by Alexander Scianna

Created on: May 03, 2008   Last Updated: May 04, 2008

Plato talked about ascending the underground cave to the light of day. Even though he spoke about the need to go back down into the cave after witnessing the light of day, he never spoke about the delights of the underground garden's most cherished secrets. Those of us down here in the underground have seen glimpses of the light of day and now we are cultivating the garden and planting the seeds of the highest reasoning ascending the cave of shadows.

I wake to the realization that we are living within an Empire and not much different than the Empires of the past. We sustain our power by brute force and coercion.
Uncle Sam's CIA was given a charter to perform and carry out functions as might be necessary to the national security interest and also has secrete authority to protect its sources and methods.

I remember the day you told me we would be fighting Uncle Sam. I don't know how much of it is really true. As I can only know from what I discover and what appears to be the reality. There is a big difference between appearance and reality. It's not always so easy to discern. I watch Bill Moyers on the small TV sitting on a bed of compost and tend the garden. I imagine all the possibilities. Bill mentions the words "a Secret Government" and I put pieces of a puzzle together. Even if reality cannot be known directly maybe we can become aware of enough signs of our Uncle's hidden side. I remember you said after World War II was over, Europe lay devastated, and the United State emerged as the greatest powerful nation in the world. Has our Uncle Sam ever been a benevolent power? I ask you, "How can we see beyond the shadows of appearances old friend?"

I wait for an answer to drift into my consciousness as the hum of the light grows louder. Marcel, now I understand what you meant when you said when our good old Uncle Sam started the communist scare that they turned to some of the very men who had inflicted on humanity the horrors of Hitler's madness. I think your insight into the hidden side of our Uncle is right Marcel! I'm amazed at how you were saying things like that back then; I didn't want to believe you. Our Loving Uncle Sam hired Nazis as American spies he struck a secret bargain with the devil, and tried to hide it from us. That was hard to swallow as a naive adolescent I didn't know that the Russians had been our allies against them as an expedient alliance for the sake of war. Then they became our enemy, and we had to fight them. Isn't it strange how our allies

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