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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 RussellHuman
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 WareDaniel 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 CollegeTo 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 CocoChildren 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?
"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
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 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
"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 BergerAmerican 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.
are the next
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.
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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 . I have
heard the , 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!
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
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 .
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
public education in
the mid 20th centuryeducators 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
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