The Idaho
Observer
Posted on 02/27/2002 6:34:07 AM PST by It'salmosttolate
This Article from
The Idaho
Observer
Wednesday February 27, 2002
stupid: adj. [L. stupidus, fr. Stupere to be stupified.] 1. Wanting in
understanding; in a state of stupor; stupefied. 2. Sluggish in
understanding; slow witted; crassly foolish. 3. Resulting from, or
showing mental dullness; foolish; witless; as a stupid book. -- Syn.
Stolid, obtuse, doltish. See BLUNT -- Ant. Acute, keen, alert,
bright, sharp, shrewd, intelligent. -- n. A stupid person. ~ Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary, 1947
Sometimes we just don't look at what is really going on around us.
In many instances we become too immersed in the distractions of
the world to pay attention. In other instances the realities of the
world may be too painful for us to face head on.
This is no accident. Modern media, its allies in the entertainment
industry and the indoctrination we received from the public
education system combine to create many illusions in our collective
national consciousness. By design, our “realities” have been molded
for us to such an extent that many Americans exhibit one or more
of the definitions of stupid indicated above.
These manufactured illusions perpetuate the mental entanglements
that have come to inhibit our ability to exercise otherwise common
sense. Our modern virtual reality, which objective reasoning would
evidence as non-reality, has become reality for those who let
others do their thinking for them. In short, stupidity has become a
way of life for the masses who fail to look, learn and connect the
dots of the “realities” which surround them. Nowhere is this more
obvious than the U.S. government's current campaign which is best
referred to as “Operation Enduring Stupidity,” a.k.a. the “War on
Terrorism.”
Three of our prominent buildings were bombed with airliners last
Sept. 11, killing thousands of people and laying a hush of terror
across the world. This is arguably the most significant act of
terrorism committed on American soil, but who really caused it? The
“Osama was behind it” mantra has been blasted into our
consciousness by an all points media. The government's
mouthpieces have laid a grand scheme of blame but, Hey, stupid
-- where's the evidence?
Ninety days after September 11, and two months after we began a
billion-dollar-a-month military campaign in Afghanistan the first hint
of “evidence” emerged. The government “discovered” a tape in an
Afghani apartment which they claim “proves” Osama was behind the
“attacks” of 9-11. How credible is this evidence? According to a
CNN poll, one third of Americans think the tape is a fake. The
administration first called their war in Afghanistan, Operation Infinite
Justice. Why the name change? Hey stupid -- justice is something
that happens after the evidence is in.
We have been told and told and told that 19 Islamic hijackers took
over the four aircraft used as bombs on 9-11. But the passenger
manifests from the airlines didn't contain any Arabic passenger
names. Not to worry. The FBI corrected this little problem. The FBI's
passenger manifests conveniently have about a half dozen more
people on each plane than the airline's manifests. But then, there is
another little problem with the FBI's version of the story. Amazingly,
within a couple of days, the FBI knew who all the hijackers were.
Names, pictures, everything we needed to know about them. But
they also said the hijackers used fake ID. The same names that the
FBI used in their list identifying the hijackers were the names the
FBI also claimed to be fake. Some of them were names of people
known to be still living in Arab countries or known to have already
been dead before 9-11. Hey, stupid -- just how did the FBI figure
out who these hijackers were so quickly when the physical evidence
(their bodies) was well shredded and buried in mountains of rubble
with hundreds or thousands of other human remains? How can the
hijackers be both correctly identified and using fake ID's in the same
name? Were there really any hijackers at all? Was there some other
means to accomplish the control of those ill-fated flights? Is the
whole story of the hijackers a concerted media spin effort to
conceal the real people, and their goals, behind the terror of 9-11?
We must remember the historical conduct of our main source for our
current information/misinformation. The FBI has been exposed for
operating an evidence manufacturing laboratory which has been
used to concoct evidence and fraudulently convict innocent
Americans. The FBI is responsible for truckloads of lost or missing
documents and countless bungled investigations, especially when
the investigations begin to reveal that those within government are
responsible for criminal activity. They continue to possess 22 high
quality video surveillance tapes collected from cameras which
recorded the Oklahoma City bombing. The FBI still refuses to release
the tapes, even though the federal law enforcement agency has
been court ordered to do so. Experience has shown the FBI can't be
trusted with the truth. Hey, stupid -- with the FBI's previous
history of either manufacturing, falsifying or destroying evidence in
critical, high profile cases, aren't these passenger manifest
discrepancies, which led to the quick identification of the 19 alleged
Arabic culprits of 9-11, a little suspicious?
We have been told over and over again that the Flight 93
passengers rushed the cockpit to wrestle control from the hijackers.
Two facts leave a reasonable doubt as to the “official” explanation
of what happened. One, the plane crashed and two, there was an
eight mile long debris trail of Flight 93 parts across Pennsylvania.
The all-knowing media has informed us that the passengers who
rushed the cockpit, crashed the plane to prevent it from being used
as a weapon. Hey, stupid -- what Americans in their right minds
are going to intentionally crash a plane loaded with innocent people,
including themselves? If they regained control enough to crash the
plane why didn't they attempt to fly it to a safe landing? And what
about the eight-mile long debris trail? This evidence, which was
quickly covered up after being well reported on the first day of the
event, leads us to the obvious conclusion that there was some kind
of explosion which occurred in mid air. Was it a bomb carried on by
the alleged hijackers? How did they get it past the airport security
system that was already in place before 9-11? Was Flight 93 shot
down by our own military? Why were the original reports of the
debris trail covered up and replaced with the stories about “the
heroes of Flight 93” who fought the terrorists? Hey, stupid -- we
are being lied to by the media and fed a line of patriotic baloney to
conceal the real facts? Again? Still?
How did Pennsylvania's governor Tom Ridge get ushered in to his
new position as the Homeland Defense Czar? Was he rewarded for
his efforts to hush the shooting down of Flight 93 with his new
federal position? And how was that position created? President Bush
informed Congress during his “War Speech” that Governor Ridge was
now a member of his cabinet and the new head of the Homeland
Defense Agency. Where does Article Two of the Federal
Constitution authorize the president to create such an agency? How
can he fill the top post and add a cabinet member without “the
advice and consent of the Senate?” Hey, stupid -- are you
beginning to see that the Constitution no longer has any real force
and effect and we are now living under an administrative
dictatorship? Have you not seen this administrative dictatorship
grow by leaps and bounds since 9-11 -- under the guise of
homeland security? Is there anything left, that is worth waving your
flag over, as we march off to be administered through our
bio-metric National ID cards in gulag Amerika? Safety and security?
Try stupidity and ignorance of our nation's founding principles instead.
What rights do we have left? If you knew what they were you
would know that they are gone. Have you ever read the Bill of
Rights and understood the rights we are supposed to have with a
government established under the Constitution? Contrast those
rights with what happens at a post 9-11 airport. When checking in
for a commercial flight, can you speak freely at the metal detector?
Don't say, “Hi, Jack,” even if you meet your friend Jack. Can you
peaceably assemble with your family and friends at the boarding
gate? Passengers only are allowed beyond the security gate. Can
you bear arms to secure your free state while flying? Hijacking
would hardly be possible if gun owners weren't so infringed. Is there
any warrant or probable cause to search YOU, when you board your
flight? You are automatically being treated as a criminal just for
being there and a bureaucratically employed person will simply take
any of your property that they consider contraband, without just
compensation. Does placing your baggage on the X-ray conveyor,
compel you to be a witness against yourself? Where did the
presumption of innocence and the burden of evidence go? Out the
constitutional window along with any opportunity for due process or
the right to challenge your accuser in front of a jury. Has your basic
right to travel been eliminated until you consent to the surrender of
your liberties? Does the Constitution convey any power of
government to compel the surrender of your rights? To what part of
government can you effectively petition for a redress of grievances,
now that your rights have been violated? Hey, stupid -- don't
wave your flag and talk about how our nation is great because it is
founded on a Constitution which gives us so many rights and then
go to the airport and surrender them, because you must, before you
can fly around in the land of the free. Your precious Constitution
and rights are gone.
And what about that billion-dollar-a-month operation going on over
there in Afghanistan? How are we going to pay for America's New
War and what are we going to use to pay for it -- good old
American “dollars?” Hey, stupid -- there aren't any “dollars” in
circulation anymore. Not even any “notes” which can be redeemed
in dollars. Our economy is nothing more than debts and promises
traded for more debts and promises.
Dollars haven't been dollars since the 60s when the government
ended silver certificates and silver coins. The “Federal Reserve
Note” in your pocket is three lies rolled into one “bill.” A dollar bill
that only promises more debt. They are not federal. It is a privately
owned banking system that was fraudulently “chartered” by
Congress in 1913. They have almost nothing in reserve. They loan
out more than they have, with a fractional reserve scheme, keeping
only a fraction in “reserve” to “cover” the day's transactions. In
1928 alone, the Federal Reserve Bank made loans, of the then gold
backed dollar, to its member banks, in an amount that was six times
the known gold supply of the world. Since 1933 when FDR banned
gold as a medium of exchange to prevent the imminent run on the
banks, there has been almost no substance to our national
economy. With the end of silver based currency and coin in the
1960s the remaining substance to our economy was gone. That's
the third lie -- the Federal Reserve Note isn't even a note. Legally,
a note requires four things to be valid: There must be a payer, a
payee, something to be paid and a time when it will be paid. A
“dollar” note backed by silver and issued by a bank or the
government (payer), pays to the bearer (payee) and amount of
silver (something to be paid), on demand (time when it will be paid)
. Hey, stupid -- the “Federal Reserve Note” pays nothing, to no one,
at any time. It's not even close to being money, in any real sense.
The media hyperventilators blow life into our fantastic elastic
“monetary supply” with their daily reports of how the economy is
going. The “economy” is created and maintained by the pundits who
are paraded across our viewscreens and journals manifesting reality
on the force of their say so. “Consumer confidence” is what makes
the wheel of unreal money turn. Our fiat, or faith based economy
exists solely on the “full faith and credit” of the American people.
Hey, stupid -- it's “faith,” because enough people continue to
believe that unreality is real, so we can pass notes that really aren't
even notes, between ourselves under the collective belief system
that it is somehow money. And “credit,” because it was all borrowed
from nothing but a mostly empty bank in the first place. So how are
we going to pay for America's New War and all our new security
apparatus with an economy based on nothing more than the
stupidity that paper and ink and digital account balances have
value? Hey, stupid -- we are perpetually indebted to a fraudulent
economic system.
Doesn't the thought of such economic slavery make you sick?
Especially if your life savings are stored in a banking system that
can inflate or deflate the value of your account at will, through
manufactured inflation and expansion of the “money supply.”
Consider the implications of having your retirement based on a
“dollar” that lost 92 percent of its purchasing power between 1933
and 1995, all while the “money” in circulation increased sixty-fold,
nearly doubling every yearHey, stupid -- just what did you plan
to retire on?
Better not let those facts make you sick. Allopathic medicine has
taken over and monopolized “health care” with its pharmaceutical
administrations. Your chances aren't too good if you read the
allopaths' own reports. According to the Journal of the American
Medical Association (Lazarou, J., JAMA, April 15, 1998; 279:
1200-1205), an estimated 106,000 Americans die from adverse drug
reactions (ADRs) every year. The study specifically excludes
adverse drug events (ADE's) which include the improper
administration of pharmaceuticals and their abuse. These estimated
106,000 deaths are the direct result of FDA-approved drugs
properly administered. That simply is bad chemistry and a national
tragedy. ADRs are the fourth leading cause of death in this country
after heart disease, cancer and strokes -- according to the study
published in JAMA. Hey, stupid -- do you really consider the health
care benefits provided by your employer a “benefit” when more
people die from adverse pharmaceutical chemistry than from all
kinds of accidental deaths combined? Think about it.
Depending on the report, an estimated 7,600 to 17,000 people die
every year in this country from stomach bleeding caused by aspirin.
That's significantly more than the numbers of people who reportedly
died in the terrorist events of 9-11. Hey, stupid -- why aren't we
waging a national campaign to go after the Aspirin Terrorists?
Wouldn't a billion of those “dollars” a month going to root out those
Aspirin Terrorists save more lives than bombing caves and civilians
in Afghanistan? Instead, Bayer just recently became a publicly
traded company that profited $billions in the sale of the antibiotic
Cipro in the wake of the post-9-11 anthrax scare. You can now
invest your 401K in the Aspirin Terrorists. It might be a better
hedge than, say, a “secure” investment like a Certificate of Deposit
at your local Savings and Loan.
As Hitler said: “How fortunate for the governments which administer
them that the people don't think.”
For all of our God given intelligence, humanity too often validates
Rule Number One: People are stupid. And that often results in the
imposition of Rule Number Two: Stupidity is its own punishment. It
appears that Rule Number One has been with us for some time and
will naturally continue to provide our own punishment. Look at all
the happy people around you that are flying their flags, eager and
willing to trade their liberties for a little temporary security. Soon
they will be asked to march right up, one by one, so their retina
scan and fingerprint can be digitally imposed on their National ID
Card/drivers license. This of course, will make us all safer. And more
secure. And the administrative dictatorship which has replaced our
former constitutional republic will have new powers of which Hitler
could only dream.
1 TINFOILHAT REQUIRED (in which case I must believe they they are dropping alot of chem trails
over Idaho Water Supplys)
2 BARF ALERT (mostly an anti BUSH mentality)
3 ONLY A FEW GOOD POINTS MADE
4 Many valid points made
5 All good points made
I stopped reading here because: a) According to the author most Americans are stupid, so what they think is irrelevant, but in this case they're spot on, and b) CNN is quoted as a credible source.
That's a very conservative estimate in the case of this author.
Derviation of his name:
Harley = Deer Hunter. Meadow of the hares. Archer.
That's part of the plot.
Our economy is nothing more than debts and promises traded for more debts and promises.
Uh, Hari, that's been true of evey economy since we stopped bartering wheat for horses. Can you eat gold?
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