It has become evident that the secret government, set up during the Reagan years, continues to operate without regard to the law, or the Constitution, or any fear of reprisal.
Admiral Poindexter, several months after 911, was exposed for holding an open betting ring inside the Pentagon, wagering on which leaders would be assassinated, which countries would be overthrown.
Lt. Col. Oliver North has an extreme right wing radio show in Virginia, and is regularly interviewed on the right wing talk shows. He continues his radical rants in open support of secret government operations to further his defense of shredding the constitution during his private Iran-Contra weapons-for-drugs-and-money program.
Dick Cheney has been in the highest levels of government since Reagan until present day. And even now, it has been revealed that he left several high ranking bureaucratic moles inside the Pentagon, NSA, NSC, CIA, Homeland Security, et al. It has been openly discussed that Dick had (HAS?) his own 'hit squad' that operated outside of military and civilian law
George Bush Sr. has been in the deepest darkest levels of our government since Nixon, not to mention his daddy, Prescott Bush. The depth of this man's involvement in the outrages perpetuated in our name is staggering. To list them here is daunting.
This secret government has been involved directly in the overthrow of numerous democratically elected governments; Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Mexico, Indonesia, Yugoslavia, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Haiti, Palestine, Lebanon, just off the top of my head. They have been involved in the assassinations of untold heads of state, movement leaders, union organizers, and potential whistle blowers.
And now the absolute smoking gun; the so-called "Torture Memos".
No one should be surprised by the complete lack of morality, the shuddering cold and calculated, premeditated and systematic torture of, admittedly known to be innocent, people.
Will there be any prosecutions? History says no. My heart tells me that if our government does not aggressively pursue criminal convictions of those that broke our collective moral code, it will be the end of the Republic. If there is no accountability for crimes of the worst nature committed by people in the highest offices that they were elected to, then the people who elected them will inevitably behave the same way. And that, my friends, is the end of the Empire.
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Actually, the secret part of our government well before Reagan. The CIA
ReplyDeletecame into being after WWII, it's precourser was the ( I think ) the OSS.
We secretly over threw the Democratically elected government Of Iran in 1953. Many more were to follow.
Paul
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ReplyDeleteIt was indeed call the OSS. And you are correct in the Iranian involvement. This sort of thing has been going on since the beginning of nation states. In my voting lifetime, Reagan onwards, this secret government only uses the CIA, they don't get a piece of the pie when it's over. No, no, no. Instead, they usually get outed, or exposed for 'incompetence'. Nice way of doing business.
And yet the CIA continues to allow itself to get used, much like the PSI or the Mossad, into doing a lot of horrible things for the 'good of the country', only to find out it was good only for the SOBs that made money on whatever horrible event they perpetuated.
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