- I've seen it in the local high school. I saw it again
just last night. And it is the cause of our own demise. It is apathy!
The State of New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation,
which are driven almost totally by the taxes mandated by the New Jersey
Supreme Court to fund school budgets. Yet, when the school district conducted
an "open house" town hall featuring the superintendent, appearing
and making himself available to take any and all questions, only about
40 individuals were in attendance.
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- Most of those individuals were members of his staff,
some were from the Board of Education and a few teachers were also present.
Only about seven or eight "ordinary citizens" like me took the
trouble to show up. And I don't have any children in the system!
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- I showed up that evening after having taken a day off
from work to listen to a lecture given earlier in the day by Dr. Daniel
Ellsberg, made famous by his historic exposure of the deadly Vietnam farce
via the "Pentagon Papers." The very next day, Ellsberg was arrested
along with Cindy Sheehan by Nazi Bush Gestapo in Washington's District
of Criminals. Sheehan was once again roughed up by Bush's Nazi goons right
inside the Capitol just before "The Leader's" latest pack of
lies in his State of the Union propaganda speech. I'm proud to say I didn't
even bother to watch it!
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- But my failure to paste my face to the TV screen in shock
and awe of this towering public figure and most honorable of our honorables
should not in any way be construed as demonstrating apathy founded upon
the false sense of security Americans have so long demonstrated in assuming
that "things will work themselves out," or that our "democracy"
is on autopilot.
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- Last night I joined "the enemy!" I was invited
to attend a taxpayers' meeting, and the former Mayor of our town, a Democrat,
wanted me there because of our unified revulsion for the destruction of
America by Bush and the neo-Nazi GOP. A speaker from an anti-tax group
was there, along with some other Democratic candidate hopefuls, leaving
me as the only GOP-tainted un-American amongst the small gathering. I
was well received and accorded more respect than deserved given my reputation
gained from my recently-launched honest and revealing opinion column in
the local paper.
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- But besides the former Mayor/moderator, the speaker,
and the two Democratic hopefuls [both of whom I intend to fully and financially
support], only eight ordinary citizens were in attendance. Both the Mayor
and the speaker noted that this turnout was normal with regard to civic
matters that should be of the highest interest to all citizens. But a constantly
resurfacing point in both the presentation, as well as the extemporaneous
remarks from both speaker and moderator, was the emphasis on the dire need
for a bipartisan solution to the problem. Ah, hope!
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- Al Gore confirmed this when launching his "Constitutional
Crisis" speech this past Martin Luther King Day, when he not only
included conservative Republican Bob Barr in his speech, but actually pointed
out that the crisis created by the Nazi GOP monopoly control of American
government is so serious that partisan politics actually precludes a resolution
of our current national crisis. More and more Americans are beginning
to see the folly and dangerous statist horror that will evolve by adopting
the time-worn and inefficate blame game approach of Limbaugh, Hannity,
O'Reilly, Moore, Franken and other partisan propagandists.
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- Partisan propaganda is, in my opinion, the chief enabling
factor empowering the criminal Nazi Bush regime. America never before
deliberately employed military weaponry banned by the Geneva Convention.
America never before publicly declared a policy and practice of secret
kidnappings and torture and individual murder. America never before carpet-bombed
civilian targets with napalm and white phosphorus and claimed these acts
as conferring democracy - weren't we in Iraq to free the people there from
precisely these kinds of atrocities attributed to the tyranny of Saddam?
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- It is insanity as well to continue laundry listing the
Bush-GOP crimes. If they were to be debated in Congress, GOP Nazis such
as James Sensenbrenner would simply shut off the microphones, declare the
conference ended, and walk smirking out of the room. And perhaps in a
future confrontation, he'll order the opposition shot on the spot!
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- It is clear that the solution to the continuing and rapidly
growing Nazification of America must not only be approached in a context
of non-partisanship, but via an altogether different approach outside currently
defined political arenas. It must of necessity be handled legally. The
Republican Party must be totally removed from power, and we will probably
need to "re-invent' both our government and our Constitution from
the ground up.
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- But of course this will never happen, unless something
else happens. Not only is the laundry list of Bush crimes very long, but
it continues to grow as Bush is positively reinforced by his successes
to keep breaking both the law of the land and the moral code of the human
race; and this will provide opportunity.
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- As Bush continues to bob and weave, his knees are beginning
to get wobbly. By this analogy I mean to imply that not only are his crimes
and their excuses becoming more obscene and prominent, but as Pat Buchanan
<http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=12168 points out,
his alibis are getting more and more absurd. This will reach a saturation
point as it already has for me. There is nothing more to write about -
it's all been said.
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- There is no need to watch the SOTU speech, as there will
soon no longer be a need for "dittoheads" to listen to the Limbaugh
Gang. And this, combined with the obviously impending "Oh My G-d"
when the next Bush grand horror is unveiled, grass roots America will finally
awaken.
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- All of Bush's greatest crimes are known: the 9-11 inside
job; the false flag invasion of Iraq; the suppression of both foreign and
domestic journalism, and the planned and deliberate murders of those in
their ranks; the suppression of war deaths and casualties; the false reporting
of war deaths and casualties; Enron; Plame; White House pedophilia; Abramoff
and on and on and on.. Bush and the Nazi GOP are precariously perched
and very vulnerable. Something can blow at any minute.
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- But to their credit, they have annexed the corporate
mainstream media and Hollywood and converted them as their chief propaganda
medium. And the most prominent elements of the alternative media on the
Internet are also in Bush's pocket, leaving only a minority of dedicated,
America-loyal Internet websites. These are very vulnerable as well, and
the Nazi Bush regime has already sent signals that it intends to shut these
remaining sites down.
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- I admit to depression. I admit to defeat! I see the
MSM and Nazi Bush GOP persecution of Cindy Sheehan. Why wasn't all America
outraged as were all those who are true patriots and consumers of real
and factual news events as offered by the non-Bush, independent alternative
media?
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- If ever the term "silent majority" had meaning,
it is here and now! This silent majority's potential must be examined.
Is it apathy as is so often offered as a reason for the empty seats at
town halls and PTA meetings? Is it apathy that explains the poor showings
at taxpayer meetings? Presenters point out that citizens complain and
protest but then fail to take that initial step in showing up for meetings
attempting a solution working with their peers. But is it apathy or is
it the same defeatism that we, the minority of informed and disgusted Americans,
are experiencing? Is the horrific extent and power of the brutal, deadly
and dangerous Nazi criminal regime that has hijacked America and the American
Dream at all stoppable?
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- Perhaps it is the stupidity of Americans as Dr. Paul
Craig Roberts
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- http://www.vdare.com/roberts/060127_catastrophe.htm
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- suggests: "Two recent polls, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg
poll and a New York Times/CBS News poll, indicate why Bush is getting away
with impeachable offenses. Half of the US population is incapable of acquiring,
processing and understanding information." Or perhaps it is the "Calculated
Chaos"
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- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595263497/103-1008777-0249459?v=glanc
e&n=283155
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- of institutionalized societal polarization as suggested
by Butler Shaffer in his scholarly work, capitalized upon by "parental
government" [Big Brother] via the "divide, isolate and conquer"
strategy. Perhaps it is a bit of both.
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- One thing is clear: the individual and group barriers
Shaffer discusses as arranged by societal institutions has gained yet another
dimension, and that dimension can now be characterized by media institutionalization.
Here's Roberts again: "Much of the problem is the media itself, which
serves as a disinformation agency for the Bush administration. Fox "News"
and right-wing talk radio are the worst, but with propagandistic outlets
setting the standard for truth and patriotism, all of the media is affected
to some degree."
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- But something is being missed in both Shaffer and Robert's
assessments concerning barriers and media complicity. There are now isolated
and walled-off media audiences. These audiences constitute information/communication
blockades that bring into focus much more clearly the third "U"
William L. Shirer missed in his colossal account of the Third Reich. And
that third "U" is "uninformed," the other two being
"unorganized" and "unarmed."
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- There is a huge potential audience out there that has
isolated itself in ignorance out of newly-created institutional barriers
resulting from the rapid deterioration of American politics and the concurrent
downfall of the mainstream establishment corporate media. Americans are
increasingly rejecting both, but the status quo is assured due to the newly
drawn institutional barriers erected between news audiences. And although
these seemingly huge and impenetrable barriers exist, they are anything
but that.
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- Just as the former administration was so vulnerable because
of Clinton's cynicism, contempt and disdain for the stupidity of the American
people, Bush's arrogance and contempt for government-limiting parameters
will lead to his crashing downfall. All that is required is to break down
the walls of the news-information protectorates and all hell will break
lose!
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- Imagine a Limbaugh "dittohead," which I once
was, learning that the Bush administration itself did 9-11 in order to
launch the Clinton administration's USA PATRIOT Act, the latter just sitting
on the shelf waiting to be enacted right after the "Pearl Harbor of
the 21st Century required to launch the global agenda of the New World
Order. Now we in the independent alternative media already know about
this, and it is even possible that many of Limbaugh's dittoheads have already
learned this; but their standard reaction would be that these are stupid
conspiracy theory rants from the loony left. This is precisely the media
audience institutional barrier I am describing. But what if NewsMax broke
the story exposing a new and irrefutable secret document proving it beyond
a shadow of a doubt? What if Colin Powell was the source, or even a John
McCain? What would happen if Matt Drudge would break such a story?
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- Have you seen some of the headlines on the Drudge Report
lately? It's is beginning to look more and more like an emerging Rense.com
or Alex Jones' Prison Planet. Once such a bombshell drops, the immediate
destruction of the total credibility of a Limbaugh, or an O'Reilly, or
a Hannity will be assured. The entire GOP will take a hit from which it
will never again recover. No one in the GOP will get elected, and the
Bush-Cheney impeachment will be assured.
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- It is control of "news making" that always
ignites public opinion. As America relies less and less upon the mainstream
corporate establishment media, the occasion for an ambitious truth teller
and his or her reliable back-up to suddenly appear with a bombshell news
event will energize the alternative media and the uninformed masses as
never before. Then the Bush regime and its enabling MSM and blab radio
propagandists will all go down together. I feel it is way overdue.
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- In the meantime, slow, deliberate and concerted efforts
providing informative articles and opinion writing directed at the untapped
masses of isolated, institutionalized media prisoners, approaching their
ignorance and bias with toned-down rhetoric, will eventually ignite the
silent majority of uninformed and ignorant news consumers when the "Big
One" hits. A vast potential harvest of reform momentum and hope will
be our reward!
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- c. 2005 THEODORE E. LANG 2/03/05 All rights reserved
Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.
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