THE BIG LIE

The governments of the United Kingdom and the United States have been guilty of serial lying in recent years.

Some of these lies got at least one hundred thousand people in the Middle East killed.

But there is one lie which dwarfs all others into insignificance.

That lie is that the United Kingdom and the United States are pure of all negativity, solely intent on bringing sweetness and light to the world in terms of freedom and democracy.

This is the big lie, the biggest lie of all.

To discover how big a lie this is requires only an examination of the historical facts regarding the activities of these two nations in particular and removing oneself from the narrative carefully nurtured of the West’s totally absent purity of intent. This narrative is fostered through omission of its crimes from any discourse that doesn’t relegate them to “unfortunate mistakes”.

By making oneself aware of the litany of interventions by both the United Kingdom and the United States down the years and the loss of life that ensued it becomes clear that the concept of these nations only wishing to do their idealistic duty is composed of a pack of lies.

From the genocide perpetrated upon the native population of the United States and its subsequent treatment via robbing it of any self-respect or land found to be worth anything you gain an understanding of the mentality involved. Add to that the avid use of slavery. Add to that the colonization of half the world by “Great” Britain. Add the litany of interventions in Latin America, the assassinations, the coups, the death squads. Add more recent atrocities in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen.

Add into the picture all the lies told to effect these atrocities.

The hands of those in power in the United Kingdom and the United States have been dripping blood for hundreds of years.

These are the saintly elites who now profess to be as pure as driven snow and motivated by only the highest ideals.

These are the saintly elites who used the Marshall Islands for their nuclear bomb testing ground along with its population.

These are the saintly elites who slaughtered a hundred thousand in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and don’t for a moment accept the narrative it was necessary, it wasn’t).

These are the saintly elites who lied in order to attack and invade Iraq costing at least a hundred thousand their lives.

You will find no finger pointed inward among these “saintly” elites. The meme they adhere to is that they deserve to be judge, jury and executioner because they are pure as the driven snow in their ideals and actions.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Yet they MUST adhere to this lie. If they didn’t they could not very well sit of the high chair of judgement, could they? If they were just as guilty as others, or more so, what right would they have to accuse, condemn and punish? They would have none. Therefore, to maintain their position they must lie and they must forever deny their crimes.

This is the big lie that gives us the new Cold War. The West needs the simplistic good-bad dichotomy to be absolute, in total black and white with no shades of grey between. The meme must be at all times, the spotless, idealistic, ever-sensitive, ever-righteous, ever-just West fighting the good fight against the evils that despoil the world. They are the guardians, the knights errant, the cavalry coming over the hill to save the day.

In actuality they are the blood-soaked murderers intent on preserving their own dominance.

They are the bringers of misery, the drone assassins, the CIA and MI6 merchants of chaos, the politicians of death-dealing missiles and endless lies to justify their use.

And above them all and all their divisive, destructive and deathly enterprises is the big lie.

The big lie of their all-consuming purity.