The psychological operations conducted by the government of conditioning the public through covert mind control and subliminal influence has been documented for many years. This continued throughout Ron Paul's presidential campaign, and now that there is talk of a Ron Paul run in 2012 , even on Paul's own website, with 94% of respondants favoring a 2012 run in the latest poll, establishment pundits on the so-called right are amping up a marginalization campaign of Dr. Paul and his supporters.
Last week, in a bizzare stretch that would make Orwell blush, Hannity called Ron Paul supporters extremists and claimed that the military industrial complex is what gives us freedom of speech.
Hannity had previously told Chuck Norris that Ron Paul is nuts after Norris spoke favorably of Paul.
In his thorough August 2009 article FBI informants operating openly in our midst, Alex Ansary includes a clip where Hannity is confronted regarding his association with neo-nazi FBI informant Hal Turner.
Glenn Beck, meanwhile, who has been touted as a potential running mate by Sarah Palin, is on record saying that he "hates 9/11 victims families for asking questions". Palin's lead John McCain went so far as to blame the rise of Hitler on Ron Paul's ideology. Even supposed truth seekers are demonizing Paul, with 9/11 truth advocate Webster Tarpley insisting that Hitler's critque of FDR policies are the same as those espoused by modern-day libertarians.
It might be helpful to revisit one of the more notorious instances of this smear campaign: when Glenn Beck likened Ron Paul supporters to terrorists. As PrisonPlanet.com reported at the time, complaints flooded CNN in the aftermath of that broadcast.
Here is a summary with partial transcript and analysis of that program which aired during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Beck: "When you enlist in the U.S. military, you have take an oath that says you're gonna support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies - foreign and domestic - on this program, we talk a lot on this program about the foreign threats. Maybe tonight we should spend some time on the growing domestic one.
"..it feels, at least to me, like our leaders reflect an America that most of us dont even recognize. Well here's the point tonight. [screen reads "THERE ARE ENEMIES AMONG US"] While our foreign enemies are the obvious ones, the physical threat may be developing domestically as well!
And here's how I got there. As I told you last week, Ron Paul raised over 4 million dollars in one day. That's huge news. His supporters raised the cash on november the 5th to commemorate Guy Fawkes. This guy was a British terrorist who tried to overthrow the government by blowing up parliament and killing everybody in it.
[screen reads 'DIVIDED WE FALL']
"Paul's supporters called the donations, and I'm quoting, a "money bomb". Fawkes was caught the very last minute, some say, with his hand on a torch about to light the gunpowder under parliament. Now the vast majority of Paul's supporters take this little metaphor the way its intended, as a rallying cry to create a dramatic political shift. It's really not the way I would go, ya know, tying my movement in with a historical terrorist attack, in, especially post 911 america, but hey. You know, Im a libertarian at heart. I get it! You raise money however you want, as long as you arent blowing other people up.
"But America, here's what you need to know tonight. Ron Paul supporters are tapping in to something that's very real. It's something that I've talked about on this program for a very long time. The rising tide of disenfranchisement in this country; and it's coming from all sides of the political spectrum. If that feeling of disenfranchisement leads to political discussion, then our system works perfectly. But if fringe elements turn that disenfranchisement into violence, we endanger the freedoms we're supposedly all fighting for.
[Neocon war shills David Horowitz and Jonathan Sandys, great grandson of Winston Churchill, are introduced as guests.]
Beck: "Jonathan let me start with you. Guy Fawkes as I understand it he is basically an um, old timey uh, Timothy Mcveigh.
[2:55] Sandys: sorry say that again?
Beck: That he is England's version in the 1600s of Timothy Mcveigh, except his bomb didnt work. He's a terrorist is he not?
["A nation divided" appears on screen]
Sandys: "Yes, yes yes- he was a terrorist very much so. He had a very clear set of views. Yes he was a Catholic and wanted to return Britain to a Catholic realm. And he was backed by the Pope in Rome to blow up the parliament, blow up James the 1st and his governments".
Beck: "Okay."
Sandys: "and overthrow, and then have a Catholic um, a Catholic king reinstated".
Beck: "Alright. now one of his big things and I think this is where it ties into today, one of his big things was, he felt that nobody was listening to him; that the government wouldn't respond.
We felt that way and that is why we disbanded from the uh, from great britian in the 1700's as well because we felt like the king wasnt listening to us.
Do you sense at all that this is the kind of thing that is going on in Great Britain and in America right now?"
[Sandys gives a short reply and Beck returns to Horowitz, warning:
"It's not just the left this time it's also the right. I mean Ron Paul supporters are also the right...
and thats from people saying... Bush has not told the American people the truth on government spending, on the border, and even when it comes to the war.."
Horowitz: "...youre right there's a strain of isolationism and anarchy in the American tradition which uh, Ron Paul is tapping into , um I think it's very significant that he chose Guy Fawkes uh, as an image. uh There are plenty of unfortunately libertarian websites which are indistinguishable from the anti American left these days. So, lewrockwell.com and others like that, they uh,
totally in bed with the islamofascists um, and have turned against this country."
Beck returns to Sandys who promotes Bush and Blair's "war against terrorists" , continuing
"we are now looking at a backlash where everybody is saying oh we got to get out of Iraq now and we cant look at Iran, and everything like that. Theres a total loss of traditional values in this country, for continuing and finishing what we start. Once you begun something you've gotta stop it"
It's ironic that a British pundit would claim that his promotion of undeclared endless wars represents "traditional American values", when they are in fact the polar opposite of what the founders advocated.
Furthermore, Sandy's clearly slanted anti-Catholic version of the Guy Fawkes gunpowder plot, which is at odds with what the British National Archives report and recent British Daily Mail editorials on the matter, further detracts from his credibility. Not that he should have much to begin with, being the great grandson and prmotor of someone who advocated starvation and mass murder.
Pat Buchanan, in his article Churchill spurred the decline of the west, outlines some of Churchill's documented barbarism and warmongering:
- "More than any other British leader, in 1914 and 1939, Churchill lusted for war and pushed his country to turn two European wars into world wars... And history records that those wars, that together took the lives of perhaps a hundred million Europeans... And it was Winston Churchill who led the West in its advance to barbarism. As First Lord he instituted a starvation blockade that violated all the rules of civilized warfare and brought death to 100 times as many German civilians as there were Belgian victims of the Kaiser’s army. Churchill’s purpose: it is, he said "to starve the whole population, men, women and children, old and young, wounded and sound, into submission." Four months after Germany laid down her arms, the starvation blockade remained in force. And Churchill rose in Parliament to exult: "We are enforcing the blockade with rigour and Germany is near starvation"
- In 1920, as Secretary for War and Air, Churchill, enraged by Iraqi resistance to British colonial rule, declaimed, "I am strongly in favor of using poison gas against uncivilized tribes to spread a lively terror."
Beck concluded the sick segment with a question "OK- where am I wrong? The Ron Paul revolution. I think it's meant to be a catchy slogan, but I fear some of his fringe supporters are taking the word 'Revolution' too literally. Agree or disagree?
As many tea party movements have been hijacked and populated by pro-war neocon republicans newly opposed to 'Obama's big government' after supporting eight years of Bush's big government, it's important to keep focused on the true enemies and interlopers whose only goal is to promote their brand of statism and tyranny.
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Ron Paul was in 2008 and will be if he runs again, the best candidate hands down. Look at Dr. Paul's voting record for his lengthy stance on issues for yourself. Funny how the Main stream news outlets are begging for his opinion on the Economy and Constitution, after such a ignore/smear campaign during the primaries and general election.
"Ron Paul is the most honest man in Congress" - John McCain
"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people" - John Adams
The writer off this article needs to get past the demonization of the movment in the past-
it is now regarded with credibilty- as the media regards Dr. Paul as a pundit now ( hence so many appearances on media chanels-
the heads of the REPUBLICAN PARTY will not be able to shut him out this time
sitting around complaining about the treatment of the past- will only marginalize YOU!
Put your shoulder to the wagon and push-
negativity will not support The cause.
Besides- the media is only deciminating the information that the KINGMAKERS of the republican party told them-
now the media knows that Ron Paul has the attention of the world-
An Icon like that boost ratings- and that is something the MEdia will not listen too
It's sad how one-sided and frankly, lacking this article is. I was waiting to read something of actual substance to counter all the slander that has been "reported" above. It never came! It would have been a very sound wrap up to reach a conclusion included some sort of fact, perhaps on Ron Paul's actual words, his actions, what he and his supporters actually believe in, rather than the words of some paid media tyrants ridiculous campaign to smudge the only one on the stage promoting a real change (back to the constitution, individual rights, sound economic policies, and real facts).
Paul has a bill going through the House and Senate right now to end the FED. If you don't know what this movement is about or how it will free you from the confines of inflation and top down control of the money supply, please google it and pick up Paul's book. There is something going on, and Paul is the only one talking about it.
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I think whoever wins the GOP nomination in 2012 (I hope Tim Pawlenty), he/she should pick Ron Paul as his/her running mate. On college campuses, he was by far the second most popular candidate in 2008 besides Obama (a key to the youth vote). I like his challenging the military-industrial complex (it needs auditing BAD). As a doctor, I think Paul has great credibility on health care. Ron Paul gets people excited and would be a much better choice than Palin or anyone else.
I hate neoconservative pundits like Hannity. And neoliberal pundits like James Carville. They're political pimps.
I will never be convinced about Beck's self-proclaimed libertarianism. He has rode the good doctors coat tails to become very popular, but he is still a neocon at heart. He has so many fooled.
Ron Paul is a bible thumping, homophobic, racist, sexist douche bag. He would destroy the country given the chance.
Libertarians are idealistic but politically naive. The way they bend over for Ron Paul is unseemly, and embarrassing for all concerned.
Ron Paul is by far the best presidential material since JFK. I am Christian, and will say a prayer for this man, who I believe would be more than a puppet if elected.
excellent ... the attacks of ron paul come from the corporate sellouts. these talking heads in the media that present managed news as well as our bought and paid of government in each branch do not allow you to question the military expansion of the empire across the planet which is designed to allow for the growth of corporate interests. If folks were blind to the way things work before there is no excuse any more after what we saw in the banker bail outs and what we are seeing now with the government under the guise of healthcare mandating taxpayers participation in the health insurance industry.
the system is busted. no need to send good people into the broken system thinking any good will come of it. We need term limits and campaign finance reform to cut off the special interests effectively writing the laws designed to regulate them and we need to cut the purse strings to the war machine and government spending via the first step of auditing the FED.
Power to the people.
i think it makes more sense to decide what we want as a platform than picking personalities ...this is the trap that snares us each cycle.
the people need to dictate what the platform is and we can find someone who agrees and push that candidate not the other way around. because at the end of the day that is what the special interests have done. they know where these guys stand before they are pushed onto us in an "election"
Let's pretend for a moment that our votes actually counted and we no longer had to vote on electronic vote-tampering and unauditable machines... that each puppet for the past 5 decades hasn't been carefully pre-selected... then there would have to be a huge landslide in the favor of Ron Paul for it to even register.
The only other two anti-war politicians I consider in the running to be "truth-telling" would be those who support Ron Paul -- Jesse Ventura or Gary Johnson. Sorry, I have to discount anti-war Dennis Kucinich for his embarassing cheerleading/campaigning for Obama and his socialist leanings.
As many millions have "woken up," there are still countless others who refuse to and will therefore follow like zombies after fakers and warmongers like Glenn Beck and Palin. They still just don't get it, and think it's Democrat vs. Republican, instead of "Us" (the American citizens) vs. "Them" -- the global elite, a.k.a. the New World Order. What a shame...
Rogue said :
"Ron Paul is a bible thumping, homophobic, racist, sexist douche bag. He would destroy the country given the chance."
I suppose you LOVE Obama...or Bush.
Dr. Paul is a Christian, but he doesn't shove his religion down other people's throats, his campaign manager was Kent Snyder, a gay man, and Dr, Paul has delivered hundreds of black and Hispanic babies...your tirade is pure BS...how much do you get paid to shovel this manure? Troll.
Rogue Examiner,
In case you haven't noticed, the country is already being destroyed by politicians who are doing the exact opposite, in both domestic and foreign policy, of what Ron Paul would do. A Ron Paul presidency is possibly the only thing that can save us from total disaster. Or would you prefer another Bush or Obama?
I've been reading H.L. Mencken's "Notes on Democracy". His thoughts on why decent people like Dr. Paul can't be elected is reflected in the comments made by the little totalitarian minds of people like Hannity and Beck. In a way the venom spewed by them is kind of encouraging, maybe they are scared.
I believe that Beck has undergone somewhat of a conversion since this program aired, and I think it's unfair not to have made mention of this in the article. Beck is still wrong on the war and his Lincoln worship, but he is much more of a Ron Paul libertarian than he used to be.
Ron Paul would be a terrible running mate, but he would make a fine Treasury Secretary or Fed chairman!
Oh come now. He was the only 2008 Presidential candidate who had pledged to given Presidential pardons to all non-violent drug offenders. What percentage of them do you think are white? He has talked several times previously about how the War on Drugs serves to sever black males from their families and communities. He is the only one who is willing to break the prison-industrial complex.
Oh come now. He was the only 2008 Presidential candidate who had pledged to given Presidential pardons to all non-violent drug offenders. What percentage of them do you think are white? He has talked several times previously about how the War on Drugs serves to sever black males from their families and communities. He is the only one who is willing to break the prison-industrial complex.
There is no doubt that the neocons who have done so much to ruin the GOP and the conservative movement during the Bush II Presidency will try their level best to marginalize the Ron Paul movement and its vastly more traditionally pro-American and libertarian supporters.
They are going to run into the truth of the old saying, attributed to their hero Abe Lincoln, that "you can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the peeople some of the time, but you can NEVER fool ALL of the pople all of the time!"
They are going to sound simply stupid and ignorant slandering the only worthwhile member of Congress the US government has had in the entire twentieth century, they are going to sound even more ignorannt and stupid in their advocacy of war over peace, poverty over prosperity, and slavery over freedom.
Even "mainstream" supporters of the GOP will eventually choose ...
PEACE AND FREEDOM!!
David K. Meller
Where will these bearers of false witness be WITHOUT the defamatory labels of "racist", "terrorist", "islamofascist", and "9-11 'truther'"? A style of politics which substitutes defamatory labelling and slander for reasoned argument will come to grief,especially when it has nothing to offer voters but more of the same thoroughly defective Keynesian, totalitarian, and State Paternalistic policies we Americans suffer under today.
PEACE AND FREEDOM!!
David K.Meller
I would rather have a dead Ron Paul be president than a live puppet from Demopublicans or the Republicrats. He would still make better decisions in the grave than either one of those morally dead candidates from the other Zombie parties. Don't worry we still have his son Rand and Peter Schiff.
Love Liberty,
Rebecca Iocca
www.iocca.us
Glenn Beck is a traitor to liberty. I laugh at how he is trying to portray himself as a Liberty loving small government person all the while he smeared Ron Paul during the '08 run. Glenn had his chance and sided with the devil when push came to shove. Judge Napolitano for head of the Justice Dept.
Love Liberty,
Rebecca Iocca
www.iocca.us
drawlr:
"I believe that Beck has undergone somewhat of a conversion since this program aired, and I think it's unfair not to have made mention of this in the article. Beck is still wrong on the war and his Lincoln worship, but he is much more of a Ron Paul libertarian than he used to be. "
You're giving Beck credit for blowing in the wind?
Also, there aren't more opposite labels than "Lincoln supporter" and "Libertarian". If you claim to be a Libertarian AND agree with Lincoln you either have no bearings on your beliefs or no understanding of historical events.
Not many people have enough knowledge about classical liberalism to understand the statesmanship of Ron Paul. So you get people in the media speaking half-truths (which is the favorite propaganda tool promoted by those who are afraid to have a civil debate on important issues) and you get people who allow partisanship to blind them to degenerate to name-calling.
If the people who want to criticize the statesmanship of Ron Paul would spend a little time educating themselves about the philosophy that inspired the Founding Fathers (classical liberalism) they would see with new eyes. It is not necessary to read the same literature that the Founders read because classical liberalism is as old as Aristotle and as new as today. The literature is vast and very exciting and interesting.
Hannity is the perfect storm of ignorance and stupidity on the one hand, and arrogance and condescension on the other. I can deal with arrogance from Beck and Rush because they both have quick minds. Hannity is slow and dull so he only does talking points.
The U.S. can only be described as ruined. People who are brainwashed to believe the government and politicians are working for them. At least Ron Paul speaks the truth.
Beck, O'Rielly, and Rush are populist wannabes. They make a pretense at being independent while still being GOP shills. As to Obama, they call themselves "loyal opposition" which is as big an oxymoron as "Congressional ethics." Both parties cover each other's rear ends and misdeeds. They may crow but it is all political show. The way they treated Ron Paul is similar to how Barry Goldwater was treated. The one thing they do not want is someone who is for smaller government.
Hannity, Beck, O'reilly and all the other media taling heads who claim to be conservative are merely apologists for their own group of government interventionists. It is entertainment not real discussion about economic or poliltical philosophy which cannot be intelligently discussed with 1-2 minute sound bites. It is a mistake for any libertarian or Austrian to think that they will advance the cause of liberty on the Hannity show.
hannity is wrong to say we wouldn't have free speech without the mil ind complex. the assaults on free speech come from the government and are carried out by the thugs with guns that work for them.
This matter is not being seen properly. The individuals in question believe that they are speaking for the Republic of the Founders rather than the Empire established after Lincoln. That's why they worship Lincoln as "the greatest" or at least ONE of "the greatest" American Presidents - because he "saved" the Union! They cannot see that Obama's perversion (which they hate) is a continuing perversion of the nation they THINK they know. So just as no "good American" would have abandoned the troops in WWI and II, they consider it "patriotic" to support the troops now. In the same way, they would have supported the federals in the "Civil War" not realizing what atrocities - military and civil - were being committed in the name of "The Union" and against the Republic and the People. Frankly, given what passes for "education", it's not surprising! I believe that for those mentioned, this is a matter of misguided perception, NOT tainted ideology.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
A well regulated militia is all the constitution permits not a standing army, CIA, or FBI
I would write a bunch of reasonable discussion here but this time I'll just say. Hannity is a play ground bully and I'd personally love to mash his mouth. I'd also imagine he still gets heckled by RP supporters.
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