"For those who haven't read Orwell's
classic prediction of our time, Big Brother, the government, could tell
the 'citizens' any lie and it was accepted unquestioningly. As a
perceptive reader pointed out to me, we Americans, with our 'free press,'
are at this point today: 'What is really alarming is the increasingly
arrogant sloppiness of these lies, as though the government has become so
profoundly confident of its ability to deceive people that they make
virtually no effort to even appear credible.'"
Americans Are Living In
1984
by Paul Craig Roberts
The White House's 'death of bin Laden' story has come apart
at the seams. Will it make any difference that before 48 hours had passed
the story had changed so much that it no longer bore any resemblance to
President Obama's Sunday evening broadcast and has lost all credibility?
So far it has made no difference to the once-fabled news organization,
the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which on March 9, eight days
later, is still repeating the propaganda that the SEALs killed bin Laden
in his Pakistani compound, where bin Laden lived next door to the
Pakistani Military Academy surrounded by the Pakistani army.
Not even the president of Pakistan finds the story implausible. The BBC
reports that the president is launching a full-scale investigation of how
bin Laden managed to live for years in an army garrison town without
being noticed.
For most Americans the story began and ended with four words: 'we got bin
Laden.' The celebrations, the sweet taste of revenge, of triumph and
victory over 'the most dangerous man on the planet' are akin to the
thrill experienced by sports fans when their football team defeats the
unspeakable rival or their baseball team wins the World Series. No fan
wants to hear the next day that it is not so, that it is all a mistake.
If these Americans years from now come across a story that the killing of
bin Laden was an orchestrated news event to boost other agendas, they
will dismiss the report as the ravings of a pinko-liberal-commie.
Everyone knows we killed bin Laden. How could it be otherwise? We -- the
indispensable people, the virtuous nation, the world's only superpower,
the white hats -- were destined to prevail. No other outcome was
possible.
No one will notice that those who fabricated the story forgot to show the
kidney dialysis machine that, somehow, kept bin Laden alive for a decade.
No doctors were on the premises.
No one will remember that
Fox News
reported in December, 2001, that Osama bin Laden had passed away from
his illnesses.
If bin Laden beat all odds and managed to live another decade to await,
unarmed and undefended, the arrival of the Navy SEALS last week, how it
is possible that the 'terror mastermind,' who defeated not merely the CIA
and FBI, but all 16 US intelligence agencies along with those of
America's European allies and Israel, the National Security Council, the
Pentagon, NORAD, Air Traffic Control, airport security four times on the
same morning, etc. etc., never enjoyed another success, not even a
little, very minor one? What was the 'terror mastermind' doing for a
decade after 9/11?
The 'death of bin Laden' serves too many agendas that cover the political
spectrum for the obvious falsity of the story to be recognized by very
many. Patriots are euphoric that America won over bin Laden. Progressives
have seized on the story to excoriate the United States for
extra-judicial murder that brutalizes us all. Some on the left-wing
bought into the 9/11 story because of the emotional satisfaction they
received from oppressed Arabs striking back at their imperialist
oppressors. These left-wingers are delighted that it took the incompetent
Americans an entire decade to find bin Laden, who was hiding in plain
view. The American incompetence in finding bin Laden simply, in their
minds, proves the incompetence of the US government, which failed to
protect Americans against the 9/11 attack.
Those who ordered, and those who wrote, totally incompetent legal memos
that torture was permissible under US and international law, thereby
setting up George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for the possibility of
prosecution, are riding the euphoria of bin Laden's death by declaring
that it was torture that led the American assassins to bin Laden. All of
a sudden, torture, which had fallen back into the disrepute in which it
had been for centuries, is again in the clear. Anything that leads to the
elimination of bin Laden is a valid instrument.
Those, who want to increase the pressure on Pakistan to shut up about
Americans murdering Pakistani citizens in Pakistan from the air and from
troops on the ground, have gained a new club with which to beat the
Pakistani government into submission: 'you hid bin Laden from us.'
Those who want to continue to fatten the profits of the military/security
complex and the powers of Homeland Security, such as Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, use bin Laden's second, or ninth, death as proof that
America is being successful in its war on terror and that the war must
continue on such a successful path until all enemies are slain.
Most ominous of all was the statement by the CIA director that bin
Laden's death would lead to new attacks on America and new 9/11s from al
Qaeda seeking revenge. This warning, issued within a few hours of
President Obama's Sunday evening address, telegraphed the inevitable 'al
Qaeda' Internet posting that America would suffer new 9/11s for killing
their leader.
If the Taliban knew in December 2001 that bin Laden was dead, does anyone
think that al Qaeda didn't know it? Indeed, no member of the public has
any way of knowing if al Qaeda is anything more than a bogyman
organization created by the CIA which issues 'al Qaeda' announcements.
The evidence that al Qaeda's announcements are issued by the CIA is very
strong. The various videos of bin Laden for the last nine years have been
shown by experts to be fakes. Why would bin Laden issue a fake video? Why
did bin Laden cease issuing videos and only issue audios? A person
running a world-wide terrorist organization should be able to produce
videos. He would also be surrounded by better protectors than a couple of
women. Where was al Qaeda, which according to former Pentagon chief
Donald Rumsfeld, consists of 'the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious
killers on the face of the earth.' Had these most dangerous men alive
abandoned their leader?
The CIA director's warning of future terrorist attacks, followed by a
suspect 'al Qaeda' threat of the same, suggests that if the American
public continues to lose its enthusiasm for the governments open-ended
wars, which are conducted at the expense of the US budget deficit, the
dollar's exchange value, inflation, Social Security, Medicare, income
support programs, jobs, recovery, and so forth, 'al Qaeda' will again
outwit all 16 US intelligence agencies, those of our allies, NORAD,
airport security, Air Traffic Control, etc. etc., and inflict the world's
only superpower with another humiliating defeat that will invigorate
American support for 'the war on terror.'
I believe that 'al Qaeda' could blow up the White House or Congress or
both and that the majority of Americans would fall for the story, just as
the Germans, a better educated and more intelligent population, fell for
the Reichstag Fire – as did a number of historians.
The reason I say this is that Americans have succumbed to propaganda that
has conditioned them to believe that they are under attack by practically
omnipotent adversaries. Proof of this is broadcast every day. For
example, on March 9, I heard over National Public Radio in Atlanta that
Emory University, a private university of some distinction, treated its
3,500 graduating class to a commencement address by Janet Napolitano,
Secretary of Homeland Security.
This is the agency that has goons feeling the genitals of young children
and adults and which has announced that it intends to expand this
practice from air travelers to shopping malls, bus and train stations.
That a serious university invited such a low-lifer, who clearly has no
respect for American civil liberty and is devoid of any sort of sense of
what is appropriate, to address a graduating class of southern elite is a
clear indication that the Ministry of Truth has prevailed. Americans are
living in George Orwell's
1984.
For those who haven't read Orwell's classic prediction of our time, Big
Brother, the government, could tell the 'citizens' any lie and it was
accepted unquestioningly. As a perceptive reader pointed out to me, we
Americans, with our 'free press,' are at this point today: 'What is
really alarming is the increasingly arrogant sloppiness of these lies, as
though the government has become so profoundly confident of its ability
to deceive people that they make virtually no effort to even appear
credible.'
A people as gullible as Americans have no future.
http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2011/05/americans-are-living-in-1984/
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