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The Spirit of Joseph Goebbels is Alive and Well

Adolf Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda is quoted as saying, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

This man, Joseph Goebbels, understood the value of guiding public opinion in the direction the government desires as being critical to bringing about changes in a society. The current administration appears to have learned this lesson extremely well. This has come to light with several recent issues where there is an obvious disconnect between the story coming from our government and the reality staring us in the face.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently attacked the tea parties held at hundreds of locations throughout our land as a scheme cooked up by higher GOP operatives to make the Obama administration look bad. First of all, the Republican Party does not have to do anything to make the current administration look bad… it would be redundant. The reality is that each tea party was organized by local people who wanted to be heard by the people who are supposed to represent them. There was just as much animosity toward the Republican Party as the Democratic Party. It is believed that both have let the citizens down.

If there was any major financial backing, it was so secret that it didn’t make its’ way down to the local level as local organizers were left on their own to figure out how to make the event work. Whatever I would think of the lady, I am certain she is smart enough to know this… which leads us to the other conclusion, namely that she is purposely trying to mislead the people, along with her willing cohorts in the mainstream media as they repeat her message ad nauseum.

We have all heard the oft quoted statistic that 90% of the firearms used by Mexican drug cartels come from the United States. This is a standard talking point of administration officials, repeated endlessly to the press to anyone who will listen. It has taken on air of truth so as to become conventional wisdom among the unquestioning media and kool aid drinking public.

The fact is that the 90% number is correct, but not of the entire lot of confiscated weapons. Of the twenty some thousand guns recently picked up by Mexican authorities, many have no serial numbers or manufacturer markings, as do all legal weapons manufactured or imported in into the US. Of this total, about eleven thousand do have these markings and could potentially come from US sources. Even of these, not all are traced to their origin. About 6000 are actually run through the system and here is where the 90% number comes in. However 90% of 6000 is not the same as 90% of all the weapons… but it sounds good, fits the prejudices of the administration and can be used to support further controls on firearms.

Mark Twain’s comment “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” could also be applied to the broadcast media as well… particularly in this case. One could write a book about all the misinformation coming out of Washington, and the conclusion would be the same. Are these people really that far out touch with reality? Or are they purposely and maliciously leading us down the path to destruction?

Spreading the big lie is only half of the Goebbels formula. The other half is discrediting the truth… and this we saw as the administration pretended to ignore the tea parties as if they had no consequence and the lap dog drive by media joined in by portraying this grassroots movement as a group of misinformed, psychopated kooks. It was, and is, necessary for the public to be shielded from the truth and genuine anger expressed expressed at these public protests.

The dissent that was so honorable when the hated George Bush was in office has suddenly become subversive and anti-American. The left is depending on the short memories and shallow analysis of our immediate gratification oriented culture. They counter any and all criticism of the direction they are taking the country by labeling sincere questioning as racially motivated… which is a clever, though transparent scam to keep from responding with non-existent evidence. When they don’t accuse the critic of hostility to the skin color of the president, they try to tell us we are overreacting, misunderstanding or just plain closed minded. There are no honest responses to most of our objections because such responses just do not exist in the world of reality. It’s as if Al Capone knew what was coming when he told us, “They (elites) are quite good at hypocrisy and blissfully shameless about it, too. Practice makes perfect, after all…” But then human nature hasn’t changed all that much over the years.

So the only tactic is to keep repeating the lie, whether it is about the economy, health care, global warming or any issue du jur, followed by the politics of personal destruction practiced so effectively by the Clintons. Can any one say Sarah Palin?

Barack Hussein Obama is a skilled practitioner of the teachings of Saul Alinsky, but the roots of these tactics and strategies go back even further, to someone even more evil… one of the architects of the Germany’s Third Reich. Ron Paul summed our plight up well when he commented, “Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”