Routine Lies

Sometimes we need a reminder of just how radically the government and press are lying.

First, an old story: Back during the surge of US military operations in Afghanistan (say 2005-2013), both the Pentagon and the lapdog MSM were reporting a certain number of American casualties, typically in the hundreds per year. Someone decided to do some checking on this. They set about polling all the little hometown newspapers, and then started polling local officials and checking public records.

The questions they asked ran along the lines of how many of their boys joined the military and were shipped out to Afghanistan, and how many came back in coffins. Granted, the data was partial, in that it simply wasn’t possible to get a response from everywhere in the US. But what they did get was this: the losses were something on the order of ten times the number officially reported. That is, our losses were not something like 2000 for the whole thing, but more like 20,000.

It’s exceedingly difficult to provide links for this, because the story was censored actively within a year of the unofficial report. I saw this personally, watched it happen. Sites were shut down, folks got sent to jail, some disappeared, etc. If you try to use search engines to find anything about it, the results will be muddied by false leads. Notably, the story was never aired through any of the standard controlled opposition sources. This is the same thing that happened with other stories revealed through unofficial sources. Note: This deliberate undercounting happened regardless of which political party held the White House, and echoes similar complaints in other undeclared wars.

Second, a more recent story: I don’t particularly care about Dr. Mercola, but he’s not a liar. I’m convinced he reports the best knows. You can look up his websites and find that he has been reporting something widely known for decades: higher levels of Vitamin D3 in the blood makes it harder for viruses to invade your system. The same goes for Vitamin C, Zinc, and so forth. This has been basic medicine for a very long time.

All of a sudden with the rise of the pandemic, the federal government is threatening him specifically over these well established claims. Sure, they hate Mercola, but that’s not the point. The whole idea is to maintain a panic condition.

There are plenty of other stories like this. How about that missing nuke shipped out on a US Air Force jet? It flew from one base to another, but one was missing when it landed. There was a big investigation, and the lower ranking nobodies in uniform who actually handled these nuclear bombs all died from various causes within a couple of months, except a couple who recanted the story and accepted jail time.

How about that Franklin Scandal, where one of the victims was jailed simply for daring to tell the truth in court? And the Congressman who died trying to investigate the story? This stuff happens all the time. How about the big batch of Ron Paul delegates who arrived at the convention, only to be put on one bus and not allowed to get off until after the votes were tallied?

There’s no reason to fear, in that we believe our Lord is in control. Why He allows such tragedies is not a question He answers. Rather, our focus should be on what you and I must do to keep the focus on His glory. Sinners will sin; that’s nothing new. In God’s own good time, all things will be brought to light. If He allows them to be hidden for a time, it’s not for us to question.

Meanwhile, we should be deeply cynical about government and press. We should not be surprised by anything they say and do. Just a few days ago, an independent reporter was in Washington DC, in a hotel with line of site to the Rose Garden. On the TV in his room, CNN was showing a live broadcast from the White House lawn, except there was no one there in real time (source). Why in the world would they lie about something like that? What would be the point?

They are so used to lying, and not being called on it, that it’s just routine.