thecrow, May 28 at 8:51 am # wrote:

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/he-who-controls-the-past/

http://www.legacyofsecrecy.com/

Documented from the National Archives for the first time is Watergate burglar Bernard Barker’s decades-long work for the Mafia, even as Barker aided the CIA with the coup plan. This let Barker sell out the coup plan to his mob bosses and help to assassinate JFK in a way that forced top US officials to withhold key information from the Warren Commission and the press, to prevent a nuclear confrontation with Russia.

This legacy of secrecy also allowed two men who confessed their roles in JFK’s murder to be involved in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, in 1968.

PatrickHenry:

“There is nothing new about rewriting history, through editing of texts over millenia to advocate certain political or religious positions which result in the dumbing down and indoctrination of the masses.”

True.  But I still think there are some examples of such revisionism that are more troubling than others.

Peace.

There is nothing new about rewriting history, through editing of texts over millenia to advocate certain political or religious positions which result in the dumbing down and indoctrination of the masses.

Texans have the temerity to complained that they are stereotyed as shitkickers.

Boy howdy!

Ofersince72:

“I see very little difference in the myths that
the Texas school system is endorsing and the myths and lies of other education systems.  One lie replacing another lie.”

Odd that you are the only person who caught that.  You are correct, of course, as Howard Zinn made abundantly clear, that our textbooks have ALWAYS been skewed, if not politically created (whether deliberately or otherwise).

That said, I would still have to say that textbooks have gotten better over the years in bringing in ideas, history, people, etc. that help to “balance” (though perhaps not up to Zinn’s standards) older textbooks.

In that regard, this situation really is different - and a great deal worse - than anything we have seen in quite some time.  Night-Gaunt’s concern is absolutely correct here: Can you imagine this for the whole country?  Indeed, are we now going to see a “domino effect” in various states, with more of them moving toward this dangerously revisionist history?

As much as I agree with Zinn, I think he would find the Texas situation frightening, and would have been the loudest voice in protest of it.

Peace.

I see very little difference in the myths that
the Texas school system is endorsing and the myths and
lies of other education systems.
One lie replacing another lie.

“A properly functioning system of indoctrination has
a variety of tasks. Its primary target are the
“stupid and ignorant masses”. They must be kept that
way; marginalized, and isolated. Ideally, each person
should be alone in front of the TV screen watching
sports, soap operas, or comedies, deprived of
organizational structures that permit individuals
lacking resources to discover what they think and
believe in, to engage in interaction with others, to
formulate their own concerns and programs, and to act
to realize them. This hapless multitude are the
proper targets of the mass media and a public
education system geared to obedience and training in
needed skills, including the skill of repeating
patriotic slogans on timely occasions.”
(Noam Chomsky)

Now just imagine this for the entire country! Imagine Fox News is the only kind of news there is. That every road is a toll road and prayer in school is compulsary.
Science conforms to Creationist molds. Then you would have the kind of country that the likes of Glenn Beck, Dr. D.James Kennedy, & Marion “Pat” Robertson would approve of. Welcome to the real life version of Margaret Atwood‘s “The Handmaid’s Tale” come to horrid life! It is at the door and read to break it down.

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/he-who-controls-the-past/

Dear God send them back to the tar pits with the rest of the dinosaurs. If these morons had another brain it would die of loneliness.

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‘1984’ ministry of truth. good morning u.s.a.!!!!

I just hope Reagan’s smiling face is on the cover!