I call this a "serious subject"...not politics. As Americans, you have the right to EDUCATE YOURSELVES about the state of your own country.
I go to a hippie school of sorts...and we have a rather rigorous college prep program there. While filling out the survey this morning, I found myself ranting on one question in particular and decided to post it.
I've never seen myself as a political person, but this morning, I decided that it was crucial to post. Arm yourselves, kids. Knowledge is the most powerful weapon we have these days. Education is the most powerful tool we have to defend ourselves again the evil brewing in our own US Oval Office. I'm not a hippie or a conspiracy theorist...I'm just a person who is very fucking frightened and I'm begging you all to take heed, tell your friends, family and anyone who will listen.
Education is NOW. Forget about George Washington, forget about every frivilous thing you've learned in school. History is HERE and NOW. Education is HERE AND NOW. Look to the past as a guide, but don't get too wrapped up in it. We are in a state of crisis NOW.
Here's my answer:
"5.3. What world problem or issue bothers you the most and why? Do you have any solutions?
The world problem that bothers me the most is the amount of censorship, distraction and secrecy that occurs in the US media. It is a scary thought that American media might be tailored to distract us from the real issues. Instead of focusing in on chip implants, the impending North American Union and the Real ID Act, the public is being distracted with images of Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Owen Wilson. We have been taught to be more interested in celebrity lives than our own when our personal liberties, constitutional rights and privacy is at stake. It is a delicate time in history with talk of terror, the Middle East and the Iraqi war is flying from all angles with a hundred different spins on it. Is it better for us to surrender our privacy, “better safe than sorry” in a sense?
Or are the real terrorists our own government officials? It’s something to be considered when we are storming into other countries starting wars over weapons of mass destruction that were never there, abandoning the initial objective of searching for Osama Bin Laden and relegating that focus for an entire revamp of Iraqi culture, arguably in the name of oil and profit. War is an extremely profitable time for a country since our central banking system is set up in such a way that our economy is constantly in debt. In advertising war, creating an enemy and gaining support from a terrorized public, America can be the most prosperous it’s ever been in wartime.
It is clear to me that the media, the media that our government has tighter control on than ever, is the real terrorist of society. No one has seen the video of an aircraft crashing into the Pentagon. One would think that it would be an image as prevalent as the World Trade Center towers falling, bodies dramatically dropping from windows and dust exploding outwards…but no. This important video has been kept private while we are told to be content with images of police chases, stories of rape, murder and celebrities’ personal hurdles.
It is time that the American public takes the media back from the terrorists, our own news stations, our own government and reports the stories that are actually relevant. The FACTS of what is happening to our public, our country, eventually our PLANET should be a hot topic. It is time that we are educated about the things that affect us daily, the things that will continue to affect us, our own nation and government. It is time that the American public takes matters into their own hands and starts reporting and educating on the things that really matter."
Thank you for reading. Tell a friend. Tell whoever will listen that they're being pulled into the biggest scam in history. We need to WAKE UP.
- Johnny
I've never seen myself as a political person, but this morning, I decided that it was crucial to post. Arm yourselves, kids. Knowledge is the most powerful weapon we have these days. Education is the most powerful tool we have to defend ourselves again the evil brewing in our own US Oval Office. I'm not a hippie or a conspiracy theorist...I'm just a person who is very fucking frightened and I'm begging you all to take heed, tell your friends, family and anyone who will listen.
Education is NOW. Forget about George Washington, forget about every frivilous thing you've learned in school. History is HERE and NOW. Education is HERE AND NOW. Look to the past as a guide, but don't get too wrapped up in it. We are in a state of crisis NOW.
Here's my answer:
"5.3. What world problem or issue bothers you the most and why? Do you have any solutions?
The world problem that bothers me the most is the amount of censorship, distraction and secrecy that occurs in the US media. It is a scary thought that American media might be tailored to distract us from the real issues. Instead of focusing in on chip implants, the impending North American Union and the Real ID Act, the public is being distracted with images of Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Owen Wilson. We have been taught to be more interested in celebrity lives than our own when our personal liberties, constitutional rights and privacy is at stake. It is a delicate time in history with talk of terror, the Middle East and the Iraqi war is flying from all angles with a hundred different spins on it. Is it better for us to surrender our privacy, “better safe than sorry” in a sense?
Or are the real terrorists our own government officials? It’s something to be considered when we are storming into other countries starting wars over weapons of mass destruction that were never there, abandoning the initial objective of searching for Osama Bin Laden and relegating that focus for an entire revamp of Iraqi culture, arguably in the name of oil and profit. War is an extremely profitable time for a country since our central banking system is set up in such a way that our economy is constantly in debt. In advertising war, creating an enemy and gaining support from a terrorized public, America can be the most prosperous it’s ever been in wartime.
It is clear to me that the media, the media that our government has tighter control on than ever, is the real terrorist of society. No one has seen the video of an aircraft crashing into the Pentagon. One would think that it would be an image as prevalent as the World Trade Center towers falling, bodies dramatically dropping from windows and dust exploding outwards…but no. This important video has been kept private while we are told to be content with images of police chases, stories of rape, murder and celebrities’ personal hurdles.
It is time that the American public takes the media back from the terrorists, our own news stations, our own government and reports the stories that are actually relevant. The FACTS of what is happening to our public, our country, eventually our PLANET should be a hot topic. It is time that we are educated about the things that affect us daily, the things that will continue to affect us, our own nation and government. It is time that the American public takes matters into their own hands and starts reporting and educating on the things that really matter."
Thank you for reading. Tell a friend. Tell whoever will listen that they're being pulled into the biggest scam in history. We need to WAKE UP.
- Johnny
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Thank you Kurtni
Jessie.Tastic!, September 8th, 2007 at 06:39:30pm
the media is f*cked up...
and about the cencorship.
it's true...
in belgium, media is supposed to be free to say what they want
but the big boss of the national television/radio broadcasting was fired after saying something at a party about the belgian government.
so that's kinda f*cked up...
In belgium, we thankfully don't have the celebrityobsession, well not to the american extend.
people want to think more about other peoples misery then doing something about their own.
champagne supernova*, September 6th, 2007 at 08:58:36pm
Which amendment gives you the right to tapes they recorded? People throw the phrase around "we have the right" alot, when really we don't. I wasn't disagreeing with you, I said I think the public has a right to know these things..but if you want to be very technical, we don't. it seems to me your problem isn't so much with the government officials as it is with the government system itself.
You have a problem with their actions, but targeting them won't fix the problem because in alot of cases (exclude war) they do have the right to do what they do and thats kind of scary really. They shouldn't be able to withhold information like that but they can, is the point I was making. That's the problem, they have too many privilages.
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BY THE WAY
You and hardcore rainbows are both very intelligent people and nothing I said was meant to be offensive. Have you two ever considered visiting the Specific Disucssion forum? I think you would both make valid contributions to the debates that take place in there.
Kurtni, September 6th, 2007 at 08:45:55pm
Thank you, Hardcore Rainbows. They have kept the videos a secret fo quite a while, far too long for my taste. The one video that they have released shows NO evidence of a jet flying into the Pentagon.
Couldn't have us sticking our noses where they don't belong, right? It was just a coincidence that the cameras didn't catch the jet.
On the same level, we have no right to see the footage of kidnappings in parking lots or robberies at convenience stores, but somehow, the government decides that's safer than a video of the Pentagon crash that is supposedly common knowledge around Americans. There should be no mystery surrounding this event....
Unfortunately, between the release of this one inconclusive video and the refusal to release any other videos, there IS confusion.
Kurtni, if we run with the argument that it's their right not to release that video, it could also be their right to bust into our homes and search without a warrant. They could detain us without telling us because that's THEIR RIGHT to privacy.
They could call you a terrorist and hold you under that very suspicion and they don't have to tell you a damn thing.
We live in a day and age in which corporations have the same rights as human beings in a court of law. That is screwed. Corporations aren't humans. The government isn't a human.
In a democracy, we have a RIGHT to this sort of information. Power to the people, not the institution.
FaithxAndxMisery, September 6th, 2007 at 06:26:31am
The government wasn't responsible for releasing the twin towers footage, media networks were. If footage of the pentagon does exist, then it would have been taken by the government because no news team was there. They aren't obligated to release it, the news didn't have rights to that footage and no rights were given out. Personally, I think the public has a right to see things like that, but legally they aren't required to share it. You're asking me to explain the way other people think and I can't do that, nor can you.
Kurtni, September 6th, 2007 at 05:28:16am
Man.. the world is such an ugly place. I don't even live in the US, but I live in Canada which is still pretty damn close. It's such a scary thought when you think about how all of this could be a scam. We need more people to think outside of the box instead of being controlled like a puppet. That is... if we really are being controlled in some hypnotizing way that a lot of us aren't noticing. It sure seems like it though. I don't know... but man this really is scary and I just hope if the government really is trying to cause sh*t and set people up they don't succeed.
threeam., September 6th, 2007 at 05:25:23am
kurnti:
...you mean you haven't, not "no one".
They showed the 9/11 being replayed over and over on the news.
but not the pentagon
explain that.
And its common knowlege to anyone that doesn't have there heads in the sand (which seems to be most americans these days) that the goverment is wealthier than ever before. They get the oil all from Irauq, and since we are pretty much running it, its all ours.
Jessie.Tastic!, September 6th, 2007 at 05:24:05am
To Kurtni:
Valid points, all of them...
BUT.
Let me bring up that the USA has a stockpile of weapons as well. We call it a little something called the military. Lo and behold, we have the right to bear arms as well. Fantastic, we can shoot whoever we like in the privacy of our own homes now. England has the right idea. Guns are completely unnecessary in private establishments. If there is ANYONE who should be frightened...it should be other countries. Our fingers are constantly on the trigger, the government seems to have quite a low tolerance for tension. How long until that tension breaks and we fire? I don't know, but honestly, for a country that has nuclear weapons and is constantly testing and drilling, we shouldn't be the scared little lambs of god in all this. It's ridiculous, we have no right to storm into other countries on the SUSPICION that we might find something. We hoard weapons just as much as any other nation, why are we any different? Why aren't other nations storming in to disarm us? Simple. We are too f*cking scary to mess with.
Let me tell you a bit about that Pentagon video...you need to look up some of your info before you try and discredit mine. The only video released seems to have COMPLETELY MISSED the impact of the plane into the building. It simply shows an explosion. The cable spools and windows of the Pentagon are entirely intact. Surprisingly enough, security cameras seemed to have entirely missed the moment that the Boeing 757 jet HIT the Pentagon. To me, that points to an explosion, not a jetliner. Not to mention that there was no evidence that a jet had crashed into the building AFTER the crash. It's said that if nothing else, the engines would have been able to withstand the heat that apparently "VAPORIZED" the jet. Ridiculous. There is no evidence that a plane was flown into the Pentagon that day. Check BBC news for a video of the Pentagon issue. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4987 716.stm Here's a link to the story where you should find a video. It's not a conspiracy site, obviously, just the news.
Our central banking system is set up in such a way that a dollar is actually a dollar and a little more. Therefore, the nation is always left in debt, it's inevitable. That is why the colonists left England in the first place, besides seeking religious freedom. But when we came here, we were still under the English banking system, so we are still a nation constantly in debt. We have been for years and years. War is a profitable time for a country because think about the alliances we make...we're always borrowing someone else's money, it's a never ending flow of cash in wartime. MORE IMPORTANTLY, we profit from the materials we reap in Iraq. Oil. War, at this juncture in America is highly profitable. It feels more like a game, all this exchange of cash, but it is in fact a very serious matter. We're willing to kill for it and send people to die for it as well.
I cannot vote yet, so I don't blame myself for this atrocity of a government. In all honesty, I don't blame the republican party either, no one could have known that we were going to vote a puppet and his master into office. But the evidence is all around you. He slips up on his own words...I'm sure you can find this video on youtube.
Dubya: "We're after Saddam Hu- Osama Bin Laden."
As for the media, there will always be petty news around. There is no way to do away with that completely and I don't suggest that we all become revolutionaries...but even in world affairs, we don't hear about the things that matter such as the proposal to implant chips in humans with a budget and 'history' on them like a computer. If the government doesn't like something you're doing, they simply turn the chip off and your source of money, your identity is on hold until they turn it back on. You become dead to the world. Or the proposed North American Union...why haven't we seen THAT on the news more? It's said by 2010 that the USA, Mexico and Canada will cease to exist and form a new North American Union. What's this deal about making the borders more secure if we just plan to erase them? How about this constant war-mongering? Why is there always an enemy that WE strike first without solid conviction that they're guilty? Why didn't we find WMDs like the President of the United States said we would? After all, we were after Osama, so it makes perfect sense that we storm Iraq where we can SUPPOSEDLY be sure that he's being supported by Saddam, who subsequently has NO WMDs upon closer inspection after we've struck. Damn. Our bad.
What does the dissolve of citizens' privacy (not to mention constitutional rights), the disappearance of borders and the conquering of other nations point to? That's right. Globalization.
It's scary. No one wants to believe it, but I assure you that the President of Mexico is NOT going to be the one heading up the North American Union.
That being said...why on EARTH isn't this being discussed in World News? I'm not talking about celeb blogs or E! News. I'm talking about WORLD NEWS as you pointed out. That's the whole point of this.
I will not stand for this sort of information being swept under the rug. This should be the things that people are discussing OUT IN THE OPEN. Last time I checked, this was a democracy. In order to keep it that way, it's crucial to DISCUSS these matters and concerns. Thank you.
FaithxAndxMisery, September 6th, 2007 at 04:27:25am
Good Blog.
Media, Government. All over rate to me.
Even though im not from the States.
Tholomew Plague, September 6th, 2007 at 03:45:27am
we are storming into other countries starting wars over weapons of mass destruction that were never there,
Actually, yes, we did find weapons. Not nuclear weapons, but there are more threats than just nuclear weapons, obviously. But like you said, when you let the media brainwash you, you don't know these things...
No one has seen the video of an aircraft crashing into the Pentagon.
...you mean you haven't, not "no one". The difference between the trade centers and the pentagon is all in location and available media. The government didn't release a video of the trade centers attack, the news corporations did. Because they wanted ratings, it had little to do with informing the public or "showing important videos"
War is an extremely profitable time for a country
.... no. Definitely not, have you seen the stock market or economy lately?
In all honesty, we have absolutely no one to blame for the government but ourselves. We voted them all into office. You can't blame the media, because its people who make the ignorant choice to listen to biased sources. It's also unfair to compare "gossip column" news to "world affairs" news, they're two totally different genres. That's like telling a rocket scientist they should be finding the cure to caner. They aren't comparable. I highly doubt you would want the political advice of someone who's specialty is what Paris Hilton ate for lunch anyways, would you? I wouldn't. The problem isn't that our media is in the wrong hands, but the problem is that no one has enough sense to know that to believe.
Kurtni, September 6th, 2007 at 03:35:06am
good blog.
yeah the governments always been rather f*cked up. In the 1800's some guy bribed his opponent to give him the presidency, or something like that. "There is only power and those too weak to see it" this is most poloticians policy; they want power, fame, and money. The sad thing is that's a quote from Voldemort. Starting unessasary wars, believing people like Alberto Gonzalez and d*ck Cheney, being billions of dollars in debt; this is all work of the government. An interview with d*ck Cheney from 1994 shows him saying we could never invade Iraq because it wouldn't work. what happened to that guy? And how come it wasn't realized until now? And now Buch is comparing to to Vietnam, something he's been denying for years. What else don't we know about the government?
"there's so much you could learn but you don't wanna know" I am a big beleiver in this quote. Most young people do not know anything about politics. Last year my gym class had 55 kids. My teacher asked us what we thought of the State of the Union. There were 3 kids yelling things about Bush. He asked us to raise our hands if we watched it. 3 kids raised there hands (me included). the other 52 were clueless.
Minority_Under_Dog, September 6th, 2007 at 03:11:42am
I'm not sure who did 9/11, hardcore rainbows...but it's a scary and legit thought
to L Lawliet, haha, sorta politics. sorta education. all just serious, serious stuff, in my opinion at least.
FaithxAndxMisery, September 6th, 2007 at 01:17:08am
Not politics, eh?
L Lawliet, September 6th, 2007 at 01:13:26am
I competley agree with everything you just said.
Good for you for standing up for those few American's who are actually aware of what is happening behind closed doors.
I have, since day one, believed that it was the goverment who planned 9/11
Think about it. It made them billions and billions of dollars by putting us into a war.
Everyone needs to wake up and look behind Hollywood and turn there attention to what those "big guys" are doing.
Jessie.Tastic!, September 6th, 2007 at 01:09:05am
It definitely is
FaithxAndxMisery, September 6th, 2007 at 12:55:03am