

| LAURENCE'S CORNER - December 2, 2009 |
| "There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself." — Senator Daniel K. Inouye, during the Iran-Contra Hearings and former chair, U.S. Senate MK-ULTRA hearings, 1977. Last night, on December 1, 2009, President Obama became just another in a long-line of warmongering presidents. There are some differences between Democrats and Republicans. Michael Tsarion writes, “The so- called Left-Right political spectrum is our creation. In fact, it accurately reflects our careful, artificial polarization of the population on phony issues that prevents the issue of our power from arising in their minds.” However, at the apex of the pyramid of power, is the imperative, directed by the Military Industrial Complex, to wage war. Obama’s rationale regarding the protecting of the nuclear weapons in Pakistan is just another version of Bush’s “weapon’s of mass destruction” rationale. Who knows what the National Security Council is? Who comprises the National Security Council? Four people: the President, Vice-President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense. The President appoints three of these. Therefore, it is easy to see who runs the National Security Council. Anything having to do with National Security falls under its control. Therefore, the Congress is bypassed, the media is bypassed, the Constitution is bypassed. And most importantly, it bypasses the public. Is there a shadow government that really controls things in our nation? Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court Justice said, “The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.” In his Farewell Address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961 warned us, “Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea . . . In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” During the 1940’s we were attacked by two super-powers, both with massive armaments, and the most advanced technology. Yet, it only took us four years to defeat these formidable enemies, which we were simultaneously battling in the East and the West. Yet, no one seems to wonder why it has taken two long wars with Iraq, led by father and son Bush, to even reach something of a conclusion. Obama said last night that we will have our troops home from Iraq, probably in 2011. We attacked a nation that had literally no air force, and a pittance of our technological might, and yet for some odd reason, the war drags on and on, with more and more of our young people dying each day. Why don’t people ask why? Why could we defeat Hitler and the Japanese in four years, and yet we have been fighting the second Iraq war for nine years, and still it continues. Who’s winning? So far, in this second Iraq war, 103,000 civilians have been killed. 103,000 innocents have died because of our war on terror. Mark Twain prophesized, “Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing tactics, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; 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.” In order that we can feel more “safe” in our living rooms, 103,000 innocent civilians have had to be killed. That’s what the government tells us. Is that reasonable? 3.8 million people are refugees because of our war on terror in Iraq alone. It sounds to me that our government is the terror. 1366 people died in the World Trade Center collapse. 1366 innocent lives = 103,000 innocent lives? It’s a strange equation. Now we’re off to do more killing in Afghanistan, and probably eventually Pakistan. I think we were being prepped last night for the eventual “next” war, which will be in Pakistan. Obama said we were attacked from Afghanistan. Nazi leader Hermann Goering wrote, “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for their lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” Obama said we were attacked from Afghanistan, but weren’t 15 of the attackers from Saudi Arabia? Yet, we allowed all Saudis to fly back to their country the day after 9-11, a day when no American was allowed to fly the skies. If we were truly desirous of finding the underlying cause of the World Trade Center terrorist conspiracy, why were the Saudi families allowed to leave without being thoroughly questioned? “Even if you are in a minority of one, the truth is still the truth,” stated Mahatma Gandhi. It is time to truly face what is really going on in the world, and to take a stand. While innocent babies are being slaughtered in Iraq and Afghanistan, we’re sitting at home watching “Reality TV” and “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” We can’t stand to see reality, yet we watch “reality” TV shows. Our own press and cable news censors photographs that it thinks are too real (they say “graphic”) for us to see. To real for us to see, in my opinion, because the authorities know that if we see such photos and/or video, we would start to wake up. We are deliberately being kept in a state of ignorance by our government and the shadow-government. Many people think Bush the Second made many verbal mistakes in his speeches. But what if they were “Freudian slips”? For example, he stated, “You’re free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it’ll take time to restore chaos and order – order out of chaos. But we will.” The fortunes of Prescott Bush helped Hitler to come to power. The Guardian from the U.K. writes on September 25, 2004, “George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism. His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy. The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.” David Icke refers to this process as PROBLEM – REACTION – SOLUTION. First, the government covertly creates a problem, like a terror, for example. Then secondly, they want the public to react with fear, like the mention of Al-Qaeda getting their hands on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons (weapons of mass destruction redux). Finally, the government offers the people the solution that it itself has already created. War. The best way to fight the negative forces that would take away all of our freedoms, is to know yourself. There is a war on consciousness that is happening. If you don’t know yourself, you can be easily manipulated. However, so many people prefer to live lives that pre-programmed and pre-packaged for them. The answer does not lie in going out and dressing like a hippie or biker. True freedom is found within yourself. Margaret Meade said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has.” Laurence December 2, 2009 © 2009 Laurence Galian. All rights reserved. |
