WE THE PEOPLE TAR - Critical Thinking - Minneapolis Independent

[ This is the 2nd in an ongoing series of WE THE PEOPLE TAR articles. To read the 1st article inthe series, follow this link - WE THE PEOPLE TAR - A true, grassroots, Non-Partisan Political Movement ]

With our initial introduction of our Cultural and Political Movement to the world accomplished, Critical Thinking is the very next highest priority principle that we would like to address.

WE THE PEOPLE TAR is now going to say something to you that no American Politician would ever dare say, "Don't believe anything we tell you... Don't believe anything we tell you until you can verify it for yourself with other sources that you trust and are able to defend it to anyone who would be critical of that position...

In other words, Think Critically! It is important that you take ownership of your own perception of reality. http://exm.nr/lwWQof One way to do this is through critical thinking. http://bit.ly/9veW8 (simpler) http://bit.ly/ycYLJ (complex) Critical Thinking is not about telling you what to think, it is about telling you how to think. http://bit.ly/iGGoVc

"Television images lull us into thinking that they are real, that they aren't iconic signs at all but realities. Since we see them, we trust them, often failing to realize that, like all signs, they have been constructed with a certain interest behind them." http://bit.ly/iIBsBA To take ownership of your perspective of reality, It is important that you recognize how to detect bias and propaganda in the Major media http://amzn.to/kMqz1i and http://bit.ly/iSwx1a .

The Censorship, Propaganda and Indoctrination of Major Corporate Media and the Government is much less effective when you defend your perspective of reality by Thinking Critically.

To protect yourself even further, you should also learn the propaganda techniques of Edward Bernays as they are practiced by your Government, Corporations and in Advertising, usually against your own best interests. http://bit.ly/hkXgr0 and http://bit.ly/bvEUlf and http://bit.ly/OXBSh

“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.”

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the Director of the USA Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1924 until 1972.

Along those same lines, WE THE PEOPLE TAR would like to advise you of long standing strategy of Governments to engage in "Bread and Circuses". That is to say they keep the General Public content and distracted by feeding and entertaining them. In Rome they literally provided staple foods and free entertainment in the form of Circuses which were then things such as gladiator fights and other entertainment that occurred in Public Coliseums. Today our government provides welfare, TV, Sports, Concerts, movies, etc as the current form of "Bread and Circuses" http://bit.ly/mlBLnJ

WE THE PEOPLE TAR also who like to warn you at this time of the Governments strategy of dealing with political dissent. One of the favorite strategies of American Government is to retaliate against political dissenters in a manner that gives them “plausible deniability”. Suddenly a political dissenter may find they are not as welcome in your neighborhood as they once were. The Zoning inspector suddenly cites the political dissenter for every violation they can think of. The police no longer give you a pass on minor violations.

Farther up the scale of retaliation, the political dissenters zoning variance is denied, their property taxes double or suddenly judges no longer rule in their favor. Suddenly neighbors and business associates stop inviting the political dissedent to events you have been invited to in the past. (And they don't call this conspiracy, they call it consensus)

"Wrong thinking is punishable" http://bit.ly/qSv76c

The next escalation in Government retaliation is the FBI COINTELPRO treatment. http://bit.ly/amHTM9 This involves the demonizing and discrediting of the leaders of political dissent so that there followers abandon them. WE THE PEOPLE TAR encourage you to read about what the FBI COINTELPRO group did involving Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.. http://bit.ly/pCFjW

WE THE PEOPLE TAR want all of WE THE PEOPLE to be aware of the methods and strategies our own government uses to manipulate us towards their will. Freedom is not Free.

For these reasons, WE THE PEOPLE TAR, especially asks persons who are of age but still living with their parents, just single or divorced with no children to get involved. Whereas others may have been critical of your life style, this may now be your single greatest asset to WE THE PEOPLE TAR. Without the time commitments of a spouse and family, you have the time to make a difference. Without a spouse and family, you do not have the requirement to work as much to provide for a family. And finally, without a spouse and family, you don’t have to worry that any retribution for your political activity can occur to a spouse and children. With all of these Assets, WE THE PEOPLE TAR would ask you to become passionate about our cause, redeeming your self in the eyes of some, perhaps finding fulfillment in our mutual pursuits and reward in knowing that you have restored and preserved what others have died for, and provided liberty and economic opportunity for future generations of Americans.

In closing, I would like to remind all who have agreed to join the WE THE PEOPLE TAR movement that “We have mutually pledged our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor” to the restoration of our Liberties and Country to the status envisioned and intended by our Founding Fathers.

I write this article with the same intentions as Thomas Paine http://ushistory.org/paine. I seek no leadership role. I seek only to help the American People find their own way using their own “Common Sense” http://amzn.to/kbRuar

Those were my thoughts.

Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking to read and reflect upon what I have written.

I mutually pledge my life, my fortune and my sacred honor to our mutual endeavors of restoring liberty and economic opportunity to WE THE PEOPLE as our Founding Fathers envisioned and intended.

In Liberty,

Don Mashak

The Cynical Patriot

http://twitter.com/dmashak