Grievance 20 - Lying

The U.S. Constitution failed to prohibit and penalize people on the
taxpayers government payroll for lying.

Secret Government, such as the CIA, spent untold millions of dollars in
spreading lies through mass media to control and manipulate public
opnion and actions. Former CIA operatives disclosed that the agency
paid money to people in the broadcast and print media to tell untruths
and half-truths, and gave direct subsidies to certain magazine and book
publishers to print them. Forged documents were commonly used to
convince unaware media people of something Secret Government wanted the
masses to believe.

In 1961, CIA Deputy Director Richard Helms deliberately lied to Congress
in denying that the agency secretly supplied arms to Indonesia rebels
who overthrew President Sukarno in a bloody revolution. Victor
Marchetti, Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director, later quit the
agency over such practices;

"Helms' testimony was released to
the public with the approval of the
CIA which was, in effect, targeting
a propaganda operation against
the American people."

From the founding of the U.S., there was evidence that numerous
Presidents lied and intentionally misled the people at-large, leaving
them disempowered to the extent of their deceptive statements. While
providing impeachment "for treason, bribery, or other high crimes", the
Constitution did not specifically require removal from office, censure,
or other alternative penalty, for the damaging act of lying.

Government powerholders used taxpayers funds to hire defense attorneys
and public relations aides, or "spin doctors", to help condition the
mass consciousness for an unopposing attitude to lies.

A government attempt to make the 1950-53 north-south Korean war appear
as a United Nations "police action" faded only after historians viewed
casualty figures of 53,000 Americans dead, and thousands more physically
or psychologically wounded. A "truce", but no peace treaty was signed
which would admit to the conflict being a "war", and this served also as
an excuse to station tens-of- thousands of American troops on the Korean
peninsula indefinitely.

What was clearly "hostile military action", "international aggression"
and "killing" in the U.S.-NATO air bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, was
mislabeled by U.S. officials as an "air campaign to end ethnic cleansing"
in Kosovo Province. The lie was in the avoidance of the term "war" to
soften opposition.

Lies by government authorities regarding the Vietnam War, including the
alleged Tonkin Gulf incident that was used as an excuse for U.S.
aggression, are detailed elsewhere in these grievances to a candid
world.

With an Authentic Constititution in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws
of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals,
people on the taxpayers payroll at all levels of government are held
legally responsible for lying regarding government activities.

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