Does The West Have A Future?Paul Craig Roberts, Contributor We have had a second fake underwear bomb plot, a much more fantastic one than the first hoax. The second underwear bomber was a CIA operative or informant allegedly recruited by al-Qaeda, an organization that US authorities have recently claimed to be defeated, in disarray, and no longer significant. This defeated and insignificant organization, which lacks any science and technology labs, has invented an invisible bomb that is not detected by the porno-scanners. A senior law enforcement source told the New York Times that the scary part is that if they build one, they probably built more. FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress that the fake plot proves the need for warrantless surveillance in order to detectwhat, fake plots? In Congress Republican Pete King and Democrat Charles Ruppersberger denounced media for revealing that the plot was a CIA operation, claiming that the truth threatened the war effort and soldiers lives. Notice that the Secretary of State has committed the bankrupt US and its unravelling social safety net to the protection of India and others from terrorists. But the real significance of this latest hoax is to introduce into the fearful American public the idea of an undetectable underwear bomb. What does this bring to mind? Anyone of my generation or any science fiction aficionado immediately thinks of Robert Heinleins The Puppet Masters. Written in 1951 but set in our time, Earth is invaded by small creatures that attach to the human body and take over the person. The humans become the puppets of their masters. Large areas of America succumb to the invaders before the morons in Washington understand that the invasion is real and not a conspiracy theory. On clothed humans, the creatures cannot be detected, and the edict goes out that anyone clothed is a suspect. Everyone must go about naked. Women are not even allowed to carry purses in their hand, because the creature can be in the purse attached to the womans hand. Obviously, if the CIA, the news sources, and Dianne Feinsteins briefers are correct that defeated al-Qaeda has come up with an undetectable bomb, we will have to pass through airport security naked. If so, how will this be possible? If each airline passenger must go through a personal screening by disrobing in a room, how long will it take to clear airport security? I doubtthere is any place in North or South American that the traveller couldnt drive there faster. Or perhaps this is an answer to depression level US unemployment. Millions of unemployed Americans will be hired to view naked people before they board airliners. As the Transportation Safety Administration division of Homeland Security has taken its intrusions, unchallenged, into train, bus, and highway travel, are we faced with the total collapse of the clothing industry? Stay tuned. A couple of years ago a noted philosopher wrote an article in which he suggested that Americans live in an artificial or virtual reality. Another noted philosopher said that he thought there was a 25% chance that the philosopher was right. I am convinced that he is right. Americans live in the Matrix. Nothing that they know or think that they know is correct. For example, our non-truth-telling leaders continually declare that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. This myth is one of the many reasons rolled out to justify American taxpayers declining incomes being taxed to provide the Israeli government with the means to murder Palestinians and steal their country. Israeli democracy a myth you say? Yes, a myth. According to news reports compiled and reported by Antiwar.com (May 8), the September 4 Israeli elections have been cancelled, because the opposition leader Shaul Mofaz is joining the government. Mofaz sold out his party for personal power, a typical politicians behavior. Mofazs treachery produced protests from his followers, but, according to news reports, israeli police were quick to crack down on the protest, terming it illegal and arresting a number of journalists. Ah, Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. In truth Israel is a fascist state, one that has been in violation of international law and Christian morality during the entirely of its existence. Yet, in America Israel is a hallowed icon. Like Bush, Cheney, and Obama, millions of American christians worship Israel and believe it is Gods calling for Americans to die for Israel. If you believe in murdering your opponents, not debating with them, dispossessing the powerless, creating a fictional world based on lies and paying the corporate media to uphold the lies and fictional world, you are part of what the rest of the world perceives as The West. Let me back off from being too hard on The West. The French and Greek peoples have shown in the recent elections that they are unplugging from the Matrix and understand that they, the 99%, are being put by their elites in a position to be the sacrificial lambs for the mistakes of the 1% mega-rich, who compete with one another in terms of how many billions of dollars or euros, how many yachts, collections of exotic cars, and exotic Playboy and Penthouse centerfolds they have as personal possessions. The central banks of the Westthe US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the UK bankare totally committed to the prosperity of the mega-rich. No one else counts. Marx and Lenin never had a target as exists today. Yet, the left-wing is today so feeble and brainwashed that it does not exist as even a minor countervailing power. The American left-wing has even accepted the absurd official account of 9/11 and of Osama bin Ladens murder in Pakistan by Navy Seals. A movement so devoid of mental and emotional strength is useless. It might as well not exist. People without valid information are helpless, and that is where Western peoples are. The new tyranny is arising in the West, not in Russia and China. The danger to humanity is in the nuclear button briefcase in the Oval Office and in the brainwashed and militant Amerikan population, the most totally disinformed and ignorant people on earth. This article first appeared at Paul Craig Roberts new website Institute For Political Economy. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His Internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Donations are much appreciated. linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 