Surely, They Can't Not Know

Bill Moyers Secret Government PBS 1987


I first saw this video on Ron Paul's blog over at MySpace. For me, the most striking fact is the year that it was broadcast. All of this was true in 1987. What's to say that, with a former CIA director sitting as Vice President, an actor as President, and many $200 billion deficits already on the books, that a CIA covert action had not already taken place in this country? More than half of the over 2 million people incarcerated in this country haven't done anything to anyone. Yet, we have ruthless criminals wreaking havoc on the world.

I have a passing familiarity with almost all of the facts presented in the video. And, I've observed the result of this spiraling web of deceit as it has spun it's way into the twenty-first century. What I find almost unfathomably mind boggling is the ease with which this is accepted. Ongoing atrocities at home and abroad are committed with the consent of the governed. Surely, they can't not know what is going on. I just can't understand how the vast majority of Americans can ignore it.

In a large sense, We the People are directly responsible for every act that is committed in our names. We choose who will be responsible for representing us and consistently choose those who we know will not. The approval ratings start out near 80%. Two years later, after a constant barrage of letters and phone calls begging them to do our bidding, the approval ratings will be near 20% and the same people will be reelected. People seem to exhibit no respect for their own sovereign dignity as human beings and citizens of these United States of America. It's insane.