Being honest about the world we live in.
We have to be honest about the world we live in because otherwise we won’t face up to the challenge of explaining it.
This recently has become an issue to me because of the recent uproar in the media and political circus about the Environmental Czar, Van Jones. Here is a really good summary.
Operation Northwoods and the 9/11 Truthers by Jacob G. Hornberger.
Despite a lot of unanswered (and ignored) questions about 9/11. I continue to think that the government is too incompetent to have pulled off such a complex attack and then managed to silence all witnesses. But the question addressed in the linked article, and the issue raised many times in outrage over Van Jones is a different one:
Would people in the United States government ever be so evil as to engage in killing American citizens to justify an attack against foreign peoples and territories.
Some people act like it is contemptible for anyone to ever suspect such a thing, and thus a crime of libel to ask for such a possibility to be investigated.
But it is simply a historical fact that high offices in our government have proposed the murder of US citizens and-or other innocents precisely for the purpose of justifying a foreign attack. You can download and read the document here and here. So in 1962, our highest military authorities thought it was fine to suggest such a thing to the Secretary of Defense (a truly Orwellian title in this case) and the President of the United States.
That is the moral character of our top ruling class 47 years ago. I haven’t researched the names and biographies of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but I’m assuming these were not quiet people who lived with their mothers and did anti-social things that led them to be sociopaths. No, these people undoubtedly came from good (Orwellian alert) schools and important families and had the connections and relationships one must have to attain high position in our country and government and military.
Do you think the moral character of our ruling class has improved in the last half century?
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