We now have an arsenal of death capable of destroying the world many times over in the hands of an oligarchy of billionaires that control the media.
The media have a complete monopoly that cannot be seen while any trust in it remains. And as many of you frustrated know, the majority of people in this country still have that trust. A finger is kept on the pulse of America, but only so that they remain within the bounds of rapport. They avoid lies that are too obvious to avoid destroying that rapport.
Sometimes they miscalculate like they did last April with Venezuela. The story was so completely shut out of the ordinary media that mere awareness of it was sometimes enough to shock people out of their trust. You can almost see the same thing today with Rachael Corrie. They only go that far out when there is something really dangerous that they need to hide.
They do not worry about losing rapport with those already in the know of their deceptions like you and I. They do not deviate too far from their phony spectrum range of NPR to FoxNews, because they don't want to burn their ultra-right coverage. But they do burn themselves on the left consistently like the commentators on MSNBC complaining about CBS's "treasonous" quarter-segment coverage of the butterflies that some troops had on the days before it started, referring to it as a gratuitous focusing on the human-side. Write all the letters that you want, you will not change their quest to destroy dissent. Their agenda is not set by you, nor will it ever be. They have had many years of practice. They have lost major rapport once, and have lost it only to smaller degrees since then, but those days are obviously over. Anyone who looks honestly at the situation today must realize futility of changing the system from within.
To the audience that is willing to listen to outside operations like Indymedia, this is working better that it has ever before! But you have to wake up to the intensity to which you have been targeted for destruction, they are adapting to your newfound success, and they have more money than you. They want to see your opinion destroyed. Their goal is a happy uncomplaining consumer, and you threaten that. They will not let you have a voice. The louder you yell, the more
coverage they will give to the voices that oppose you. They will give a voice to those who ridicule and marginalize you. They will turn all others against you. They will make it a thought crime to even have your opinion.
If you are even reading this, then all of the values which you likely have: peace, justice, equality, environmental accountability/responsibility, corporate accountability/responsibility, media accountability/responsibility, are targeted for destruction, wherever they do not suit the interests of the billionaires who control the media.
Think of what this means! This elects officials. This sets policy. This controls the direction this country moves in. The only difference between this media monopoly and a dictatorship is that a dictatorship is obvious about what it truly is. If we are to resign ourselves to having a government at all, then democracy is the only one that has the quasi-justification of not being an imposition upon the will of the people. But, what seemed good in theory turn out to be a miserable failure in practice. We now have an arsenal of death capable of destroying the world many times over in the hands of an oligarchy of billionaires that control the media.
To those who want to argue that Anarchy is not the answer, that police and military are necessary to protect us from whatever should know that any solution requiring police or military leads us down the same path.
We are now in the endgame of control. Never before has the media been so sopisticated in shutting out the voices of dissent. The remaining avenues of free speech are being systematically shut down by laws written in the name of patriotism. We have been fortunate to date that they haven't used the new patriot act laws to charge the traffic slowers with "domestic terrorism" for "acts that violate criminal laws" that are "intended to influence policy". But I'm sure that they will all be rounded up when the world's not looking. After all, there's still the threat that they could vote in the next election.
So what's left? That's good enough for me. I am not going to let some cointel operative con me into being ineffective. Everything's fair game now. Everything, including their game.
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