Cognitive dissonance is a fear of the truth

Some people, if they could, would like to kill the messenger because they’re afraid of the message. Their mind is closed to anything that could disturb their perfectly planned existence or their belief system relating to a specific orientation. They fear it could shake the foundation of their worldview.

This is called “cognitive dissonance.” To hear something that is contrary to their beliefs makes some uncomfortable. It draws out a latent fear of who or what to believe. And to have our beliefs challenged could be frightening and unsettling. But consider that we live at a time of the internet when information is available for those who seek it. What that means for us today is that free speech is more than a right to voice one’s opinion: it carries a corresponding right that also includes the right to receive information and to take the time to consider all aspects of a position.

Today, notwithstanding the mainstream media, more and more information is being exposed. Perhaps it is that we are in an age of enlightenment; it would seem so at least for many of us who have left the dark ages and seek knowledge.

But knowledge is not for everyone, and we should respect the right of those who don’t seek it just as we should respect the right of those that do.

It is said that knowledge was withheld by the Catholic Church for nearly a millennium. They allegedly attacked Galileo because of his assertion that the world wasn’t flat. If this is true, it can be defended that ignorance is a fundamental right of humanity, an extension of the right to be wrong.

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” -George Orwell

As a writer, I am merely the messenger; that is all I am. I try to advance knowledge and dispel false information by individuals or groups that have some vested interest in their report―or propaganda. I aim to keep challenging my readers to think, not to merely believe.

Be mindful that to attack the messenger is to concede the truth of the message, because when no opposing opinion is advanced in argument, it evidences that the attacker had no opposing facts to present.

When I offer my opinion. you are free to offer an opposing view. That is called “discourse.”

You can not validly reply, “He’s nuts” without corresponding facts as to why he’s nuts. That statement is a mere conclusion that has no foundation unless you supply the missing evidence upon which you rely.

You could argue that in my youth I was crazy because I held a belief that our government was only interested in what was in our best interest. Then I discovered that we were deceived to engage in a war in Vietnam and that the Gulf of Tonkin incident never occurred.

I learned the real reason for the Vietnam War was the CIA drug trade from the Golden Triangle, where the CIA operated its own Air America DC3’s to move drugs into the United States. As a 1993 article in the New York Times stated, the CIA has been involved in drug smuggling since the Korean War. Manuel Noriega was in fact a CIA asset.

What history has been silent about is that the French were there for at least 10 years before us and were themselves embedded in the illicit drug trade. Our CIA was there even then and had made all the connections and introductions to continue after the French left.

A 1971 White House survey found that more then 34 percent of our service members fighting in Vietnam were addicted to heroin.

Truth is a big pill many find hard to swallow.

There will be people who place America and our principles above their own personal safety. We call these people “patriots.”

Drugs were brought back into America in the coffins and even in the body cavities of our mortally wounded veterans. That’s another fact we don’t want to believe, although there are conflicting arguments with Frank Lucas saying he did, and Leslie Atkinson claiming the story was made up. Yet I had an inside source: Ted Gunderson, a former FBI agent in charge of the Los Angeles field office, who said that Lucas told the truth. Ted was my co-host on talk radio for about 10 years and a longtime personal friend.

Ted Gunderson’s report can be found here.

We are in Afghanistan for the same reason: opium. Would you be surprised to learn that our CIA is there guarding opium fields and that we are not allowed to destroy them?

Why is this knowledge important?

It is important because it cautions us against blindly accepting our government as the truth-teller, as our benefactor and benevolent administrator.

Rather, government can be malevolent, as history itself professes.

Those who expose government corruption are eliminated by that very government.

Ted Gunderson was poisoned by arsenic.

Gary Webb, a reporter who also exposed the CIA-drug connection, was destroyed. Although he was shot twice in the head, it was deemed a suicide.

Barry Seal, who was to testify against our own government insiders and the drug trade, was murdered.

The list is as endless as time itself and makes a statement about the dangers of exposing corruption, the current poster child being Edward Snowden. Before him, it was Daniel Ellsberg. There will be others as long as government tries to conceal criminal activity. There will be people who place America and our principles above their own personal safety.

We call these people “patriots.”

Some would argue, as I’ve heard, “My country, right or wrong.” Hitler propaganda! In the real world, it is not only our right to stand against tyranny, even within our own government, but it is also our duty as Americans to do so.

Ergo back to the purpose of my opinions, which is to awaken the sleeping giant that has been lulled back to sleep after the Second World War.

I am reminded of these words spoken many years ago by Theodore Roosevelt: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

The world has been here before. History repeats itself for one reason: mankind’s failure to learn the lessons in the first and even the second experience.

So history will continue to offer us the experience until we finally see what is going on.

I am only able to give you information from which the choice is yours to believe, to research on your own, or to deny. But these opinions are mine, and they are a valid expression of the evidence I have researched.

What I am not is a propagandist! If I were, I would be writing for one of the alphabet news outlets. I am by design and training a researcher seeking the truth. If you join me, we will together go on a journey of knowledge and traverse the very deep rabbit hole from where your perception of reality may become distorted (or clarified) by facts.

Meanwhile, you are free to believe a false science propagated by the CDC and the medical establishment if that is your choice. But be forewarned: the medical establishment kills more than 1,000 people a day by negligence.

And the CDC and FDA are controlled by the AMA and the doctors, and the CDC and the FDA were at one time paid by the very companies they are there to examine and the vaccines those manufacturers promote.

You are free to believe the reports put out by our current government. You are free to believe guns kill people and not individuals. But to believe this argument, you must recognize that automobiles also kill people, as do knives and hammers. Where do we draw the line and admit killing is a people problem?

Consider this: Autism is a growing problem. Why?

Consider this: Children are being born with impaired thyroids. Why?

Consider this: Our fish are poisoned with mercury and radiation. Why?

Consider this: Our southern borders are still unprotected. Why?

There are so many unanswered questions that my opinions seek to resolve. but you are free to ignore them and to disagree. That is what free speech is all about.

What a world this would be if we all had the same opinion or all wore the same clothes.

We don’t live in a vacuum or a perfect fairy-tale world.

That is the importance of free speech, my opinions, and your right to receive or reject them.

I truly believe, as George Orwell stated: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”