-Caveat Lector- > > << ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bonnie > To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;; > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:13 AM > Subject: The Black Book of communism > > > From: "Albert V. Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Weekly Column > > To All: > This is the second column relative to information contained in the "The > Black Book Of Communism." It deals with the manner in which our language has > been (and is being) corrupted for political purposes. The information is > vital to dealing with what we are being told through the mass media. > Al Burns > > For Release Dec. 10th > > JUST A MATTER OF TIME! > By Albert Burns > > One of the major values of "The Black Book Of Communism," compiled by > Stephane Courtois and others is its explanation of the incredible > manipulation of language by the Communists for their political purposes. > Most Americans are blissfully unaware of the extent to which our own mass > media, politicians, environmental groups, etc. have adopted the same > manipulative methods to serve their ends. > The Black Book explains that the manipulation of language took two > different approaches. The first method involves the demonization and > dehumanization of any one and everyone not only that opposes those in power, > but even those who might have the potential for such opposition. (Note: such > usage of language was not restricted to the Communists, the Nazis rapidly > learned how to do so.) > The Communists did not kill people! Those who got killed or tortured > or imprisoned were: capitalists, enemies of the people, saboteurs, > bourgeoise, etc. The Nazis did not work to exterminate Jews. They were > working to free the Third Reich of: maggots, menaces to society, parasites, > etc. By demonizing one or more groups in the society, it became acceptable > to eliminate those people. > Today, we have the media, politicians, academics and others in this > country following the very same path. Witness the demonization of right wing > extremists, militia nuts, gun fanatics, hate groups, and on and on. Oh, I > almost forgot: religious fanatics! (Sad to say, if the power were in the > hands of a different group in this country, those being dehumanized could > just as easily be: fags, godless humanists, extreme liberals, pinkos, etc. > Sadly, fanaticism is not limited to any one political persuasion!) > To quote a paragraph from the Black Book: "Terror involves a double > mutation. The adversary is first labeled an enemy, and then declared a > criminal, which leads to his exclusion from society. Exclusion very quickly > turns into extermination.....After a relatively short period, society passes > from the logic of political struggle to the process of exclusion, then to the > ideology of elimination, and finally to the extermination of impure elements. > At the end of the line there are crimes against humanity." > The second method of language manipulation is the process of simple > denial, of using acceptable words to denote or describe unacceptable > practices or realities. Concentration camps become "reeducation centers" (or > "relocation camps" in this country.) During Stalin's deliberately created > famine in the Ukraine in the 1930s, which starved to death over seven million > men, women and children, the process was described to the world as: voluntary > collectivization. (Lately, in this country, we are seeing many high school > students forced to participate in COMPULSORY voluntary community service as a > prerequisite to graduation.) > Political opponents in the Soviet Union were forced to receive therapy > for their mental illness. The Black Book points out that even today, in Red > China, political prisoners are called students because their very > imprisonment and punishment are designed to educate them to accept the > ideology of their captors. (Does it bother any readers of this column that > the drugging of our young people with Ritalin, often forced by court order, > is supposedly to make them better students? In our local school district, > there are seventeen (17) psychological type workers to deal with the two > thousand, three hundred (2300) young people who supposedly have mental > problems! Where, oh where, are we going?) > Related to the use of "sugar coated" language to describe some awful > practices, is the manner in which simple words are, through repetition in an > accusatory fashion, turned into words which carry an automatic negative > response. In the Soviet Union, the term "kulak," which originally meant a > landowning peasant, was first used as an insult then quickly became the ONLY > word to denote the peasants in the Ukraine. Every time the word was used, it > was a damnation. In Germany, the term Jew became an accusation and a > sentence. > Already in this country we are WELL along this slippery slope of > language bastardization. Note the manner in which the mass media has made > the words "gun" and "violence" virtually inseparable. This creates the > almost automatic conclusion in people's minds that guns not people are > violent; that guns are somehow inherently more violent than knives or clubs > or stones or any other method of inflicting bodily harm! > Daily, we hear and read demands for laws to control "hate groups" and > "hate speech" and "hate crimes." Attaching the accusative term hate to > whatever group or crime you wish to demonize is intended to influence the > public without them being aware of the manipulation. That term "hate speech" > is intended to convey the idea that the speaker has NO legitimacy and that > EVERYTHING he or she says or does should be totally disregarded or even > condemned. It is a way of silencing opposition. > Note that those whose "self esteem" is damaged by YOUR "insensitivity" > may become "non- functional members of society" to the extent that they may > have to collect THEIR "public entitlements" in order to survive. (Note how > the terms carry feelings and meanings which were not originally in the > language. Collecting "entitlements" no longer carries the negative > connotation of "going on welfare" or "accepting a handout". Unless you > understand how the words and language have been changed, you have no idea of > how you are being involuntarily manipulated into accepting what was once > unacceptable in this country.) > > > -------------------- >> > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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