Posted on 06/18/2009 9:30:32 PM PDT by neverdem
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It doesn’t have to be accurate or truthful, it only requires ‘truthiness’ (it COULD be true and probably is true, so we’ll report it as true). This goes far back of course, but it came to national prominence with the Dan Rather national guard memo incident (remember, in the final analysis it was deemed that it very well ‘could be true’).
-60 Minutes to Infamy- those forged memos and The Shot Heard Round the World--
From the title, I thought this to be yet another MORMON thread on FR...
The MSM is now “reporting” the items they (the MSM) are “feeling” and “thinking about” and what they WANT to happen, not what has actually happened.
The heart-felt goal of “journalists” when they enter their colleges - as many of them have cheerfully admitted (still admit!) - is “influence” events and “improve the world” - NOT to report the facts.
Only if you decide to make it one.
I hope you do not. The author has something important to say about the slandering of political opponents by the press. You might want to read the article and comment on it.
Excellent. This is the goal of government schools. To make the otherwise unbelievable, believable. You must be trained to think as a leftist.
No one would come to those conclusions through logic or observation of the real world.
Albert V. Burns
The education establishment in this country, at all levels, continually decries the absence of parental involvement in the everyday process of educating the young people of this country. We are asked to volunteer time to ease the burdens on the teachers. We are NOT expected to assume that we will have any input into decisions effecting what they will be taught or how the teaching process is to be done. In the book, "Educating For The New World Order," the author, Bev Eakman points out repeatedly the necessity of the educationists to preserve the ILLUSION that there is: "Lay, or community, participation in the decision making process, while in fact lay citizens are being squeezed out." It is interesting, and EXTREMELY important to Americans, both as parents and as citizens, to clearly understand just HOW the "squeezing out" process takes place. It is a well defined, if not well perceived, process known as the "Alinsky Method" (which was derived from a procedure named as "The Delphi Technique.") This method of manipulating people is based on the fact that people in groups tend to share a common knowledge base and display certain identifiable characteristics known as "group dynamics." In this process, one or more people known as "Change Agents" or "Facilitators" appear to be acting as organizers, "allowing" each person in the group to express their concerns about some program or policy under consideration. While this process is going on, people are urged to make lists or form into task forces. The Facilitator carefully notes which members of the group are leaders, which are "loud mouths" and which may be easily swayed to different viewpoints. At a certain point, the previously friendly Change Agent begins to act as "devils advocate," becoming an agitator. The process involves playing one part of the group against another, the "divide and conquer" technique. Anyone who is not clearly in accord with the Facilitators agenda is made to appear ridiculous, inarticulate, ignorant or dogmatic. The idea is to make these members of the group angry thus escalating tensions. The end object being to shut opposition voices out of the group. The "targets" of such manipulation rarely, if ever, realize how they are being manipulated. If they do suspect, they generally have no idea how to defeat the process. This method is being used at all levels of government to force meetings toward PRESET conclusions.
There are three steps to defeating this process. They are simple to learn, if not always easy to put into practice since the Facilitators are well trained in agitation techniques.
With the increasing demand for education reform, increasing agitation among the public and more and more grassroots research exposing the defects in our current government indoctrination centers, also known as public schools, more and more people are being exposed to this Alinsky method of maneuvering public meetings toward preset goals. Somehow, people walk out of public meetings wondering just what happened - how were their ideas and objections so neatly derailed. This consistent pattern of manipulation of public meetings is causing concern about the corruption of the very process of government established by our Founding Fathers. Next week we will examine some of the finer points of the Delphi Technique, how and why it was originally developed and how it is being used to destroy our freedoms. |
Albert V. Burns writes from Utah and is a regular columnist for the Spanish Fork Press. He has an extensive knowledge of the conspiracy which has been working so hard to destroy this nation and incorporate it into a one world government. He has developed an extensive personal research library and the knowledge to find what he needs, to write his columns. He is a regular columnist for Ether Zone. Albert V. Burns can be reached at: avburns@mindspring.com |
It's called liberal fascism.
Thanks neverdem.
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