Reply #23: A brief rumination on "own"

[Bryan Sacks]

That's the key word, for me, in terms of shifting attitudes toward the possibility of false flag attacks.

"It's own people", unfortunately, no longer accurately describes the true relationship between governments/intelligence agencies and the citizens whom they putatively serve and represent. Even those on this fourm who are dismissive of ther possibility that 9/11 had false-flag elements will probably agree that most of our official and behind-the-scenes leadership are not motivated much by service to the public.

True public servants would not lie to their constituents as if it were of no consequence; true public servants would not go to war on false pretenses and accept the needless sacrifice of its young citizens; true public servants would not simply be married to their ruinous courses of action in the face of such obvious opposition. True public servants would seek to explain their contrary points of view to those who oppose them, and step down if they could not convince the vast majority of their constituents that the course of action they've chosen is the best one.

We are a mass society, and there is no appreciable feeling among the elected and the powerful behind the elected that they must serve anyone or anything but their own interests. They rest comfortably in the view that any action, no matter how obscene or ruinous, can be spun and will ultimately be digested by an apathetic mass of overworked, underinformed citizens. Those leaders who are less craven rest assured that they know best, and so they need not reexamine their commitment to policies that kill and destroy simply because a small number of citizens' groups are outraged by them, or because some poll says so.

Our leaders do not live among us. We are not 'their own'. Our leaders and their handlers do more and more of their work in enclaves of power beyond the access of the ordinary citizens, and thus 'we the people' become a mere abstraction to them. From the standpoint of cognitive dissonance, they can kill us almost as easily as they kill people of foreign countries who are completely out of their sight.