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fear the most – that one man free, expressing his own
thoughts and point of view, might somehow inspire
others to think for themselves and listen to that voice
of reason inside them, and then perhaps, one by one we
will awaken from this dream of lies and illusions that
the world, the governments and their propaganda arm,
the mainstream media, feeds us continuously over 52
channels, 24 hours a day.
“What I realised was that they don’t want the people
to be awake. The elite ruling class wants us asleep
so we’ll remain a docile, apathetic herd of passive
consumers and non-participants in the true agendas
of our governments, which is to keep us separate and
present an image of a world filled with unresolvable
problems, that they, and only they, might somewhere,
in the never-arriving future, may be able to solve. Just
stay asleep, America. Keep watching television. Keep
paying attention to the infinite witnesses of illusion we
provide you over ‘Lucifer’s Dream Box’.”
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For anyone doubting the veracity of Hicks’s analysis,
a good recent example of news being managed in such
a way that it keeps us “passive non-participants” is the
virtual US press black out over the recent Kyoto protocol
all under the guise, no doubt, of it being of no interest
to the American public that the US has an appalling
environmental record.
Hicks has his revelation while watching the Letterman
show the week after being pulled. The scales fall
away from his eyes, and he’s looking at the real reason.
He’s looking at a ‘pro-life’ commercial.
Gore Vidal once gave a definition of real politics
as “Who collects what money from whom to spend
on whom for what” with the corollary that “no politician
in the US dares address that subject for fear we’ll
discover who bought him and for how much.” Follow
the money, indeed. And what was one of the very first
things that Dubyah did as President? It was to cancel
the funding of abortion clinics abroad. �
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