Wikileaks and General Smedley Butler

Sept. 5, 2010 - PRLog -- Wikileaks and General Smedley Butler

General Smedley Butler was America’s original Wikileaks founder.  His essay called “War is a Racket” first exposed the truth of the warfare/welfare state to the citizens of this nation.  While it was written decades ago, it reads as if it were written yesterday.  The schools and media have done everything they could to prevent this man from receiving the highest levels of honor and respect due only to a handful of American patriots.  It is the responsibility of all Americans to heed his wisdom and advice.

The fact is that Americans are lied to by their government on such a regular basis that it has become a reflex action.  We are supposed to be a self-governing republic, but how can this be accomplished if our government lies to us about the economy, banking, corporate abuses, international politics, war, and even medicine?

It is documented that Americans have been made the target of Pentagon disinformation campaigns.  We are lied to as a matter of government policy, but this deception comes at a cost.  As countries are demonized and their rulers are constantly portrayed as Hitler, we are locked into war for the interests of the financial elite.  General Smedley Butler, two-time Medal of Honor winner, after he retired, recognized he had become a gangster for corporate interests.  His essay, “War is a Racket” could be viewed as the first effort to inform and expose the war racket he called “possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”

Ignorant Americans promote the idea we should be subservient in our loyalty to government.  They believe we should just trust the government to do what is right for us. The people who think like this, the Hannity and Limbaugh worshippers who call themselves conservatives, just feel international politics and war should be left to government.  They deny elitism, while at the same time inadvertently supporting the idea that war, economy, and foreign policy are the domain of experts.  They never tell Americans to read Ludwig Von Mises “Human Action” or Murray Rothbard’s “Man,  Economy, and the State”.  They never explain the process or essence of fractional reserve banking, fiat money systems, central banking, U.S. hegemony and petroldollar recycling, or how our Democrats and Republicans regularly violate the precepts upon which our nation was established.  What they fail to recognize is that we Americans are sovereign and the government is there to serve us.  What master wants to be lied to by their servant?  What master would trust their servant with their money, property, and life?  Why would a master leave matters of the most critical importance to his mere servants?

We have an illusion in this country of it being a democracy, yet we are not able to understand the controls put in place to manufacture our consent.  The U.S. overthrows governments, carries out terror, supports dictators, and then fools us into supporting the demonizing a foreign leader or government to obtain mass support for war when that foreign leader or government decides to protect itself and its resources from U.S. coercion and domination.  Our morals and sensibilities are bent to support torture, mass murder, and terror by government.  Most Americans do not realize that it is the top 20% of the population that is the most indoctrinated.  The lower 80% are more interested in sports, racing, fashion, travel, jobs, movies, music, jogging, and hobbies from model airplanes building to auto refurbishing. While all these pursuits are excellent diversions that create enjoyment, they should never divert us from understanding the true nature of government and those who seek power or serve that power.  Most Americans do not even understand that we barely have a glimpse of what the government does in our names.  It is through all the mainstream media that Americans are targeted for indoctrination while believing they are being provided choices.

Enter, Julian Assange and Wikileaks who exposed hundreds of thousands of documents outlining the ways the U.S. government seeks to control and manipulate foreign governments and popular opinion.  It can be assured that if the American public knew the extent to which it was being played a fool by the Israeli government, it would probably cause the creation of a viable third-party political organization.

While the U.S. government will sing the praises of any individual who exposes government abuses in China, it condemns Wikileaks exposing the slaughter of civilians and the deceitful ways the U.S. seeks to manipulate other governments to support its “War on Muslims”.  If an individual exposed Russian slaughter of women and children and their deceiving other nations as a means to foment war and instability, the U.S. would be subsidizing the activity the way they subsidized Solidarity during the collapse of the Soviet Union. But while the leaders of the Soviet Union allowed the empire to collapse, does anyone think U.S. leaders would not first engage in oppression, war, or even genocide to maintain the American imperium’s control and power?


The Soviet Union was controlled by ideologues without much personal financial interests involved in the domination of other countries.  It became apparent that creating a workers paradise through building an empire was a sucker’s bet.  Our leaders, however, have no problem using a $3 trillion dollars in public funds to protect their financial interests even though they represent only a tiny fraction of the $3 trillion dollars of public money they will vote to spend.  They are perfectly willing to destroy the middle class for their economic interests, meanwhile it seems the middle class has been so indoctrinated as to accept this penny-wise and dollar-foolish approach to geopolitics and global economy if promoted as a battle of good and evil over terrorism by those who control national perception.

The U.S. hides what it does only because if the people knew they would end all war rackets immediately.  Herein lies the rub, which is that those who seek to control public perception for their interests own the mainstream media.  If The People Knew, hereafter referred to as the ITPKP (the last P is for Principle), Americans would always choose peace and prosperity as opposed to domination and oppressions.  The ITPKP comes into effect when the government says it is doing one thing while actually doing something else.  The PATRIOT act was supposed to protect freedom, but while the government spends a trillion dollars keeping us safe from germs, it refuses to provide laws to stop the pillaging of wealth by the insurance industry.  While the government prosecutes a “war on Terror” it has made Americans the targets of terror the world over.  While it fought a “War Against Drugs”, it created a black market so lucrative that it threatens to topple governments while perverting the American justice system, destroying the constitutional fabric of our nation, and making all Americans the collateral damage of militarized police forces.  ITPKP extends to every action which, when undertaken by government, always ends up causing more problems than the problem government was initially trying to solve.

The Clintons, masters of media control, have hidden so many crimes from the public that it could only be through the advancing of the interests of the elites that the citizens of this country are kept ignorant.  We see Hillary every day, but we never hear from the 70 year-old grandmother and bible student who survived Waco only to be charged and spend the last 17 years in jail.  

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