Letters to the Editor
walter_map
Published Letters: 1303 Editor's Choice: 20
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What did you expect them to do?
[Read the article: The enduring myth of Americans' dislike of investigations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tell the truth?
6. Controlled Mass Media
Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives.
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism, Lawrence Britt
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html
Fifth, it institutes an elaborate governmental propaganda which swamps all subjects with news and opinions, with the end of securing allegiance, or at least acquiescence. This is the purpose of takeovers of media concerns and 'deregulation' of the broadcasting industry, evidenced by defamation of the administration's critics.
Neoconservative Totalitarianism
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State."
- Josef Goebbels
A Pattern Of Deception
A hard truth appears to have escaped the notice of the public and received scant attention from the media: Bush is the first president in American history to use deceptive propaganda as his main means of communications in selling his policies.
His pattern of deception continues unabated and in direct conflict with the notion of the public's informed consent that is central to American democracy.
http://www.tompaine.com/Archive/scontent/8476.html
To win the sympathy of the masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid lies.
- Adolf Hitler
The Administration spent $1.6 billion on contracts with advertising agencies ($1.4 billion), public relations firms ($197 million), and media organizations and individual members of the media ($15 million).
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/47/17663
The Bushites are getting the best lying propaganda that US taxpayer money can buy.
Slimeballs are lying to your face, and Bush is making you pay them to do it.
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Bushites lie
[Read the article: The enduring myth of Americans' dislike of investigations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because the truth does not serve their purposes. Lies do.
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual.
Jefferson
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@ Susan Wood
[Read the article: The enduring myth of Americans' dislike of investigations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.
Stupidity does not even begin to explain radical right-wing Republicanism, much less neoconservatism. It's not actually possible for somebody to be as stupid as radical right-wing Republicanism appears to be. Neither can you attribute stupidity to Cheney, Rove, or their paid propagandists in the MSM.
Even the stupidity of neoconservatism is calculated, and they pretend to it as a cover every time Congress asks them a few questions. It's called The Stupid Defense. Although it's possible Reagan was already brain-dead and really didn't know.
If their malice is proportional to their lies, the country is in a lot of trouble, because it is run on their lies and their malice.
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gc_wall
[Read the article: The enduring myth of Americans' dislike of investigations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Americans do not want their democracy taken from them.
The radical right could not have gotten so far as they have unless a lot of Americans do want 'their democracy' taken away from them:
Democracy, which has grown up in the last three hundred years, represents, with its emphasis upon individual responsibility and individual actions, the most difficult societal system, requiring a definite human maturity. Totalitarianism and especially fascism can in many ways be regarded as an escape from this difficulty into the irresponsibility of following a leader who deprives the people of their liberty and their maturity but promises them 'security' and 'economic progress'. Hence the celebration and promotion of immaturity and self-gratification in the media and entertainment industries, and in U.S. culture in general.
Neoconservative Totalitarianism
You cannot call a government "democracy" which consistently acts in favor of corporations against the people, of militarism against peace, of lies against truth, and makes a business out of rationalizations for armed robbery and mass murder.
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@ Pumpkinator
[Read the article: The enduring myth of Americans' dislike of investigations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, and the al-Qaida types will just lay down their weapons and sing "Kumbaya" with the eternally silly liberals who claim to be "reality-based."
Of course they won't. They'll let you have their guns when you pry them from their cold dead fingers. They're all NRA members who hate homosexuals, are religious zealots, and like their women barefoot, pregnant, and compliant. They're a lot like you, except they grow beards instead of shaving their heads.
Gun rights may be inalienable, but you could limit the right of the Iraqis to bear arms by making them register with a well-regulated militia. That might keep the gun nuts under control. Sound like a plan to you?
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@ Pumpkinator
[Read the article: The enduring myth of Americans' dislike of investigations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]walter_map brings up stupid irrelevancies about things I never mentioned.
You're just annoyed because your own claptrap brought up the similarities between right-wing American religious gun nuts and right-wing Islamic gun nuts. And you're particularly annoyed because the comparison was, well, uncomplimentary with respect to your sadistic right-wing propaganda.
We do know you for what you are, neocon. Tough, ain't it?
What we don't know if whether you yourself are just another slimy crow, a paid operative from Kristol's office, or whether you really are that lame-ass kind of right-winger who is a pseudo-ultra-patriot megatrendoid, chickhawk coward, compulsive liar, bible-college graduate, thoroughly indoctrinated, who needs to be told what to do and gets led by the nose by the baldest lies imaginable - and still manages to believe this somehow constitutes 'American-style freedom'.
Don't you wish everybody would just shut up about the Bush administration's taxpayer-paid propaganda, military imperialism, brutal rapacity, constant lying, terminal greed, cover-ups, smear campaigns, torture camps, crimes of treason, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and assorted genocidal screw-ups?
Well, don't you?