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As the smoke cleared, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> mounted the barricade and roared out: > This is not caused by an "Oligarchy" but rather by specific people such > as the editor of the Scientific American, the science writer for Time > magazine, and others who are well known to me. These people are not > politically powerful Svengalis. They are not hidden manipulators of > public opinion. They are inept, uneducated, self-important fools who > happen to have landed in jobs that are way over their heads. Sort of > like George W. Bush. A relatively small number of specific individual > people are responsible -- not some amorphous Oligarchy or Hidden > Conspiracy. The same is true of Holocaust denial, tobacco company > denial that smoking causes cancer, Wall Street credit default swaps > Ponzi schemes and other scams, and other irresponsible lies and > misunderstandings. There is, in fact, an oligarchy in the U.S. (as most everywhere else) -- and they do indeed conspire against us all. 24/7. And they do indeed have paid minions who know what their job is: maintaining the status quo. Over how many dead bodies, etc., that takes. Where people get hung up about this is ascribing personal, venal, long-term motivations to this impersonal machine, which intends to relentlessly grind down all opposition. Which is not to deny that there are actually minions who _do indeed_ take your defiance VERY personally. And will act on that, with the power at their disposal. But it's not really part of their marching orders, generally, eh? - -- grok. - -- *** FULL-SPECTRUM FIGHTBACK! *************************************** * In advance of the Revolution: * Get facts & get organized * * Fight the Man! * thru these sites & movements * ******************************************************************** * http://www.infoshop.org/wiki Infoshop OpenWiki * *http://www.infoshop.org/octo/matrix The Matrix:Anti-Capitalist Wiki * http://risingtide.org.uk Greenwash Guerillas UK * * http://risingtidenorthamerica.org Greenwash Guerillas * * http://www.ministrywatch.com MinistryWatch * * http://www.levees.org Levees.Org * * http://www.govtrack.us GovTrack.us: Tracking the U.S. Congress * **** NEW-WORLD-ORDER-SPEAK: "Law & Order" == Police State **** GPG fingerprint = 2E7F 2D69 4B0B C8D5 07E3 09C3 5E8D C4B4 461B B771 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm5eTYACgkQXo3EtEYbt3EiEQCgrJsx6EGzo03MLm32Cp3LLRAM 8rMAoN4GPeLbqtlp2yoSv05A9BelXvxa =tQmo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
