Rise of the New Right: Typical American Propaganda
Today MSNC, aired their documentary hosted by Chris Matthews and it stinks. Not only is it one sided (Its on the democrat channel, NBC), but it fails to show real information about the tea party grass roots movement. By tomorrow the “Don’t Tread On Me” logo will turn out to be a form of hatred towards the president.
The hit piece is showing angry white people (and twice a short clip of Alan Keyes), showing their distaste of the president. They mention the growing number of militia members, and how they use the “Don’t Tread On Me” flag as their symbol of freedom. Why show them militia in the same segment as the tea party? Because they want the zombified viewers to remember the logo as a sign of violence. With growing numbers of people joining rally’s and implementing the 2nd amendment (something that the media is trying hard to make people think is something illegal), the viewers will be stuck remembering that guns = tea party members.
Another view that is shown early is that the tea party has a deep seeded hatred for the president. Clips after clips of people mad at the president are shown, and all the people that are being shown are white people. The Tea Party though has nothing to do with racism, but a hatred towards to system. A system that has taken everything it can from the people. One that has destroyed the middle class almost entirely. A system that is controlled by both the left and the right.
One spotlight is that the movement was first started by FOX news and its spokes people is nothing more than a lie. They say that the movement was started April 12, 2009 is such a lie that it shouldn’t be aired. Prepare Radio host Jerry Adams, was there in 2008, when the movement was barely a blip on the map, and there were over 100,000 people in that rally (click here for footage). So how is it that FOX News started the movement? They show Sarah Palin one of its leaders. A lady who claims to be an average American, but she is anything but average. She quit her post as a senator (something that is not a quality of a leader), and has published a successful memoirs and has is now a regular on FOX news. Palin is nothing close to being an average American.
Another person who they say is a leading force is Glenn Beck, who again is a spokes person for the republican happy channel. He talks simple, acts cocky, and wants us to believe he is one of us. Hardly. Here is a man who agreed with Micheal Sheuer that the only hope for America is by Bin Laden attacking it again. He is also a hypocrite for accepting a paycheck from a corporation whose majority stock holder is Prince Alaweed, a person who Beck called a terrorist.
The hit piece also discredits the internet movement of Alex Jones, and how he was on the forefront of saying that the government is too big. They say his views are too extreme sort of like those of Limbaugh and Beck. But how could Chris Matthews say that of a channel who is controlled by a company (General Electric) who makes a living creating bombs and dropping them on innocent people.
What the documentary fails to say is how we the people have joined together to create something to attack the system. How we are growing in numbers everyday. How it is not about FOX and its henchmen, but of the people who love this country. People who want out of the war, want to curb the wild spending of this government, people who don’t want government getting into every facet of our lives. We are tired of bailing out the big companies, while the rest of us have to worry about how to get a plate of food. America you need to wake up and join the revolution that is not being televised, but it is being blogged, tweeted, and shown on the information super highway. And to the US government, Don’t Tread On Me
Miguel Espinal
Just thoughts…
As our 44th president completes his first year as president, I ask, how much did we gain, and more importantly, how much did we lose?
As the Church of Obama steadily gains followers, it has become an unwritten sin to talk bad about the man. No never mind that we have freedom of speech in this country. You are either a racist, or with the man. There is no gray area when talking about him, and thats where the problem begins. See in life there is a gray area, the one people tend to forget that exists. If one cant criticize the man, then who can? People say we need to give him time, but he didn’t waste any time to raise the national debt to a point where it seems like we are never going to get out of debt. A debt that neither you or I incurred, we were just handed the bill because 300+ people decided it would be best for us to go into another country to occupy space, to bail out people who got themselves into trouble. When is it that the people of this country will wake up to the truth?
Minorities don’t want anyone to talk bad about the man, they look at him like he is one of us. But he is not!!! We don’t align ourselves with people who are just as bad as the next person. Tim Geithner is no different than Hank Paulson. Ben Bernanke is the same as Alan Greenspan. These experts are all playing on the same team. It may seem like a reform is coming, but as long as we vote for either democrats or republicans, then we are all going to be seeing the same “change” that was promised to us.
See Obama ran a campaign that was so clever, no one saw it coming until it was too late. Well lat me take that back, the change is coming, but its nothing that we expected. Its a change where the American dollar is going to collapse, where the cashless society is going to begin just like the Irish. We should all HOPE, but not for the president to do anything for us, but for people to wake up to the truth and see for themselves that only being true, and righteous can we be able to once again be the strong nation that was the envy of many.
And while im on the topic of the president, why is it that i can’t talk bad about him? See the other day, i compared the man to G.W. Bush and people looked at me like i was crazy. One man told me that as a minority i should be ashamed of myself. “The man has to be given a chance. He didn’t ask for this war, he cant solve all of the problems by himself. Shame on you”. See what i have to deal with. It doesn’t mater to people that the president claimed to pull out the soldiers 6 months into his campaign. It doesn’t matter that he added more soldiers to the war, it doesn’t matter that he kept alot of people that were on the Bush team. And why is the president always on TV. He isn’t in showbiz. Can someone tell him that all the time he has spent on tv could be used to do something to help this country. Jesus, this year alone, he as been on tv so much, that he is has made more people watch tv more than ever. Everyone wants to see the president say something funny, cause he is such a swell black man, and seeing that i just mentioned that he is a black man, can i really be a racist if the man is half white? So what is that considered half racist? Or a full blown hater of both the white people and black people, but if that true, then what about the real racist white people who were scared of the man because his middle name is Hussein? Are they haters of their own race? If so then maybe the whole country is confused. Only thing I know is that I will continue to push buttons, and maybe out of 100, make 2 people think for themselves.
Another thing, why is it that we are always giving “Aid” to other countries? We need aid over here in our country. I saw a commercial on tv the other day, it was sort of a feed the children commercial, but the twist is, that the commercial was aimed towards helping kids here in America. Can you believe it? We are making commercials to help kids in our country. Now if you don’t think that its the shittiest thing you have ever heard, then i have nothing else to say.
Episode:12/02/09 Lies Lies Lies
Host: Jerry Adams
In today’s episode we discuss Obama’s speach about increasing troops to Afghanistan the healthcare debate. Joe Biden stops by. Donald Rumsfeld discusses 2.3 trillion dollars in missing tax payer money.
Links:
Video: Missing 2.3 Trillion Dollars
Video: Biden Healthcare Propaganda
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Dumb Patriots
The US PATRIOT Act must be abolished. I have heard many people say they would be willing to give up some liberty in order to keep their freedom. The thought of this disturbs me because liberty and freedom are the same, if you give up one you lose both. This is the question each person must ask themselves and the answer will let them know if they are living in a “free” country. Are the people afraid of the Government or is the Government afraid of the people? Under this abominable act, I would have to say we the people are subject to the Government and the Government is not remotely answerable to us. Is that not the very definition of despotism? Our founding fathers declared that we have certain unalienable rights: the US PATRIOT Act maintains that we have no rights except those given to us by our Government. Let us examine what the US PATRIOT Act is and what it does. We must also consider the Constitutionality of the act. Moreover, it is only fair to look at applications of the US PATRIOT Act from the perspectives of the Government and the citizens.
The very name US PATRIOT Act would send shivers down the spine of any Senator who would dream of not voting for it. Refusal to vote for such a patriotic bill in the face of impending national security breaches would seem like an endorsement of terrorism. In fact, the very name US PATRIOT Act is an acronym designed for the purpose of entrapping those morally opposed to it. Surly those who would oppose such a measure are not Patriots. This is what the acronym US PATRIOT Act stands for, “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act.” Many Congressmen have stated that the senate floor was pushed into a state of frenzy and they were not even allowed to review the bill before they were told that it had to be passed for the good of the country. It is Thomas Jefferson who stated in the Declaration of Independence that a Government is entrusted to ensure the rights of those being governed. Not allowing the Senators to read the act before its passage clearly goes against that principle. How can they accurately represent the greater body of American citizens, if only their emotions are used and not their intellect? Young Thomas Jefferson went on to say that it is the very responsibility of the people to abolish the Government that does not achieve its purpose of ensuring the liberty and justice of its governed people. The US PATRIOT Act in its very design and purpose strips liberty and justice from the people. Lets us examine a few “Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism,” and let the American people decide if their liberty is what is truly obstructed.
We now know what the US PATRIOT Act stands for; let us look at what it does. This act refuses some of the most basic human and American rights laid forth by the Constitution of The United States, and common moral conscience. The Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 or (DSEA) was the last bill that amended the US PATRIOT Act, it was passed in 2004. Unfortunately it stripped even more rights away from citizens. Section 501 defines “terrorists” as anyone who breaks State or Federal law. That offending person can also be lawfully detained without an arrest warrant and be legally detained; however it would be illegal for any government agent or citizen to tell where that person is being detained. There is also no time limit to that person’s incarceration. The Government does not even have to tell the media or any other entity if a person has even been detained because Section 201 says so. Section 312, grants law enforcement agents who even suspect someone is breaking a law, the right to use surveillance against those surrounding the accused without a warrant, and makes that agency unanswerable to applicable State and Federal laws. This completely throws out the Third Amendment to the Constitution which gives citizens the right of privacy. Section 106, gives the Government agents the right to hold secret criminal courts, while giving immunity to conduct illegal search and seizures. The Fourth Amendment, which gives citizens defense against illegal search and seizures is completely overturned by Section 106. The current version of the US PATRIOT Act entails far too many atrocities against justice and due process than can even be discussed in current time constraints. I highly encourage every American citizen to realize the importance of examining the bill themselves, because it seems to be our new Bill of Rights. There are some who would argue that the US PATRIOT Act has brought our country greater security in these times of global uncertainty. It is only fair that we further examine these assertions.
We now know what the US PATRIOT Act stands for and what it does; let us consider its performance from a Government and a citizen’s point of view. On Wednesday July 13, 2004 the Justice Department released a report to Congress by Attorney General John Ashcroft. The report stated that 310 people and 179 convictions or guilty pleas resulted from the use of the PATRIOT Act. This report which I read about in the Washington Post, also told of two cases (although there were others) in which the PATRIOT Act was used for traditional criminal convictions. In the two stated cases one was for a child pornographer and the other led to the rescue of an eighty-eight year old woman who had been kidnapped. I do feel like my intelligence was insulted by the report, especially with the inclusion of the child pornographers and granny-nappers. What is easy to miss in the report is that the PATRIOT Act was used on ordinary citizens and not traditional terrorists. No doubt the severity of the crimes was a calculated admission in order to cover up the fact that Americans with much less severe crimes and even those who were innocent were unconstitutionally investigated with the PATRIOT Act. There is a more recent article from the Washington Post, regarding the FBI’s misuse of the PATRIOT Act. The report from the Justice Departments inspector general Glenn A. Fine, states that the FBI have used their PATRIOT Act powers with no restraint, no justification and extremely little oversight. The main point of contention involved the use of exigent letters, which assured telephone companies that it was ok to go ahead and release private information because subpoenas or national security letters were on their way. There were 700 such letters which were uncalled for and without follow-up. FBI Robert S Muller III took full responsibility for the FBI’s involvement in what he called “deficiencies.” Unfortunately, Mr. Muller was not handed a life time jail sentence for unlawfully stripping American citizens of their Constitutional rights; he was simply acknowledging what the media reported and said that he was going to clean it up.
Finally, after carful consideration of what the US PATRIOT ACT is, how continues to steal freedoms from the people, and its history of misuse; we have little choice but to end it. We declare that it must be abolished. Many like to point out that the PATRIOT Act was enacted by the Bush Administration; however the Obama administration is currently seeking to expand its powers. We as American citizens must get out of this left, right paradigm. Fighting this act is about freedom, it is not (everyone’s favorite football game) about Republicans vs. Democrats. Many people have compared this act to Nazi policies in Hitler’s Germany and that is not what I am seeking to do. However, there is a poem that was written by a poet named Martin Niemoller which I believe exactly describes what will happen as long as we fellow Americans continue to act as cowards.
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew; Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.
We must not allow unrestrained, unconstitutional Government authority to crush us. The Government is ours; we do not belong to the Government. In the first paragraph I asked the question; “are you afraid of the Government or is the Government afraid or you?” I asked myself that question and I would have to say that I am afraid of the American people’s blind acceptance of tyrannical Government powers, just because the Government said that it is to protect them. We must demand our freedom. Peacefully, but we have to be active to the point that, any Congressperson who votes on any bill that so much as hints as impeding the rights of citizens, has ended his career. We also need to educate ourselves on the issues, and turn from the hypnotizing glare of the television. We need to learn what it means to be Americans again. I can’t help but recall the final phrase to the Pledge of Allegiance “to the republic to which it stands one Nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.” The only way that liberty and justice for all may be maintained is with a Government of the people for the people and by the people, not by an act that shall forever live in infamy.
Jerry Adams