When one realizes that, regardless of how this or that ideology may view it, the individual’s life is essentially a dual game played against society and nature, a fact that means a continual demand for decision, he realizes the further need to think critically. More, in any adversarial situation, the good tactician follows a rule once enunciated by none other than Abraham Lincoln – that of preparing his opponent’s case just as though he were the opponent. Indeed, the one essential reason for “intelligence” – to use the military term – is understanding of what the opponent both might do and is capable of doing.

Indeed, “Be Prepared,” the Boy Scout motto with which I began my productive life quickly meant “know your adversary.” To know the adversary that is Operation Mockingbird means to recognize that in the first place that all forms of government are the people’s adversary. The democratic forms of government are no exception, for unless kept under the auspices and controlled by the people, even democratic government is an enslaver. “All men,” Abigail Adams observed, “would be tyrants if they could.” To be a good and loyal citizen of the United States requires that one view the as an adversary, citizenry as a dual game played by the individual against his government (and society).

Government, and those who would make you live as they choose for you to live, are NOT your friends.

To be country does not mean loyalty to government; in fact, to so much as trust government is antithetical to democracy, and relentless demand for sycophant loyalty by any government is to be taken as evidence of totalitarian leanings. The duty of a citizen is to be very critical, and very demanding. Measure a Sean Hannity in those terms and see what you get. Failure to be critical of what we have for government is the reason we are in the desperate straits we are.

Consider that for a moment. Only yesterday, news came that a nationally known and respected columnist, Patrick Buchanan has published a book in which he expresses openly belief that the U.S. will collapse, and cease to be as a nation. Welcome aboard, Mr. Buchanan – my friends will tell you I’ve been saying that for several years, now.

For instance, I remarked yesterday that few citizens of the U.S. have not been arrested. One in thirty-one of us is in prison or jail, on parole or probation, or awaiting sentence. The United States imprisons more of its citizens per 100,000 than and other nation extant, and that in multiples. U.S. citizens likewise pay, again by multiples, more taxes to their government than the citizens of any other nation. The U.S. citizen is victimized by government larceny and fraud more than any other citizen of any other nation on earth, and that – still again – in multiples of the next most preyed upon.

Federal larceny, fraud, and waste since World War Two alone have amounted to trillions of dollars.

THAT is an adversary!

And, of course, the Federal Government of the United States knows that were the public to somehow realize the extent to which they are being bilked, imprisoned, and enslaved, the “jig would be up.” U.S. government has become what is essentially a protection racket, its propagandists using massive and state-of-the-art electronic technology to create a virtual reality wherein the benighted citizenry lives effectively disarmed and in relentless fear.

By “effective” I mean that equally relentless court rulings, together with confusion spread by the media concerning the individual’s right to self defense and continual polemics by pacifist individuals and groups have resulted in individual uncertainty concerning when he may fight for his life or limb. Each time, for instance, that a citizen defends his person or property with a weapon, the hue and cry of the pacifists rises. Here in Texas as I write this, for instance, the freedom – even life: he is now under death threat – of man who prevented the burglary and looting of his neighbor’s house by shooting the burglars hangs in the balance.

This despite Texas “Castle” law which says he may do exactly that.

In fact, each time a U.S. citizen – Constitutionally empowered to exactly that – prevents by citizen’s arrest a crime, the same hue and cry goes up. To the news and information media and the federal auxiliary that calls itself “liberal,” only the elected government may enforce the law. All others are “vigilantes.”

To a critical thinker, all this is pretty obvious. In the first place, if such things as “rights” exist, what is the most basic of them all? Which of the several rights given by god and possessed by man is, even, shared by all life forms on the planet? Of course. Any creature that does not enjoy the most fundamental of all prerogatives, that of fighting to keep his life, is a non-entity. No such thing exists, anywhere.

What, therefore, can we say about anyone, any government, who would infringe or deny that right? In the game that is living, what must one recognize in an opponent who would arrogate to himself a right as absolutely fundamental as the right to fight for one’s life? You’re damned right – he is an adversary, and one who intends, at the very least, to make you a prisoner or a slave.

Of course, if he can accomplish that without your awareness – have Delilah cut Sampson’s hair while he sleeps – he will not have to endanger himself. Weakened, stopped, castrated – or left without male strength dedicated to your defense – you are a pet, a kept animal intended for use (you don’t, in that, recognize your state as a citizen of the “land of the free?”).

Sometime in the late sixties, I heard a federal think-tank representative address that problem in a lecture – I mean that of effectively enslaving three hundred million people without violent rebellion. He said that in order to accomplish what would be necessary would require something much more than conventional law enforcement methods and organizations. It would be necessary to “deceive, confuse, and bewilder” the public under the guise of providing for public safety while assuring continued public order. There isn’t the slightest doubt that he was referring to a federal operation already in progress, that of “Operation MOCKINGBIRD.”

Already here, we have considered certain of the MOCKINGBIRD methods, most recently those having to do with behaviorist technique and technology – including hypnosis. There are more; many more. See if you recognize them.

All propaganda is a kind of persuasion. It sounds innocent, doesn’t it? After all, the brainwashing we spoke of yesterday is the involuntary break-down of the individual’s mind, even nervous system, in order to take control of his mind and thoughts. Pavlovian and similar conditioning are more subtle, more of surreptitious nature, and – while the favored method of the Operation MOCKINGBIRD technician – they less cruel and fearsome. The techniques of studied persuasion are even less so.

But that doesn’t mean they are either less insidious, or less effective. Consider what they have accomplished; what, in other words, they have done to you:

1. They have permitted the military industrial complex corporations to spend since World War Two upwards of $15,000,000,000,000, a major factor in inflationary spending that has multiplied the cost of life in the nation by ten, twenty, even thirty times. Under the crushing weight of federal government, U.S. citizens have gone from a basic unit of society, the family, supported by one person, to a family wherein everyone – even children - must find some kind of gainful employment. Deprived thereby of normal rearing, our youth largely have devolved into fearsomely ignorant, illicit drug-consuming animals who despise their parents and teachers, rove in ravening packs in order to seek victims for their savage cruelty and instant gratification for a dozen new kinds of neurotic and psychotic addictions.

Under the relentless pressure of repressive and punitive law, arbitrary and totalitarian taxation, and waves of media and entertainment industry promoted lewdness, promiscuity, and immorality, the relationship between the sexes has been broken, with more than half all marriages failing in the first few years.

The new wave of “If it feels good, do it!” morality fomented by taxpayer-funded (of course) federal programs providing support for all manner of concupiscent depravity, together with ethics and morality-destructive rulings by federal courts, has provided for a cheapening of and contempt for human life.

2. They have squandered, and continue to squander, in wars fought solely for the purpose of profit for those same corporations, the lives of scores of thousands of our military personnel. The undeclared military intervention in Vietnam cost – utterly without benefit or profit to the U.S. citizen - 58,000 lives, 350,000 casualties, and $130,000,000,000; the wars in the Middle East have cost more than 4,700 lives, 35,000 casualties, and, thus far, $750,000,000,000. Again, the U.S. citizen has received absolutely nothing but a staggering bill for services supposedly rendered the citizens of other nations.

3. Hundreds of U.S. corporations desirous of even more profit than that already made due patronage by the U.S. citizen, and while remaining in control of their government, have gone overseas in search of greener pastures, taking with them hundred of thousands of jobs.

4. Meanwhile, their subsidiaries import millions of immigrants, both legal and illegal, stealing not only millions of jobs but hundreds of billions in social and other services arrogated to themselves by the illegal aliens. While two percent of illegal aliens actually work in the profession Mexico claims is essentially the only work “undocumented workers” do, forty-one percent are on one kind of welfare or the other, ten percent of babies born in the U.S. are born to illegal aliens, and thirteen U.S. citizens are killed daily by uninsured and drunk driving aliens. More, the average illegal alien imprisoned here has been arrested eight times, and committed thirteen felony crimes. In any given year, there are as many as 230,000 (two hundred, thirty thousand) illegal aliens in our prisons, at a cost to the U.S. taxpayer of $9,200,000,000 (nine billion, two hundred million).

And, of course, there is more. Every year, as I noted yesterday, the various legislatures state and federal continue their all-out assault on our freedoms, that while handing our tax money to 56,000 publicly-operating and legal lobbyists and thousands more of the covert and criminal kind. Daily, the U.S. President and his Executive Branch bureaucrat minions continue their assault on our privacy, eavesdropping on every conceivable aspect of our lives; that while having suspended even the right of Habeas Corpus.

Next (but not necessarily in the order of danger it represents where MOCKINGBIRD propaganda is concerned, of course), we have censorship. Mind you, state-of-the-art censorship is not done in the old, blatant manner of the Nazi stormtrooper. Oh, no. The purpose of censorship is the same as that of propaganda – to hinder critical thinking. And without adequate information, judgment and evaluation of political issues will be biased, prejudiced, and slanted. The purpose of censorship is to control the thoughts and actions of the public. The government of the U.S. and its information media treat the citizen as though he were a child, prohibiting him the material that would permit him to think critically. Operation MOCKINGBIRD government – like the think-tank “wonk” I spoke of a minute ago – insist that the citizen not only should not but cannot think and act for themselves.

Neither is there any longer doubt that they have accomplished to a large degree what they believe. One need go little further than Jay Leno’s “Jay-Walking” – or a White House press secretary who didn’t recognize reference to the Cuban Missile Crisis (do YOU?).

In the aftermath of the JFK assassination, a CIA inter-agency memo concerning conspiracy theorists was revealing of MOCKINGBIRD (to say nothing of proof of its existence). “The aim of this dispatch is to provide material for countering and discrediting the claims of the conspiracy theorists, so as to inhibit the circulation of such claims in other country. Background information is supplied in a classified section and in a number of unclassified attachments.” Agents were instructed to contact members of the media - “liaison and friendly elite contacts (especially editors),” in order “to instruct these persons that further speculative discussion only plays into the hands of the opposition.”

Further, the order read, “Employ propaganda assets to answer and refute the attacks of our critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose.”

There was more - much, much more – but it is singularly interesting to someone like me that even today, when the lawlessness and immorality of the Central Intelligence Agency is, like the now infamous WMDs in Iraq that never existed, as obvious as the Rocky Mountain range, an open-and-shut case any lawyer could make in any court, the history of everything I have discussed here remains the subject of debate. Think about it. Ask yourself why you believe the CIA’s original purpose and reason for being was to combat and deter communism, when in fact its real mission – what have we been talking about here? – was to deter democracy.

Isn’t the reason for the free press they have co-opted and seized by means of Operation MOCKINGBIRD the informed public necessary for maintenance of democracy?

THINK! Hasn’t the history of the CIA reflected relentless effort – successful effort – directed toward assassinating leaders inimical to “U.S. interests” and installing murderous dictators like Augosto Pinochet and the like? Hasn’t the CIA since its inception been run by the military industrial complex corporation, businessmen whose animosity toward democracy is almost legendary? Each and every one of the democracies overthrown by the CIA were places where the people tended to vote for policies the multi-national corporations didn’t like – labor unions, land reform, nationalization of industry, regulation protecting workers, and so on.

Look around at what’s going on today in Latin America. Iraq. You name it – name a place where the U.S. doesn’t have “interests.” If you can’t remember Cuba and Fidel Castro – or Che Guevara – look them up. See if you can figure out why we hate Fidel Castro so.

Operation MOCKINGBIRD has literally hundreds, even thousands, of journalists on its payroll. It owns dozens of media organizations for the purpose of disseminating CIA propaganda. It owns controlling interests in foreign newspapers, radio, and television networks. In fact, in 1985, a proprietary company of “the Company,” Capital Cities, bought ABC news. WHY?

Why does the United States Government want to own a major news network?

Well, for one reason, the fact that you don’t recognize the incontrovertible truth of what I’m saying. The fact that things like the evil of the CIA and the industrial military complex corporations is still a matter of debate. And the fact that political and economic power generated by “deceive, confuse, and bewilder” – fragment and set one against the other – has permitted the CIA corporations to completely subvert and seize or control otherwise all of corporate business in the United States. By creating literally hundreds of foundations with which to finance domestic operation – Capital Cities, for instance – the CIA co-opted others like Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller.

With each new success of the kind, the Operation MOCKINGBIRD agents added to their propaganda arms – “news” services everywhere, “news” services and networks that clamored for new corporate power. And guess what . . .

Out of the funding resulted from the “new businesses,” the New Right – neo-conservatism grew. SURPRISE!

Are you paying attention? All of this has been done right in your face. Begin a study of what I’m saying, the evidence is incontrovertible. THE PEOPLE IN QUESTION ARE SAYING SO!

But I digress. Censorship is also done by law, law resulted from the demands of a public totally “bewildered” – remember the think-tank guy? – by MOCKINGBIRD propaganda. Hate mongering extremists from either end of the political spectrum use every verbal tool in the behaviorist’s repertory in an unrelenting effort to divide and conquer the electorate politically, and to encourage lawsuits silencing dissent and ruinous to the public’s interests in controlling government and the corporate powers that own it.

Efforts to gain control the Internet, for instance, are beginning. The CIA already posts on behalf of the federal government as much as half of the pornography there, pornography that, of course, CIA writers and television pundits will rail against in order to demand federal government control. Rather than instruct the viewer to simply push the buttons necessary to turn off the computer, or otherwise control what children watch (strange, isn’t it, that in a nation so concerned for its children that for every penny it spends in, for instance, and effort to recover those missing, it spends $100,000 on munitions?), the extremist pundits and talk show hosts plead and inveigh for the government to do it.
More, the duplicitous ACLU – “American Civil Liberties Union” – strives just as mightily to confuse matters even more (talk about “limited hangout!”). Have you ever looked into what happened to any of the seemingly bizarre “civil rights” actions they prosecute? DO it – and be prepared for an eye-opener.

Consider, while you’re thinking critically about the ACLU, all those heroic patriots (with their lapel pin flags, and the unctuous “thank yous” to the troops) of yellow network journalism. I mean, in case you’re so MOCKINGBIRD benighted that you missed it, those fulminating firebrands of television who would set everybody against everybody. Consider, too, that in the last few years free speech has come under such scheming scrutiny that we have also had speech-censoring lawsuits intended to stop Oprah Winfrey from “libeling” beef – that by the State of Texas – a suit by the State of Florida aimed at making it illegal to criticize citrus growers (you should just drink your pesticide-laden juice and shut the hell up), and more.

Presumably, anyone who speaks up to warn against lead in Chinese toys will be sued by corporate “America.” Sweat shop owners in India, China, and fifty more places will likewise sue to silence their critics (in the new Land of the Fee created by the CIA and its MOCKINGBIRD Operation, the guy with the enough money can silence anyone – how good and attorney can you pay for?).

In closing this time, I can’t help but mention Mika, the de rigueur female on the “Morning Joe” program, who - when “Joe” averred that had there been no one armed present at the time of the latest lunatic hunting expedition into a crowded place, as many as hundreds might have died - labeled the remark “inane.” Think – critically - about that one. What kind of biasing mental condition could make an otherwise apparently intelligent (I concede the possibility of PMS) adult say something so impossibly stupid?

Tell us, honey – what do you think would have happened?

It occurs to me that Rush Limbaugh has come to personify the United States vis a vis the world. That explains a great deal, doesn't it? “Only The Rich Pay Taxes,” The Rush Limbaugh Webpage bellows. “Top 50% of Wage Earners Pay 96.03% of Income Taxes!” A recent (November 14, 2007) Walter Williams column in the local paper, “Congressional and Leftist Lies,” pontificates: “In 2005, the top one percent of income earners, those with an annual adjusted gross income of $365,000 and higher, paid 39 per cent of all federal income taxes; in 1999, they paid 36 percent.”

Williams then goes on to state as fact that the top five percent of income earners, those with incomes of $145,000 and higher, paid 60% of all federal taxes. When he has listed a series of similar asseverations concerning years past, he goes even further to say, “When all of the dependents of these income producing households are counted, there are roughly 122 million Americans – 44 percent of the U.S. population - who are outside the federal income tax system.” There’s more, but that’s the jist of this monument to mendacity and sneaky dissimulation.

Of course, one always has to give the benefit of the doubt – the “stupid or crooked” doubt – but Limbaugh and Williams aren’t stupid. They know damned good and well what the truth is. They lie because they’re paid to lie, or because they don’t dare tell the truth. That “little old letter” that “can take a person’s life” - to quote poet Langston Hughes - the one from IRS, carries with it the threat of losing everything. It happened to me, remember?

“Federal writers” like Walter Williams know that the poor pay taxes whether they earn enough to pay income taxes or not. If they drive, ride public transport, read library books, send their kids to school, eat, drink, or recreate, they pay. They pay sales taxes – and most of them, at that – business and occupation taxes, and property taxes. They pay taxes if they rent a place to stay, because rents – like dozens of other things the like, increase in order to cover the costs of property taxes. Each and every time the government cynically requires a corporation to pay a tax, the tax is passed to the wage earner and the wage earning poor. The poor even have pay taxes on public assistance.

Even more outrageous in its cynical deceitfulness is the fact that like those traffic fines I mention here in a minute, everyone, regardless of income, pays the same sales tax. When Bill Gates buys rations for his cat, the same cat food the poor have to eat, both the multi-billionaire and the low-income wage earner pay the same sales tax on it. Low-income people spend most or all of their income paying for necessities like that cat food, so they spend a larger percentage of their income paying taxes than people with more money. In point of ugly fact, someone whose income is in the lowest twenty percent – $29,000 or less a year - pays as much as 38% of his income in taxes. That same person, were he in the top one percent of the nation’s wage-earners – something like $365,000 a year (according to Williams) - pays one percent of his income in taxes.

Economists like to call this sort of thing a "regressive" tax system. Your damned right, it’s regressive – the money eventually all goes back to the corporate rich.

Why aren’t taxes putting enough money in the federal and state budgets? Unless you’re a lying crook or a brain-dead idiot, one guess will do. The corporate rich in government spend like drunken sailors; they spend – meaning pay it to the corporations who own them - in order to make themselves and their corporate owners rich. The kind of mental midget who believes the rich pay taxes might also believe a sweat shop owner, or the guy who profits immensely from child labor, is a humanitarian who is in business solely in order to provide employment opportunities.

He’d believe that oil companies now making multiples of previous profits will raise their employees’ salaries proportionately. He’d believe that each time MacDonald’s profits climb, and the value of their stock climbs, employees get a proportionate wage hike. Christ – glass more transparent than corporate capitalism would be glass more transparent than air!

I’m reminded of something basketball great (and he really was; still the best basketball player I ever saw) Bill Russell once said. “It’s not welfare for little black kids that’s costing you, it’s welfare for the corporate fat cat who gets paid millions to grow nothing, produce nothing, and do nothing.”

Yeah, Bill - while the wage earner poor have to pay taxes on everything they buy or own, the corporate rich are paid to buy and own. Oil companies having, for instance, received in the last several decades alone something like seventy billion in what’s called – they always have some slick, “what-the-hell-does-that-mean,” expression, don’t they – “oil depletion allowances,” the people money the came from – that’s the wage earner again, in case you missed it – are now paying through the teeth for gasoline (which is taxed to high heaven – taxes the rich don’t pay).

Whereas any other investor to the tune of seventy million dollars would be reaping the rewards of return on his money now that the companies he invested in are making literally hundreds of billions, the U.S. wage earner gets absolutely nothing in return for his Brobdingnagian investment but demands for more money – price at the pump and taxes.

Think that one’s bad? I used the word “cynical” a minute ago. Want to see what I mean – an object lesson in the Operation MOCKINGBIRD, rhetorical sucker punch? Try this (a paraphrase of a recent letter from Texas Congressman Ron Paul): Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel unveiled the other day a tax plan that Republicans estimate would raise taxes by 3.5 trillion dollars over ten years. Democrats questioned the math.

Next, Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee release a report on the supposed total costs of the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, including "hidden costs" – that, in case you’re as comatose as the typical U.S. citizen, is a tax in the form of interest on the money that means “borrowing” – that means printing cash money in order to hand it to their corporate buddies - and “long term healthcare” for vets. What a wonderful, euphemistic, way to say “tax;” who could refuse to pay a tax for the benefit of our wage earner soldiers?!

The bill for that also comes to three, point five trillion. Republicans are, Ron Paul points out again, of course, questioning the math on this item.

Aha! If 3.5 trillion is, indeed (if you believe that’ll do it, you should definitely consider hay for a diet, because you’re a jackass) the cost of this military bunglement, it means $11,500 for every man, woman and child in this country. And as Ron Paul correctly observes, for the typical family of four that means $46,000 dollars – just for this goddamned war.

And WHO is going to pay that? Not the corporate rich, that’s for damned sure. In fact, the money is going to be paid TO the corporate rich. We’re going to be taxed for it, and it’s the corporate rich who are going to GET it.

On top of that, the three, point five trillion dollar tax increase will not only be born by the wage earners in the form of taxes, if the Heritage Foundation is right it will mean something like twenty-two hundred jobs lost in Congressman Paul’s district alone, seventy thousand jobs across Texas, and even more people unable to pay for health insurance nationwide.

“Cynical?” All that tax money is supposed to benefit the poor, don’t forget. The government is going to do the low-income wage earner and the poor a big favor by taking his money in order to give it back to him – that’s those “usual closing costs,” “handling fees,” and “miscellaneous charges.” Paying taxes to this government is like sending money to one of those crooked charities that spring up after every natural disaster. How dumb can we get?!

The truth about the “graduated income tax,” so-called, is that it’s graduated, all right. The fact is that actual taxes paid decrease as income grows higher. By the time one reaches millionaire status, the only way he can be made to pay taxes is by way of his being too stupid to seek all the means provided him by the corrupt system. The corporate system created by his corporate rich brethren.

Rush Limbaugh, of course, is a famous political liar, a “federal writer” (originally, the term was “CIA writer,” meaning persons hired and trained by the Central Intelligence Agency for Operation MOCKINGBIRD in order to co-opt and control the public’s news, information, and entertainment industries by planting therein slanted and “spun” literature, journalism, and the like) propagandist paid to deliver White House and industrial military complex Newspeak.

Williams identifies himself in his columns as another. Anyone unable to detect his parrot-like recitations of corporately owned government’s Newspeak line would also fail to notice a bull in his bathroom

Anyway, were you to accept Williams’ assertions here, together with U.S. Department of Labor data that says seventy percent of all wage earners in the U.S. earn less than $50,000, you have to believe we’re all plebian leeches sucking off the largesse of the patrician rich.

But then you start checking, some of those numbers, and matters become – for a life-long skeptic, a kid who first started in that vein while still in high school, anyway – very interesting. First, what’s this “wage earner” stuff?! We jumped from “wage earner” up there to “income earners” – and in one sentence. When you know the political extremists – right or left – like I do, that’s enough to warrant a jaundiced view, and get you started checking facts.

And, ooooooooooh – the numbers! For instance, even IRS says twelve percent of those wonderful people who supposedly pay 96.03% of all the taxes the government collects, paid no tax – that’s nothing, nada, zip, bupkis – at all. Two hundred thousand, no tax. Think about that. While you’re thinking, think about why, if twelve percent of their number could get away with paying nothing, anybody in that tax bracket paid anything.

Ask yourself, too – parenthetically; it’s not actually a tax question – why it is that the rich are allowed to pay the same fine for speeding or the like as someone, say, living on social security. When you’ve thought a little about who it is that has formulated a system of fines and penalties wherein they themselves pay virtually nothing while their low-income brethren pay amounts requiring real, often severe, personal sacrifice, ask yourself why the same people who have arranged anything so inequitable would also arrange for a tax system wherein they paid most of the taxes.

When you’ve done that and still believe the rich pay taxes, you might do well to change your diet; to hay – you’re a jackass.

But back to the fun numbers. Of the approximately $1,200,000,000,000 IRS collects yearly of late, the corporate tax payer supposedly pays $380,000,000,000. “Wage earners” – this time the terminology is that used by both the Department of Labor and the IRS (gee, who can argue with honest, honorable people like that?) – supposedly pay $865,380,000,000. $814,819,000,000 of that is supposedly (Dept of Labor and IRS, again) from “payroll and employment with-holding.” And we have the word of societal seers like Limbaugh and Williams that the rich (that’s “the top fifty percent” who “pay 96.03 percent”) of the nation’s total income taxes.

Ninety-six, point zero three of $1,200,000,000,000 is $1,152,400,000,000. The Department of Labor and those benevolent and brilliant souls at IRS tell us that there are just 2,079,983 of those “wage earners” with incomes over $200,000. Since twelve percent of them supposedly paid no tax, that leaves 1,830,385 stuck with the check – which is $629,590 apiece. Each. Every individual. Every mother’s child.

Ahem! Sumpin’s haywire, here. And I’ll bet that comes as a big surprise, too – bein’s how we’re talking about things we’re told by the knights of the nation’s news and information media, that is. The free press, after all, would never lie to us. Why, the fourth estate is the bedrock of democracy. For them to lie would be the societal and national equivalent of the individual’s senses and thought processes going haywire.

Yeah, sure.

Now, D.O.L. says the median income in the U.S. was $43,318. With the minimum wage in the U.S. $5.15/hour ($5.85 as of July, 2007), $10,300/year roughly, we have $10,300 + X/2 = $43,318 to see what the top of the “wage earners” might earn. That’s $76,336!

Hmmmmm, again.

But the honorable brotherhood of newsmen would never tell us anything but Gospel truth, and the folks at D.O.L. also say 75,609,000 folks live on wages or salaries, too. 2,073,983 of them make more than $200,000 a year – remember? So, 73,535,017 of these folks make less than $200,000. If that “median” income is the statistical middle between 200,000 and 10,300 (it is), we have 200,000 + 10,300/2 = 105,150

We also have another of those “Hmmmmms.” “Stupid or evil,” Opa used to say – “dumb or a liar.”

Let’s go fetch that $865,380,000,000 that’s supposed to be the nation’s non-corporate tax revenue, see what it can tell us about these “wage earners.” $865,380,000,000/75,609,000 = $114,450 each. That’s an average, remember . . .
Yup – another “Hmmmmm!” Remember that “top fifty percent?” Well the “top” would mean half of those 75,609,000 souls the government says live on wages – 37,805,500. They, according to Mr. Limbaugh – who, being a knight of the fourth estate, also - would never lie to us – paid 96.03 percent of that $865,380,000,000 “non-corporate” tax revenue. That would be $831,020,000,000, and since 37,805,700 “rich” paid that each of the hard-working rich paid $21,981(!).

Did I say “Hmmmmmmm?” Do I have to say again that nothing adds up?

Well it IS federal, you know – Washington? The U.S. Congress? You expect anything to add up? These are the same guys who swear they thought when we marched into Baghdad that the Iraqi people would welcome us with carpets of strewn roses. The same intelligence geniuses who knew there were weapons of mass destruction (hell, we didn’t then even have a good definition of the expression), in Iraq, too – and the same tactical geniuses who knew exactly how to win the war.

Hell, they even thought they had: “mission accomplished” – remember? You expect anything these morons figure and calculate to add up? Have some more hay.

While you’re chewing, take, for instance (don’t you wish you could?) that $380,000,000,000 U.S. corporations supposedly paid. Ask yourself right off the bat why the corporations, who live entirely off the taxpayers in the first place, should pay only $380,000,000,000/$1,200,000,000,000 = 32% of the nation’s tax bill.

Think again about why a Bill Gates or Warren Buffet would pay the same fine for speeding as would I.

Next, having considered as a “for instance” that structure of traffic fines again, see if you can still tell yourself that U.S. corporations pay any taxes at all. If the nation’s legal system right down to traffic court is rigged to favor the rich outrageously, why would the tax system be any different? See if you can think of a way, under present tax law to make a corporation – the rich always incorporate, you know - pay taxes. How do you stop XYZ Corporation – an oil company, for instance - from handing any tax he pays back to those who must buy his product?

Who do you think actually pays the corporations’ taxes?

While you’re “seeing,” see if you can think of a way to make a corporation share in the tax that is inflation due federal spending. You realize, of course, that it’s the corporations who get most of the goods and services the government buys with the national debt, don’t you? Ask yourself why it is, that with a war going on and families of working class citizens across the nation contributing their sons and daughters to the war effort, the corporations contribute absolutely nothing from which they don’t reap huge – obscenely so - profits. If our soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen can be asked to contribute their limbs and lives, why shouldn’t the military industrial complex and their stockholders?

Want to talk about those “equal under the law” traffic fines, again?

There are approximately 105 million households in the U.S. – using census data, that’s 282 million of the 300 million who are known to be here (illegal aliens amount to another 20 million). Of the 105 million households, 25% are single member households while the remaining 75% have two or more members. Those between the ages 18 and 65 make up the bulk of the population (61%), and there are 78 million - 26% - who are under 18, and 39 million – 13% - who are over 65.

Five percent – 15 million – earn more than $100,000/year. Getting confused?

That’s exactly what people like Mr. Limbaugh and Mr. Williams are paid to do; and god help them, should they quit and begin telling the truth. Four percent of U.S. citizens have accumulated a million dollars net worth; you get one guess concerning how that happened. Remind yourself that only 30 percent of U.S. citizens make more than $50,000 per year.

The IRS and Department of Labor – even “federal writers” like Limbaugh and Williams – tell us that the “average taxable income” of the millionaires is $131,000.

WHAT? They make $1,000,000, but only $131.000 is taxable? If you’re puzzled, stop chewing that hay a minute and think about a tax code comprised of 65,000 pages, written in language impossible to interpret meaningfully by anyone. If any writing ever represented a fair meaning of the term incomprehensible, the U.S. Tax Code is it. Year after year, for decades, the best accountants and tax preparers in the nation – including the IRS itself – have not been able to interpret uniformly its inconsistent, nonsensical, and convolute language and diction. At one point several years ago, a tax return with exactly the same information on it was sent to seventeen different offices of the IRS. The nations’ Internal Revenue Service computed seventeen different amounts of tax due.

Seventeen identical returns, seventeen distinctly different “taxes due” computed.

Why would that be? It is clearly and indisputably a fact that under our system of law no law incapable of uniform interpretation is constitutional, a doctrine of law that has been affirmed and re-affirmed almost countless times. Neither is any contract incapable of uniform interpretation – “meeting of the minds” – enforceable at law.

Why would the tax law of any nation – much less, this one – be incomprehensible? Shall we talk about the traffic fines again?

Any law made incomprehensible by its maker leaves the one who wrote it (or the one who enforces it; voila – the same people!) being the only one capable of saying what the law is. Why, in a nation where a multi-billionaire pays the same fine for traffic violation as someone working for minimum wage, would that be? Cui Bono? Who would have the wherewithal to provide for such a thing? Who would have so much influence in the halls of government?

Who pays the taxes? Taxes make government rich – who in the hell has always paid for that?

Controlled Demolition Theory and Uncontrolled Spending Theory – in the Benighted U.S., TweedleDee & TweedleDum.

During recent exchanges with the literally dozens of persons exploiting for profit the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, the name Jim Hoffman appears regularly and prominently. Hoffman, as nearly as I have been able to determine by way of Wikipedia, his own Websites, and others is what some – he and others in that field - call a “software engineer.”

What is a “software engineer?” Well, while Hoffman has, indeed, been successful in developing computer software capable of providing visualization of certain mathematical functions, namely minimal surfaces, there is active debate among engineers concerning use of the professional designation “computer engineer.” According to Wikipedia and its contributors, typical attempts at formal definition of “software engineering” are: (1) "The application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software;” (2) "An engineering discipline that is concerned with all aspects of software production;" and (3) "The establishment and use of sound engineering principles in order to economically obtain software that is reliable and works efficiently on real machines."

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics classifies “computer software engineers,” together with “computer scientists,” “programmers,” and “network administrators,” as a subcategory of "computer specialists.” In the United Kingdom, the “specialsts” include and are called “Information Technology Professionals” and “Engineering Professionals.” Software engineering in Canada, according to Wikipedia, has seen some contests in the courts over the use of the title "Software Engineer."

More, and whatever Hoffman is professionally, any review of his productions concerning the World Trade Center attack soon make the reader aware that the gentleman is not above the use of amibiguity when it favors his argument, his point of view, or his personal agrandizement. “Software engineer” doesn’t in the remotest sense, on the other hand, make him qualified to hold forth on the World Trade Center attack, especially where supposed “controlled demolition” of the towers is concerned. I might in order to elucidate my meaning add that as a professional forensic investigator of twenty three years experience, I am technically and professionally far more qualified to make an investigation of the kind Hoffman purports to make or has made.

Further in that regard – and incidentally - in mathematics, a “minimal surface” is one with a mean curvature of zero. Examples of minimal surfaces are catenoids, helicoids, and the like. A “catenoid,” by the way, is described as “a three-dimensional shape made by rotating a catenary curve around the x axis. Put two wire circles in a soap solution, then slowly draw them apart, and surface tension will form a catenoid surface between them. Were one able to twist far enough in opposite directions the two wire hoops, he could make a helicoid – a kind of extended helix. An hour-glass shape, in other words. Computer programs – and people who like to play with soap bubbles, of course – can distort manifolds of all kinds into minimal surface shapes. Minimal surface shapes or manifolds can be described mathematically by coordinates on a graph, usually in the “x” and “y” form, into which one plugs numeric values, and a “parameterized” pair of equations are those which permit definition of points on a graph in terms of yet another arbitrary variable, usually “t.” Parametric equations, in short, are functions which permit one to use arbitrary values, called – mirabile dictu! – “parameters,” in place of the independent variables which in turn provide values for a dependent variable.

Not exactly rocket science. Physics, or forensic science, either. For years as a youth, endeavoring to understand Einsteinian physics, I myself practiced mental visualization of catenoids morphing into helicoids, and vice versa (among other examples of the same “manifold morphing”). In fact, it’s high school stuff, especially the math.

This guy is an engineer like Dr. Laura Ingraham is a doctor. Not quite, actually. The great, conservative talk radio political pundit does have a doctorate in something – art, I think (law, it turns out).

At any rate, I have just a few minutes ago dispatched the following e-mail to Mr. Hoffman:

Mr. Hoffman;

I find your "Text for slide presentation, The Twin Towers Demolition, by Jim Hoffman," together with what seems to be publications concerning the same, most interesting.

Why not have a public debate on the matter, you and I? We could even do it by means of the Web: a website specially intended for the purpose.

I, in other words, challenge you, sir. How about it?

H.A.L. von Luebbert

P.S. I will begin publishing this and my challenge to you on my website and the several to which I subscribe.

Of course, Hoffman won’t respond. He has no business in a debate with anyone more informed than the people he exploits for dollars, a fact demonstrated eminently by the caliber and quality of the dissertation to which I made reference in my e-mail. Its author would get a C or less in a high school physics class (which, it happens, I once taught only a few years ago). More, he isn’t interested in proving anything. He is interested in the lucrative business of exploiting the ignorant, something also made apparent by the staggering number of errors in his recorded presentations.

That is something that singularly pisses me off, as the reader may have gathered.

The wonder of all this – and I confess more puzzlement in this regard than with anything else in question here – is that he manages to evade or avoid the obvious. I mean challenges like mine. Any competent construction engineer would tear his nonsensical pronouncements concerning the WTC towers construction and matters so related to pieces. Any airline pilot, aeronautical engineer, or aviation expert would mangle his claims concerning the aircraft, as would anyone who has investigated aircraft crashes and related failures. Any metallurgist – Hoffman must be the cause of much mirth among these people – knows better than the bilge being pumped by this charlatan fraud and his ilk. And it goes on in like fashion where logicians might be concerned – one inconsistency, non sequitur, and irrelevant conclusion after another.

And that brings me to something of a great deal more importance than the ubiquitous and inevitable “capitalist” who, like those who a few years ago sold “pet rocks” to empty-headed faddists, seeks to exploit the tragedy on “9-11.” People like Jim Hoffman, in other words, have come to personify something that has for a long time continually puzzled me (the social sciences, so called – history, psychology, sociology, anthropology and the like – have obsessed me during most of my lifetime), resembling another kind of spurious pundit, today’s politician and the execrable media who serve him. Day after frustrating day, these supposed mental giants spew verbal garbage, malaprop upon solecism, logical fallacy upon innumerate and mathematical pratfall, all swimming in a witch’s brew of outright falsehood.

How do they get away with it? How the hell have these painfully obvious mental mediocrities gained wide, even national, appeal - appeal sufficient to permit them to come to leadership and celebrity in a nation as once great as the United States of America?!

It all reminds me of the Beatles. The first time I heard the “Fab Four,” I had just come back from a mission wherein I was damned near killed. At a relative’s home for the Christmas holiday, one of my friend’s children was playing “their music.” It was bad, damned near intolerable, such that I could only assume the group playing – and, sort of, singing – was that of Sandy’s high school classmates. Imagine my surprise to learn that a foursome of long-haired, barely-able-to-play-at-all musicians had captivated a continental, even world-wide, audience. They were millionaires, by dint of having sold figurative tons of utter garbage – musically speaking.

It was, of course, the time of “Naked Came the Stranger,” “Fabian” (the singer – sort of [he was so bad his voice had to be electronically “doctored”), “pet rocks,” and – co-incidence? – the CIA and U.S. Federal Government program called Project MOCKINGBIRD. I shouldn’t have been surprised. The objective of MOCKINGBIRD, after all, was to deceive, confuse, and stupefy the people of the United States - having seen the theory developed for political reasons, the corporate capitalist could, apparently, not resist its exploitation elsewhere.

Have you ever read a Harry Potter Novel, really listened to “popular” music (consider that for a moment – how is something that lasts two weeks then is forgotten popular compared to music played and listened to for centuries?)? Do it! – and learn the power of the MOCKINGBIRD, “big lie,” propagandist media turned commercial.

Consider its original originators and the corollary they represent. Consider public education in the U.S., in other words - the elementary, grammar, and high schools of the republic, those chiefly - but not necessarily exclusively - maintained at the public expense. Consider, in other words, the horrendous record of chicanery and imbecile stupidity, of wasted money, picayune parochial politics and otherwise criminal false pretenses. Consider the very theory behind that of public education, a Brobdingnagian boondoggle that costs the U.S. taxpayers hundreds of billions each year, in order – from the corporate government’s point of view – to manufacture voters “stunned, stupefied, a brother to the ox” (to quote from Markham’s ‘Man with a Hoe’).” And, in order, in turn, to somehow safeguard a virtual-only “democracy” made up of an electorate so stupid that it will buy for a pet a stone (or patronize “Naked Came the Stranger” compositions like that of the Jim Hoffman and his “controlled demotion” of the World Trade Center theory).

The state and condition of the education system of the U.S., in point of everywhere-evidence fact, is a microcosm of the nation, a kind of motley menagerie comprised of talented, dedicated – even brilliant - teachers, governed by a hopelessly mindless system stupidly – or evilly; you can never be sure, can you? - dedicated to reducing the nation’s children to similarly mindless consumerism. U.S. “education” has now, in fact, become a system of behavioral conditioning; and as such it is a societal and national Judas goat, leading the sheep-like nation to economic and political slaughter.

Time was – when I was there, for instance – that even a high school class generally representative of the nation would have laughed a Jim Hoffman and his puerile productions off the stage. But it’s not funny now. Prosecutors and defense attorney’s the caliber of this secular Elmer Gantry have put literally hundreds – probably thousands, even tens of thousands – of innocent men in jail. Teachers and professors like this have graduated from college people who couldn’t read and write. A nation now subsisting mentally on bloviating balderdash like that being peddled by WTC “controlled demolition” theorists (god – talk about a solecism!) and their counterparts in government, education, and the national structure of the U.S. had produced military leaders of the kind that led us into a strategic and tactical Little Big Horn like Iraq.

My god, people, another “9-11” “theorist” named Bush has talked you into surrendering the right of habeas corpus! Because terrorists knocked down one building and killed three thousand of three hundred million people!

While you’ve been oblivious in your addict’s nodding, he and people like him have stolen nine point eight trillion dollars of your country’s – that’s your – money. They have slick-talked you into almost every nitwit nostrum of a social program conceivable – thank god most people in Congress are only a little brighter than you are – by the mind of evil man. You not only believe a Jim Hoffman when he says the government (or anyone, for that matter), without notice by a city of people the size of New York City, somehow managed to prepare for controlled demolition two buildings the size of the World Trade Center towers, you believe a government telling you that while it can build a four lane, divided, highway from coast to coast, it can’t close the Mexico border with a fence.

It can find money sufficient to pay for fourteen nuclear aircraft carriers and sixty-five nuclear submarines, but it can’t find the money for a god-damned fence? It can go to the moon, land, and return, learn the physical composition of the rings of Saturn, the asteroid belt, and the like, but not detect a Mexican outlaw when he crosses the border or find him once he has reached any of our cities? The U.S. can hit with a missile a rock flying past Jupiter, bring back sand from the moon, but it can’t spot illegal aliens entering the country by the horde, or catch them?

The conspiracy theorists – theory, hell; these people don’t just theorize, they steal – who are also your U.S. Congress and President spend your money – eighty million dollars from 1981 to 1984 - for things like “Health Care Financing Administration for Medicaid payments to psychiatrists for ‘unscheduled, coincidental meetings with patients’ who just happened to be attending basketball games, watching strippers, sitting on stoops, and the therapeutic like.

They have money for a two million dollar police patrol car – “the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration received two million dollars for a prototype police patrol car that was never completed. The car was loaded with gadgets and would have cost fifty thousand dollars each.”

The Congress’ Office of Education found funds for spending two hundred, twenty thousand dollars to develop a curriculum to teach college students how to watch television. How’s that for higher education you’re always talking about?

Then there was the one, point two million the Environmental Protection Agency spent to preserve a Trenton, NJ sewer as a historical monument.

Social security, we’re told by our representatives (they’re representative, all right; representative of frauds like the Jim Hoffman conspiracy theorists and George W. Bush protection racket peddlers – that social security is in trouble. Not enough money. But the Congress’ National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism can get millions of your dollars in order to find out if drunken fish are more aggressive than sober ones, if young rats are more likely than adult rats to drink booze in order to reduce anxiety, and if rats can be systematically turned into alcoholics. That’s millions, mind you.

To bad those Iraq vets in Building Eighteen at Walter Reed weren’t drunken fish or rats.

In the movie, “The Mask of Zorro,” when a Spanish soldier hornswoggled by a ruse perpetrated by the future Zorro and his brother utters a surprised exclamation, Zorro Antonio Banderas replies, “That’s because you’re stupid . . .” You, John Q. Citizen, have bought all this because, like that soldier, you’re stupid.

Anybody who will buy the “9-11,” “controlled demolition” theory will buy the government we have, too.

Torture - mind & body - in the Home of the Brave.

The natives seem to have gotten restive again, inasmuch as my e-mail has become replete with objection after objection, comment after comment, and question after question concerning what I’ve had to say regarding the World Trade Center and “9-11.” However often I remind readers that my principle interest in the horror story of September 11, 2001 is not the matter itself, but how the public reasons and debates concerning it and issues the like, it is all to no avail. Once a small mind has decided it knows something, it won’t change; and matters like the WTC remind me of something columnist Sidney Harris once said:

“Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.”

Now that I think of it, Harris also observed that ignorance itself is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance. Stupidity, like insanity, often prevents its victim from realizing that something is amiss, let alone helping himself.

One thing most salient where the WTC debate is concerned is that, whereas in every other instance where I have anything to say critical of the left I am a neo-conservative three clicks to the right of Attila the Hun, and I am a bleeding-heart liberal whenever I say anything negative concerning the right, I am criticized roundly from both extremes where the World Trade Center attack is concerned.

Interesting, what?

During all my commentary on issues like anthropogenic global warming (and pollution – why the two things are never mentioned in the same context strikes me as very suspicious), the war in Iraq, “9-11,” and the like, I have discussed again and again the indisputable, widely published, fact of Operation Mockingbird. Operation Mockingbird, for those who haven’t been too obsessed during their lives with matters like “9-11,” is the Central Intelligence Agency operation by which the federal government seized and maintains control of the nations’ media and information. Operation Mockingbird was, by no mere co-incidence, born during the same CIA administrations as programs like MKULTRA, MKCHAOS, and others the infamous like – all aimed at what a Fletcher School instructor would one day term “the necessity . . . “to deceive, confuse, and bewilder the U.S. public” . . . “in order to both maintain law and order, and provide for national security.”

As the 1973 Church Hearings disclosed, the government of the Land of the Free has been intensely interested – one might fairly say “devoted” – to control of the public’s mind and, therefore, functioning as a democracy - since the end of World War Two.

“Project CHATTER” was instigated by the US Navy late in 1947. Project Chatter was directed toward identifying agents both synthetic and natural - anabasis aphylla (an alkaloid), scopolamine and mescaline, among others -.that were effective during interrogation (we don’t torture people, remember?). Fascinatingly enough, the reason given by the Navy for halting the project was “the success of other projects.”

“Waterboarding,” maybe? That was, remember, 1947.

Project BLUEBIRD was a CIA mind control program, for which the U.S. authorized experiments to be conducted by licensed psychiatrists. The experiments sought “means to affect, alter, or destroy the mind by creating new identities, inducing amnesia, inserting hypnotic access codes in subjects' minds, creating multiple personalities, and creating false memories.”

Parenthetically, the research also included placing brain electrodes in people and controlling their behavior from remote transmitters, administering daily dosages of LSD-25 to children for extended periods of time, and using electroconvulsive therapy to erase memories (two U.S Army veterans I assisted during my personal war with the U.S. of America - Land of the Free and Home of the Brave – were victims of “Bluebird” experiments).

Project ARTICHOKE was a CIA project spun off Project BLUEBIRD, this one researching interrogation methods. Artichoke was an offensive program of mind control that gathered together the intelligence divisions of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and FBI. A CIA memo dated January, 1952 puts the lie to any double talk like that concerning “waterboarding,” asking the question, "Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self preservation?" ARTICHOKE studied hypnosis, forced addiction to morphine and other chemicals, subsequent forced (“cold turkey”) withdrawal, among other methods, to produce amnesia and other vulnerable states in the Home of the Brave’s victims.

“Cold Turkey” from morphine, heroine, or cocaine addictions isn’t torture? Do tell!

In 1953 (April 20), ARTICHOKE became Project MKULTRA. Project MKULTRA was the new code name for CIA mind-control research programs. Let’s not forget that ironically the CIA – Central Intelligence Agency – was, in turn, the new agency of the military industrial complex corporations who were in the process of seizing control of the U.S.

Digraphs like MK, incidentally, designate responsibility for various CIA programs and operations. “MK” means the agency's Technical Services Division, followed by the arbitrary dictionary word ULTRA. My own code name was at one time AMSHRIKE. “AM” indicated operations against Cuba; later, matter of fact, when operations against Fidel Castro were given the same name as that which arose from my SWAT concept – it was originally dubbed cynically by the dis-believing, “the Mongoose Trick” – a CIA officer came up a preposterous story in order to cover the fact. In my book “Letters to Aaron, the Hal Luebbert Story,” I observed:

“Nevertheless, the Company is the Company. When it was somehow obliged to explain why the plot to kill Fidel Castro was code named Mongoose a few years ago, the CIA reported that a colonel named Lansdale had randomly selected the letters for unused cryptonym letters in the agency’s code lexicon. As I pointed out to my son during the time his therapy included writing to me, the odds against that being coincidence were about the same as the odds against randomness of selection. I explained to Aaron that the number of eight letter arrangements, words, that Lansdale could have picked from the alphabet is the mathematical combination 26C8 = 26!/8!(26-8)! = 1,526,275. Only one of those possible words is “mongoose,” and there are 8!/4!3! = 280 ways to arrange those letters, making the probability of random selection equal to 1,562,275 times 280, or 437,440,000 to one.”

For other examples of CIA cryptonyms, go to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_cryptonym

Project MK-ULTRA became famous when in 1973, the U.S. Congress in the form of the Senator Frank Church Committee and a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission published fourteen reports on U.S. intelligence agencies, their operations and abuses of the law and of power they had committed. The Church committee and Rockefeller Commission were the precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a “limited hangout” by the U.S. Congress and White House, intended at the deception by confusion and bewilderment of the U.S. public Project MKULTRA had sought in the first place. Although the CIA subsequently insisted that MKULTRA-type experiments had been abandoned, recent events not only betray the CIA and federal government “limited hangout” that was the Church Hearings, they make the one-time observation of James J Angleton, now deceased former CIA Director of Counter-Intelligence, still meaningful:

“Deception,” Angleton observed, “is a state of mind. And deception is the mind of the state.”

“We do not torture,” President Bush declared recently in Panama City, that in response to reports of secret CIA prisons overseas, and the use of “techniques” like “waterboarding.” “We don’t torture . . .” not unless you mean the language. Anybody remember Orwell? “Newspeak?” How about “doublespeak?”

Well their motto IS, “Seek ye the truth . . .,” and the Church report says, “Drugs were used primarily as an aid to interrogations, but MKULTRA/MKDELTA materials were also used for harassment, discrediting, or disabling purposes.”

Need I add emphasis?

Now’s a good time to remind yourself again of that “We don’t torture” quote by the honorable George W. Bush, President of the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave. “Drugs were used primarily . . . for disabling purpose.” Not torture.

If you can believe that, and still believe you haven’t been affected by your deceiving government’s efforts to control your mind and opinion, you are proof positive of what you refuse to believe.

Let’s also recall – it’s in that “limited hangout” record, even – that those 1975 “hearings” also disclosed attempts to assassinate foreign leaders like Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, the Diem brothers of Vietnam, Gen. René Schneider of Chile; and, of course President John F. Kennedy's plan to use the Mafia to kill Fidel Castro of Cuba. Outright murder, but not torture.

May I ask why none of us has heard – not once - through all of today’s “waterboarding” dialectic, nothing about the infamous “School of the Americas?” How is it that during all the discussion of “interrogation techniques,” no one has mentioned the CIA’s KUBARK? "KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation," to be more specific. “Counterintelligence Interrogation” describes techniques including, among other things, "coercive counterintelligence interrogation of resistant sources". This 1963, Home of the Brave manual, describes “we don’t torture” methods like electric shock, and – big surprise here – “waterboarding.”

If I mention again Project MOCKINGBIRD, do you think you’ll recognize anything familiar? No, I don’t suppose – another proof of validity where what I’m saying here is concerned.

Remember “limited hangout?” A “limited hangout” is a deception, misdirection, or cover-up involving "mea culpa" type confession of a small part of previously secret information, that in order to establish credibility for the one “fessing up.” By releasing the information the person or group confessing appears to be "coming clean" – even acting with integrity; while in actuality he withholds the truly damning, critical, and indictable facts of deeper crime in order to protect himself and/or those who could be exposed were whole truth to be revealed. “Limited hangout” is typically a responsive effort intended to lower the heat being raised by investigators pursuing evidence that threatens to expose something like MKULTRA.

That includes the torture of our own soldiers - or have you forgotten already?

The “limited hangout” is all but invariably combined with distractions, miss-directions, subterfuges, red herrings, and other propaganda techniques; and if you’re astute enough to be thinking about the Nancy Grace, Greta Van Susteren, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and their haranguing harpy sisters’ “rape of the day,” or lurid celebrity news - bilgewater garbage concerning such nationally critical figures as Britney Spears - you may be catching on. The “hangout” also leads to false trails, distractions, or ideological disinformation - all, of course, intended to permit the government and/or its agency to continue their nefarious activities.

A former CIA agent, one Victor Marchetti, wrote in the seventies: "A 'limited hangout' is spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting - sometimes even volunteering - some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further."

I hope you’re paying attention, attention sufficient to recognize those “clandestine professionals” as the military industrial complex and its current crop of “assets” otherwise known as the U.S. Congress.

It was during the same time as MKULTRA – you DO remember what that was intended to accomplish? – that Project MOCKINGBIRD was launched. MOCKINGBIRD was designed to do to the nation’s mind just what MKULTRA and its spin-offs were designed to do to mind and mentality of the individual. MOCKINGBIRD, like MKULTRA and all the rest, had its “spin-offs,” too - Project NORTHWOODS, for instance.

It happens that Chris, a friend who is CEO of a domestic security agency, asked succinctly (“What do you know about . . .?”) today what I knew of Operation Northwoods. My reply (paraphrased slightly for privacy and security [why the general reader never relates those two, either – speak loudly concerning the tactics, purpose, and success of MOCKINGBIRD]) was as follows:

“There were three. The first had to do with infiltration into the U.S. (at first Alaska, then we realized the Soviets weren't interested much in Alaska but in a kind of “outpost” maneuver area – practice, that is, for infiltration of Spetsnaz into the continental U.S.). We already knew (Senator Joseph McCarthy [for whom a friend of mine named Chichester did covert ops]) about "the Trust" - Soviet agents who were the children of immigrants here from Russia right after the revolution and now insinuated into all levels of our government and military). The idea was to covertly (we did) hunt down both Spetsnaz and "Trust" agents and kill them.

“That, as you know, was one of the things I was recruited and trained to do.

“The second Operation ‘Northwoods’ (1961) was the CIA ‘lemonade from lemons’ operation intended to use the original Soviet operation as an excuse to justify the same kind of operations by the CIA (and U.S. Government) against the U.S. public, partially by ‘limited hangout,’ partially as part of Operation Mockingbird – pretend, in other words, that the media were part of Soviet "Trust" ops against the U.S. and rid the government of people in the media still desirous of reporting the truth. ‘Deceive, confuse, and bewilder’ (the way a Fletcher School "wonk" put it), in order to achieve control of the U.S. public impossible (according to the Fletcher School man) by using conventional - law and police - methods.

“Several operations were, in turn, ‘spun off’ Northwoods, one being the Nixon Administrations Sandwedge (remember Daniel Ellsburg?) and others in turn spun off that (the Reagan White House’s variation on the Soviet Union’s ‘disinformation,’ for instance. COINTELPRO, for another instance, was FBI - but it used agents (‘narcs,’ for instance), plans, NSA technology, plans, etc. from Mockingbird and Northwoods.
“Northwoods Three, you might call it, started with the FISA (1978 - actually begun in 1975), and has thus far culminated in the Patriot Act. Interesting about this is the fact that while the public (foremost, all the Web blabberers) are concerned with the first level of the eavesdropping ("limited hangout" working exactly as intended), the real threat is the Northwoods effect. Access to your private actions, thoughts, etc - permits the government to sow massive confusion ("deceive, confuse," etc) in one's life and associations. They can, for instance, relatively easily make any group spastic, ineffective in its operations.

“It's fascinating that you should have asked this THIS morning. Rita and I discussed it all the way home from having visited her folks during the weekend. When a guy on TagWorld last night defended federal eavesdropping - cameras everywhere - I wrote him a note to reflect that I wished he could have walked a while in my shoes while the government was even using Northwoods techniques and technology to interfere with ATM transactions whenever I tried to get cash (it ruined, made impossible, my last "gig" for Smith Legacy Security, matter of fact).

“Amigo, I have to stop right here with any more Northwoods or Mockingbird discussion because certain parts of it are still classified information I got during my covert retaliation against the government’s tapping of my phones, burglarizing my house, etc.. Next time I see you, I'll fill you in on everything I know (which is damned near all of it, right down to names of some of the people).

“Hal”

Before I could conclude with my discussion of MKULTRA-like projects like Operation Mockingbird, Operation Northwoods, and the others, my friend Chris brought me up short with another question. He asked about “Loose Change,” a Website reaping the capitalist rewards of public sensation related “9-11” and the World Trade Center. I wrote:

“Chris,

“Loose Change is utter balderdash, more of the opportunist stuff intended to exploit “9-11” for money. I've written a great deal about it all, inasmuch as each new Web forum I go to invariably has a new cult worshipping the gods of conspiracy theory. I've also written a lot about it on my site www.judoknighterrant.com "Mongoose Trick" opinion page.

“The latest dialogue has been on TagWorld, another place from which I've gotten massive amounts of sociological, psychological, and statistical data concerning this sort of Northwoods and Mockingbird control of public opinion and mentality.

“Rita and I are as a matter of fact discussing how one might combat by way of education federal seizure of the public's mind and opinion. That's due the fact that so much of the Mockingbird, Northwoods, Sandwedge, MKCHAOS federal operations against the public, our collective thought processes, and our democratic form of government depend upon and are intended to create and ensure ignorance in the form of abject inability to reason effectively on one's own behalf.

“The Mockingbird and Northwoods people - and the people they have in turn deceived - spread rumor. When any of the conspiracy theorists on the Web can be persuaded to so much as attempt (most have no real idea how to do that) to document his claims, he refers you invariably to another site which does the same thing he is doing - like "Loose Change," for instance. You can't obtain a single piece of hard, mathematical, scientific, or logical data - just more pompous, pontificating and bloviating hearsay. I have checked each and every claim made by "Loose Change" and others: not a single fact that holds up against scientific and forensic investigation. Not one!

“Oh, now and then something sounding scientific is woven through the cloth of it all, but always it is a law of physics or the like that is logically detached from the subject domain of discourse - an irrelevant conclusion, in other words. Josef Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, wrote a great deal about it all, you know. ‘In effective propaganda,’ he said, ‘there must always appear a grain of truth. You must, of course, speak to the stupidest in your audience, because others will quickly see that what you prove is really irrelevant to your topic.’ There's more, but each time I look at the “controlled demolition” delusion, I think of Goebbels and Hitler.

“Adolf, you know, said, ‘If you would move the broadest mass of any people, you must tell them the biggest and stupidest lies. The people will fall prey more easily to a big lie than to a little one.’ The difference here is that massive communication technology like the Web lets each person the propagandists have hornswoggled become yet another propagandist – and, unlike heretofore in history, the exponential succession of dupes results in a really massive propaganda effort.”

I signed the letter before remembering what intelligence people refer to as a “false flag.” A “false flag” operative is one who appears to be one thing while indeed being another. False flag operations are those conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, and are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by someone other than the deceivers. The “false flag” appears to be doing one thing while he is in reality doing another. Pretty simple.

Pretty simple until you realize that the “false flag” may not realize that he, too, is being deceived. Among the false flag operatives like those of Project MOCKINGBIRD and NORTHWOODS are those referred to as “pull-toy” and “wind-up” (toy) “assets.” The “pull-toy” is an individual so easily led - so far right or left wing, for instance – that he can be made to do things detrimental to his own cause, simply by virtue of his zealous need to act, to DO something. The “wind-up” is another “false flag” extremist, this one so demented by the fervor of his creed that he can be triggered into action merely by the excitement of someone ranting like he, himself, does.

If that, again, reminds anyone of the “controlled demolition” theorists declaiming about the World Trade Center and “9-11,” you are far removed from those of your countrymen who are being duped by both the “Loose Change” theorists and their brethren, and the U.S. Government who is, in turn, duping them (and the nation).

So. We have a primer in that deception that is the mind of the state. A primer, however, will serve only to alert those well-intentioned and caring enough about their country to realize that they have been victimized by that “deceive, confuse, and bewilder” tactic I spoke of earlier here. The “craft of intelligence,” as it has been called, is one like that of crime detection, forensic medicine, physical science, mathematics, propositional logic, epistemology, or the like. A little knowledge is a dangerous – often self-destructive – thing, one best left to those who have devoted many years to learning.

It is the stuff from which witch-hunts and lynchings are made.

But there is also an old writing, one called The Book. In it, the man we know as Jesus (not his name, actually – and there’s still another lesson apropos of this one) said, “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves . . . By their fruits ye shall know them.”

Has anybody checked the fruit – or “fruits” - lately?

"He & She" - In a Nation That's Decided There's No Difference

Many years ago, a student of Dr. Stewart Holcomb at the University of Iowa, I wrote this in a research paper that would one day become the blueprint for what we now call the SWAT team: “Any purely logical analysis of tactical concerns where hostage (and armored car seizure and/or robbery) situations are concerned must be characterized by recognition of its own strengths and weaknesses. Strengths include rigidly objective examination and emotional distancing from the event. Weaknesses may on the other hand also include over-objectification of the incident or event in question, with inherent loss of that emotionally empathic framework of shared meanings necessary for full understanding. “Get knowledge, indeed – but above all, get understanding.”

Quite a mouthful, but each evening of late as we sit watching the “boob tube” in fascinated astonishment, simply amazed at the singularly monumental stupidity of the nation’s leaders (my god – the shear mediocrity of these people is appalling!), pundits, and “personalities,” I remember it.

And, witness, my last observation there, I can’t help parenthetical reflection that some of these media and politician “personalities” have all the personality of a robot.

Which, of course, is what they effectively are. Ratiocination – logical thinking – seems a thing totally foreign to any of them. From the mindless recitation of jargon solecisms like “issues” – we’re still laughing over Katie Couric’s Little Annie Fannie bubblehead remark that she was having “issues in bed” – to bimbo-babble like that being blabbered nowadays by whatever miniskirt promising a panty or pussy “flash” happens to strategically occupy the center of the television screen, we have tabloid tripe served up in mind-numbing Orwellian hate-rally fashion by people like Nancy Grace, Greta Van Susteren, Kimberley Guilfoyle, and their Jezabel like.

Thanks to the militant feminists of the PMS-hysterical sixties, the nation and its media – the latter striving mightily to behaviorally condition the former – lives in what is only virtual reality, a reality constructed of and determined almost entirely by words. “Let’s talk,” the distaff side of any relationship from couple to nation always says – “We need to communicate.”

And talk we do, from the specious and petty intellectualism that spawned the feminist psycho-blabber of a few years ago, to the mindless bimbo-babble I spoke of a minute ago. It is enough to make archetypical men like my grandfather roll over in their graves. While the Titanic that is the U.S. ship of state bears down hard on the iceberg that is economic, ecosystem, military, and political leadership collapse, we have these haranguing harpies yammering about matters so damned trivial as to rival the vapidity of Marie Antoinette’s infamous “let them eat cake” remark. We’re headed for utter disaster, and half the populace is nattering about women’s “issues” (Aaaargh - that execrable word, again!)

God-a-mighty, girls - shut the hell up, already!

Even worse, even more cancerous to what is the essence of our form of democracy is the now nearly complete devolution of the societal mind represented by the widely held belief inherited from militant feminism that the right to speak somehow lends credibility, even validity, to what any moron may choose to declaim.

Does THAT, by the way, remind any old, married man – perhaps, like a friend of mine, the father of four daughters - of his last heavy discussion with the missus or daughter?

People, the right to speak does not mean what you say is worth anyone’s listening to; more, it sure as hell doesn’t mean you have the further right to demand that anyone listen. A warrior, for instance, I just don’t want to hear what Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, or Condoleeza Rice have to say about military tactics, intelligence, or weapons; and I sure as hell don’t want to be represented among the Arab nations by a diminutive black woman (my god, “America,” you don’t realize how freaky fatuous that is?).

Oh, shit – NOW I’ve done it. Look, I abhor sexism – the real, the viciously stupid thing - as much or more than anyone. Probably because I hate bullying with a passion few who read this will be able to appreciate without having endured what I once did at the hands of those who will use their superior size. strength, or superiority in numbers, to inflict themselves on others weaker, I would smash with the same compunction I’d step on a bug a man who bullies a woman. Rules and laws that prohibit a woman earning the same for performing the same service or doing the same work are just, plain, wrong.

Now, please, go back and read that carefully. Note the emphasis.

And it is also wrong – just as wrong - for a women, by virtue of legislation and the societal sea-change that was generated by insane (that means, I remind you, detached from the reality) feminist hysteria of the sixties and later, to arrogate themselves to positions they cannot possible handle, and to demand pay they can’t possibly earn.

That is sexism, too, you know.

We are in point of thunderously obvious and therefore undeniable, fact watching our business and economic systems dissolve before our very eyes, with corporations on the one hand fleeing the country to escape bizarre social nostrums which include the infamous Title IX which feminists inflicted upon university athletic programs (businesses, I remind you), or being forced to import and hire illegal aliens in order to keep pace with the tax collector who also services this ideologically self-serving crap.

From Sears having been sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission because more men than women held jobs like selling appliances, to ruling that free drinks and cheap food on “ladies night” was “unlawfully discriminatory,” to ACLU horse manure like threats against public building owners concerning number of women’s toilets, business and the economy in the U.S. have taken a pasting from feminism.

And that’s not to excuse the craven male cowardice that is the only possible explanation for the nation’s pantyhose polemicists to have succeeded in their lemming-like, “I am woman, hear me roar” migration to the implacably natural sea.

Neither is scrofulous feminism’s Typhoid Mary effect on the nation’s business and economy its only effect. Everywhere one looks nowadays, one sees natural sanity under attack where other societal considerations are concerned. Each time feminist lawyers force down the society and nation’s throat another of their ideology’s mindless arguments like that having to do with actual physical and mental gender similarity – another example of reality made entirely of words, that of “equal under the law” having become equal otherwise - the society and nation’s psyche and character take another weakening cut.

The feminist’s “death of a thousand cuts” attack on the national mentality means, for instance, children who no longer realize – have, even, internalized an induced reversal of conceptual gender roles - life facts as basic as the difference between male and female. Imagine being a child in a nation wherein one must actually listen daily to – in fact, be technologically inundated and saturated in - a contentious debate concerning anything so monumentally obvious as the difference between a boy and a girl. While it is stupefyingly incredible that one writing as I do here should have to offer probative refutation concerning anything so primordially basic – and in reality there are too many to enumerate here or even in a shelf-full of books – I offer this archetypical one:

Consider a child made to actually believe Hollywood, television movie fare nonsense like that a one hundred, ten pound slip of a woman knocking the daylights out of several pro-football linemen sized men, a GI Jane, a female U.S. Army Ranger, or U.S. Navy SEAL.

My god, “America” - you really want your kids to believe nonsense like that? You don’t recognize that this claptrap is hurting your children? Think about this: you really want your child to simply accept without thought that employers hiring a men and women with identical skills and utility to their company pay the men more? Just because they are MEN? Tell me, do you really think – free of your own moronically biased indoctrination – that your kids are so stupid they will believe that any one who can buy for less the same product – labor or skill, in this case – will willingly pay more?

YOU may be that stupidity-biased; don’t expect the kids to be.

Let’s change the subject – at least where the societal mental seizure due feminism is concerned. The nation’s nannies and their nitwit nattering aren’t – by far – the only example of ideology run wild to the nation’s detriment. Let’s try another of the country’s mendacious myths and the religion spawned and sprung up around it, that of another “equality.” I speak of rich and poor under the law.

Let one of our clamoring conservative apologists like Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, or Rush Limbaugh explain on nationwide television some night how it can be fair that a Bill Gates pays the same fine for speeding as a senior citizen obliged to live on social security. Let me show up some night during O’Reilly’s phony propagandist palaver, to debate his recent excoriation of billionaire Warren Buffet for pointing out that among all the billionaire’s employees, Buffet pays the smallest proportion of his income in taxes.

Incidentally – speaking of spastic ratiocination and thinking – you don’t related things like this and the chaotic mess that is health care and related insurance, the Three Stooges state of education, or the “Girls Gone Wild” bedlam of the national whorehouse on the Potomac? REALLY? There – right there – you may find any proof of my contentions here concerning the national thought processes.

Let’s discuss, too, how under the present scheme of tax things one makes a corporation pay taxes it doesn’t hand – with all the costs for the wherewithal in so doing - immediately back to the consumer. As Ricky Ricardo of the old “I Love Lucy” Show used to say, ‘Splain dat to me, Lucy!” ‘Splain, too, Mr. O’Reilly, on what part of your income you pay that “thirty percent“ you ballyhooed with such ostentatious indignation the other night. “Thirty percent” means absolutely nothing until one know thirty percent of what – and how much “what” represents of your entire income. “No Spin,” huh?

That’s just, plain, stupid – or crooked.

Which brings up another point, one speaking more directly to Operation Mockingbird media of today like FoxNews and its utterly phony and meretricious punditry like the guys I just mentioned. Like all but the very few among the dozens of persons with whom I have debated today’s issue, the media’s supposed experts occupy the airwaves with logic of the kind that seeks to prove a point by destroying the argument of their just as speciously supposed opposition. Seemingly desperate to avoid any presentation of facts tell-tale of their own real purpose or the validity of their position, these muddle-heads resort to what logicians recognize at once as irrelevant conclusion - blissfully unaware, it seems, that by picking apart the opponent’s argument one does not prove the validity of one’s own argument.

Proof that someone is a liar does not prove his is a thief.

Now, one of my fondest memories of my grandfather was his advice that one day I would find the most difficult determination concerning my fellow man to be that of “stupid or crooked.” This is an example of that. Surely, one would think, people promulgated as experts by national news media organizations would not be so stupid as to be unaware of classic logic and the rules of debate. One finds it reasonable to attribute to the typical Website pundit of today simple sloth; too lazy to look up his sources or proof, he resorts to the “everybody knows,” rhetorical ploy, or makes up data and information out of whole cloth (the bald-faced lie, that is).

In a recent exchange having to do with the World Trade Center attack of September 11, 2001, I asked (as I have repeatedly and without remotely reasonable answer) how persons who might have brought the towers down by controlled demolition would have accomplished the Herculean task or preparing for and setting without notice and exposure the literally hundred of charges. I received responses like “invisibility” (no, I am not kidding), and the charges having been placed during construction (no, I’m not pulling your leg about that one, either).

Even more astonishing (and depressing – this is symptomatic of the appalling state public reasoning and dialogue have reached) was one arguer’s assertion – that supported by others on the same site – that his opinion was as good as anyone else’s and shouldn’t, therefore be “attacked.” Think about that one. Of whose argument – which side of the gender divide - style does that remind you?

Once again, in fact, we have the suspiciously spurious attempt to equate the right to speak with validity of the speaker’s opinion. Reality made of words. For conclusive identification, review the rhetoric of militant feminism, circa 1966.

It goes on, this “stupid or evil” conundrum. On CNN – Fox is the federal flagship, but the rest of the media is the fleet - we have a woman – one Dianna(?) West - holding forth on “what is torture?” I stare at the stunningly detached theatricality of it all. The utter, diabolical, absurdity of nonsense like this staggers me. Thirty years old, expensively coiffured, wearing apparel that would, no doubt, cost a “McJob” employee a year’s pay, in her Gucci shoes and wielding her Gucci pen, she’s been reared like a hot-house flower – to tell us about torture!

Some years ago, at the outset of the “women in combat” – strange, isn’t it that even Hitler’s Nazi Germany eschewed stooping so low – fantasia, a woman “expert” lecturing at the Pentagon recommended a “kinder, gentler military – patterned more on the example of the Salvation Army.” In a roomful of what we might have hoped military officers who were men, no one – that’s not one – objected. I spoke earlier of cowardly male capitulation to feminists, didn’t I?

We are, I remind you again, talking about the societal form of schizophrenia that is feminism in the United States. It’s as irrational nationally as any mental disease among individuals, and, since its effects are multiplied by the population of a nation, it’s that much more lethal. You imagine that I exaggerate? Go to this Website – hell, there are hundreds like it – and read. See – assuming you persist in a relatively pre-Orwellian state - the fixated, group-think mentality that has steered us into the chaotic, mentally deranged, non compos mentis state in which we presently find ourselves. Like whatever causes muscular dystrophy in the individual, this kind of diseased hysteria is making our national psychomotor responses spastic.

http://worlddefensereview.com/almabond071405.shtml

Next, considering the “Stupid or Evil” – does anybody remember the “all Cretans (or whatever) lie” conundrum? Check the recent appearance of someone - I started to say “guy;” how the hell do you know, these days – on the Wolf Blitzer, “Situation Room” (who the hell dreams up this Dell Comics schlock?), one Penn Jillette:

“I believe that there is no God. I'm beyond atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy -- you can't prove a negative, so there's no work to do. You can't prove that there isn't an elephant inside the trunk of my car. You sure? How about now? Maybe he was just hiding before. Check again. Did I mention that my personal heartfelt definition of the word "elephant" includes mystery, order, goodness, love and a spare tire?

“So, anyone with a love for truth outside of herself has to start with no belief in God and then look for evidence of God. She needs to search for some objective evidence of a supernatural power. All the people I write e-mails to often are still stuck at this searching stage. The atheism part is easy.”

This wise man, this seer of the society, is of national television caliber?

Think about that. Imagine your interests, your property, the fate of your family, decided by a midget mentality like this. Stop and think that it’s this kind of genius that explains the state of national health care insurance, the absolutely cockamamie arguments and theorizing surrounding it, and a government that supposedly can’t formulate a plan to correct the problem. It’s this kind of genius that explains matters like how we have come to be bemired in a hopeless quagmire – we’re among other things there to “stabilize the region,” don’t forget – like Iraq, and why we have a tax system like that czar-ed and Gestapo-ed over by a monstrosity like Internal Revenue Service.

New Orleans years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is as it is on account of leadership like that. For crying out loud, LISTEN to the Penn Jillette candidate-for-president morons as they “debate” (did I happen to mention reality made of it’s-whatever-I-say-it-is words?)

I think - were it not for the Pavlovian state of the booby-hatch bedlam society – I should just say, “I rest my case.” This is – all of it - so logically absurd that it’s “over the top” – such meaningless equivocation and childish (heretofore) word-play” that it beggars description scathing enough.

But, just for fun, let’s see how many of the genius “Americans” who read this knows, can say, why. It’ll tell us a lot about where we are. This Jillette guy appeared on national television, a show that treats with things like the war in Iraq and all manner of societal and national issues, don’t forget.

“But,” Jillette said, “this ‘This I Believe’ thing seems to demand something more personal, some leap of faith that helps one see life's big picture, some rules to live by. So, I'm saying, ‘This I believe: I believe there is no God.’"

There’s an all-star of our Ph.D. Pantheon, for you.

Just for very short rebuttal (in no way intended to deal with the whole matter, but intended to characterize the depth of this CNN sage and sagacity laureate’s brilliance), in order to “believe” (assuming he means “think” – highly unlikely in itself) there is no god, Jillette would have to be able to be everywhere in the universe at once. That applies to his “prove a negative” remark, too.

Jesus! – “stupid or evil?” Say anything, no matter how nonsensical or absurd, and as long as it strikes a chord sympathetic with the cretin listening, it’ll be accepted as wisdom.

Next, we have the once-sycophant State Department employees who are part of the cabal sending young (middle aged, even old; even female – god, that’s despicable) citizens of their country to Iraq, but now waxing indignant because they might have to go where they’re sending others. Do I REALLY have to discuss this? Stupid or evil-wise, I mean? These swine so sicken me I may have to skip my evening whiskey. They do, though, represent a vast number of the public who stand by sheep-like as their Uriah Heap elected representatives watch George W. Bush feed their fellow citizenry into the meat-grinder of Iraq.

Aaaaaaargh! God damn it – I once went to war against outrage by government; I may, even in my dotage, do it again. How can men stand by and let this happen?

I may, I think, have answered my own question there, that when I asked what kind of men it was that capitulated to militant feminism. Abortion, for instance.

Oh, well. Next in news so mountainously portentous that only the dumb-as-a-fence-post could fail to relate it, we are informed that citizens of that utopian paradise known as Mexico are flocking to their own Tabasco state – in order to LOOT flood victims there. Wonderful people! And, according to the CNN’s Cafferty Report, recently, there are already six hundred thousand of this kind – that’s outright, already-convicted Mexican criminals – right here in the U.S. Since we have no way to know, can you help but wonder how many of these wonderful people descended upon New Orleans – or how much of the millions FEMA gave away to anyone willing to steal from the U.S. taxpayer went to people of the kind willing to steal from the drowning?

Next time, let’s talk about the national debt; maybe THAT will wake you up.

I doubt it. With New York’s nitwit governor willing to help illegal aliens with phony identification, and a presidential candidate talking out of both sides of her mouth on the matter, can anyone imagine matters couldn’t be even worse? you’re telling me you’re willing to let this kind of “leadership” rule here? Well, I’ll be damned. “Stupid or crooked.” More and more it’s the crucial question being asked by a nation of people likewise too stupid or evil to do anything but wait to see what happens to their country.

One of those “death by a thousand cut” cuts was obviously castration.