A Brief History Lesson

Secrets are coming out of the Senate subcommittee probing the FBI and CIA. But the biggest secrets, I suspect will remain untouched.

Yes, we learn that the FBI tapped wires illegally, kept lists of people to be put in concentration camps, wrote fake letters to destroy personal lives and used dirty tricks to disrupt organizations it didn't like. The CIA opened mail illegally, plotted the murder of foreign leaders and conspired to overthrow a democratically elected government.

It is the habit of governments everywhere, including ours, when caught lying, stealing or murdering, to murmur a few words of confession, find a scapegoat to punish and go right on doing its dirty work in more subtle ways.

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What will happen now with these revelations on the CIA and FBI? The usual. A few changes in personnel, a few new laws. But the same exclusive club of corporate billionaires, with their teams of lawyers, accountants, politicians, and intellectual advisers hoping to become Secretary of State, will remain in power.
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The biggest secret of all is beginning to emerge: That "the enemy" of this government is anyone, here or abroad, who won't put up with control of the world by Chase Manhattan, Exxon, General Motors, [etc]. It is chilling but suddenly believable that a government willing to kill [foreign] peasants and put protesters in cages will also assassinate Americans and put citizens here in concentration camps.

That's a heavy secret for us to carry in our heads. But we need to know it, if we are going to figure out how to defend our lives and our liberties from those who have occupied America.

SockPuppet said:
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana, Life Of Reason.

bald_eagle said:
Almost every time this administration has a new twist, it reminds me of the Nixon days. That cute, little war is the same - all part of the same, repetitive package.

bald_eagle said:

Yep. It worked so well the first time ...

But I think you're right. Cheney is the common link.

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bald_eagle said:

There's a joke about the apprentice overcoming the master in there somewhere. Didn't Cheney help throw Rummy under the bus?