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number 10 for 7-26-05:
Continuing Lies, Not Conspiracy
I hate sounding like a conspiracy nut. I know that happens at times, with this column. I believe that the people in power (all of them) are liars. I don’t think they want bad for us. I honestly believe, scary though it sounds, George Bush wants a good, happy, healthy and strong America.
I do believe that some people who the government doesn’t like disappear. My evidence for this (again, making me sound like a conspiracy nut) is something that I know but am afraid to say in public. Ask me about it when you see me in person, I’ll tell you sometime. If you believe I have integrity, know that I am honest when I sat that I know this happens.
I don’t think it happens because our government is evil. I don’t believe our government is effective. I believe that these people do evil acts, thinking they are doing good, which is the strongest evil in the world, and the hardest evil to combat. When a man is fervent in his belief of something that is obviously wrong to the sensible is right, he is willing to DO wrong upon others to make his right.
Censorship and lying are not above these people. Not above the liars. If you find someone who embellishes or lies to promote their view, that doesn’t make them a bad person, but it means that what they’re doing is something they know that EVERYONE doesn’t agree with, but to do it they’re willing to break a few eggs.
This is not my policy, because that policy led to the unlawful massacre of over a hundred and fifty thousand Japanese at the end of World War 2, the death of 5-10 million Jews, the death of 3,000 on September 11th, the list goes on.
And on.
And on.
The point I make, however, is that when there is mass deception, usually evil (even perpetuated by good men) is afoot. It doesn’t have to be a conspiracy. They can even think they’re doing good. They can even be DOING good, often, just failing to realize that evil springs from their zealotry.
When you close your eyes or blink, it can slip past you. When you study and your eyes are open, patterns emerge.
Torturing and hiding a bunch of Middle Eastern men for information in the war on terror. Mostly, these men deserve what they get. But rapists deserve to be shot. We don’t because we are restrained and civilized. Bush feels that it has to be done, so it is done. We beat, torture, rape, and murder people. At Guantanamo, we’re not sure WHAT they’re doing. Senators say that they are treated well, but do you trust senators? I don’t.
Of course, the natural inclination is to assume the US is doing the right thing.
Until, of course again, the government purposefully lies and hides what they are doing at the installation, a typical sign of guilt by threatening to veto money for the war on terror if any checks or balances are put into a bill with regards to our already uncharged detainees awaiting due process they are entitled to (even if they are bastards, as they likely are).
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Before they knew anything about it, the easily duped American public said they liked the new court nominee, John Roberts, by a majority. Why? I’m guessing because he’s white, rich, and moderately attractive, our “goals”. But when we, the people who actually care about his positions, try and find out what he believes and how he would judge, the White House refuses to release the information, waffles, and says that it will not be forthright. Lies, and hiding.
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The response from those perpetuating this madness it to accuse and lie on their own. If the terrorists attack us, and the government wants to use that as a way to learn about the American public and what we are reading, they make laws saying that they can look at what we’re reading, tap our phones, look in on us, and if we don’t like it, we’re with the terrorists. We’re un-American. If it’s not said, it’s implied. As Gonzales says about the renewal of the library clause:
"I'm as concerned about the privacy of American citizens as anyone, but we cannot allow libraries and use of libraries to become safe havens for terrorists.".
I have been to many libraries. I have read many books. I have never, in my life, seen an educated terrorist. Nor have you. They are all ignorant. Fundamentally ignorant. And every single resource they could find at a library to help their cause is a resource that any one of us might read for fun. There are no “How to terrorize” books. If you read a book on how to fly a plane, you are not a terrorist.
But if you don’t want the government minding your business, you ARE, they intimate.
It ripples out into our society in almost unnoticeable ways. Increased censorship, which is half a product of a conservative ideology (an ideology that espouses that we need more personal freedoms, unless said personal freedoms involve changing the channel), and half the product of fear of terrorism that will, statistically, NEVER happen to most any of us.
We ban wrestlers on the WWE because they are ARAB, not because they are terrorists.
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We take a movie where men use a Purple Heart to get laid, and instead of wondering, “Hey, how can they get laid because of a Purple Heart? Because it means people who win the Purple Heart are revered and wonderful”, which they are. But instead, they say, “How dare you make a joke that involves something I don’t like!”
And they try to shut it down.
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The government reinforces the fact that they lie constantly. IRAQ IS DOING GREAT! THEY’RE ALMOST IN CHARGE OF THEMSELVES! When three of 106 police departments are combat ready and most are run by near literates and former criminals that have already been infiltrated by insurgents.
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They don’t show us the new pictures (the pictures that they’ve been hiding for a year now) of the tortures at Abu Ghraib we haven’t seen. The rapes. The murders. The executions, caught gleefully on tape by soldiers enacting their orders given by, yes, those men on high, up to and including Rumsfield.
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So yeah, being a conspiracy nut is loony. No aliens. No American government behind 9-11.
But it’s hard, honestly, watching this shit, not to believe that the people who are above me lie, and commit evil acts in a misguided attempt to do good.
It’s why I don’t trust them, and it makes sense.
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In further Rove news, another of his excuses for his actions just eroded. Many argued he didn’t know her status was secret.
Documents just proved he did.
No prosecution yet. Where is the “accountability” Bush spoke so fondly of?
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