"Why Aren't We Ever Told The Truth?"

On the "truthout" website forum a few minutes ago, I promised to discuss here more concerning what I've learned about "why we're never told the truth" by the government and the news media. WHY? This was my answer:

"Come on, folks - ask yourselves what you do when you make a mistake at work. Do you run to the boss to tell him? Put it up on the bulletin board? During my war with the feds and the IRS, I infiltrated dozens of government offices, leaving "bugs" and, sometimes - just to taunt an enemy - my calling card. Most of these places were high-security areas (and if you knew about a couple, it would scare hell out of you). How many people do you think reported having found my card? If I had made a monkey out of you, proved that the job you were doing was crappy, what would YOU have done? My website is www.judoknighterrant.com and I'll talk about this subject (I hate the feminism engendered term "issue") more there. Ciao! Hal von Luebbert."

Smartass, huh? But it's rooted in the tactics I used to make myself a successful detective, and, once upon a time, tactician for none other than our blessed federal government. I always started operations against an opponent by putting myself in his place, to imagine what I might do if I were he. I like to think, even, that it made me a better person. Kind of humbling. You see, from high school age, and things like catching the local priest mounted up on the wife of the town's leading citizen, I've always been fascinated with human behavior. Not what they tell; what they DO. My serendipity encounter with the lovers that day occurred after I myself had become "involved" (we hide behind words, too, you know) with another local lady. Inasmuch as I was fourteen, she in her forties, both trystings were closely kept secrets. That wasn't on my account, actually - I wanted to tell everybody.

Of course, as my paramour had made very clear, you just don't DO that! When I had begun investigating on my own newspaper stories and those things "everybody knows," I came gradually to understand why it is that human beings demand privacy. It's always to cover their mistakes and sins. Oh, there ARE things like being too fat, having warts, and petty twaddle like that, but in every instance I can think of, "privacy" means hiding something. Otherwise, like an adolescent stud who's screwing the most beautiful woman in town, who also happens to be three times his age, you'd broadcast it to the wide world.

Once out of the Army, and in business as a PI and insurance company investigator, I learned just how right my boyhood suspicions had been. Peyton Place is in the heart and head of anybody who isn't brain-dead, and that means it's in every corner and crevice of society, and at all levels of business and government. More, society here in the Land of the Free has come to make appearance of absolute perfection - meaning, in this case, infallibility - the sine qua non of existence. In capitalist "America," where virtually nothing is more important than one's job, one does not admit - or permit to be discovered - an error. You lose either any chance of promotion or the job.

And that answers most of the "tvnewslies'" question. Washington - the U.S. Congress, the White House, and the bureaucracy that surrounds both - is a super-heated place, the "heat" coming from the fire of greed and lust for power burning in each member. George W. Bush, our ne'er-do well raised to the highest office in the nation, has already earned his place in history as the President who would not admit a mistake.

"REPORTER: 'Thank you, Mr. President. In the last campaign, you were asked a question about the biggest mistake you'd made in your life, and you used to like to joke that it was trading Sammy Sosa. You've looked back before 9-11 for what mistakes might have been made. After 9-11, what would your biggest mistake be, would you say, and what lessons have you learned from it?'

"BUSH: 'I wish you would have given me this written question ahead of time, so I could plan for it. [Laughter.] John, I'm sure historians will look back and say, gosh, he could have done it better this way, or that way. You know, I just -- I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.'

"'I would have gone into Afghanistan the way we went into Afghanistan. Even knowing what I know today about the stockpiles of weapons, I still would have called upon the world to deal with Saddam Hussein. See, I happen to believe that we'll find out the truth on the weapons. That's why we've sent up the independent commission. I look forward to hearing the truth, exactly where they are. They could still be there. They could be hidden, like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm.'"

How about that? Is there any rational human being who has paid any attention since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom who believes that our Malapropping and mumbling Chief hasn't made any mistakes? How about "Mission Accomplished" on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln (on the other hand, maybe we don't know what the "mission" he was talking about was)? Uh-uh. "American" "leaders" don't admit mistakes. During the lead-up to the war - during U.S. interdiction of air traffic in "no-fly zones" over Iraq - we shot down one of our own helicopters, but no one made a mistake. With as many as twenty million aliens having come across our border with Mexico, all of whom claim to be here to do hard work and pay taxes, no one has made a mistake (how do you file a w-2 form as an illegal alien and not get caught, if no one has made a mistake?).

Among the most familiar expressions to be associated with government in the Land of the Free and the Nation of Laws (a proposition demanding that we swear - or affirm - to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth), is "damage control." "Damage Control," like "plausible denial," and "we can find no record that . . .," is or means a lie and/or lying. You do not admit a mistake. During the seventeen years that I operated intensively against the United States Government in order to obtain evidence I could use to defend myself, I infiltrated government installation and offices across the nation, and dozens of times. My duel with federal security systems was one so challenging and entertaining that I made a game of it. At length, I began to leave my "Knight Errant" business card at the place that was the heart - or the private parts - of the fortress. Not once did any of these loyal "Americans," those paragon guardians of our nation's secrets and security, report their having been penetrated and compromised.

When you're looking for explanations for what happened, and how it could have happened, on 9-11, there's another one for you to consider, huh? And how many people got fired after those much-ballyhooed hearings into the debacle? Of course not - NOBODY MADE ANY MISTAKES!

Now that I get to thinking, I wrote about it all a while ago, right here on the Mongoose Trick page.


"Recently," I wrote, "FoxNews military analyst Colonel David Hunt commented on a recent demonstration of how poorly a Homeland Security Agency exercise had gone. Asked by the host why the agency - and by obvious implication, I thought, the federal government in general - fails so miserably, the colonel said, 'Nobody gets fired.'

"Bingo! And nobody gets fired because a public mostly dead between the ears doesn't demand it. That's due a number of things, none more effective than the relentless mind-control and behavioral conditioning science wielded by a fourth estate that has been co-opted by the very government it is supposed to oversee. There are hundreds of recent examples, but the latest revelation of crime by Emperor Bush, that of ignoring the Fourth Amendment, is easily the most revealing and probative. This is, in fact, probably the most concerted damage-control effort ever brought to bear in U.S. History. In my six decades of watching the news, I have never seen or heard more downright asinine and bizarre defenses raised by White House supporters, nor commentary by supposed opponents as inept and feckless. This is so obvious that as proof of theories having to do with the "dumbing down" of nation it is absolutely conclusive. Anyone who doesn't see this as the forensic and polemic equivalent of pro wrestling is braindead.

"The media assault on the public's right to know and sanity reached its zenith last night (or the night before - like I said, I've been out of it for days) with Fox Business (anybody who takes this guy's financial advice doesn't have both oars in the water, that's sure) Analyst Stuart Varney's belligerent and bewildered insistence that persons who reported that the President had committed a crime should be prosecuted for having done so.

"That, my dear sir, turns the concept of law and order on its head. A crime to report a crime! Good grief! How Uriah Heepian can you get? How un-American?'

"'Nobody gets fired.' There you have it. No matter what people in government do, they are never held accountable. That's either criminally or civilly - meaning you can't sue them, either. Even for murder. See: http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0303d.asp Or see my book, where there are dozens more like that one. This kind of lawsuit is frequently referred to by lawyers as a "Bivens Action," after a guy who somehow managed to successfully sue "Six agents of the Federal Narcotics Bureau" after the latter brutalized without warrant or even reasonable suspicion Webster Bivens, his wife, and family. The Super Court was evidently having a fleeting flash of wisdom - or common decency, even - that day, because in 12,000 subsequent such suits, just four resulted in success for the plaintiff. Nobody in government ever pays for their wrongs, either. ISN'T IT ODD THAT YOU DON'T KNOW THAT?

"Operate any other organization, any business, or group endeavor like this and you will have what we have in Washington, D.C. Spastic confusion. Remember this?

“'At Ruby Ridge, federal agents shot in the back and killed a child’s dog, shot in the back and killed the fleeing child as well, and then blew off the head of that child’s mother . . . even after a cover-up was discovered, the federal government refused to prosecute the killers. At Waco, the government . . . roasted twenty-two children like wieners on a spit and cremated more than fifty adults in the same inferno. Yet no federal officers were prosecuted.” Gerry Spence, Esq. –'Give me Liberty.'

"Of course, that's a quote from "Letters," my book, and it represents only a small sample of what I'm talking about. And FoxNews' White House toady Varney is a microcosm of the public that has brought us to this sorry state. More about that tomorrow. I'm bushed, still not over this cold (I hope). Oh, before I quit, here's a quote from Mark Twain that comes to mind having listened to the pundits lately: 'There never was a just war, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war. Statesman will invent cheap lies, putting the blame on the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities . . ., and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.'"

Nobody gets fired. Nobody admits a mistake. There's you answer to why we never know the truth.

Oh, but there's one more thing. We never know the truth for another reason, that being that persons like the fellow who wanted to know why there was "absolutely" (I think he said) no airplane wreckage at the Pentagon after the 757 "supposedly" hit it. The fact is, and he would have known, had he taken even a little care to learn it - or if he had no hidden agenda, intended to deceive his fellows - that there was wreckage all over the place. Here's the first thing I came upon when I clicked it up on Google:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/911_pentagon_757_plane_evidence.html

We don't get the truth because we don't really want it that badly. If we knew the truth, there would be an obligation - among honorable people, and real patriots, that is - to DO something. Bertrand Russell, the great mathematician and philosopher put it eminently well, "If," he observed, "a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."

Truth is like winning, victory. If you want it badly enough to go for it, you'll get it a lot more often than not; and you'll get it pretty much in proportion to how badly you want it. There's a corollary to that, and it's just as true: if you wait for somebody to bring the truth to you, you'll get it just about as often as you would anything else you want so badly.

I try to make people think. I hope I've done that here.