It seems to me that what it means to be a nation, has been forgotten. Sometime after the industrial revolution, socialism and communism appeared, as attempts to economically level the playing field, and make the world more safe and fair, after millennia of rule by despots, and centuries of warfare in Europe between petty monarchies.
Then the new independent entrepeneurs of the world stood up and declared capitalism good, and godly and just, and the best way for the world to function. Gradually enormous corporations began to infiltrate the government and procure a huge percentage of our gross national income, to promote their economic interests in the name of national security, making a military-socialist system, that has taken on a life of its own.
Now huge corporations use our armies as their own muscle for international business endeavors. When these corporations misbehave, or misrepresent their interests abroad, or manipulate the government to do their bidding, we the people will pay by loss of security, caused by corporate acting out. It is the government and their workers that will be safe, not the people of the US. Secrecy shrouds this, and spin and racheting of terrorist threats, keep us, willing or not, spending our GNP on secret military industrial matters. A great deal of new secrecy has been legislated by this government, there are whole arrays of what used to be everyday activities of government, and various industries, that are now classified.
I am going to sound like a mother here, when I say, that if we behaved better, and were more generous abroad, rather than backing up scheming banks, and giant commercial enterprises that forget they are not the people of the US; then we would have less security issues. If we had not gone to Iraq, we would be in a much better place, if we had spent all that money on the people of the United States, or if the people of the United States could have just kept the money, it would be much better.
Our security people were busy working as chumps for large corporations, and scheming to put in pipelines, and working to keep governments in place that let the oil companies do whatever they want, they were so busy serving corporate intentions, that they failed to protect the people of the United States, which is what they are paid to do. This is why 9/11 happened, we were busy brokering a pipeline, we were busy keeping industry friendly governments in place here and there, we were busy working intelligence at the bidding of anyone but the people of the US. We were looking out for a certain segment of the population, we were playing a high stakes game, somewhere else but right here, and we were being paid to not pay attention, to a great deal of dealing and wheeling. It is going to be much worse, because we have made a lot more enemies, and our diplomacy has been high handed and lousy, and we are looking to put a histrionic, mustached, menopausal maniac in our seat at the UN.
It is very important that we get back to being America, within our borders, living our lives, growing our food, growing our internal economy, finding ways to decrease our energy use, and making life better for us, in a fundamental way. If we had used all that Iraq money for helping Africa overcome aids, or making sure there are no hungry American children, or cleaning up our environment, and helping industry get clean, again we would be in a much better place.
Instead, because we are at "war", all this secret spending of the US economy goes on, more and more gruesome weapons systems, crowd control systems, invasive domestic spying, biological warfare revival, carte blanche to any industry that wants a piece of the American economy. All this secrecy, and our system of Social Security is being bankrupted in the name of spending money where this corporate friendly government would prefer to spend it.
The fact is that if it were all transparent, then 3/4 of it would not be necessary. The Air Force would fly out off regular airport runways, and would buy garbage cans and toilet seats at regular prices from regular retail merchants. The myth is that the military is more American, than the rest of the American people. If we could clearly make the good of the American People our governmental goal, then foreign nations would not need to defend themselves from us. We would be here, doing business, working, growing our food, growing our technology and peacefully engaging in trade for domestic goods, not weapons systems. This is not utopian, this is functional. We are making enemies of our neighbors to both the North and South.
Regards to secrecy and top secret weapons systems, there are no secrets. Private corporations, handle the computer support for this government at every level. Private corporations, have no loyalty except to the bottom line. In a capitalist society everything is for sale. Secrecy, again, just leads to gross lack of accountability.
We do not need advanced crowd control weapons, mind control weapons, weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons, we need peaceful intent. We need open, honest, transparent foreign policy that has to do with the welfare of the American People, not the welfare of multinational corporations, or weapons dealers. We need to turn back to our nation, and be content with being The United States Of America, not a superpower, or an empire, forming.
At the dawning of the Nuclear age, it was the people that revealed the secrets that kept the world safe. We are not safe as long as the intent is there to rule the world by might. Secret weapons systems that give us the edge over enemies that I consider to be non-existent, just make the world poorer, and much less safe. Largely this secrecy, and war-mongering, is a game that has gone on for far too long. This is what a lot of people do for money, but it is also what a lot of people do for fun. This is the ultimate high level game, and it is ridiculous.
Keep in mind, this government has no secrets, only information it keeps from the American people about the real intent of the power brokers.
I was just reading up on the international protocols for experimentation on humans. Above all there is a protection of privacy, for those that choose to participate in human trials. The rules are that trials of things requiring human subjects have to be benevolent, just, and of value to the population where the experiments are carried out, unless some government guy says that it just isn't necessary. Rules regarding privacy are suspended for elected officials, or someone running for office. Private contractors hold information on every citizen of this nation, information that the government is not allowed to gather by law, but information they can purchase from private sources.
Again, there is no real secrecy, only misrepresentation, profit taking, manipulation of fact, and the most icy and indifferent greed. The people who get to play in the big game, are terribly addicted to this, and to making it real, all the threats, and secrets, by any means available to them. It is as if the most paranoid personalities in any arena are employed to terrorize us. This includes the politicians, the generals, the religious leaders, the terrorists, the wheelers and the dealers, the diplomats, and the mercenaries. This group of individuals can all go backstage at will and trade uniforms, they are all the same as far as I am concerned, this game is played for their entertainment.
A small magazine in Salt Lake reported that locals from the editorial staff were in Rome for the funeral of the Pope. They saw Condoleeza out to dinner with Bill Clinton, and asked for Bill to autograph their menu. He was not pleased, but signed anyway.
The big secret is that we are all paying the admission price for the players, and neither we nor the rest of the people of the world, can afford it. My distant American ancestors, came here on the second boat, not the Mayflower. When they arrived here some of my ancestors already lived here, long before any of the boats came. If you added up all the income generated by both familial lines, down to the landing of that first boat, we would have not made enough money to pay for one B-1 Bomber. Think about that, that is very out of balance, that cost of this stuff is much more than the Earth can bear, than the people, animals and plants can bear. Secrecy, warfare and terrorism, and gross profit taking, deliberately cloud the judgement of all of us, and puts us at odds unnecessarily, unnecessarily for our well being; not necessarily for the well being of the well paid and well fed profiteers.
No single American citizen has even one secret, except for those that live completely off the grid, that they are homeless people, and desert rats, the individual living in this society lives in a very small, very transparent fishbowl. This needs to be turned around, the government should by comparison, be like a free aquarium, where every move is seen, in 360 degree clarity. It should be that if you work for this government, you and every branch of this government should be visible, every phone call made for official business, everything espoused, stated, or acted out, while on the clock, should be open to the scrutiny of the owners, which is us.
A lot of people might not care what happens day to day, in government. They might care if they knew what was being done in their name. Secrecy breeds a disassociative state in the national psyche. Coupled with the economic disaster of the last six years, and the outrageous spin, the whole country has post and ongoing traumatic stress disorder. Trillions of dollars have been milked out of this trauma. The planning that went into this was all secret.
