NYPD foundation right around the time of the OWS protests. Politicians are in the hip pocket of every corporation and union in this country who has a vested interest in keeping the government cash cow taken hay from the public and funneling milk to the special interests. So what’s that all have to do with OWS? For a moment I will digress into a “Critical Thinking” teachable moment that not only directly relates to OWS, but more importantly how we react to and process information from the mass media or what we read on the internet. This morning while I was in the process of constructing this article, a coffee shop friend of mine sent me an email, not authored by himself, comparing the well behaved Tea Party to the allegedly ill behaved OWS protesters. Digesting the data presented on its face, I would have come to the conclusion that most OWS folks need to take a course in manners and civility. Fortunately I stopped myself and starting asking some important questions such as who originated this information, what is their political agenda, how objective is the data, what type of control group did they use for the data, and how does this information relate to the behavior of the general population? Some of the highlights of table of data alleged 4,149 arrests, 7 deaths, 12 rapes, 25 American flags desecrated, a total of 3 American and Israeli and flags burned, cost to the tax payers $19,327,487, and “yes” to public masturbation, drunkenness, support for Hugo Chavez, Pelosi, Obama, Nazi, Socialist parties, 911Truther,etc. In contrast the Tea Party had a spotless record of behavior. First off very few large gatherings of any group rarely evolve without some behavioral idiosyncrasies. Secondly all the references to Socialism, Democratic politicians, and any group as not seen as the establishment who is “Clean, neat, and in their seats” is inferred to be negative. Well is it true that purpose and goals of the establishment being whoring politicians, “Crony Capitalists”, Wall Street, secretive Federal Reserve cabal, the military Industrial Complex, and minions of inside the beltway lobbyists is what has created much of the problem facing this country today? Let’s start with the alleged 4,149 arrests! Who are the police working for, is it primarily those wanting to preserve the dysfunctional status quo that primarily benefits the 1%. Could a contribution of millions dollars by a major bank to the NYPD foundation have any bearing on the police wanting to make wholesale arrests of totally innocent people who happen to be protesting, not obstructing traffic or causing bodily or property damage? What is the percent of the arrests of people actually committing felonies or misdemeanors compared to the total population of protesters? Next how does that percentage of arrests compare to the percentage of arrests in the non-protesting population. Where the deaths at the hand of murder, assault and battery, or from heart attacks, old age, heat exhaustion, or other maladies that have no relation to any criminal activity. Where the rapes committed by actual protesters or insane criminal elements that just happen to be in an occupying park. Again are the amount of rapes relative to this type of occurrence in the general population. On the “Yes” statement to the above referenced items, does that mean one incident or a hundred? On the issue of the cost to the taxpayers these are “pennies “ to each taxpayer compared to trillions of dollars we spend on the wasteful Military Industrial Complex that kills, injures, and oppresses people. Who said that the process of democracy was a free lunch? Maybe we should eliminate the voting process, some Fascist types would consider this yearly cost of hundreds of millions of dollars wasteful. I will gladly put in my share of seven cents in taxes to clean up after OWS protesters in order to attempt to further the messy process of democracy, rather than spending thousands to support the already “fat cat” untouchable establishment criminals who are the ones who really should be arrested for mega crimes against society. So now that we have cleared up some misconceptions about OWS that have been spuriously been spread on the internet and through the mass media let us get down to “What is the vitality of OWS”? You can follow what is happening with the OWS movement by going to their official website: http://occupywallst.org/ On January 3, 2012 there was a spontaneous show of solidarity starting in downtown NY against Obama’s signing of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Not only does this act violate our first, third, fourth, fifth and sixth amendments, as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, but this Act was signed quietly this past New Years Eve violating what little trust remained between the people and their established government. The OWS wbsite says, “This upcoming Wednesday, January 11th is the 10 year anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo Bay Prison. This day is a somber recognition of previous repressive state measures that violate not only people on individual levels, but our international agreements on Universal Human Rights. We will be protesting in solidarity with others all over the world.” Relating to a vigil at the Nigerian Consulate, OWS says, “As we know in the United States, repression is on the rise. Between the continued use of inhumane prisons like Guantanamo Bay and the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2012, people in the US are becoming more and more aware of the injustices of this globalized corporate system. We stand in solidarity with the Nigerian people and all victims of this system. We also see the inconsistency of the US government's support of pro-democracy movements when it is actively derailing the very democracy it claims to protect.” On January 15th there will be a global observance of Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday. Dr. King said "A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and say: 'This is not just.' Anyone who is trying to defame the OWS movement by vacuously claiming that they have no message or that they are purposeless, obviously has not objectively done their homework.

Blissful Denials or Uncomfortable Truths

Facing uncomfortable truths can be a daunting task for any human being. In my maturation I have had to deal with the emotional challenge of accepting varying degrees of bad news along my life’s journey. As I have gotten older, I have found because of continued practice, and that ultimately the sky has not fallen, that I can ultimately deal with any bad news no matter how painful. So what is it there about issues that affect our health, relationships, perceptions, and stories we create about institutions of government, religion, parenting, business, and personal relationships that can sometimes put us into a fearful tail spin of denial? We become personally invested in our stories and myths that we sometimes create about family, friends, and government. So why do we construct these fictitious stories initially? When obvious facts countermand the validity of our mythological constructs we become fearful, and this reaction serves to repudiate our own sense of personal judgment and self esteem. Denial is a blatant lie due to omission or commission. The problem with a major lie is that one has to construct more lies to cover up the initial lie of denial. The following is a definition of denial from various dictionaries: (1) An unconscious defense mechanism characterized by refusal to acknowledge painful realities, thoughts, or feelings. (2) Refusal or restriction of something requested, claimed, or needed, often causing physical or emotional deficiency. (3) An unconscious defense mechanism in which emotional conflict and anxiety are avoided by refusal to acknowledge those thoughts, feelings, desires, impulses, or facts that are consciously intolerable. So lets examine some of the operative words in the above definition. Unconscious defense mechanism as defined by psychologists is as follows: Because of anxiety provoking demands created by the id, superego and reality, the ego has developed a number of defense mechanisms to cope with anxiety. Although we may knowingly use these mechanisms, in many cases these defenses work unconsciously to distort reality. For example, if we are faced with a particularly unpleasant task of accepting a painful reality, our mind may choose to construct a myth in order to avoid the dreaded acceptance of the truth. In addition to reality avoidance, other defense mechanisms include rationalization, denial, repression, projection, rejection and reaction formation. Another term that is used to describe denial behavior is called cognitive dissonance. Wikipedia’s definition: Cognitive dissonance is a discomfort caused by holding conflicting cognitions (e.g., ideas, beliefs, values, emotional reactions) simultaneously. In a state of dissonance, people may feel surprise, dread, guilt, anger, or embarrassment. The theory of cognitive dissonance in social psychology proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by altering existing cognitions or adding new ones to create consistency. While all defense mechanisms can be unhealthy, they can also be adaptive and allow us to function normally. The greatest problems arise when defense mechanisms are overused in order to avoid dealing with problems. Researchers have described a wide variety of different defense mechanisms. Sigmund Freud's daughter, Anna Freud described ten different defense mechanisms used by the ego. The other operative word refusal is a verb or adverb that connotes personal choice. The term refusal skill is used as an adverb. Unfortunately the choice to refuse is not always a consciously rational mind function, but one that is triggered by fear and the ego, with little input from empirical or factual sources. Many times the person who carries out their irrational refusal process will purposely choose pieces of information that will support the person’s irrational argument to remain in and support their denial. A specific case in point is of a brother of a friend who died about 6 months ago from terminal cancer. The brother had serious physical signs appearing on his body of painful bulging in the groin area. He refused to take off a few hours from work, using his employee medical insurance to have a free examination. His excuse was that he could not afford to take time off from work. From what I knew about this person was that he had a child like view of the world and therefore constructed his story so that he would not have to face the painful fact that he may have a serious hernia or cancerous tumor. He finally went to the doctor after it was too late. He was diagnosed with stage four cancer that spread through many organs of his body. He was given a prognosis of 6 months to live. In addition he refused to use cannabis to relieve pain and nausea for fear of becoming addicted. There are other cases of personal relationships where one person does not want to hear about their spouse or partner being unfaithful. Even more painful situations are where a mother does not want to hear about a family member, primarily a husband or father physically and sexually abusing a child. The topic that seems to bring major denial by some people is “9/11”. Fortunately more people, due to their intellectual curiosity and just plain intuitive sense are strongly questioning the government’s Official Report and poorly concocted story about 9/11. There still remain many people, who have an emotional block, primarily those who have served in the military and government intelligence, those that were faithful Bush loyalists, those that label themselves traditional “Love it or leave it” patriots, and those that do not want to embrace the fact that they live in a country where there are certain criminal elements that would intentionally harm them for power and profit. On the other hand there are over 2,000 architects, engineers, scientists, military, security, and legal professionals who strongly question the Official Story and support a new independent investigation. When I have mentioned that I believe that the US government was complicit in 9/11 some people cannot accept the painful reality. I am careful to note their uncomfortable resistive body language and their sometimes use of pejorative phrases such as “Conspiracy Theorist”, “Crazy Nut Job”, “America Hater”, etc. I hear, “I refuse to discuss it”, “Just don’t go there”, or “Where do you get these crazy ideas”? These people who are fearful of having their story of “America the Compassionate Perfect Superior Country” challenged will close down their intellectual curiosity and critical thinking for fear of learning the truth. Another fear is that if the truth is uncovered that America will be so severely harmed that it will be destroyed as a country and cease to exist. These are merely fearful personal projections that are not based in supportable fact. If one is so interested in knowing the truth then why would they so reactively resist hearing information, watching documentaries, or doing their own investigative reading? I hope that the denial characteristics of those people who I have cited above will use this message as a bell weather sign to examine why they are in such fear. “Knowledge is power”, so therefore please let your intellectual curiosity catapult you into becoming a more powerful human being. Denial perpetuates the repeating and tolerance of destructive behavior by individuals and nations states. The first step in the Twelve Step program is for the addict to come out of denial and say I am an alcoholic or drug addict. A major step to world peace is for all Americans to admit that some of my countries leaders are immoral and must be held accountable for their criminal behavior, no matter what the cost. I would like to believe that most people understand why denial can be such a destructive behavior, that may result not only in their own harm and death, but more importantly in the cases of government sponsored “False Flag” events and deceit by high level criminal elements in our government, we will continue to have costly, wasteful, and immoral wars. Lobby for a new independent investigation of 9/11 at the local, state, and international level the federal government is not capable of honestly investigating itself.

Faith: 911, Religion, and Patriotism

An infamous despot said, “It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge”. He also said, “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” – Adolph Hitler. I am obviously no fan of the evil Hitler, but I have to acknowledge some of the brilliant propaganda and mind bending tools used by the Nazi’s. In fact many of these same propaganda tools are used by imperialistic countries such as the U.S. today. The bottom line of the above is that the emotions of the most brilliant human beings can sometimes over take their sense of logic, reason, and civility. In the main we are emotional human beings who sometimes act rationally, but construct self deceptive myths in order to insure our feelings of safety, self righteousness, and ego.
A couple of examples that follow bring to mind conversations that I had with local Benicia residents that support my reasoning. About six months ago I was approached by a person in the public safety field who asked me why I had to write articles about “9/11” that questioned the “Official” government conspiracy story. I don’t know this person very well, but from the brief initial dialogue that we had, I picked up from his body language that the content of my articles was a very sensitive and personal issue for him. Digging deeper he revealed to me that he lost two first responder friends in the Twin Tower collapses. So here was an intelligent sensitive man who worked for and trusted his government leadership and organizations and was betrayed, and did not need me to remind him of that fact. For him it was difficult or almost emotionally unfathomable that the government of the U.S. could be complicit in a secretive barbaric conspiracy that would compromise the safety and lives of his comrades whose work it was to protect the public safety. This violation of faith is akin to being raped or brutally beaten by a parent whom one has had the ultimate faith and trust.
Several months ago, after the alleged assassination of bin Laden, I ran into another person who I know relatively well. To give you some background he is politically conservative and the last one to be a fan of Barack Obama. He is a good man, a public safety retiree, very religious, and a person of integrity. I said to him, “What do you think of this phony politically motivated scam of Obama to make us think that we just killed bin Laden”? I had previously done a great deal of research on the subject that is supported by former FBI and CIA employees that in fact know that bin Laden died of pneumonia from renal failure back in 2001. He said to me, “I have to have faith in my government by believing what they tell me”. So this statement is really code for I have to have faith and trust in my country above else, regardless of reality, because my sanity and peace of mind bolstered by a hideous myth is more important than the truth.
I could go on further and site more specific examples of what lengths people will go to emotionally, in order to deceive themselves into feeling a mythical sense of safety and trust. Have you ever heard one partner in a relationship say to other, “If you are going to do something that is personally illicit please don’t tell me about it”. Some people such as myself want to know everything, no matter how bad the news or devastating emotionally. People and organizations act in often times repeatable patterns. Having first hand evidence of these patterns may give us the information to forestall greater problems in the future. When we possess knowledge we have more tools to make intelligent decisions that may have an important effect on our lives and well being. Knowledge is empowering, ignorance is a prison cell of the mind.
I notice that there is a common thread with those who are religious, patriotic, and who have a difficult time coming to grips with corruption by high level authority and government. The person possessing the above personality trait reveres authority, unconditional loyalty, sees the world through their own mythical telescope, covets tradition, and feels uncomfortable questioning the status quo while remaining naively idealistic. These are basically good people who want it to live in a world of “Ozzie and Harriet”, where they can believe that they are living in the best country of virtue and honorable intentions in the world.
If you want o find out the truth about “9/11”, which maybe emotionally uncomfortable for some, I suggest you visit the following resource sites: AE911truth.org, 911 truth.org, 911reserach.wtc7.net, journal911studies.com, firefightersfor911truth.org, tinyurl.com/completetimeline. Einstein said, “Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance”. As a fellow Americans we you have the patriotic duty to investigate government falsehoods, know the truth about 911, and confront our government.
As many more people are becoming aware of the truth about 9/11, the governments only rebuttal is to try and demonize and name call those in the know. Because a lie cannot be easily defended, the government refuses to further investigate, call more witnesses, or enter into public debates with professionals in the science and engineering world. If officials and those who refuse to admit reality call you a “Nut case, crazy truther, or conspiracy head case” take that as a compliment that they do not have a rational and truthful answer that supports the Official Report. To date 220 respected military, intelligence, and security people have grave doubts about the government’s version of 9/11. Over 300 survivors and family members have been deceived by the government and are pushing for a new independent investigation. Nearly 1,000 academics, medical, and legal professionals are calling for a new investigation. Over 250 military and commercial pilots have little confidence in the Official Report and are backing a new investigation. Over 1,500 architects and engineers led by Richard Gage, AIA have publicly endorsed a petition for a new investigation. There are over 150 questions that the government refuses to honestly answer. At the end of the day the truth is distilled out by the obvious science, not concocted myths and misleading government propaganda.
Not only was there a tragedy of approximately 3,000 Americans dying on September 11th, but since that date due to the lies concocted by the EPA and the previous administration about the safety of the air around Ground Zero, 50,000 people and first responders have contracted respiratory diseases and some terminal cancer. More people have died since that date from asbestos and other toxins resulting from the Controlled Demolitions of three buildings into fine dust.
All the facts, unanswered questions, and government lies that are exposed will not convince anyone who has put up an emotional road block in front of their intellectual reasoning and logic process that we the American people have been egregiously lied to by our government in complicity with our corrupt corporate owned mass media. Unfortunately our society and culture has advanced much more technologically than it has evolved emotionally. America has perpetuated a myth of violence, machismo, and that “Grown men don’t cry”, or express their feelings. We have unfortunately substituted childlike faith in religion, military, country, and authority for grown up mature reality. Authority is not always truthful, and many times violates our trust. Until we face head on, the evil behaviors of specific government, corporations, and bankers working in concert to create False Flag events such as the Sinking of the Maine, Gulf of Tonkin event, Operation Northwood’s, USS Liberty, and “9/11”, we will continue to move into costly and devastating wasteful protracted wars. Excessive military spending brought down Rome and the U.S.S.R., it is bringing down America as you read this article.

Take care of our people and distrust our government

Based on the history of the leadership of our nation why should we have cause to trust our government? I do not dislike most Americans, but I have a great disdain and little respect for our high level government, Department of State, security departments such as the CIA and Homeland Security, and military industrial complex. In the main our top government leaders, who are owned by major corporations and bankers, choose what is economically prudent for these special wealthy interests, not for Americans in general. Be it a False Flag event, an unnecessary war, special tax benefits, or a bailout of a major corporation or bank, we the working class usually receive the short end of the stick. Let us say the working class is anyone making less than $250,000 per year. There are many doctors, lawyers, and other professionals who are in the working class. The elite reap the major benefits of wars and bailouts, while the working class gives up life and limb, and do not receive the subsidies and tax perks that the wealthy elite are in line to receive. Believe it or not, if we the working class, take the time and energy to become well informed, become activists, and create non-violent revolutions, we can indeed make a difference.
National loyalty and blind patriotism are the anathema of democracy. The long term survival of our nation depends on the critical thinkers, those who do not go along with government and mass media propaganda, and those who expose corruption, and embarrass and prosecute immoral government leadership. It is very easy to “Go along to get along”, but the great strides and improvements in our society have come from the courageous pioneers such as MLK, Jr., Daniel Ellsberg, Emma Goldman, Susan B. Anthony, Samuel Gompers, JFK, RFK, and others who were willing to become imprisoned, persecuted, or murdered for their sense of humanistic compassion, ideals, and morality. How many of us have the courage to go against the tides of corruption, greed, oppression, and intolerance to make our country a more civilized nation.
I believe the label describing the US as a “Great Nation” is incorrectly used, has spurious interpretations, and really is a euphemism for great economic wealth and military power, not exactly humanitarian or civilized characteristics. Corporations and bankers have done little or nothing to insure social progress and equality for the masses; it is not in the wealthy owners best interests to let the people have power and parity. Unbridled Capitalism is as dangerous as unbridled Communism.
All of our top level departments of the federal government are led primarily by ex corporate officials or by associations and special interest groups with allegiance to major corporations and banks. True representatives of the working class American have very little power in high levels of government. The Washington insider beltway is overburdened with over 32,000 lobbyists whose primary agenda is to promote the economic well being of major corporations and financial institutions, and not the well being of the working class consumer. The stewardship of the environment, financial transparency, consumer health and safety, and the fiscal well being of the average American usually is normally subordinated to the profit goals of the corporations who run the government from behind the curtain of transparency.
The major political parties have a pre-determined agenda to expand imperialism and pre-emptive wars on foreign soils, to eviscerate our constitutional rights by the expansion of the Patriot Act and Homeland Security, cover up the fraud and deceit perpetrated by the privately held cabal of worlds bankers called the Federal Reserve, and to increase our national debt to funnel more money into coffers of the wealthy elite. Even monies meant to go into hands of the needy ultimately wind up in the hands of corporations providing basic needs such as medical care, food, housing, energy, and major discount retailers such as Wal-Mart. At the end of the day the agenda of the two major parties is to enrich the corporations, whose plethora of lobbyist’s payoff the politicians who run our government. The corruption and sham of our so called two party system is akin to the fixed matches of big time wrestling. Barack Obama is the consummate example of a corporate Wall Street Rockefeller prostitute for hire, masquerading in liberal clothing to advance the goals of corporate America and the Military Industrial Complex. Obama may show a few token gestures of social progress for gay rights groups, some minorities, or consumers, but primarily he is the chatteled whore of corporate America and Wall Street.
The constraints of the presidential debates are structured to exclude or censure all other parties and potential candidates such as Ron Paul, Jesse Ventura, and Ralph Nader whose straight forward platforms threaten the economic strongholds of the two major parties. The debates are in essence controlled by a private entertainment corporation whose goal is to exclude all other points of view except those of the two major parties.
There are many more documented barbaric interventions by the US that have resulted in the direct or indirect killing of over 6 million innocent people in third world countries primarily for the protection of corporate profits. The following are patent examples of corrupt, immoral, and barbaric U.S. behavior of our high level leaders over the last fifty years.
The murderous plots by compartmentalized criminal elements of the CIA, FBI, military, Mafia underworld, and Secret Service of MLK, JFK, and RFK are sordid examples of what evil lengths that our government will go to suppress attempts to end profitable wars and to abolish or make transparent the corrupt Federal Reserve.
CIA cou de ta’s spear headed by the past presidents whose primary loyalty was to multi-national corporations, and not democratically elected Latin America leaders of the people, serve as major embarrassments to the purported integrity of American foreign policy. ITT corporation, led by CEO Harold Genneen, a major Nixon contributor influenced our CIA and military to murder many Chilean citizens and assassinate democratically elected President Ajende. A similar episode happened with the Eisenhower CIA at the behest of United Fruit Company in the overthrow of Arbenz.
Illegal bombing perpetrated by Nixon, Kissinger, and McNamara that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Vietnamese and Cambodian civilians primarily for the enrichment of defense contractors who manufactured planes and tens of thousands of tons of bombs.
Lies by the past administration that perpetrated myths about bin Laden, WMD’s, and 19 alleged Muslim high-jackers that started with the “False Flag 9//11” event and have ended in major wars, suppression of our constitutional rights, trillions of dollars of national debt, and thousands of innocent lost lives. The present Obama administration and both parties in congress continue to effect illegal pre-emptive wars in the Middle East and clandestine wars around the world. Be it Johnson, Nixon, Clinton, Bush, or Obama’ neither major party represents the true interests of the American people or world peace, but only the enrichment of the Military Industrial Complex and wealthy elite who reap the financial benefits of corruption and brutality.
Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, or other candidates who are not owned by corporate America, may not be your perfect candidate for president, but the reality is that these independently minded men or women of relatively high integrity are a much better alternative than what the corrupt two party system has to offer. The existing two party system has literally taken the power and constitutional rights away from the average American. We can make a difference in the next election by voting for and electing independent people of integrity, and not the owned candidates of the present two party system who are prostitutes to corporate America. Power to the people; let us show the Military Industrial Complex and corporate America that we will not continue to accept their abuse and exploitation. Let us declare the tenth anniversary of 9/11 as a non-violent jihad against the stronghold of our government and corruption by corporate America. So I ask again, how can I in good conscience, respect the present and past leaders of my countries government.

Why are many Americans so naïve?

I believe that many Americans are naïve due to a combination of religious indoctrination, poor literacy, childlike optimism, relative lack of suffering, stymied emotional development, and unquestioning acceptance of corporate and government propaganda. These idiosyncrasies or skill deficiencies are not individually unique, but rather work in concert to squash critical thinking skills and create emotional denial that has resulted in acceptance of disinformation, and/or a lack of information. I believe that many people have the innate visceral ability to understand what reality is, but rather than embrace sometimes painful truths they let their emotional defense mechanisms over power their ability to think critically and question deeply and objectively.
Our patriarchal authoritarian systems do not support and encourage critical thinking and questioning, but rather rewards unquestioning allegiance to authority figures, traditions, and institutions. America has developed one of the most sophisticated, insidious, and mind numbing marketing and propaganda machines using primarily “Madison Avenue” tactics and specialized and focused “Think Tanks” to obfuscate reality for the naïve childlike public. From infancy through adulthood we are constantly bombarded with overt and subliminal messages that to be loved and accepted by both family and society we must conform, follow, trust, and unquestionably respect authority.
The parent child relationship forges the first steps for the brain washing of the infant child. Every child wants to be loved and adored, so by fitting the mold of being a “good boy” or “good girl”, the child endeavors to diminish its individuality, act in a socially acceptable definition and control or limit individual creativity in order to achieve the love of the parents.
Many Americans believe the private Federal Reserve Bank is a government operated institution; naïve ignorance again exposes its ugly head. On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. Five months later JFK was assassinated for wanting to destroy the central bank cabal and bring a swift peaceful end to the Vietnam War.
There are only five countries that do not have a Central Bank. These countries are Cuba, North Korea, Iraq, Iran, and Libya. What a coincidence that we have invaded Iraq and Libya and have Iran in our gun sights. In addition these three countries have nationalized major oil reserves. The bankers and oil companies have such tremendous power over our government’s military, that we have invaded these countries for their oil, and to create private central banking institutions.
Religion is proof positive that some misdirected Americans believe that to be moral and ethical citizens that they must be unquestioning God fearing religious zealots. A Pew Research poll showed that evangelical religious followers were three times as likely to be only high school graduates, as opposed to their critical thinking more enlightened well educated counter parts. A recent Gallup Poll has concluded that one-third of the American adult population believes the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally word for word. How naïve and childlike is that type of immature thinking? Fortunately this percentage is slightly lower than several decades ago. Progressively there has been a movement away from extremist religious belief, with many people coming out of the non-sectarian closet and proudly admitting to be Atheist, Agnostic, Pagan, or questioning reformed institutional religious believers.
The funeral industry, mythical Heaven and Hell, and emotional refusal to deal with death as a normal life passage event is another example of naiveté, and emotional denial. How many people do not make pre-arrangements for adequate estate planning or timely funeral plans, because they are naïve about the mature acceptance of death. A useful money saving, “Win-Win” tip is to will your remains to a medical school for the betterment of future mankind. There is no need for wasting money on conscience assuaging funerals, expensive burial plots, or grave markers. If you have the money for these worthless frivolities give it to a life saving or educational charity and forget about enriching your local funeral director. By the way no one is going to “Heaven or Hell”, because it is only a non-existent myth, so be the best you can be while you are alive.
The naïve electorate bites hook, line, and sinker on the redacted incomplete news propaganda that is thrust upon them in concert with the government and corporate owned mass media in order to shape their unquestioning childlike minds into accepting the “Myth of the week”.
Another myth embraced by the Pollyanna naïve American is that wars are fought for “Freedom, Liberation, and Democracy”. Democracy is a US euphemism for privatizing existing government industries and services, with little concern for the human rights of the ordinary citizen. Another myth again, profitable wars are usually started by other people who are evil and bad, but never by the power elite who plot False Flag events with the puppet heads of state. The False Flag attacks on the “Maine in Cuba”, “The Gulf of Tonkin incident”, “CIA commandos acting as Communist rebels in Latin America”, “Pearl Harbor”, and “9/11” are all war creating incidents that were either planned by heads of state or were allowed to happen with the full knowledge and complicity of the corrupt US government.
9 years ago over 80% of the emotionally reactive American electorate was falsely convinced that we should preemptively invade Iraq; a gross error in judgment that will cost over 3 trillion dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives. We invaded Iraq to because we cared so much about humanity and wanted the free the Iraqi people to be free and have a better life. That’s why we destroyed their museums, hospitals, schools, infrastructure, and government buildings. Our invasion created massive unemployment and ultimate desperation that was the cause of much increased terrorism and insurgency. We destroyed every ministry building in Iraq, with the exception of the Oil Ministry that contained important maps and documents that would lead us to all the oil wells and production facilities.
Another myth, The World Bank and International Monetary Fund were created primarily to help third world nations and not enrich international Rockefeller and Rothschild bankers using unaffordable loans and usurious interest rates. I suggest you read “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” by Thomas Perkins who for many years was a senior economist and loan packager who entrapped third world countries with unaffordable loans and forced their poor peoples to their knees with over whelming debt.
There will always be greedy people in government working with private industry and financiers to plot and conspire to create wars and oppression for economic gain; it just makes good business sense without the benefit of ethics or a moral compass. These evil forces of greed can be pushed back when people become knowledgeable, release themselves from their mechanism of emotional denial, and take an activist role of conscience and resistance. Unfortunately we are not safe as ordinary citizens from our corrupt government leaders who operate in Fascist manner with captains of industry and finance.
Those who falsely believe that their leaders truly care about their well being would not send 58,000 young men off to die in Vietnam, or cause the murder by controlled demolition of the World Trade Center Towers that killed over 3,000 innocent Americans, foreign nationals, and Muslims; and ultimately killing twice that many by lying about the toxicity of the dust from the explosive forces and fire retardant asbestos. It is time to shed our myopic nationalism and set up an appointment with our local friendly therapist so that we can learn to cope with the painfulness of emotional discomfort and better empower ourselves with the realities of the world. Knowledge is power. “Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance” - Albert Einstein.

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