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Fascism under the Cloak of Democracy (blog)

Most of us choose to remain in denial regarding the criminal activities of our government. First, we lacked the courage and will to learn and face the truth. Then unquestioning acceptance of the motives and goals of the government by the majority of citizens allow us to be easily fooled and manipulated. A constant barrage of propaganda combined with words of patriotism seduces us to trust them again and again. By far, the worst offender of this is the right wing. A survey in the Washington Post revealed for every 1 hour of Liberal views aired, 21 hours of Conservative views are aired. Does this sound fair? Is the government protecting its citizens if it allows who ever has the most money to air 95 percent of the political views we hear? This amounts to brainwashing the American public. The Right Wing Party inundates the American public with catchy phases and one liners that are not true but easy to remember and fun to say.
Other propaganda presents the US government as an ethically superior exemplar of justice for the entire world. As an exceptionally generous contributor to global economic development, and as a benevolent arbiter of world affairs. But, a great deal of crucial information about US political history, particularly regarding events of the past half-century, is not taught in our schools and is never allowed to appear in the Mainstream Media outlets.

According to the US Census report of 1998, 12.7% of the US population lives in poverty, 15.7% lack health insurance, and at least 38% of the wealth is owned by just one percent of the population. The next Census report will show that all of this has gotten much worse under the Bush administration. CEO's used to make 30, 40 or 50 times a workers salary. So the CEO would make your yearly salary every week! Not bad huh. But today CEO's are getting 1000, 2000, 3000, and 4000 times a workers salary. This means most of us won’t earn in our lifetime what they make in one week. That my friend is just plain greedy. Foul, offensive, nasty greed that is destroying American values. Letting in 10 million illegal immigrants and allowing more legal immigrants to enter every year robbed the Unions of their bargaining power. And now middle class families are losing jobs, benefits, their savings and their retirements. All, so that the wealthiest will have more then you or I can imagine. Not surprising America has the highest concentration of individual wealth in all of the industrialized nations, and about three times that of the second-placed nation for concentrated wealth, which is Germany. Also not surprising we lead the world in the number of its citizens who are incarcerated in prison. All because greed has taken over common decency toward others. We consume about 25% of the world's oil and natural resources, but compared to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the nations of Europe, the USA ranks 21st in the percentage of its Gross National Income that it gives as Official Development Assistance to developing countries.

We want to act as the 'world's policeman', but our strings are being controlled like a puppet by a corrupt wealthy few. We are a democracy in name only, because for the past forty years the government has been dominated and controlled by a ruling elite of wealthy individuals and powerful corporations that carefully grooms and selects, based on the vested interests of that same wealthy elite, most of the candidates for federal office, including the Presidency. The wealthy ruling elite of America maintain their control over the government through their enforcement apparatus, which includes all of the government's intelligence agencies, operating under the overall leadership of the Central Intelligence Agency.

In 1942 the creation of the Office of Strategic Services, which participated in both intelligence gathering and military activities for the Allies during World War Two. The OSS established several precedents, including the preferential recruitment of persons of wealth as agents, a thorough integration of the intelligence agency with various businesses, the utilization of known criminals as agents, and direct participation in drug smuggling as a means of fund-raising, that would continue within the CIA , which was created to replace the OSS shortly after the end of WW2.

The newly-formed CIA drew much of its membership from the ranks of the disbanded OSS, and the CIA continued the preferential recruitment of its agents from the wealthy upper class of US society, just as the OSS had done. The CIA has also integrated itself almost seamlessly with many international businesses, through hundreds of companies worldwide that act as CIA 'assets.' Just like a business, each individual regional foreign office, or Station, of the CIA is referred to within the Agency as an 'account.'

The CIA was to be much, much more than an intelligence-gathering agency. The CIA was given the authority to initiate and conduct its own military operations, and also to establish fully functioning businesses of whatever kind it chose, legal or illegal, throughout the world. Furthermore, the CIA was to be answerable only to the President and to the National Security Council. Those freedoms placed the CIA largely 'outside the law,' and prepared the way for the CIA's eventual domination of the entire US Government. The CIA-engineered assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963 was a military coup that effectively marked the death of real democracy in the USA.

Many people within the ranks of the CIA, the US military, and the US government resented President Kennedy because Kennedy refused to authorize direct US military support for the CIA's 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion of Castro's Cuba, support that might have prevented the Invasion's costly failure. After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Kennedy fired the top three men at the CIA: Allen Dulles, Richard Bissell, and General Cabell, whose brother was the mayor of Dallas, Texas, where Kennedy was later to be assassinated. Kennedy also announced his intention to withdraw US forces from South Viet Nam, which was another one of the CIA's pet projects. After Kennedy's assassination, his successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson, met with the US military's Joint Chiefs of Staff at the White House, where Johnson made his first Presidential decision: to escalate the involvement of US troops in the Viet Nam War.

In 1977 the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that a lone gunman did not kill President Kennedy, but instead that Kennedy was shot by at least two snipers, one of whom delivered the final, fatal shot to Kennedy's right temple from the famous 'grassy knoll' in Dealey Plaza. Marita Lorenz testified to the HSCA that in November 1963 she had accompanied CIA agent Frank Sturgis, Lee Harvey Oswald, and a couple of Cuban immigrants with a small arsenal of firearms on a road trip from Miami, Florida to Dallas, Texas, where they met with CIA agent E. Howard Hunt and Jack Ruby at a Dallas motel. In 1994 James Files (also known as James Sutton) confessed that he had served with a team of snipers working under orders from US government agents to assassinate Kennedy, and that he personally had fired the fatal head shot that killed Kennedy from a hidden position behind a fence on the grassy knoll.

Using propaganda, rigged elections, (sound familiar) extortion, blackmail, sabotage, assassination, death squads, and torture, the CIA has deposed democratically elected leaders and governments throughout the world and replaced them with ruthless right-wing dictators who were more accommodating to US business interests.

Saddam Hussein was twenty-two years old when he was hired by the CIA to serve on a six-man team that tried to assassinate Iraq's Prime Minister Qasim, who had stated his intention to nationalize Iraq's oil industry and to decriminalize Iraq's Communist Party. When the assassination attempt failed, Saddam escaped to Egypt, where he remained in frequent contact with the US Embassy and the CIA. In 1963, after Baath Party agents, supported by the CIA, succeeded in killing Qasim, Saddam returned to Iraq. In 1980 Iraq attacked Iran, starting the Iran/Iraq War, during which the US openly sold arms and provided logistic support to Iraq, while the CIA secretly sold arms to Iran, using Israel as a go-between. More than one million Iraqi and Iranian soldiers were killed in the Iran/Iraq War, which also took a heavy economic toll on both countries. The Iran/Iraq War, one of the longest and deadliest wars of the 20th Century, served the purpose of weakening and punishing two of the USA's major rivals for the control of the Middle East and its massive oil reserves.

On July 29th, 1991 the US Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, met with Saddam Hussein at his Presidential Palace in Baghdad, where Glaspie assured Saddam that the USA would not interfere or intervene if Iraq invaded Kuwait, which many Iraqis considered to historically be a part of Iraq. Four days later the Iraqi Army invaded and occupied Kuwait. In January and February of 1991 a US-led military coalition representing the United Nations assaulted the Iraqi forces in Kuwait, and in the desert borderland of northern Kuwait and southern Iraq the US-led force slaughtered more than 100,000 Iraqi troops with only minimal losses to the coalition forces. Only 147 American troops lost their lives in Father Bush's war. Maybe because Father Bush was actually in a war himself, and his son, little spoiled Bush dodger wouldn't even attend National Guard weekend meeting once a month. Which raises the question; WHAT HAS LITTLE BUSH EVER DONE IN HIS LIFE TO DESERVE TO BE PRESIDENT? He grew up (REMEMBER DADDY) in the middle of and knowing the 'WEALTHY ELITE.' and could be MANIPULATED...

Osama bin Laden began his career as a CIA 'asset,' brokering the exchange of arms and heroin between the Afghani Mujahideen and the CIA during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. During the 1990s bin Laden provided financial support and recruited fighters for the Kosovo Liberation Army, an organization that smuggles heroin and cocaine into Europe. The KLA also receives protection and support from the CIA and the US government.

The CIA has participated in a major and an ongoing way in international drug smuggling, using its own private airline called "Air America" to bring heroin and marijuana out of Southeast Asia during the Viet Nam War, bringing cocaine into the US as part of the illegal Iran-Contra operation during the 1980s, and now, once again, smuggling heroin out of Afghanistan. The CIA currently utilizes several airfreight companies that pose as Christian charities to ferry cocaine from Latin America to the US and heroin from Afghanistan into Europe and the US.

Beginning in the late 1940s with Operation Mockingbird, the CIA infiltrated all of the major media outlets in the USA, by forming alliances with publishers and media moguls, and by hiring hundreds of journalists to work as CIA stringers and propagandists. Today the major media outlets in the US are owned and controlled by a very limited number of wealthy individuals and corporations, and America's Mainstream Media presents a uniformly biased version of national and international news, full of misleading truths, lies and omissions, that conforms closely to the US government's own dogma and propaganda.

The CIA and the FBI also infiltrated the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 70s in an attempt to derail those movements and discredit their leaders. Just as today, no flip-flopping, war protesting traitor will have a chance. Even if it's not true, just repeated enough times.

In his famous Farewell Speech of 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned US citizens against the growing power of what he called the Military/Industrial Complex, an unholy alliance of big business and the military which Eisenhower said was already well on its way to subverting the ideals and the principles of US democracy. Today, fifty per cent of the annual budget of the US government is spent on the military and the military debt. The many industries that support the US military are dependent on the US government's pursuit of a continual state of warfare, as now exemplified by the manufactured, never-ending "War on Terrorism." War is essentially a business, and the essential business of the US is war.

Prescott Bush, the father of the USA's 41st President and grandfather of the USA's current, 43rd President, served as a US Naval Intelligence officer during World War One. After the war, Prescott Bush worked for the Brown Brothers Harriman Bank of New York, which bankrolled the Nazi rise to power in Germany from 1920 to 1942, when the US government finally ordered the BBH Bank to cease its illegal financial support for the rearmament of Germany. Like his Nazi clients and friends, Prescott Bush was an active white supremacist who hosted, along with his friend George Walker, another ancestor of ex-President George Herbert Bush and President George Walker Bush, the Third International Congress of Eugenics in New York City in 1932.

The young Richard Nixon was a protege of Prescott Bush, and after WW2 Nixon worked with Project Paperclip to bring hundreds of Nazi scientists and industrialists into the USA. Nixon was also Senator Joseph McCarthy's partner in the famous Red-baiting 'witch hunts' of the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the early 1950s. Nixon authorized the infamous Watergate burglary, in which the burglars and their associates included CIA agents Frank Sturgis, Bernard L. Barker, and E. Howard Hunt, who were assisted by Cuban exiles with CIA connections. All of them had been associated with the Bay of Pigs Invasion or the Kennedy assassination, or with both.

Prescott Bush's son, George Herbert Bush, owned the Zapata Oil Company, which included an island 30 miles from Cuba that served as the staging area for the CIA's "Operation Zapata" in 1961, which became known afterward as the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. Although he denies being there, George H. Bush was photographed standing in front of the Texas Schoolbook Depository just after President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas on November 23rd, 1963. A declassified document from the office of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover which is dated November 29th, 1963 mentions "George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency." George H. Bush was named Director of the CIA in 1976, although he denied having ever served the CIA in any capacity. During his term as Director of the CIA, Bush gave exclusive private briefings on the future of the world energy market to the executives of Brown Brothers Harriman Bank and to the board of directors of the Chase Manhattan Bank, which was obviously an act of conflict of interest.

Stoking the fires of war in support of the USA's Military/Industrial Complex is a primary function of the CIA, which has worked cooperatively with the British, Israeli, and other governments to create the bogeyman of an 'Islamic Terrorist threat.' A 1998 German public television documentary revealed that some of the main suspects in the Berlin disco bombing of 1986 had been working for the CIA and the Israeli Mossad. False-flag bombings and murders are a common tactic of the CIA to bolster up the support for "the business of war".

Since 9/11, our intelligence agencies have been further integrated under the overall leadership of the CIA. One more step toward the formation of a monolithic US secret police.

Many citizens who oppose the aggressive right-wing domestic and foreign policies of President George Walker Bush and the Republican Party still have a naive faith that the opposition Democrat Party will 'turn the country around' with a return to more Liberal policies if the Democrats are voted back into office. However, the ruling elite control both of the major political parties, which it manipulates like a pair of hand puppets. The Harriman Bank heiress, Pamela Harriman, was the chief contributor to the Democrat Party for thirty years, until her death in 2001. Pamela Harriman bankrolled the two Presidential campaigns of Democrat William Jefferson Clinton, who supported the CIA's Iran/Contra drugs and arms smuggling through the airport at Mena, Arkansas while he was Governor of that State. During the 2004 Presidential election, the candidates of both major political parties were both the wealthy sons of CIA men, both graduates of Yale, both members of Yale's secretive and elitist Skull and Bones club.

We have all the ingredients of fascism: an intimate marriage of government, big business, and the military, in which the national media exclusively disseminates government-approved propaganda, and a ruthless, above the law, international secret police that enforces the policies of the ruling elite. Fascism in the USA is an accomplished fact, and it has been for the past forty years.

What can US citizens do to change the situation? Not much, short of revolution, because the entire US government and both of the two major US political parties are irredeemably corrupt. To bring about meaningful reform, "We The People" our voted Representatives; and good luck with that. We now know that Bush did not win the 2000 election and most likely did not win the 2004 election either and our Government, our Courts, our Congress, our Representatives did nothing. We need to control the CIA instead of the other way around. Have a well thought out plan derived from ideas of our most intelligent and experienced citizens before going to war. Eliminate lobbyist influence over our politicians and listen to the moral conscience we are born with. Greed is bad not good. Equal time given to all parties to talk to the American people and debate on national TV.

But fantasies of political reform are for dreamers, because corruption is the way of the world. For your own personal good and the future of our children, concerned citizens should seek out the truth of the history of the past half century, and share that knowledge with those who will listen. Also every law abiding American should own a good gun, rifle, plenty of ammo and provisions to insure our freedom into the future. The 2nd Amendment was written not to guarantee the right to shoot deer or win a turkey shoot, but that its citizens if it ever became necessary could rise up against an oppressive and abusive government, or to protect yourself when the government cannot. I'm sure, that is what our founding fathers were thinking. If you doubt anything in this article, go-google, and then vote out the greedy self-serving people in office today. Good luck, and may someone rise above the greed. A 21st Century Hero...

Well, if the good Lord's will'n, and the creeks don't rise, I'll be see'n ya... two teef bowie,md.

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