For the last few years, I have been paying more and more attention to the fact that we are constantly being lied to by our government. It seems that nearly the whole system is corrupt in ways. Money is the only thing that seems to matter to the people running our country. After reading Loewen's take on our government and how multinational companies practically run our country and even other countries, my ideas about this corruption have been confirmed. I didn't realize the extremes that our government goes through to protect these corporations until reading this. I also couldn't believe some of the actions that our groups like the FBI and CIA do overseas to support militant leaders of third world countries to help protect our interests; while in turn causing corruption and all kinds of chaos in the country being run by these leaders.
The actions of our government in other countries is something that I've heard a little about, but I couldn't believe the kids of things we did to our own citizens. People like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were harassed by government agencies, and the fact that our own government may be involved in their assassinations is just terrible. A government is supposed to protect its citizens, and when a government does things like this to exploit citizens of both our nation and other nations, something should be done to change it.
Kyle,
ReplyDeleteIt is frightening, but it is a reality. I think a lot of it has to do w/ the particular paranoia of the times and the fact that even governments get scared and do stupid things--like spying on innocent people and killing them.