A brilliant reader points out about American cowardice circa 1913:
“That idiot Wilson gave
us:
an unnecessary war, which killed over 100,000 young Americans;
the income theft tax;
the bank robbers known as the Fed;
the League of Nations which morphed into global crooks known as the UN…
The sad part is that there was
no push back. People accepted the theft then and now.
We have been tax slaves for 107 years. Now we are becoming propaganda-virus
slaves.”
So well put.
(NO - DaProblem did
NOT start with Obama - he was elected king of DaTermites by DaTermites already
infesting DaHouse. He was the effect caused by over 100 years of negligence by
our Smart people who still are incapacitated by their/our ignorance and
stupidity - thus incapable of seeing DaEvil approaching until it burns their
specific ASS! - CL)
Another
writes about the confiscation of gold by the US government from the 1930s until
the 1970s:
“I wonder if it was
‘prosperity’ that made them obedient. But that prosperity was gone during the
Great Depression and still people didn’t really
react to Executive Order 6102.”
These
two observations share something in common: that people didn’t react.
The reaction was massive, but the
victor gets to write the history and that’s what they want you to believe: that
people didn’t react.
That’s
the best one can do in terms of moral high ground of democracy: everyone
unanimously loved the idea and went along with it. That’s the foundation of
unanimous consent and voice votes in parliamentary procedure: to pretend division
does not exist. It is the method by which thought is silenced and the
propagandistic notion of unanimity is forced. Unanimity doesn’t exist, except
in the most carefully selected grouping of people. Unanimity is a grand lie.
When you are hearing someone
referencing unanimity, you can be pretty certain you are speaking to either a
liar or a person who hasn’t thought through this powerful method of
manipulation.
The neo-con wants you to
believe everyone supported World War I. The globalist wants you to believe
everyone supported the League of Nations and the UN. Virtually the entire
economic and financial profession would have you believe everyone supported the
formation of the Federal Reserve Bank.
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The
word “consensus” accompanied by the word “science,” always seems to indicate a
person is speaking to the most unsavory of people. There is no grand list of
all scientists in the world that would even allow someone to claim that a
certain percentage of scientists agree on a given opinion. All claims of
unanimity or consensus are dead on arrival to the thinking man, a sign that the
speaker can’t possibly be serious. Such claims nonetheless are all around us
and are too often allowed to go unquestioned.
Executive
Order 6102 was used as the legal basis for confiscating gold from Americans.
You need only ask someone who was around then, if their family owned any coins
during the Great Depression, in order to hear how many “told” Roosevelt to sit
on an egg and held onto their gold. In reality, no one “told” a president
anything. It was all done quietly. They might not ever put it in such
politicized terms, neither to themselves nor others. They might not say
anything pro-Roosevelt or anti-Roosevelt related to gold. However, anecdote
tells the story of many of Americans that refused to turn over their gold. This
is among the greatest rebukes possible of that president and his policies. It
is an individual stating clearly that they do not trust Roosevelt and his “brain
trust” to watch out for their individual needs.
Some
families have those contraband coins to this day.
Few
grandchildren of the gold hoarders are able to square their unexamined love for
the popularly lauded Roosevelt alongside the unexamined disobedience of a
grandfather having so much contempt for government, press, and experts. Grandpa had so much contempt
that he held onto at least some of his gold. The questions required to square
that never get asked. It’s a joy to be the one to ask the question that squares
that though, and to watch the person in front of your eyes realize the
criminality and level of distrust of authority that dear old grandpa exhibited
in holding onto the family heirlooms during the depression.
He put the family’s long term financial
security ahead of the threat of jail and ahead of the false moralizing of the
day.
No,
they really don’t want those questions to be asked, so they really leave the
topic alone. It’s far better if everyone just imagines that no era had any
conflict except for the present era.
All relics telling any other
story must be torn down, melted down, and recast down into a lower and less
complete version of history that better serves the contemporary status quo.
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So
much work goes into ignoring the fact that so few people believed the official
narrative in the United States in the 1860s. So few believed the official
narrative that hundreds of thousands died. So much work today goes into the
narratives “Lincoln is a saint” and “Confederates were racists.” To think
anything more complex than that makes you a racist. Heaven help those who don’t
just hold a more sophisticated view of the topic, but know enough to be able to
contradict the narrative.
That’s
what they want you to believe. That’s what they need you to believe. Sometimes
history repeats itself. Sometimes it “rhymes.” They need you to believe a
deceitful narrative so that you can’t notice the rhymes, so that you continue
to believe everything is fine, so that you continue to support the greatest
oppression.
Often,
the more work goes into the perpetuation of a total lie, the more important
that lie is to have people believe. That Americans didn’t resist at any moment
in time is a massive lie constantly perpetuated on all manner of topics.
Everyone thought everything was okay. It’s the fallacy of unanimity.
There’s
never been a day since 1776 where thirty Americans randomly chosen had a
uniform view on any subject. That’s the truth. Every moment in human history has
been met with resistance. Don’t let them tell you any differently.
Identify
your boundaries. Communicate your boundaries to others. Defend your boundaries.
That is the role of the honest individual in society.
Stick
true to your principles and you don’t need to worry about whether history
rhymes or repeats. You can see how clearly your principles are being violated
in such moments.
Beware
of every fact, tonality, or scope of debate framed on the airwaves.
Facts —
So many know the facts are a lie. So many know experts don’t care about data,
except data that are useful to manipulate public opinion.
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Scope —
So many know the frame of debate is an artificial way of manipulating the debate,
to convince an onlooker that their own truth must be extreme as Beltway Insider
1 and Beltway Insider 2 debate total frivolity and irrelevant nonsense with
such great passion that anyone watching is brought to conclude that the topic
really must matter. That media trick is a well-known one. So seldom though is
the tonality of it all looked at.
Tonality —
Even in the very tones the expertly trained mouthpieces use, is there a desire
to manipulate your views, a desire to manipulate your own tone. Tone has a way
of spreading like a social contagion. Tone is the supreme method of
manipulation in this finely constructed mechanism of propaganda.
A great machine exists to break your
spirit, to get you to deny your values, to get you to let others traverse your
boundaries, and for you to sit idly by saying that everything must be okay.
It’s not okay.
Stick
true to your core philosophies and let them inform your behavior and it will be
okay. Do otherwise and it promises not to be. You will have neither had the pride
of standing for what you believe in, nor the joy of coming out of that good
fight a victor.
There are millions like you resisting this very moment. There always
has been resistance, on every single issue through recorded history. There are
tens of millions like you that know how wrong the prevailing narratives of this
moment are. The remnant is strong. It is alive and
well. It will make it through this moment. And who knows, it might even come to
shape this moment.
That isn’t the narrative they need you
to believe, but it is the truth.
This moment calls on you to look as
truthfully as possible at reality and to marshal your resources in support of
your deepest beliefs.
Allan
Stevo [send
him mail] writes about international politics and culture from a
free market perspective at 52 Weeks in Slovakia (www.52inSk.com).
He is the author of , , and numerous other books.