I have often wondered why it is so difficult for me to get people to open their eyes and see the truth, especially when the truth is so readily available. In all my discussions with people I often feel that I am in a battle of minds with people who are utterly defenseless. Samuel Adams once said that “Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.” While that may be true, it still does not explain why people refuse to accept the truth when it is right in front of them. The truth is that your thoughts about what is right and what is wrong, what is the nature of our government, and what is best for our country, are not yours; they have been carefully crafted and designed to make you obedient little workers and consumers, as George Carlin once said, “They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that . . . that doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting f*cked by a system that threw them overboard 30 f*ckin’ years ago… They want obedient workers people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork.”

The truth is that from the time you entered a classroom your thoughts, or more specifically, your ability to think has been shaped in such a way that critical thinking is almost non-existent.

Our system of education is designed to train you to accept whatever you are told without ever questioning the authenticity of the information…as long as it comes from someone in a position of authority. Kids today aren’t taught to think, they are taught to store information that is spoon fed to them. As Carlin said, they don’t want people who can think on their own, they want obedient little sheeple.

From an article by Federal Observer contributing columnist Tom DeWeese, “Today’s children are academically stupid. Ask any child basic questions about the Constitution and the uniqueness of our system of government; ask them to answer basic math questions without the use of a calculator; ask them to diagram a sentence or find on a map nations mentioned everyday in the news. Most can’t do it. They have little knowledge of history, civics, geography or math.” (SOURCE: http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=11266)

That mindset, one in which one blindly accepts whatever they are spoon fed by others in positions of authority, will then follow you the rest of your life. Anyone who questions that authority, or the lies being fed them is ostracized, labeled as a conspiracy theorist, someone who is not to be believed or trusted.

In 1834 Henry Clay described this exact phenomenon, “The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.”

Yet while in office, John F. Kennedy warned all of us that, “There’s a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot.” Look what happened to him; look how far those behind this plot went to ensure their plans were not made public.

When someone tells me that they know what’s going on in the world because they watch the news, I don’t know whether to laugh, or to take a baseball bat to their heads in an attempt to knock some sense into them. The truth is just as Einstein said it was, “The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.”

You think that just because you watch the news that you’re informed? I’m sorry, but the news lies to you routinely, it hides the truth, or portions of it to shape your opinion on matters of importance to the corporate owners. If you don’t believe the news can lie, and get away with it, you may want to recall that in 2003 a Florida Appeals Court UNANIMOUSLY agreed with an assertion by the, fair and balanced, FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.

In 1917, Congressman Oscar Calloway gave the following statement, which can be found in the Congressional Record for February 9, 1917 on page 2947,

“In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, ship building and powder interests and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press in the United States.

These 12 men worked the problems out by selecting 179 newspapers, and then began, by an elimination process, to retain only those necessary for the purpose of controlling the general policy of the daily press throughout the country. They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. The 25 papers were agreed upon; emissaries were sent to purchase the policy, national and international, of these papers; an agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers.

This contract is in existence at the present time, and it accounts for the news columns of the daily press of the country being filled with all sorts of preparedness arguments and misrepresentations as to the present condition of the United States Army and Navy, and the possibility and probability of the United States being attacked by foreign foes.

This policy also included the suppression of everything in opposition to the wishes of the interests served.”

In Volume 30, No. 1, January 2001, Index on Censorship printed the following quote which perfectly describes the state of affairs in journalism today, “The business of a journalist now is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, fall at the feet of Mammon and sell himself for his daily bread. We are tools, vessels of rich men behind the scenes, we are jumping jacks. They pull the strings; we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are the properties of these men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”

Former journalist and editor for the Chicago Tribunal is quoted as saying, “In its struggle for relevance and financial security in the modern information age, the press as an institution appears ready to trade its tradition and its public responsibility for whatever will make a buck. In the starkest terms, the news media of the 1990s are a celebrity-oriented, Wall-Street dominated, profit-driven entertainment enterprise dedicated foremost to delivering advertising images to targeted groups of consumers.”

American analyst David McGowan sums what has happened up by saying, “Following the same course that virtually every other major industry has in the last two decades, a relentless series of mergers and corporate takeovers has consolidated control of the media into the hands of a few corporate behemoths. The result has been that an increasingly authoritarian agenda has been sold to the American people by a massive, multi-tentacled media machine that has become, for all intents and purposes, a propaganda organ of the state.”

What we now have, for all intents and purposes, is a ministry of propaganda, not a news media that investigates and informs the public. That sentiment is echoed by the former Dean at the Graduate School for Journalism in CA, and Pulitzer Prize winner Ben Bagdikian, “In an authoritarian society there is a ministry, or a commissar, or a directorate that controls what everybody will see and hear. We call that a dictatorship. Here we have a handful of very powerful corporations led by a handful of very powerful men and women who control everything we see and hear beyond the natural environment and our own families. That’s something which surrounds us every day and night. If it were one person we’d call that a dictatorship, a ministry of information.”

Dean of the University of Michigan Law School Lee Bollinger once stated, “The press can exclude important points of view, operating as a bottleneck in the marketplace of ideas. It can distort knowledge of public issues not just by omission but also through active misrepresentations… It can also exert an adverse influence over the tone and character of public debate in subtle ways, by playing to personal biases… or by making people fearful…It can fuel ignorance and pettiness by avoiding serious issues altogether, favoring simple-minded fare or cheap entertainment over serious discussion…”

All this may sound as a total failure of journalism in America, but actually it is what was intended from the beginning, a systematic takeover of our access to honest, unbiased news.

As political scientist Michael Parenti observed, “The news media’s daily performance is not a failure but a skillfully evasive success. Their job is not to inform, but to disinform, not to advance democratic discourse but to mute it. The media gives every appearance of being vigorously concerned about events of the day, saying so much, meaning so little, offering so many calories and so few nutrients. When we understand this, we move from a liberal complaint about the press’s sloppy performance to a radical analysis of how the media serve the ruling circles.”

Why else would David Rockefeller make the following statement to members of the press at a Bilderberg Conference in 1991, “We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the lights of publicity during those years.”

I remember growing up sitting around the living room with my parents watching Walter Cronkite deliver the evening news. Cronkite was idolized by millions of Americans as an honest truthful journalist. Yet in the introduction to Censored [1996]: The News That Didn’t Make the News-And Why, Cronkite writes, “…we must deicide which news items out of hundreds available we are going to expose that day. And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control…”

As JFK said, there is a plot in this country to enslave every man woman and child. That would not be possible if the people are well informed, and taught how to think for themselves. Well Kennedy is dead and the people who killed him have moved forward with their plan. According to Edward Bernays, assistant to William Paley, the founder of CBS, “’Those who manipulate the organized habits and opinions of the masses constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country .We are dominated by a relatively small number of persons…”

My good friend Jeff Bennett, on his old internet radio show, ‘Perspectives on America’ would often play portions of a song by Jackson Browne entitled Lives In The Balance. From that song I quote, “They sell us the president the same way/They sell us our clothes and our cars/They sell us ever thing from youth to religion/The same time they sell us our wars…”

After reading all the information I have provided you still believe that you can be informed by sitting through half an hour of local, and half an hour of network news every night, they you ARE A DUMBASS!

Educating oneself takes time and effort, and a willingness to face truths that may be unpleasant, that may upset your perception of how great your country is. Although I am a big fan of Thomas Jefferson, probably the best speech ever delivered by man, aside from possibly the Sermon on the Mount, was Patrick Henry’s famous Give Me Liberty speech. From that speech I quote, “We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the numbers of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.”

So, are you willing to pull the wool from your eyes and look for the truth? It IS NOT my job to educate YOU. I can lead you in the right direction, but YOU must take the first step and the journey is YOURS.

If not, sit back and allow your controllers to shape your thoughts for you, to lead, no, to herd you around like the little sheeple you are. Just don’t ask me to follow when it all collapses, when you are led into poverty, slavery, or worse. As the old sports saying goes, “The ball’s in your court.”

November 27, 2011

~ The Author ~
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