VWFringe
Naruto Fan
EDIT: what I didn't write about here was that after 48 years I was finally "getting the hang of" how to "squirt a few" while I was watching whatever, the meanings had built up and been developed to a point where I could rock a TV show...I was fully plugged into it. To have that taken away so abruptly is a shock, disappointment, and cause for mourning (for me). As they say on South Park, "Those bastards!"
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I don't know if i've said this before this simply.
before the last election I was following the news online and on TV about Proposition 19. I heard that the Drug Czar had issued a message to all the law enforcement offices in California, "do whatever it takes, make sure this does not pass!"
A week later a bogus driving experiment was shown where local radios personalities were asked by the DA's office to smoke pot and drive on camera. Except that the Federal Government had published a study in 1993 showing no problems IF they wait 30 minutes. So the District Attorney's office, the radio personalities, the police department and all the local network stations passed this off to the public as something on the up and up, when it was really a pack of mis-information meant to sway public opinion.
A week later they did it again by saying we'd give pot candy to halloween trick-or-treaters.
That was the start of my dis-illusionment with ABC, NBC and other networks. No fair-and-balanced, just the side of law enforcement and the status quo: demonizing drug and pot users.
two months later, still watching TV, but just before i was going to be laid off i cut back on # satellite TV chanels to save money, and was left with one called LinkTV. Eventually I was watching Democracy Now, and learning about the white house talking points, where they come from, what's going on in the world, and more than two sides to each story usually. This gave me two sides to the news: one from the regular broadcast stations I was still watching and now an alternate news source, not controlled by the corporations. I was starting to see the spin on regular TV, and it was heavy, I'd just never noticed it before.
For a week and a half the top story around the World was Tunisia, and the network stations ignored it...a "labor movement?" no way were they gonna show that until they had to.
Wisconsin, you remember I hope that a lot of people demonstrated against the bill that would strip the rights of labor workers? Not much was shown as it went, except Fox news showed the Tea Party'ers (1,500 tea partiers, compared to 100,000 demonstrators but you would not know it by watching network TV).... Then the republicans pushed thru the bill without the democrats, without the public and internal debate and meetings that legally are required to take place before such a measure is signed into law, no, they pushed it through in the middle of the night late one Sunday. This was probably the biggest news story of the year in America, signalling the start of a war against the people by the republicans, not to save money as they claimed, but for some other purposes. But on network television there was only loud blaringly loud headlines all day long about Charlie Sheen and Lindsay lohan, so then I knew, they were trying to make me shut up and be happy about my lot in life. Fuck them with a big stick in the middle of their brown eye.
there have been several other incidents where I've seen through their lies, like the map of Israel they shown on TV that doesn't have any land left for the Palestinians - it's all Israel on the TV map. That's not a matter of opinion, that's not trying to illustrate a point, that's trying to talk me into something that goes totally against what the international court has ruled, but they don't even tell us about that stuff on TV.\
I'm pissed because for 48 years i've had them inside my head and apparently it's worked especially well in my case. How could I have been such a fool? How could i have passed my power and destiny over to them so willingly? Well, it is the Matrix.
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I don't know if i've said this before this simply.
before the last election I was following the news online and on TV about Proposition 19. I heard that the Drug Czar had issued a message to all the law enforcement offices in California, "do whatever it takes, make sure this does not pass!"
A week later a bogus driving experiment was shown where local radios personalities were asked by the DA's office to smoke pot and drive on camera. Except that the Federal Government had published a study in 1993 showing no problems IF they wait 30 minutes. So the District Attorney's office, the radio personalities, the police department and all the local network stations passed this off to the public as something on the up and up, when it was really a pack of mis-information meant to sway public opinion.
A week later they did it again by saying we'd give pot candy to halloween trick-or-treaters.
That was the start of my dis-illusionment with ABC, NBC and other networks. No fair-and-balanced, just the side of law enforcement and the status quo: demonizing drug and pot users.
two months later, still watching TV, but just before i was going to be laid off i cut back on # satellite TV chanels to save money, and was left with one called LinkTV. Eventually I was watching Democracy Now, and learning about the white house talking points, where they come from, what's going on in the world, and more than two sides to each story usually. This gave me two sides to the news: one from the regular broadcast stations I was still watching and now an alternate news source, not controlled by the corporations. I was starting to see the spin on regular TV, and it was heavy, I'd just never noticed it before.
For a week and a half the top story around the World was Tunisia, and the network stations ignored it...a "labor movement?" no way were they gonna show that until they had to.
Wisconsin, you remember I hope that a lot of people demonstrated against the bill that would strip the rights of labor workers? Not much was shown as it went, except Fox news showed the Tea Party'ers (1,500 tea partiers, compared to 100,000 demonstrators but you would not know it by watching network TV).... Then the republicans pushed thru the bill without the democrats, without the public and internal debate and meetings that legally are required to take place before such a measure is signed into law, no, they pushed it through in the middle of the night late one Sunday. This was probably the biggest news story of the year in America, signalling the start of a war against the people by the republicans, not to save money as they claimed, but for some other purposes. But on network television there was only loud blaringly loud headlines all day long about Charlie Sheen and Lindsay lohan, so then I knew, they were trying to make me shut up and be happy about my lot in life. Fuck them with a big stick in the middle of their brown eye.
there have been several other incidents where I've seen through their lies, like the map of Israel they shown on TV that doesn't have any land left for the Palestinians - it's all Israel on the TV map. That's not a matter of opinion, that's not trying to illustrate a point, that's trying to talk me into something that goes totally against what the international court has ruled, but they don't even tell us about that stuff on TV.\
I'm pissed because for 48 years i've had them inside my head and apparently it's worked especially well in my case. How could I have been such a fool? How could i have passed my power and destiny over to them so willingly? Well, it is the Matrix.
