Posted by: Baldwin
- [4261155] Sat, May 25, 2002, 18:29
Many of you wonder why I repeatedly harp on the issue of objective reality vs subjective reality.
The time is rapidly approaching when it will be a question you need to ask yourself whenever you look at a picture or view a newsclip.
Look at these clips and see the future of political manipulation.
Already the weak minded swim in a sea of altered subjected reality swallowing whole manipulated reality 'National Enquirer' style.
I quote once again from the book '1984'...
He accepted everything. The past was alterable. The past never had been altered...He remembered remembering contrary things, but those were false memories, products of selfdeception. How easy it all was! Only surrender, and everything else followed. It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case. He hardly knew why he had ever rebelled. Everything was easy, except!
Anything could be true. The so-called laws of Nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. 'If I wished,' O'Brien had said, 'I could float off this floor like a soap bubble.' Winston worked it out. 'If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.' [the pentagon floated don't you know - B] Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn't really happen. We imagine it. It is hallucination.' He pushed the thought under instantly. The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a 'real' world where 'real' things happened. But how could there be such a world? What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.
The tools to control what happens in all minds and thus of subjective reality itself is approaching and the time to take a stand in defense of truth and objective reality is upon us.
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Boldwin
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Weak spin belied by the ease liberal non-profits got exemptions, but enuff to keep the libs self-deluding and on the plantation.
Yeah, but they persecuted liberal organizations too! NOT.
A November 2010 version of the list obtained by National Review Online, however, suggests that while the list did contain the word “progressive,” screeners were in fact instructed to treat “progressive” groups differently from “tea party” groups. Whereas screeners were merely alerted that a designation of 501(c)(3) status “may not be appropriate” for applications containing the word ”progressive” – 501(c)(3) groups are prohibited from conducting any political activities – they were told to send those of tea-party groups off ”to Group 7822″ for further scrutiny.
That means the applications of progressive groups could be approved on the spot by line agents, while those of tea-party groups could not. Furthermore, the November 2010 list noted that tea-party cases were “currently being coordinated with EOT,” which stands for Exempt Organizations Technical, a group of tax lawyers in Washington, D.C. Those of progressive groups were not.
They are 'stuxnetting you'...and smartgrid. The stazi never had it so good.
Reuters documented last year that the U.S. and Israeli governments can remotely turn on a computer’s microphone:
Evidence suggest that the virus, dubbed Flame, may have been built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm.
The virus contains about 20 times as much code as Stuxnet...Flame can gather data files, remotely change settings on computers, turn on PC microphones to record conversations, take screen shots and log instant messaging chats.
Kaspersky Lab said Flame and Stuxnet appear to infect machines by exploiting the same flaw in the Windows operating system and that both viruses employ a similar way of spreading.
"The scary thing for me is: if this is what they were capable of five years ago, I can only think what they are developing now,” Mohan Koo, managing director of British-based Dtex Systems cyber security company.
From what we know the NSA has back door access into Apple, Microsoft, and Google. What kind of access we don’t know, but let us assume it is similar to what they did about 7 years ago to AT&T. They had a secret room at Fulsom St. in San Francisco and the AT&T engineers had no control and no access to a room full of NSA equipment that had direct access to everything AT&T could do.
Microsoft is the source of the operating system for Windows and Windows cell phones. Apple controls the OS for Macs, iPhones, and iPads. Google controls the Chrome OS, Chrome Browser, and Android cell phones. The companies regularly push operating system upgrades and security updates to users on a regular basis.
Imagine however that the NSA has access to these updates at the source and has the ability to alter these update in order to install some sort of spyware on your phone, tablet, or computer. The software could turn on your camera or microphone remotely, read all your private data, or erase everything and brick your phone or computer.
A high-level NSA insider confirmed to us that any computer's microphone can be remotely accessed.
Moreover – as documented by Microsoft, Ars Technica, CNET, the Register, Sydney Morning Herald, and many other sources – private parties can turn on your computer’s microphone and camera as well.
All sorts of programs are available to let you remotely commandeer a webcam, and many of them are free. Simple versions will just take photos or videos when they detect movement, but more complex software will send you an e-mail when the computer you’ve installed the program on is in use, so you can immediately login and control the webcam without the hassle of having to stare at an empty room until the person you’re stalking shows up.
The bottom line is that – as with your phone, OnStar type system or other car microphone, Xbox, and other digital recording devices – you shouldn’t say or do anything near your computer that you don’t want shared with the world.
After signing up with the German smart-meter firm Discovergy, the researchers detected that the company’s devices transmitted unencrypted data from the home devices back to the company’s servers over an insecure link. The researchers, Dario Carluccio and Stephan Brinkhaus, intercepted the supposedly confidential and sensitive information, and, based on the fingerprint of power usage, were able to tell not only whether or not the homeowners were home, away or even sleeping, but also what movie they were watching on TV.
Writing in Friday’s issue of the journal Science, the environmental scientist Jan Beyea foresees a world in which epidemiologists could harvest data on how people live from day to day — their use of electric blankets or microwave ovens, for example — and correlate such activities with the likelihood of developing certain health conditions. The meter data could serve as a check on information obtained from the questionnaires that are used in such studies, he said.
With data from thousands or millions of smart meters, researchers could design tools to measure how many times a day a refrigerator door was opened, relevant to dietary and obesity research, or sleep patterns, relevant to a wide range of health research, he wrote.
ZeroHedge's George Washington - NBC, Rueters, NYT, Microsoft, Ars Technica, CNET, the Register, Sydney Morning Herald, PC Magazine tech columnist John Dvorak,
There is a calculation that was performed by someone that shows that recording all call data in the US, would cost around $30M and take a 5,000 sq ft facility, much, much smaller than the facility that is being built in Utah.
What people are failing to realize is that while the NSA gets the metadata from carriers, like Verizon, they are more likely recording all internet data by tapping into the Tier 1 carriers like Level 3. I believe there are only a few Tier 1 carriers, so it isn't hard to think that the NSA has access to all traffic. That includes data and voice, since most voice traffic is converted to data to be sent long distances.
1) They have all signals recorded by satellite. This does not respect borders.
2) An high level NSA retiree harrassed the NSA about their blatant over-reach and illegality. When they built their interception of cable traffic, they built them in such locations that they naturally intercepted domestic calls, not in such a way as to intercept foreign calls only.
Research William Binney and Stellar Wind. Also Mark Klein.
For the record
Dean Baquet, now the Washington bureau chief of The New York Times. As the new Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, Baquet now oversees the reporters who have broken most of the major stories involving the government surveillance program, often over objections from the government.
Binney's NSA career culminated as Technical Leader for intelligence in 2001 - wiki
He explains that the agency could have installed its tapping gear at the nation’s cable landing stations—the more than two dozen sites on the periphery of the US where fiber-optic cables come ashore. If it had taken that route, the NSA would have been able to limit its eavesdropping to just international communications, which at the time was all that was allowed under US law. Instead it chose to put the wiretapping rooms at key junction points throughout the country—large, windowless buildings known as switches—thus gaining access to not just international communications but also to most of the domestic traffic flowing through the US. The network of intercept stations goes far beyond the single room in an AT&T building in San Francisco exposed by a whistle-blower in 2006. “I think there’s 10 to 20 of them,” Binney says. “That’s not just San Francisco; they have them in the middle of the country and also on the East Coast.”
For the record this statement is not true, whatever it might specifically intend. Frick is right about the simplicity of tapping fiber.
Look at how much more interested in all this the right is these days. Much better than 8 - 10 years back when they towed the line about having nothing to worry about if you aren't doing anything wrong.
It is possible to listen into a signal on a copper pair via induction. It is not possible to do that on a fiber line.
Are you saying that the US posses satellites that can process fiber signals from space? Or that satellites are recording everything on the airwaves and then sending back down?
Read some of the history of telecommunications switches and they are insanely complex. At one point AT&T and the NSA were hiring something like 90% of graduating mathemticians between them. There has long been an interesting relationship between the Telecommunication industries and governments.
For the record this statement is not true, whatever it might specifically intend. - MITH
Of course it is 100% true. They have recorded 100% of the electromagnetic radiation generated from the earth every day, whether it was domestic or international in origin, thus putting to bed any notion that the NSA [and CIA] don't have any domestic intelligence files.
They pick up the fiber traffic at the switching stations scattered throughout the country. As discussed earlier they should only have been allowed to intercept messages at the cable stations.
Remember, if they can do that to spy on you, they can do that to plant evidence. Of course, neither agency is supposed to operate domestically, so there’s nothing to worry about here. - Instapundit
Remember that the next time some ex-Acorn ex-felon working for the census asks you when your house is unoccupied. Yes, the form asks you, and it threatens you with penalties for lying about it.
Now, after months of piecing together evidence, attorneys Jeffrey Light and Sean Canavan working with United Students Against Sweatshop (USAS) have confirmed that under an assumed name, Metro police officer Nicole Rizzi has participated in USAS protests against companies doing business in Bangladesh who refuse to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh following the death of as many as 1,129 workers in the Rana Plaza factory collapse.
USAS and its lawyers have numerous pieces of evidence placing Rizzi at protests under a pseudonym. District of Columbia Public Employee Information List records obtained by In These Times confirm that Rizzi has been on the DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) force since December of 2003.
USAS filed suit on Monday against the District of Columbia seeking an injunction to stop police from spying on the group’s activities.
My local paper ran this story (straight off the AP wire). The comments so far run strongly to the "its about time!" category. As in: "About damn time those towelheads started facing justice." So. Very. Sad.
On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) yet again went off on the Koch brothers, this time blaming them for climate change.
“While the Koch brothers admit to not being experts on the matter, these billionaire oil tycoons are certainly contributing experts at contributing to climate change. That’s what they do very well. They are one of the main causes of this. Not a cause — the main cause,” Reid said on the Senate floor.
Ignore that there is no such thing as AGW...or even GW for the last ever so long...ignore how absurd it would be to blame those two men for the entire climate of the earth...Just:
Sarge, I've actually read scientific papers. I know the prominent scientists who have denied AGW, and their prominent careers. I've read the detailed scientific explanation why the 'hockey stick' was scientific fraud. I've read the e-mails where that 'scientist' discussed in detail with other fraudsters how they could perpetuate the hoax and avoid being exposed for the frauds they are. I understand exactly how the IPCC pressures, uses and abuses science and scientists. I understand how the peer review process has been subverted.
No, you've read the agenda driven biased papers, financed by big oil and espoused by Rupert Murdoch and buy into the, lock=stock and barrel BECAUSE, they reinforce what you already WANT to believe. I;d prefer climate change WERENT real, but when 97% of scientists in that field tell me it is.......
And Btw, the series Cosmos that Fox is currently airing is very much atune with climate change, most certainly is pro evolution and will tell you for certain that the world was not made in 7 days nor is the human species only 6000 years old.
Its enough to make a right winger crazy when their news source spews this nonsense.
Very, very few climate scientists believe global warming is not a fact.
In other words, the people who actually study it for a living believe nearly to a person in the fact of climate change.
Years from now the Far Right will be look back at their insistence that the smart people who study the actual science should not be trusted with embarrassment. Right now they are doing with climate science what they did with journalism: Accuse the other side of gross bias, and set up an echo chamber of gross bias in opposition to that in order to achieve "balance" on the issue.
According to a recent study by researchers at George Mason University and the University of Texas at Austin, more than 25 percent of the forecasters surveyed agreed with the statement, “Global warming is a scam.”
Several well-known meteorologists, including John Coleman and Anthony Watts, have been vocal in their beliefs that global warming is a myth. In fact, John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel, calls global warming “the greatest scam in history.”
Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giaever.
resigned as a Fellow from the American Physical Society (APS) on September 13, 2011 in disgust over the group’s promotion of man-made global warming fears.
Dr. Giaever wrote to Kirby of APS: “Thank you for your letter inquiring about my membership. I did not renew it because I cannot live with the (APS) statement below (on global warming): APS: ‘The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.’
Giaever announced his resignation from APS was due to the group’s belief in man-made global warming fears. Giaever explained in his email to APS: “In the APS it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible? The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this ‘warming’ period.”
Physicists Will Happer and Freeman Dyson.
Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish-based scientist, famous for his book The Skeptical Environmentalist.
Japanese scientist Kiminori Itoh, the author of Lies and Traps in the Global Warming Affair. David Bellamy, a British botanist and environmentalist.
Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan emeritus professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of the National Academy of Sciences
Nils-Axel Mörner, retired head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University, former chairman of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution.
Garth Paltridge, retired chief research scientist, CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research and retired director of the Institute of the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre, visiting fellow.
Peter Stilbs, professor of physical chemistry at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Philip Stott, professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of London.
Hendrik Tennekes, retired director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.
Sallie Baliunas, astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Robert M. Carter, former head of the school of earth sciences at James Cook University.
Ian Clark, hydrogeologist, professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa.
Don Easterbrook, emeritus professor of geology, Western Washington University.
William M. Gray, professor emeritus and head of the Tropical Meteorology Project, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University.
William Kininmonth, meteorologist, former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology.
David Legates, associate professor of geography and director of the Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware.
Anthony Lupo, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Missouri.
Murry Salby, former chair of climate at Macquarie University.
Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.
Henrik Svensmark, Danish National Space Center
George H. Taylor, former director of the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State University.
Syun-Ichi Akasofu, retired professor of geophysics and founding director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Petr Chylek, space and remote sensing sciences researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, contributor to several IPCC reports.
Keith Idso, botanist, former adjunct professor of biology at Maricopa County Community College District and the vice president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.
Antonino Zichichi, emeritus professor of nuclear physics at the University of Bologna and president of the World Federation of Scientists.
Former climate-alarmist Fritz Vahrenholt:
Vahrenholt’s skepticism started when he was asked to review an IPCC report on renewable energy. He found hundreds of errors. When he pointed them out, IPCC officials simply brushed them aside. Stunned, he asked himself, “Is this the way they approached the climate assessment reports?”
As Michael Crichton put so succinctly: Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science, consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
Here is an excellent scientific summary provided by James A. Peden, former Atmospheric Physicist at the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh of how the AGW hoax was launched, why it marches on without genuine scientific support.
And of course you are all well aware that there are petitions signed by thousands and thousands and thousands of scientists disputing the myth that there is some settled scientific consensus on AGW. [as if the scientific method was a search for the widest held position. Science wouldn't discover the first thing with that method]
the first two that he makes the biggest deal about are a weatherman and a nobel prize winner.
i'm not sure why one weatherman's opinion is somehow more relevant than 1000 others, but i do enjoy Baldwin - who has blasted the Nobel Prize before - now using it to establish credibility.
Rebuttal of Coleman Best point: Coleman continues to confuse "weather" with "climate." Any surprise?
As with the other thread, the Far Right tries the spaghetti theory of political discourse: Throw a lot of stuff on the wall and see what sticks.
What do botany and nuclear physics have to do with each other? Neither is climate science.
In the meantime, they try to wedge genuine scientific disagreement on some of what the facts on the ground mean as though this is evidence of non-consensus. These people consistently demonstrate that they neither understand, nor desire to understand, the rudiments of how science works. [Probably because they don't like smart people. And they aren't interested in something which might prove them wrong].
Coleman came to his conclusion by not just his own scientific background, but asking the experts off record what the real scoop was, when they didn't have to worry about political arm twisting and career threatening.
Notice how the experts all come out against AGW they retire.
Why does Fox air an apocryphal series like Cosmos since we all know that climate change is a hoax? Is it possible that they are hedging their bets? Waiting to say I told you so?
Oh I simply cannot wait to see how this movie ends, its so titillating.
Yet it feels like we’ve awakened to an ambush. A lot of Americans watched in shock while cultish mobs suddenly attacked the RFRA that Pence initially defended. But the groundwork for mass hysteria like this was stealthily laid for decades, and the minefields sown.
Family breakdown led to community breakdown, which we can see in the decline of trust in society. Ignorance was cultivated in the schools through political correctness and squashing free debate. The academy’s disparaging of western civilization virtually wiped out respect for any serious study of history and civics, as well as for the Socratic method and the rules of civil discourse. Political correctness sewed confusion into the language, particularly regarding identity politics. Youth are now set to be programmed for conformity through the K-12 “Common Core” curriculum mandates.
All of that and more promotes the semantic fog that allows for mind rape. [Say hello Foucault and Derrida - B] It amounts to an act of “logicide,” to borrow a term from Meerloo, whom I will continue to quote below. To kill logic and reason that might stand in their way, wannabe dictators “fabricate a hate language in order to stir up mass emotions.” Leaders in Indiana, Arkansas, and Louisiana have been unable to understand this tactic and are grossly unprepared to deal with it. So they simply surrendered. In effect, they joined the mob, further endangering everybody’s freedom. The Link Between Crowds and Power
The whole image of such mass delusion in America is surrealistic, especially to comfortably insulated Americans who believe our first freedoms could never really be thrown away in the face of such a full-frontal, PC-induced attack. Most cannot grasp that such mobs are mentally detached from reality. And participants in the mob action cannot comprehend that they are actually cutting off their own freedom of expression, as well as everybody else’s.
Why would anyone want to build such a culture of coercion? In a word, power. “Equality” is not the reason for what is happening with such mobs. It is the pretext for what they are doing. Like all such deceptions, its sole purpose is as a vehicle to transfer power from individuals to an increasingly centralized state. The fuel, as usual, is the emotional blackmail of people of goodwill, the uses of mass mobilization to exploit that goodwill, then, finally, to render all such goodwill meaningless.
Meerloo published “The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide and Brainwashing” in 1956 after years immersed in the study of social psychology and countless interviews with victims of mental coercion, including Nazi officers and American prisoners of war in Korea. This treasure of insights was written for the layman. It is an absolute must-read for anyone who hopes to uphold the dignity of the individual. The book offers the psychic defenses so lacking among those who submit to logicide.
“The transformation of the free human mind to an automatically responding machine” is essentially the story of the transformation of the United States of America we are watching in real time today. Delusion is an important element, because tyrannies do not stand up to logic.It seems very sudden, but it’s not. We’re only at this tipping point because we let our defenses down. In fact, if the First Amendment collapses, it would simply indicate a return to humanity’s tribal default position, in which a sort of Nietzschean “Will to Power” rules the day. [Nietzsche was in fact consciously trying to destroy civilization and reduce mankind to a pagan 'Lord of the Flies' tribal rule of the tyrant, his idea of the natural state of affairs - B]
Mass delusion is an important tool of oppressors because they can’t survive where free exercise of expression and association is practiced. Unfortunately, delusion can be induced anywhere.
“It is simply a question of organizing and manipulating collective feelings in the proper way. If one can isolate the mass, allow no free thinking, no free exchange, no outside correction and can hypnotize the group daily with noises, with press and radio and television, with fear and pseudo-enthusiasms, any delusion can be instilled.”
Free Speech Is the Only Antidote to Mass Delusion
“The Rape of the Mind” could have served as a terrific manual to inoculate many against political correctness and groupthink, had it not collected so much dust since it was published in 1956. More of us could have learned how free speech is essential to preventing mass delusion.
Free expression is always the prime target of tyrants because it promotes logic, the search for truth, and friendship. America is exceptional precisely because it rejects the tyrants’ rule.
Yet as our speech becomes more restricted, we end up more separated from one another and more susceptible to mass delusions. As Meerloo wrote: “Where thinking is isolated without free exchange with other minds, delusion may follow.” He added, chillingly, “Is this not what happened in Hitler Germany where free verification and self-correction were forbidden?”
Of course, it’s really hard for control freaks to do their work on us if we are speaking freely with one another in friendship, and especially if we all understand what they are up to and can call them on it in one voice. So their first order of business is to separate us. A sense of enforced isolation is a cruel and effective tool for instilling loneliness and then delusion in people.
According to Meerloo, manipulators accomplish this through the knowledge that “far below the surface, human life is built up of inner contradictions.” Our hopes and fears and longing to avoid social rejection are exploited through the dictates of political correctness, which is the tool that separates people today, especially in that one place where ideas and ideals are supposed to be tested most vigorously in adulthood: the university.
By squashing free thought in the one place where it is supposed to be especially respected, political correctness circumvents Meerloo’s warning that “the only way to strengthen one’s defenses against an organized attack on the mind and will is to understand better what the enemy is trying to do to outwit him.”
Of course, the fear of isolation isn’t always enough to silence some people. So manipulators repeat lies and sloganeer endlessly to condition their subjects to repress unauthorized speech and thought: “The techniques of propaganda and salesmanship have been refined and systematized; there is scarcely any hiding place from the constant visual and verbal assault on the mind. The pressures of daily life impel more and more people to seek an easy escape from responsibility and maturity.”
It’s sobering to realize that the above words predate the Internet by nearly half a century.
Love and Laughter Dissipate Delusion
As more people succumb to PC conditioning and cede their freedom of thought, it becomes more difficult for the rest of us to maintain integrity of mind. Our audience shrinks. As we encounter more and more drone-like personalities in daily life, the world seems to sink into surrealism, like so many in Rod Serling’s old “Twilight Zone” episodes.
Meerloo testified to this feeling of disorientation: “Many victims of totalitarianism have told me in interviews that the most upsetting experience they faced in the concentration camps was the feeling of loss of logic, the state of confusion in which they had been brought – the state in which nothing had any validity.”
That’s because in the mass centralized state, “peaceful exchange of thoughts in free conversation will disturb the conditioned reflexes and is therefore taboo.” On a hopeful note, Meerloo writes that “love and laughter break through all rigid conditioning.”
I think the reason there is so little “comedy” that’s funny today is the genre itself has been hijacked by the humorless PC crowd. Why is their humor so unamusing and so dependent upon mean-spiritedness? Consider this possibility: “The totalitarian mind is like the schizophrenic individual; it has a contempt for reality. Think for a moment of Lysenko’s theory and its denial of the influence of heredity. The totalitarian mind does not observe and verify its impressions of reality; it dictates to reality how it shall behave, it compels reality to conform to its fantasies.”
Along these lines, Meerloo offers a prescription: “We must learn to treat the demagogue and aspirant dictator in our midst just as we should treat our external enemies in a cold war – with the weapon of ridicule. The demagogue himself is almost incapable of humor of any sort, and if we treat him with humor, he will begin to collapse. Humor is, after all, related to a sense of perspective. If we can see how things should be, we can see how askew they can get, and we can recognize distortion when we are confronted with it.”
So, in the end, freedom truly depends upon breaking down the walls of separation that tyranny builds. It means cultivating the art of friendship, [point well taken - B] boldly exercising our rights to free association and to communicate our thoughts to others. It means cultivating knowledge instead of cultivating ignorance.
After all, political correctness is primarily a tool for crushing people’s ability to have open conversations in friendship and mutual respect. In this context, it seems very much like a tool to bring all personal relationships under state control. And it shouldn’t surprise us that this is being done today in the name of equality for certain kinds of personal relationships. Tyrannies always pretend to promote the very thing they seek to destroy.
Stalinist judge appointed by the most crooked campaign finance politician in American history, unconscionably persecutes Key Republican/Conservative intellectual author over microscopic infraction compared to judges' mentor Clinton.
Don't tell me Dems aren't headed towards re-education camps and worse for their political enemies.
D'Souza will be fortunate to escape being drugged into a stupor or lobotomized. It was a nice country while it lasted.
D'Souza will be fortunate to escape being drugged into a stupor or lobotomized. It was a nice country while it lasted.
Difficult to tell that isn't the case now. I guess tweeting fake pictures of Clinton with a Confederate flag, or whining about having to serve any community service time for his crime, or being laughed at by Megyn Kelly while interviewing him are clues that he's not dead. But thinking? Probably not anymore.
Conservatives consider him nearly on the level of Bill Buckley or Thomas Sowell and this judge has waaaay over-reached. This stalinist move is gonna have blow-back.
They are going to sue any suburb which refuses to import an equal share of inner city rot. As usual all Federal funds will be withheld if the blackmail is resisted and court costs and legal penalties will mount.
With this, unless HUD is dismantled, your suburb just got annexed and you will be taxed for inner city problems and the evils you escaped will chase you into the suburbs.