So it's something to do with cute little monkeys. Flinging poo?
Posted on 07/27/2004 9:48:38 PM PDT by L,TOWM
I don't think I know what it means, but I have some idea, so I am going to take a stab.
There are patterns of influence that continually reinforce a particular picture of things. Truth is a clearing away, exposing something that was hidden. Something important. Valuable change can occur when unhealthy patterns are recognized for what they are by the folks in power.
So, Kerry, Kennedy, Cuomo, and Anita Hill are supposed to be HOLY FOOLS?
Typical of the cursed Rats -- Another half truth.
Carville and Clinton are running Hitlers campaign to a T. If they weren't so stupid it would be scary.
Didn't know it was Quaker in origin. This slogan was a cliche during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. It meant that the speaker was convinced he was right (truth) and was about to prove it by seizing some sort of power.
I'm pretty sure none of the people I've seen the last two days have done that.
Unlike a certain man I know that almost got the crap beat out of him twice in the space 15 months during a time of exile in the Bay Area. Whata waste(d) land...
It is an old statement.
Power corrupts.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
corrupted power, is kept in place by corruption of truth.
aka as lies.
"speaking truth to power"
is an implication that the power that is... is so corruption based, that the impact of truth will bring it to it's knees.
It's not a liberal phrase.
It is based on a truth.
Truth trumps power.
Truth will out.
and so on.
that THEY would use it after eight years of mr. "I did not ever have sex with that woman, monica lewinsky, NOT once... ", I find amusing. The party of "it's okay to lie under oath," has little vested interest in speaking truth about anything.
The Chappaquidic Party, has been running from the truth since Felon Elanore Roosevelt was stopping the bucks. (as in the buck stops here, bs)
They wouldn't know truth if it bit them in the ass like a 20 ft great white.
morons.
The phrase "Speaking truth to power" has its origins in suburban California, where a 14 year old Jerry Brown instituted this Democratic tradition. Young Jerry was commanded by his parents to stop hiding in his room and go mow the lawn, but Jerry Brown did no such thing. He spoke truth to power. "I don't feel like it Dad. Can't you just pay some Mexican guy to do it? I'm tired." The original phrasing was "Speaking truth to Dad about the power mower," but it has since been shortened. Jerry Brown went on to become Governor of California and a beacon to lazy kids across the country.
So when do certain wealthy senators, former presidents, and high profile lawyers recognize their unhealthy patterns?
Speaking Truth to Power:
A Challenge to South African Intellectuals
Ptika Ntuli & Johannes A. Smit
The subject of Power/Knowledge and the regime of Truth is always a thorny one. It is the aim of my article to explore this subject in the context of South Africa with particular emphasis on intellectuals and institutions of higher learning.
I
It was Nietzche (1968) who showed that ‘Knowledge functions as an instrument of power’. Nietzche’s ‘Will to Power’ was a tour de force that sought to draw philosophy away from theorising about substances and to look at power as a relation; relations of forces that attract and repel, entice and dominate, restrain and subordinate. About seventy years later, the French philosopher Michel Foucault (1994) took up this theme and offered a definitive conceptualisation of power:
Power in the substantive sense, ‘le’ pouvoir, doesn’t exist …. The idea that there is either located at- or emanating from- a given point something which is a ‘power’ seems to me to be based on a misguided analysis, one which at all events fails to account for a considerable number of phenomena. In reality, power means relations, a more or less organised, hierarchical, coordinated cluster of relations.
He also related this understanding of power to Truth. Truth, for him,
isn’t outside power, or lacking in power: Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint. And it induces
regular effects of power (Foucault 1980).
Foucault identifies five traits of this regime of truth—two of which are
produced and transmitted under the control, dominant if not exclusive, of a few great political and economic apparatuses (university, army, writing, media); lastly, it is the issue of a whole political debate and social confrontation (ideological struggles). Truth is always contested.
II
To be able to formulate practical policies in the context of student affairs in an academic institution and indeed in any site, it is important to raise correct questions within the context of Truth, Power and Knowledge.
Schrift (1994) formulates some of these (with very minor modifications from the author)
* How does one analyse academic relations of power?
* Who makes decisions in a college or university?
* Why are the decisions so often wrong, when so often basically good people are in the positions of decision makers?
* How do we change power relations in our institutions?
* How do we get more women and Africans in decision making positions, and how do we get more multi-cultural and multi-gendered issues included into the curriculum?
* Who are the enemies?
* Who do we fight?
When one attempts to answer these and related questions, Schrift warns that these relations must not be seen in exclusively personal ways. The reason is that such a focus on individuals tend to obscure any understanding of mechanisms of power.
They mean that truth will set us free from George Bush's evil power...
truth supposedly has magic ability to bring down corrupted powers... that is what they mean.
of course, justly derived powers, are strengthened by truth...
that is their great self deception....
they think they have a truth that will bring down the current administration.
at times, I really wonder how mentally ill they actually are.
The scary part is that those wankers are old now and think that they should be running the show. Jerk offs could'nt even figure out a decent sit-in and now they think can run the most complex economy/legal system/political apparatus in history? (shudder)
In the image search, Anita Hill's book is on page 1 and the bio of Joe Wilson (of Niger tea-sipping fame) is on the second.
Speak whatever it takes to regain power.
In the liberal mind truth is whatever you want to believe it is.
So it's something to do with cute little monkeys. Flinging poo?
I think this (and the similar Quaker tradition mentioned) derive from St. Paul's audience before the Roman Emperor Nero, who lterally demanded worship as a "god." St. Paul preached the gospel (truth) to the "god" Nero (power) and was subsequently beheaded. (As a Roman citizen, he was spared crucifixion).
For a party whose minions have done everything in their power to drive all mention of God from society and abolish and destroy the Judeo-Christian culture that grew thanks to the spread of this gospel over the last few decades to make use of this phrase is the very essence of blasphemy. The people at the convention in Boston worship daily at the feet of their "gods" - multiculturalism, feminism, atheism, globalism, socialism, the gay agenda, etc. Their use of this phrase is an utter obscenity.
It's what people say they are going to do right before they end up in Ft. Marcy Park.
I first heard that one in the 70s from feminists yapping about "the patriarchy" and its evil ways. I have never heard it come out of the mouth of anyone who wasn't a leftist. The suggestion that it is of Quaker origin is new to me, but quite plausible. I have known and observed many Quakers, in both the U.S. and Canada, and I personally rate them somewhere between Communists and pedophiles.
Rat Code Phrases? We don't need no stinkin' Rat Code Phrases!
http://www.ladyofthecake.com/mel/saddles/sounds/gibbersh.wav
Can be found here along with many others:
http://www.ladyofthecake.com/mel/saddles/bssounds.htm
It's gibbrish designed to sound enlightened and distract from the propaganda.
Okay, who was it who forgot to provide our undercover operatives in the convention with up-to-date decoder rings? I'm certain that this issue was raised at the last meeting, but I forget who it was who was given this assignment.
I know it wasn't me. I handled my part by getting Kerry into that stupid "sperm" suit.
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