GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT
By Karin Pekarcik
E-mail: karinjulia@earthlink.net
April 28, 1999
We are no longer considered law-abiding citizens by those in authority. The current view labels us guilty until we are proven innocent.
It is risky to go against public opinion, to go against the flow, and to put up resistance to the propaganda that guides us into the proper channels in every aspect of our lives. Yet, there are worse consequences to not making a statement and doing something about what we see happening to our country, and that is living under total oppression in a state of tyranny. Which do we prefer? A little risk or a lot of oppression? Imprisoned in our mind? Imprisoned in our soul? What will it be for us?
Isn’t law enforcement here to protect and serve it’s citizens? Instead we are treated as suspicious creatures and situations are first viewed as potential crimes. There is a general mistrust of all individuals by those in authoritative positions. What has happened to our protective forces? When did we all become potential criminals instead of law-abiding citizens?
Apathy has become the normal state of affairs for the general public. We don’t know any other viewpoint other than what is being promoted as the current and properly correct one. The propaganda that we are constantly being fed by the media doesn’t even mirror what is happening in real life events. The media manipulates it and then spins out the proper attitude to all of us eagerly waiting in front of our television sets for the latest story.
Several major stories recently portrayed the slanted views that are being hand-fed to the public, and the gullible beings that we are, have willingly swallowed it up without even considering that there might be another side to the story. Reading information on the Internet about such topics as the Waco siege, the downing of TWA800, Ruby Ridge slaughter, Oklahoma City bombing, and now the war in Kosovo introduces totally contrary views than what we have been hearing voiced through the major media.
The acceptable (yet skewed) view being broadcast on radio and television is then assimilated in the public arena and believed to be the truth and only the truth. History is packed with these manufactured and distorted facts. The United States is portrayed as the benevolent keeper of the world and opposing views are never expressed.
Try to discuss another opinion to a well-educated individual, and watch them spit out the accepted viewpoint. We are well indoctrinated into the system. At a recent family gathering, I tried discussing a current event from another perspective. "How could you even speak such things about the way our government is handling these issues? The government always has our interests at heart. Don’t believe what you read on the Internet! It’s a bunch of wackos. This isn't the real news."
These comments dove at me like fighter planes for daring to even present the possibility that maybe what we are hearing on our fabulous televisions is not the whole truth (or even a semblance of the truth). Every news item is censored and tailored to suit the current agenda. We are thus herded into accepting this misinformation as the truth, because this is all we see and hear. It must be the truth if it is on a major television station! The audience is led into the proper frame of mind with each news story. The enemy is emotionally planted in our minds from many different sources, and thus we cheer our armies on to war to attack the appropriate enemy and save the innocent victims. Yet both enemy and victim is a prefabricated setup in the media presentation, and we buy right into it.
The media being controlled by those in power continue to force-feed us a diet that plainly spells out the proper mode of thought and action. We don't even have to think anymore because we have them to do our thinking for us. By our apathy, selfishness, and indifference to the world around us, we continue to be manipulated pawns in the game of war and winning at all costs no matter how many lives are lost in the battle.
Especially during war time all we hear is slanted opinions, never the truth. We don’t see the actual events taking place, because the government steps in to present their pre-approved version of the story. We see tactics and maps of targets. We watch news clips that promote the overall accepted view. We hear stories of the atrocities of our enemies, and the merciless killing of the victims.
The media now willingly serves as propagandists instead of journalists, so how are we to know any differently. The media tells us who our friends are and who our enemies are. Presented with this slanted truth we proceed to build up our own thoughts around the issue. Then the media continues to simplify the events for us so that we come up in our minds with the "correct" views.
In this way we are all mobilized around a common goal and from this position fight our mutual enemies. If we are told someone is guilty of said crime and false information is presented to substantiate it, then we naturally believe it to be the truth. We internalize these ideas into our own thinking mechanism, and then work from this perspective. We are very good subjects. We blindly follow like sheep the latest trend.
The Hegelian Principle of Change is effectively used to produce the desired effects upon the populace. It is a three step process that involves:
This process is used by those in power to practically produce change within the populace. First, a problem is created. Second, opposition to the problem is produced to create fear, panic, hysteria, and disorder. Third, a solution to the problem is created. And then the change that was desired is naturally brought about from the people.
Change that would have been impossible to impose upon the populace is now embraced and warmly welcomed. The proper psychological conditioning has been achieved through steps one and two. Americans are very susceptible to this subversive psychological conditioning and deception. We have lost the ability to think for ourselves. We no longer use our analytical and deductive reasoning powers. We are merely reacting to external events that are engineered according to the plan and then presented to us, helping us to take these new ideas into our own thought and behavior patterns. In this way we have internalized the acceptable frame of reference.
For instance, the current viewpoint being impressed upon us at this time is national disarmament. We are all being psychologically conditioned to demand universal disarmament. Of course, it is done in the name of children, and who better to bring this to our attention than children themselves using guns in a violent and horrific manner.
Witness the latest Columbine High School Massacre and the resulting call to disarm from not only the administration but the general public as well. Disarm to protect the children. But who will protect the children when all the guns are collected? Do we think the criminals will be turning in their guns as well? Will the citizens be disarmed and the criminals free to roam and conduct their business as they please? Doesn't make a lot of sense unless there is a hidden agenda in mind!
The ongoing psychological programs utilizing psychotropic drugs have been effective. With the pain-drug-hypnosis approach individuals (and especially our young ones) are being trained and controlled to commit any conceivable act of violence imaginable upon the command of a trigger. And the trigger is set off at selected times in proper neighborhoods that abhor violence. These young candidates have been released in numerous so-called normal environments around the country.
The best part of this procedure is that once the murderous acts are committed, the subjects are triggered to kill themselves, thus eliminating the necessity of a trial and an inevitable inquiry into the violent incident. We are all left with the indelible mark of violence on our young people, and the call to disarm is heavy in the air all around the country. We are playing right into the proposed agenda without even knowing it. A pretty clever and sad psychological ploy!
Karin Pekarcik is a free-lance writer living in Anaheim, California. Feel free to e-mail Karin at: karinjulia@earthlink.net