50.Things.Youre.Not.Supposed.To.Know

[B.O.G]

katika pita pita zangu nime kutana na haya ambayo mimi na wewe hatupaswi kufahamu.

 

[Saint Ivuga]

INTRODUCTION
Certain parties don't want you to know certain facts. For example, if Bayer were proud that it
introduced heroin to the world, wouldn't that fact be on the company's Website? After all, it was
one of the most popular drugs of the twentieth century. The official corporate history mentions
the release of aspirin in 1899 but not heroin during the previous year.
Do you think the Catholic Church wants you to know that Pope Pius II wrote an erotic book?
True, the canonical Catholic Encyclopedia does mention the title in passing, but it demurely
neglects to say anything about it.
Historians don't seem too happy about the fact that Winston Churchill decried an alleged
worldwide Jewish conspiracy, so you won't read that very often. Likewise, the cannibalistic
tendencies of the Virginia colonists and our close call with World War III I are just too
discomforting to be widely admitted.
My lady-love was an active feminist in the 1970s, yet she had never heard that the founding
mothers of feminism opposed abortion. Small wonder, since their prolife views are almost never
mentioned in biographies or documentaries. I was surprised when Richard Metzger,
Disinformation's creative director, told me that Carl Sagan loved reefer. I guess the Drug
Warriors won't be using the famous scientist as a poster child for the "evils" of pot.
The tobacco companies finally had to cop to lung cancer, but they still prefer that you remain
ignorant of all the other health problems caused by smoking. You won't see "Causes blindness"
or "Doubles risk of genital cancer" on the warning label. The beef industry sued Oprah Winfrey
for discussing the possibility of mad cow disease in the US, so do you think that the dairy
industry will be very happy when people find out that most milk starts out containing bovine
leukemia virus?
Activists have been arrested for telling people about their full powers as jurors. Plans lo nuke the
Moon have been classified. The military successfully pressured a movie studio to change the
name of a character in the flick Black Hawk Down; that particular commando is currently in the
stockade for raping a child under twelve.
Certain parties don't want you to know certain facts. That's a fact