“Are Politicians Failing Our Lobbyists?”

Thanks to DC weasels:

Very funny video from The Onion. Funny excerpt:

“We should just put corporations in office and cut out the middleman.”

In The Know: Are Politicians Failing Our Lobbyists?

Thanks, but a little too realistic for my tastes.

A Corollary to my previous post.

I have to admit to being curious as to how most Americans can remain ignorant and brainwashed by special interests: especially those that work against their interest.

I was going to call this post "wedge issues" since that is partly how americans can be distracted.

Brainwashing doesn't take any sci-fi gadgetry or Manchurian Candidate hypnotism bullshit. There are all sorts of tried-and-true techniques that anyone can use to bypass the thinking part of your brain and flip a switch deep inside that says "OBEY."

Ever notice how the gun crowd likes to use their little cliche sayings, which I am not going repeat here. But they are so simple. The use of slogans is referred to as thought-stopping techniques because it does just that. Simple phrases that make one believe.

Until they are examined in detail.

Then they like to give black and white choices and use fear. Such as refutation through emotion: "Well, how will you like it if your girlfirend is raped if guns are removed from the public."

That's why those who support regulations on guns are referred to as "anti-gun". They must not like guns because they will tolerate regulation. That makes those who support regulation "against" us.

This technique is relatively new, but you'll see a lot more of it in the future. Someone will say to his supporters, "These guys work for the enemy, don't believe a word they say. Their lies will only poison your mind."

It's a black and white choice, which makes it easier to remain stuck in their position.

Studies show the brain is wired to get a quick high from reading things that agree with our point of view. The same studies proved that, strangely, we also get a rush from intentionally dismissing information that disagrees, no matter how well supported it is. Therefore, people aren't really going to work too hard to challenge their opinions.

Neither are they going to want to hear they are wrong no matter how well supported the refutation.

I like this...

Media Declares "Victory" For Gun Rights As Second Amendment Is Systematically Destroyed
DC handgun ban case poses grave threat to constitutional rights

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Comments made by justices in an ongoing landmark case, which seeks to address the very meaning of the second amendment, have been heralded as a "victory" for the individual right to bear arms, but in reality the Second Amendment is being completely eroded altogether.

Funny, but when people deconstruct and think about this decision, it shows up for being the POS it is.

Of course, most people don't think about it.

Now, another theme which is beginning to come out of this blog is that the media is controlled by those in power. Finding accurate and useful information can be a real task. In fact, critical thinking skills are highly important for the internet age as information can be duplicated and repeated. Certain viewpoints are given prominance. Yet few people actually think for themselves and have the critical thinking tools to do so.

Think tanks, such as the Cato Institute (which ran the DC v. Heller case), control the ideas presented. Dissenting points of view are minimised or called wrong.

As someone with very unpopular political views, views that go against the ruling elite such as distaste for Zionism (the state of Israel as a Jewish homeland), the Second Amendment Scholarship, rampant military power, wedge issues, the sham political system, and so forth, I know that there are people who are paid to harass bloggers with unpopular opinions in order to silence them. This is the reason I don't take comments or messages.

These special interest groups can get away with this because they are not under public scrutiny. In fact, they operate openly.

I am amazed at the amount of people who talk about the Bilderbergers, CFR, Trilateral Commission and so forth, yet miss that the DC v. Heller case was bankrolled by a special interest group: the Cato Institute. Not only that, Levy boasts about using the legal system rather than legislation to further his agenda. Yet few red lights are blinking in people's heads.

Messages like the one I started this post with are not the ones most people talk about. They talk about how the Supreme Court affirmed "the individual right", whatever that is.

I am amazed that people like that can call me and people like me "sheeple".

As I keep saying, be afraid, be very afraid.

"Mission Accomplished"?????

It was four years ago that George Bush announced that the mission was accomplished in Iraq.

Sure, it doesn't seem that way to the vast majority of us, but I've been thinking about it.

The Iraqis don't really need democracy. And the US can't really expect to install it there anyway for a myriad of reasons. The US system is a republic, not a democracy for one. The other is that the US has a president who wasn't popularly elected (Well, I didn't vote for him). Anyway, the will of the people is thwarted by special interest groups, such a AIPAC and the NRA.

I mean is that a democracy?

AIPAC is the group which really wanted this war to try and relieve Israel and put a US base in the region to save Israel's sorry ass. I don't think there were many people who wanted this last war.

Well, maybe with the exception of the people who thought there REALLY were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that the mission was accomplished. This is the crowd that thinks having a gun in your home makes you safer despite much more scientific showings that you are more likely to harm a family member with your gun. You know "more guns, less crime."

Which brings us to the NRA, which tells us that it is freedom if everybody has a gun. Going on that Iraq was free under Saddam. But they are freer now since Saddam is gone and lord knows who is really running the show. I mean the daily body count.

As the NRA tells us: "It's the price of freedom!"

Which is why nothing gets done about firearms in this country and we have a long way to go until we are as free as Iraq. Hell, they top Virginia Tech everyday and everybody has a gun.

Never mind that most people in this country want firearms regulation, but that is blocked by a minority of gun toting [insert your choice of epithet here].

Now, isn't an armed minority holding the will of the people hostage tyranny?

I mean we are living in terror which is similar to Iraq. Of course, we are going to teach the Iraqis about democracy and the American system. But, how can we do that when the will of the people is thwarted by lord knows who.

So, does all that explain to you how Dubious could say "Mission Accomplished" on that battleship four years ago?