Reaganites in Guinea Murder 8 Ebola Aid Workers

Primitive, superstitious, backward villagers in Guinea, a small African nation, murdered eight Ebola aid workers who had come to aid them. The villagers somehow got it into their heads that the aid workers came to give them Ebola. A mob of young men attacked the workers with hurled stones. The bosses of the group sped away in their cars; other workers fled into the bush. Eight unlucky ones had their throats slit. Their bodies were then thrown down the makeshift latrine by a school, a limepit.

Another primitive, superstitious, backward fellow, an icon of both U.S imperialism and of American “conservatism,” Ronald Reagan, wouldn't have approved, even though the villagers were in effect putting one of his oft-stated beliefs into practice. (The Reagans were believers in astrology, among other nonsense.)

“I think you all know that, I've always felt the, nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help,'” according to Reagan. (Video below.) Guess those words are “terrifying" in other languages too.

Reagan said “I think you all know that, I've always felt” that, because for years this was one of his propaganda tropes. Thus he correctly assumed that his audience was familiar with this line. As a servant of corporate masters like GE, for which he worked, he promoted the ideology they preferred. (Reagan was also an FBI spy when he headed the Screen Actors' Guild, aiding the persecution of actors who were considered “left-wing.” Later, secret police chieftain J. Edgar Hoover helped get Reagan elected Governor of California, as recently documented in a book by Seth Rosenfeld. [1]

But we must understand that “government” is code for those parts of government that regulate business or provide for the needs of the average person. The attitude of big business and reactionaries like Reagan toward the military and secret police and other repressive arms of government is exactly the reverse. Those parts of government can never be too big, or too powerful, or too well-funded.

1] The book is "Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power," by Seth Rosenfeld. See also interview with Rosenfeld at democracynow.org, “'Subversives': How the FBI Fought the 1960s Student Movement and Aided Reagan’s Rise to Power,” 8/23/12, part one of a two-part interview that concluded on 8/24 as “Book Reveals Extensive Effort by Reagan, FBI to Undermine California’s Student Movement in 1960s.”

An essay based on the book appears as “The FBI's Vendetta Against Berkeley,” August 13, 2012.

If you do an Internet search for “Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover,” you will discover informative information.

Reagan "knew" that Government was the most terrifying thing: and yet he wanted its power. As California Governor, President of the U.S., and long-time secret police accomplice. What he used U.S. power to do to the people of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mozambique, and other places certainly was terrifying. I guess government really IS the most terrifying thing when its controlled by fascists like Reagan. Irony, anyone?