The world has watched in dazed amazement as the once great, “city on the hill,” the beacon and shining light of democracy for all time, has become a doddering, quivering heap of debt and neo-conservative fascism. What has been missing from the oft-told narrative of mass-media newspeak regarding the United States’ as paragon of orderly government has been the ingredient which makes life – all life -- possible: the God’s honest truth.
The dictum, “everybody lies,” has now become so mundane that anyone who tells the truth is treated to -- yep, you guessed it -- mistreatment. Crucifixion. Stoning. Panning. Imprisonment. Or, God help us, perpetual indictment. People seem to understand that their worldview is built on shifting sands. The loyalty we exhibit towards the "power" of the bald-faced lie, or the convincing farce, is the same loyalty we would exhibit towards the final, single branch on the face of a sheer cliff. Telling the truth of any matter is perceived to be like letting go of that last pathetic hand-hold and trusting that all will be well.
Rising out of this sea of miasmic upside-down thinking comes the news that the World Trade Center was demolished on September the 11th, 2001.
Why does it surprise anyone that a pair of buildings which were attacked by foreign agents working with our own FBI in 1993 and which had consequently become virtually vacant of tenants, were systematically demolished on 9/11/2001? What exactly is out of accord with this information? If no one wants to lease or rent space in a large building because it is deemed an impractical enterprise, the building has to come down, folks.
Now that the truth about the Clintons has achieved mainstream acceptance (not because of Ken Starr or Republican malfeasance, but the political behavior of the Clintons, pure and simple), it is not altogether unbelievable that most, if not all, of the domestic terror we experienced during Bill Clinton’s tenure was conducted with his approval, tacit or otherwise.
Those people in Oklahoma City were just so ignorant! They believed that dead people could rise up and walk the earth because some cloud being dictated that it be so. Our homegrown domestic terrorists showed them. Not a single case of resurrection from amidst the rubble was ever rumored or recorded. I find the absence of this phenomenon suspicious.
I also find the explosion of a Boeing 747 jetliner shortly after takeoff due to faulty wiring near a central fuel tank absurd. Kerosine catches on fire when exposed to a spark, it doesn’t explode and blow the craft into pieces. This was TWA Flight 800…whatever happened to Trans World Airlines? Did someone have a put option bought on TWA prior to flight 800 crashing into the Atlantic?
Waco? Forget about that one. The storyline as to whose fault was whose came out so fast that our collective heads spun round. No serious investigation is necessary when the ATF and the FBI gather together to disarm well-armed citizens. Why would God-fearing Christians need ammunition and automatic weapons? What would they do with that kind of “power?”
All suspicious stuff, particularly in light of the fact that a major consequence of all these acts of domestic terror was the public disempowerment of your friendly neighborhood militia movement. And in its place, we treat the consumer culture to “Cops” and “Lockdown.” Resistance is futile.
Except for Blackwater, of course.
In light of all the revealed lies and half-truths of the Clinton Administration, turning 110 stories of steel and concrete into dust within 12 seconds doesn’t seem like such a big deal. Sure, a lot of our friends and relatives died or were killed, but that’s war, right? Just because we’ve been conditioned to believe that the enemy is outside of our borders doesn’t mean that we’re not at war right at home, right now. Right?
We clearly are. And it’s no big deal. Just another day in paradox. If it's wearing you down, up the irony in your diet.
