The eunuch media is astounding in its passivity. Former Vice-President Dick Cheney was allowed by our lamestream media to molest our moral ideals and condemn succeeding generations of Americans to the same kinds of torture he didn’t even try to hide behind the bullshit scheme of ‘plausible deniability’ which sustains every other lie and crime the government chooses as policy.
His answer to the damning Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report was, “I’d do it again”. This is a rather stunning lack of contrition considering one of the main conclusions of the 528 page report is that our Exceptional American torture proved to be as ineffective at revealing truth or credible information as that practiced by other barbarians. Torturers and their victims usually come to a meeting of the minds, that being, an agreement to the script of the torturer. Apparently job securitization screws are turning causing so-called journalists to be “fair and balanced” about cruel and unusual punishment, which under the Geneva Convention to which the U.S. is a signatory says, “No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification for torture”. Is that clause so irrelevant to our national self-image and world opinion that, “I’d do it again”, was enough validation of Mr. Cheney’s insane and ineffective indiscretion to accord him such gentle journalistic treatment very disproportionate to the magnitude of his legal and moral infraction, and the risks we are all now inescapably heir to?
It is, I suppose, just another of the litany of the bizarre anomalies that have materialized in our physical, moral, and legal universe since the morning of 9/11. Things that were torture and illegal before, and are torture and illegal now, still enjoy the special dispensation from logic and precedent so peculiar to the Bush/Cheney administration.
Why aren’t Americans frightened by our political leaders’ embrace and legalization of torture when these are the same authors of The Patriot Act which only requires a pointed finger to cause one to be disappeared into this Cheney-esque legal limbo from whose bourn you may never return?
They’re not frightened because our Fourth Estate is a watchdog that doesn’t bark.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Again 9/11
Donte Stallworth, recently hired by the Huffington Post as a political fellow on national security, because the former NFL player, “has a quick mind, an insatiable curiosity and a passion for politics”, has posted a refutation of his misspent youth as a 9/11 Truther.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/02/donte-stallworth-911-conspiracy_n_6178556.html
Mr. Stallworth, as part of the generation that was victimized and duped by the Vietnam/Gulf of Tonkin LIE, and having experienced with your generation the Iraq LIE, I retain my ability to question the veracity of power. I understand, after years of the “Big Lie” taking root, it has acquired some legitimacy simply because of longevity. But I must remind you we still haven’t been given a truthful reason for our incursions into Vietnam or Iraq. After a while we just assume we know or have been told “why”. But if you search your mind you’ll only find a catalog of transparent lies that have just been shrugged off as the beat goes on. Still, we needn’t be helpless pawns and dupes.
As far as understanding 9/11 goes, if it is assumed that the U.S. is an imperialist nation (seemingly indicated by 1100 military bases worldwide) acting in accord with uber- capitalist motivation (considering the mineral and fossil fuel resources of theretofore geo-politically outlier nations), then unfortunately, the official narrative and resulting militaristic ramifications of 9/11 make sense. On the other hand, if we are a non-imperial , peaceful nation, whose primary goal is the promotion of freedom and democracy, then, I believe, the official narrative would almost certainly be undermined by a legitimate and objective scientific investigation of the actualities and anomalies occurring on that day.
To consider there may be defensible alternative hypotheses to a narrative which, lest we forget, was formulated and universally disseminated before any usual, typical, or thorough process to discern facts or proof was, or could have been, carried out - is not irrational. Some might say it’s an intellectual requirement. The years later dubious contribution to the historical record called The 9/11 Commission Report merely memorialized, almost verbatim, a seemingly pre-prepared narrative which sprang to public life fully formed as early as 9/12. The Oracle of Delphi couldn’t have generated a more accurate point by point prognostication.
It is doubly remarkable that this originally postulated narrative emerged as such an immaculate conception, without any knowledge of the numerous anomalies that would later surface, anomalies which are indisputably present and germane to any reasonable theory of the events, and any one of which might be expected to upset the original postulations, but didn’t, even in the final version rendered to the historical record years later by the Honorable 9/11 Commission, whom in the vast public discussion had been fully exposed to the anomalies by way of expert and intelligent inquiries, physical evidence, eyewitness testimonies, and elementary scientific calculations.
For the magically prescient original narrative to remain unaltered and unscathed after the huge excavation of subsequent knowledge and revelations, lends proof to the Orwellian truism that a sheepish, thoughtless citizenry will be more inclined to disbelieve ‘logic’ than to disbelieve Big Brother - the government.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/02/donte-stallworth-911-conspiracy_n_6178556.html
Mr. Stallworth, as part of the generation that was victimized and duped by the Vietnam/Gulf of Tonkin LIE, and having experienced with your generation the Iraq LIE, I retain my ability to question the veracity of power. I understand, after years of the “Big Lie” taking root, it has acquired some legitimacy simply because of longevity. But I must remind you we still haven’t been given a truthful reason for our incursions into Vietnam or Iraq. After a while we just assume we know or have been told “why”. But if you search your mind you’ll only find a catalog of transparent lies that have just been shrugged off as the beat goes on. Still, we needn’t be helpless pawns and dupes.
As far as understanding 9/11 goes, if it is assumed that the U.S. is an imperialist nation (seemingly indicated by 1100 military bases worldwide) acting in accord with uber- capitalist motivation (considering the mineral and fossil fuel resources of theretofore geo-politically outlier nations), then unfortunately, the official narrative and resulting militaristic ramifications of 9/11 make sense. On the other hand, if we are a non-imperial , peaceful nation, whose primary goal is the promotion of freedom and democracy, then, I believe, the official narrative would almost certainly be undermined by a legitimate and objective scientific investigation of the actualities and anomalies occurring on that day.
To consider there may be defensible alternative hypotheses to a narrative which, lest we forget, was formulated and universally disseminated before any usual, typical, or thorough process to discern facts or proof was, or could have been, carried out - is not irrational. Some might say it’s an intellectual requirement. The years later dubious contribution to the historical record called The 9/11 Commission Report merely memorialized, almost verbatim, a seemingly pre-prepared narrative which sprang to public life fully formed as early as 9/12. The Oracle of Delphi couldn’t have generated a more accurate point by point prognostication.
It is doubly remarkable that this originally postulated narrative emerged as such an immaculate conception, without any knowledge of the numerous anomalies that would later surface, anomalies which are indisputably present and germane to any reasonable theory of the events, and any one of which might be expected to upset the original postulations, but didn’t, even in the final version rendered to the historical record years later by the Honorable 9/11 Commission, whom in the vast public discussion had been fully exposed to the anomalies by way of expert and intelligent inquiries, physical evidence, eyewitness testimonies, and elementary scientific calculations.
For the magically prescient original narrative to remain unaltered and unscathed after the huge excavation of subsequent knowledge and revelations, lends proof to the Orwellian truism that a sheepish, thoughtless citizenry will be more inclined to disbelieve ‘logic’ than to disbelieve Big Brother - the government.
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