A Truth to Face
Sam Aurelius Milam III
 We
must face the truth, Chen Yi, however great the cost.
|
On
the sixth of January of this year, I watched the live coverage of the situation
at the Capitol Building. I watched it all afternoon and part of the
evening. I saw a lot of people standing around, waving flags and
signs, and making noise. They were described, during the live coverage,
as demonstrators and protestors. I saw a small number of those people
break into the building. Live coverage inside of the building showed
them strolling across the rotunda, between the ropes, and taking pictures.
There was one scene of a man lounging at a desk. There were some
scenes of paper strewn on a floor and boxes scattered in a hallway.
Maybe the intruders did those things. Maybe not. I don't know.
Live coverage didn't show any serious damage or violence, only a forced
entry and some alleged, minor mischief.
If
the truth of such an event is ever available at all, then it's available
only during live coverage. After the government and its news agencies
edit the record, the truth will have been distorted or eliminated.
Anybody who remembers things differently will be discredited as a conspiracy
theorist. This particular event is a good example. For one
thing, the terminology has been changed. The people who were involved
are no longer described as protestors or demonstrators. They're now
being described as rioters and insurrectionists. A small number of
video clips, showing some minor scuffling, have been shown repeatedly.
I didn't see any of those video clips during the live coverage. Maybe
they're fabricated video clips. I don't know, but the view in them
is usually from behind, making the participants anonymous, and up close,
so that the scuffling fills the screen, giving the impression of widespread
violence. Such edited reporting has presented a far more extreme
version of the event than did the live coverage, and a far more damning
condemnation of the participants. In fact, the event was neither
a riot nor an insurrection, but people still believe the edited version
of the story.
| Against
stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
—Johann von Schiller
The Maid of Orleans |
Before
the dust had even settled, some of the congressmen were boasting that they'd
continued to do their sacred duty, in spite of the interruption.
There isn't anything sacred about what those scoundrels do. Any such
claim of sacred duty is an ominous warning that they might harbor some
notion of a divine mandate in their work, and that they might actually
expect the people to believe it. A doctrine of the divine right of
congressmen is just as oppressive and as onerous as was the doctrine of
the divine right of kings. People who accept the one are just as
dim-witted as were the people who accepted the other, and just as guilty
of complicity in the ugly results.
| As
for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the
fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives
constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser
and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the
dogs.
—Henry David Thoreau
Walden-Essay on Civil Disobedience |
The
event at the Capitol Building caused the people far less harm than is routinely
done by the congressmen in their daily maintenance of the police state.
The only real and lasting harm that it caused was to give those congressmen
another excuse to increase the police state's powers, such as increasing
routine surveillance and the control of information. The government
already controls the print and broadcast media. Now, it's using the
event at the Capitol Building as an excuse to increase its control and
censorship of the internet. The people mindlessly accept it.
| Mr.
President, the American people will buy [believe] whatever we tell
them to. You know that.
—Stuart Smiley, in Canadian
Bacon
|
People
believe whatever the government tells them. It happened after the
events at Ruby Ridge, the Mt. Carmel Center, the Murrah Federal Building,
the 911 attacks, and elsewhere. It's happening now, after the event
at the Capitol Building. My father told me that people are too stupid
for it to even be worth bothering with them. I always believed that
people are smart enough to run their own lives. Lately, I'm no longer
as skeptical of my father's opinion, or as sure of my own, as I once was.
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and
the natural logarithm are equal. Requiring that men and women can
have the same jobs doesn't make men and women equal. Requiring that
blacks and whites can eat in the same restaurants doesn't make blacks and
whites equal. Requiring that homosexuals can get married doesn't
make homosexuals and heterosexuals equal. People who are equal in
one respect are not necessarily equal in other respects. Aristotle
knew that. We should know it. No matter what the reformers
demand and no matter what any government declares, the value of the natural
logarithm will still be about 2.718, the value
