What Happened to Free Speech?

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

The attack on the First Amendment protections of free speech and a free and independent press has happened on multiple fronts.

On one front is the corporate owned mainstream media's loss of its "gatekeeper" function as the provider of news as the Internet has opened the way for non-traditional journalists to publish their opposing perspective.

On another front is the same profit driven corporate media that has fallen victim to commercialism. Huge multinational corporation control the media with their advertising dollars and as a result control most of the information that citizens rely upon for making informed choices.

And, yet another front is the Marxist inspired New World Order campaign for world domination. In order to accomplish their goals, they understand the importance of controlling the flow of information and will do anything to protect their propaganda machine.

Perhaps the following quote from the preeminent New York journalist, John Swinton, made at a dinner for his peers will help answer the question, whatever happened to freedom of press?

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. "The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." [Source: Labor's Untold Story, by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, published by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979, as cited on nexusmagazine.com

Mainstream Media Totally Corrupted

The once great protector and defender of the First Amendment, the press, is now being transformed into an oppressor of free speech and propaganda tool of globalists designed to normalize the unthinkable.

Over the past few decades we have witnessed the conglomeration of a once free press dedicated to telling the truth to the American public into a serpentine corporate homogeny where news is manufactured as a consumer commodity to be sold and controlled by the greed of corporate executives and stockholders.

"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." – Richard Salant, former President of CBS News

As more Americans are dumbed-down by the onslaught of corporate driven messages disguised as "truth," they are being manipulated by the enemies of freedom as public opinion is swayed in favor of their deceitful agenda. When a dissenting voice is raised, unreported facts disclosed, or criticism is leveled, the press is quick to squelch that voice, fact, or criticism.

While there are numerous examples I could cite, one I've witnessed firsthand was the media manipulation of the 2008 Presidential campaign. How many Americans do you believe would be favorable to a message of freedom, sound money, non-interventionism, and free markets? Do you think Americans would support a candidate that believed in protecting our Constitution and getting rid of those things in our society that are unconstitutional? We've all heard the mantra of "change" spewed forth from nearly all the candidates, but how many of us know what that "change" entails?

Sadly, the word "change" is a euphemism for "more of the same."

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic." - Dresden James

When a candidate talked about real change, they were marginalized by the corporate mainstream media and their message all-but censored from public discourse. The candidate I'm referring to is Ron Paul, and from the very beginnings of his campaign, the mainstream media had blacklisted his message of change. It simply was not the status quo message promoted by corporate America and Socialist government. His fellow candidates publicly laughed at his Constitutional message and he was blocked from sharing his message on the public airwaves. His primary results were either under-reported or not reported at all. The time he was given in the primary debates was only a fraction that given the corporate hand-picked candidates. As a result, few Americans even knew that he was a candidate for President of the United States, and fewer were given the priviledge of hearing what his platform was.

I believe if he had been given a fair opportunity to share his vision with the American people, there would be little doubt who our next President of the United States would be. I believe the grassroot American is a decent person that believes in the patriotic vision our Founders gave us in the Constitution. However, that's not the same vision held by the New World Order and their propagandists were obliged to shape public opinion to their mind-numbed interpretation of change.

Fair and Balanced Propaganda

As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. Most people generally think of propaganda in political contexts, in particular to refer to certain efforts sponsored by governments and political groups. Propaganda also has much in common with public information campaigns by governments, which are intended to encourage or discourage certain forms of behavior (such as wearing seat belts, not smoking, not littering and so forth).

Its close cousins, advertising and public relations, shares the same techniques as propaganda, albeit for different purposes. Advertising and public relations can be thought of as propaganda that promotes a commercial product or shapes the perception of an organization.

In recent years, the differences between propaganda, advertising, and public relations have become more blurred as the roles of government and commercialism have blended.

"Propaganda is neutrally defined as a systematic form of purposeful persuasion that attempts to influence the emotions, attitudes, opinions, and actions of specified target audiences for ideological, political or commercial porposes through the controlled transmission of one-sided messages (which may or may not be factual) via mass and direct media channels. A propaganda organization employs propagandists who engage in propagandism - the applied creation and distribution of such forms of persuasion." - Richard Alan Nelson, A Chronology and Glossary of Propaganda in the United States, 1996

Political Correctness

Once confined to the educational establishment, political correctness has now broken out in the historical bastion of free speech - the press. Whatever the reason, the one-time rallying cry of the media, "free speech," is no longer found in mainstream America newsrooms. It has been replaced with "politically correct" speech disseminated by biased reporters who refuse to speak the truth while ignoring the evidence that our country is being plundered.

"Political Correctness is the communal tyranny that erupted in the 1980s. It was a spontaneous declaration that particular ideas, expressions and behavior, which were then legal, should be forbidden by law, and people who transgressed should be punished. It started with a few voices but grew in popularity until it became unwritten and written law within the community. With those who were publicly declared as being not politically correct becoming the object of persecution by the mob, if not prosecution of the state." -- Philip Atkinson

Pentagon Propaganda Machine

An Associated Press investigation found that over the past five years, the money the military spends on winning hearts and minds at home and abroad, what it calls "the human terrain", has grown by 63 percent, to at least $4.7 billion this year, according to Department of Defense budgets and other documents. In 2009, the Pentagon will employ 27,000 people just for recruitment, advertising and public relations which makes it bigger in size, money and power than many media companies.

The current emphasis on propaganda operations started with former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In 2002, Rumsfeld established the Office of Strategic Influence that brought together public affairs and psychological operations. Congress demanded that the office be shut down. Rumsfeld responded in a speech he delivered on Nov. 18, 2002, "There's the name. You can have the name, but I'm gonna keep doing every single thing that needs to be done and I have." In 2003, Rumsfeld issued a secret Information Operations Roadmap setting out a plan for public affairs and psychological operations to work together. It noted that with a global media, the military should expect and accept that psychological operations will reach the U.S. public.

Out of its Joint Hometown News Service located on an abondoned Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas, Pentagon staff writers pump out thousands of press releases, television releases and radio interviews, all provided free to news organizations around the world. The stories go out with authors' names but not their titles, and do not mention Hometown News anywhere.

Despite a supposed prohibition on propaganda, spending on public affairs stories designed to influence the American public has more than doubled since 2003. A recent inspector general audit concluded that a public affairs program called "America Supports You" was conducted "in a questionable and unregulated manner" with funds meant for the military's Stars and Stripes newspaper.

One of the fastest-growing parts of the military media is "psychological operations," where spending has also doubled since 2003. Psychological operations are generally aimed at foreign audiences, not intended for American consumption. However, when an American TV anchor asked Gen. David Petraeus about the mood in Iraq, the general held up a glossy photo of the Iraqi national soccer team to show the country united in victory. In fact, it was U.S. psychological operations that had quietly distributed tens of thousands of the soccer posters in July 2007 to encourage Iraqi nationalism.

Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, director of strategic communications for the U.S. Central Command, says psychological operations must be secret to be effective. He says that in the 21st century, it is probably not possible to win the information battle with insurgents without exposing American citizens to secret U.S. propaganda.

According to an Associated Content article, “Studies have shown that watching television induces low alpha waves in the human brain. Alpha waves are brainwaves between 8 to 12 HZ. and are commonly associated with relaxed meditative states as well as brain states associated with suggestibility.”

Experiments have shown that less than one minute after the viewer begins to watch television, the brain switches from Beta level consciousness, associated with active and logical thought, to Alpha level, which is associated with passive acceptance and suggestibility. This is why advertisers spend billions a year on commercials as well as product placement within TV shows themselves.

Operation Mockingbird

The Church Committee investigation in 1975 exposed a secret Central Intelligence Agency campaign to influence domestic and foreign media beginning in the 1950s. In 1948, Frank Wisner established Mockingbird, and recruited Philip Graham from The Washington Post to run the project within the industry. According to Deborah Davis in Katharine the Great; "By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned' respected members of The New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles." [Deborah Davis (1979). Katharine the Great. pp. 137–138.]

After 1953, Operation Mockingbird had a major influence over 25 newspapers and wire agencies. These organizations were run by people with well-known left-wing views such as William Paley (CBS), Henry Luce (Time and Life Magazine), Arthur Hays Sulzberger (New York Times), Alfred Friendly (managing editor of the Washington Post), Jerry O'Leary (Washington Star), Hal Hendrix (Miami News), Barry Bingham, Sr., (Louisville Courier-Journal), James Copley (Copley News Services) and Joseph Harrison (Christian Science Monitor).[Carl Bernstein (20 October 1977). "CIA and the Media", Rolling Stone Magazine.]

In 1977, Rolling Stone alleged CIA controlled journalists included Stewart Alsop (New York Herald Tribune), Ben Bradlee (Newsweek), James Reston (New York Times), Charles Douglas Jackson (Time Magazine), Walter Pincus (Washington Post), William C. Baggs (The Miami News), Herb Gold (The Miami News) and Charles Bartlett (Chattanooga Times).

Today, the mainstream corporate media has become the mouthpiece of a emerging collectivist government and possesses an explicit capacity of advocacy and ability to frame political issues. And their agenda is to advance the New World Order message.

"Democracy without honest information creates the illusion of popular consent, while enhancing the power of the state and the privileged interests protected by it. Democracy without accountability creates the illusion of popular control, while offering ordinary Americans only cheap tickets to the balcony. Too far away to see that the public stage has become just a reality TV set." - Bill Moyers

Corporate Owned Mainstream Media

"In March 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press ..They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers." - U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917

New World Order propaganda spokesmen seeding the corporate owned mainstream media.
Each of the major networks feature their news anchors, reporters and pundits to offer up to the mesmerized public audience a version of reality in line with the collectivist message of the New World Order. Massive public relations campaigns are pitched to convince the public these spokespersons offer credible opinion or commentary on a particular subject area on which he/she is presumed to be knowledgeable. It is the job of these people to sell the American public on the merits of the New World Order agenda.

Privately owned news media promote the economic and political interests of the large companies that own or advertise with them. These giant conglomerates, all belonging to the secret Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, the Club of Rome, and the Trilateral Commission, control the world's flow of information. They determine what we see on television, hear on the radio and read in newspapers, magazines, books, or on the Internet.

These publicly traded corporations try to keep the Bilderberger guest-list a secret, and the corporate press scarcely reports on the event at all. The likes of Microsoft, AT&T, Bechtel, Cisco, Compaq and Price Waterhouse Coopers have nothing to fear from the press. Never mind that Microsoft and NBC co-own MSNBC cable network. In fact, among the frequently invited Bilderberg guests can be found the name of Anthony Ridder of Knight-Ridder, Inc., America's second-largest newspaper chain, which owns such publications as the Detroit Free Press, the Miami Herald and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

NBC, owned by General Electric.
In addition to the NBC Television Network and the NBC Television Stations Division, the company owns CNBC, which is the global leader in business news, reaching 175 million homes worldwide. In April 2002, NBC purchased Telemundo, the second-largest U.S. Spanish-language television network, and in December 2002, the company added the Bravo cable network to its portfolio. In partnership with Microsoft, NBC operates MSNBC, which is a leading cable-news channel and the world's preeminent news site on the Internet.
NBC is a subsidiary of RCA, a media conglomerate. On RCA's board sits Thornton Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield Oil, and member of the World Wildlife Fund, the Club of Rome, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Bradshaw is also chairman of NBC.
Member of the CFR: Jack Welch, CEO between 1981 and 2001; Jane Pfeiffer (Former Chairman); John Petty, Tom Brokaw, David Brinkley, John Chancellor, Marvin Kalb, Irving R. Levine, Herbert Schlosser, Peter G. Peterson, John Sawhill.
Member of the CFR and Trilateral Commission: Lester Crystal, R.W. Sonnenfeidt

According to then-U.S. Representative Bernie Sanders, NBC's owner General Electric is "one of the largest corporations in the world -and one with a long history of anti-union activity. GE, a major contributor to the Republican Party, has substantial financial interests in weapons manufacturing, finance, nuclear power and many other industries. Former CEO Jack Welch was one of the leaders in shutting down American plants and moving them to low-wage countries like China and Mexico."

CBS, owned by Westinghouse Electric Company.
Part of the Nuclear Utilities Business Group of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) whos #1 on the Board of Directors? None other than: Frank Carlucci (of the Carlyle Group)
CBS Network News: 60 minutes, 48 hours, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CBS Morning News, Up to the Minute.
Member of the CFR: Laurence A. Tisch, CEO, Roswell Gilpatric, Dan Rather, Richard Hottelet, Frank Stanton
Member of the CFR and Trilateral Commission: James Houghton, Henry Schacht

As an American intelligence officer, CBS founder William Paley was trained in mass brainwashing techniques during World War II at the Tavistock Institute in England.

ABC, owned by Disney
ABC Network News: Prime Time Live, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America.
Member of CFR: Thomas S. Murphy, CEO; Barbara Walters; John Connor; Diane Sawyer; John Scall

ABC is owned by the Disney Corporation, "which produces toys and products in developing countries where they provide their workers with atrocious wages and working conditions. It has 153 TV stations. Chase Manhattan Bank controls 6.7% of ABC's stock - enough to give it a controlling interest. Chase, through its trust department, controls 14% of CBS and 4.5% of RCA. Instead of three competing television networks called NBC, CBS, and ABC, what we really have is the Rockefeller Broadcasting Company, the Rockefeller Broadcasting System, and the Rockefeller Broadcasting Consortium.

The ideas and policies that come out of the Bilderberg annual meetings are used to generate news in the leading periodicals and news groups of the world. The point is to make the prevalent opinions of the Bilderbergers so appealing that they become public policy and to pressure world leaders into submitting to the New World Order. The "free world press" is completely at the mercy of the Bilderbergers disseminating the agreed-upon propaganda.

FOX NETWORKS, owned by News Corporation LTD.
The FOX network, owned by Bilderberg Group luminary, Rupert Murdoch, owns a significant portion of the world's media. The Fox Television Network includes includes 22 stations, reaching 50% of US households. Fox International has extensive worldwide cable and satellite networks including British Sky Broadcasting; VOX, Germany; Canal Fox, Latin America; FOXTEL, Australia; STAR TV, Asia; IskyB, India; Bahasa Programming Ltd., Indonesia; and News Broadcasting, Japan. He has most recently added the Wall Street Journal to his empire.

His FOX News Channel has close ties to the Republican Party and among his "fair and balanced" commentators is Newt Gingrich, former GOP Republican House speaker.

FOX News was involved in the Monsanto coverup of deadly chemicals in milk and the court ruling stating, "News agencies are NOT required to report the TRUTH in a news story."

Rupert Murdoch’s Twentieth Century Fox corporation has admitted to planting political brainwashing within its globally popular TV shows and indeed boasts that it is proud of the fact. A corporate video currently being showcased on another part of Murdoch’s media empire, MySpace.com, shows Fox executives and stars of its universally recognized shows bragging about how they use the platform of hit shows that are broadcast globally to implant messages about the supposed threat of global warming.

Fox has embarked on a deliberate campaign, which could only have been done with the coordination of the script writers of each program, to force people to accept the pseudo-science of global warming by brainwashing them into accepting it as a reality. This has been achieved by weaving in messages about climate change and having popular characters in the TV shows embrace specific tenants of the global warming manifesto.

TIME-WARNER TBS, owned by America Online (AOL)
CNN, HBO, Cinemax, TBS Superstation, Turner Network Television, Turner Classic Movies, Warner Brothers Television. Time Warner is the largest owner of cable systems in the US with an estimated 13 million subscribers.
Member of Trilateral Commission: W. Thomas Johnson, Pres.
Member of CFR: Daniel Schorr

Fair and Balanced News?

What's missing from the following?
"We report. You decide."
"America's Most Watched Network"
"America's Favorite Network"
"CBS News is Very Good News"
"The Best Political Team on Television"
“All the News That’s Fit to Print”

What's missing?

"Truth"

If you get your perspective about the world around you from the corporate owned CIA managed mainstream media, understand this... you don't have a clue. These organization do not report the truth. They are all part of the modern day American Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

In 1996 Monsanto was able to censor the Fox News organization (WTVT/Fox 13 in Tampa, Florida) from reporting on the harmful effects of BGH (bovine growth hormone) on humans. The report was canceled, and the investigative reporters were fired, after Fox received threatening letters from Monsanto’s attorney promising “dire consequences” if the series aired. In 2003, an appeals court reversed an earlier unanimous Florida court decision that determined that Fox "acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort the plaintiffs' new reporting on BGH." The appeals court decision was on the basis that FCC policies on news agencies reporting the truth did not legally require the station to report the truth in a news story, as FCC policies are not law. Read that previous sentence again! The court ruled...

News agencies are NOT required to report the TRUTH in a news story.

That ruling should send chills down your spine!

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Protecting the Criminals

On November 16, 2004, the U.S. Government sued Bill Benson to obtain an injunction to prohibit him from telling people that the 16th Amendment was not in fact ratified. Rather than deciding upon the facts of the case, the court instead refused to allow Bill to present facts of the case, thus nullifying his First Amendment right to free speech and Fifth and Fourteenth Ameendment right to the due process of law.

The court struck all of Bill’s facts from the record as irrelevant, and failed to address any of his other questions. On January 10, 2008, the court granted the government’s requested injunction. As of now, then, the government may prosecute you for lying and prevent you from presenting a defense. As of now, speaking about a political question is against the law. As of now, there is no due process of law. As of now, there is no First Amendment right to speak or to petition the government for redress of grievance. As of now, the words of the Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison are like the words of the United States Constitution; mere words that have no meaning.

To ensure the silence of Americans, the argument that the Sixteenth Amendment was not ratified, and variations of this argument, have been officially identified as legally frivolous Federal tax return positions for purposes of the $5,000 frivolous tax return penalty imposed under Internal Revenue Code section 6702(a).

Exposing Corporate America

One purpose of the First Amendment was to protect the right of all citizens to freely speak their mind. Today, we see the First Amendment along with the rest of the Constitution being chipped away at by liberals and socialists in our society. They don't want you to know the truth ... unless it's "their truth."

We're told, for example, to cough up $4 plus for a gallon of gasoline because of "supply and demand" or because the price of a barrel of oil has been increased by Arab oil producers. We're not told how the Federal Reserve's devaluation of the dollar is impacting what you pay for that gallon of gas.

Or, we're told millions of Americans are losing their homes to foreclosure because they secured loans they could not afford to repay, so-called subprime mortgages. What we're not told about is how those banks that issued those loans repackaged them and sold them to larger investment banks such as Bear Stearns who leveraged that collateral to make bad investments in the unregulated credit derivatives market where they lost their shirts. We're not told how the Federal Reserve stepped in to cover Bear Stearns' bad investments with Billions of dollars paid for by the American taxpayer - many of whom were losing their homes in the scandal.

Wealthy people will always seek to influence politicians, because government unfortunately plays a very big role in determining who gets (and stays) rich in our country. They manipulate public opinion to elect government officials and garner support for unconstitutional laws. These laws are pushed and proposed by evil men whose only desire it is to undermine our liberty and freedom and wish to implement a socialist one-world plan. As a result, our federal government has become a taxing, spending, and regulating leviathan that controls every part of the economy.

Having rejected the notion of limited, constitutional government, we can hardly be surprised when corporate special interests use corrupting campaign money to influence the process! As long as we allow these special interests financial access to the government, we will continue to see their interests protected and the truth denied to the American public. We need to get money out of government; only then will money not be important in politics. Big government and big campaign money go hand-in-hand.

Censoring the Internet

In a move to recover control over the flow of information, the government and corporate owned mainstream media is working to shut down the Internet as we know it today and replace it with their own "clean" version.

Trials of mandatory internet censorship is about to begin as I write this (Dec. 23, 2008) in Australia. If the trials are deemed a success, the Government has earmarked $44 million to impose a compulsory "clean feed" on all internet subscribers in Australia as soon as late next year. Although the government says censorship is necessary to block sites containing pornography, gambling and euthanasia material, the report provided by Industry experts to the government has been kept secret. The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy - despite his promises before Labor was elected that people would be able to opt out of any internet filters - has said the first tier of the Government's censorship policy will be compulsory for all. This would block all "illegal" and "inappropriate" material, as determined in part by a secret blacklist administered by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

More Corporate Censorship

Robert Lane is learning the price of exposing the dark secrets of corporate America. He posted on his web site, BlueOvalNews.com, documents about forthcoming Ford automobiles. The problem was the documents were not just outlining features of future products, but rather were detailing safety problems with the automobiles. The documents were obtained from Ford employees who wanted the truth about certain Ford products to be revealed, according to Lane.

Lane was accused of innappropriate use of the Ford logo and internal company documents and was sued by the Big Three auto makers. "The arguments Ford made today are that these were internal documents... and as a matter of law should not be published," said Ford spokesman Jim Cain. "It's not the fact that he was writing about Ford secrets, per se," Cain said. "We want him to stop breaking the law."

There seems to me to be a double standard here. Had the documents been from politically incorrect tobacco companies, Lane would be heralded a "hero" for bringing to the publics attention important information about public health. But, since the automobile industry is not currently on the governments "hit list" of politically incorrectness, Lane was branded a criminal.

Within days, Lane had been partially disarmed... the web site was disabled. So much for your right to know.

"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." - George Mason.

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