I loved reading about United States History and Politics, even as a young child. In 1982, I began studying Political Science as a student at West Valley College. I was excited to take my first college course in Political Science.

My professor was Bill Whitney. He was very excitable and interesting, lecturing about elections during the depression, political parties and spy satellites. I told him that he had very interesting ideas but I thought he would be more effective if he cited more research.

Professor Whitney then accused me of being a spy for Dr. Karamitsos who was a Marxist. I was surprised. I knew about Communism, but I was only taking World History with Dr. Karamitsos. I barely knew her. I was a political moderate, sensible. Communism in Russia and China seems extreme to me. I was shocked and did not know how to respond to him.

Professor Whitney assigned a project analyzing the news media. I recorded on my Video Tape Machine, the national news for ABC, NBC, and CBS. It was during the presidential election of 1984 between President Ronald Reagan and Vice President Walter Mondale. Due to my analysis, I began to see how the news media covered certain stories and yet ignored others.

Moreover, I learned how much fear and anger often gets stirred up when we discuss politics. Political discourse is designed to evoke powerful affect and certain behavior.

In college, I was very interested in the politics of Central America – El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. Because I took a Spanish language class at San Jose State University, I discussed with my fellow students the news from Spanish language stations from Latin America. I came to realize that Spanish language television news from Mexico covered many stories from Nicaragua and El Salvador that CBS, NBC, and ABC news did not cover.

I asked my pastor at church, Father Clemens, if he knew someone at Santa Clara University who was connected with Central America. He introduced me to Father James Torrens who connected me with a newsletter from Costa Rica about Central American Politics and life.

Upon receiving the newsletter monthly, I was shocked how the United States television networks ignored news from Central America. At the time, Nicaragua and El Salvador were very important political stories, because these countries challenges were debated by many US Congressmen. Yet many relevant facts about Latin America were not being covered by the US television networks.

I was reading a book from a writer who was Mexican describe the United States He wrote that “Americans see the world like we have mirrors at our borders.” Americans see the rest of the world like we see the United States, even though the world is vastly different – social customs, poverty, infrastructure, media, and government. Americans do not seem to distinguish our own country from other countries which are vastly different. I think Americans find it very difficult to see the world accurately, because the news media is not presenting vital information about the world. Moreover, I do not think the news media objectively and fairly covers domestic issues in the United States. How objective are we as Americans?

Why are corporate media (ABC, CNN, FOX) and technology platforms (Twitter) not investigating and censoring the facts about the abuse of children?

You probably have noticed that the media and technology platforms show more interest in criticizing outrageous conspiracy theories but ignore obvious facts of illegal activities.  For example, ABC News decided not to report about Jeffery Epstein years ago.  

Many of these journalists have Ivy League educations.  Because of that, do they think that we are we that stupid?  Of course they do.  But Americans are descent and well-intended people.  We are diverse as a nation.  We attempt to make sense of what is happening with often poor sources of facts, because we are overwhelmed with partisan opinions from corporate media.  The role of journalist should be to gather facts, verify facts and accurately report facts.

When I studied Political Science as an undergraduate student at San Jose State University, I learned the difference between political narratives, journalism and scholarship.  I learned in Political Philosophy that the “ends justify the means.”  We read and seriously considered Machiavelli, the Italian philosopher, who was a big proponent of the devil.  This may seem outrageous, but why was this even taught? I learned that according to this philosophy, lying was necessary.

In Political Philosophy, we spent a great deal of time reading Machiavelli and little time on Christian theology.  Saint Thomas Aquinas, was scoffed at by my professors, while Plato was lauded.  We read almost nothing about religion, but we were encouraged to reject these obviously irrelevant ideas.  Is this open-minded?  Is this objective?

In addition, I learned a great deal working for a presidential political campaign and from friends who also worked in government.  For example, there is the story that government leaders and staff tell the public, and then there are the true hidden political objectives.

The hidden agenda is directly related to money and power.  Political donors are given enormous influence.  Powerful interests are  able to keep facts from being reported by corporate media outlets and censored by technology platforms.  In 1987, I wrote a paper about the influence of money in politics.  My professor told me that political contributions were not important, because her favorite political party controlled the government.  If this is the case, what about the interests of everyday Americans?  And, do our elected representatives actually represent us, the American people?

Often years later, we learn a great deal about the hidden programs and initiatives of our leaders.  Teapot Dome was an oil scandal from the 1920s.  Senator Frank Church had hearings in the 1970s about the CIA murdering foreign leaders since the 1950s.  The Iran Contra Scandal was about smuggling illegal drugs into the US and secretly arming rebels.  Edward Snowden provided revelations about spying on US citizens by its own government.

Certainly, it is the role of scholars to collect facts and teach them to young students.  My favorite history professor, Ed Norton, was a Native American History expert.   He said the classroom was 50 years behind the research. I have found this remains an accurate assessment, except for a very rare teacher.

It is left to us to assess reality.  We can dedicate ourselves to reality.  This is how we achieve mental health.  We can accept what we find or live in fantasy.

I trust my friends, family, work associates, and clients to inform me.  When I witness some event, I trust what I see and hear.  I find my spirituality helps me move toward objectivity.

This can be hard work and uncomfortable at times.  Yet in this way, we are able to gain a more objective view of reality.  This is one of our most valuable assets.  It is the basis of our choices.  This is where we experience authentic joy and peace.

What secrets are being kept by government from its own citizens?

 

Who does government serve, if not its citizens?  In 2002, my mom filed a lawsuit in another legal dispute.  My mom said her lawyer, Jean Starcevich, requested a recommendation for a doctor to do a psychiatric evaluation. I recommended Dr. Daniel Amen who is a neurologist and psychiatrist.  My mom flew to Orange County, California, USA and had a SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computer Tomography).  This is a type of brain scan of blood flow in the brain.

 

Upon returning from Southern California, my mom told me the Amen Clinic staff had informed her that she had poor overall blood flow in her brain and the appearance of bumps and waves in the surface area of her brain which is indicative of poor brain function.  Therefore, she was at risk for neurological problems later in life.

 

My mom was born in Omak, Washington, a small town in north central Washington State.  My dad was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  Yet my parents were part of an experiment to determine how much radiation a human being could tolerate before getting sick.  (Please check the documentation below if you wish to evaluate the veracity of these claims.)

 

The Amen Clinic staff had told her that radiation was released in Hanford, Washington, USA (from 1944 to 1972).  My dad served during World War II in the Marshall Islands as a United States Marine.  Sometime after his honorable discharge from the Marine Corp, my dad began working at the General Electric plant which produced plutonium for the United States government.  My mom and dad were married in 1956 in the Hanford, Washington area.

 

In 1981, my father died of lymphatic cancer and its complications at 57 years old.  My mother had a stroke in 2006 and suffered terribly from seizures.  During the last ten years of her life, she was catatonic at times, starring off into space and unable to speak.  My mom was an gifted concert violinist in college and later became an executive administrator for high technology companies.  After her stroke in 2006, she bravely endured her unbearable suffering with dignity and humor until her death in 2018.  No one should have to endure such pain for such highly unethical secret research.

 

The staff experimenting with releasing radiation from 1944 to 1972 in Washington State was instructed to keep as few records as possible.

 

References

 

Wald, M. L., (1986, October 24), Northwest Plutonium Plant Had Big Radioactive Emissions in 40s and 50s, Section A, Page 20.

 

The Release of Radioactive Materials from Hanford: 1944-1972. (1997, January 24). Retrieved from http://www.doh.wa.gov/hanford/publication/history/release.html