{"id":84131,"date":"2013-08-06T21:05:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T20:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/?p=17771"},"modified":"2013-08-06T21:05:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T20:05:56","slug":"washington-thinks-you-are-stupid-paul-craig-roberts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/washington-thinks-you-are-stupid-paul-craig-roberts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Thinks You Are Stupid \u2013 Paul Craig Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Washington Thinks You Are Stupid<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul Craig Roberts<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the old saying that if the government fears the people, there is liberty, but if the people fear the government there is tyranny. The criminals in Washington not only do not fear us, they do not respect us. Washington looks upon Americans as stupid sheeple.<\/p>\n

Washington believes that it can tell the population anything and the people will believe it. For example, the official line is that the recession that began in December 2007 ended in June 2009. Many Americans believe this even though they have not personally experienced economic recovery. Indeed, they are sinking further into poverty and near poverty. <\/p>\n

And don\u2019t forget those nonexistent weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was alleged by Washington to possess. Or the Gulf of Tonkin fake event when Washington claimed that its warship was attacked by North Vietnam. Really, the list of official lies is very long. Anyone who believes anything that Washington says is too naive to be let out of the house alone. But Americans believe the lies, because that is what they think patriotism requires.<\/p>\n

Relying on the proven gullibility of the bulk of the US population, Washington claims to have uncovered an al Qaeda plot to attack US embassies across North Africa and the Middle East. To foil the plot, Washington closed 19 embassies for the past week-end and for this week also. <\/p>\n

Washington has not explained how closing the embassies foils the plot. If al Qaeda wants to blow up the embassies, it can blow them up whether they are open or closed. <\/p>\n

If al Qaeda wants to kill the embassy personnel, they can kill them at home or on the way to work or later in the embassies when the alert passes.<\/p>\n

I only check in with the presstitute media in order to ascertain whether my current estimate of their prostitution for Washington is accurate. Possibly I missed some expression of skepticism about the latest terrorist threat. But I did hear NPR\u2019s account. Back in the Reagan years, NPR was an independent voice. Today it is part of the presstitute media. NPR lies for Washington with the best of them. <\/p>\n

The US media has ignored the obvious fact that as soon as the American population, Congress, and Washington\u2019s puppet allies, such as Germany, made an issue over the NSA\u2019s clearly unconstitutional and totally illegal universal spying, the Obama regime pushed the Fear Button and hyped a new terror plot in order to shut up critics and bring Congress and Germany back in line.<\/p>\n

Washington proclaimed that a \u201cthreat\u201d was discovered that al Qaeda–an organization that Washington is using in Washington\u2019s effort to overthrow the Assad government in Syria and one that is enriched by US military contracts to affiliated groups in Afghanistan–was going to blow up US embassies in the Middle East and North Africa. http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/08\/05\/army-wont-suspend-contracts-with-al-qaeda-tied-companies\/<\/a> Washington did not explain why al Qaeda, a recipient of Washington\u2019s largess, was going to turn off the money spigot by attacking US embassies.<\/p>\n

I am surprised that bombs haven\u2019t been set off in the embassies in order to prove the value of the National Stasi Agency\u2019s spying, thereby shaming those in Congress and among the puppet states in Europe who object to the spying.<\/p>\n

Once you give a moment\u2019s thought to Washington\u2019s claim, you see that Washington is proving its impotence by hyping such non-existent threats. Officially, the US has been at war with al Qaeda since October 7, 2001. The \u201csuperpower\u201d has been battling a few thousand lightly armed al Qaeda for almost 12 years, and what is the result? <\/p>\n

Despite Washington\u2019s claims to have killed al Qaeda\u2019s top leaders, including Osama bin Laden himself, Washington has lost the war. Al Qaeda has grown so powerful that it not only fights in Syria, with Washington\u2019s help, against Assad, but also has prevented the US military from occupying Afghanistan. Moreover, in addition to al Qaeda\u2019s military success against the \u201csuperpower\u201d and the chaos that al Qaeda continues to produce in Iraq, al Qaeda now is so powerful that it can shut down US embassies all across the Middle East and North Africa. The \u201cthreat\u201d which was supposed to boost the NSA\u2019s position actually proves Washington\u2019s powerlessness.<\/p>\n

We can only pray that soon al Qaeda shuts down Washington itself. Imagine the sense of American liberation if Washington simply was shut down, or even better if Washington could be put under Punjab\u2019s magic blanket and disappeared. For the 99 percent, and the rest of the world, Washington is nothing but an oppressor. <\/p>\n

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\n About Dr. Paul Craig Roberts<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West<\/a> is now available. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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