OUR BRAVE NEW WORLD OF DOUBLESPEAK, NOSPEAK, OBFUSCATION AND INNUENDO

AGENT JOHN DODSON

A mere 5 years ago, we were promised the most transparent presidential administration in history.  It is now more than apparent that, instead, we were lied to, deceived and misled.

Last fall, despite the attempts of our government to suppress the story, news got out of a Bureau Alcohol, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent who was determined to tell his version of Fast and Furious.  Agent John Dodson faced intense opposition from the ATF, which was determined to block publication of Dodson's book on Fast and Furious, Unarmed Truth.

Still employed as an agent, Dodson has been assigned to the Tucson office of the agency, where he is treated as a "pariah."  Dodson's book, however, has seen the light of day.

Fast and Furious, which saw almost 1,500 weapons purchased in America through an ATF operation which sent firearms to Mexican drug cartels, caused an unknown number of Mexican fatalities and figured into the shooting death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.  Incredible as it may seem that our government was complicit in putting illegal arms into the hands of drug cartels, it is mind-blowing to learn that the Drug Enforcement Administration was complicit with FBI operatives in informing the criminals who killed Agent Terry of a drug shipment that would be moving through Peck Canyon, located approximately 12 miles from the U.S. border with Mexico, near Nogales, Arizona.  Terry, who was part of an elite Border Patrol unit, was in the canyon, owing to the area being rife with criminal gangs specializing in stealing illegal drugs from individuals engaged in transporting the drugs into the U.S.  Finally, thanks to John Dodson, we are learning what Eric Holder and his Justice Department lackeys were attempting to conceal, viz. how collusion between the ATF, DEA and FBI resulted in a nefarious web of death and destruction.

In a particularly peculiar twist, we now know, too, that the ATF and DEA gave carte blanche for the Sinoloa Cartel to transport substantial shipments of illegal drugs to the Chicago area in return for the cartel's cooperation against other organized Mexican drug rings.

In thinking of all the chicanery of Fast and Furious, my mind somehow returned to Brave New World and 1984. Those of us who were exposed to Aldous Huxley and George Orwell could not but help see during the past 5 years so many parallels which augur ill for the future of our country. Cover-ups, lies, ill-considered legislation, executive-decrees and end-runs around Congress, much of it linked to Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS, the NSA and Obamacare.  But, don't worry, because it is clear that we are incapable of making our own decisions, and Big Brother and his administration are more than capable of taking care of us, even though it might be a bit painful, as in Obamacare.  After all, who are we to know what is best for us, and it is all too obvious that ordinary citizens cannot handle the truth of the great undertakings of the day! And the end of it all must be the enjoyment of power by our political elite.

Just as Huxley and Orwell envisioned worlds in which materialism ran rampant and religion was expunged, we see our own country moving in such a direction in the 21st century.  So, too, do we see the rearrangement of language in which words that are considered "offensive" are adjusted or removed from public consciousness.  Along with the alteration of language comes the revision of history, done to such an extent that government becomes the arbiter of what is acceptable or unacceptable.  Will our own Big Brother eventually call for a Ministry of Truth, just as the fictional Big Brother engaged his own bureaucrats in the fabrication of history?

In our own post- 1960's society, we have witnessed an ongoing "dumbing-down" of standards.  It is not uncommon to encounter high school graduates who lack basic skills in reading, writing and computing. Rather than being educated, students are more likely in modern day curricula to be conditioned from an educational blueprint that would rival Big Brother in the production of brain-dead individuals, incapable of marshaling any thoughts in opposition to the propaganda of the day,

Our own political elites seem to be moving us along toward less and less freedom of expression.  Those who would object are frequently shouted down as being out-of-touch and weighted down with the burdens of racism and privilege, ignoring all the while the wholly boorish and vicious elements in society which have been nurtured on a pagan pop culture of sadism, drugs, alcohol and a sense of entitlement to government benefits.  With a growing base of ignorance, the politically elite vassals who feed from the slop dished out from the District of Columbia nourish their unquenchable desire for power with a general lowering of expectations and standards for the lower elements.

And so we return to Fast & Furious, simply the tip of the iceberg in the saga of an administration, which, if left unchecked, will succeed in altering forever this great and wonderful land that we call the United States of America.  Try as hard as I might, dear readers, I cannot ignore this. Sometimes I feel as if I live under a cloud that causes me the pain of knowing what is happening to my country.  There are even times when I wish I could know the joy of ignorance in which I could live a life centered on obliviousness as to the disastrous course that is upon us.  But I cannot in good conscience do that. My own opposition has become extremely personal. I must know why a government that hides and distorts truth, such as in Fast and Furious, seeks to keep its people ignorant and uninformed.  I love my country.  I cannot do otherwise than to oppose those who pose as the servants of the people while suppressing candor and integrity.

Deo Vindice!

God bless Texas, and may the Lone Star State remain forever red!