They say life is for learning. Here's what I've
learned.
If you lie, you get rich. If you tell the
truth, you stay poor.
Take a look around and smell the
sewage. Do you dare disagree?
Which kind of world do
you want? And if you think this one is so great, have you
considered where your money has gone?
During the past twenty years, trillions of dollars have
been illegally vacuumed out of that magnificent cash cow known
as the American economy. The Bush family engineered Savings
& Loan fire sale, the Bush family engineered 9/11
deception, the Bush family engineered Iraq war. In each case,
and so many others, so much money has simply disappeared into
the black hole of subterranean financial shenanigans that it's
a wonder America is still afloat (if it actually is as you
read this).
I don't want to blame the Bushes for
everything; they just happened to have been involved in all
the great financial crimes of the 20th century, from Samuel
Walker in World War I to Prescott Bush in WW II and on down to
the present crop of crooks. And it's important to remember the
Clintons, among many others, are members of the Bush crime
family. But anyway, even with their billions, the Bushes only
work for the people with the real money.
Really,
America is so rich that for almost one hundred years, bankers
have skimmed the cream off the labor of every single American
and deposited it in the pockets of those who participated in
these clever schemes, and a majority of Americans barely
noticed. Yet, our government officials don't protect us from
this predation; they profit from it.
The planet is
truly profaned by this predator species we call human that not
only murders anyone it pleases and takes what it wants, but
also turns on its friends and families for the same reason - a
cannibal species with no compunction about committing any kind
of crime if the potential profit is attractive enough. And the
worst of it is committed by those who most loquaciously insist
they are our protectors, our preachers and politicians. This
is a unique and profound kind of lie so typical of human
behavior, unadorned and unsweetened by the consensual hoax of
social politeness.
The really big money is in the
scams you never read about until years later. Offshore
accounts. Paid Congressional coverups. Obscenely inflated
government contracts. Profits from poison products (like
nuclear power and fluoride). Huge tax cuts for the rich that
contain increased taxes for the poor in the very fine print
that are never mentioned by lying media until it's too late to
do anything about them. World wars.
This has all been
accomplished by powerful liars, who have grown richer and
bolder with each successful deception. As George H. W. Bush
mentioned in his famous unpublished quote to Sarah McLendon
more than a decade ago: "[I]f the American people ever knew
the whole story about Iran Contra, we Bushes would be chased
down in the streets and lynched." [Editor's note: Excellent
suggestion.]
So there I was the other day, skidding
into a genuinely infantile rant: Why doesn't everyone in the
world believe what I believe? This is a common complaint of
children, and I chided myself for it, as I glanced into the
mirror to assess the current progress of my gray hair turning
to white.
It struck me that almost nothing of what
from years of careful and sophisticated study I believed to be
true was ever uttered by our electronic mass media.
I
believe that the most significant event in American history
was the mass murder frameup known as 9/11, in which the
highest levels of the multinational financial elite contracted
a series of deep cover operatives to stage a mind-boggling
event in order to change the character of the U.S. from a
nominally corrupt democracy to a tightly regimented police
state, a caper that turned out to be spectacularly successful
in terms of ill-gotten profits from subsequent wars that, of
course, were all based on nothing but more lies of the same
caliber that killed all those people in New York City.
But I don't hear a whisper of that opinion on
television, in major newspapers, or from the lips of most
Americans, no matter how they classify themselves politically.
It's all still mysterious Arabs to a majority, who have not
bothered to notice there was no evidence presented, that the
investigation into that tragic day was never conducted, and
that the people who profited from this demonic charade are
exactly the ones who claim to be its principal victims.
Nor do I hear a whisper that the suspicious pre-9/11
investors, who made millions off their apparent foreknowledge
of the attacks, were mostly Israelis, whom the FBI has now
conveniently cleared of any wrongdoing.
Most Americans
have also failed to notice that among the thousands of Muslims
who were detained after the 9/11 disasters, not even one has
even been convincingly charged of having anything to do with
9/11, yet two wars against the Islamic world have cost the
lives of hundreds of thousands of people - including thousands
of Americans - without a shred of verifiable evidence that any
of these aggressive acts were ever necessary.
Osama
bin Laden could still not be convicted in a legitimate court
of law.
But that's not what you hear on television.
These crass courtesans are constantly proclaiming the great
strides being made in the War on Terror. From my perspective,
the only strides being made involve the systematic elimination
of freedom throughout the world, and the astonishing profits
being accumulated by the corporate criminals on the basis of
their lies and their prearranged terror provocations.
I could go on about the differences between my
perspective and what you hear on TV, but I will only mention
just one more item at this time.
Once you fully
realize the implications of a nation's own leaders
deliberately sacrificing the lives of their own citizens for
purely financial purposes, you can apply that template back
through time and read history in a completely different way,
in a way that will break your heart and blow your mind.
I mean no slight to the brave souls who thought they
were defending their country, but the rich men who arranged
all these wars were more interested in fortunes than they were
in freedom, and that is even more obvious today.
Once
you have internalized this shocking realization, and accepted
its reality, your life will change forever. You will find it
very difficult to lie in pursuit of profit ever again.
Along these same lines of what would be viewed by
so-called sophisticated society as a somewhat infantile rant
is a riddle that has coursed through my brain for the past few
years. It is the difference between what we tell our children
and what we say to each other as adults.
We raise our
children to be honest in all situations, to show compassion
for the less fortunate and not judge people on the basis of
how they look or dress. Or, if we're decent parents, that's
what we do.
So what is it that happens when we become
adults? Everything changes. We sell out. Those nasty reality
phrases come to the fore. Go along to get along. God grant me
the serenity to accept the things I cannot change (that's the
one that has always angered me more than any other, the phrase
that is responsible for more carnage in the world than any
other).
Must we accept there are things we cannot
change? Isn't that what permits them to happen in the first
place?
Now it seems, with the lack of protests by
parents about the deaths of their children whom they sent to a
war that they knew (or should have known) was based on lies,
what kind of people have we become? Certainly not a people who
believe in freedom and dignity for all mankind.
What
kind of senseless biorobots have we become, to sit in front of
our TVs and listen to sadistic corporate brainwashing we know
is damaging us.
Even as our loved ones are cut down,
their bodies concealed in the night (and sometimes used to
ship drugs back to the States), their memories deliberately
ignored by the patrician partisans who simply send more of our
kids to die every day in order to maintain the flow of
corporate profits ... even as our loved ones are cut down, we
cower in the illusory safety of our own mortgaged future and
hope against hope it won't happen to us.
Even as with
each passing day, the signs get clearer and clearer - dead
microbiologists prevented from revealing the true nature of
deadly diseases about to descend on us all; a rising incidence
of autism destroying thousands of children's lives and new
laws limiting the amount of corporate liability the
manufacturers who caused this epidemic will have to pay
distraught parents; depleted uranium spread all over the
planet guaranteeing a carcinogenic future - people continue to
watch trivial televised circuses without bothering to
understand what and who they are, and what is being done to
them.
This is the kind of courage most Americans show
today. That is to say, none at all, plus a shameful
willingness to gun down innocent foreign civilians for no
reason other than the orders of their superiors. Remember,
that was an unacceptable defense at Nuremberg, after which
many Nazis were executed for saying that exact same thing.
No wonder certain elements call us cattle, or sheep.
We go off to the slaughter without a bleat.
The people
who tell these big lies that lead us there make millions. Bill
O'Reilly, spouting hateful venom every night, tells you
nothing about the chasm we are headed for. Tom Brokaw, who
once said with a straight face only 40 people were killed in
our invasion of Panama (subsequent reports put the figure at
4,000) now basks in his financial golden parachute.
In
preparation for writing this piece, I reviewed all the essays
I've written during these past three years on the Internet.
My first essay was "No One Is Safe From America's
Killer President," and every word written in 2002 remains
relevant and timely today.
I have warned you that your
vote would not matter because the elections were rigged, as we
have proven once again. I told you that many medicines are
meant to kill you, that under new laws you are guilty until
proven innocent, about how our schools create passive
automatons, about how we are responsible for the evil that
enslaves us, about how Planet X was a hoax, about how merely
replacing one candidate with another was futile because it is
the corrupt system that must be replaced, about how all those
government terror alerts were fake, about how (in "The Dead
Zone Scenario") what we have to do to stop this madness, about
how we can't have one set of standards for Americans and
another set for everybody else, and about how the invasion of
Iraq would be the start of a new world war.
I told you
about how 9/11 was a hoax, about how al-Qaeda was really the
invention of the CIA and Mossad, and how all the terror
incidents throughout the world were almost exclusively
deliberate provocations of the corporate war machine, about
truth had been replaced by spin in American society and how
seemingly progressive journalists were paid under the table by
the CIA.
I informed you about how the 9/11 murderers
were Americans and Israelis and likely wouldn't be caught,
about how the elections were stolen and freedom made illegal,
about the danger of exploiting the fascism of religion to
create a totalitarian government, about how Americans prosper
from the exploitation of others, about how religions pander to
selfishness and ignore the misery of others, about how the
real Axis of Evil is really the U.S., Britain and Israel,
about how America is turning the world into a giant prison,
about how Democrats are really the same as Republicans and how
certain folks appear to be 9/11 skeptics and social critics
but are really clever and deceptive apologists for the
corporate establishment.
I told you that you can't lie
to God, but noted that people who do just that, flaunting
their lucrative evangelical empires and proof of their piety,
become very rich.
I have tried to tell you that
religions actually obscure your view of how to behave decently
and live an honorable life, and perhaps as a result I am very
poor.
I think the most important thing in life is
learning how to discern what is the truth and what is a lie,
and you can't make your decision until you run it past someone
else (first rule of editing).
Thus, this.
Once
again I find myself at a crossroads, one which will determine
if I shall continue to write these sporadic commentaries on
events in our world. There is no sense talking if nobody's
listening.
I have spent the past three years
constantly monitoring the web for the truth behind all these
awful stories that affect us all. The reason I write is to try
to make sense of them. The net results has been two
collections of essays, all previously seen on the web, and one
booklet recapping the 9/11 lies.
As I write this I
have a new collection of essays ready for publication, but due
to the anemic sales of the second collection, I harbor real
doubts about whether I should publish them. In any case I have
no book contract nor the money to publish them.
I'm
also working on another booklet, but this is about the
mind-control aspects of religion, and I'm sure a lot of true
believers would just as soon not see it published, lest their
worldviews be further obliterated.
So lately I'm
feeling like I live in a parallel universe, far away from the
one where everybody else exists, where the truth is something
to be suppressed by those who are rich, and lies are where the
big money really is.
I'm not ever going to be a part
of that one.
Whether I am going to continue to write
these occasional commentaries, or publish any more books, at
this point depends entirely upon you, dear reader.
I
don't like charging for what I write - and won't - and I don't
like asking for your financial support - but must. If you
think what I send you is worth it, buy a book, send a
contribution, break your piggie bank - it all helps.
I
don't try to hide what I believe and tell you things I know
not to be true, which is something many writers - especially
some of the rich ones - simply cannot say.
A lot of
people think I'm crazy. I want to change human nature.
Impossible, say some. Can't be done, others insist, chortling
with annoyed derision.
I say, if we don't change human
nature, humanity will not survive. Can I describe it any
clearer than that? And can you argue that if we don't, we
will? No. You can't.
In my parallel universe, people
don't lie to each other, because they know lying to someone
else is really lying to yourself. In my universe, people
realize they're all part of the same organism, or series of
organisms, really: family, neighborhood, village, region,
nation, planet, solar system, galaxy, universe, playing a
potentially important part in the development of each one.
People don't steal from each other because they know
that stealing does more damage to the mental outlook of the
thief than it does to the victim. And they certainly don't
kill each other because it's so obvious killing someone else
is actually killing a little part of yourself which you can
never get back, not to mention killing a member of own family,
a part of your own organism that cannot but diminish the
wealth and contentment of your own existence.
In my
parallel universe, the default impulse is much the same as it
is in the ugly one we know too well - thou shalt not kill -
although in my parallel universe, people actually practice
what they preach.
If you wish to live in the universe
I do (many of you already do), in which humans could be the
most important organisms on the planet instead of the most
lethal and least necessary, and wish to hear more of how good
I think things can be and how bad I think things are now,
please show your support now. My address is on my website.
And to all those who have supported my quest in the
past, and allowed me the opportunity to learn so much about
the world and then convey it, thank you more than words can
say for the greatest honor of my life.
I feel like a
musician in the subway. If I perform to your liking, toss a
few coins into my violin case.
John Kaminski's
Internet essays can be seen on hundreds of websites around the
world. They have been collected into two anthologies, the
latest of which is titled "The Perfect Enemy," about how the
Zionist-controlled U.S. government created the terrorist group
known as al-Qaeda. His booklet "The Day America Died: Why You
Shouldn't Believe the Official Story of What Happened on
September 11, 2001" was written especially for those who cling
to the government's false explanation of the events of that
tragic day. For more information go to http://www.johnkaminski.com/
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