I grew up with Loggers, Cowboys and Indians in the space and freedom of the Great Northwest where belief in the virtues of the United States Constitution seemed to rule the nation. My first realities of Americans being manipulated came with employment in Havana, Cuba in 1959.
It was a different America I found outside the control of a U.S.media ruled by federal and military agencies fed...like hogs at the trough...by large post-war monopolies. But I had heard rumblings of discontent before from my "friend-of-all-friends", a jewish Choctaw warrior called Ike.
It did not take more than a few months for me to realize that U.S media were painting a picture of reality which twisted fact in order to use the songs of freedom for those interested only in money and power.
For over half a century the American public has lived under The Mushroom System -- "keep them in the dark and if they raise their heads throw more manure on them to shut them up."
At various points in time, it seems, the supreme court has "through means politically legalized" reserved The Constitution, The Emancipation Proclamation, determination of presidential elections and The American Dream in favor of corporate america. (Most recently, via "citizens united" they may have unknowingly pierced the corporate veil.) anybody listening?
THE RIGHTEOUS FIGHT TO GAIN INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS for everyone began in earnest during the late 1950's; John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, Malcolm X and others challenged those powers willing to lie, cheat and murder to win. Many more patriots insisting on individual and racial freedom were killed quietly in the shadows and others...even today... remain locked away as criminals.
If we forget, the future will never know, and contemporary disasters like Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Wounded Knee, to name a few, will continue to be justified through enforced silence. (Standing Rock!)
"National Security" (now dubbed "public safety" by the dirty birds of "law enforcement" ) has always been a ready excuse for government excesses, but, as time and the U.S. freedom of information act is allowed to probe deeper into dirty bird domains, we find that term was, more often than not, used dishonestly to cover murderous indiscretions of authority. This is disgusting in a nation of men and women who see themselves as free. When freedom's enemies, from within and outside, have always had full and easy access to government secrets, why jail and torture our own Patriots for revealing to the US public (always the last to know) the ugliness of power gone wrong?
In the 1980's The Press and most other media were openly purchased by "advertising" or foreign entities intent on capturing political dollars and "entertaining" the public all the way to the poorhouse...and then on to the silence of the grave.
Are our senses being dulled by meaningless sensationalism and control of content as they were during the early and mid 1950's? YES!
Look, listen, and by all means remain suspicious of corporate news, your local, state and federal politicians, law enforcement and other un-elected appointed agencies...they may feel... like the Nazis...they have been given "a mandate of authority" to rule instead of serve the citizenry.*
The 2nd Amendment in the US Constitution was put there to protect Americans from any armed, abusive or threatening force...including protection from U.S. Government entities bent on entrapment, brutality, murder, lying or violation of any individual right that will enforce their "authority"....or cover up incompetence and monumental errors in judgement.
AA. Weber
(*Note: More piercing research needed to penetrate official lines on Tim McVey,
Chris Dornen, 3-year buildup to "9-11", and an unedited list of twin towers tenants.)
