Saturday, January 8, 2011

WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us

by Fred Branfman from AlterNet. (Fred Branfman exposed the U.S. Executive's Secret Air War in Laos, which illegally and savagely murdered tens of thousands of innocent Laotian peasants. See Wikipedia if you wish more details on the author.)

In this article the author brings together all the sordid government lies exposed by WikiLeaks to show "how much our government lies to us."
The purpose of communicating with the public is not to provide them with truthful information but rather to advance “the mission”. People who communicate with the public obtain their jobs and are promoted on the basis of their ability to mislead, deceive, “spin” and lie. There is no recorded case where Executive Branch officials have been rewarded for telling the truth to the American people, and many where they have been punished or lost their jobs for doing so.