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To: long-gone who wrote (86840)	6/13/2002 2:32:29 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116770

An interesting story about the wicked ways of man. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. The extent to which we are deceived by corruption, official and unofficial is astounding. It seems to underscore the the root psychopathia of some people who aspire to offices of control. As in politicos, government employees and other officers of execution of the ostensible public good. With a little ingenuity on their part, it is almost impossible to prove, get people to assume their wrong, or to wrench these shady operators from their posts. The system has emplaced them with the assumption that they must, (since it should be the nature of their job), have only the proper exeution of it in mind, and not be corrupt. This bland assumption, no matter how often proved wrong and how widely, (Serpico et al), is hard to shake. All propaganda seems to contrast the minions with the most polar of groups in the popular mind, the criminal set. The fact that they might not be so far apart, never occurs to the other group that can do no wrong, the politicos. The methodology, of "proper" action of these military departments of government is so routinely deceptive that the public scarcely seems to realize they are hoodwinked on a massive scale. For instance, for 25 years of telecasting and radio broadcasting of the speeches of Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader in Northern Ireland, no one realized amongst the larger population that they were hearing neither Mr. Adam's actual voice nor his words! British Mill intelligence inserted an actor to do voice overs of weak, conciliatory speeches that were non-controversial. Where he was yelling at the top of his lungs, "Those bloody brits are no better than us!", an actor softly intoned to a recorder, "While blood of brits is shed we realize no better than they that...." (In order to fool lip readers as well, they rarely showed his face directly ..) So widely are we propagandized and lulled to sleep that to say it is difficult to say that the truth is ever told, or how to distinguish it. Since it is such a wide spread conspiracy of governments and politicos to lie, and lie absolutely professionally, it is hard to define when it is being done for the ostensible public good, is in fact good, or is a matter of excessive corruption i.e. in the case of Nixon, let's say. In this atmosphere of uncertainty of truth, the routine the suspicion of which ordinarily the sphere of clinical paranoiacs, it is easy to see that we should actually suspect that public pronouncements are the cover story, and that there is political intent or corruption in all publishment. To return briefly to a point made in earlier posts, this is the machinery of absolute power, that so easily intoxicates those who seek it, and so quickly blurs the line between right and wrong for those in possession of it. We have put in place with only lip service at checks and balances the machinery of autocracy that Kings of old, so imbued with God-Like authority by our histories, only dimly dreamed of in their wildest imagination. EC<:-}