We, the people of N. America and other countries (eg: Britain etc etc) are told what to believe. Those in power and in conjunction with the media (either intentionally or also ‘fed’ information) can create anything scenario or fear they wish to perpetrate on the public. Technically this is not new, the powerful have spread lies for as long as they have existed and they have gotten better and better at it.
The general public don’t like to hear this because we want to believe that our leaders and those in power on ‘our side’ would never lie to us. Our leaders etc are like a representation of our parents and who wants to believe that our parents would betray us!
People think “ah there they are again the conspiracy theorists” and they laugh, but the truth is it has been proven time and time again that the powerful and governments or those in governments have conspired to bring the ‘people’ on board. Look at history….Iran 1953, Nam, Iraq etc…those are all well documented. Then there is JFK and the most recent 9/11. I mean come’on people, building 7 at the World Trade Center collapsing on 9/11 was impossible, defies common logic and violates the law of physics. When are we going to open our eyes……..or are we afraid to? At least do yourselves a favor and ask questions ….do some research.....don't be gullible!
The most recent situation in Boston and now this Canadian situation…..I personally won’t fall into line and believe what the government and the media wants us to believe until I see a LOT more definitive information and even then, because the information comes from the powerful…..you have to still be wary.
Al Qaeda for instance……do some research…..it doesn’t even really exist. Many knowledgeable people have shown this, even the BBC did a documentary on it as others have as well.
Remember…….
''Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.''
Hermann Goering
Speaking of ''please''!!!!!!! Please do your research and keep an open mind.
As a fellow named Adolph use to profess........ never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
"We, the people of N. America and other countries (eg: Britain etc etc) are told what to believe."
Actually, it may surprise you but I agree with you but I do not limit the comment to North America and/or Britain. I think you will find "... are told what to believe" through all periods of history and across all the population of the globe.
While Hitler was telling his people what to believe in the early 1940's, Churchill was doing exactly the same thing in Britain.
In the 1960's and early 1970's in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh was telling his people what to believe while Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon did the exact same thing in the USA.
The question is not that people are told what to believe but do they believe?
Some do, some do not.
Who is to say who is right and who is wrong?
through all periods of history and across all the population of the globe.
Absolutely. There is virtually no one of any race, religion, country, etc etc etc that has not done it at one time or another.
Who is to say who is right and who is wrong?
I agree again. It's very complicated when you look at the scenarios through history which have been used to control the 'people'. But behind just about every one is one main component .........greed. It may be money or status or land or resources but there is always a greed element there somewhere. We are never satisfied with what we have.....we always have to have more and more and more. Through the greed grows anger and that anger leads to wars. What a waste and we never seem to learn.
That is why I believe NO ONE, especially anyone in power. Even the powerful....many of them are just as gullible and being led by those with more power above them. Meanwhile back at the ranch........the average person is the one who pays, in not only money...but lives.
These days I sit back and read the media and listen to people and I see a new hatred for Muslims (and other people of other races and beliefs) and it not only worries me but it makes me sad. We have seen this before in only the last two or three generations.....the hatred.....often unfounded. We've hated Black people, Native people, Jews, Germans, French, and the list goes on and on and on.......but we never look at ourselves or what we or those representing us have done. I know a fair number of Muslim people and their families and they are good people, but every time I see an article or a comment from some that is so subtly done as to point a general finger of accusations and hatred towards Muslim people I go ballistic inside! I come from a background of Irish liberators. A land that was for 400 years full of bloodshed and anger and hatred. My own family fought for that liberation and they were all Catholic...........but..........if anyone condemned a Protestant my grandmother would rip them a new one because she did not believe in that type of hatred. As a profound believer in Irish freedom and a member of Cumann na mBan she still had many Protestant friends because she judge people for who they are as............. individuals.
warrant-less searches, suspension of Miranda rights and consideration of prosecuting the suspect without the right to counsel
Guantanamo was made for just this purpose.........to treat others differently than what the USA professes to believe in. It would be one thing to have a prison for those who have been given a fair trial and justly convicted, but Guantanamo has detainees who have not had either given to them and there is a high probability that many of them are........innocent.
If the US and other countries want to prove they are 'better' than their enemy....then they have to start actually being better, because if they are not, the enemy is happy to take all the new angry recruits.
But then again, maybe this is what certain countries want.....more enemies which gives them reasons to stay where they are and for Big business it's profit all the way to the bank! Humans are such strange creatures.
"Happy to have Harper and the CPC keeping us safe"
From time to time we see those Conservative sponsored commercials on these boards. Are they effective?
Do they really bring readers to honestly think "Harper and the CPC" keep us safe or improve our economy or reduce our taxes or whatever is advertised that week? Really?
Or are they counter-productive as readers- who are not totally stupid - question the veracity of the advertisements?
Analysts are people who keep wounds raw, so that they never heal.
