- "We aren't just about politics, we're about freedom
of speech." -Motto, Capitol Hill Blue
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- "This whole chapter can be deleted because it admittedly
deals with the truth of the earth's motion," -Decree
XXI, censoring Copernicus' book, De revolutionibus
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- Do you believe in UFOs? You rarely see any news about
possible space visitors in the so-called mainstream media or television
news. Why is that? What does the so-called free press and the US government
fear? What do they hope to accomplish? Why, suppression of information,
of course, and discussion and, foremost, the truth.
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- Censorship, of course.
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- Recently a huge number of UFO sightings occurred in Mexico
and Phoenix. Did anyone read about any of them in your mainstream newspapers,
or see anything on FOX ("No spin zone"). Nope, didn't think so.
Censorship, you see, hasn't changed for nearly 2,500 years, since well
before the age of Socrates, probably even before the Stone Age.
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- A proponent of truth, Socrates
(469-399 BC) suffered the ultimate form of censorship: banning followed
by death. "Socrates was accused of two violations of Athenian law,
namely, (1) teaching new gods not recognized by the Athenians; and (2)
corrupting the youth of Athens," wrote Terrence Cook.
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- I recently got banned and censored but, as yet, haven't
suffered death (knock on wood). Seems that curmudgeonly old editor
of Capitol Hill Blue, Doug Thompson, gets a bit testy whenever you pose
a pertinent question, especially about the much-censored videotape of the
911 Pentagon attack.
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- Thompson wrote: "I watched the videotape from the
Pentagon's heliport landing pad that showed the plane hitting the building."
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- I posted a reply, asking him for specific details. How
exactly, I wanted to know, did HE see the videotape when it was never released
to the public? Because only five frames were ever made public.
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- I persisted in my contrary arguments and eventually got
censored, denied entrance, "freedom of speech" forbidden. It
felt great to connect however, even minimally, to a huge portion of free
thinkers and free speakers, from Galileo to Thoreau to fictional Detective
Columbo.
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- Galilieo got censored for attempting
to clarify Copernicus' celestial vision to a narrow-minded audience. In
his attempt, Galileo discovered that his practical teachings of simple
gravity-that falling objects do not suddenly explode into fine powder and
structures do not inexplicably collapse into their own footprint (okay,
I'm embellishing)---got Galileo fired. In actuality, Galileo attempted
to demonstrate to his students, from atop the Tower of Pisa, that gravity
is a pretty keen thing and does not bend to the will of Catholic cardinals---or
bloggers and propagandists.
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- "All truths are easy to understand once they are
discovered" wrote Galileo; "the point is to discover them."
But once discovered what would keep truths from being covered over again
by those in control?
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- I was reminded of Van Romero, explosives expert, and
Steven Jones, physics professor, both men learned scholars like Galileo.
They attempted to demonstrate, in the face of powerful government and media
interests, that erect structures do not just collapse at the speed of gravity
but must be assisted through the use of modern chemical reactions, called
explosions.
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- Forced under pressure to recant or face the consequences,
Romero and Jones realized that censorship abides where autocracy thrives.
When no one in the media or academy came to their support, they recanted.
Galileo is still shaking his head.
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- I'm also reminded of the contemporary theologian, David
Ray Griffin (maybe clarity is a religious experience), attempting to show
other, equally powerful but superstitious and ignorant leaders that steel
buildings, like modern governments, do not simply collapse but must be
brought down through complicated schemes and careful planning. Griffin's
words found an avid audience among the masses. But in our modern age, much
like in Galileo's, powerful high priests can censor whatever truth disturbs
them. Suppression, censorship, is as rampant now as during the Inquisition.
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- Galileo
again: "Long experience has taught me this
about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the
less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt
to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand
a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything
new.
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- "I
do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with
sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
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- And so many free thinkers do not forgo the use of "sense,
reason and intellect" and neither should you. Even while every corrupt
organization, of a wholly corrupt state, proclaims otherwise. Because,
once you suspend your reason and intellect, you readily accept two aluminum
airplanes can wholly demolish seven steel skyscrapers or the sun revolves
around the earth.
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- Galileo would not accept that argument, nor did Copernicus.
Despite their efforts, they got censored and their heretical ideas suppressed.
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- Galileo intended, with his telescopes, to actually demonstrate
to superstitious and ignorant leaders Copernican theory that the earth
revolved around the sun. Instead, by threat and intimidation, the Catholic
church-akin to the Republican Party today--forced their erroneous views
upon Galileo, forcing him to recant. His book, Dialogue on the Two Chief
World Systems, remained censored for nearly 200 years!
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- Does Censorship Exist In America?
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- Anyone who believes censorship occurs only in history
books is an absolute fool. The recent academic publication, "The Israel
Lobby & US Foreign Policy" is a good example. One need only type
in these links on Google.
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- Report on Effect of Israel Lobby Distorts History, Critics Say
- Washington Post
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- Harvard disowns attack on Jewish role in US policy -
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- Not only did a scholarly publication get blacklisted
when searching for a publisher, but the authors got censored and one (so
far) fired. Somewhere Galileo and Tom Jefferson are shaking their heads.
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- Or consider the stage play, My Name Is Rachel
Corrie. Also banned, also suppressed, in good old America.
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- Rachel Corrie was that activist killed by an IDF soldier
who crushed her with his American-made bulldozer. Not only wasn't her death
given much media exposure (compared to Natalie Holloway or Chandra Levy)
but recently a London stageplay about Corrie, scheduled for Broadway, got
"postponed," (euphemism for censored). Who knew New York City
was such a medieval town, consisting of small-minded but powerful people?
The Inquisition is alive and well.
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- One final, funny footnote on censorship.
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- A 20-year US veteran---"Old Ranger"--informed
me via email that he too had been booted off the Capitol Hill Blue forum
the day before me. Apparently banned for his contrary opinions and daring
to air them. "I never cursed nor attacked, (don't necessarily
believe in it unless totally necessary) & I find that I cannot post
anymore since Black Friday."
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- That was the day scores of us disagreed with "free
speech" Thompson's government version of 911. More than a few dissenters
got their dissenting asses banned.
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- I suppose I should not have called the Thompson an idiot.
But I found his premise--that a highly secure, 47-story steel skyscraper,
containing US government offices of the Secret Service, CIA, and SEC files
and gold bullion by the ton, would collapse suddenly due to a couple of
minor fires-as ludicrous as a flat earth, or the sun circling the moon.
Galileo and Thoreau would have understood.
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- For those interested in notable banned or censored publications,
including literary giants from many countries, click here.
Banned
Books Online
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- Douglas Herman writes regularly for Rense.
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