The Rubber Meets The Road, Part 2: The Red Button And The Unseen Role Of Denial

We set the stage for this in Part 1 6 weeks ago. In the meantime we had an election and threw a bunch of the bums out. Watching all that is what I've been doing instead of writing Part 2.

In Part 1 we were talking about how not looking at something is a form of denial. But what about when we look and do nothing? What about the role denial is playing in the reflections our world, our country, our politics, our culture, our society is giving us. We look and we wonder why things are so bad, how they got so bad, and who to blame? And we wonder how to fix it.

There is a group of progressives who call themselves the Spiritual Frontiers Foundation International who wondered that same thing. They go into the woods for three days once a year to talk about how they can help society evolve spiritually... a very intelligent, caring, loving, dedicated group of American people. BRAVE Americans.

In summer 2000 Catherine Austin Fitts, who used to be Asst Ssecretary of HUD back in the Pappy Bush days and who discovered HUD's billion dollar connection to drug trafficing and money laundry, was speaking to them about how the money works. Fitts was talking to them about her discoveries of fraud and corruption at HUD and how its tied in to our TRILLION DOLLAR black budget and further discoveries of fraud and blatent book cooking by the various agencies of our government (they use an instrument called "undocumented adjustments" to "balance" the books) and involvement in things like laundering the documented 500 BILLION to a TRILLION a year in drug money in this country and the connections to organized crime.

After some discussion was had about the massive negative impact the "drug problem" has on the social, cultural, and spiritual health of our families and society Fitts said to them, " The Department of Justice says that we -- Americans -- launder $500 billion to a trillion dollars a year. What would happen if America stopped being the world wide leader in global money laundering? What impact would that have on your economy and ultimately, your way of life?"

So they all had further discussion pondering that question that evolved into something akin to a massive trainwreck. The more they discussed the potential implications the worse it got until they finally concluded that economic chaos would ensue and thus way of life, as they know it, drastically altered.

And so the discussion ended.

So then Fitts said to them, "Image I have a magic red button up here on the podium and if you push it YOU CAN STOP ALL NARCOTICS TRAFFICING IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS, YOUR CITIES, AND YOUR COUNTRY. RIGHT NOW! Who here would push the button?"

Out of this group of one hundred people openly, vociferously, proclaiming they are dedicated to the spiritual evolvement of our country and its peoples, guess how many came up to push the button?

ONE!

So Fitts asked the other 99, "Why would you not push the button?"

They said, "We don't want our pension funds to go down, & we don't want our government checks to stop, & we don't want our taxes to go up."

"Right then the CIA & Department of Justice had full "democratic" authority & popular support to facilitate narcotics trafficking," wrote Fitts.

And Fitts wasn't just talkin about "the mob" when she used the term "organized crime". She was talking about sanctioned government involvement and documented government fraud and complicity on the part of our banks, our money system, our corporations, and the whole damn rotten, corrupt to the bone, system!! And 99% of the people chose to do NOTHING because they ASSUMED that to do so would mean our economy would collapse, our jobs would be lost, our mortagaes forclosed on, our "economic security" would go to the dogs, our pension plans, our ira's, etc, would be worthless, our health insurance would be non-existent, our meds might be unavailable, our way of life as we know it would be OVER, our lights and air conditioners might go off, our water might not run, our cupboard might be bare, our gas tanks would be empty, our nation would be under martial law because our streets would be chaos, and our american dream would turn out to be a nightmare! And no body in the rest of the world would have any desire to help us because they are tired of being abused and killed, of being overridden and taken advantage of BY US!!

Despite our going to polls to throw the bums out, despite our intentions and actions to be environmentally conscientious, despite efforts to minimize personal footprint, despite objections to war and to appaling human rights violations and massive corruption and power-over agendas, despite what we think and say we'll do, when the rubber meets the road, we find the naked truth... that we, each in our own ways, hold positions of alignment with "the end justifies the means" agenda and are perfectly willing to turn our head so our future will remain secure.

I submit those 100 people spoke for an entire nation. And I don't care if it was 6 years ago... you can do it today and get the same results. You can change the subject from laundring dirty drug money to illegal occupation of soverign nations, to the war on terror, to horrendous torture and massive human rights violations, to corporate fraud, to govenrment corruption, to a Katrina cash cow, to the hijacking of the second richest oil nation on the planet, to the rape of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The results will be the same.

Or, speaking of oil, you can change it to Peak Oil. Thats what Art Bell did on his Coast to Coast AM radio show that claims up to 10 million listeners. Seems he had read an excerpt of James Kunstler's "Long Emergency" in Rolling Stone. He was moved by what Kunstler had to say about Peak Oil so he did a 3 hour call-in show about it to get people's reactions to the issue. He ran a straw poll midst this asking a handful of questions like, do you believe we're near peak? At what price can you no longer afford to buy gas? And, perish the thought, would you steal or even kill if the wheels come off? Dozens of callers responded. most tried in every way imaginable to avoid that last question. But, to Bell's credit, he held their pants to the fire. I heard one caller say they would not resort to killing their own neighbor.

ONE!!

I submit that somewhere, within the unspoken reality, within the deep dark irrational realm where reason cannot reach and intellect cannot venture, every U.S. citizen knows this. Down there in that red shit hole we all know the stakes and, quaking in our boots, we pray to our gods, acquiesce our rights, align with power-over agendas, elect idiots like Bush, turn our heads when presented with indisputable evidence and subject ourselves to being terrorized by our own "protectors" hoping we won't get backed down so far we will be forced into doing what our rational minds, our guiding mores, our gods, our guilt, our ideals, keep trying to convince us we would never, ever do... KILL!

KILL! Kill our brothers, our sisters, our neighbors.

We hope we will not have to turn into evil jihadists to survive cuz we know damn well we will. And we point to these morals and ideals to justify, to rationalize, and to lie to ourselves. And we point to everybody else as the "problem".


I submit we are getting EXACTLY what we deserve when we refuse to look at the evidence. Or worse, after looking at the evidence, we choose to do NOTHING!

I further submit that what is really going on here is that when its all said and done we, each of us in our own ways, are, through the UNSEEN ROLE OF DENIAL, in bed with the greed, corruption, and sinister agendas of those who we, by way of that very same denial, have put in the so-called power positions and charged with "taking care" of us.

And in the end we are each, in our own ways, responsible for our own roles in this and ABSOLUTELY responsible for our own change.