America's Long Overdue Shame The reported brutal deaths of 500,000-plus Iraqi men, women, children, and even infants, caused directly and indirectly by the actions of Americans, has yet to cause most Americans to feel shame for what they have inflicted upon others. The brutality of the deaths, and the horrible maiming, is difficult to put into proper words. The bodies of babies and children ripped apart, their body parts hanging from ceiling fans and other places, can't be shown on U.S. television for fear of offending the Americans who made these atrocities possible. Then there are the deaths, and the maiming, of thousands of American GIs, pawns in the massive lying and support of the lying by segments of Americans (who profess concern for the GIs that are being sent to die). Who are these Americans that made these atrocities possible? A partial list: The swaggering president of the United States, George Bush, with his history of failures, but protected from the consequences by powerful financial and political ties and either a timid or outright lying media group. Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and other members of the president's staff, who engaged in the pattern of serial lying, knowing that compliant media personnel would cover for the lies and most of the public too gullible to know the difference. Members of Congress, who jumped to their feet and clapped with every sentence uttered by President Bush during the state of the union speech when Bush proposed starting a war by invading Iraq. These are the same sordid leaders who covered up for the decades of corruption in the government's aviation safety offices (that made the 9/11 hijackings possible) and covered up for the decades of corruption in the FBI and CIA (that made possible the failure to act to stop that terrorist scheme). Media people who copy the lying by Bush and his staff that preceded the invasion of Iraq, and afterwards, such as New York Time's Judith Miller, Russ Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and others. And the others who continue the lying to this date to cover up for the deadly pattern of lying in which they are implicated. Americans who voted for President Bush before, and after the invasion of Iraq; who approved the invasion and killings until it started affecting their own well being. Those who justified the sufferings that they enabled to be inflicted upon Iraqis on the basis that (a) Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (ludicrous in many ways); (b) U.S. politicians preferred another leader in Iraq; (c) forcing a different form of government (democracy) upon an area of different tribes, religious groups, that have had a history of sectarian violence. the arrogance and ignorance of forcing a democracy upon such diverse groups is made worse by the fact that most Americans are blissfully ignorant of the human rights outrages being inflicted upon Americans by their own "leaders." On top of this, most of these people are blissfully pleased with the facts that their leaders have: Repeatedly lied to them, assuming they were too stupid to know the difference, and too cowardly to show any outrage at being duped. Have made the American people hated throughout the world. Have converted Iraq from a formerly relatively stable country (for the Middle East) into a terrorist breeding ground wanting to kill Americans. Laid the groundwork for events that will inflict great harm upon Americans and the United States, including the entire Middle East erupting in civil wars, including the already civil war in Iraq, and the pending civil war in Lebanon and Palestinian territories. Subsequent retaliation upon Americans is yet to be felt from such attacks as the detonation of the stolen nuclear suitcase bombs in U.S. cities, shooting down of U.S. aircraft through the world, including in the United States, and other forms of attacks that the United States can't stop. Massive financial problems in the United States, something like the 1930 depression, but this time with massive rioting. And how does the average American view the horrendous human suffering that they have brought upon the victims? For instance: Most continue to support the liars, the deadly lying, the continued infliction of death. Most continue their indifference by indulging in juvenile pacifiers, luxuries, too lazy to spend the time learning the truth and too cowardly to show the required outrage. Making matters worse, the same group of leaders who engaged in a literal Trojan horse corruption of the United States, and its tens of thousands of victims, are unknown except for the victims themselves, and those who cover up for these human right outrages. The horror inflicted upon Iraq, and the lying by U.S. politicians and military leaders, is only the latest in a long series. Much of the U.S. public supported the lying and killing of people of other countries for the past fifty years. Remember, for instance: The lying and invasion of Korea. Over a million Koreans killed, 38,000 American GIs killed, and tens of thousands maimed and injured. The lying and invasion of Vietnam. Over two million Vietnamese killed; an estimated 40,000 Vietnamese murdered in the CIA's Phoenix Program; 58,000 American GIs killed, and tens of thousands maimed and injured. The lying and support of rebels overthrowing the government of Nicaragua. The long history of subverting foreign governments, such as the CIA's role in overthrowing the head of Iran in 1953, with its blowback in the 1979 Iranian revolution and October Surprise. The attempted invasion of Cuba by the United States. The U.S. support for Israel's brutal murders of innocent civilians in Gaza, the West Bank, in Lebanon. America's Real and Ignored True Heroes and Patriots Further tragedies are in the form of those foolish enough to try to reveal to the naive American public the corruption throughout government that continues to inflict great harm upon the country and upon its people. Many of these foolish patriots have written books seeking to inform the public, or have spoken out, and suffered the tragic consequences for trying to defend the country while the public continued to dabble in self-denial. Whistleblowers index. Fallen heroes. Pathetic Parallel of a Person Setting Himself on Fire To Protest What Most Americans Support On November 3, 2006, Chicago resident Malachi Ritscher stood by an off ramp in downtown Chicago, poured gasoline upon himself and lit it. The flaming pyre was visible to thousands, as he slowly writhed in pain and died. Prior to this self-sacrifice, to protest what most Americans supported, he had prepared a written statement to Americans: Here is the statement I want to make: If I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country. If one death can atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my country. Without fear I go now to God. Your future is what you will choose today. Ritscher failed to realize that the average America wouldn't be affected by his immolation. If it did not affect any of their mundane activities such as their fixation on ball games (the stuff of little children), or their fixation on what they call music being piped into their ears, or other similar "more-important" interests, the killings of Iraqis, or the self-sacrifice of a concerned American, certainly wasn't going to make any changes! Ritscher had even set up a video camera to film his immolation. The following is a picture of Ritscher and one in which he is protesting the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the killing of Iraqis. U.S. media personnel, perhaps ashamed of their role in the bloody consequences in Iraq, said nothing about this story. It wasn't until a reporter for the alternative weekly, the Chicago Reader, published the story. Two weeks later, it appeared in an Associated Press article, ignored by more newspapers and television pundits. In the book, Defrauding America, is the story of a mother who died in a similar immolation in Napa, California. She wanted to generate public interest in the corruption in the bankruptcy courts involving federal judges, federal trustees, lawyers and law firms (as described in Defrauding America). No newspaper ran the story, thereby enabling the corruption to continued. Profile of the American people. Sampling of 50 Years of Corruption-Enabled Tragedies— Made Possible by American Public Indifference To the Perpetrators/Enablers Harm to the American public in non-violent areas. Harm to people of other countries. Harm to the few people in the United States fighting the high-level corruption in a meaningful manner. Harm in general. Harm inflicted on former federal agent and whistleblower during multiple schemes to silence him. Sampling of Early Consequences TWA Flight 800 U.S. Embassy Bombings 9/11 Easily-Preventable Multiple Hijackings These few examples of the horrors associated with airline disasters enabled to occur by documented corruption withheld from the American people. The standard culture of cover-ups in the United States enabled the corruption, cover-ups, to mutate into different areas. In the aviation area, although the continuing series of airline disasters eventually came to a halt for other reasons, the culture continued, and enabled to occur a number of easily preventable airline disasters. The inbred culture created the conditions that enabled four groups of terrorists to easily hijack four airliners within a few hours of each other and kill nearly 3,000 people. One of Over 200 Victims Choosing This Way to Die— Made Possible by Many Enablers in United States Consequences of Corruption, Cover-Ups, And Retaliation Felonies Not Limited to Aviation There were many other forms of victims from the systemic high-level corruption. These included for instance victims of the: Department of Justice prosecutorial misconduct, people being falsely charges with crimes in order to improve the prosecutors' career. The explosion of violent crime related to drug smuggling into the United States, in which CIA assets were major players. Series of financial frauds appearing every few years, with the latest housing and financial implosions surfacing in 2008. Seizure of assets from innocent people. And many other forms. These offenses are described in the books written by insiders. Corruption of the Type Described at this site does not occur in a vacuum. High-level corruption in one area is simply one tentacle of a widespread culture of corruption. And the consequences of that corruption−and the endemic cover-ups−have consequences in other areas. The culture of corruption affects the people and the nation in many other ways, That includes the latest series of financial frauds that has occurred in the housing and financial sectors. Also, the effect of the endemic corruption and endemic cover-ups−major parts of the culture in the United States−that enablers successful terrorist attacks upon U.S. interests. Harm to People Overseas From Culture Of High-Level Corruption and Lies in the United States In addition to the decades of harm resulting from the systemic corruption of key people and groups in the U.S. government, affecting aviation safety, financial, human rights, in the United States, there is the harm from outside sources brought about by the actions of U.S. politicians affecting people in other countries—such as the history of invading and killing foreigners—there are the successful "terrorist" attacks made possible by high-level corruption, and then there are the foreigners who are also victims from the same high-level corruption that adversely affects the American, but in a different form. Remains of a girl—about the age of the 9-year-old Killed in Tucson in January 2011. In criminal law, people are accomplices, and guilty, if they know of a criminal act and fail to report it to proper authorities and also to take efforts within their capability to halt their continuation. And there are endless numbers of accomplices that are complicit in these crimes and enablers of the consequences. Suggestion to people outside the United States. Become familiar with the documented systemic corruption in the United States and show the outrage lacking of people in the United States, and: Help expose the endemic corruption that seem to be acceptable to the American people, and maybe wake them up. Help to protect yourselves against the decades of ham inflicted upon people of other countries by the actions of U.S. politicians—supported by much of the American public. Examples: Serial lying by U.S. politicians to use as a pretense to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, killing tens of thousands of innocent people. U.S. politicians shifting enabling blame from their own corrupt actions that encouraged and enabled four groups of terrorists to simultaneously hijack four airliners, and shift the blame to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan—with the help of a dumbed-down American public that is mostly too lazy to learn the truth. Books by Professional Insiders Revealing 50 Years Of Corruption-Enabling Tragedies All of the books are available at amazon.com, in print and on the Kindle, and at many other Internet sites. They bring together the various pieces of the puzzle to better understand the overall picture, and why the same conditions continue year after year. Information on the books by former government agent Rodney Stich Sampling of early books reviews Sampling of complimentary letters/faxes to author/activist Rodney Stich. More information about these books by clicking here. 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