Time: Sat Dec 13 17:40:42 1997 To: From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: THEIR DEFINITION OF THE "TRUTH" IS 'DIFFERENT'... Cc: Bcc: sls References: <snip> > >From: "Henry Ayre" <henri@alaska.net> > >I have just finished reading THE DOWNING OF TWA FLIGHT 800 by James >Sanders, Zebra Books, 1977. It's a book that is difficult to put down once >you begin, and it takes only sever hours to read. Since it costs only $7 >(pocketbook format) it recommends itself on two points immediately. But >beyond that, I found it was impossible NOT to believe that, with so many >individual factual elements that fit together so nicely, I was reading the >truth and the whole truth of the disaster. In any analysis of a complex >event, if the observer finds just three elements that indisputably fit >together in a certain fashion then he has a firm grip on the large picture >of what happened. Author Sanders presents to the reader not three but >dozens of elements of the Flight 800 disaster which fit together nicely. >The only questions that are left would be less than consequential details. >The cause of the crash is named. > >But beyond solving the story of the demise of Flight 800, Sanders book puts >the spotlight on the mind-blowing perfidy of the Federal government, taken >as a whole. In the first month, Federal investigators knew by the physical >evidence what had brought the 747 crashing into the ocean. Yet, they (in >the person of one FBI Kallstrom) lied directly to the American public. It >was claimed that they had NO idea what brought the plane down, later that >it DEFINITELY was NOT a bomb or a missile. The lying was done looking into >the TV camera, to be reiterated by all the main talking heads of the >nation's major TV news chains. This lying has been done with great emphasis >and resonance, as if to say, "This IS the truth... trust us!" > >But it wasn't the truth. Many of those so bombastically declared it to be >the truth KNEW it wasn't the truth, thus were guilty of public lying, a >capital offense in my opinion. Others simply reiterated mindlessly the >leitmotif of the grand authorities who knew damned well that they were >lying. These mindless ones should be banished to some cold dank rocky >island to keep company with salmon, seagulls, and brown bear until the end >of their days. > >It becomes clear that this whole powerful and complex engine of Federal >government lying is not something that just happened to pop up at the time >of the Flight 800 disaster. Indeed, we can think of many times in previous >instances where the government marshalled its forces with astounding speed >and purpose to manufacture a 'truth' favourable to its image. So how long >has all this lying been going on. Apparently a very very long time. AND WHO >ARE THE PRINCIPLE LIARS? In general, all politicians, save a very few. The >higher up the food chain of lies the more successful they are as >politicians. > >One thing should be perfectly clear. The Federal government does not hold >the same definition of 'the truth' as do the average citizens of this >country. For us the truth is a precise and complete recitation of events of >the past, which recitation may or not be to our benefit. For the Federal >government the truth is a recitation of events of the past which is part >true, part fiction, part distorsion, and part silence on real elements of >the situation. The result is ALWAYS a story that will do maximum good/ >minimum harm to the power and grandeur of the government. This to the >centrists (both big AND small) IS the truth because the central government >to them IS the essence of the country. To harm the central government by >saying something detrimental to it is "untrue" because (to the centrists) >it jeopardizes the safety of the government. If this appears to you to be >tortured reasoning you are not alone. > >Reading Sanders book--which I strongly recommend--convinces the average >American that he has a real problem with the Federal government. That >problem might even become as personal as the safety of the commercial >jetliner he boards so innocently. H. Ayre. > <snip>
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