The book is a recounting of a human tragedy that has happened too often on this planet – an imperial force ramps up its internal propaganda machine and then turns its killing forces loose on another country. The reasons, the real ones anyway, are never stated. It’s always due to some evil force, usually imaginary. The results are indescribable suffering and death.
But Vietnam was different. There were no parades here afterward. Something had changed. There had been some human progress, and our non-drafted youth held up mirrors to allow us to see ourselves as we are.
Most of American history since that time can be linked to backlash – angry right-wingers fixing the damage to the American psyche. It wasn’t until 1991 that we were able to openly attack another country.
Back when 9/11 happened, when I still assumed that some outside force had done it and that planes really hit buildings, I went through a list of people who might want revenge. I thought about the Kosovo bombing, then recent. I thought about the overthrow of the Chilean government, which happened on the same date decades earlier. Then there was Iraq, among the casualties half a million children starved. (The price was worth it, said desk murderder Madeleine Albright.) Those were only our recent crimes.
Now Boston. This idea that there are “terrorists” who create random violence for no purpose is a myth. There is always a purpose, and the perpetrators act with intent. The idea that these “terrorists” are so stupid that they provoke the biggest killing machine in human history is nonsense. That is all an American fantasy, fed to us to salve our consciences as we carry on with the mission we sent those young men on back in the 60’s – human slaughter.
Behind it all is a force, silent. We have elections and faces change, but the force is resident evil. It is money, easily understood. But it cannot be that simple. The local millionaires in our towns may own our mayors and the newspapers, but they don’t bomb the suburbs and murder innocent children. More often they are nice people building museums and opera houses in memorial to themselves.
This resident evil wants nothing short of everything – our money system must control every country, so every non-compliant outclave is under siege or attack, covert and overt. It’s a maniacal force that cannot be sated. There is never enough. Even tiny Grenada could not be spared, much less big dogs like Iraq and Iran. It is evil, and insatiable. It is symbolized by names like “Wall Street” or the “Military-Industrial Complex.” It is comprised of psychopathic humans who have access to weapons and have the power to manage our perceptions.
The likely source of the Boston bombing is DC, of course. Local terrorism is the purview of the FBI, but CIA does not respect boundaries and often trespasses. It is our own resident evil that has the most to gain – the motive. It has means and opportunity. It has a list of countries yet to attack, and bombing Syria is on top of the list right now. It is stirring a hornet’s nest on the Korean peninsula, and Northern Africa is on fire. The election result in Venezuela did not please it. So if this was another false flag incident, it’s just a matter of who it decides to pin it on.
In the meantime, people, please! A sense of proportion would be nice. The US has slaughtered so many people, caused so much human tragedy and suffering, that outlandish displays of victimhood are obscene and insulting to intelligent people. Let the immediate families and friends have their private grief, but for god’s sake don’t go on a victim march. We’re not victims. We are the least terrorized people on the planet. That one time we were the victims of terrorism, as it turns out, we did it to ourselves.
Somehow, it’s appropriate that if there is one real source of international terrorism, DC, that the home folks should not be spared either. If Boston is but another false flag attack used to justify yet another real attack on some peaceful society abroad, I pity them. I don’t know what it is like to be attacked by the American military machine. I don’t know what that terror feels like, and I don’t feel the hatred and revulsion that ensues. I am a privileged American. But I do understand agitprop.
So Boston is indeed scary if it is false flag. Yet another Vietnam slaughter awaits some innocent land.
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PS: False flag bombings usually have planted unexploded ordnance left behind as false evidence. Indeed there are two unexploded bombs in Boston.
Piece of Mindful 
All-out war on men, women and children as “enemy combatants” — the modern version anyway — began April, 1937 in the Basaque City of Guernica, Spain.
“The Total War” by Gen. Erich Luderndorff (1935) advocated the same spare-no-one military doctrine we follow today. Luderndorff called it “air-delivered terror.” Today, our post-modern, “imbedded” global media is happy to repeat whatever political leaders say it is: spreading freedom and democracy. Add to the mix a little white phosphorus and a few million rounds of depleted uranium now and then as needed, and you’ve got a recipe for perpetual global chaos and military-industrial profit.
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Funny thing.
Turse fails to mention the largest atrocity of the war.
THE SINGLE LARGEST ATROCITY OF THE WAR BEGAN On January 30, 1968 (Tet Offensive) . Early in the morning, North Vietnamese troops and Viet Cong forces attacked both towns and cities in South Vietnam, breaking the ceasefire that had been called for the Vietnamese holiday of Tet (the lunar new year).
AND WHO LIVED IN THE TOWNS AND CITIES? Civilians
You can research this FACT on “wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet_Offensive"
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This is the first you’ve heard of it? Anyone who has studied Vietnam knows all about Tet. Westmoreland was completely outfoxed, and the Vietnamese forces took control of the brand new US Embassy. At a time when the military and media were telling us that the war was essentially won, they struck out with enormous force and fury. The targets were US and SV forces in the cities, and after there were pitched battles to retake control. After Tet, there was split in US elite support for the war, and it was at that point that a fissure appeared on the three networks and in the newspapers. This is the origin of the “press cost us the war” meme.
How can you not know this?
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You have already earlier answered this question, Mark. Swede is impervious to any information that doesn’t conform to a narrow preset criteria that is his world view. And any information which in anyway (no matter how weak or tangentially) at all might support that same view becomes magnified and paramount in his mind.
I’m thinking that perhaps Swede was an early MKUltra victim who never recovered.
By the way, have you seen the excellent home-made Youtube available series Evidence of Revision? It contains hours of amazing footage, much of it rare, lost, suppressed or otherwise unavailable. If you haven’t seen it I am pretty certain that you would want to. Ditto to LK and Jack Ruby. It’s mind blowing.
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Thank you! Made my day.
Swede, (I know he is reading this, so as not to be passive aggressive), is in my mind a victim of agitprop going all the way back to the 1950’s. I was too. In essence, the long-term effects of agitprop are for one part of the thought processing system to flourish, another to recede. In a state of constant fear, as we were brought up in during the 50’s and 60’s, it is the amygdala that takes control and the whole of one’s existence is fear-response to fear. That is the primitive brain, the survival, fight/flight-survive-at all-costs-brain. It’s very hard to dislodge those thought processes, but I clearly remember in 1988 when I realized that commies presented no threat to us, never had, and then breathing a huge sigh of relief, as decades of fear mongering was suddenly lifted. And I was only lucky.
The cerebral cortex, where reasoning takes place, does not have much control in a fear-based environment, as we all know when faced with a crisis situation. I pretty much see the whole of the USA, post-9/11, as living in fear and not processing information properly.
So Swede, you’ll possibly be happy to know, I do not diminish your intellectual capacity at all, and merely think that your emotions are overriding your reasoning powers. Happens to all of us, and in an agitprop environment, it is unrelenting. They key to defeat of propaganda, as always, is simply to be aware that it exists. Once that happens, it loses all power over you.
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Oops. I wondered why you responded so quickly and then found out by watching the embedded video. It starts out as an hour 40 minute segment then it dies at 6 minutes. But it really is an hour forty minute segment. Click on the youtube button and go check out the whole thing. It just gets better. And the rest of the series is there too. The guy who made it collected video for years. here’s some info on him, pretty interesting.
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/2013/01/the-mystery-man-behind-evidence-of-revision/
As I said, the whole 10 hours of rare, missing, suppressed or just forgotten video in 6 parts is out there on youtube and some other sites and it’s well worth looking at.
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Oh no, I had not sat down to watch it, and have only now seen ten minutes. I said “Thank you!” because I knew that my undying curiosity was in for a treat. But I find it painful too, having to had a chance to know Oswald better through Judyth Baker (Lee and Me). She might be misdirection too, as you can never trust anyone, but I don’t see anything in her revelations that deflects blame from CIA/FBI/SS/Mob, which is, for example, the object of the Waldron/Hartmann book, Legacy of Secrecy, which is now a movie set to be released around 11/22. They pin it all on the mob.
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That’s good to hear. For some reason at around 6 minutes in, the video stops for me and the time line changes from something like and hour 40 minutes to just 6 minutes, unless I go past a little bit then the whole thing is there. But only on the first segment (1 of 6) The rest seem to play fine.
Also, the part six on youtube (MLK) is cut short (as noted in the messages on youtube) but the whole version of part 6 appears to be available on Vimeo, I’m watching the missing portion now. The complete version of part 6 runs just over 2 hours.
I agree the JFK coup couldn’t have been pulled off without some help from high ups in the FBI, CIA, secret service, the Dallas Police, and the mob as well. But how could it have been pulled of without LBJ? Cui bono?
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I fear that you’re instincts are right on this one. Scary, scary shit.
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Maybe the south is trying to rise again!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/ricin-letter-senate_n_3095728.html
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It is too soon to know, but the idea that we have to trust them until we know better is offensive. Placement of unexploded bombs at a bomb site is a big tell. Ricin might be another, but then the question is why this individual. Did he express doubts about official truth?
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By the way, the FBI is saying that there are/were no unexploded bombs found in Boston.
http://espn.go.com/boston/story/_/id/9177661/boston-marathon-bombs-placed-pressure-cookers
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Sad to say, I give them no credibility at all, as it’s very possible that they are involved in cover-up, as they have been with so many other crimes.
Maybe years from now we’ll receive more information, but for right now, trust no one.
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