Part 8 of 10 : Fairy Tales

I used to believe in fairy tales. I believed them because the adults around me believed them when I was growing up. My teachers believed them also. I’m not talking about Santa Claus, the tooth fairy or the Easter Bunny. I’m talking about fantasies that are simply not based in reality.

Here are three examples:

ONE: They wouldn’t do that.

TWO: If that was true, it would be on the news.

THREE: No one could keep it a secret.

Most people can give examples of why all three are not true. Here are a few that come to mind:

1) the military budget and the national debt are right out in the open. You and I wouldn’t create 26 trillion in debt, or bomb other nations and kill civilians. Yet 200 million people were killed in the last 100 years by their own governments.

The US killed a million people in Iraq, many of them women and children. Would you kill a million people in Iraq? Of course not. Your not a psychopath.

2). Parts 1 thru 7 of these series contain a tremendous amount of information about things that should be on the news — and would be on the news if we had a media that was committed to bringing us the truth.

We would all know about hero’s like Gary Webb, Jon Wedger, and so many others who have been struck down, or risked everything to bring us the truth. We would expose the trafficking networks so that they would finally be stopped. We would not give the intelligence agencies nearly unlimited powers.

3) People keep secrets all the time. Especially criminals who are committing horrific acts. Nevertheless, victims and whistle-blowers keep coming forward, year after year, with the same stories. Do we hear them, or do we ignore them?