Why Should Dead CIA Agents Be Considered Heroes?

Why should dead CIA agents be considered heroes?  If our country created laws against perjury, fomenting wars, destabilizing governments, engaging in torture, murder, assassinations, espionage and treason and CIA agents begin engaging in those acts not for the American people, but for interests of global elites, banksters and multi-national corporations, how is it they are heroes when in fact they were merely caught committing crimes and punished accordingly?  Is a CIA agent a hero if he died smuggling cocaine to a right-wing death squad killing nuns and priests in Nicaragua?  You can’t claim high moral ground when you surrender all your morality for a CIA paycheck. 

The CIA has its hallowed wall of agents that memorializes those killed in the line of duty, but when the CIA provides false intelligence that wrongly leads a nation to war, or covertly supplies aid to terrorist groups that end up costing the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, where is their memorial?  What stage prop do the innocent survivors of war have to stand in front of as they make their political statements and eulogize their dead family members?

Please do not cite patriotism.  As the old saying goes, “Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”  A vicious person is not only one who is unusually cruel and brutal, which CIA agents have been known to be, but a vicious person is also one who is full of vice.  This is the literary definition of the term “vicious”.

When the CIA started the School of the Americas, it served as a training ground for those who the CIA wanted to engage in torture and political assassinations on behalf of US foreign policy.  Its graduates were as vicious as anyone could be in both meanings of the word.  The death squads that came out of those schools engaged in the torture and murder of nuns and priests in Central and South America.  As impoverished peasants politically organized mass democracy movements through the religious institutions such as the church, and the church leadership supported progressive democratic movements, the CIA and the individuals they trained carried out atrocious crimes that would have sickened Americans.

The CIA’s next goal was to infiltrate the media and political establishment.  The crimes and treason committed by the CIA is hidden from the American people thanks to the American media.  The CIA bragged that it no longer needs to buy reporters, who the CIA said could be had for less than a cheap prostitute, because it now has people at the editorial and managements levels of all US major establishments post-Operation Mockingbird.  While the US Legislature put and end to Operation Mockingbird back in the 70’s, our current national security state has expanded media manipulation far beyong what the CIA had ever hoped or dreamed.  After conquering the US media establishment, the CIA then expanded globally and now gets is propaganda published by foreign media so that the US media can claim CIA propaganda has been verified by foreign sources.  The once vibrant UK and German media has been reduced to a close approximation of the US media except that European citizenry were also bombarded with EU and NATO propaganda.

The infamous failures by the CIA are far exceeded by its more mundane failures, failures that include not seeing the USSR’s collapse, not seeing the growth of ISIS, providing intel on Iraqi WMDs that did not exist, turning pro-US foreign forces into American-despising fanatics as CIA henchmen overthrew the democratically elected government of Iranian secularist President Mohammed Mossadegh, the engaging in torture on a global scale, and the destruction of the American political process.  There is no longer any means of resisting CIA propaganda as all of this nation’s political and decision-making processes are all skewed and distorted so as to no longer serve as a means for which an informed democratic people can pressure government or make practical political decisions. 

We now see that CIA has become involved in domestic politics accusing Trump of being controlled by Russian blackmail and leaking a false dossier of Trump having had Russian prostitutes urinate on him.  Next, the CIA, NSA and FBI all began “investigating” a baseless claim of contact between Trump and Russian campaign money.   Before leaving office, Barak Obama took a slap at Hillary Clinton and admitted there was absolutely no basis in fact for any accusations that Russian intelligence services either hacked the DNC or affected the election outcome of election. 

Lastly, we need to view the CIA versus Trump battle and the US political establishment’s demand for deference by Trump to the CIA in light of the assassination of Robert and John Kennedy and a Washington political establishment that saw fit to have these treasonous crimes hidden from the American people for over 50 years without having issued a single protest.

It seems the more we see that absolute power corrupts absolutely, the more we see the media and political establishment demand that Americans cede all of their sense of reason, morality, liberty and justice to the establishment regardless of its failures and abuses.  American intelligence has now become and oxymoron and an international embarrassment. Dr. Ron Paul is right when he says that a secret organization with the CIA’s track record is an anathema to a free society.  The fact is that the CIA quit working for the American people a long time ago.  Trump knows this, and so does the CIA.  That is why the CIA despises Trump and threatens more attacks every time he exposes the agency.