Letter to the Editor
Information is power
Published Saturday, May 10, 2008
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To the editor:
Thomas Jefferson observed: “Information is the currency of democracy.” This principle is no longer being used enough in America. Consider this evidence:
Making citizens think on a diet of half-truths for their own good has become our government’s top domestic policy. The smokescreen for this is secrecy and national security — tools of natural aristocracy that inevitably hide government corruption.
Our national news media is discrediting our constitutional institutions of liberty by ignoring their more numerous successes while exaggerating their fewer failures. This deliberately undermines public confidence in our form of government.
By prostituting itself to bureaucratic and political special interests, our national news media sabotage American citizen power to suppress government corruption.
Congress working as a propaganda and entertainment device for citizen mind control is now more important than lawmaking based on citizen ideas.
Our leaders are increasingly making decisions based on prejudice-chosen reliable-source intelligence, instead of cross-checked multi-source intelligence. This makes them vulnerable to well-executed espionage, propaganda and pseudo-science. Witness just the last 20 years of anti-American espionage convictions and the failures from using the advice of so-called experts.
Deliberate information complication by special interests undermines the confidence of individual Americans in their natural mental capabilities. This increases public dependence on “experts” and “authorities” to interpret reality for them — intellectual enslavement by definition.
U.S. education has been degraded into a government-sponsored tool for population control. General student testing exposes this by showing decades of declining results in developing American ability to create and apply knowledge. This “dumbing down” of U.S. citizens has changed America from the world’s leading production and creditor nation into the world’s leading consumer and debtor nation.
Shouldn’t we citizens use history’s lessons and the recorded genius of U.S. founders, instead of being bullied or appeased by functionally illiterate or frightened government officials?
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"Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole—with their common aim of legal plunder—constitute socialism."
-The Law by Frederic Bastiat, 1848
Any of this sound familiar?
Reader1- all of it.
MR. Thompson, well written and to answer your question, yes!
Some of the pieces of legislation that needs to be repealed (spelling?) are the Rosevelt Corollaries to the Monroe Doctrine. I believe that they are the ground work for the house of cards.
"... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
Thomas Jefferson Papers
Abso-%^&*(*-lutey!
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