From Uncle Targe
Schiller’s Dictum
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
Source: Attributed to Friedrich von Schiller by Bernard Baruch, in his 1932 foreword to a classic study of mass manias: Charles Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Have we become victims of Friedrich von Schiller’s Dictum. Consider:
Days of Infamy
The next day, FDR declared that 12/07/41 would be remembered by everyone forever, as a Day of Infamy. So it has; a sad and tragic memory. Now we know FDR knew about the Japanese Fleet, so it is also a Day of Deceit. Other dates have since joined an array on a long list of very bad days. 9/11 doesn't even need a year added for us to recall the fear that those horrific images conjured. Even now we are not inured when we see those two tall towers turn into the dust that showered Manhattan and piled up so deep on many blocks of adjacent streets. We saw those peoples' mad dashes as they tried to outrun the ashes, and we saw the two planes hit buildings one and two. Are these images too vivid to undo?
Undo them we must if we are to analyze the actual reality. Nineteen Arabs with box cutters! M. Atta's passport found in the gutter under two feet of hot ashes and debris, but in perfect condition as we could see! Building Seven, forty seven stories high, imploding hours later in front of our eyes! Briefly burning jet fuel melting all that steel! All of those anomalies sound unreal. Add a disappeared plane in the Pentagon leaving no debris on the perfect lawn and people using cell phones on Flight 93 at altitudes above their capacity! Plus the Patriot Act passed unanimously the very next day, (except for Barbara Lee).
Then consider President Bush atop that smoking pile for a perfect photo op. All that and more was too much for us, and, brain washed, we were thrown under the bus. The bus was on its way to Iraq. Oppose all that, and be considered a quack, unpatriotic, Bush hater, pinko or dumb or an unfeeling jerk whose brain was numb or worse: a demented “conspiracy theorist.”
Once upon a time, people with a thirst for the truth and reality were admired. We even thought some of them were inspired. "The truth shall make you free," was a time honored accepted reality, but after another infamous day when they murdered President JFK, right there in front of the whole world, the Conspiracy Theorist epithet was hurled. 11/22/63, it was, when we were shocked and our thinking brains were blocked by sensory oriented grief and sorrow. "What would happen on coming tomorrows?" we all wondered as the event was explained contrary to what we later saw simple and plain. "The shots came from behind, not the knoll!" And the virtues of a magic bullet were extolled; a pristine bullet that had changed direction three times was central to the Warren confection. For years, brainwashed, our voices lay mute, and very few stalwarts spoke out to dispute that dubious Commission's conspiracy of one. Do so, and soon your reputation was undone. "The Lone Nut did it," agreed almost everyone.
More assassins came forth in '68 and laid low two more threatening great inspirational men: RFK and Martin Luther King, and most of us believed the Lone Nut thing.
But all of that was before the internet when Mainstream News was all we could get. Now in retrospect and with unlimited sources, its about time that we all got divorces from inane conspiracy theories claimed as fact by the bad guys, and take truth back. Who are the bad guys we all want to know? Who controls the media and the rest of the show?
The bad guys, whoever they are, have an agenda, and for us to know it is not intended. So, now they attack the internet as phony, but millions of people now reject their baloney. Its all there on the internet, some false some true. It is up to all of us who care now to undo their mountain of lies and unbelievable facts and pursue our own personal patriotic acts.
Find out the truth, stand up and become free of the fear of examining dark conspiracies. Start with all those days of infamy and you too will soon be able to see that too often they have gone to the well to explain the inexplicable nightmarish hells that they secretly deemed were necessary.
So like we all once rejected the Tooth Fairy, and in the process became more adult, even tho it's bad news, we can exult in shedding obscuring blinders and see that truth alone protects our democracy.
Its all right there for us on the internet where truth can change a mind that's set: hundreds of pictures and many testimonies, facts, charts and figures to correct the phonies. Eye witnesses, professionals and whistle blowers explain pieces of the puzzle that they well know. Spend a few hours reading this mystery story and help make America worthy again of Old Glory. Just google 9/11 and take your pick of items from hundreds of websites and truth ad infinitum.
Or just imagine you have never heard of 9/11, disassociate from the crowd and Schiller’s Dictum and google:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E3oIbO0AWE
TL 10/06/09