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          T R U T H   B Y   G O V T   D E C R E E 


 by Ian Williams Goddard

 The road to human freedom questions authority, the road to 
 serfdom obeys authority without question. Dropping any pretense 
 of independent investigation, the major media obeys and relays
 the word of governmental authorities without question. The 
 road the major media would lead us upon is quite clear. 

 Obeying the word of authority without question, an Associated 
 Press article [1] questions "rumors" that could implicate 
 authorities in the explosion of TWA flight 800, which killed 
 230 people ( early reports stated that the Navy was conducting 
 off-shore maneuvers below the plane at the time of the explosion; 
 more than 100 witnesses, including two pilots in another plane, 
 said the plane was hit by a missile-like object ascending from 
 the ocean [2] ). The AP article states: 

        One persistent rumor is that a U.S. warship or 
        aircraft downed the jet with an errant missile 
        and the government is covering it up. The invest-
        igation has not turned up anything to support 
        this, said Rear Adm. Edward Kristensen, head 
        of the Navy salvage operation off Long Island. 

 Since the Navy said there was no evidence that the Navy may have 
 killed 230 people, it therefore follows that the Navy must be inno-
 cent. The reports of Navy maneuvers, the 100+ eyewitnesses, the 
 sequence of explosions consistent with a missile hit, the radar 
 reading of an approaching object, the traces of an explosive used 
 in surface-to-air missiles,... all this evidence is magically swept 
 away by the almighty word of a potentially guilty authority. 

 This level of journalistic inquiry is a transparent farce. As the 
 AP article continues,  observe how the word of an authoritarian 
 figure, whose branch of govt is directly implicated in the tragedy 
 in question, is held up as the exclusive measure of truth:

        Other versions of the conspiracy theories 
        involve a nugget of truth, but don't stand 
        up under examination. 

        [ obviously the first version contained no 
        truth simply due to the say-so of authority ]

        "TWA flight 800 was shot down by a U.S. Navy 
        guided missile ship which was in area W-105,'' 
        says an Internet posting ..... "W-105 is a Warning 
        Area off the Southeast coast of Long Island and is 
        used by the military for missile firing and other 
        military operations.'' 

        A guided missile ship was in the Atlantic that 
        evening, Navy spokesman Lt. Nick Balice said. The 
        USS Normandy was 180 miles south of the crash site. 
        But it was not conducting weapons drills. A Navy 
        antisubmarine plane also was training in the region, 
        but it was unarmed, he said. 

 Notice again that the "examination" that the "rumors" cannot stand 
 up to is nothing more than the say-so of a  potentially  guilty 
 authority. No further inquiry was initiated.  The voice of a govt 
 official accepted without question is NOT an "examination." The 
 claim that it is an "examination" is a fraud. Who but the intel-
 lectually impaired could swallow such a pseudo-examination ? 

 "The Navy is not guilty. Why? Because the Navy says it's innocent." 
 This farcical examination employs the same degree of examination 
 as this fictional examination: 

        Claims that the Nazi Party has been operating factory 
        style murder camps do not hold up under examination. 
        When asked, Hitler said there were no such camps.
        As we can see, these rumors simply fall apart.

 Would you accept this examination? Need I ask? Such "examinations" 
 serve only as a cover for the authorities under which criminal 
 activity and atrocity can operate free from public oversight. 


 THE MEDIA'S TRUTH AXIOM

 The "nugget of truth" in the AP article was defined exclusively 
 by the degree to which the given claim conformed to the words 
 of a potentially guilty govt official. Based upon this example 
 and countless others that fill the news daily, the mass media's 
 rule of truth discovery can be refined into the following 
 logical axiom: 

        X is true if and only if X conforms to 
        the dictate of an official govt source.

 Violations of this axiom of obedience to authority by the major 
 media in recent years are few and far between.  It is clear that 
 the mass media functions as a de facto branch of the govt, shielding 
 govt misconduct from public oversight. Sadly, the public -- entrained 
 by the media to except the word of authority without question -- 
 then dutifully slanders as "crazy" anyone who dares to seriously 
 question the official govt-media news feed.


 WRONG THOUGHT, PUNISHED & CANCELLED

 There is an entrenched social mind-set that distrust of authority  
 is prima facie evidence of mental imbalance, or "paranoia," and as 
 we know, those who are mentally ill may have to be locked up by the 
 authorities. How convenient for the authorities and their agenda 
 of truth control -- "Obey what we say or get locked away." 

 A prime example of this is those "crazy" reports of black helicopters 
 and conspiracy theories arising therefrom. Say anything about secret 
 black helicopter operations and you're marked as a "paranoid nut-case." 

 For libertarian activists trying to gain public support, any mention 
 of "black helicopters" is a major no-no. When a caller phoned into the 
 Rush Limbaugh Show to report a black helicopter invasion of his city, 
 Limbaugh seemed to dismiss the caller as a nut-case. The Dick Tracy 
 comic strip routinely lampoons "black helicopter" talk as certifiable.

 However, according to US Army Special Operations Command spokesman 
 Lt. Col. Ken McGraw [3],  the US Army has been conducting "urban 
 warfare training" with very-dark-olive helicopters in major cities 
 across the nation such as Los Angeles, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Miami, 
 and Detroit.  In every case many citizens are  terrorized; in 
 Pittsburgh a pregnant woman was so terrified she when into labor. 

 These urban-warfare training exercises are the source of most of 
 these stories condemned as signs of insanity. It is because the 
 major media ignores this shocking military abuse of power that 
 people who report what they truly see are slated for the loony 
 bin. "X is not on the news, therefore X must be false and 
 reports of X must be a sign of mental delusion."

 As a fictitious tyrant on an episode of Star Trek once said: 

                Wrong thought will be punished, 
          right thought will be as quickly rewarded. 

 As we have seen, the social reaction dictated by media content 
 that punishes those who question the word of authority renders 
 this fascistic dictum more fact than fiction. This system of 
 truth control by punishment and reward lays the foundation for 
 the absolute subjugation of the people and ultimately for 
 unlimited power to commit atrocity. 


 PRIMED FOR ATROCITY

 Due to media blackout, these urban assaults witnessed by thousands 
 of people, are compartmentalized, or hermetically sealed, in space 
 and time such that for those outside the event compartment it "does
 not exist." Dictated by media content, in this case the lack of cover-
 age and lampooning of reports, those outside the event compartment 
 will then mentally compartmentalize the eyewitness reports of 
 those inside the event as crazy.  

 The lesson here is clear: with media control, the govt can commit 
 large-scale actions that "do not exist" in the larger social mind 
 even as thousands subjected to those actions witness them with their 
 own eyes. Due to the media blackout, the larger society is not only
 ignorant of the events, but is also "immunized" from the truth of 
 those events because eyewitness reports are compartmentalized as
 "crazy" and are dismissed without question -- Truth Control 101.  

 "I didn't hear about X in the news, thus X must be a delusion." 
 Such a state of affairs is the clear measure of a society primed 
 and ready for the execution by the govt of localized atrocities
 that will simply "not exist."  


 THE AUTHORITARIAN THOUGHT CORE

 The AP article is an example of the media's obedience to the govt.
 The black helicopter urban training and social stigmatization of 
 witnesses as "crazy" is an example of the people's obedience to 
 the media-govt. Altogether this maps out a hierarchical flow of 
 "truth" from govt to media to the people.  This flow is based 
 upon flawed and circular logic that may be expressed as follows: 


        1) GOVT:    " X is true "
        2) MEDIA:   " X is true because of 1) "
        3) PEOPLE:  " X is true because of 1) & 2) "

        4) RADICAL: " X is false due to facts... "

        Defensive social reaction

        5) X cannot be false because of 1), 2), 3),
        6) therefore: radical is delusional / insane.
        7) The insane should go to the insane asylum,
        8) therefore: the radical should be locked up.


 1) through 3) is the primary authoritarian circular-thought core,
 4) is a claim that conflicts with the circular core. 5) through 
 8) is the social reaction / attack upon the claim that threatens 
 the primary authoritarian thought core.  

 7) and 8) are not currently as entrained as 1) through 3) and
 5) to 6), but give it time. Once they are, as in the former 
 Soviet Union, mental hospitals will become internment camps 
 for political dissidents who will be  drugged  into a brain- 
 damaging stupor further "proving" the imbalanced mental state 
 of those who question the  authoritarian thought core. [4]


 A TYRANNY INVISIBLE

 Thought patterns that enslave the individual cannot be seen 
 by the eye. Only careful logical analysis can expose them, but 
 for those entrained to think  illogically -- to obey without 
 question -- these thought patterns remain invisible. A society 
 is bound by no chain stronger than the skillfully forged chain 
 of flawed thought that molds the beliefs of each person to fit 
 predictably into the master plan.  

 There is no means more ideal to this ends than for the govt to 
 control both education and the media. Such a system is in place, 
 and it's cranking out a population of "worker drones" en masse. 

 Key rules derived from the authoritarian thought entrainment 
 previously outlined are: 

   1) Trust only the authorities.
   2) Distrust of the authorities is a mental illness. 
   3) Distrust only those not representing the authorities.
   4) Trust of those who question is a sign of mental illness.

 It therefore follows that rules of thought that are antithetical 
 to authoritarian entrainment are: 

   1) Question authority. 
   2) Do not trust the actions and motives of authorities.

 In my own case, as I became a libertarian over several years of 
 independent study, I observed that the voice in my head that said 
 " NO ! We can only trust govt authorities," was my Social Studies 
 teacher and the pro-govt propaganda movies she played in my public 
 high school classes.  There I had received authoritarian thought 
 entrainment, which only after years of free inquiry and logical
 analysis was I able to see it and break free from it.  95% of 
 the population will not take the time necessary to break free. 

 The major reason people will not break free is that questioning 
 the govt-media line leads to social punishment. Those who seriously 
 question the role of govt and the validity of the govt-media news 
 feed are uniformly slapped with such  inquiry-halting  labels as 
 "right-wing fanatic," and "paranoid conspiracy-theory wacko," even 
 as overwhelming evidence supporting their questioning is offered. 
 
 The message is clear: "Obey govt without question or be cast out 
 and/or ultimately locked up." Most people will buckle under this
 intimidation and feel compelled to toe the govt-media line, if 
 only to preserve their reputation and social station.  It's a
 powerful form of psychological terrorism only a few can endure.  

 When the govt controls the "truth" through a servile media, when 
 the people are entrained to believe without question, the people 
 will not see the mental chains that bind them. Like happy sheep, 
 they will be led into a dark age of poverty and serfdom.  

 The allocation of resources and means of production will be re-
 directed from serving the consumers -- the people -- to serving the 
 govt's elite central planners and financiers -- the supreme landlords. 
 Such feudalism was the structure of society for centuries, prior to
 the explosion of widespread  prosperity  arising from the consumer-
 demand direction of production known as laissez-faire capitalism.


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 [1] Associated Press, 9/03/96: " Missile Attack a Favorite of 
 Conspiracy Theorists "

 [2] ABC News, 07/23/96 ( Yes, a major media source reported this, 
 and its source was the FBI; however, as soon as the govt says "no 
 missile" ABC will say "no missile," and will not dispute the govt's
 conclusion. After all, the eyewitness of over 100 people cannot be 
 more true than the almighty word of authority. Notice how major 
 media stories quickly become "rumors" once the authorities find 
 them contrary to their interests. ) 

 [3] The Washington Times. A1, 6/6/96: "Black Copters Over 
 Pittsburgh? It's just an Exercise." Also see a short essay
 by Ian Goddard:  http://www.erols.com/igoddard/copters.htm
      
 [4] "In the summer of 1984, Casimer Urban, Jr., was arrested 
 for protesting the Supreme Court decision on the Lafayette Park 
 "camping" regulation. .... Once arrested, Casimer told the magi-
 strate that he wanted to represent himself. Instead, the magi-
 strate appointed a public attorney who immediately suggested 
 that Cas be put into St. Elizabeth's [ mental ] Hospital. 

 The psychiatrists decided he was a paranoid schizophrenic 
 and injected him with Prolixin, which can cause the side-effect 
 of catatonia [and in rare cases permanent damage -- neuroleptic 
 malignant syndrome]. Cas was in danger of being kept in the 
 cuckoo's nest for good without ever standing trial." VOTESCAM, 
 p. 200-1. After much protest by friends, a professor of law took 
 Cas's case and got him out, saving him from compulsory catatonia. 
 There are many other cases simialr to this in the US.



