TV Guide

[Guest guest]

" Jolly Roger " <removingheads

Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:53:41 -0800 (PST)

TV Guide

 

The stolen election has mobilized thousands, because it attacked

democracy at it's most fundamental level. The basic democratic right

of voting has been stolen from the people, effectively changing the

citizens of a republic, into the subjects of a king. Bev Harris is the

heroine of the day, leading her troops in a valiant struggle to crush

the coup, unseat the usurper, and restore the mechanism that allows us

to control our own collective destiny by majority rule. She's fighting

the most noble of battles, and I'll help her anyway I can.

 

With evidence, righteousness, and all that is good on their side, one

would think that a victory for truth and justice was inevitable, but

unfortunately, the media has shut it down. Once again, the American

news media, which has dangerously fallen under the control of a few

people, has decided that Americans will simply not know the news. Your

letters to your " representatives " will be tossed in the trash, as will

your letters to a hundred newspaper editors. Your phone calls and

e-mails will be ignored, and any legal actions will be dismissed or

indefinitely delayed. They'll get away with it because the television

can remove it all from the minds of Americans. To the people of the

9-11 truth movement this isn't surprising, but many people in the vote

fraud movement have yet to discover that the truth is irrelevant. This

is not to imply that the efforts of activists are futile, and quite to

the contrary, our numbers are growing rapidly. The point is that in a

nation of 290 million people who are staring into the television, the

efforts of activists will seem a lot like " pissing against the tide, "

if the news industry decides to suppress your cause.

 

Therein lies the true power, and evil, of the television. With the

entire nation spending an average of four hours per day staring into

the idiot box, it really doesn't matter how many hours a thousand

people might work to expose the truth, because the television can

undermine all they've done in a matter of minutes. In this country,

what is truth, and what will become history, is decided by the

television, and not the facts.

 

About twenty years ago, Ronald Reagan " deregulated " the television

industry, and in less than a year, all of the networks, which were

then in genuine competition, were acquired by large corporations.

Sony, Disney, and General Electric bought ABC, NBC, and CBS, and FOX

was a struggling newcomer. The networks weren't bought because they

were profitable businesses. They were bought because their influence

is priceless. The television doesn't only decide who the next

president will be, but frighteningly, it also decides whether the

people will like him.

 

Naturally, any viewer will deny that the television has influenced his

thinking, just as anyone who shaves his head and sells flowers while

shaking a tambourine will deny he was ever brainwashed. Of course, the

influence of television on behavior or thinking will vary from person

to person, but the reason many Americans aren't selling flowers while

shaking a tambourine, is only because the television hasn't told them to.

 

Before the advent of television, neighbors and entire communities

would spend a lot of time talking to each other. They would convey

news, gossip and information between each other, share their opinions,

and debate the facts. That natural social process, which happens to be

crucial to democracy, has been replaced in America by isolated

families receiving all of their information from the television, to

the extreme point of these families hardly even talking amongst

themselves. A second generation of Americans is now being raised to

accept without question that the TV is the source of all truth, and

will provide the definitive answers to all questions. This amounts to

an almost divine power being placed in the hands of a few

billionaires, and they've used it to remove what little power and

influence remained in the hands of the people. Although the television

networks still compete for ratings, there is no competition among them

to bring you accurate news, or varying points of view, because what

these billionaires all agree on, is that there are many things they

don't want Americans to know.

 

Any nationwide cause or movement will only proceed slowly, if it

proceeds at all, without the help of at least one television network.

When truths concerning mass murder and stolen elections are concerned,

Americans cannot wait the years required for this truth to spread by

word of mouth. The television and news media share the guilt of these

crimes by refusing to publicize the truth, and attacking those who do.

Their efforts are directly responsible for the demise of democracy in

America, and the senseless deaths of thousands of people. The

television is the enemy of justice, truth and freedom, and it should

be treated as such. And it isn't only television news that's hurt us,

because the rest of their programming is used to shape the opinions of

Americans on a variety of issues, and divert their attention from real

problems that threaten us all. They subtly influence your thinking by

constantly supporting one idea or another, until that thinking becomes

common belief, and part of American culture. By now you should already

be boycotting everything advertised on TV, but just by looking at the

thing, you're helping to perpetuate their lies by giving it the

dignity of your attention, and you're also allowing it to shape our

culture, and alter our lives.

 

We need to develop a new culture, and it needs to include recognizing

the television as the enemy that it is. We can break the bonds of

corporate mind control by simply refusing to own a television. You can

neutralize the enemy's most powerful weapon, by simply taking it out

of your house. I haven't allowed a television in my home for more than

a decade, and I haven't missed it for a minute. Getting rid of it was

easy once I nurtured the hatred that the device deserves. I still

can't avoid the influence of television on everyone around me, and

maybe I'm more apt to notice it because I don't watch the thing

myself, but the television has such a grip on this nation's thinking

that most Americans can't imagine life without one, and won't believe

anything unless the TV also supports the idea. Between the war on

drugs, the war on crime, and now the war on terror, the government and

the corporations have used this fact to take whatever they want from

the citizens of this country, usually by scaring people into

sacrificing their freedom and constitutional rights in exchange for

" safety. " The television has also attacked labor unions, and now wages

and working conditions are on the decline. It has convinced Americans

there is validity in ridiculous economic theories that claim to

benefit the poor by giving tax cuts to the rich. It has left you

defenseless and unarmed, by convincing you that private gun ownership

is killing us all. People only believe this non-sense because they see

it on TV. In our society, it is the aspiration of millions to simply

" be on TV. " It is revered as a God, trusted to spout the truth, and it

dictates to the majority how they should respond to all issues. If

you're an activist in a movement that's being suppressed by the news,

being interviewed on television will only give the enemies of truth

the opportunity to make you look like an ass in front of millions of

people. If there was any other result of the interview, it wouldn't be

aired.

 

It's not entertainment, it's mind control, and it's turning your

children into idiots by preventing them from using their own

imagination. Also, if you're more than forty years old, you're old

enough to have noticed a drastic change in our society and our culture

in the last twenty years. This is a result of the takeover of the

television by the multi-national corporations. If you're reading this

letter, you have a computer and an internet connection, and access to

real news and information from a variety of sources. You don't need

the television for anything, and by owning one, you're supporting the

suppression of truth, and corporate rule of America. You can begin to

pry America free of the television's grip by addressing the device

with a different attitude. We need to enforce a new cultural standard

that scorns those who share responsibility for the loss of our

independence. We need to ridicule people who watch television, and

blame them for helping to propagate the many myths the television has

created to steal our freedom, our wealth, and our democracy. If a

million people cancelled their cable subscriptions the corporations

would worry, but they won't start telling the truth as long as

everyone is still swallowing the lies.

 

Live your life in freedom. Smash your television, and find something

useful and rewarding to do with your time. The first step toward

freedom is freeing your mind.

 

— Jolly Roger