Our civilization and every institution in it is permeated with lies. The lies are so thick that  they pass for truths. The notion that America is a free country is one. Another is that it is a Christian country, by and large. If it were, could torture become institutionalized? Would so-called good people stand by and evilly imprison hundreds of thousands of Americans because of drugs? Is that the kind of mercy or pity or compassion that Christ promoted? Would Christians who were true to Christ be supportive of a murderous State? Of course not. Their support shows the truth of their perversion of Christianity amid their lies, which they so firmly believe and repeat that they take them as truth. Wake up, brothers and sisters. Every so often, some event occurs that reveals the lies, and truth pokes its head above the muck in which it is buried. For me, today at least, that event was the news that Bradley Manning was being made to sleep naked in his cell. The immediate lie was that this was for his own safety! What total baloney. The bigger lie is that such psychological/physical pressure and torture is acceptable moral behavior for jailers because they are Armed Forces Jailers. This is total nonsense. The truth is that the man is being denied his rights and tortured into the bargain. It used to be that Americans thought of other nations as being below them that had dictators and used torture and arbitrary jailings and looked at persons as mere clumps of matter, rather than the human beings that they are. Now America has descended to this level, if it ever was above it. This treatment of Manning is the furthest thing from Christian behavior. It is godless, and as godless as the Communism that used to be taken as an enemy of American virtue and exceptionalism. What a joke that is! The truth emerges. It of course emerged in this land long before this in its treatment of the black race, among others. The lie was perpetrated that they were inferior as human beings rather than God’s children and brothers under the skin as all of us are. What lie and excuse now covers the mistreatment of white Americans, sending them off to die and be maimed in fruitless wars? Or groping them at every airport in the land? There is no end to the lies. This is a land of lies, and in this it is not exceptional.

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