The War, Addendum Three
Novelist Ishmael Reed once pointed out, "The history of the world is the history of warfare between secret societies."
In writing recently about war, as in The War, I made a point that cannot be underscored enough: You won't see what's really happening from the killing that happens, though that's where most people look.
You see it in the deceit.
The tricky part is that by definition, particularly good deceit is nearly impossible to distinguish from the truth.
Unless... (More on that in a moment.)
A recent op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times (May 6, 2007) had a take on former director George Tenet's At the Center of the Storm as merely one of a spate of tell-all tomes from high-level CIA officials once in-the-know. It seems many are fascinated by the published exposure of various covert activities-- titillated by the discovery of some nefarious undercover intrigue or twisted destabilization plot.
The only thing is that the most renowned secret society of all is not so secret, for the very reason that it is so, well, renowned. It is all just great drama, albeit with a seasoning of verity that makes it modestly appealing. It is silly to think anything of value comes from these James Bon--er--excuse me, I should say sly stealth and deftly clever CIA deep op stories. It was even noted that former chief William Colby was fined $10,000 for permitting certain "sensitive" information to remain in the French version of his memoir.
$10,000. That must've been some World War III threatening information. Scary.
In fact, the op-ed reveals the two unwritten rules for publication. One, don't say anything that hurts anybody. You'd think this would be explosive news, but really: What's the point? Everything the CIA does hurts someone, even when it does what it does best: bumble around pretending to get intelligence.
Rule two is don't say anything that makes things difficult for those still at Langley. What difference would this make, since the organization makes its living off difficult problems, especially the kind that are actually just grand spectacular Walt Disney simulations?
So what you've got is this. Books and books and more books that essentially say, "Remember that pipeline sabotage in Peru? That was us." (Reader: "Oooo, I knew it!") "And that small arms deal with the rebels in Zimbabwe? Yep, uh-huh, us." (Reader: "Wow, this is grreat!")
What they refuse to get is that the word police is always painstakingly vigilant, so much so that they are indeed part of the drama. It was said that recent chief Porter Goss blared "I will redact the [expletive] out of your book no one will want to read it."
Really, we should give them credit. These guys have sustained a quite lucrative literary genre: non-fiction fiction. It was actually started a long time ago by the preeminent agent of Cain, and recently he offered up a splendid example.
While he was in South America, the pope stated that any Mexican politician who endorses abortion is excommunicated already. Whoa. Quite the politically incorrect pontiff, he is.
Of course the Romanist word police sprang into action. They twisted the words around in the official press release so that we all would understand that the pope actually meant that excommunication is merely standard church practice that happens to anyone who does something bad in some way that is official and against the church and something something.
The fact that they do this frequently is something papal spokesman Federico Lombardi explained quite candidly. "Every time the pope speaks, improvising, the Secretariat of State reviews and cleans up his remarks."
Why is this just so lost on people? Why don't they get that when intelligence officials incessantly "redact the [expletive] out of things" and "clean up remarks" in whatever capacity, political or ecclessiastical, that Truth is not anywhere in or around them?
The only meaningful truth is that it happens. And then what do you do with that? After you've gotten your ooo's and ahh's out, where are you then? After you've discovered in the end what idiocy it all is, then what?
Every murder follows deceit.
Want to avoid murder?
Find the One who is Truth in His very being.
Jesus Christ is the only way by Whom you cannot be deceived. In my webzine's home page piece I mentioned having the mind of Christ, and some may think that is arrogant as all-get-out. But really, all it means is that you know the things He would think because you know Him, read His word, pray without ceasing, humbly commit to loving Him and serving Him and loving others from that.
When you love with His love, you can't be deceived. This "having the mind of Christ" and "being incapable of being deceived" is not just me spouting off. It is what Scripture says of those who follow Him.
The key in all of this is to let Him know you want Him to show you what the truth is from what the deceit is. It is in Rome where the deceit drives The War-- and people get murdered.
In the Kingdom you won't be murdered. Oh certainly, you may lose your physical life in this temporal realm, perhaps at the hands of a dutiful World operative who may be prosecuted by Caesar to be made an example of.
But you won't be murdered-- you are always in His embrace, never separated from His love.
In writing recently about war, as in The War, I made a point that cannot be underscored enough: You won't see what's really happening from the killing that happens, though that's where most people look.
You see it in the deceit.
The tricky part is that by definition, particularly good deceit is nearly impossible to distinguish from the truth.
Unless... (More on that in a moment.)
A recent op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times (May 6, 2007) had a take on former director George Tenet's At the Center of the Storm as merely one of a spate of tell-all tomes from high-level CIA officials once in-the-know. It seems many are fascinated by the published exposure of various covert activities-- titillated by the discovery of some nefarious undercover intrigue or twisted destabilization plot.
The only thing is that the most renowned secret society of all is not so secret, for the very reason that it is so, well, renowned. It is all just great drama, albeit with a seasoning of verity that makes it modestly appealing. It is silly to think anything of value comes from these James Bon--er--excuse me, I should say sly stealth and deftly clever CIA deep op stories. It was even noted that former chief William Colby was fined $10,000 for permitting certain "sensitive" information to remain in the French version of his memoir.
$10,000. That must've been some World War III threatening information. Scary.
In fact, the op-ed reveals the two unwritten rules for publication. One, don't say anything that hurts anybody. You'd think this would be explosive news, but really: What's the point? Everything the CIA does hurts someone, even when it does what it does best: bumble around pretending to get intelligence.
Rule two is don't say anything that makes things difficult for those still at Langley. What difference would this make, since the organization makes its living off difficult problems, especially the kind that are actually just grand spectacular Walt Disney simulations?
So what you've got is this. Books and books and more books that essentially say, "Remember that pipeline sabotage in Peru? That was us." (Reader: "Oooo, I knew it!") "And that small arms deal with the rebels in Zimbabwe? Yep, uh-huh, us." (Reader: "Wow, this is grreat!")
What they refuse to get is that the word police is always painstakingly vigilant, so much so that they are indeed part of the drama. It was said that recent chief Porter Goss blared "I will redact the [expletive] out of your book no one will want to read it."
Really, we should give them credit. These guys have sustained a quite lucrative literary genre: non-fiction fiction. It was actually started a long time ago by the preeminent agent of Cain, and recently he offered up a splendid example.
While he was in South America, the pope stated that any Mexican politician who endorses abortion is excommunicated already. Whoa. Quite the politically incorrect pontiff, he is.
Of course the Romanist word police sprang into action. They twisted the words around in the official press release so that we all would understand that the pope actually meant that excommunication is merely standard church practice that happens to anyone who does something bad in some way that is official and against the church and something something.
The fact that they do this frequently is something papal spokesman Federico Lombardi explained quite candidly. "Every time the pope speaks, improvising, the Secretariat of State reviews and cleans up his remarks."
Why is this just so lost on people? Why don't they get that when intelligence officials incessantly "redact the [expletive] out of things" and "clean up remarks" in whatever capacity, political or ecclessiastical, that Truth is not anywhere in or around them?
The only meaningful truth is that it happens. And then what do you do with that? After you've gotten your ooo's and ahh's out, where are you then? After you've discovered in the end what idiocy it all is, then what?
Every murder follows deceit.
Want to avoid murder?
Find the One who is Truth in His very being.
Jesus Christ is the only way by Whom you cannot be deceived. In my webzine's home page piece I mentioned having the mind of Christ, and some may think that is arrogant as all-get-out. But really, all it means is that you know the things He would think because you know Him, read His word, pray without ceasing, humbly commit to loving Him and serving Him and loving others from that.
When you love with His love, you can't be deceived. This "having the mind of Christ" and "being incapable of being deceived" is not just me spouting off. It is what Scripture says of those who follow Him.
The key in all of this is to let Him know you want Him to show you what the truth is from what the deceit is. It is in Rome where the deceit drives The War-- and people get murdered.
In the Kingdom you won't be murdered. Oh certainly, you may lose your physical life in this temporal realm, perhaps at the hands of a dutiful World operative who may be prosecuted by Caesar to be made an example of.
But you won't be murdered-- you are always in His embrace, never separated from His love.
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