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MARCH 20, 2005 –
What was the news on Friday? What was the news on Saturday?
If you watched TV or
looked at the internet, you saw endless nonsensical ranting about a
story that affects none of us: the Terri Schiavo nonsense.
Many of you allowed yourselves to take time to discuss this or
listen to the coverage, allowed yourselves to get angry about this
or that aspect of it, the various arguments for or against.
On Friday, the budget
for the year was passed. Do you know what was in it? Do
you know about, in the middle of war and record deficits, the
additional $134 million in additional tax cuts that are in the bill
right alongside massive cuts for education, elimination of community
hunger programs, a cutting nearly in half of funding for police - by
$1 billion - and cuts for firefighter funding in the middle of a War
on Terror?
Many people spent a
lot of time watching TV "news" or reading internet "news" or even
the newspapers this week and weekend. How many of you who did
that can name five line items in the budget that was passed?
This is what was
meant when The Moderate Independent described in earlier articles
that the news is not liberal nor conservative: it is simply
Vaseline. It does not intend to inform you with any slant or
none - it is there to distract you, to get you to accept them
slipping things in that would be too painful if you weren't coated
for protection. (see:
THE REAL
PROBLEM IN AMERICA - THE BIGGEST DRUG ADDICTION KNOWN TO MAN)
This weekend:
the budget was passed (with additional tax cuts included,) oil hit
another record high and the first station had $3 a gallon gas, and
it is the second anniversary of the Iraq War (with no end in sight.)
The Bush
administration and the Congress that just passed this awful budget
and yet more tax cuts doesn't want you to notice that, and they
certainly don't want a big deal made about it being the second
anniversary of the Iraq War, nor do they want proper attention paid
to the oil crisis.
And so, as always,
the entire media - not just Fox, every single station - falls in
line and does not cover the stories that actually affect our lives
but instead gives endless top story coverage to something that
affects none of us.
If anyone wonders if
the Bush administration would really calculate so coldly to try and
slip things by people that they wouldn't accept if they were given
proper coverage, there is indisputable, clear evidence that they
choose willingly to do exactly that: they won't allow photos
of the coffins of our dead soldiers returning home, and they won't
allow body counts of those we kill.
They know if we see
the corpses returning or hear how many innocent people we are
killing, we would realize what is happening is bad. So they
don't change the actions, they simply provide cover, make sure the
story doesn't get aired, eliminate the body count number and the
coffins, allowing them to continue getting Americans killed and
killing Iraqis without Americans getting too worked up about it.
This is what happens
in the media constantly. It is constant. Every week
there is some cover story: Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson,
Robert Blake, Schiavo. And this has been for years. It
doesn't matter what it is, whether it's Jon Benet or OJ Simpson or
the Menedez brothers. Remember when Paine Stewart's plane
crashed? Where I worked in Chicago, everyone would talk around
the lunch table knowing all the details, what sort of plane, what
the equipment of the plane was supposed to be able to handle, etc.,
etc.
Paine Stewart - most
people didn't even know who he was or ever speak of him prior to the
media making him the weekly cover story.
But they were loyal
news watchers thinking they were being informed and having
intelligent discussions about the important topics of the day.
Yet when, a short while later, the WTO riots occurred in Seattle,
they were at a complete loss. "What is the WTO they are
rioting about?"
Every week there is a
cover story that means nothing to our lives that distracts the
entire nation from the coffins and corpses, so to speak; in this
week's case, the budget, oil prices, and war anniversary.
The issue of Schiavo
is nonsensical, of course. As WRKO-Boston radio host
Jay
Diamond
put it, these people are claiming to be so upset about one life, but
100,000 innocent people have been killed by us in Iraq and they
don't protest that, they support it. People who weren't brain
dead, were fully healthy, who did nothing to us.
In addition,
thousands of Americans who could live and be healthy are dying
because these people supported rolling back pollution standards.
Children are being born retarded because they support rolling back
emissions standards for mercury.
This is not about
arguments over life and killing, this is about distracting the
nation.
Witness the lengths
the President and Republicans will go to create this distraction:
in order to make this happen, they summarily declared our nation a
theocratic dictatorship. Regardless of the law, they are
acting as if we are in living in a monarchy: the King sees
something he doesn't like, he has an edict drawn up and signs it.
The laws that exist don't matter. The King declares something
unchristian, declares a person's actions unchristian, and he has the
power above all existent laws to issue an edict to intervene.
In this case, a man is making a decision for his wife, he has done
it through the proper legal channels, the proper courts have
decided; and now the President is stepping in like a dictator and,
not liking the the law, acting to have the law effectively discarded
and ignored, his will be the de facto law of the land.
This is not how
America works, this is not how democracy works.
And remember, this
clearly has nothing to do with actually pushing a godly agenda to
save lives, because this President is knowingly killing tens of
thousands of innocents entirely without conscience. This is
just about distraction. Don't notice the destruction of your
nation, the President is saying, let me abuse God's name to distract
you so I can continue to bankrupt the nation, destroy its
infrastructure with more tax cuts and horrible program cuts, and
don't notice that for two years now we have been slaughtering 10's
of 10's of thousands of people entirely without justification.
To abuse God's name
and good word like that is a sin beyond others. The people may
be distracted, but God certainly isn't. He notices every child
given asthma, every wife and mother given lung cancer, every Iraqi
mother and son and father slaughtered. He knows we have killed
over a hundred in our custody, killed using torture. He is not
tricked to thinking there is godly concern by this one publicity
stunt meant to distract.
And he knows what his
Commandments say. And, in the end, he holds all people
accountable for their actions.
What is occurring
here is the central problem in our nation. It has been going
on since long before Bush took office, and it serves both parties,
whoever is in charge. People have wondered how people accept
the record debts, bankruptcies, oil prices, etc., etc. It's
the Vaseline.
Fox News is Vaseline.
Rush Limbaugh is Vaseline. Indeed, what we call the
non-Moderate Independent media and others call the mainstream media
should - and will from now on by us - be referred to as the Vaseline
media. They all serve to get people to accept the most
violating, painful things without a whimper. They provide a
special brand of advanced Vaseline, one with a massively powerful
anesthetic; the powerfully narcotic pain-killing lube known as TV.
As we have said, TV
is a highly addictive drug. Among the things it causes is
detachment from reality bordering on insanity, along with obesity,
lethargy, and anti-social behavior.
People will accept
the distractions like the Schiavo nonsense because they just don't
want to be disturbed from their using; they have plans to sit on
their asses and watch March Madness, and they don't want the raping
of the nation's finances or the killing of 100,000 innocent people
by us to ruin that plan.
So the media feeds
them the Schiavo story. It is, indeed, what TV-addicted
Americans on both sides of the political aisle want and by now
expect. Both sides can get angry, make an argument that let's
them feel they are participating in some moral cause actively.
One side feels they are applying energy toward the will of God, the
other that they are defending freedom. Both are really sitting
on their asses watching a lot of TV and being distracted from the
reality that is destroying them both - and their nation - rapidly.
I have personally had
a situation in my life where we had to make the "do not resuscitate"
or "resuscitate"-type decision. There is a great movie out
about that now called "Million Dollar Baby," won some awards this
year.
That is where topics
like that belong.
The Terri Schiavo
situation is not a discussion about the subject of right-to-die, nor
is it a debate about the subject. It is the President and
Republicans in Congress - with the Democrats accomplices by inaction
- going even so far as to declare America a theocratic dictatorship
with their actions just to keep up the distracting of the American
public, just to keep Americans from being able to see the coffins
and the corpse counts, the cuts and the continuation of
debt-increasing tax cuts, the complete failure of the President to
develop alternative energy which has left us still fully dependent
on oil.
Americans everywhere
will be discussing all this week every detail and perspective about
something that affects nothing, while basically none will be able to
name 5 items in the budget that was just passed by Congress that
affects everything in the nation.
People used to ask me
when I said I didn't watch TV, they'd ask how do I stay informed if
I never watch the news? I would ask them if they watched the
news, they'd invariably say yes, and some news magazine type
programs. Then I would ask them to name five things Congress
had voted on in the previous year. Silence. Literally
hundreds of hours of watching and watching news on TV and they knew
nothing about anything.
"Tell me," I would
say, "are you really being informed, or being distracted?"
Almost all Americans
are TV addicts, and this plague is destroying our nation. This
week you will hear the hordes of these drug-induced
insanity-suffering addicts talking about a brain dead woman name
Terri Schiavo and her personal family matters, which affect none of
us in any way. Realize, anyone you hear taking time to discuss
this case is a drug addict, has allowed the media to control their
brain to talk about something that affects them in no way; absolute
mind control. When you hear the talk, realize, they are very,
very sick and in need of help.
To help them out,
don't respond with any input to the story - to do that is to be a
part of the problem. Instead, trying asking them if they know
that on Friday, $1 billion dollars was cut from police funding,
community hunger programs were completely eliminated, numerous
education programs were slashed, and firefighter funding was
slashed, while another $134 million in tax cuts was passed in the
middle of a war and record deficits. And then just walk away,
knowing there is no helping addicts until they can see the problem
themselves - and by not participating in their insanity but,
instead, helping to point out how insane they are being, you have
taken an important step in reclaiming our nation from the
drug-induced malaise it is in.
UPDATE:
In case any more evidence was needed,
ABC News even finds a smoking gun in this case:
"ABC News obtained talking points
circulated among Senate Republicans explaining why they should vote
to intervene in the Schiavo case. Among them... the "pro-life base
will be excited," and that it is a "great political issue — this is
a tough issue for Democrats."
Yet they still have given it hours and
hours of coverage instead of things like the budget.
From the husband via
CBS News: "Tom DeLay should be ashamed of himself," Michael
Schiavo said in a broadcast interview. "... He's found a cause to
hide behind, to lighten the load of his other problems."
And yet look where the quote comes from,
within one of their many hours of coverage of this non-story, which
forced this man to leave his dying wife's bedside.
"Not liking a particular result in a
case that has been litigated fully and completely by a court with
competent jurisdiction, Congress now has said that the game must be
re-done with new rules that heavily favor one side over the other.
The implications of this move are astonishing. Just think about it.
Anytime Congress doesn't like the result in a particular case, it
could swoop in and call a "do-over," which is essentially what this
legislation represents. And this from a Congress that has for a
decade or so tried to keep all sorts of citizens-- including
disabled employees-- out of federal court. If this law is declared
valid, no decision in any state court in the country will be immune
from Congressional second-guessing. It would throw out of whack the
entire concept of separation of powers. The constitutional law
expert Tribe calls it "trial by legislation" and he is right." -
from
Attorney Andy Cohen via CBS News.
I.E. The summary declaration that
democracy is gone and we are a theocratic dictatorship, as mentioned
above.
6 fully healthy people were killed in
Iraq today. If the Democrats were actually a party that
represented the nation, this would not be a "tough issue" for them,
it is a blessing - it is a clear cut example, with smoking gun
evidence even, of President Bush, Tom Delay, and the Republicans
amorally, knowingly, intentionally abusing a brain dead woman for
political purposes and treating their constituents and the nation
like playable morons. But oops, some Democrats are up there
with the Republicans.
And the rest of the media should not
need to find memos to see what is happening, how they are being used
to distract the nation. But they obey their masters and do
their best to distract you at the expense of the nation, giving
plausible denial so the TV addicts don't have to miss March Madness
today to deal with the 100,000 deaths, destructive cuts, $60 oil,
record trade deficits, record long-term unemployment, or, of course,
Tom Delay's ethics issues.
Ready for the water cooler
nonsense-echoing zombies who will be exhausted from a weekend of
following this? Community development fund: eliminated;
Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS: cut by $14
million; Housing for Persons with Disabilities: cut in half,
from $238 million to $120 million; Lead Hazard Reduction: cut
by $50 million; firefighter assistance grants, cut from nearly a
third; and of course one source that actually takes the time to go
over things like the budget, PBS, got cut by $76 million; Veteran's
Affairs: Medical Services, cut nearly in half, from $488 to
$264 million; Veterans Medical Facilities: virtually
eliminated, from $114 to $12 million; Community Oriented Policing
Services: cut from $499 million to $22 million; State and
Local Law Enforcement Assistance: gone, cut from $1.2 billion
to zero; Juvenile Justice Programs, from $331 million to zero; High
Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program, cut from $226 million to
zero; Vocational and Adult Education, cut in half from $2 billion to
$1 billion... oh, and don't forget the $134 million dollar tax cut
while all this is occurring.
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