Fearsome rebel
wearing a tea bag.
"The Revolution Will Not be Televised", Gil Scott Heron's song-poem still rings true today. The concept is one of the barometers I use in judging the veracity of News in my personal analysis of current events. It's a simple rule, really, if it's on TV, Big Brother wants you to see it.
Our 2008 Presidential Campaign is a perfect example. Coverage of the real change Candidate, Green Party Candidate Cynthia McKinney, was distinctly vacant in our Corporate Media outlets. Ms. Kinney is all black and not an Oreo Cookie like we all know who.
Back before the decline of literature George Orwell wrote a book called "1984". In the story the protagonist, Winston Smith, joins The Brotherhood in order to oppose The Party's totalitarian government. The story ends badly when Winston is informed in the infamous Room 101 that The Brotherhood is actually run and managed by The Party in order to control any opposition.
It's an old trick used by Detective Agencies like Baldwin-Felts and the Pinkertons during the early struggles of the Miner's Unions. You simply place spies or moles into the Unions as Agent Provocateurs or with the intent of them working their way to the top to control it.
For illiterates like myself there are a couple of historically accurate four star movies (IMHO) illustrating these very Pinkerton tactics, "Matewan" and "The Molly Maguires".
Since this article is almost over I should probably mention that it is about the anti-tax "Tea Party Movement". The main thing I have to say about them is if our founding fathers had fought their revolution by hanging tea bags off their spectacles then we would all still be British Subjects. When I stop to consider who really owns the Federal Reserve I can't help but think that maybe we still are.