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On mainstream television there is a
popular and insidious disease that is taking over the airwaves. It's called
REALITY Television, and it's the furthest thing from reality that could be
imagined. The web is occasionally infected by a similar phenomenon that
generally seeks to be called "the TRUTH tellers." These people should
not be confused with their chosen topic, anymore than REALITY should
be mistaken for things like Survivor or any of the other constructs
that television created to replace reality with its complete fictions.
The media uses these programs as
substitutes for real life; featuring their exploits as matters of great concern,
and giving interviews daily with the contestants, as they fail or are kicked off
each succeeding episode. This garbage "news" is substituted for
anything that could be meaningful or of any value whatsoever to the American
population. "The TRUTH tellers" do the same thing for the web, with an
added twist. The purpose behind most of these high-tech hucksters, beyond the
money to be made hawking their wares, the tapes, the films, the books which they
create - is to slant, distort, or to otherwise clutter up the field of actual
investigative reporting, or serious writing by those who in many cases have
spent their lives trying to set various records straight.
One such case involves something called
WING TV, which is the creation of Victor Thorn (Scott Makufka). My last article A Climate of Suspicion was a response to the
Cult of Fear. In response: I received a series of links from Lisa Guliani, who
co-hosts that site. Lisa said I should read them to correct my obvious
misimpressions, about Cult of Fear. I read them and what I found was
far more disturbing than what I thought was the earlier point of contention.
I learned for instance that part of
their goal was to bring all the critics and writers on the web together:
"Now I'm not talking about a huge centralization of power; but instead, a
common unification of goals. Because, when you think about it, don't we all, in
one way or another, have the same purpose in mind - to defeat the global forces
which are rapidly eroding our freedoms and sovereignty? The primary difference
between them and us is simple: our opponent is highly organized, and we aren't.
And if we remain fragmented and isolated, I guarantee that absolutely nothing
substantive will change. Is that what we want, or are we big enough to rise
above ourselves and join together? This is the crux of our struggle."
http://69.28.73.17/thornarticles/alexjonesunite.html
Viewing WING TV, reminded me of an
electronic version of The New York Post, and after reading the details in
several of the attack articles - I almost laughed our loud. When you think about
the work of people like Gore Vidal, or Arundhati Roy; Greg Palast, Robert Fisk,
Paul Krugman, Molly Ivins, John Pilger, or Chomsky, Dreyfuss, Alexander Cockburn
or Mokhiber/Weissman - any of the hundreds of really excellent writers in the
world today - and all of them allowing themselves to be led around by this
"dynamic- duo" without a background or even much of a future? The idea
was simply ludicrous!
Amid the series of six articles, aimed
at Alex Jones of Prison Planet, there was this fascinating find: "We
respect Alex Jones' hard work and we're not challenging most of his information,
but we do question his motives when he pushes fear-mongering and paranoia
instead of direct activism."
http://69.28.73.17/thornarticles/fearsells.html
Lisa fails to understand: Whenever
anyone advocates calling for demonstrations that will route out criminality or
change the behavior of any serious criminal cabal - that aspiration has to be
weighed against what people are really like - as well as what "the
people" can or will really do.
She alluded to what was done in the
recent Orange Revolution in Ukraine: The standing crowds that took to the
streets for weeks, until the presidency of that country fell. That happened, but
it wasn't spontaneous it was bought and paid for by US black ops, to embarrass
Vladimir Putin, and to secure more base rights for the US footprint in yet
another corner of the world.
Apparently spontaneous outpourings of
outrage is something that cannot happen unless there is a violent, visible and
immediate danger presented - to all - and that is witnessed by the entire
population, (911) - the aftermath of which can then be spun into having the
public take the requisite response, as seen by those who created the event for
that purpose. Short of that scale of personal violation, this country will not
be roused.
All of this goes directly to Thorn's
condemnation of Alex for not seeking to rally people to significant moments (911
anniversary gatherings at the site) - and that's without even considering the
armed forces that would obviously come together to prevent the
"occasion" from becoming a public cause. Most writers or web sites
have not called for public dissent - because they know that politics is
"the art of the possible."
The six articles were written after
Jones refused to invite the pair to discuss their latest book on his radio
program. This escalated into WING TV charging Alex Jones with censorship -
because of Jones' apparent efforts to avoid the topic on his program. After
reading all six articles and after writing to Guliani about their complaints, it
became apparent that something pivotal was missing. Google doesn't have a lot,
because there is not a lot to find.
www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Scott+Makufka&spell=1
This article alludes to the errors of
Mr. Jones in his stance on the current police state that is building in the
land.
http://69.28.73.17/thornarticles/fearsells.html
"But what else is Alex selling?
How about a double dose of fear and
paranoia? We hear Jones bellyaching over and over again that America is a police
state. In fact, on Friday, April 28th, I heard Alex say, 'America's turning
into a nightmare police state ... and it's real.' A nightmare police
state?? Where?? He also stated, 'The country is turning into a total police
state and we're gonna expose it.' Yes, do expose it - again. And then go
one step further, Alex. Expose and PINPOINT for us the geographic location of
this so-called 'nightmare police state.' Of course dangerous
legislation is being put in place on a daily basis by our government, but Victor
Thorn and I would very much like to see this POLICE STATE for ourselves, because
somehow we've missed it. Maybe we're suffering from a nasty concussion caused by
all the infotainment and repeated bonks on the head from Alex's hard-sell
hammer. Thorn and I recently returned from a road trip halfway across the
country, stopping in big cities and small towns along the way, but for some odd
reason we weren't able to locate this Police State. So exactly where is it,
Alex? The cities we drove through were not teeming with mace-spraying police
brandishing batons or big guns. In fact, they were rather quiet and calm. There
was no police state, no matter where we looked or who we spoke to. In fact,
officers in Oklahoma City were actually supportive of our efforts once they
realized we were trying to expose the murder of Terence Yeakey. Nobody seemed to
know about this nightmare police state. So, we'd really appreciate it if Alex
could be more specific as to where it is, since the 'whole country' is
supposedly undergoing this scary transformation. Where exactly is the police
state, Alex? Or is this just another marketing tool to recruit subscribers and
sell videos?"
Apparently the dynamic-duo missed some
things. The constitution has been neutralized, the Bill of Rights destroyed, the
Supreme Court has committed treason, and there are only a hand full of
congressional people with any integrity left - not to mention that the White
House has been completely overtaken by traitors. And most of this has been in
effect for quite some time. The fact that most people don't want to hear about
it does not make this any less of a takeover - in fact it makes that worse.
www.benfrank.net/Police_Brutality_in_Miami
"It's not a prison if you haven't
tried the door" and most working people haven't chosen to try that door -
so they can truthfully say they think there is no police state. That does not
make it so. The Police State may not be apparent in rural America, but it is
there in the law enforcement agencies, and in the tenor and the tone of support
for the war ~ but it is not overt in rural America, the cities however are
another matter. Here for instance is Boston, getting ready for one of the
political conventions:
http://boston.indymedia.org/
If we wait for this to appear in every
village and hamlet - then it will definitely be too late. The handwriting is on
the wall and the thugs have all they need; I doubt that they can pull it off -
but they seem to think they can. If and when there is a second part to 911 -
then we'll all know for certain, because once the alert condition goes to red -
then they will be free of all restraints. We will be virtually at the mercy of
whatever they'd like to do with us (provided of course they can actually CONTROL the whole country).
To some this may sound like
exaggeration, or oversimplification - but that's the political situation in this
country now. Citizens cannot physically attend appearances of the president, and
more often than not that privilege is being extended to the friends of Bush as
well. No protestors allowed, no freedom of speech - just arrest and charges for
daring to speak or advocate in any way against the mantra of the traitors - and
that's something brand new, but it confirms that the freedom and democracy that
was here; is not here now!
Credentials do not always make the man,
but there is something about how one gets into any position that has a bearing
on the validity of what readers are asked to believe. At the end of the day,
Alex Jones radio and websites are privately owned and Alex does have the right
to censor what he chooses to promote. Thorn (Magufka) and Guliani have the right
to go elsewhere to seek promotion for their book. And given this review by Jim
Hoffman of the book in question, it would seem that Alex Jones made the right
decision.
http://911review.com/wingtv/markup/hoffman.html
There is no need for REALITY TV any
more than there is a need for the disinformation that cloaks itself in some
weird kind of search for TRUTH. Writers do not need to be organized
to challenge corruption, criminality or treason - they seem to do that well
enough as individuals - it's part of what any writer really is, an individual
first and foremost. The reading public will decide what books they want to read,
no matter who the advocate, or who the writer is - by whatever name he or she
has chosen to take as the author. I knew absolutely nothing about WING TV before
I wrote A Climate of Suspicion, and now I know why I failed to
find them earlier.
While it's true that everyone has the
right to say what he or she thinks, this freedom protects the right that we all
have to say what we think. However there is a responsibility that goes with that
right - and that is what keeps the fire of freedom burning.
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