“”A lie keeps growing and growing until it’s as plain as the nose on your face.”

I keep getting e-mails that militia are on the rise in America. I don’t believe a word of it. There are a lot of Americans upset about lawlessness and criminality on the part of their government. They are also afraid that the government and a variety of private interests might hurt them. Which is why some of them are buying guns and ammunition. History indicates this is a wise thing to do.

On another front in the divide and conquer effort as part of the ongoing “war on all of us,” folks trying to bring transparency to what is really going are being branded as “conspiracy theorists.” In fact, with $12 -14 trillion now handed out to the banks in little more than a year, financial coup d’ etat is now very far from theory.

I am surprised to hear these particular tactics. They were used quite successfully by the government and corporate media in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Having become stale, they were replaced by the “terrorist’ spin. If that has now failed as well, I wonder if someone is not running through the oldies but goodies disinformation manuals looking for something that will resonate.

There are also reports of anger at town hall meetings. I have not published any of them because I am concerned that some or all of them are staged. If most Americans understood the amount of money spent on manipulation of opinion in communities and in the media, they would simply not believe it. Most Americans want to have a serious dialogue with their representatives at town hall meetings. Disruption and anger destroys their chance to do so.

I once commented on the enormity of the invisible control tactics that may well be the largest job program in America. It is worth revisiting. (Click here)

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  2. Here is an article, by an actual socialist(not a concocted one) about healthcare reform. While I don’t necessarily agree with their remedy, the analysis is spot on. We exist in a world where labels carry more weight than the actual things people stand for. If we actually sat down and talked, many of us would probably agree on the basics. Instead we allow the media to throw around slogans and sound bites, labels and fear and this is the substance of our debates.

    http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/aug2009/pers-a12.shtml

  3. There are two elements attending the Town Hall meetings. If you look at the folks you will see a lot of plain vanilla(what used to be)middle class, middle-aged folks. They didn’t come with bull horns and most of them were not bussed in from anywhere. They are the pissed. They are the ones who called their congresscreeps about the first bailout, about the stimulus and other issues too innumerable to mention and were ignored by their prostitute politicians. Now they have a small window to try to communicate their frustration to their elected officials over this piece of garbage called Obamacare. If they raise their voices, they are hustled out by burly, paranoid, security personnel on the assumption that conservatives expressing emotion is an act of treason. Open discussion is one-sided. Politicians who oppose Obamacare don’t have a problem with the pissed.

    On the other hand, there are the descendents of the Chicago 7… trained, professional protesters who use Alinsky tactics, such as Acorn. They seem to be more aggressive and calculating than the above-described group. They also are never criticized by the media.

    Bear in mind that there are a lot of people in fly-over land who hate this government, are sick and tired of having totalitarian type laws forced down their throats and the Constitution being treated like some damn old piece of paper. They still believe that it is their Contract with America.

    This is a Stalinist regime running the country today. The town meetings are the dying gasp of those who oppose it.

  4. What we have is a media culture that lives on distraction, melodrama, and upholding narcissicism and socio-pathy as ideal behavior.

  5. It would be good to have a discussion about what is good healthcare reform.

    This is what I’m thinking at this moment:

    We can understand that even with all the shortcomings, the guaranteed market for connected health/insurance/drug corporations that the current administration is getting at, is it the worst case scenario for many people who don’t know when their employer provided health coverage is going to run out, with the economy of shambles and more people pushed out of jobs – what would people really do if there was not some sort of safety net(even if riddled with inconsistencies and corporate sweetheart deals) and no job? I understand people upset at this so-called reform . . . but in the end the corporations are going to win, they will survive no matter what healthcare bill is passed. The people however are a different story. Corporations can continue to be bailed out, but people won’t be and with no healthcare, what is going to happen? Who is really going to win?

    I’m still debating this issue in my head – I would like to know what others think.

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