Still Free

Yeah, Mr. Smiley. Made it through the entire Trump presidency without being enslaved. Imagine that.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Truth or Fantasy

Paul Craig Roberts writes on a theme that has been on my mind for a few weeks now.

Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it...

Truth is inconvenient for ideologues.

When Blair told the House Intelligence Committee that US citizens no longer needed to be arrested, charged, tried, and convicted of a capital crime, just murdered on suspicion alone of being a “threat,” he wasn’t impeached. No investigation pursued. Nothing happened. There was no Church Committee. In the mid-1970s the CIA got into trouble for plots to kill Castro. Today it is American citizens who are on the hit list. Whatever objections there might be don’t carry any weight. No one in government is in any trouble over the assassination of U.S. citizens by the U.S. government.


And this does not apply simply to those in government.

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