The Compost Files: Black is White

Quote of the Day:
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200
years. Those nations always progress through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith,
from spiritual faith to great courage,
from great courage to liberty,
from liberty to abundance,
from abundance to selfishness,
from selfishness to complacency,
from complacency to dependency,
from dependency back into bondage."

~ Alexander Fraser Tytler Lord Woodhouselee ~

I apologize, to anyone who might be reading this blog, for the long silence. After moving I was offline for over a month. Was actually a little bit surprised that I did not experience internet withdrawal. Although I rarely got to the library to read email, favorite sites and news the lack of internet access did not seem to bother me. There is so much to observe and learn from real life that, with the exception of news and email, not using the internet did not really matter much.

Looking around at the world, I can see that the Bush/Neocon Lying Machine has been working none stop to keep the US soundly asleep. The people I work with usually watch the TV news and the lies of omission are particularly glaring. A person who doesn't read the internet probably wouldn't be aware of this though.

One night, the Downing Street Memos were casually mentioned as a passing remark by the BBC. When I finally got to the library and the internet, my favorite news and commentary site, Signs of the Times had already posted their usual thought provoking analysis along with several articles.

It's been two weeks and all is quite. Not much has been said except, of course, for the partisan politics. The American people are, basically, silent and, I suspect, a good number of them are in full blown cognitive dissonance. What started with Galloway's speech on the Hill and the latest revelation in the 9/11 coverup might prove to be too much of a shock.

There was a quite, little rumble in DC courtesy of Rep, John Conyers, which lead nowhere. The media is ignoring any evidence that Bush has lied and digging the grave deeper, acting as if they are brain damaged by being bludguned about the head by the idea of a Project for a New American Centuary.

It maybe that the people who are waking up will begin to speak up. It maybe that they will curl up for awhile with despair and then explode. It maybe that this Fourth of July will be witness to another 'attack on our freedoms' as a gift of proof from the Powers That Be that will convince the people that the US needs to continue the blood sacrifice of war and extend it around the world in the guise of 'democracy'.

Reading this transcript from an interview with Scott McClellan gives an idea of the amount of denial and wishful thinking present in the White House. Then again, maybe it isn't denial, maybe they are in the process of changing the way 'reality' is interpreted in the US.

White House Press Secretary Mocks 'Downing Street Memo'
Editor and Publisher
June 16 2005

NEW YORK With a hearing about to begin on Capitol Hill on the so-called Downing Street Memo, hosted by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), reporters at today's White House briefing by Press Secretary Scott McClellan naturally raised the subject, albeit briefly.

Rather than ask about details or implications of the 2003 internal British document -- which seemed to suggest that the Bush administration was determined to go to war against Iraq and that intelligence would be “fixed” to support it -- the correspondents wondered if the White House was ever going to respond to a letter authored by Conyers and signed by 88 of his colleagues asking for information about the memo.

A transcript of two separate exchanges follows:

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Q: Scott, on another topic, has the President or anyone else from the administration responded to the letter sent last month by Congressman John Conyers and signed by dozens of members of the House of Representatives, regarding the Downing Street memo? Has the President or anyone else responded?

McCLELLAN: Not that I'm aware of.

Q: Why not?

McCLELLAN: Why not? Because I think that this is an individual who voted against the war in the first place [Conyers] and is simply trying to rehash old debates that have already been addressed. And our focus is not on the past. It's on the future and working to make sure we succeed in Iraq.

These matters have been addressed, Elaine. I think you know that very well. The press --

Q: Scott, 88 members of Congress signed that letter.

McCLELLAN: The press -- the press have covered it, as well.

Q: But, Scott, don't they deserve the courtesy of a response back?

McCLELLAN: Again, this has been addressed….

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Q: Scott, on John Conyers, John Conyers is walking here with that letter again, as you have acknowledged from Elaine's comment. But 88 leaders on Capitol Hill signed that letter. Now, I understand what you're saying about him, but what about the other 88 who signed this letter, wanting information, answers to these five questions?

McCLELLAN: How did they vote on the war -- the decision to go to war in Iraq?

Q: Well, you have two -- well, if that's the case, you have two Republicans who are looking for a timetable. How do you justify that?

McCLELLAN: I already talked about that.

Q: I understand, but let's talk about this.

McCLELLAN: Like I said --

Q: Well, just because -- I understand -- but if you're talking about unifying and asking for everyone to come together, why not answer, whether they wanted the war or not, answer a letter where John Conyers wrote to the President and then 88 congressional leaders signed? Why not answer that?

McCLELLAN: For the reasons I stated earlier. This is simply rehashing old debates that have already been discussed.

Comment: Solid smoking gun proof that they lied to the American people to start a war that killed 1700 American troops and at least a hundred thousand Iraqis and they call it 're-hashing an old debate' - these monsters' arrogance is only matched by their blood lust and perversion.