Are you now, or have you ever been, a terrorist?

USA PATRIOT ACT

SEC. 802. DEFINITION OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM.

(a) DOMESTIC TERRORISM DEFINED- Section 2331 of title 18, United States Code

(5) the term `domestic terrorism’ means activities that–

(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any  State

Sneakers O’Toole: His Sneakers, His Right

Alongside Butters from SouthPark, Sneakers O’Toole is one of the animated characters on television that I respect the most. His incredibly dogged insistence on doing it his way makes Sammy Davis Junior look like a disrespected token minority cast member  in a  Anglo/Italian, skirt-chasing, drinking club. No Wait.  Sneakers O’Toole has the strength of resolve rivaled only by George W. Bush when he stood on the rubble at Ground Zero and inspired America with bloodlust and hatred for Arab Mohammadists. O’Toole’s purposeful stride and and forceful refusal to remove his sneakers are a testament to his inner strength. God bless you Sneakers O’toole, for you are the America that I cherish and love.

Please Mr. President, Don’t Kill Our YouTube!

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad.

The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says:

* That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn’t infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.

* That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet — and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living — if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel.

* That the whole world must adopt US-style “notice-and-takedown” rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused — again, without evidence or trial — of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright.

* Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival preservation; because you own the copyrighted work that is locked up with DRM)

Original Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation

Edward Bernays: “Professional Poisoner of the Public Mind”*

Edward Louis Bernays (November 22, 1891 – March 9, 1995) was the father of public relation and an American pioneer in the field of public relations. Combining the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud, Bernays was one of the first to attempt to manipulate public opinion using the subconscious.

He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, which he regarded as irrational and dangerous as a result of the “herd instinct”. Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life Magazine.

• In the 1920s, working for the American Tobacco Company, he sent a group of young models to march in the New York City parade. On his signal, the models lit Lucky Strike cigarettes (“torches of freedom”) in front of the eager photographers. The New York Times (1 April 1929) printed: “Group of Girls Puff at Cigarettes as a Gesture of ‘Freedom’”. This helped to break the taboo against women smoking in public.
• Bernays used his uncle Sigmund Freud’s ideas to help convince the public, among other things, that bacon and eggs was the true all-American breakfast.
• Bernays helped the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) and other special interest groups to convince the American public that Water fluoridation was safe and beneficial to human health. This was achieved by using the American Dental Association in a highly successful media campaign.
• In the 1930s, his Dixie Cup campaign was designed to convince consumers that only disposable cups were sanitary.

In Propaganda (1928), his most important book, Bernays argued that the manipulation of public opinion was a necessary part of democracy:

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.

Source: Wikipedia

* Quote attributed to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter

In Loving Memory of Danny (A.K.A. Tourette’s Guy)

Let me tell you about a porcupine’s balls. They’re small and they don’t give a shit! ~ Danny

Interzone

Dedicated to Ian Curtis and William S. Burroughs – fallen soldiers who navigated the bleak and barren landscape.

Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: The Mark Inside.

- Naked Lunch, 1959

President Barack Obama: The Nobel Committee’s “Prince of Peace”

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH*

As humanity is rapidly hurtling towards the transcendental object at the end of time, news of almost any sort has lost the ability to shock, much less surprise. The masses are ceaselessly bombarded with grim tales of impending economic implosion, unjustified and illegal wars of aggression, and tales of neverending political treachery. The unattended funeral of human decency failed even to merit a mention in the obituary column.

The psyche is under constant assault by the contemporary Medes class. They are the propagandists who control not only what you read, view and hear, but what you are to think about it.  Their modern-day form of sorcery employs memes (mind viruses) to hijack the rational, logical, and critical-reasoning faculties. The modern-era existential threats of terrorism and rogue state sponsored nuclear annihilation have been exchanged for Orwells’ Eurasia and Eastasia. It doesn’t matter who you hate, as long as you hate.

For people on the Left, The election of Obama ostensibly marked a clear delineation in foreign policy from W’s wild-west shoot-em-up reign of terror. Now that the honeymoon is over, the bride has discovered that hubby is an intravenous drug user and has infected her nether-regions with a severe case gonohhrea. Also, he put a second mortgage on the house to pay off his huge gambling debts. A similar grim awakening has shaken many of Obama’s faithful devotees concerning campaign promises and platitudes to STOP THE VIOLENCE.

The thousands of innocent Afghan and Pakistanis murdered in the predator drone strikes may have some difficulty in understanding the Nobel committee’s decision to award Obama the Peace prize. The Iraqi people might be confused as to how the commander-in-chief of a foreign occupying army and blood-thirsty corporate mercenary force could warrant such recognition. The untold number of “War of Terror” detainees renditioned and tortured extra-judicially are undoubtedly perturbed. The decision is also perplexing given that the U.S. Senate just passed a 626 BILLION dollar WAR FUNDING bill ($2,086 per American). Coincidentally (or maybe not), Obama’s peace prize was awarded on the same day the the U.S. bombed the moon violating the Outer Space Treaty.

To the objective rational observer (read: very few Americans), it is incomprehensible that a man at the head of a government responsible for the above atrocities would receive the Noble Peace Prize. The theory of cognitive dissonance explains how individuals can rationalize and justify seemingly incongruous belief systems. (i.e., I am anti-war and I support the President’s foreign policy).  To avoid the anger, shame, or stress of feeling duped by a politician who promised one thing and delivered another, an attitudinal shift must occur. Through a subconscious accord, the cognitive dissonance one feels is diminished and it is business as usual in one’s subjective political reality-tunnel.

I don’t mean to come off as an Obama basher, I have no opinion about the man really. Given that the U.S. president is at best a middle manager with 27 security clearance grades above his, Obama’s primary motivation is avoiding a premature fate. The best way to do that is to nod your head frequently, read only the words you see on the glass monitor, and put your signature where directed.

Nobel Committee head Thorbjoern Jagland said that Obama was given the Award “because we would like to support what he is trying to achieve”. I am not really sure what Obama is trying to achieve, but lets hope that in the future it requires fewer bombs, bullets, and body bags.

* 1984, George Orwell

Dead Kennedys – Government Flu (H1N1 Swine Vaccine Blues)

We* got a drug
We’re gonna try it out on you
Won’t make you die
It’ll getcha’ just a little bit sick

Got a head cold
Got a chest cold
And it’s three days old
(goin’ on forever)
Make you hazy
Make you lazy
Drive you crazy
For days and days and days and days and days
And years

Barely got the time now
To stay on the job
Double up the dosage in your water supply
Make you even sicker till you’re slippin’ away

Getting all depressed
It’s getting all your friends
You cant get it up
For nothing that’ll rock the boat

The government flu
The government flu
The government flu

Slip it abroad
Keep a-slowin’ down the USSR
But meanwhile
Well keep an eye
On what its doin’ to you

Got a head cold
Got a chest cold
And its three days old
(goin’ on forever)
Make you hazy
Make you lazy
Drive you crazy
For days and days and days and days and days
And days and days and days and days and days
And days and days and days and days and days
And years

The government flu
The government flu
The government flu
Flew
Through
You.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said not to worry about potential health risks associated with the rushed inadequately tested H1N1 vaccine (nevermind that the bicentennial pig flu vaccine killed more people than the virus). Not to worry though,  “We know it’s safe and secure…This is definitely a safe vaccine for people to get.” I trust a former trial attorney lobbyist over a credentialed PHD chemist any day where my health is concerned, so should you. Remember, the government is only there to help.

* Big Pharma, Big Medicine, Globalist eugenicists, Autism/Guillain-Barre Syndrome/neo-natal and neurological disorder medical  study grant recipients, HHS, DHS, FEMA, etc…

Clay Aiken Why Have You Forsaken Me?

Red Rockers of the World, Unite!