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Social Control

(welcome to Lewis Mumford's megamachine
or how to become a mindless human robot)


"Control's real name is bondage. The logical conclusion would be, if giving up some rights produces a better society, then by giving up all our rights we could produce a perfect society." – Citizens' Rule Book


Social control through popular culture and mass media

Social control through ideological divisions

Social control through religion

Social control through fear and anger

Social control through drugs

Social control through public 'education'

no child left behind


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Social control through popular culture and mass media


Social control has and always will be a problem for each and every form of government.

Government is, after all, simply a mechanism with which to control a culture or society.

Laws are written with the intention of creating a blueprint for the normal functioning of the society to which they apply.

Social control will always be a problem for government because each and every human is unique.

Human uniqueness is a problem for government because what makes one human perfectly happy is likely to make another totally dissatisfied.

For this reason it is in the best interests of government policy makers to get the populace to conform to a certain manner of social behavior that the government policy makers believe to be the best template for society. To get the populace to conform government policy makers will use any method that is socially acceptable, including enlisting corporate support and facilitation, to change the manner of behavior of the populace so that it conforms to the desired model of acceptable citizen behavior.

"It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful." - Bertrand Russell

Human behavioral modification comes in many forms and guises.

The most successful modification of behavioral is done through methods which leave the modified individual unaware of the behavioral modifications.

Naturally, as all humans are unique, there will be some who can not modified in the way that those in control of a society find appropriate.

Government policy makers that are idealists will want the members of the society to conform to their particular brand of ideology.

Government policy makers that are fervently religious will want the members of society to conform to their religious beliefs.

Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and the other enlightened men that founded America understood the power of charismatic religious leaders to use religious dogma to manipulate both the populace and those that hold the reigns of power. To guard against the power of charismatic religious leaders the Bill of Rights contains the First Amendment forbidding government establishment of religion.

Unfortunately these enlightened men did not foresee the advent of mass media and the ability of wealth and power to manipulate popular opinion and thought through mass media. A democracy can only function correctly is the voting population is fully and accurately aware of the actual issues facing the social culture.

In America today monopolized corporate mass media defines the issues to be debated, discussed and analyzed.

Government, corporate and mass media power is dependent upon mass media ability to manipulate the truth.

Cable companies, television and radio stations, newspapers, and magazines are corporate institutions founded with the intent of generating profits and/or manipulating public opinion - with the hopes of generating future profits. ("Think tanks" are typically supported by corporate "sponsers" while quasi-governmental corporatist propaganda organizations may generate profits.)

Cable companies, television and radio stations, newspapers, and magazines are not altruistic.

Cable companies, television and radio stations, newspapers, and magazines are hired by corporations to sell the public 'goods'.


Mass media, corporations and governments are amoral - without morals. They can not, by definition, as they are not living sentient beings. Rules or laws may be in place to define the boundaries of acts that can and can not be committed by mass media, corporations and government but these rules do not give a conscience to a non-living institution.

In truth mass media is interested only in generating advertising dollars
by selling the products of the corporations that employ them with corporate advertising dollars.

As mass media totally saturates the American consciousness during waking hours
Americans have unknowingly been initiated into the cult of materialistic consumerism.

American popular culture in the 21st century is all about consumption, consumption of goods or consumption of experiences.

Thorstein Veblen's "Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899) established the notion of conspicuous consumption.

As a political economist ThorsteinVeblen understood consumer desire and the commercial logic that powers it.

Americans accumulate possessions in the dark spaces under the stairs, high on a closet shelf and buried in the garage.

Americans buy objects anticipating happiness only to be distracted by newly discovered objects of desire.

"As we deep-sixed worn croquet mallets, rusted weed-whackers, magazine back issues and untold objects that no longer had meaning or use in our current lives, we began to feel lighter, freer. With each item sold or given away we began liberating ourselves from an outmoded way of living that had been weighing us down in more ways than mere bulk. In this journey, we moved away from the idea that "we are what we have." - Ciji Ware

Daniel J. Boorstin, a great American historian, was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee and accused of Communist ties. Daniel Boorstin writings had un-American activities in mind: to undermine gratuitous consumption through intellectual sabotage. Daniel Boorstin was a brilliant de-bunker of celebrity, of the absurdities of materialism and the ruinous contradictions of acquiring status through material objects. (Truly a hero!)

Daniel J. Boorstin wrote: "Nearly everything we do to make life more interesting, more varied, more exciting, more fabulous, more promising, in the long run, has an opposite effect."(See Frank Lloyd Wright )

How do we deal with the trap that desires lay for us?

Eliminate as many manufactured desires as possible.

Refuse to desire that which you do not need!

Simple pleasures rarely disappoint!


Popular culture, as presented through mass media, works to control the population
through ignorance as the truth is presented as fallacy and fallacy is presented as the truth.

Popular culture, as presented through mass media, works to divide families. Children imitate those who are perceived to be 'cool'. The lesson that is continually drummed into American minds is that how we 'feel' is dependent on our ability to imitate those we compare ourselves to, in talent, in looks, and in possessions.

The programming presented on television is presented with the intent to market products.
Within the last few years this programming has rapidly declined in moral character.

"How often do you see adults in children's ads? It's very rare.
When you do, the adults either don't know anything or they try to stop you from getting what you desire."
- Diane Levin, professor of education and media culture at Wheelock College

To show respect for your parents or elders is just plain 'uncool'.

Why ?

It is necessary to make parents look like idiots to sell products that no parent
in his or her right mind would ever consider buying for their child!
(Chinese lead paint coatings on toys tastes good and it is good for you! )

"Consumer product producers empower kids as shoppers legitimizing their uninformed tastes, mercurial wants and detaching them from their gatekeeper mothers, fathers, teachers and pastors."
- Benjamin R. Barber

Advertisers declare you, as a parent, are 'so out of touch' with popular fads you must be 'educated' by your child as to what is 'in' what is 'cool' therefore the child must be taught , by mass media, how to overcome your reluctance to purchase goods marketed to the child.

"To minimize the role of paternal gatekeepers, corporations often seek to undermine the authority of parents. In their advertisements, corporations portray parents, often in jocular veins, as stupid, out of date and out of touch with the children's reality, and they frequently ridicule parental concerns for health and safety." - Linda Coco

Children have been taught that everything is for sale, that things will make you happy, that things have more value than people and that providers of the desired things love you and only want you to be happy.

"You hoped your little girl's Disney princess obsession was harmless, didn't you! It will not have escaped you, Mothers of America, that Disney Princess' rarely slay dragons, play sports, pilot jets or do open-heart surgery. I was not thrilled when my 3-year-old informed me that she wants to be "a pwincess" when she grows up. "You are a commoner," my 3-year-old shrieked, and adjusting her tiara ran off to watch Disney Princess Enchanted Tales. (In 2007 Disney's "Princess" franchise raked in $4 billion.)" - Rosa Brooks 03/08

"Little girls who want to be princesses and wear cute little clothes are assuming the classic stereotyping of the many misguided families who believe that little girls should be the lesser handmaidens of boys who too frequently grow up to be boys."- Ralph Mitchell 04/08

"Undermining the role of parents has been a strategy marketers have exploited to sell their brands through the development of "kids only" products and marketing themes. Kiddie marketing often strives for the "nag factor", an actual measurement by the advertising industry of the extent to which an ad drives a child to pester the folks about a purchase." - Jamie Court

The 'nag factor' is a marketing strategy that takes manipulation of children to the extreme.

Lucy Hughes and her colleagues at Initiative Media,
with the help of child psychologists, analyzed nagging behavior in children and put it to work.

20 to 40% of all purchases adults make are made because children have nagged them into making the purchase.

The American Academy of Pediatrics states that children under the age of eight years
are unable to understand the intent of advertising and accept advertisements as the truth.

In 1981 the Federal Communications Commission lifted restrictions on children's advertising reflecting the supply side unfettered market economic theories of the Chicago School of Economics - that market solutions trumped regulatory solutions.

"The average American child sees 40,000 advertisements a year on television. Comparing the marketing of today with the marketing of the past is like comparing the BB gun to the smart bomb. All aspects of children's lives - their health, education, creativity, and values - are at risk of being compromised by their status in the marketplace." - Dr. Susan Linn, psychiatry instructor at Harvard Medical School

-From 1992 to 1997, the amount of money spent on marketing to children doubled, from $6.2 billion to $12.7 billion. Today it is estimated that over $15 billion is being spent.

-American children influence purchases totaling over $600 billion a year.

-American children spend almost forty hours a week outside of school consuming televised media.

- 65% ofAmerican children eight to eighteen have a television in their bedroom as do 32% of children two to seven and 26% of children under two.

-The marketing industry has found that American babies are requesting brands as soon as they speak.

- In 2000, a federal report from the General Accounting Office called marketing in schools a growth industry.

-More American children recognize the Budweiser Frogs than Smokey the Bear.

-85% of American parents would like to see children's television programs advertisement free.

-Commercial marketing tactics of fast food have created epidemic levels of childhood obesity, type II diabetes and kidney stones. (Kidney stones - too much salt, not enough water!)

"The aggressive marketing of fast food and confectionery to children does influence their dietary choices early in life, and it puts them at greater risk of becoming obese or overweight later in life. A major concern is childhood diabetes. General practitioners are seeing more children than ever before with type II diabetes, and that's a disease associated with poor diet and lack of exercise. Children can be extremely vulnerable to television advertising promoting fast food."- Verity Newnham


If you have never seen the television shows "The Sopranos", "Sex and the City","Friends" or "Everybody Loves Raymond" you are not 'with it'. If you do not know who J. LO is you are 'out of it'. If you are a man and not into sports you are not 'with it'. If you do not have a cell phone you are 'out of it'.

What is wrong with these losers who are 'out of it' or not 'with it'? They appear to have lost all ambition. Not to be ambitious is a great way to be 'out of it'. The big enemies of out-of-it-ness are, of course, guilt and shame. You have to get rid of both.

Is 'out of it' a better place to be than 'with it'?

Yes, if you're interested in things like happiness, self-acceptance and peace of mind. But then again maybe you would prefer to be 'with it' or 'in' because then you do not have to think for yourself. You can let the advertisers and script writers form your opinions and think for you.

Popular culture as espoused through television also works to divert attention from other things of more importance,
like the direction in which America is headed, which mass media does not want you to think about.

Have the enemies of liberty already succeeded by turning popular culture into the worship of the celebrity, a form of idol worship?


Do not allow yourself to fall for the advertisers market propaganda and become a mindless human robot!!!

"They mingled among the pagans and adopted their evil customs." - Psalm 106:35



See mass media

See G. Clotaire Rapaille

See Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

See F. Scott Fitzgerald

See Claude-Frederic Bastiat



Social control through ideological division

A simple way to control a population is to divide that population into diametrically opposed ideological camps.

Democrats versus Republicans or should I say Democans versus Republicrats?

Liberal versus conservative! Left-wing versus right-wing! Socialism versus corporatism!

What difference does it make in reality?

"I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican." - Gore Vidal

"There are the corporate owned candidates on the left and the corporate owned ones on the right. A couple of them speak the truth and have less than a snow-ball's chance in hell of getting the nomination. That sure is a rich field of choices, yesiree. Almost all are millionaires, and only one or two speak of a national health plan - the same two that for some odd reason the corporations wouldn't back if the alternative were a nuclear holocaust." - Jim Stevens 07/08/07

"Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; conservatives are being played for suckers." – Patrick J Buchanan

"George Wallace made famous the slogan that there is not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican parties. Many observers have noted that while the two parties use different rhetoric and aim their spiels at differing segments of the population, it seems to make little difference who actually wins the election." - Gary Allen

One of the best ways to control a population is to turn one segment of the population against another - divide and conquer. To divide and conquer all you have do is find divisive issues like - abortion, the death penalty, gay marriage, gun control, etc. that neatly partition the population into segments which battle each other while leaving the rapacious corporate agenda unchecked.

Ideological division, although working well, does not work swiftly. The best time to divide a unified target population is by taking advantage of, or causing, an upheaval.

When the oil companies got the Army Corp of Engineers to dredge the MRGO on the lower Mississippi river, a straight channel cut through the bayou to accommodate supertankers, they surely must have known that a large hurricane focused on the mouth of the MRGO would send a storm surge directly into the heart of New Orleans.

Once the MRGO was cut all the corporate fat cats and government bureaucrats had to do was wait for a large enough hurricane, Katrina, to clear the land and send the population into a diaspora effectively physically dividing and destroying the political power of the poverty stricken people of New Orleans.

"In the case of the war on Iraq, as of September 2005, fully 60% of the Americans want America to pull out some or all of the troops. That is one heck of a base on which to build a movement and a party. The Democrats, in the individuals of John Kerry, Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton and others, are calling for "staying the course and even sending more troops. This can be accounted for by the fact that the Democrats are beholden to the same special interests as the Republicans: the oil tycoons, the barons of the military-industrial-mass media-corporate complex and those that thrive on empire, from the major banks to Bechtel and Halliburton. Take, for example, Senator Dianne Feinstein (net worth between $43,341,462 and $98,630,021 in 2005), who is for "staying the course." Antiwar sentiment is solid in California, yet she refuses to embrace it even though it would strengthen, not weaken, her. No, the Democrats are simply the other war party." - John V. Walsh

Corporate interests have hijacked our political system.

"The thought police of the Democratic and Republican establishments get to foment political witch hunts while pretending they somehow stand above ideology." - Emanuele Saccarelli

"By electing pro-war Republicans and Democrats for office, we effectively choose bombs, bullets and death instead of healthcare and public transportation." - Stacy Bermingham

"Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment." - Catherine Austin Fitts

"Important decisions are not being made on the basis of what is best for America, for the democracy or for taxpayers, but what is best for a corporation or for the financial coffers of those in government who believe that being elected or appointed to public office provides the very best cover for the attainment of personal riches. The country and its citizens are being ripped off for the gain of a few. Corporate lobbying should be radically restricted. Corporations are not citizens." - Lewis Redding


"Opposition, n. - in politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it." - Ambrose Bierce.

Big business along with religious interests dominate the Republican party through campaign contributions. The Republican party claims to be winning the war on terror; ushering in an ownership era; building an innovative, globally competitive economy; strengthening our communities and protecting our families. The Republican party claims to be the party of morality, family values, the American entrepreneur claiming it will protect us like a strong stern father.

Government employee associations and unions, minority interests, immigration interests, sexual orientation interests and feminist interests dominate Democratic party ideology. Big business also dominates the Democratic party through campaign contributions. The Democratic party touts honest leadership and open government; real security; energy independence; economic prosperity and educational excellence; a healthcare system that works for everyone and retirement security. The Democratic party claims to be the party of the working American, the underdog, the party of reason claiming it will protect us like a gentle compassionate mother.

"From the North American Free Trade Agreement supported enthusiastically by President Clinton to the recent Peruvian trade agreement passed by the Democratic Congress, the gentrification of the Democratic Party is nearly complete. A party, once proud of its support for organized labor and indeed the working man, has thrown in with corporate America. How can this be explained? It's the way we finance our political campaigns. The working folk of America cannot afford the high price tag for well-paid lobbyists the way multinational ccorporate entities can and do." - Bob Teigan

"Democratic government raises taxes and gives away money to welfare recipients with no incentive to rise above their situation, and that annoys hardworking Americans. Republican government cuts taxes for the wealthiest while using deficit spending to pay top dollar to no-bid contractors with cozy political ties. That also annoys hardworking Americans." - Terrence Hartwell

"Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult." – Andre Marrou

"Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free." – Harry Browne

"Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They believe government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks. The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one's property to give to another, the debate is over the disposition of the pillage." – Walter Williams


"I guess it's not the plan that counts, but the words in which the plan is wrapped. Semantics count for everything, and it's obvious that the resolute Republicans are better at semantics than the weak, flip-flopping Democrats."- Bruce Barnbaum

The simple truth is that both parties are of and under the control of American aristocracy members of the syndicate of the soulless. They truly are just playing at ideological differences to divert the public's attention from the reality of aristocratic greed and unjust deeds.

Why have Americans allowed themselves to be herded into ideologically division? Why are moral issues the basis of the difference between the political parties? Freedom and liberty are defeated if Americans are forced to return to a time when the government dictated the morality all 'subjects' were to adhere to and which idol to worship!

The American Constitution does not give the federal governement the right to legislate morality!

If you fall for the politically divisive rhetoric of those in power you have fallen under the social control of those who will stand up and ask for the resources to carry out their grandiose social plans based on their conceptual understanding of reality - which, is in many cases, critically flawed due to spiritual corruption.

And just in case 'chosen one'(politician running for office) refuses to submit there is always election fraud.

Jane Balogh had no problem registering her dog Duncan to vote. The only way election officials learned Duncan was a dog was because Jane Balogh pointed it out to them in an effort to show how easy it is to fraudulently register non-existent citizens to vote.

Katherine Harris purged the voter rolls of thousands of black voters who she claimed were "felons" before the 2000 election. Investigative reporter Greg Palast proved that many of those purged were not felons. Carl Rove and Tim Griffin initiated the elaborate scheme to purge thousands of African Americans from the voter rolls.

Two election workers were convicted in January of 2007 of rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election. Jacqueline Maiden, coordinator of elections of the Cuyahoga County Elections Board, and ballot manager Kathleen Dreamer each were convicted of a felony count of negligent misconduct by an elections employee. Jacqueline Maiden and Kathleen Dreamer worked behind closed doors for three days sorting ballots before a public recount on Dec. 16, 2004. Ohio gave George W. Bush the electoral votes he needed to defeat John F. Kerry.

"Casting ballots is important, but counting the ballots is just as important. It is even more important that citizen observers actually see the ballots being counted. This isn't happening. Election officials in many counties are at best uncooperative and at worst blatantly hostile to observers. Until that culture of secrecy is changed voters have no reason to trust any election system, electronic or paper." - Diane K. Mitchell

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything."
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili)


"The professionalization of political campaigning is moving into governance. It's taking structures that were set up to elect and defeat candidates and saying: Whenever you have a policy debate, we're going to come in and we're going to create the same dividing lines." -Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center

"Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty political systems are America and a number of third world military dictatorships." – Thomas H. Naylor

"Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth." – Rudolph Rummel


Do not allow yourself to fall for the propaganda and become a mindless human robot - a corporately conditioned consumer clone!!!



See C. S. Lewis

See Louis Lamour

See John Maynard Keynes



Social control through religion

All religious dogmas require believers to suspend belief in their senses, their experience and their understanding of natural reality. (see religious dogma)



Social control through fear and anger

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - and menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken

"I am watching television, reading newspapers and magazines and listening to radio, and all I get is fear 24/7. I wonder when we stopped being the home of the brave." - John Berger

American aristocracy does not want to reformulate the issues of existing political debate. Flunkies of the American aristocracy, with a desire to control their fellow man know that there are several ways in which to control a population.

One is to instill fear.

Watch out! YOU are the next terrorist target!

Most Americans have very little to fear from terrorists. If you happen to work in a monumental building that has become an icon or archetype of American wealth and ideology you may rightly fear terrorists.

The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were just such as icon. Patriotic Americans mourn the slaughter of the innocent men and women that were ruthlessly murdered. Patriotic Americans rue the use of deaths of innocent men and women as a cynical tool to manipulate public opinion.

Bush Administration Insider Says 9/11 Was An Inside Job

9/11 The Myth and the Reality: Dr. David Ray Griffin

Marvin Bush & the WTC Power-Downs Just Prior to 9/11!

9/11 Truth: Meet the Alleged 19 Hijackers

9/11 Truth: The Collapse of WTC 7 - Who Knew in Advance?

Numbers of September 11

"Fox News has learned some U.S. investigators believe that there are Israelis again very much engaged in spying in and on the U.S., who may have known things they didn't tell us before September 11, 2001." - Brit Hume

"Since 9/11, more than 60 Israelis have been arrested or detained, either under the new patriot anti-terrorism law, or for immigration violations. A highly placed investigator "evidence linking these Israelis to September 11, 2001 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."

Numerous classified documents obtained by Fox News indicate that even prior to September 11, 2001, as many as 140 other Israelis had been detained or arrested in a secretive and sprawling investigation into suspected espionage by Israelis in America.

Investigators from numerous government agencies are part of a working group that's been compiling evidence since the mid '90s. These documents detail hundreds of incidents in cities and towns across the country that investigators say, "may well be an organized intelligence gathering activity."

Documents state agents, "targeted and penetrated military bases," the DEA, FBI and dozens of government facilities, and even secret offices and unlisted private homes of law enforcement and intelligence personnel. The majority of those questioned, "stated they served in military intelligence, electronic surveillance intercept and or explosive ordinance units." - Carl Cameron

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." - David Rockefeller

The crumpling of the Twin Towers ended an era of blind confidence for American aristocracy. For American aristocracy to claim that it was unexpected is patently ridiculous!

Ramzi Yousef, an Islamic terrorist, detonated 1,500 pounds of explosives in the underground garage of the North Tower of theTwin Towers. American structural engineers had allowed for enough redundancy in the structure to keep it from failing. Anyone that understands steel high rise structures understands that what is to be most feared in a steel structure is a fire. Although this is true there has never been a fire in a steel structure which has caused the entire structure to fail until the Twin Towers and the Central Intelligence Agency building collapsed. Oddly enough even burning jet fuel with plenty of 'office' combustibles should not have burned hot enough to cause structural failure!

If you work in an American icon, Twin Towers, the Pentagon, the White House, the Capitol building, the Empire State building, any large government structure, you should consider the fact that the building in which you work may become a target. This fact alone is likely to instill fear. When working in an icon you are taking a risk, presumably you are well compensated.

If you use mass transit you are at risk. Hijackers may take control of the plane on which you are flying and fly it into a building. Taking the train is not necessarily safe as the multiple bombings of the commuter trains in Spain and London will attest. I'm sure that those that suffered from the sarin attack on the commuter train in Japan will attest to the fact that mass transit can be a target and what about those threats to the New York cityt subway.

If you do not work in a American icon and do not use mass transit you need not worry about terrorist attacks unless you happen to be downwind of a nuclear reactor or chemical manufacturing plant. Maybe you live near a oil refinery or near a liquified natural gas storage facilty. Did you know that North Korea has long range missles with, very possibly, nuclear warheads that can reach the Western coast of America? San Francisco? Los Angeles ?

Are you scared yet? Have I succeeded in instilling fear ? Perhaps you are not afraid, perhaps you are angry. Is what I speak against all patriotic Americans and therefore blasphemy ?

Good now, due to anger or fear, you will allow those that pretend to govern in the name of the average working American citizens to pass laws that will allow those that govern to control many more facets of your every day life and you will thank those that govern for protecting you. In the past this was termed 'a shake down' !

George Orwell's "1984" long ago recognized that it serves those in power to keep our attention focused on perceived threats. Many a social psychology experiment confirms the principle: A perceived enemy serves to quell dissent within any cultural or social group. Emotional fear and anger responses cause people to vote their "gut" feelings and abandon reason. Enlightened individuals will want to check their fears and angers against the facts and to resist those that serve American aristocracy purposes by cultivating a climate of fear.

When working Americans assume that politicians have their best interests in mind they are using faulty logic.

Of the three major terrorist actions to occur within the past few years in America two of them were perpetrated by former American soldiers.

The Oklahoma Federal building bomber, Timothy McVeigh fought in the Gulf War and was flunked out of being an American green beret.

The sniper, John Mohammed, was trained as a sniper by the American military.

Other American soldiers turned terrorist bomber include Vietnam War veteran Raymond Luc Levasseur and Eric Robert Rudolph.

Even those considered all American, like Bruce Edwards Ivins, whose extracurricular activities in high school, including National Honor Society, science fairs, the current events club, the scholarship team all four years, track and cross-country teams, yearbook and school newspaper, and the school choir and junior and senior class plays may become terrorists .

Bruce Edwards Ivins a senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland received the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service - the highest award given to Defense Department civilian employees.

Bruce Edwards Ivins was found unconscious July 27 and died at Frederick Memorial Hospital on July 29, 2008 purportedly from an overdose of Vicodin. No autopsy was ordered following his death.

On August 6, 2008, a federal prosecutor, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor, officially made a statement that Bruce Edwards Ivins was the "sole culprit" in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

(How convenient! The "sole culprit" in the Anthrax attacks dies when discovered. No more investigation! And no more questions about how the anthrax attacks helped to galvanize popular opinion against those willy Islamic terrorists! As well the federal government was able to ramp up bioterrorism efforts: "There are now 15,000 to 16,000 people now working in labs on select agents." - Leonard Cole)

Possibly Dick Cheney's claim that democracies do not breed terrorists is incorrect. Ted Kaczynski who? Or is it possible that we no longer live in a democracy?

We now live in an American aristocracy oligarchy or plutocracy.

"We have quietly become a plutocracy. Democracy is dead and the working class descends into ruin." - Gary Blinn

"In a market-driven plutocracy shamelessly parading as a by-the-people democracy, moving toward true justice is virtually impossible." - Frederic E. Bloomquist

However you feel about terrorism and however you feel about America it is almost a guarantee that the forgoing will cause you some agitation. Has it caused fear? Has it caused anger? If it has caused you to experience any emotion at all then it has been a successful ploy.

Why have you allowed your emotions to be manipulated ?

Have you become a mindless human robot?

Politicians that use fear to garner votes are evil men that pretend to care about citizens but actually do not!

"It appears that when George W. Bush says the "America is safer but not yet safe," he means to begin scaring us again. When we talk about security, we are actually making people question it. I am saddened that elections are now based on fear. Terrorism being used for political ends by our government against us is a kind of terrorism and constitutes psychological abuse. Americans must become fully aware of this and, as a society, reject this unethical, destrutive type of manipulation." - Robert E. Griffin

"Throwing around a potent word like "terrorism" only cheapens it. The federal Homeland Security Department's list of juicy terrorist targets is so broad and flawed that it includes the Amish Country Popcorn Factory, a petting zoo and a Mule Day parade among the vulnerable sites. Indiana - not California, not New York - was the state with the most terrorist targets (8,591). With the same lavishness, the George W. Bush administration is frenetically classifying documents as "secret", and even reclassifying information that had been public for years; "top secret" will cease to mean anything at all." - Patt Morrison

"The continual drama of disaster is anesthetizing. I am numb from the sheer number of warnings. I have heard the warnings, however valid, too many times." - Kathleen Clary Miller

Government officials claim they can not tell the truth about an existing situation as it could or would create panic. This is blatantly false as government officials from George W. Bush right on down to your local mayor use fear, anxiety and anger as a lever to justify their policies.

"By just giving Americans the good news and hiding the bad news, the George W. Bush administration undermines the bedrock of America. Give Americans all the news and let the citizens give their elected representatives an up-or-down vote." - Richard Dickinson

"Those who use fear to control others inevitably find themselves controlled by fear as well." - Dan Sewell Ward

Do not allow yourself to become a mindless human robot!

The Politics of Fear


Social control through drugs


Social control through public 'education'
(or a short quick trip through the halls of behavioral modification through indoctrination and conditioning)

"Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found State education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery." – Benjamin Disraeli

"Free education for all children in public schools. Combination of education with industrial production." - Point 10 Communist Manifesto, Karl Heinrich Marx aka Karl Heinrich Mordechai

"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." – H L. Mencken

"If this finding were to prove useful to the committee, it would be necessary to define the public interest.

We believe this would be found in the principles and the form of the Federal Government as expressed in our Constitution, and in other basic founding documents. This will explain why subsequent studies were made by the staff of the size, the scope, the form, and the functionss of the Federal Government for the period 1903-53, the results of which are set forth in detail in the report by Thomas M. McNiece, assistant research director, entitled "The Economics of the Public Interest.

These original studies of the public interest disclose that during the 4 years 1933-36 a change took place which was so drastic as to constitute a revolution . They also indicated conclusively that the responsibility for the economic welfare of the American people had been "transferred heavily to the executive branch of the Federal Government, that a corresponding change in education had taken place from an impetus outside of the local community, and that this revolution had occurred without violence and with full consent of an overwhelming majority of the electorate: In seeking to explain this unprecedented phenomenon, subsequent studies pursued by the staff clearly showed it could not have occurred peacefully or with the consent of the majority unless education in the United States had prepared in advance to endorse it.

These findings appeared to justify two postulates, the first of which was that the policies and practices of institutions purporting or obliged by statute to serve the public interest would reflect this phenomenon, and second, that foundations whose trustees were empowered to make grants for educational purposes would be no exception.

On the basis of these, after consultation with counsel, I directed the staff to explore foundation practices, educational procedures, and the operation of the executive branch of the Federal Government since 1903 for reasonable evidence of a purposeful relationship between them.

Our ensuing studies disclosed such a relationship and that it had existed continuously since the beginning of this 50-year period .

In addition, these studies seemed to give evidence of a response to our involvement in international affairs .

Likewise, they seemed to reveal that grants had been made by foundations, chiefly by Carnegie and Rockefeller, which had been used to further this purpose by directing education in the United States toward an international frame of reference and discrediting the traditions to which it had been dedicated, by training individuals and servicing agencies to render advice to the executive branch of the Federal Government, by decreasing the dependency of education upon the resources of the local community, and freeing it from many of the natural safeguards inherent in this American tradition, by changing both school and college curricula to the point where they sometimes denied the principles underlying the American way of life, by financing experiments designed to determine the most effective means by which education could be pressed into service of a political nature.

To insure these determinations being made on the basis of impersonal fact, I directed the staff to make a study of the development of American education since the turn of the century, and of the trends and techniques of teaching, and of the development of curricula since that time . As a result it became quite evident that this study would have to be enlarged to include the accessory agencies to which these developments and trends have been traced. The work of the staff was then expanded to include an investigation of such agencies as the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Research Council, the Social Science Research Council, the American Council on Education, the National Education Association, the League for Industrial Democracy, the Progressive Education Association, the American Historical Association, the John Dewey Society, and the Antidefamation League.

The select committee of the 82d Congress did not ask the representatives of the foundations to explain why they were indulging in propaganda, in view of large grants to organizations, projects, and persons which are promoting special interests or ideologies. These representatives were also not requested to explain activities of foundations which are, in fact, influencing legislation, inasmuch as their grants frequently have an outright political objective rather than an educational one.

Large foundations have a tremendous influence on the intellectual and educational life of our country. These foundations, possessing huge sums of untaxed wealth, seem to be dedicated to promoting specific views on such matters as the welfare state, the United Nations, American foreign policy, the nature of the American economy, and so on, rather than presenting objective and unbiased examination of these issues .

Extensive evidence that I have examined shows that organizations which are primarily committed to a given ideology have received large grants from some big foundations over many years, and in numerous instances they have received such grants simultaneously from different foundations . The assets of the large foundations are tax exempt and, therefore, ought to be spent on projects and organizations representing the views of all of the people and not only of a segment dedicated to a specific ideology.

'Since the activities of some of the large foundations appear to be biased in favor of a particular ideology, in reality they are indulging in propaganda calculated to influence legislation on both domestic and international matters . Under such circumstances, these foundations are violating their charters given to them by the United States Congress and are betraying a public trust.

In the realm of the social sciences many foundations have not observed the highest standards of scholarship and ethics, which require the presentation of only factual and unslanted material. In fact, the want of ethics and the misrepresentations of some foundations are so low that a business corporation doing the same thing would be condemned by the Federal Trade Commission and held guilty of false advertising."

HEARINGS BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE TAX-EXEMPT FOUNDATIONS AND COMPARABLE ORGANIZATIONS - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS - SECOND SESSION ON House Resolution 217


a mind altering device

our high schools are obsolete

no child left behind

public education then and now


Consider the following:

Children are dependents.
Children are the prisoners of their parents and their schools.
Children are sentenced by compulsory education and truancy laws to school.

Schools/prisons may be used to serve the following purposes:

teaching literacy and mathematics - a goal that can be met in six years.
vocational education or preparation for a higher education - goals hindered by compulsion.
Social control, which requires and justifies compulsion.

"Education – compulsory schooling, compulsory learning – is a tyranny and a crime against the human mind and spirit." – John Holt

"Public schools open to everyone were basically put into operation not as a benevolent gesture to spread knowledge, but as a system to inculcate patriotism, national values, and fill the job gaps in our social structure, keeping the economic network running as smoothly as possible. That is why it was made compulsory." -Lew Paz

Using pubic schools (prisons) as academic institutions for social control makes them de facto criminal psychiatric facilities, depriving children of liberty and, in some cases, labeling them with a psychiatric diagnosis in order to facilitate current and future social control. School administrators, teachers, child psychiatrists, child psychologists, social workers, grief counselors, the pharmaceutical industry and the many other businesses that profit from the education racket are not the friends of children as they proclaim. The economic and existential self-interests of these do-gooders are inimical to real education and rational discipline.

"When will we have a governor who sends his own kids to public schools? Maybe then he would see what we parents see every day - bloated class sizes; few counselors; hardworking teachers who deserve more, not less; and deteriorating buildings and landscaping that make schools resemble penal institutions." - Catherine Smith

In the beginning of the 1900's current educational systems were designed by foundations set up by industrialists to inculcate children into their roles in the industrialized factories, business' and institutions of an industrialized America.

This education inculcateed children to live by the bell, move through life as if on conveyor belts and, most importantly, to follow instructions mechanically.

This dark tunnel vision of instruction attempts to create a conforming army of mindless human robots with their soul's corrupted by a split between the highly compartmentalized, contradictory, conflicting thoughts and ideas of specialized mechanized systems and their life as an organic being.

The descendants of these industrial corporate barons have attempted to create a robust economy for these mindless human robots.

Industrial corporations need a never ending stream of "customer service representatives" , "aggressive telemarketing specialists", "instant food preparation equipment operators" and "procurement and shipping experts", in other words mindless "factory" workers or mindless human robots.

"Systemically under-educating a population is one way to ensure future generations are qualified to work at McDonald's without stepping out of line, or asking too many questions, or asking the wrong questions, or knowing what questions to ask." - Francine Prose 11/04/07

On June 25, 2007 in a Supreme Court decision that declared that students are not protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Clarence Thomas stated,"Early public schools were not places for freewheeling debates or exploration of competing ideas. Rather, teachers instilled “a core of common values” in students. In the earliest public schools, teachers taught, and students listened. Teachers commanded, and students obeyed. Teachers did not rely solely on the power of ideas to persuade; they relied on discipline to maintain order. To meet their educational objectives, schools require absolute obedience."


"What are schools for?

I can offer a single answer: in our culture, you have to follow the money. Because teachers aren't paid enough and school budgets virtually mandate large (and crowded) classrooms, schools can't be about teaching and learning. So teachers baby-sit. That's what schools are for: to baby-sit the kids until they're old enough to get jobs to earn money and pay taxes." - John H. Geerken


If anyone has a question as to this reality, that American public education is designed to create mindless human robots that earn money and pay taxes, then think about the reality children experience today with the policy of zero tolerance.

A 5 year old pinches a classmates butt. The result - cited for sexual harassment.

A 12 year old with ADD tells other students in the cafeteria line to save some potatoes for him - if they do not he will "get them". The result - charged with making a "terrorist" threat and incarcerated for several weeks in a juvenile detention center.

A 12 year old First Class Boy Scout accidently brings his Swiss army knife to school. The result - 45 days suspension, expulsion and enrollment in an alternative school for juvenile delinquents.

A 13 year old is assigned to write a "scary" Halloween story. He writes a story about a rampaging gunman at his school. The result - six days spent in jail for making a "terrorist" threat.

A 17 year old shoots a paper clip with a rubber band, misses his target and hits a cafeteria worker. The result - expulsion.

Students "disciplined" under the policy of zero tolerance tend to be even more disruptive later on - imagine that!


America's current educational system is obsolete in a time with the waning of the Industrial Age when the preeminence of a nation, a culture or a society is going to depend upon the ability of a culture to be flexible, to be fluid and to be dynamic.

Children will rebel against school authorities, against social ethical norms and against society in general if Americans continue to attempt to teach children in a mechanical rote manner designed to prepare children for a life in the factory dominated society, especially when that society no longer actually has factories - think "Made in China"/Wal Mart.

The innovative critical thinking Americans need to guarantee the viability of bright future for the American culture is not on the agenda, in private or public schools.

"The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity." - Bertrand Russell

The truth is that authoritarian restraints on the individual that engages in critical thinking is extremely hypocritical in a culture that flouts "liberty" and "freedom". The requirement that all individuals submit and adhere to the currently in favor false political dogma creates the resentment that feeds anti-social tendencies in the individual.


public education in the mid 20th century

educators main function was to teach academics.
educators did not forcibly administer drugs to children.
educators assumed that parents were competent to teach their children life lessons.
educators recognized that adolescence is a time filled with intense sexual urges doomed to frustration,
children received neither sex education nor condoms in schools and there were fewer teen pregnancies.
educators believed some children were good and some were bad but children did not use or abuse drugs, legal or illegal.

public education in the 21st century

"educators" main function is social control, not academics.
"educators" deny the intensity of adolescent sexual desires.
"educators" forcibly administer drugs to children believing it is their duty to control a child's mind.
"educators" sentimentalize childhood as an age of innocence and worry free happiness
while claiming some children are mentally healthy and others are mentally ill.
"educators" assume that parents are not competent to teach their children life lessons, that only "professionals" are qualified to teach children "sex and drug education," "interpersonal skills" and "conflict resolution."

"In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools: talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets.

A 1980s survey lists these top seven: drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. " - George F. Will


"Want young people to want to come to school?

I have the secret solution: make it a place they want to be.

Assume that learning is innate, something that happens all the time in life, something that until forced to do, most people enjoy and seek.

Want to make sure attendance is as high as possible?

Make it optional - that is the incentive to do everything possible to make sure people really want to be there.

Dissatisfaction with the current one-size-fits-all, top-down bureaucratic public schooling system has already led to millions opting out completely.

Forget tired old fixes for a creaky old system.

Don't make us opt out.

Let's spend that public school money locally, creating schools unique to each community as places where people want to be together, living life for real and learning in the process." -Sally Rosloff

"Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing indiv