By: Donald V. Watkins
Copyrighted and Published on March 9, 2024
An Editorial Opinion
There is a very good reason why most Americans do not trust the federal government. Its agencies have lied to us, repeatedly and for decades, about nearly everything.
For example, federal government agencies lied to Americans about the disgraceful Tuskegee Syphilis Study and Guatemalan Syphilis Experiments, the FBI's racist COINTELPRO activities, the secret Iran-Contra Affair, the existence of the Pentagon Papers, the futile Vietnam War, the non-existent “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, the so-called "soundness" of America's Social Security program, the messy and losing Afghan-United States Conflict, bailouts for Wall Street banks and other corporate thugs, illegal domestic spying on Americans, the origin of COVID-19 and "benefits" of mask mandates, the amount and kind of weapons and aid required to adequately support Ukraine in the Ukraine-Russia War, the crisis at our southern border, and the genocide of Palestinians by Israel in the Israel-Hamas War.
For agencies like the CIA and Pentagon, lying is embedded within their cultures. They have rarely told the truth about anything that potentially embarrasses them. For example, the CIA has been assassinating foreign leaders and undermining democratically elected governments in other countries, unabated, for decades. Of course, the CIA publicly denies these events.
Since August 2005, the Pentagon has classified its internal executive-level investigation into the 2005 murder of 19-year-old Army Private LaVena Johnson in Balad, Iraq by a five-star Army general as "Top Secret," even though the Pentagon immediately and publicly labeled Private Johnson's murder as a "suicide" on the same day she was killed.
The newest lie birthed in Washington comes to us in the form of a 63-page Pentagon report on UFOs. The report, which was released on March 6, 2024, is complete and total “bullshit.”
Every section in the new report is worded in such a way so as to avoid full disclosure of known material facts on UFOs. The report parses its wording regarding identified UFO sightings to (a) evade the truth and (b) leave enough wiggling room for the government agencies responsible for investigating UFOs to come clean in case they are later caught in their web of lies.
Civilians authorities who oversee the Pentagon and America's Intelligence agencies are incapable of getting the truth out of them. These agencies have lied to U.S. presidents, White House staffers, Cabinet members, members of Congress, and the courts, with impunity.
Despite numerous UFO sightings captured on sophisticated aircraft video cameras and cockpit instruments by experienced military pilots who flew our most advanced fighter jets, the Pentagon report claims that (a) UFOs do not exist and (b) there is no evidence that our government possesses extraterrestrial materials, spacecraft, or technology.
The new Pentagon report falls within the category of “bullshit” Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Georgia) peddled to Americans when he likened the ugly and violent January 6th riot at the Capitol that was captured on video cameras to a "normal tourist visit."
In other words, the Pentagon does not want us to believe what our eyes have seen. Instead, we should place our blind trust in untrustworthy government agencies.
This new Pentagon report has value ONLY if the paper upon which it is written can be softened to tissue paper quality and used as toilet paper.
Americans are so sick and tired of our federal government lying to us about nearly everything. The military industrial complex President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about as he left office in January 1961 has absolutely zero respect for any U.S. president, member of Congress, member of the judiciary, head of a government agency, or the American public.
The Pentagon and Intelligence agencies are simply incapable of telling the American people "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God.”
Today, every report coming out of Washington seems to be predicated upon a steady stream of self-serving “alternative facts.” Frankly, the peddlers of this kind of government-issued "bullshit" are doing a great disservice to the American people.
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