This thread is an example of crowd sourcing the means to know when we are being propagandized by our own government. For example, the Snowden thing has really exposed how inept our government can be when deliberately lying. The choosing of gov't vs Snoden as the hero/villain is telling about who is a government shill and who is a bona fide journalist.
I'm a big fan of crowd sourcing, not of current times, but a factoid that stuck in my memory as profound; So called Delphi Studies validated the hypothesis that the more people engaged in solving a problem, the higher the validity of the end result. We could actually have a collective consciousness that would be the union of the 99% against our own government.
One topic could be Ed Schultz, who I happen to like a lot because he's a Republic basher and he's hyper pro organized labor. But he firmly planted himself early on in the snowden=traitor side.
Another would be the lying under Oath before Congress of NSA Chief General Keith Alexander. Was not Bill Clinton impeached for roughly the same offense?
Do I understand it to be correct that it is now legal for the American governments official propaganda division to point that propaganda on the entire population of The USA? Wasn't that already being done any way? There are examples almost daily.
The root of this half-fleshed concept is from Frank Zappa, who was in favor of revolution, albeit done wisely, peacefully and channeling the forefathers as much as possible, suggested pointing "The Establishments weapons back at themselves". He was referring to television at the time. We sure can't own our own networks, but my guess is there's more people currently on the internet now than there were watching TV back in the 60's.
They have their weapons. Our weapon of choice clearly must be the internet. Now how do we utilize that to overcome their evilly successful divide and conquer strategies? And their propaganda machines?
Many people I know feel like we have an oligarchy or plutocracy now. We are the 99%, surely there are those amongst us with the patriotism, wits, drive, energy, leadership and tolerant character to restore America to what the Constitution tells the world we stand for?
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