Mitt Romney's Death Squad Money

Seems whenever you scratch the surface of U.S. appearances, you end up unearthing some horror. Atrocities and crimes against humanity run like an underground plume of toxic waste hidden just below the surface of American society.

A Salon.com reporter dug a little into Bain Capital- something you'd expect many reporters to be doing, assuming they're actual journalists and not propagandists- and didn't have much trouble discovering that Romney, who was in charge of starting up Bain Capital (what he calls “an entry level job”) raised a large sum of Bain's capital from the ruling rich fascist families of El Salvador, the ones on whose behalf the death squad army and various “security forces” of that country murdered tens of thousands of people (the overwhelming majority helpless civilians, including the Archbishop of the country, Oscar Romero). Well, why not? The U.S. was the armorer, trainer, and ideological indoctrinator of those state terrorist forces.  [“The roots of Bain Capital in El Salvador’s civil war”]

Another question: how come none of his rivals have mentioned this? They all have large “opposition research” operations” to dig up dirt on their rivals.

Because anything that touches on the crimes of U.S. Imperialism is a deep, dark taboo in American politics. Why, mentioning it would be like saying the CIA killed the Kennedys. Anyone who said it would instantly be hurled into outer darkness by the collective political-media system.

Anyway, the Salvadoran mini-Holocaust was a great success as far as the U.S. elites are concerned. Eight rich families were kept in charge in El Salvador, pesky humanist academics and labor organizers were killed, and tens of thousands of superfluous peasants and workers were wiped out. Another “Communist beachhead in our hemisphere” was averted. (So four Maryknoll women were raped and killed on orders from higher ups- what were those do-gooder fellow travelers doing there in the first place, trying to help poor people? Who gave them the right to meddle?) This is what is called “freedom and democracy” in U.S. parlance.