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what has changed?

Sun Sep 15 17:25:58 2002
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what has changed?
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 11:17:24 -0700

Back in 1953, John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff for the New York
Times, was asked to give a toast to the independent press before the New
York Press Club. What follows is a portion from his toast:

"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. 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 the paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. Or
quite possibly, I'd be dead."

"The business of 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.
What folly is this, toasting to 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, whores. Nothing more."
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A former top Communist Party member, Joseph Z.Kornfedder, revealed in
1955:

"Now as to the United Nations. If you were, lets say, a building
engineer and someone were to show you a set of blueprints about a
certain building, you would know from those blueprints how that building
was going to look. Organizational "blueprints" can be read the same way.
I need not be a member of the United nations Secretariat to know that
the UN "blueprint" is a Communist one. I was at the Moscow Headquarters
of the World Communist party for nearly three years and was aquainted
with most of the top leaders, and, of course I was also a leading party
worker. I went to their colleges; I learned their patters of operations,
and if i see that pattern anywhere, I can recognize it.

>From the point of view of its master designers meeting at Dumbarten Oaks
and Bretton Woods which included such masterful agents as Alger Hiss,
Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, and others, the UN was, and is, not
a failure. They and the Kremlin masterminds never intended the UN as a
peace-keeping organization. What they had in mind was a fancy and
colossal Trojan horse under the wings of which their smaller agencies
could more effectivly operate."
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"The American People will never knowingly adopt Socialism, But under the
name of Liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist
program until one day America will be a Socialist Nation without knowing
how it happened."

Norman Thomas, For many years the US Socialist Party's Candidate for
President of the USA.
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VOTING EXERCISE "It is time to elect the leader of a great nation, and
you have been presented with the following candidates:

CANDIDATE 'A'
A well-known critic of government, this man has been involved in tax
protest movements, and has openly advocated secession, armed rebellion
against the existing national government, and even the overthrow of that
government. He is a known member of a militia group that was involved
in a shootout with law enforcement authorities. He opposes gun control
efforts of the present national government, as well as restrictions on
open immigration into this country. He is a businessman who as earned
his fortune from such businesses as alcohol, tobacco, retailing, and
"smuggling."

CANDIDATE 'B'
A decorated army war veteran, this man is an avowed nonsmoker and
dedicated public health advocate. His public health interests include
the fostering of medical research and his dedication to eliminating
cancer. He opposes the use of animals in conducting such research. He
has supported restrictions on the use of asbestos, pesticides, and
radiation, and favors government determined occupational health and
safety standards, as well as the promotion of such foods as whole-grain
bread and soybeans. He is an advocate of government gun-control
measures. An ardent opponent of tobacco, he has supported increased
restrictions on both the use of and advertising for tobacco products.
Such advertising restrictions include: [1] not allowing tobacco use to
be portrayed as harmless or a sign of masculinity; [2] not allowing such
advertising to be directed to women; [3] not drawing attention to the
low nicotine content of tobacco products; and, [4] limitations as to
where such advertisements may be made. This man is a champion of
environmental and conservationist programs, and believes in the
importance of sending troops into foreign countries in order to maintain
order therein.

PLEASE SELECT THE CANDIDATE FOR WHICH YOU WOULD VOTE:

CANDIDATE 'A' _____
CANDIDATE 'B' _____

The combined vote total for these two years (4 classes) is as follows:

Candidate "A" 47 votes 25%
Candidate "B" 141 votes 75%

After collecting all the ballots, the professor informed the students
that Candidate 'A' is a composite of the "founding fathers" (e.g., Sam
Adams, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Patrick Henry,
etc., etc.) while Candidate 'B' is Adolph Hitler

(see Robert Proctor's book, THE NAZI WAR ON CANCER).

An interesting follow-up occurred in one of these classes last year. In
the "commerce clause" segment of constitutional law, the students were
discussing the Schechter case - in which the Supreme Court struck down
the New Deal's National Industrial Recovery Act. After describing this
Act in some detail, the professor went on to inform his students just
how popular state collectivism was throughout the world: Stalin, Hitler,
Mussolini, and Franco and Roosevelt being the better known examples; and
of how Hitler and Mussolini had been revered by many renowned people
throughout the world, including Gandhi, Churchill, etc., etc.

At this point, one student interrupted: "I don't see how you can say
that. How could a man like Adolph Hitler have been popular with so many
people?" The professor leaned over the podium and responded: "you tell
me...just two weeks ago, 78% of you in this class voted for him." In
about twenty seconds, the room became unbelievably silent.
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“the state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of
the people….as long as government is perceived as working for the
benefit of children, the people happily will endure almost any
curtailment of liberty.” Adolph Hitler
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• you have to feel sorry for them and future low-IQ morons.. — Dick Eastman, Sun Sep 15 21:02