The Dark Side

Just after 9/11, Vice President Dick Cheney on “Meet the Press,” said the nation would engage its “dark side” to find the attackers. “We’ve got to spend time in the shadows,” Mr. Cheney said. “It’s going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.”

So just what is this "dark side" that Cheney talked about? I don't know, and if anybody does know about it, they are not talking. What I do know is that over five million people are employed in top secret projects in the USA. In 2008 the "black budget" came to over fifty billion dollars. The money is given with no questions asked. Senators and Congressmen are not in on the secret. They know as much about it as you and I do. The President is in the know, but whether he knows it all is open for discussion. The top secret projects continue no matter who is president.

As such, some thing is obviously going on that they don't want us to know about. It exists in the shadows, and apparently it can use "any means" at its disposal, basically, to achieve its objective.”

We know it's there. But what is its objective?

The principle of Ockams Razor as it is most commonly understood is, “The simplest explanation for a phenomenon is most likely the correct explanation. " So what is the simplest explanation for all the secrecy? Is it simply to keep our enemy from finding out about our new weapons?

The whole thing started with the Manhatten Project. The development of the atomic bomb was kept secret from Congress, and when Senator Harry Truman got angry about the huge expenses he demanded to know what was going on. He was denied any explanation. He only found out what it was all about when he became president. And the meaning for the secrecy was to keep our enemies from finding out about the Atom Bomb.

It continued after the war, and when we found a new enemy in the Soviet Union, the secrecy thing grew even larger. The obvious reason for the secrecy was to ensure that the Soviets didn't find about our new weapons. And the soviets did the same thing.

At the end of the cold war we no longer had an enemy; so we no longer had a valid reason for the secrecy. But it still went on, and it even grew much larger. The simplest explanation for the secrecy is: even though we no longer have an enemy, we are still developing secret weapons because we know that we will, some day, have a new enemy.

However, there's more to it than just protecting the knowledge of secret weapons falling into the hands of potential enemies. It's also about control and manipulation. Secret government organizations in America have been known to manipulate elections, revolutions, and even assasinations in other countries. They can only do this by acting in secret. And they only do it so as to preserve our freedoms, like.

Yes we have a huge secret thing going on, and it costs a lot of money, but we are assured that it's for our own good. Some one has to be top dog, and for us to continue being it, we'd best keep some things secret. Don't even let the right hand know what the left hand is doing.

The problem with the big secrecy thing is that hardly anyone knows what is really going on. And some things look like they come under the heading of control and manipulation, but not of other countries; it looks, to some people, that the control and manipulation is now aimed at our own country. And, of course, it is. It always has been. Even before the big secrecy thing, the government, or entities outside of the government, have succesfully controlled and manipulated the population of any given country. Nowadays, it is suspected that the United States is under the control of big corporations. Eisenhower warned us about the weapons industry, and it's the weapons industry that is gaining most from all the top secret weapons. And to keep getting orders for their weapons we need to have a war now and then. Failing that, we need to at least have a percieved enemy so as to scare people into believing that we need the weapons.

Cheney and Bush were, very much, pro-corporate America. I didn't like them. But free elections were held, and they won twice; then when they left they did the right thing and handed over power to Obama. I believe Obama to be a pro-people president; and he's about as much of a socialist as this country can handle right now.

Bush and Cheney were capitalists, and they did what they believed to be the right thing for the country. But to do it they had to use a lot of mis-information. They lied about a lot of things when it comes to corporate America, and we don't know, and we'll never know, what they did in regards to keeping our country safe from another terrorist attack, but they did spend time in the shadows, and it's most likely that they employed the dark side; and the dark side, as dark sides tend to do, responded with ruthless efficiency.

And that's life at the top folks.

And as for the lies, well, the truth is that lies are a part of life, and they most probably are part of truth tee boot.

We begin life by being lied to, Santa Clause and the tooth fairy, like, and even before we suss those lies we begin to realize that we'd be much better off to lie than tell the truth. It's in our basic human nature, and we have to be taught not to lie. An unfortunate few children never get it, and recent studies reveal that they are brain damaged. But even so, nature plays its role, and the kids that always tell the truth are soon ostracised and ridiculed. The rest of us play the game, and we become highly skilled liars. But we keep it to ourselves, like; we live in our own secret world, and we come to think that we are the only ones doing it.

Nah, we are all doing it. And the ones doing it the best are in charge. We elect the best liars, and we get what we elect.

Sophistication means, according to an on line dictionary:

"To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly.
2. To make impure; adulterate.
3. To make more complex or inclusive; refine."

Ah yis: Less naive. It's a slightly painful journey, but it's well worth the effort. And I think I'm sophisticated enough to know that my life is being manipulated by those even more sophisticated than I am. But with the help of Obama, I could see, a mere chance, like, of a slightly possible chance of a mere glimpse of the truth.

Ah but it's not meant to be, and that's why I'm gutted.

But its okay, I can live with it, because, as luck will have it, and all things arising, like, just a few hours ago, I found out that my doctor has renewed my prescription for Vicodin.

Hope yet!

Your man in America:

Walter