So where would you hide 80,000 people … if you had 80,000 people to hide? The answer to that question could be answered by the White House, since it has done a superb job of maintaining a moratorium on the media coverage of detainees since the leaks regarding widespread abuse in American prison camps hit the newswire with pictures that offered graphic proof to undermine the corporate line of bull that usually follows such leaks. Were you aware that since 9/11 the U.S. has held 80,000 captured individuals?

Fighting a war also means engaging in battle in propaganda through what we commonly refer to as “public relations.” In other words, make the public believe whatever is necessary in order to galvanize support or quell uprisings and backlashes.

I wrote my book in an effort to EXPOSE such lies and propaganda that has lulled the public to sleep while our government has engaged in a nightmarish deja vu version of the history of European empires. Even while we uncover the truth, the saga continues.

Today, the CIA is attempting to shovel its load to the American people as it battles to quell published allegations of its “renditions,” a practice routinely used by the CIA of ambushing “suspected” individuals with links to “terrorists” on the street and carrying them off to various countries where they are turned over to a number of unknown “authorities” who “promise” these people will not be tortured … since the U.S. doesn’t believe in torture, despite our president’s consistent attempts at holding up legislation banning torture.

The CIA is now under investigation for apparently abducting folks who were innocent. An Italian judge isn’t pleased about it and has issued an arrest warrant for 22 CIA agents who will likely never be brought to justice anywhere. A German man whose story has been told around the globe, surfaced with a personal version of the “rendition” he experienced, which included a beating. And given the fact that such a practice is outside of any judicial system and subject to no safeguards whatsoever, it isn’t surprising that “mistakes” were made in his case and countless others.

But the question is, what can the America people do about it?

Am I way off base to think that my country ought not engage in such practices? I don’t think so. In fact, I believe that the immoral, illegal and clandestine practices of our government have served to create enemies where none before existed and have placed Americans at risk, unbeknownst to an innocent public caught in the middle of a secret war.

The so-called watchdog organization that keeps an eye on the CIA is claiming fewer than 10 “mistakes” are being investigated. But as any street-smart dolt with a 10th-grade education can figure out, the numbers discovered by authorities are only a fraction of the actual cases that have occurred.

I have asked this question over and over until I am blue in the face … “WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE THAT HAVE SUCH LIFE AND DEATH AUTHORITY UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS AND LIES?

As 2005 comes to a close, I am afraid I don’t recognize this country anymore. Perhaps it is true to say that I have never known it … until now?

Posted on December 28th, 2005 by admin
Filed under: America in the MidEast

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