Government Deception

 

Government Deception

Peter Schultz

 

So ironic: to read this critique [in Walsh’s book Firewall] of “government by deception” as if there’s any other kind of government! This is a wonderful illustration of how Walsh’s team and function, during the Iran-Contra scandal, participated in and facilitated, unknowingly perhaps, the real cover up, that is, the cover up of the political, and it’s intrinsic incompetence, futility, and injustice. All of these investigations and no one asked:  What was accomplished? Or more to the point: Why was so little accomplished?

 

By trying North, e.g., Walsh et. al. Implied he had actually accomplished something, that he had done something! As a criminal, ala’ Walsh et. al., North could appear to be a hero when he was just incompetent! Incompetence isn’t criminal; it isn’t much of anything! North wasn’t a hero; he was an incompetent asshole. But then we can’t have our warrior Marines seen as incompetent assholes, can we? That would be too revealing!

 

[By the by, the same applies to Nixon’s behavior in Watergate: he wasn’t a criminal; he was just another incompetent asshole! Criminalizing Nixon hid his incompetence and made him look competent, thereby covering up the incompetence that’s intrinsic to politics and government.] 

 

So it goes!