Take Off the Blindfold. Don't Be Afraid to See the Truth!

[NorthCarolina]

OpEd News: Coleen Rowley

Unfortunately, the US corporate PR machine is again triumphing. The naked emperor has shot the little boy trying to yell the truth. About 70% of Americans, misled by the likes of Amy Klobuchar, now declare that ignorance is bliss and they want to see Assange assassinated and WikiLeaks taken out. Only a tiny fraction of critical thinker Americans recognize that what they don't know CAN hurt them.

The last time an Administration got 70% of the country to believe a false proposition (that Iraq was behind 9-11), we launched an unending war that has already killed over a million and, in so doing, we shot ourselves in the foot. So unless Americans are willing to take their heads out of the sand, that's about to happen again. We find ourselves in such an Orwellian tragedy, that if we don't laugh, we'll cry.

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The current quagmire devoid of truth on every level is a vortex sucking us all down. A truly independent media mechanism like WikiLeaks and more government whistleblowers would be a huge part of a root solution and that is why those in power are in the process of somehow (whether thru assassination or prosecution), taking them out. WikiLeaks had given me a flicker of hope of perhaps getting a sufficient number of Americans to take their heads out of the sand at least long enough to see the danger all around them, their children and grand children but sadly the Propaganda Machine already has 70% of Americans in agreement that they would prefer not to know the Sorrows of Empire that will befall them (as Chalmers Johnson termed it).

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Link: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Take-Off-the-Blindfold--D-by-Coleen-Rowley-101204-395.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Transparency? What a joke...so many lies, so many deceptions

The truth is like acid in their face...it burns like hell.

[flyarm]

2. such bullshit..70% of Americans barely know WHO is in congress! I bet 40% of Americans couldn't tell

you who the VP of the country is!

Ever see people interviewed on the street ..asking who the VP of the US is? Or who the leaders of congress and the Senate are??

This is such shit..70 % of Americans have no fucking idea who Julian is or Wikileaks.

70% of the USA don't vote! WTF and they want people to believe 70% of this country want Julian assassinated or TAKEN OUT?

Come on..have we all lost common sense? This kind of story is for the blogs ..it is propaganda sent to us on the blogs to make us stfu about Wikileaks..
I just read this story to my hubby who doesn't pay attention to much political..and he shot me a look..of ..Who the fuck is Wikileaks?? Then he laughed and said..70% of Americans have no fucking clue who Wikileaks is ..or Julian ..

My hubby does know because I won't let him not know..but he said if he talked about Wikileaks yesterday on the Golf Course..he would get blank stares..my hubby said ..unless you are a political junkie..no one would know or care who Wikileaks is ..nor Julian!

Oh and my Husband did serve this nation!