ONWARD COMMISSARS OF THE RIGHT. WE PLAGIARIZED WAYYYY....IN ADVANCE

The recent headlines make it clear, torture it seems has been outsourced or should we say in sourced from the communist Chinese to us, and they of course had learned the lessons of their own brand of compassionate conversionism from the Soviet communists. Compassionate conversionism is, of course, the methods by which prisoners are made to say or convert to any type of confession or logic, just so their inquisitors (Spanish Russian, Chinese, us take your pick) will stop. This methodology interestingly has been off the table for years as far as the Israeli government is concerned because they want interrogations to result in actual intelligence which can be of strategic use as opposed to that of a propaganda nature. Our administration, however, prefers the system derived from Stalinism on down, seeming to find “godless” communists more worthy of emulation than the questioners of the Israeli Mossaud. Thought the American right liked, or at least appreciated the judgment of the Israelis, and, we saw it coming so what follows is from a previous piece, entitled, “The Commissars of the Right”.

As America attempts to debate whether, as President Bush claims, the Social Security System will be at peril in the future, the echo of a very real peril from the past has surfaced in the process: namely, the danger of propaganized news. Among the chilling cased in point are Mr. Bush’s “town Meetings” on Social Security, where it turns out “spontaneous” questioners now admit to being rehearsed, as much as five times through, before the president arrived. These are hardly isolated incidents given this administration’s penchant for planting and employing reporters to produce its own “news” releases as well as its extraordinary talent for creating self-serving appellations for its would –be laws or programs, such as the "Clear Skies” and “Healthy Forest” initiatives, to name but two.

Regrettably, such misinformation and misnomers are not unlike the tactics used most successfully by communist Russia and promoted relentlessly in the Soviet state newspaper. Ironically, said publication was named Pravda, which is Russian for “truth”. It makes one ache when the policy of our government, in dealing with dissenting views, departs from our glorious tradition of openness and begins, at least, to resemble those of other nations with whom we’ve had or might have had armed differences.