{"id":255702,"date":"2016-07-13T20:20:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=255702"},"modified":"2016-07-13T20:20:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:20:39","slug":"government-officials-deceive-deceive-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/government-officials-deceive-deceive-public\/","title":{"rendered":"How Government Officials Deceive Themselves, To Deceive the Public"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Especially the foreign services and the military of any country are being paid like lawyers are standardly paid: they\u2019re paid to make the case for their employer. They\u2019re \u2018mercenaries\u2019 wielding words not (merely) arms, who become the more effective to the extent that they can deceive themselves to believe<\/i> the propaganda (or, in the military case, the justifiability of their killings) that they’re selling to the public. Let\u2019s therefore look at some of these \u2018mercenaries\u2019, in a video<\/span><\/a> about U.S. policy toward China, so that we can tell, from their vocal inflections, and also from their facial expressions while they are saying blatantly false things, whether we think that they believe<\/i> the lies that they are spouting, while they\u2019re spouting them to us:<\/span><\/p>\n

In the video, which is titled\u00a0\u201cWorld War 3 Between America and China \u2014 Full Documentary\u201d<\/span><\/a>, appears a former U.S. diplomat to China and to Taiwan, John J. Tkacik Jr., saying, at 9:55, that, \u201cthe real reason I think why America has a commitment to Taiwan is because Taiwan is a democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

How, then, can the U.S. government \u2018justify\u2019 its longstanding alliance with the Saud family who are the dictators over \u2014 and who despotically claim to own \u2014 Saudi Arabia, and who champion head-chopping of any dissidents there (and\u00a0who financed the 9\/11 jihadists in the U.S.<\/span><\/a>)? And that\u2019s only one contrary example of our \u2018democracies\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that official\u2019s lie didn\u2019t stop there. He continued: \u201cIt is in fact the most vibrant and dynamic democracy in east Asia. And it\u2019s a democracy that came to fruition under the pressure of the U.S. government primarily the Congress, after forty years of very tight authoritarian rule by a regime that came from mainland China.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He neatly avoided mentioning that, though \u201cthe real reason I think why America has a commitment to Taiwan is because Taiwan is a democracy,\u201d the U.S. was equally allied with Taiwan back under the Chiang Kai-shek \u201cregime\u201d (as Tkacik himself<\/i> called it), which stole from China\u00a0“many national treasures and much of China’s\u00a0gold reserves\u00a0and foreign currency reserves\u201d<\/span><\/a>, as even the CIA-edited<\/span><\/a> wikipedia allows to be said there.<\/span><\/p>\n

So: if \u2018democracy\u2019 is \u201cthe real reason\u201d why America is \u201ccommitted\u201d to Taiwan, why was America committed to Taiwan during the dictatorial period, 1949-1996, before \u201cthe first direct presidential election\u201d took place there?<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, the official is lying.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, he is attributing the dictatorial regime to the fact that it \u201ccame from mainland China.\u201d He\u2019s indirectly attributing<\/i> its dictatorship to the communist Mao Zedong. But the reality<\/i> is that Chiang, and the original U.S. dictator there, Chen Yi<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0were enemies<\/i> of Mao, not<\/i> his allies, and that this is why<\/i> the U.S. is \u201ccommitted\u201d to Taiwan \u2014 notwithstanding that the U.S. regime in Taiwan was long a dictatorship, which moreover had stolen so much from Mao\u2019s regime on the mainland. (And, even today, the U.S. regime, which stole Taiwan from the Japanese regime, which had stolen it from the previous, royal, Chinese regime, refuses to allow today\u2019s Chinese government to negotiate a re<\/i>-unification of Taiwan with the country of which it had always been a part, which is China.)<\/span><\/p>\n

As even the wikipedia article notes, Chen-Yi was set-up as being Taiwan\u2019s dictator by U.S. forces, on 25 October 1945, when the island was freed from the Japanese regime, which was legendarily barbaric, and, “during this time [of Japanese rule], over 2,000 women were forced into sexual\u00a0slavery for Imperial Japanese troops, now euphemistically\u00a0called ‘comfort women\u2019.\u201d So: the U.S. established a new fascist dictatorship, to replace the fascist dictatorship that had previously existed there.<\/span><\/p>\n

The next person to be interviewed in this video is James Liley, former head of the CIA in Asia, who says (11:15) that after World War II, \u201cWe were looking for a strong, unified, democratic, China.\u201d Oh, really? \u201cWell, we got two-thirds of it. Strong and unified, not democratic.\u201d He was referring there to the post-Mao regime on the mainland \u2014 not<\/i> to the regime we installed in Taiwan. So, this conquest of Japan gave the U.S. the right to dictate to Mao\u2019s successors, by backing brigands who had stolen from their country? \u201cNow we\u2019re calling China a responsible stakeholder.\u201d Oh, it\u2019s for the U.S. dictatorship to judge<\/i> who is \u2018responsible\u2019, and who isn\u2019t?<\/i> \u201cWe\u2019ve got half of it; we\u2019ve got a stakeholder, but not a responsible one yet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

People like this are dictators to foreign countries. That\u2019s what America\u2019s fighting forces are serving \u2014 U.S. dictators to foreign countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lilley continues: \u201cU.S. feels that we have an obligation, legal, moral, to Taiwan, that we cannot stand idly by and let this be taken over by an authoritarian communist-influenced power. This cannot be.\u201d\u00a0(He ignores the fact that Britain\u2019s Margaret Thatcher did essentially this in regard to Hong Kong, and that the end-result was peacful, and productive<\/span><\/a>, both for Hong Kong, and for China. By contrast, as the remainder<\/i> of this video explains, America\u2019s resistance against doing the same thing in its<\/i> colony, Taiwan, is now increasingly posing a danger of nuclear war \u2014 which would be disastrous for everybody<\/i>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it wonderful to have such a benefactor to the world, as today\u2019s U.S.? Look at our other beneficiaries: Iraq. Libya. Syria. Guatemala. El Salvador. Chile. Argentina. Brazil, South Africa. Honduras. Palestine. Etc. Those people are much better off than are the \u2018communist-influenced\u2019 capitalists on China\u2019s mainland? Really?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Here is how U.S. President Barack Obama phrased the matter, to graduating West Point cadets, on 28 May 2014:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“the United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. That\u00a0has\u00a0been true for the century passed and it will be true for the century\u00a0to\u00a0come. But the world is changing with accelerating speed. This presents\u00a0opportunity, but also new dangers. We know all too well, after 9\/11,\u00a0just how technology and globalization has put power once reserved\u00a0for\u00a0states in the hands of individuals, raising the capacity of terrorists\u00a0to do harm. Russia\u2019s aggression toward former Soviet states\u00a0unnerves\u00a0capitals in Europe, while China\u2019s economic rise and military\u00a0reach\u00a0worries its neighbors. From Brazil to India, rising middle\u00a0classes\u00a0compete with us, and governments seek a greater say in\u00a0global forums.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There, the aspiring global dictator is telling America\u2019s future military leaders: The U.S. is the only<\/i> \u201cindispensable\u201d nation; all others<\/i> are \u201cdispensable,\u201d and the enemies you\u2019ll be fighting against are the dispensable nations now rising to compete economically against us, and which even \u201cseek a greater say in global forums.\u201d Mustn\u2019t allow that<\/i>, must we? <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s just the latest version of the old American \u201cgunboat diplomacy.\u201d (Only, this time, with the modern danger of nuclear war, being thrown in.)<\/span><\/p>\n

This is today\u2019s American\u00a0\u2018democracy\u2019<\/span><\/a>, in macro; it\u2019s this\u00a0\u2018democracy’<\/span><\/a>, in micro. At either end, it\u2019s today\u2019s Sparta; not really today\u2019s Athens (which it pretends<\/i> to be). <\/span><\/p>\n

Do its propagandists know<\/i> they\u2019re lying? Or do they hide it even from themselves?<\/span><\/p>\n

An interesting fact about the interviewees that were cited here, Tkacik and Liley, is that they\u2019re both retired. Why, then, do they still keep up the lying front (especially since they\u2019re now feeding myths that could produce a nuclear war)? They\u2019re no longer on the U.S. government payroll. But they do receive income as \u2018experts\u2019, based upon their past official positions. How much credibility would they now<\/i> have if they said: \u201cOh, it was just lying \u2014 that\u2019s what I did for a living\u201d? They\u2019re never really free. They\u2019re always like horses that are harnessed to a carriage of frauds. They\u2019ve simply got to keep pulling this carriage, until they die.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Especially the foreign services and the military of any country are being paid like lawyers are standardly paid: they\u2019re paid to make the case for their employer. They\u2019re \u2018mercenaries\u2019 wielding words not (merely) arms, who become the more effective to the extent that they can deceive themselves to believe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":255755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[115,30,960,32,96,535,698,59,1023,804,524,754,523,49,76,40,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-255702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-cia","12":"tag-cover-up","13":"tag-global-news","14":"tag-hillary-clinton","15":"tag-military","16":"tag-nuclear","17":"tag-politics-2","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-syria","20":"tag-ukraine","21":"tag-usa-news","22":"tag-warfare","23":"tag-white-house","24":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}