posted 12-21-2002 12:55 PM            

Hello? Are you there? (Can't tell.) Am I getting through?

I need to give you a warning. Can you understand?

The information you needed did not get through. From the time just after you went to school as a kid ... to about five minutes ago ... the information you have received has been mostly lies.

All the people I talk to ... who can understand what I'm saying ... they're all about sixty years old. (Hello!) Much younger than that can't understand. The information you needed to thrive and prosper did not get through.

I think it's the schools. Everyone should get out of the schools. Don't believe what they're saying. You've been taught to take bribes and keep your mouth shut. Don't do it.

It used to be just the opposite. When I was twenty, the old people - of whom I guess I am one now - didn't have a clue. Maybe it was the Beatles? Or marijuana? Or the CIA LSD experiments? Or all three.

Now, it seems the only people who notice what's going on are old and decrepit like me. Oh sure, there are indymedia protests and such, but most kids don't pay attention to their freedom evaporating in a landslide of phony patriotism, corporate hogwash raining down on us like prouncements from God to Moses on the mountain. I guess that's true of all the generations, though. Most don't pay attention.

I've noticed in my transit through this life that music seems to imbed itself in your brain most in your late twenties. Something about fluidity of the inner ear creating a free-flowing balance that allows sound, particularly music, to work its wonderful way down into your synapses. So all your life you're stuck with whatever you listened to then. I'm lucky. I got the "Marrakech Express." And Gil Scott-Heron's "Johannesburg." Some people got the BeeGees, poor souls. But after that - almost everything after that, from David Bowie on - is corporate rock.

Approved by the suits in the boardroom. Very little human about it. Strictly a business deal. Not really healthy stuff.

The point being: Back when the music was good, it seemed that public issues were more widely understood. Nixon didn't get away with his crap.

Today, he would. Bush is getting away with his crap. I blame it on the music, on corporate control of creative options, mostly manifested through the rigidity of schools, who focus on creating lackey stooges rather than individuals with integrity. In fact, you probably never heard that in your passage through schools: individuals with integrity.

The information you needed did not get through. It was diverted for the profits of a few. The misery of the millions was substituted. Teachers became businessmen. The contentment of civilization was diverted for the profits of a few.

How can you identify the point at which it happened? You can track it from the point in the late '60s or early '70s when the percentage of hourly pay began to not rise in relation to the Gross National Product, or maybe that point in the late '50s when women started going to work (I'm not saying that's bad, but I am saying it changed the financial picture, and made big bucks for the power elite.) Wages have been essentially frozen since 1972. Sure, the numbers reflected by inflation have risen, but prices have risen much more drastically than wages. All that money has been stolen by the power elite, and all this time the big newspapers (which are owned by the power elite) have been saying everything was OK. The politicians, too.

The information you needed did not get through.

I don't think I'm just acting old, here. I think I am describing a phenomenon that actually happened, and I feel the need to try to warn you - you folks younger than myself - that everything you have been taught has been twisted for the purpose of profit. And if you say that, well, profit is the purpose of life, then that will be a sure sign that you have in fact been twisted.

The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave is really a vicious corporate entity that has been making war on the rest of the world for the entire 20th century ... oh, not the people, of course. People are decent everywhere, if they have enough to eat. No, not the people, the movers and shakers. From the rape of the Philippines in 1899 to the target practice in Iraq in 2002, America has been at war with everyone, but has managed to convince its own populace that it was fighting for freedom. Yeah, the freedom to rip off everybody else in the world. Did you ever notice all America's best allies - like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt, Colombia - are vicious dictatorships. Didn't that ever puzzle you? Doesn't it bother you when America has to bribe other countries to get them to agree.

The information you needed did not get through.

Did you realize Bush's grandfather was once busted for sending money to Hitler. Check it out. You must might see how the Nazi line survived all these years - no, not Hitler himself, but the vicious, deceptive, racist philosophy - is now in full bloom in Washington. If you don't see that - and say something about it very soon and very loud - the price you are going to pay is going to be much higher than you thought. In fact, you may not be able to pay such a high price in your entire lifetime.

Did you realize that all this talk about God that you hear from so many people is really just Freud's concept of transference? Most of us grow up in the safety of our parents' house and from the time we are little kids have an authority figure to protect us from danger; then when we grow up, we fail to leave that childhood mode and adopt some imaginary parent in the sky that enables us to continue our children throughout our lives. It is this kind of behavior that makes us so vulnerable to the lethal lies of politicians and priests who say they are going to lead us toward freedom and prosperty, not to mention eternal bliss. And then they molest us.

Wake up! The information you needed did not get through.

Now we all find ourselves in a situation where the country has been turned into a killer police state by a cynical band of petronazis - really, the 235 families who have ruled the world since the time of Charlemagne - who have plans turn herd us all into camps, all those people who do not have a salary of $100,000 per year or more, and who can contribute much of it in the form of bribes to the power elite. The powers that be have decided there are too many people in the world and the world's population needs to be reduced by THREE QUARTERS in order for them to live comfortable, pollution free lives.

So there you have the reason for what's going on: war in almost every nation on earth. Cuts down the population nicely. Especially kids.

It's good to kill kids in a war because that obliterates future generations, which is what they try to do when trying to reduce populations. They're doing a lot of that in Israel nowadays.

Diseases in medicines. Very effective at killing large numbers, as has been demonstrated by the successes with smallpox and first hepatitis B vaccines containing HIV in both Africa and the gay communities in New York and San Francisco.

Psychotronic devices. Maximize diseases in people, makes them take more medicines (good for Eli Lilly profits) and makes them die sooner (saves space).

Poison the food supply. Maybe this started with fluoride, a nuke waste byproduct that they had to find a use for. Now we have aspartame, invented and purveyed by one Donald Rumsfeld. They say if used long enough it will give you the same symptoms as heart trouble, or, come to think of it, psychotronic devices.

And have you heard about the list of designer diseases? Some say West Nile virus is the latest success. But there's Mad Cow (and CWD, CJD, Alzheimer's and others), ebola, hanta ... hey, when it comes to eliminating lives, they spare no expense.

The information you needed did not get through.

You have access to more information than any other generation on Earth, yet you are the most poorly educated generation in history.

Past a certain point in time ... I'm not sure when it was ... but it has something to do with TV: if you grew up with TV, chances are excellent you're not really a real human being, you're a TV character and your life is some sick sitcom in which you are totally powerless ... and clueless.

Past a certain point in time ... you can see the progression in the degeneration of American literature throughout the 20th century ... past that point and you didn't get the information to make you self-reliant, you didn't get Emerson, you didn't get a respect for your neighbors and a disbelief in politicians. Most of all ... perhaps ... you didn't get all those good old journalists who told you to check both sides of the story. There are none of those journalists left now.

Otherwise, the information you needed would have gotten through.

The people now who are aware of the civilization-busting measures now taking place, at least the ones I see, are all very old and gray. The kids aren't here. Because of this the future is a lot bleaker than it ought to be.

The information they needed did not get through.


John Kaminski is a writer who lives in Florida and as a consequence is surrounded by a lot of old zombies with good tans.

posted 12-21-2002 01:39 PM            

Dumb down the music, news, magazines, television, schools...ad nauseaum and you dumb down the people.

All the better to make the people cattle and mindless consumers.

Chase the false gods of the flesh while the Elites forge the chains around our ankles.

posted 12-21-2002 02:00 PM            

Mech and I traded off some bands and musicians that are not kissing the butts of coroprate coke sniffers. They are still there. You have to dig a little deeper.

posted 12-23-2002 11:06 AM            

Personally, I don't think the drugs in school are a big issue. The issue is what do the kids do while they are smoking weed. Do they watch gory movies, listen to musical fluff, or lay around and do nothing? TPTB want you to either be an obedient robot and do nothing but vote for Bush, or whacked out on cocaine, heroin, and alcohol. That is why there is there is this big push by the government against Pot and Ecstasy. They are a danger to TPTB. Speed, cocaine, heroin, and alcohol are nice obiedient drugs. They are hardly mentioned by the Partnership for a Drug Free America, who are funded by major alcohol and drug companies.

The next 2 years are going to be the litmus test for the future. you say we have 2 ways, and they are both negative. I will have to disagree.

Option 1 - Microchips in our bodies, genetic material in smallpox shots, eternal and infinite war, crap music and movies, media under CIA control, space weaponry, cashless society, retina and fingerprint scans, republican and democrats saying the same thing, religious fundamentalism, banned cloning, internet policing, more cocaine, speed, and heroin, $5.00 a gallon of gas, pesticides, drugs, and hormones in food, chemtrails, tail-gating drivers, and finally economic failure.

posted 12-23-2002 11:13 AM            

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