Actually there are lots of them. Big ones, small ones,
in-between ones.
Remember “Yellow Rain”? How about the “Pope Plot,” wherein
we were told that a Turkish fascist was an agent of the Bulgarian KGB?
Those lies served their purposes and are now forgotten.
Other lies are “forever.”
Like, Lee Harvey
Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
They’ll never come clean on that one. They’d have to admit
too much. Admit to a coup. Admit this is no democracy. Admit the treasonous
behavior of the entire “national security” establishment and corporate media.
Admit they’re like a banana republic.
There are lies that are politically and ideologically
fundamental, mythological lies that are part of the bedrock of this
socio-economic-political system.
Like, the U.S. is
founded on freedom and democracy.
Huh? Actually it’s founded on slavery and genocide. And
women couldn’t even vote until 1920.
And most blacks basically couldn’t vote until the 1960s- and paid a price in blood
even then. And everyone is forced to
choose between two parties that both
represent corporate oligarchy. And unlike in Europe, where there’s proportional
representation, for all the rest of us there is ZERO REPRESENTATION in
government AT ALL LEVELS.
But this essay is to focus on one casual lie in particular,
the kind of commonplace mendacity that we are fed daily by the power
structure’s media.
This lie was uttered by War Secretary Leon Panetta,
commenting after the most recent assassinations of Iranian nuclear physicists
in the spring of 2012. He said this:
"I can tell you one thing: the [United States] was not
involved in that kind of effort. That’s
not what the United States does." (Emphasis added.)
What, the U.S. doesn’t assassinate people? Sure you do. And
you BRAG about it! Every time you use a drone to assassinate people, a boast is
issued to the media.
And your “Special Ops” soldiers routinely assassinate
people. Osama bin Laden is only the most prominent example.
What an absurd lie.
Of course Panetta, in both his former job as head of the CIA
and now as War Minister, has overseen and oversees organized assassination
programs. These have been going on for years, and are continually expanding
under the reign of Obama.
In fact, Panetta and the Obama regime is happy to boast of
assassinations. More and more frequently they are planting stories in the media
hailing their latest “success” in bumping of some alleged jihadist. So there is
no “controversy” here, no phony denials, no coy evasions. They openly brag
about their drone hit jobs. And of course about the SEAL execution of bin
Laden, which is part of Obama’s re-election platform, openly commented upon by
the media.
And whether one supports or opposes these assassinations is
not relevant. It doesn’t matter whether one believes that U.S. assassinations
are right or wrong, good or bad, moral or immoral, legal or illegal, justified
or unjustified, pragmatic or counterproductive. The issue here a blatant,
Orwellian level of mendacity, a bald-face lie right in our faces that nobody
notices is a lie or mentions. The public is expected to engage in what Orwell
called Doublethink, believing two mutually exclusive things at the same time.
The corporate media scribes dutifully transcribe and
transmit the “message,” the preposterous, whopping, obvious lie.
And no one is supposed to notice the contradiction.
Such amazing Doublethink requires an Olympics-level of
mental gymnastics. Apparently the political rulers and their corporate
propaganda system enablers are confident that Americans possess that ability.
It would seem them are mostly right.
I suppose this comes down to the innate conformity of most
people. They seem unwilling to think an independent thought.
Not that seeing this obvious, absurd lie requires a whole
lot of thought.
Most people are passive sheep who allow their minds to be
fucked daily. Their brains float in a sea of media-created lies and
distortions.
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