I found this "censorship" was in action more then 2 decades ago at the
Ontario provincial level when agriculture ministry scientists were not
allowed to discuss the "negativities" of the pesticides that were coming
on line. These were the systemic and hormonal varieties. Now, the closed
door attitudes and secret government meetings, well.... now that the
"money" is being directed toward the few from the many, what will we
have? Totalitarianism? fascism? a fall to feudalism? or will mankind
invent another "ism" to create slavery and despair among the masses?
It has taken this long to be a newsworthy item.
Welcome to mankind's newest "HELL-ON-EARTH" ---- "Not with a bang, but a
whimper".
Darryl
On 9/16/2010 7:07 AM, de Bivort Lawrence wrote:
Good catch, Steve.
I'd like to offer an enlarged perspective for the consideration of all
on this list.
There is always tension in a society between those who favor
individual expression, creativity, freedom, diversity, change, and an
ambient level of what I would call 'healthy chaos and uncertainty';
and those who favor order, predictability, control, social safety,
governmental power, and stasis.
Over time, public favor and policy will swing from one of these
positions to the other and back again.
With the September 11 attacks on the WTC and Pentagon, the pendulum
swung swiftly and in panic to the control-and-stasis position. Armies
of police, intelligence and counter-intelligence, a military build-up,
invasion of other countries, global commando and assassination teams,
international propaganda, bullying of recalcitrant allies, closer
alliances with right-wing regimes, vast investment in developing an
array of anti-personnel weaponry for military and police usage, 'crowd
control' equipment and tactics, vast domestic and international
surveillance networks, easing of human rights and civil rights
protections, suspension of habeas corpus, indefinite detention,
torture-based interrogation, intimidation of scape-goated groups, and
the rise of near-fascist populist political groups -- all this swept
over the United States, followed all too closely though to a lesser
extent by a clutch of European countries, ranging from the UK to
Holland, Switzerland and France.
Undoubtedly,the pendulum will swing the other way, but to the extent
that these reactions have been institutionalized in law, regulations,
and wired into our cultural mythology, it will take considerable time
and political and moral enlightenment, persistence and courage.
Wikileaks is only one and perhaps the most dramatic of many instances
of people wanting to nudge the pendulum back the other way.
The notion reported in your Vancouver Sun article that the findings of
scientists should be controlled and censored is only one expression of
the societal move toward control-and-stasis. resistance to this policy
of the Canadian government is a sign of resistance to the
control-and-stasis position.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Lawry
On Sep 16, 2010, at 8:04 AM, Steve Kurtz wrote:
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Tightened+muzzle+scientists+Orwellian/3515345/story.html
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