{"id":45447,"date":"2019-04-17T08:10:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T13:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45447"},"modified":"2019-04-17T08:10:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T13:10:35","slug":"washingtons-biggest-fairy-tale-truth-will-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45447","title":{"rendered":"Washington\u2019s Biggest Fairy Tale: \u201cTruth Will Out\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/04\/17\/washingtons-biggest-fairy-tale-truth-will-out\/\">Washington\u2019s Biggest Fairy Tale: \u201cTruth Will Out\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-16-at-9.08.01-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110945\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photograph Source thierry ehrmann \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arrest of Julian Assange has produced rapturous cheering from the American political elite. Hillary Clinton declared that Assange \u201cmust answer for what he has done.\u201d Unfortunately, Assange\u2019s arrest will do nothing to prevent the vast majority of conniving politicians and bureaucrats from paying no price for deceiving the American public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTruth will out\u201d is a phrase that is routinely recited to keep Americans paying and obeying. Politicians and editorial writers toss this phrase out to simmer down any fears that the government might be conspiring against the people. Actually, \u201ctruth will out\u201d is the biggest fairy tale in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The phrase \u201ctruth will out\u201d is first recorded in Shakespeare\u2019s Merchant of Venice. Often in Shakespeare\u2019s plays, truths come out only after almost everyone has been conned, stabbed, or screwed. It\u2019s not much better nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it comes to politics, \u201ctruth will out\u201d should be confined to sarcasm and satire, not to serious pontificating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consider the assassination in 1963 of John F. Kennedy. The Johnson administration rushed the Warren Commission to issue a verdict approving the official story of the killing. But the commission announced that the key records would be sealed for 75 years. Truth would out \u2014 but not until all the people involved in the coverup had gotten their pensions and died. In 1992, Congress (responding to the uproar provoked by Oliver Stone\u2019s movie on the assassination) shortened the disclosure schedule, but federal agencies are still conniving to withhold key evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following year, Johnson was running against Barry Goldwater. Folks were warned back then that if they voted for Goldwater, the United States would get involved in a massive land war in Asia. Well, Johnson won and he dragged the United States into the Vietnam War on the basis of totally false claims about the Gulf of Tonkin incident.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington\u2019s Biggest Fairy Tale: \u201cTruth Will Out\u201d Photograph Source thierry ehrmann \u2013&nbsp;CC BY 2.0 The arrest of Julian Assange has produced rapturous cheering from the American political elite. Hillary Clinton declared that Assange \u201cmust answer for what he has done.\u201d Unfortunately, Assange\u2019s arrest will do nothing to prevent the vast majority of conniving politicians and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5493,16594,25640,880],"class_list":["post-45447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-counterpunch","tag-james-bovard","tag-truth-will-out","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45448,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45447\/revisions\/45448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}