I did this as a teenager...back in the sixties...always fascinated by propaganda of various regimes and movements, of which my father was a scholar and kept a library of such work, and I wanted to see how people related to such brain-washing in real time. After having read Soviet prop-agit magazines and newspapers for years, it was easy to "go undercover" and talk the talk...blending in believably with real radicals.
Some, I soon discovered, were simply lonely, or lacked self-esteem, or were bored upper middle class kids looking for adventure and a sense of faux danger. Others were dangerous individuals...very manipulative, controlling, and lacking any moral compass whatsoever.
The one I recall the best was twice my age, in his mid-thirties at the time, and he led the movement in the region and was commandant of the secret cell. He kept the lists of who would be imprisoned, or executed, once the new socialist regime was established. He was at once vicious, and cowardly...afraid literally of his own shadow and convinced the FBI was behind every corner. I don't think he knew, or could socialize, with anyone over the age of eighteen.
I remember most vividly his 12 year old girl friend...you read that right...who lived with him in his basement apartment. She had been "given" to him by her parents, real nut case left wingers, who wanted her to become a revolutionary woman of the world and to learn at his feet. His sexual liason with this child should have been what worried him about the long-arm of the law...but his real paranoia was that the "secret police" were always stalking him because of his brilliant mind and the danger it posed to capitalist society.
He was a truly disgusting slug of an individual...and it was extremely difficult to pretend to adore him like the other kids did.
Needless to say, the months I spent mingling with these loons, most harmless but some truly psychotic, gave me a pretty solid ability to recognize and follow their progress as society changed and they went "mainstream"...abandoning their battle fatigues for three-piece suits.
One of their most telling traits was a complete paranoia of everything private...private property owners, private businesses, private non-profits, and even privacy itself. They could not tolerate anything or anyone not being monitored by them...as everyone but them had to be evil capitalists...and in their minds the perfect monitoring system was to control agencies and use those agencies to monitor everything and everyone.
Thus, when I started hearing about health care "reform" my propaganda radar started blipping. The word "reform" is a hot button word. Such words are used to alter the listener's perception of reality, to misleed, to cloud the thought process by invoking an emotion, and to discredit the subject of the story. "Reform" insinuates that there must be a criminal or fraudelent behavior to be addressed and someone to be brought to "justice."
Obviously to anyone who has read the health care bill, the writers have no intention of making health care available to all, but have designed an elaborate bureaucracy which will smother any person or organization in the health care field with constant filling out and filing of reports. It's also quite obvious, reading between the lines, that the writers truly believe all involved in the health care field are evil money-grubbing leeches sucking the lives out their patient/victims.
As I read it, I felt as if I were once again in darkened, secret, meetings with the marxist wannabees of my youth...stridently discussing bringing down all of society. The sense of paranoia is strong throughout the document, if you know what you're looking for, as is the near psychotic need to be inside every office, every exam room, and every discussion between patients and their evil health care givers.
Now all of this may make the old Professor sound somewhat over the edge...and without my rather unique education and experience I would not have seen the background of this bill to the extent I do.
So here's a challenge...read the bill yourself. Actually think about the actions the bill is demanding of private individuals and companies...and try to come up with logical reasons why these demands are in the legislation...reasons outside of a paranoid need to control everything not government. Then go one step further, as I've done, and try to find out who...in congress that is...WROTE THE BILL!
This massive tome, you may recall, was rather suddenly introduced to congress seemingly out of nowhere. It is supposedly a house bill...but I have been unable to find anyone, either in congress or on their staffs, WHOM KNOWS WHERE THE BILL CAME FROM!
But look fast...this loophole will be closed soon. I'm not the only one out there who has come to the realization that congress...the folks we hire to write legislation...was not responsible for this document. Soon they will be assigning some poor scapegoats to be the "authors" in order to waylay such accusations (probably a group of staffers who they can afford to let go).
And be prepared to study other bills that suddenly "appear" on the floor of the house. This will not be the last...the nuts have come together again...only this time they are not hiding in basements and raping underage girls. This is time they are hiding in the highest levels of government...and we may be their intended victims.
The Professor
Thus, when I started hearing about health care "reform" my propaganda radar started blipping. The word "reform" is a hot button word. Such words are used to alter the listener's perception of reality, to misleed, to cloud the thought process by invoking an emotion, and to discredit the subject of the story. "Reform" insinuates that there must be a criminal or fraudelent behavior to be addressed and someone to be brought to "justice."
Obviously to anyone who has read the health care bill, the writers have no intention of making health care available to all, but have designed an elaborate bureaucracy which will smother any person or organization in the health care field with constant filling out and filing of reports. It's also quite obvious, reading between the lines, that the writers truly believe all involved in the health care field are evil money-grubbing leeches sucking the lives out their patient/victims.
As I read it, I felt as if I were once again in darkened, secret, meetings with the marxist wannabees of my youth...stridently discussing bringing down all of society. The sense of paranoia is strong throughout the document, if you know what you're looking for, as is the near psychotic need to be inside every office, every exam room, and every discussion between patients and their evil health care givers.
Now all of this may make the old Professor sound somewhat over the edge...and without my rather unique education and experience I would not have seen the background of this bill to the extent I do.
So here's a challenge...read the bill yourself. Actually think about the actions the bill is demanding of private individuals and companies...and try to come up with logical reasons why these demands are in the legislation...reasons outside of a paranoid need to control everything not government. Then go one step further, as I've done, and try to find out who...in congress that is...WROTE THE BILL!
This massive tome, you may recall, was rather suddenly introduced to congress seemingly out of nowhere. It is supposedly a house bill...but I have been unable to find anyone, either in congress or on their staffs, WHOM KNOWS WHERE THE BILL CAME FROM!
But look fast...this loophole will be closed soon. I'm not the only one out there who has come to the realization that congress...the folks we hire to write legislation...was not responsible for this document. Soon they will be assigning some poor scapegoats to be the "authors" in order to waylay such accusations (probably a group of staffers who they can afford to let go).
And be prepared to study other bills that suddenly "appear" on the floor of the house. This will not be the last...the nuts have come together again...only this time they are not hiding in basements and raping underage girls. This is time they are hiding in the highest levels of government...and we may be their intended victims.
The Professor
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