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Now, here’s another quote
from Mark Twain, who was vice president of the American Anti-Imperialist
League from 1901 until his actual death in 1910:
“It ain't what you don't know, that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure, that just ain't so.”
As peace activists, we do have a lot to learn about war, and we think we have a lot of information to share with the general public
We can certainly learn a lot by studying the pretexts and lies that governments tell us in order to rally our support for their wars, and their weapons programs.
But we’re swimming in such an ocean of war propaganda though, that half the time we can’t even see it. Sometimes we’re even unwittingly guilty of spreading these lies ourselves.
The folks who specialise in overthrowing governments, undermining democracy, and controlling and subverting popular movements, all engage in what they call Psychological Operations, or PsyOps. Some PsyOps trick us into blindly believing things that, as Twain says, we think we “know for sure, [but] that just ain’t so.”
Among the many things that we have to unlearn, is the great myth of Canada the global force peace.
A more specific lie to be unlearned is the yarn that Canada “said no” “missile defense.”
Once we’ve unlearned these myths, we may actually have a slight chance of stopping “missile defense.”
But, until then, this massive, weapons development program is still very much alive and well and living in Canada.