by Hugh Manatee Wins » Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:29 am
Jeff wrote<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>I'm not an absolutist with respect to free speech. I believe speech has a cost, and irresponsible speech can be costly. So I measure my own words.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Jeff, you are right to remind us yet again to 'respect an implied social context.'<br><br>BamaBecky, I've been in your position and learned from it.<br><br>DE, thank you for admitting how large a target Larouche is. <br>You and I had an argument once over Larouche but I learned something about being more careful with my posts and also about focus, as in, >readers only have so much bandwith for discernment and discrediting chaff is going up so focus and get cogent.<<br><br>Principle of psychological warfare:<br>'People need visible targets for their frustrations.' And we all fall into this pattern so easily. <br><br>(I swear this board is an ideal cointelpro training ground.<br>"Watch this, I'm going to randomly alternate using the terms 'Jew,' 'Israeli,' and 'Zionist.' Just watch them go at each other. Yeehaw!") <br><br>Don't you all think false-flag 'neonazis' showed up to poison the atmosphere? I do.<br><br>I recall without a grudge, DE, you and I had a curfuffle over Larouche when I was unregistered as 'Watchful Citizen.' <br>You accused me of being way too approving of Larouche in a post (naive, actually) and challenged me to deny being in his organization which you or a friend had some terrible personal experience with involving baseball bats. <br><br>Gawd, that got messy and complicated. I hesitate to bring it up but the episode is quite illustrative of <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>how easy it is for different levels of education/understanding/vocabulary/emphasis to be a vehicle for sowing distrust and division. Isn't this, in fact, exactly how the elite keep the lower and middle classes from uniting against them?The GOP-CIA-CFR play this card to their advantage leaving college-educated liberals wondering how they became the bad guys to so many of the less-educated.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br>So this thread seems to be yet another time to clear the air at this over-informed and over-vigilant board.<br><br>I hope you (DE) would have a healthier respect for avoiding personalized accusations against BBecky. I now certainly have a healthier respect for being clear about what I embrace as opposed to what I'd like to analyze. I'm not so laissez-faire about where info comes from since our go around and warn people of the dark side of a website like truthseeker.co.uk when they present the light side, just as you did with Larouche albeit with a higher heat-to-light ratio than I thought warranted. Guess baseball bats will do that to your perspective.<br><br>So I don't accuse a poster of being a bullshit artist or scorn them for having only part of the recipe. I merely warn them of the turds I've seen at the bottom of the soup they want to share with us.<br><br>Like-<br>Greg Szymanski at ArcticBeacon.com recently revealed his stripes as a disinfo artist by garbling the Bush-Nazi connection and I warned a local alternative paper running Greg's 9/11 articles of this tricky discrediting tactic.<br><br>So, BamaBecky, I sympathize with your Eustace Mullins situation where you were interested in the economics history and ended up getting demonized for the stuff you didn't know. By posting a lengthy 9/11-related Larouche essay and commenting on what I thought his EIR group "got right" about cryptocracy and its driving history of economics along with how the Bush CIA locked him up, I got identified with the uglier side of him -gay and Jew-bashing. And because I knew (or could articulate) about some of it, there was distrust that I didn't know ALL of it. This plays into the hands of those who don't want us to know anything on a topic. <br><br>Worse, DE's accusation and the post-neoNazi visitor vigilant atmosphere led another board member to view my postings as 'code words' and accusing me of even worse so it snowballed terribly with me uncorking in capital letters in frustration just like you.<br><br>I even put off registering to 'own' my postings because I didn't want have to change usernames (as DE did by trying the 'veritas' route) and thereby affirm the unfounded accusations. Instead I remained as unregistered 'Watchful Citizen' for a couple of months to exonerate myself. <br><br>What an energy drain. COINTELPRO accomplished!<br>Which I think is is the useful learning part of the episode.<br><br>At the time this board had been visited by people touting neo-Nazi pro-Zundel attitudes and the atmosphere was a cointelpro wet dream, suspiciously vigilant. Bama, you accurately illustrate the effect of suspicion when you are hesitant to even broach a topic. That is exactly the intended effect of professional disruptors and we can innocently fall in to the same trap without spooks pushing us. The Mossad, ADL, CIA and Chip Berlet have used this fear of being labeled anti-semitic to their advantage and we all must be less knee-jerk judgemental about others and less thin-skinned ourselves to not play into their hands.<br><br>DE is very knowledgable and I always enjoy reading his posts but he is also extremely judgemental about other board members (not uncommon here as you might have noticed) even to the point of being quite hard on himself if he misstates a fact. That gave me some insight into the intellectual rigor DE ascribes to and his impatience with even hearing about Larouche. Well, alright.<br><br>DE, please lighten up on those of us who only know part of a story, ok? There's a steep learning curve to parapolitics and many discrediting booby traps have been set for newbies who pick up a topic. And just getting info is a major accomplishment these days no matter how it is gotten. So encourage it and help it along by warning of pitfalls you've learned.<br><br>I admire your knowledge base and benefit from it but getting chewed up for not knowing as much as you is unneccessary at the same time that I share your frustration with wading through the half truths, muddled thinking, and disinfo traps.<br><br>With the Pentagon attacking the internet and discussion boards we should probably respond two ways:<br>1) by counterintuitively being LESS inclined to ascribe guilt-by-association in general since this is exactly how info and whistleblowers get neutralized in the info war <br>2) while still attempting to use the most credible source for info we want to share to avoid further debasing the credibility of info the Powers That Be want discredited.<br><br>Fight paradox with paradox, I suppose.<br><br>end DE Larouche redux.<br><br>There is the built in paradox of partisan interest/hate producing critical information on a topic which is partly valid and partly skewed due to predisposition.<br><br>As in,<br>dirt on Dems comes from Repubs<br>dirt on Repubs comes from Dems.<br><br>So info on banking is out there from those who see 'Jewish' bankers. The Mullins problem.<br><br>So info on Mossad is out there from those who see 'Jewish' New World Order. The Paul Irving problem. (I think.)<br><br>I think this site can maturely handle weeding out the good info regardless of where it comes from without going into the 'Code Word Spins.' AS LONG AS WE DON'T GO COINTELPRO ON EACH OTHER.<br><br>oops. My capitals key accidentally locked. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 3/1/06 9:40 pm<br></i>