ZGram- 1/2/2003 - "Lying Is Now A Primary Way Of Life"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

January /2/2003

Lying Is Now A Primary Way Of Life

Another fine read with which to start a new year!

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A Practical Guide For Lie Detection

By Alan C. Edwards

Freedom Center USA.com

12-30-2

We live in a world of lies and deception. The ability to detect these 
lies is one of the major differences that separates the wise from the 
foolish, the truly educated from 'educated' fools, realists from 
wishful thinkers, and the gullible from the astute. It was Mark Twain 
who observed that most of human grief, sorrow, and man-made 
calamities came not from sheer ignorance, but the consequences of 
untrue beliefs. 'It's not from things we don't know', he said, 'but 
things we know that aren't so.'
 
The world is now headed for a man-made calamity of enormous 
proportions and being led by people motivated by greed, hatred, and 
lust for power. These people control national and world events by 
their ability to manipulate people with lies and propaganda. Their 
power is exerted through their total control of all popular media. 
This extends to nearly all forms of news, information, and 
entertainment. Even church services are under their control. Churches 
are controlled by the IRS. Guidelines to what can be said and what 
cannot be said from the pulpit are found in the IRS qualifications 
for [501(c) 3] tax exempt status. Clergy who follow these rules are 
recognized as legitimate religious organizations and given tax 
exemption, those who dare to tell the truth about what is really 
going on are declared political propaganda organizations or 'cults' 
and denied the exemption, or in the case of the Branch Davidians, 
shot, gassed and burned.
 
They have used the entertainment industry to create a generation of 
immoral violence prone savages whose humane feelings have been 
destroyed by movies that glorify death and destruction and whose 
minds have been polluted with nerve jangling noise they call 'music' 
with lyrics so vile that they cannot be repeated in polite company. 
Public schools are no longer under the control of local school 
boards. The schools are now under the control of those who are 
determined to destroy our civilization and create a generation of 
obedient slaves with no more mental capacity than a barnyard animal.
 
These people look upon other human beings as mere cattle to be used 
for any purpose that they deem desirable.
 
This conspiracy against humanity has accomplished all this through 
the skillful application of lies and propaganda. If people could 
recognize the techniques used by lying propagandists they would not 
fall prey to their lies. The following is an examination of the 
techniques used.
 
Lying by omission or telling half truths is a popular technique. This 
is deliberate omission of vital information necessary for 
understanding. The truth may be only partially revealed to cause 
confusion and erroneous conclusions. It may also be given a 'spin' to 
direct your thinking to the conclusion they want you to have. And 
finally, the manufactured lie. This kind of lie is usually eventually 
found out, but almost always after the desired damage is done.
 
Another technique is the smear by using erroneous and despicable 
labels to characterize their enemies. Lenin stated that the enemy 
must be described in terms that sows revulsion among the masses. 
Terms that have been used for this purpose are; racist, fascist, 
anti-Semitic, Nazi, right wing extremist, Bircher, McCarthyite, 
lunatic fringe, radical right, religious fanatic, cultist, 
isolationist, reactionary, hate group, gun nut, anti-progressive, 
conspiracy theorist, anti government, wacko, nut case, homophobe, 
etc. When you hear someone condemning a person or group using these 
terms, you are listening to the voice of the conspiracy.
 
Guilt by association is widely used as a means of destroying the 
enemy with propaganda. This is a technique that erroneously 
associates a person or group with some despicable act, philosophy, or 
personality. The comparison to Hitler is most often used for this 
purpose. The bombing of the Murrah building in Oklahoma city is the 
current despicable act that is being used against the militias. Two 
headlines in the Nevada Appeal demonstrate how cleverly this is done. 
One headline reads, 2 years after bomb, militias move underground, 
the other, Militias gain support after bombing. No militia connection 
with the bombing has ever been made despite all efforts to do so.
 
These stories written with the byline of the Associated Press 
demonstrates how guilt by association can be achieved when no 
connection exists. Morris Dees, of the Southern Poverty Law Center 
speaks of the threat militias pose.
 
What threat? Who has any militia threatened? Morris Dees doesn't say. 
Dees has written 'Predicting when and where the militia will strike 
next is harder than guessing when and where the next whirlwind will 
come from.' The next strike? Morris Dees gives no information of any 
previous strike by the militia. You can be assured that any strike by 
any militia would have been trumpeted with much fanfare by Dees if 
one existed. There is much to be observed not only in what is said, 
but what is not said when evaluating the truthfulness of what you 
see, hear. and read. If someone to be destroyed attends a meeting or 
shares a platform at a public meeting with someone who has already 
had his or her reputation destroyed, the connection will be made 
insinuating that the person to be destroyed shares the same 
philosophy as the one already destroyed.
 
An insidious means of cultural destruction is underway in the form of 
sabotage of the language. Human beings think with words and words 
have abstract meaning. The word, unicorn, describes an animal shaped 
like a horse with a single horn on its forehead. No unicorn exists or 
ever did exist, the animal is a figment of the imagination. The word 
unicorn therefore has no meaning in reality, it is an imaginary 
abstraction. All words are abstractions, some have meaning in the 
real world, others have no meaning in reality. Conversely, if there 
are no words to describe reality because they have been sabotaged, we 
can't think reality. If you can't say it, you can't think it. The 
conspiracy has been changing the abstract meaning of words to suit 
their purposes. To this end they have made words that at one time had 
a positive connotation into ones with a negative connotation.xxx
 
'Patriot' at one time meant a person who had love and devotion for 
his country and was willing to defend it at the risk of his life. The 
conspiracy is changing the abstract meaning to conjure up an image of 
a red neck racist with tobacco juice in the corners of his mouth 
lynching a negro, or a wild eyed bomber bent on the destruction of 
government property, or figure in camouflage drooling over his rifle, 
or a nut case who comes out of church determined to kill an 
abortionist, etc. George Orwell in his book 1984 calls this technique 
of changing the meaning of words, newspeak. Newspeak not only changed 
the meaning of words but the grammatical structure as well.
 
Information was given in sound bites, acronyms, and hyphenated absurdities.
 
This leads to a condition called doublethink. Doublethink allows a 
person to hold two contradictory thoughts at one time and hold both 
to be true. Absurd you say, consider this. We are told continuously 
that believers in conspiracies are off the wall nut case wackos. At 
the same time we are told to believe in all kinds of conspiracies of 
the far right. This is doublethink to anyone who still has control of 
his mind and is able to think.
 
Learn to recognize propaganda when it comes to you. Listen to what is 
not said that should be. Always ask who benefits from the story that 
is being told. Identify known liars and evaluate what they say 
accordingly. Remember, there is nothing stranger than the truth.

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