Amerika’s Future is Death ~ Paul Craig Roberts
August 20, 2012
“The day we see truth and do not speak is the day we begin to die.”
- Martin Luther King
- Martin Luther King
Conspiracy theories have now blossomed into what the smug presstitute
media calls a “conspiracy culture.” According to the presstitutes,
Americans have to find some explanation for their frustrations and
failings, so Americans shift the blame to the Bilderbergers, the
Rothschilds, the New World Order and so forth and so on.
Readers will not be surprised that I disagree with the presstitutes.
Indeed, the conspiracy culture is the product of the presstitute media’s
failure to investigate and to report truthfully. I am certain that the
Western media is worse than the Soviet media was. The Soviet media
devised ways for helping the public to read between the lines, whereas
the Western media is so proud to be confidants of the government that
they deliver the propaganda without any clues to the readers that it is
propaganda.
Americans have been fed lies by “their” government and the
government’s presstitute media for so long that it is not surprising
that Americans increasingly believe that there is a conspiracy operating
against them. Millions of Americans have been evicted from their jobs,
careers, and homes while the crooks who stole from them run free and
bankroll the presidential candidates. The world as millions of Americans
knew it has come to an end, and no one has been held accountable. The
explanation that Americans get from the media is that it is their own
fault. They bought houses they shouldn’t have bought, and they didn’t
train for the right jobs. It is not unreasonable for Americans to
conclude that a conspiracy is operating against them.
Americans are told that “their” government cannot afford to help them
because of the budget deficit and the burden on our grandchildren. But
Americans see the trillions of dollars that are lavished on banksters,
on wars, and on Homeland Security. Why is a police state and another
attack on another Muslim country more important than keeping Americans
in their jobs and in their homes?
The 11th anniversary of 9/11 is less than a month away. Will the
presstitute media remind Americans that the government has spent $6
trillion of Americans’ money in out-of-pocket and already incurred
future costs as the expense of invading and trying to occupy Afghanistan
and Iraq, all to no effect except to enrich the managements and
shareholders of the military security complex at the cost of destroying
the reputation of the United States and putting Social Security and
Medicare on the chopping block?
No, of course not. The spiel will be about our brave troops who are
fighting and dying to make the world safe for democracy and women’s
rights. Washington will wrap itself in the flag and exhort Americans to
“support our troops” in the orchestrated war of the day. Hitlery Clinton
still gets on the moral high horse and rails at China and Russia, but
all the world sees is hypocrisy. No one, not even Washington’s puppet
governments, any longer takes Washington’s moralizing as anything more
than a mask for domination by force alone. Democracy, Washington
declares, comes out of the barrel of a gun.
Today moralizing is all about money, but not for the 99%. The 99%
cannot find good jobs or earn anything on their savings, because the
economy is run for the 1%. University graduates cannot get jobs and pay
off their student loans. Retraining for the millions of Americans whose
jobs were shipped offshore or filled by foreigners brought in on H1-B
visas has proved to be a fraud, as there are no jobs for the retrained
displaced long-term discouraged American work force. The official jobs
projection by the US government is that few university graduates are
needed in the work force, so the old mantra that “education is the
answer” is just another lie from the Ivy League economic departments who
sell the establishment’s lies for money.
Any American citizen accustomed to travel America’s “wide open
spaces” prior to 9/11 must be astonished by the sudden rise of the
intrusive Homeland Security, a gestapo-sounding name if there ever was
one. Porno-scans and genital feel-ups have spread from airports to bus
and train stations and to the public highways, despite the absence of
terrorist events. No one in their right mind could possibly think that a
90-year old grandmother in a wheel chair is a terrorist whose diaper
needs to be checked or that blond and blue-eyed parents would have
strapped a bomb around their 5-year old daughter’s waist. No one except
the gestapo Department of Homeland Security.
Even some of the gullible flag-waving patriotic conservatives are
beginning to wonder about all the security. The reports that the
Department of Homeland Security has ordered 750 million rounds of
people-killing ammunition are puzzling even those conservatives who have
been taking vicarious pleasure in the slaughter of “towelheads.”
Why does the Department of Homeland Security need enough ammunition
to shoot every American 2.5 times? Why is Homeland Security equipping
itself with full-body armor? Why is Homeland Security acquiring new
laser technology that can “instantly know everything about you from 164 feet away?” A new army manual
for “Civil Disturbance Operations” describes how the military is to be
used domestically within the US to put down protests, confiscate
firearms and kill citizens.
The police state that is being constructed in “freedom and democracy”
America is without parallel in history. When the only terrorists are
dupes organized by the FBI, it is clear that the purpose of the police
state is not to protect Americans from Muslim terrorists. The purpose of
the police state is to terrorize US citizens.
It is not only Homeland Security that is being militarized. The government reported
that a large ammunition order was made by the National Weather Service,
later updated to have been the Fisheries Office. If you are surprised
at this, why has the Social Security Administration ordered 174,000 rounds of hollow-point bullets?
Lists of Homeland Security’s ammunition order are available online.
Clearly, it is not ammunition for target practice. It is ammunition for
killing people: hollow-point bullets for the military rifle, the M-16.
Match grade bullets for .308 sniper rifles. 12 gauge shotgun buckshot
and slug ammunition. Hollow-point bullets for .357 magnum and .40
caliber pistols.
As there have been no terrorist attacks in the US since the 9/11
attack (itself suspect by experts), except for those organized by the
FBI, this massive purchase of firepower is obviously not to protect
Americans from Muslim terrorists. So what is it for?
Perhaps this
film explains what is in store for the American people who trusted
“their” government. War protestors and critics of the government are
being redefined as “domestic extremists” who can be arrested for aiding
and abetting the enemies of the United States. If Americans wake up to
the fact that they are being dispossessed economically, politically, and
socially, while Washington is leading them into World War III, and take
to the streets in protest, they will encounter extreme military force.
The liberal-left is even more delusional than the flag-waving
conservatives. No matter what the government does, conservatives will
come down on the government’s side. This is because conservatives
confuse patriotism with support for the government, not with defense of
the Constitution, a suspect document that coddles criminals, terrorists,
and war protesters who cause America to lose wars. The liberal-left
regards Obama with his half-black origin as a member of the oppressed
class, personages endowed by the liberal-left with higher morality. The
liberal-left continues to regard Obama as the redeemer even as Obama
sits in the Oval Office approving lists of American citizens to be
executed without due process of law. Not even Naomi Wolf can wake up the liberal-left.
Do not expect Congress or the presstitutes to do anything about the
rapid concentration of power in the police state that Bush and Obama
have created. Do not expect to be rescued by federal courts. Even if
some judges are inclined to defend the Constitution from its domestic
enemy, the courts are powerless if the executive branch does not respect
the rule of law. Currently, the executive branch is ignoring a federal
judge’s injunction against the indefinite detention of US citizens. The
Department of Justice (sic) lawyers will not even answer the judge’s questions.
A gullible population is helpless if government decides to enslave
the people. It is child’s play for government to discredit a people’s
natural leaders and those who provide the people with accurate
information. Most Americans have a very small knowledge base and very
large ideological preconceptions. Consequently, they cannot tell fiction
from fact.
Consider the case of Julian Assange. When the US government, angry
that WikiLeaks had published leaked documents that revealed the
mendacity and deceit of Washington, first struck out at Assange, support
for Assange was almost universal. Then Washington put out the story on
the Internet that Assange was an intelligence agent working for the CIA
or the even more hateful Mossad. Both leftwing and rightwing Internet
sites fell for the obvious lie. Here we have gullibility on the level
with those who believed Stalin’s charge that Bukharin was a capitalist
agent.
Once the libel of Assange began, it over-rode his clearance by the
Swedish prosecutor’s office of sexual complaints made by the two women
who seduced him. Seeing Assange on the ropes, a female prosecutor
reopened the closed case, many believe at Washington’s urging. Feminists
jumped in, demanding that Assange be punished for his seduction by
women as he had obviously tricked or coerced them in some way.
It was like Dominique Strauss-Kahn all over again. Falsely accused of
sexually assaulting a New York hotel maid, the Director of the
International Monetary Fund, chased on two continents by
celebrity-hunting women, was knocked out of the race for the French
presidency and had to resign his IMF position. The New York police,
trained by decades of feminist propaganda to regard every sex charge
brought by a woman as the absolute truth, were made to look foolish and
incompetent when clear evidence emerged that the charge was fabricated
in order to extract money from Strauss-Kahn and possibly in order to
knock him out of contention for the French presidency.
Many websites and normally reliable commentators were taken in by the
false story. The Washington hegemons and their presstitute media have
been even more successful in fooling Americans about terrorist attacks,
Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen,
Pakistan, Syria, and Iran. What is astonishing is the fact that there
have not been any attacks on America, despite the enormous provocations
Washington has provided by murdering as many as one million Muslims,
destroying three Muslim countries, conducting military operations
against seven Muslim countries and preparing an attack on an
eighth–Iran.
The President of Russia, whose thermo-nuclear ballistic missiles can
remove the US from the face of the earth, stated for all the world to
hear that Washington has the entire world in fear of its hegemonic
drive. “No one feels safe,” said Putin. And certainly not the Russians
with American missile bases on their borders and a Washington-funded
disloyal and traitorous political “opposition” which serves as
Washington’s fifth column inside Russia.
America, Putin acknowledged, wants to rule the world. But Washington
is not going to rule Russia and China. If the current White House moron
keeps his promise
to Israeli prime minister Netanyahu that the US will attack Iran next
June if Iran does not close down its nuclear energy program (a
non-weapons program permitted to Iran as a signatory of the Nuclear
Non-proliferation Treaty), the White House will have opened the door to
World War III. In such a war the US would not be immune from attack as
it was in WW I and WW II. This time America could disappear in nuclear
holocaust. If any of the world survives, people will be thankful for
Washington’s removal from the scene.
Death is what “your” government in Washington, both Republicans and
Democrats, are bringing you.
Both parties are driven by the
neoconservatives who believe that American hegemony over the world is
worth nuclear war to accomplish. If these dangerous ideologues continue
to prevail, life on earth has a very short-run prospect.
Update: Major General Jerry Curry reports that the ammunition orders total almost two billion rounds. See this also.
