All of us really need to stop getting involved in
distractions and look at what has happened in the last few months. When I talk
about distractions, I'm talking about the Zimmerman trial, the royal baby in
England and the Republican attacks on women in Texas and other States. I'm not
saying that these issues are not important (except for Kate's baby), some of
them are. The point I'm making here is that these events are monopolizing the
news while important issues are being hidden from the public by the mainstream
media.
This is known as distraction and the government has
been using it for a long time. The idea is to keep the people occupied with
issues that may be sensational and important, but in reality they are hiding
events that are occurring that the powers that be don't want the people looking
at. I'm going to present some things in
this article that the government doesn't want the people dwelling on.
One of the most important issues that the government
wishes would go away is the fact that the NSA is monitoring every phone call.
tweet, email and online communication of every person in America. This isn't
all, they are also eavesdropping on communications of other nations, even their
closest allies. The government doesn't want the people dwelling on the fact
that we have absolutely no privacy. They also don't want people reading about
how outraged other nations are over U.S. clandestine activities. The truth is
that the government would like everyone to be involved in issues such as gay
marriage, abortion, celebrity worship and forest fires.
Americans are slowly accepting the idea that the
government is recording and storing every form of communication made
electronically. Still, this is not the only thing they wish to keep from
becoming front page news. Recently Chris Hedges and others have lost their suit
over the NDAA.
This means that not only can the government intercept and monitor every electronic communication in the nation, they
can now legally send the military to a citizen's house and arrest anyone that
they believe has ties to terrorists and detain them indefinitely, with no
formal charges, until the end of this "War on Terror". This in itself
should horrify people but since the mainstream media is ignoring it and they haven't
made a movie about it, most Americans don't know about what is happening and
most of the people that do know are accepting it.
Meanwhile, except for the outrage over the Zimmerman
verdict that did a great job in polarizing people in America, people continue
to believe that they live under a benevolent democracy. They refuse to believe
that this President and his Administration have nothing but kind words and good
intentions, Democrats rail against the Republicans and Conservatives while the
so-called right demonizes Democrats and leftists. Democrats believe that if
they could only elect more Democrats and gain control over the House of
Representatives and maintain control of the Senate, that all will be well.
Another distraction is the possibility of Hillary
Clinton making a bid for the presidency in 2016. There are people who believe
that this tough, no-nonsense woman will bring back an era of real democratic
rule. Nothing could be further from the truth. The facts are that Clinton is
cut from the same cloth as almost every politician in Washington. She supported
and endorsed the war in Libya that was waged by Sunni Jihadists against the
government there and turned Libya into a bombed out shell of a country that is
for all purposes (except oil extraction by the Western powers), a failed state.
Clinton managed to threaten Russia and China on numerous occasions and has ties
to the World Bank and the IMF. Hillary Clinton is no shining example of
Democratic virtue.
Today, former President Jimmy Carter proclaimed that
the United States has ceased to be a Democratic nation. "America does not have a functioning democracy at this
point in time." Carter
said speaking at a closed-door event in Atlanta covered by German newspaper Der Spiegel . Carter also
criticized the NSA's domestic spying as damaging to the core of the nation's
principles.
This is not a
hot-headed leftist making this charge, it is a former President of the United
States! Still, most people in America are content to try and change the
direction of this country by voting for the corporately financed politician
that they choose to run for office. When it comes to electing a President,
people will be asked to choose between someone with extreme views and someone
that is slightly more palatable. The lesser of two evils. The other political parties
will be invisible to the electorate compared to the heavily financed corporately
run duopoly. Americans will still believe that they have a choice when in reality,
they have no choice at all.
The question of the
21st Century is when will the American people realize that their government
that they portray as a shining example for the rest of the planet has morphed
into an oligarchy that is run by the wealthy on the backs of its citizens? We
are being watched and recorded. We have no defense against arrest and
incarceration if the government deems that we are terrorists or support a
terrorist organization. The people that designate exactly who or what is a
terrorist organization is unclear. Perhaps the government will publish a manual
of who it is we are to avoid. God forbid we talk we talk about such things.
Distractions are on
the menu for the mainstream media. CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX and MSNBC will delve into
them in detail. They have told us who Edward Snowden is, where he lives and
everything about his personal life, but they have failed to tell us what he
actually revealed. News outlets such as the Guardian, Press TV (Iranian) and RT
(Russian) have informed the American people, just as they have told us that it
is the "Rebels" in Syria using Saran gas, and it is the
"Rebels" that are cutting out the hearts of soldiers from the secular
Syrian government and eating them.
The sad part in all
of this is that the American people are being victimized as never before in our
history. At no time has so much wealth been held by so few. America's Middle
Class is ranked something like 27th in wealth. The top 400 families hold as
much wealth as 155 million people at the bottom of the economic ladder. Protests
like the Occupy movement are stamped out by police dressed like battlefield
soldiers with armored vehicles. There is no room for real dissent in America
because as Former President Carter said, "America does not have a functioning democracy
at this point in time."
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