Dark, Shadowy and Powerful Forces in American History – Part II (Dale Tavris)
Dale Tavris -- World News Trust
July 31, 2010 -- This post is a follow-up to my last post, in which I discussed what some people refer to as the “Powers That Be” (PTB), the unelected but powerful and shadowy elite who seem to exercise influence over national and world events far more than a lot of people realize. In my last post I merely categorized various conceptions of the PTB and described how six former U.S. presidents attempted in varying degrees to stand up to and fight these dark forces. In this post I’ll discuss the methods that are used by these dark forces to maintain their wealth and power:
Money in politics
Americans need to wake up to the fact that they can either have a democracy or they can have a system in which it is actually legal to bribe (otherwise known as making “campaign contributions”) those whom we elect to public office and therefore determine the nature of our country, its policies, and everything it does in our name.
Bill Moyers, in his book, “Moyers on Democracy, succinctly puts this system in perspective in a manner that should be – but is NOT – obvious to all Americans:
Let’s call it what it is: a bribe.
Moyers notes the legalization of bribery of public officials, along with rising economic inequality in our country as the root problems. The result is that our elected officials hear the voices of the wealthy while ignoring the voices of the rest of us, as the top 1% have gained more than the bottom 50% in the past four decades, while “whole communities are languishing in unemployment, crumbling infrastructure, and fear”. Moyers notes:
Men and women who have mastered the money game have taken advantage of that weakness in our democracy to systematically sell it off to the highest bidders… They centralized in their own hands the power to write legislation. Drastic revisions to major bills were often written at night, with lobbyists hovering over them … They arrange Washington and the world for the convenience of themselves and the transnational corporations that pay for their elections… In the words of Louis Brandeis, one of the greatest of our Supreme Court justices: “You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few or democracy, but you can’t have both.” Money is choking democracy to death.
Control of the media
It has long been recognized in our country that use of the public airways should be a privilege rather than a right. That is why, as early as 1927 our government began requiring licenses for use of the public airways, in the Radio Act of 1927, which was expanded in the Communications Act of 1934. Since then, the underlying standard for radio and television licensing has been the “public interest, convenience and necessity clause”, whose central feature is that “the obligation to serve the public interest is integral to the ‘trusteeship’ model of broadcasting”. But with the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 we began to see a rapid decline in the quality of the news we receive. By relaxing rules that prohibited monopoly control of telecommunications, that Act led to the concentration of the national news media of the United States largely into the hands of a very few wealthy corporations, to an extent never before seen in our country. This, more than any other event, has allowed the content of the news received by American citizens to be determined by a small number of very wealthy and powerful interests. Hence the pervasive blackout of meaningful news. Thus it is that today even the so-called “liberal media” is actually the voice of corporate America.
An actual independent media would have asked George W. Bush during the 2000 election campaign to explain how his tax cut proposals could benefit anyone other than the top one or two percent of wage earners in the United States. In 2004, an independent media would have asked Bush to explain why his administration manipulated intelligence to provide an excuse for war in Iraq, why he lied to the American people about the reasons for that war, and about the hundreds of unanswered questions regarding his lack of preparation for the attacks of 9-11, as well as the failure of his administration to respond to those attacks on the day that they occurred. Instead, they repeated over and over again how “Churchillian” or “Lincolnesque” Bush sounds whenever he opened his mouth on these subjects.
There are several excellent books available on how today’s national news media has failed to do its job, tilted way to the right, and become a defender of the status quo, rather than a watch dog of government excesses. Three of the best of these books that I have ever read – on any subject – are “Into the Buzzsaw – Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press” edited by Kristina Borjesson, “What Liberal Media? – The Truth About Bias and the News” by Eric Alterman, and “Lapdogs -- How the Press Rolled Over for Bush” by Eric Boehlert.
Between them, those three books provide about a hundred detailed examples to make their points, including how our national news media loaded the dice to facilitate George Bush’s victory in the 2004 presidential election by glossing over his failureto fulfill his National Guard duty, hyping fraudulent stories that challenged and grossly distorted John Kerry’s heroic war record, and failing to publish a story about the high likelihood that Bush was wired for one of his debates against John Kerry.
Secrecy
One of the most important requirements of a democracy is transparency of government actions. To the extent that citizens are not aware of what their government does, they cannot hold it accountable for its actions. For that reason, “state secrets” should be invoked to shield citizen knowledge of government action only in extreme instances. Yet, the term “national security” has become so ingrained in our national dialogue that it is routinely and unquestioningly used to justify the withholding of information from the American people, no matter what the actual reason.
Peter Dale Scott, in his book, “The Road to 9/11 – Wealth, Empire and the future of America,” summarizes the essence of the problem we face:
Our current administration is little different in that regard. President Obama, in explaining his reversal on his previous decision to release photos of the torture of American prisoners, said that “disclosing the photos would have ‘a chilling effect’ on future attempts to investigate detainee abuse.” Similarly, BP has done everything in its power to keep details of the Gulf oil spill away from the American people, including disallowing photographs of the catastrophe they caused -- with the help of local and federal government officials. Keeping the American people in the dark about these kinds of things is an affront to democracy that serves nobody but the wealthy interests whose continuation of their destructive activities depends upon hiding their consequences from the American people.
The eagerness to prosecute Bradley Manning for leaking evidence of war crimes is equally disturbing, for the same reasons. Glenn Greenwald explains how this demonstrates a double standard that puts secrecy above morality and democracy:
If you shoot and kill unarmed rescuers of the wounded while occupying their country and severely wound their unarmed children sitting in a van -- or if you authorize that conduct -- your actions are commended.
Election Fraud
Control over our elections provides another means for PTB victories. For various indefensible reasons, many Americans believe that it is ok to have our votes counted by computers using secret vote counting code, with no means of determining whether or not the vote count is accurate. After all, these are private companies that supply the machines that count our votes. What right do we have to regulate or investigate their activities? -- or so goes the logic of those who wish to continue this system.
In 2000, after George Bush’s brother, the governor of Florida,illegally disenfranchised tens of thousands of African Americans from voting in the presidential election on the grounds that they were close computer matches to felons, after a Republican-orchestrated riot in Miami-Dade County stopped the vote counting there, and after various other types of election fraud as well, five Republican Supreme Court “Justices” stopped the manual recount of the votes in Florida on grounds that had no Constitutional justification whatsoever, thereby declaring George W. Bush our 43rd President.
I could go on and on about this. Here is evidence of vote switching fraud in national elections from 2002 to 2006; here is evidence of widespread election fraud in 2004; here is evidence of widespread election fraud in 2006; and the Bush administrationfired their federal attorneys for either refusing to investigate non-existent election fraud by Democrats or for pursuing too aggressively cases of election fraud perpetrated by Republicans. In fact, the main purpose behind the whole U.S. attorney firing scandal appears to be the stealing of elections.
James Galbraith, in “The Predator State,” sums up the problem of elections in a largely corporate-controlled state:
In the corporate republic, elections likewise converge to their corporate counterpart … The outcome is predetermined … A common thread runs through the policies of voter intimidations, voter machine rationing, phony voter fraud investigations, purging of voter lists, caging of African American voters, ex-felon disenfranchisement … The common thread is to maintain political control for as long as possible … The rebellion of 2006 may possibly have signaled the defeat of this strategy, but time will tell. In any event, the work was done: without it, Al Gore would have become President in 2000 or John Kerry in 2004.…
The myth of “American Exceptionalism”
A ploy that has always been utilized by our nation’s elites (probably every nation’s elites do this to some extent) is to distract us from their actions by instilling an intense feeling of what they call “patriotism”, but which would better be termed nationalism or a sense of “American Exceptionalism”. American Exceptionalism is the doctrine that says that:
Our country has always been exceptional. It is freer, more individualistic, more democratic, and more open and dynamic than any other nation on earth. These qualities … have always marked America as special, with a unique role and mission in the world: as a model of liberty and self-government and an exemplar and vindicator of freedom, through persuasion when possible and force of arms when absolutely necessary.
Believing this, most Americans accept our leaders’ rationales for war automatically and unquestioningly. To do otherwise would be deemed “unpatriotic”. But most American wars have been wars of conquest or imperial domination, unjustified by the moral platitudes that are always spewed forth to justify them. Carl Boggs comments on this (while documenting the real reasons for our many wars) in “The Crimes of Empire – Rogue Superpower and World Domination”:
Yet for the U.S. military the pattern of criminal behavior is so lengthy, so repetitive, so obvious, so extreme, and so clearly tied to imperial aims that only Americans indoctrinated in the pervasive ideology of Empire (I will add here that almost all Americans are indoctrinated in this, including myself) might blindly overlook it. Surely the methodologies of aggressive warfare long embraced by U.S. leaders are a matter of undeniable historical record. So too are the unfathomable human consequences that go well beyond arcane and self-serving claims of collateral damage.
The soldiers who participate in our military are much further indoctrinated in this culture of violence -- for obvious reasons. This has been widely well documented. I’ll just give one example here, from a soldier who testified at the Winter Soldier hearings in Detroit in 1971 concerning the Vietnam War:
It wasn’t like they were humans. We were conditioned to believe this was for the good of the nation, the good of our country, and that anything we did was o.k. And like when you shot someone you didn’t think you were shooting at a human. They were a gook or a Communist and that was o.k. … And they were inferior to us. We were Americans, we were the civilized people … If I’d go into a village and have to kill 100 people just to be sure there was no one there to shoot me when I walked out, that’s just what I did.
And there are numerous things that absolutely cannot be mentioned by American politicians because they are embarrassing to our country. Mere mention of these things brings down the wrath of conservative pundits, moderates, and even some who consider themselves to be liberal. That wrath is likely to be so intense that few U.S. politicians (or other people) dare mention these things because of the risk of being booted out of office -- or worse. Three such things are: 1. the stealing of a U.S. presidential election; 2. referring to American military or covert actions as immoral, rather than merely as “misguided”; and, 3. imputing bad intentions, rather than mere incompetence, onto a U.S. president.
Human gullibility
Bob Altemeyer is a retired psychology professor who spent most of his life researching authoritarianism. There are authoritarian followers and authoritarian leaders. Both are required in order to have wars -- the leaders to create the wars, and the followers to vote the leaders into power, fight in the wars, and otherwise support their leaders. The first chapter of Altemeyer’s book is about authoritarian followers. He defines them as having three core characteristics: 1) High degree of submission to authority; 2) Willingness to attack other people in the name of the authority; and 3) Highly conventional attitudes.
Altemeyer explains the submission to authority that characterizes the authoritarian followers by noting that they look to their leaders as monarchs, rather than as the servants of the people that elected leaders in a democracy are supposed to be. Consequently, they have little or no understanding of the concept that our leaders are subject to the law. In short, their attitude towards any authority is best termed a “Daddy and mommy knows best” attitude.
They tend to be highly “religious” in the sense of interpreting religious texts literally. They tend to look upon a monotheistic God as paternalistic, demanding and motivated by revenge. They are highly conformist, which is motivated largely by a need for approval and a lack of capacity or desire for independent thought.
Our world and our country are full of these kinds of people. They are the kinds of people who followed, admired and supported Hitler. They are the kind of people who follow American authoritarian leaders almost no matter what they do or say. They are very gullible and easily manipulated by authoritarian leaders. Here is an electronic version of Altemeyer’s excellent book, “The Authoritarians.”
The last resort
Given the numerous wars of aggression conducted by the U.S. military, with its accompanying civilian death toll estimated anywhere from 8 million to 16 million since 1945 (including 3 million attributable to the Korean and Vietnam wars), how difficult is it to believe that the PTB would have its own people or the citizens of allied nations killed in secret? In my opinion the difficulty of believing that is so small that I feel the burden of proof should be in the other direction.
History changing assassinations of the 1960s
In the 1960s it is not unreasonable to suppose that the three Americans most feared by the PTB in the United States were John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert, and Martin Luther King. All were assassinated during a four and a half year period, from November 1963 to April 1968. Some may still believe that the assassinations of these three icons are some sort of accident of history, with no relationship to each other. But numerous investigations recounted in books and articles have challenged that belief. One of the best is the 2008 book, “Legacy of Secrecy -- The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination -- Robert Kennedy, National Security, the Mafia, and the Assassination of Martin Luther King,” by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann. It contains 771 pages of detailed explanation supported by a ton of references.
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963, about four months after his peace speech, which portended an end to the Cold War. Officially, his death was the work of a lone gunman, shooting himin the back of the head from a book depository in Dallas. Yet, in addition to a wealth of other evidence pointing towards a conspiracy, all physicians who tended to him at the hospital on the day of his assassination and offered an opinion (nine doctors and one nurse) initially said (some later changed their story after being visited by the FBI to clarify their thoughts) that either the throat wound or the head wound that killed him, or both, entered him from the front.
Martin Luther King, though most well known for his heroism and leadership in our nation’s civil rights efforts, is much less well known for his advocacy in the latter part of his life on behalf of the poor and on behalf of world peace -- probably because our national news media considered those topics to be more threatening to entrenched interests. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968. The details of his death and who actually shot him may or may not be correct (there is no good evidence either way). But the official story of his assassination does not mention any plots on the part of entrenched interests, for which there is a good deal of evidence.
21st Century mysterious deaths of those who threatened the PTB
Paul Wellstone in 2002 was probably the greatest thorn in the side of the Bush Administration and entrenched interests in general of any U.S. Senator. Had he lived, many thought it likely that, starting in 2003, he would have initiated a serious Senate investigation into the September 2001 terrorist attacks against our country. He died in a small plane crash just weeks prior to the 2002 mid-term elections, as it was becoming evident that he would win a third term to the U.S. Senate. According to this article, “None of the typical causes of a small plane accident—engine failure, icing, pilot error-- appear to have been involved.” Evidence suggests that both engines were running when the plane hit the ground. Both pilots were very experienced and skilled. Visibility was well above the minimum required. There had been no problems until shortly before the crash.
J. H. Hatfield wrote a scathing biography of George W. Bush, called “Fortunate Son,” which was published while Bush was running for President in 2000, and which detailed illegal Bush business dealings and a cocaine conviction that was expunged from official records. I read his book with great interest in early 2001, and shortly thereafter I was dismayed to hear of Hatfield’s “suicide” in a hotel room. When he died Hatfield was working on a new edition and had said that Bush allies threatened the lives of his family. Sander Hicks, in January 2003, announced that he was making the suicide notes available to forensics experts, to compare with handwriting samples that Hicks had acquired through the Freedom of Information Act, in order to arrive at an independent verdict in the case.
Margie Schoedinger is, as far as I know, the only woman toofficially charge George W. Bush with rape -- filed in December 2002 (I’ve seen the actual documents on the Internet, but they appear to have been scrubbed). Schoedinger died in September 2003 of a gunshot wound to the head, which was ruled a suicide. Before she died she claimed that she had been threatened by Bush surrogates. Not surprisingly, the only news coverage this received was local (Can you imagine the coverage if Bill Clinton -- or any elected non-corporate Democrat – had been involved?).
Cliff Baxter was a former Vice Chairman of Enron, and one of the few high level Enron executives who had tried to prevent Enron’s illegal activities. It was felt by many that his testimony could be devastating to top Enron officials and might even provide a vital link between Enron and the Bush Administration. Baxter, 43, was found shot to death in his car on the morning of January 25, 2002, near his home in Sugar Land, Texas. He had spoken with a friend recently about the fact that he felt he needed a body guard. As this article explains, local authorities quickly called his death a suicide, without a serious investigation or even an autopsy. But hours later, the local Justice of the Peace, Jim Richard, reversed his decision not to order an autopsy, citing intense public interest. This article discusses the autopsy findings and provides a copy of them. It notes that although the autopsy states “suicide” as the cause of death, no evidence is given to support that conclusion. It also goes into detail about how the physical findings are much more suggestive of murder than of suicide. And finally, it notes that Baxter would have had no need for ratshot, the ammunition used to kill him, and that ratshot is the perfect murder ammunition, since it leaves no evidence capable of matching the gun to the ammunition.
Raymond Lemme was the official from the Florida Inspector General’s office who was in the midst of investigating the presidential election rigging charges of whistleblower Clint Curtis when he died. Curtis’ main allegation was that he was asked to write a computer program that would be capable of switching votes from one candidate to another, and which would be undetectable. Curtis also claims that Lemme had told him shortly before his death that he “had tracked the corruption all the way to the top”. Lemme was found dead in a Valdosta, Georgia, Knights Inn motel room on July 1, 2003. His arm was slashed twice with a razor blade, near the left elbow. The Brad Blog thoroughly investigated this case and put forth several reasons to believe that it was not a suicide, as was been ruled by the Valdosta police. Possibly related to Lemme’s death, Michael Connell, an IT consultant who worked for Karl Rove and was prepared to testify in federal court regarding his alleged role in tampering with the 2004 Ohio presidential election results, died in a plane crash in December 2008, shortly before he was due to testify.
Dr. David Kelly was a microbiologist and an expert in weapons of mass destruction. He had already blown the whistle regarding the exaggeration of British intelligence reports on the possibility of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, as the Bush Administration was trying to make the case for invading Iraq. This DU article speculates that the Bush Administration may have had yet a great deal more to fear from Dr. Kelly’s telling what he knew of the Administration’s devious plans for building a case for war in Iraq. On July 18th, 2003, Kelly was found dead in a secluded lane in Harrowdown Hill, with his left wrist slit. His death was ruled a suicide, but Jim Rarey feels that there were many red flags that indicated otherwise.
Colonel Ted Westhusing, one of the Army’s leading scholars of military ethics, volunteered to serve in Iraq in order to enable him to better be able to teach his students, as described in this article. A few weeks before he died, he had received an anonymous complaint that a private contractor was cheating the U.S. government and committing human rights violations, including participating in the killing of Iraqi military personnel and civilians. Westhusing reported all this, but an official investigation found his allegations to be “unfounded.” Westhusing was very upset about these findings. Shortly thereafter, in June of 2005, Westhusing was found dead in a trailer at a military base in Baghdad, with a gunshot wound to his head. The death was ruled a suicide. Shortly before his death he had expressed fear of being alone. His family and friends were troubled that he died “without a bodyguard, surrounded by the same contractors he suspected of wrongdoing. They wonder why the manager who discovered Westhusing's body and picked up his weapon was not tested for gunpowder residue.”
Gary Webb, the “investigative reporter who broke the story about the CIA's involvement with crack cocaine dealers in Southern California in the 1980s,” was found dead in Sacramento in December 2004, from a gunshot wound to the head. The death was ruled a suicide. This article notes that Webb had been receiving death threats and discusses the impossibility of a suicide victim shooting himself in the face twice.
Six microbiologists connected with the 2001 anthrax hoax died shortly after the hoax played out. This article notes that after the source of the anthrax (the strain that killed several American citizens and was also sent to the offices of Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy) was traced to a Pentagon lab, “microbiologists started dropping off like flies.” Five died between Nov. 12 and Dec. 12, 2001, of “suicides” or “heart attacks,” and one was bashed to death with a baseball bat in a high-security lab.
Interim concluding comments
Thus it is that the dark forces who operate behind the scenes to influence the course of our country and the world on behalf of their own interests, at the expense of the rest of humanity, have many different tools at their disposal. Most fundamentally, they have money -- so much more than the rest of us that our money can’t even begin to compete with them. As of 2007, 1 percent of households in our country owned more than twice as much wealth as the bottom 80 percent of households. That gives them quite a lot to work with. With that wealth, they control of much of the political process in our country, and they also control the news media from which Americans get much of their information. With control of the media they bombard us with incessant propaganda which conditions many Americans to accept their views on what our country does and why it does it, what Americans must buy, and whom they should vote for. Our government can always play the “national security” card to keep information away from the American people that would be helpful in allowing them to connect the dots. The “national security” card is considered so sacred that most Americans accept it unquestioningly -- especially after 9-11. When all this fails, they can also manipulate our election apparatus -- much of which they control. In 2000 and 2004 they had such a weak presidential candidate that all the propaganda in the world -- without some election tampering -- couldn’t suffice to win a presidential election against much better and more qualified candidates. And finally, their vast amount of money can be used to eliminate, in various ways, those who pose the most danger to them.
In my last post I said that I would conclude this issue in a second post (this one) by discussing the methods that are used by these dark forces to maintain their wealth and power, followed by a discussion of why it is that such darkly motivated people have climbed to positions of such great wealth and power in the world. Well, I wrote about the former, but again it turns out that this post is getting too long. And I’m afraid of making it too long for people to want to read, so I’ll save “why it is that such darkly motivated people have climbed to positions of such great power in the world” for a third post on this issue -- which will be my next post. But I will also mention here that, whereas these dark forces have qualities that have helped them to rise to positions of immense wealth and power, some of those same qualities also constitute areas of vulnerability -- which hopefully will ultimately be their undoing.
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