Another reason to hate the Russians March 30, 1985
So, The Russians shot an American spy.
His name was Nicholson, and he died because he photographed
a secret Soviet installation.
This has given Reagan the propaganda tool he needs to get
the public to hate the Russians – just as he did back with the Boing incident in
83. We just keep dragging ourselves into this tangle and find new reasons to turn
the Ruskies into agents of evil.
It’s almost like a bad James Bond movie, although we keep
repeating the same lines and creating the same public hysteria.
They buried Major Nicholson and made him a national hero,
giving his family members medals they can put on their book shelves to brag
about later, “that’s my husband, brother, father, etc.”
What about the man himself? Obviously, he’d been ordered to
take those pictures and in doing so, risked his life for his country.
Was he a professional like 007 or an amateur who got his
fingers caught in the cookie jar?
America has been caught so many times doing such dirty deeds
it is just possible that the CIA thinks we’re all too stupid to realize just
how they work behind the scenes, stirring up trouble in places like Nicaragua
or using new spy satellites to peer down on our enemies from space, making you
wonder why they need to pull such a dirty trick as this and put a man’s life at
risk for photos they already have.
We watch our agents doing these things, deliberately setting
up secret labs and other traps, and we’re not surprised when the enemy gets upset
at us. I’m sure they must be doing the same thing, sneaking missiles into Cuba
the way they did in 63, perhaps ready to launch chemical warfare of us as we
plan to do the same to them.
What does all this mean? Are we slowly building up to a real
war, a war that isn’t cloak and dagger, but bombs and planes?
Shall we soon see tanks rolling through city streets,
shooting up buildings in which we have set up our secret places of warfare,
while Reagan or someone like him tells us these are schools or churches?
Are we being prepared to hate the Soviets enough that we can
wish to see their blood flowing in the streets?
Our news stations tell us “See! Look at what they’re doing? Those
are horrible people doing those things and we need to retaliate.”
I keep thinking of the poor major who went into all this believing
in God and Country, who took his camera out a week ago (on orders) to take a
picture of some secret Soviet lab (while no doubt their version of 007 took pictures
of our secret labs and didn’t get caught.)
Some months ago, I remember hearing of pictures taken from
space of a dock in Leningrad, where there were supposed to be MIG planes
waiting to be shipped to Central America in the secret war we are waging there.
Those were safe pictures, snapped from orbit beyond the range of Soviet aggression,
pictures that revealed state secrets, too, without the risk of killing men in
the process.
Is asking technology to take the place of men for such deeds,
asking too much? Or is the purpose of all this is to get us to kill people, not
just the good Major, but to stir our blood up with enough hatred for the
Russians that we will willingly send our kids to go kill them to get revenge?
Is all this a preview for real war, out in the open war, the war in which we
don’t pretend we have peace, and admit opening that we bring weapons to their borders,
and they bring weapons to ours, to kill each other with?
Is this lust for death the real purpose in all this?
Killing is the whole purpose of this game, which is why we
track weapons, and once in a while let one of our own die for the cause. We love
the violence. We suffer only when we get caught in the game before we are ready
to get to the last chapter where the real violence starts.
As long as we get to hate someone, we can justify anything.
We violate their space, they ill us. We advertise just how
bad those people are, and make martyrs out of people like Major Nicholson, who
died for the cause.
There are no innocents in this game. Even the one we pretend
are when we hide CIA operations in a school house in a village in Central
America and the enemy uses a Soviet bomb to blow it up.
But what about the Boeing airliner Reagan sent into Soviet
space to spy and the Soviets shot it down? Weren’t the people on that plane
innocent? Was Reagan right in risking those lives? Is he right now using their
deaths as an excuse to hate the Russians more?
Is this all about stirring us up to hate the enemy so that
we have an excuse to kill them or put them in some economic box that will strip
them of power and make us stronger in the rest of the world?
We fight in Central America just as we did in Vietnam, a
proxy war between enemies far away form the battle lines. We need someone to
hate, like the Russians, or the Germans at the turn of the 18th Century or the
South before the Civil War, polishing them up like tin soldiers to eventually justify
the blood bath we have planned for later.
Say a prayer for Major Nicholson, he going to be the first
of many.
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