Truth By Decree

Ian Williams Goddard

"Thought patterns that enslave the individual cannot be seen by the eye. Only careful logical analysis can expose them, but for those entrained to think illogically -- to obey without question -- these thought patterns remain invisible. A society is bound by no chain stronger than the skillfully forged chain of flawed thought that molds the beliefs of each person to fit predictably into the master plan."

The road to human freedom questions authority, the road to serfdom obeys authority without question. Dropping any pretense of independent investigation, the major media obey and relay the word of governmental authorities without question. The road the major media would lead us upon is quite clear.

Obeying the word of authority without question, an Associated Press article [1] questions “rumors” that could implicate authorities in the explosion of TWA flight 800, which killed 230 people ( early reports stated that the Navy was conducting off-shore maneuvers below the plane at the time of the explosion; more than 100 witnesses, including two pilots in another plane, said the plane was hit by a missile-like object ascending from the ocean [2].

The AP article states:

One persistent rumor is that a U.S. warship or
aircraft downed the jet with an errant missile
and the government is covering it up. The invest-
igation has not turned up anything to support
this, said Rear Adm. Edward Kristensen, head
of the Navy salvage operation off Long Island.

Since the Navy said there was no evidence that the Navy may have killed 230 people, it therefore follows that the Navy must be innocent. The reports of Navy maneuvers, the 100+ eyewitnesses, the sequence of explosions consistent with a missile hit, the radar reading of an approaching object, the traces of an explosive used in surface-to-air missiles,... all this evidence is magically swept away by the almighty word of a potentially guilty government official. This level of journalistic inquiry is a transparent farce.

As the AP article continues, observe how the word of an authoritarian figure, whose branch of government is directly implicated in the tragedy in question, is held up as the exclusive measure of truth:

Other versions of the conspiracy theories
involve a nugget of truth, but don't stand
up under examination.

[ Obviously the first version contained no truth simply due to the say-so of authority. ]

“TWA flight 800 was shot down by a U.S. Navy
guided missile ship which was in area W-105,”
says an Internet posting ..... “W-105 is a Warning
Area off the Southeast coast of Long Island and is
used by the military for missile firing and other
military operations.”

A guided missile ship was in the Atlantic that
evening, Navy spokesman Lt. Nick Balice said. The
USS Normandy was 180 miles south of the crash site.
But it was not conducting weapons drills. A Navy
antisubmarine plane also was training in the region,
but it was unarmed, he said.

Notice again that the “examination” that the “rumors” cannot stand up to is nothing more than the say-so of a potentially guilty authority. No further inquiry was initiated. The voice of a government official accepted without question is NOT an “examination.” The claim that it is an “examination” is a fraud. Who but the intellectually impaired could swallow such a pseudo-examination?

“The Navy is not guilty. Why? Because the Navy says it’s innocent.” This farcical examination employs the same degree of examination as this fictional examination:

Claims that the Nazi Party has been operating factory
style murder camps do not hold up under examination.
When asked, Hitler said there were no such camps.
As we can see, these rumors simply fall apart.

Would you accept this examination? Need I ask? Such “examinations” serve only as a cover for the authorities under which criminal activity and atrocity can operate free from public oversight.

THE MEDIA'S TRUTH AXIOM

The “nugget of truth” in the AP article was defined exclusively by the degree to which the given claim conformed to the words of a potentially guilty government official. Based upon this example and countless others that fill the news daily, the mass media’s rule of truth discovery can be refined into the following logical axiom:

X is true if and only if X conforms to
the dictate of an official government source.

Violations of this axiom of obedience to authority by the major media in recent years are few and far between. It is clear that the mass media functions as a de facto branch of the government, shielding government misconduct from public oversight. Sadly, the public -- entrained by the media to accept the word of authority without question -- then dutifully slanders as “crazy” anyone who dares to seriously question the official MediaGovt news feed.

WRONG THOUGHT, PUNISHED & CANCELLED

There is an entrenched social mind-set that distrust of authority is prima facie evidence of mental imbalance, or “paranoia,” and as we know, those who are mentally ill may have to be locked up by the authorities. How convenient for the authorities and their agenda of truth control -- “Obey what we say or get locked away.”

A prime example of this is the “crazy” reports of black helicopters and conspiracy theories arising therefrom. Say anything about secret black helicopter operations and you're marked as a “paranoid nut-case.”

For libertarian activists trying to gain public support, any mention of “black helicopters” is a major no-no. When a caller phoned into the Rush Limbaugh Show to report a black helicopter invasion of his city, Limbaugh seemed to dismiss the caller as a nut-case. The Dick Tracy comic strip routinely lampoons “black helicopter” talk as certifiable.

However, according to US Army Special Operations Command spokesman Lt. Col. Ken McGraw [3], the US Army has been conducting “urban warfare training” with very-dark-olive helicopters in major cities across the nation such as Los Angeles, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Miami, and Detroit.

These urban-warfare training exercises are the source of most of these stories condemned as signs of insanity. It is because the major media ignore this shocking military abuse of power that people who report what they truly see are slated for the loony bin.

“X is not on the news, therefore X must be false and
reports of X must be a sign of mental delusion.”

As a fictitious tyrant on an episode of Star Trek once said: “Wrong thought will be punished, Right thought will be as quickly rewarded.”

As we have seen, the social reaction dictated by media content that punishes those who question the word of authority renders this fascistic dictum more fact than fiction. This system of truth control by punishment and reward lays the foundation for the absolute subjugation of the people and ultimately for unlimited power to commit atrocity.

PRIMED FOR ATROCITY

Due to media blackout, these urban assaults witnessed by thousands of people, are compartmentalized, hermetically sealed, in space and time such that for those outside the event compartment it “does not exist.” Dictated by media content, in this case the lack of coverage and lampooning of reports, those outside the event compartment will then mentally compartmentalize the eyewitness reports of those inside the event as “crazy.”

The lesson here is clear: with media control, the government can commit large-scale actions that “do not exist” in the larger social mind even as thousands subjected to those actions witness them with their own eyes. Due to the media blackout, the larger society is not only ignorant of the events, but is also “immunized” from the truth of those events because eyewitness reports are compartmentalized as “crazy” and are dismissed without question -- Truth Control 101.

“I didn’t hear about X in the news, thus X must be a delusion.” Such a state of affairs is the clear measure of a society primed and ready for the execution by the government of localized atrocities that will simply “not exist.”

THE AUTHORITARIAN THOUGHT CORE

The AP article is an example of the media's obedience to the government. The black helicopter urban training and social stigmatization of witnesses as “crazy” is an example of the people’s obedience to the MediaGovt. Altogether this maps out a hierarchical flow of “truth” from government to media to the people. This flow is based upon flawed and circular logic that may be expressed as follows:

1) GOVT: “ X is true ”
2) MEDIA: “ X is true because of 1) ”
3) PEOPLE: “ X is true because of 1) & 2) ”
4) RADICAL: “ X is false due to facts... ”

Defensive social reaction

5) X cannot be false because of 1), 2), 3),
6) therefore: radical is delusional / insane.
7) The insane should go to the insane asylum,
8) therefore: radical should be locked up.

1) through 3) is the primary authoritarian circular-thought core, 4) is a claim that conflicts with the circular core. 5) through 8) is the social reaction / attack upon the claim that threatens the primary authoritarian thought core. 7) and 8) are not currently as entrained as 1) through 3) and 5) and 6), but give them time. Once they are, as in the former Soviet Union, mental hospitals will become internment camps for political dissidents who will be drugged into a brain damaging stupor further “proving” the imbalanced mental state of those who question the authoritarian thought core. [4]

A TYRANNY INVISIBLE

Thought patterns that enslave the individual cannot be seen by the eye. Only careful logical analysis can expose them, but for those entrained to think illogically -- to obey without question -- these thought patterns remain invisible. A society is bound by no chain stronger than the skillfully forged chain of flawed thought that molds the beliefs of each person to fit predictably into the master plan.

There is no means more ideal to this end than for the government to control both education and the media. Such a system is in place, and it's cranking out a population of “worker drones” en masse. Key rules derived from the authoritarian thought entrainment previously outlined are:

1) Trust only the authorities.
2) Distrust of the authorities is a mental illness.
3) Distrust only those not representing the authorities.
4) Trust of those who question is a sign of mental illness.

It therefore follows that the rules of thought that are antithetical to authoritarian entrainment are:

1) Question authority.
2) Do not trust the actions and motives of authorities.

In my own case, as I became a libertarian over several years of independent study, I observed that the voice in my head that said “NO ! We can only trust government authorities,” was my Social Studies teacher and the pro-government propaganda movies she played in my public high school classes. There I had received authoritarian thought entrainment, which only after years of free inquiry and logical analysis was I able to see it and break free from it. 95% of the population will not take the time necessary to break free.

The major reason people will not break free is that questioning the govt-media line leads to social punishment. Those who seriously question the role of government and the validity of the govt-media news feed are uniformly slapped with such inquiry-halting labels as “right- wing fanatic,” and “paranoid conspiracy-theory wacko,” even as overwhelming evidence supporting their questioning is offered.

The message is clear: “Obey government without question or be cast out and/or ultimately locked up.” Most people will buckle under this intimidation and feel compelled to toe the govt-media line, if only to preserve their reputation and social station. It’s a powerful form of psychological terrorism only a few can endure.

When the government controls the “truth” through a servile media, when the people are entrained to believe without question, the people will not see the mental chains that bind them. Like happy sheep, they will be led into a dark age of poverty and serfdom.

The allocation of resources and means of production will be redirected from serving the consumers -- the people -- to serving the government’s elite central planners and financiers -- the supreme landlords. Such feudalism was the structure of society for centuries, prior to the explosion of widespread prosperity arising from the consumer- demand direction of production known as laissez-faire capitalism.

NOTES

[1] Associated Press, 9/03/96: "Missile Attack a Favorite of Conspiracy Theorists."
[2] ABC News, 07/23/96 ( Yes, a major media source reported this, and its source was the FBI; however, as soon as the government says "no missile" ABC will say "no missile," and will not dispute the government's conclusion. After all, the eyewitness of over 100 people cannot be more true than the almighty word of authority. Notice how major media stories quickly become "rumors" once the authorities find them contrary to their interests. )
[3] The Washington Times. A1, 6/6/96: "Black Copters Over Pittsburgh? It's just an Exercise." Also see a short essay by Ian Goddard: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/copters.htm
[4] "In the summer of 1984, Casimer Urban, Jr., was arrested for protesting the Supreme Court decision on the Lafayette Park [ camping ] regulation. .... Once arrested, Casimer told the magistrate that he wanted to represent himself. Instead, the magistrate appointed a public attorney who immediately suggested that Cas be put into St. Elizabeth's [ mental ] Hospital.

The psychiatrists decided he was a paranoid schizophrenic and injected him with Prolixin, which can cause the side-effect of catatonia [and in rare cases permanent damage -- neuroleptic malignant syndrome]. Cas was in danger of being kept in the cuckoo's nest for good without ever standing trial." VOTESCAM, p. 200-1. After much protest by friends, a professor of law took Cas's case and got him out, saving him from compulsory catatonia. There are many other cases simialr to this in the US.

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Ian Williams Goddard is a freelance artist and writer whose research on Flight 800 earned him the wrath of both the federal government and the major media.
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Source: http://www.mindmined.com/public_library/nonfiction/ian_goddard_turth_by_decree.html