June 23, 2010
By Dean Hartwell
Like little kids who taunt others with the saying, "I know something you don't know," there are those in our society who tell us something we cannot prove or disprove - that if the government had secrets, we would know about them. Get a step ahead of them with the logic presented here.
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I have been
told many times, "If what you say is true, someone would have told the
secret by now."
I hear this when I discuss why I believe government agents plotted and
perpetrated the crimes of 9/11, for instance. Or when I say that Lee
Harvey Oswald was framed and others shot President Kennedy.
This statement presents a non-falsifiable claim - that secrets about our
government are always revealed - because we have no way to prove one
way or the other that the statement is true or false. This problem
occurs because we cannot see the successfully kept secrets, which leaves
us in doubt as to whether secrets are always revealed.
The best way to deal with this unfair statement is to re-frame the
issue: Maybe the secret is out and those who do not "know" the secret
have not bothered to discover it.
If the secret is out, how does that help society?
It would change the way people discuss these topics. Those who support
the government's invariable position that the government did not
conspire to commit the aforementioned events or others, such as the
successful coup of Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973, would now
be on the defensive. They could no longer tell people to "knock off
the conspiracy talk."
Instead of having to prove our case of government agent complicity over
and over, we could, with the help of an informed and enthusiastic
public, take legal action against the perpetrators. People like former
Vice President Dick Cheney could no longer hide behind the secret that
has kept him from a grand jury for the past eight years. He would have
to do what anyone else accused of a crime would do - get an attorney for
help with his legal options.
Likewise, I sometimes hear that people who do not believe a certain way
about religion will go to hell. The people who speak of this place of
eternal fire never say that they themselves will go there and they
insist that the place exists as they describe it.
Instead of taking their word for it, we can re-frame the issue: What if
hell does not exist or exists in other way?
Hell could be what happens when a person loses their integrity, not just
to the world but to themselves. It could be what one might feel if
they had nothing to look for, as if the one thing they need in life
will, like Godot, never arrive.
We can do and feel so much better when we refuse to let other people
tell us that there is some "secret" that we do not know. Or that what
we do know cannot be true because the other person does not think so.
The truth does not come from the mouth of another; it goes through our
own minds.
Authors Website: http://www.deanhartwell.com
Authors Bio:Dean Hartwell's book, "Planes without Passengers: the Faked Hijackings of 9/11," reached the top of Amazon's charts for large print books on history. He has authored three others: "Facts Talk but the Guilty Walk:the 9/11 No Hijacker Theory and Its Indictment of Our Leaders," "Dead Men Talking: Consequences of Government Lies" and "Truth Matters: How the Voters Can Take Back Their Nation."
Dean has a law degree and works for a local public agency in Southern California.