Should We Teach This in Schools?

For years the CIA has been involved in aiding insurrection in sovereign countries. During the 1980s, the Reagan administration had set the parts in motion for an astonishing level of terrorism to descend upon the Nicaraguan people. Below is a small excerpt from the now declassified CIA manual distributed to the Contras against the Sandanista government called Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare. Here they are speaking in the context of having to gun down a civilian who tries to leave a village while the assailants are in the process of force feeding them lies (Remember, these are the American ethics we are exporting):

If, for example, it should be necessary for one of the advanced posts to have to fire on a citizen who was trying to leave the town or city in which the guerrillas are carrying out armed propaganda or political proselytism, the following is recommended:

* Explain that if that citizen had managed to escape, he would have alerted the enemy that is near the town or city, and they could carry out acts of reprisal such as rapes, pillage, destruction, captures, etc., it this way terrorizing the inhabitants of the place for having given attention and hospitalities to the guerrillas of the town.

* If a guerrilla fires at an individual, make the town see that he was an enemy of the people, and that they shot him because the guerrilla recognized as their first duty the protection of citizens.

* The command tried to detain the informant without firing because he, like all Christian guerrillas, espouses nonviolence. Firing at the Sandinista informant, although it is against his own will, was necessary to prevent the repression of the Sandinista government against innocent people.

* Make the population see that it was the repressive system of the regime that was the cause of this situation, what really killed the informer, and that the weapon fired was one recovered in combat against the Sandinista regime.

* Make the population see that if the Sandinista regime had ended the repression, the corruption backed by foreign powers, etc., the freedom commandos would not have had to brandish arms against brother Nicaraguans, which goes against our Christian sentiments. If the informant hadn't tried to escape he would be enjoying life together with the rest of the population, because not have tried to inform the enemy. This death would have been avoided if justice and freedom existed in Nicaragua, which is exactly the objective of the democratic guerrilla.

If you want to read the rest of this please click here: TERRORISM 101

Also, if anybody can come up with an instance in their K-12 school days, where they were taught anything other than how great America is, I would love to hear about it. This is another representation of why our education system and media outlets are a joke. Though, I could be dead wrong.