Can you suggest some specific material where I may get started?
I don't know about anyone else here, but I didn't realize that the Dodd video sat for 20 years. I saw it for the first time last year and it about knocked me over. I can't imagine why anyone would sit on that material given its gravity. That's kind of a shock.
I'd start with Charlotte Iserbyt and her book,
Deliberate Dumbing Down of America. Charlotte appears to be one of a handful, if that, of people who do not misrepresent significant elements of the conspiracy, or reframe the issues to confuse the audience, or omit critical factors that can leave one to misguided conclusions. Charlotte has written a number of excellent short articles and posted them on her website as well as at Newswithviews.com. Additionally, her son runs
AmericanDeception.com that contains an excellent library of pertinent materials. Also, I know there are a few others here who follow Charlotte and I have discovered threads that present and discuss her work, so you may want to start by searching RPF. Finally, Charlotte's footnotes reference other sources of excellent material, such as
William Fosters Toward a Soviet America.
Actually, you made some pretty grievous claims in this thread and you seem to refuse to back them up. What you have done however, is smear both the JBS and G. Edward Griffin, without one ounce of proof.
Time to put up.
Thanks in advance.
I will start another thread that introduces the larger issue of Controlled Opposition operatives and how they work, as this thread has become mired in the defense of certain operatives who have risen to "Idol" status, and hence, the discussion has lost focus and therefore its significance. I do not want to get into childish squabbles about the authenticity of one's favorite personality, for then we are simply dealing with emotionality. What is important to understand is the subtle techniques that are used by controlled opposition in order to gain an audience's trust and ultimately its loyalty, thereby influencing the audience's thinking and perception of reality as they lose their ability to critically evaluate their world on their own.
Finally, I will say that I am more than amazed that no one seems to appreciate the significance of the delay of the release of the Norman Dodd interview. Let's rollback in history to understand where we were when these revelations were exposed.
First, let's review perhaps Dodd's most important revelation, which was that the President of the Ford Foundation, a definite insider, said that they sought to
"alter life in the United States, [so] that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union."
Second, it is important to recall that this interview was conducted in 1982:
- well before the Berlin Wall came down;
- well before Communist governments collapsed, including the Soviet Union;
- well before the end of the Cold War;
- around the time Reagan was discussing the Starwars space weapon initiative (SDI)
- well before Reagan and Gorbachev met at the 1986 summit in Reykjavik that resulted in the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (eliminating nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges)
- during the time while Reagan was waging covert wars against Central America (telling Americans he was fighting against the Communist threat), resulting in more than 70,000 political killings in El Salvador, more than 100,000 in Guatemala, and 30,000 killed in the contra war in Nicaragua
- at the time, this was the height of Reagan's “evil empire” campaign, saying that America's Judeo-Christian traditions compared to the Soviet Union's totalitarian leadership and lack of religious faith are at the heart of the fight between the two nations.
YouTube - President Ronald Reagan - "Evil Empire" Speech
- Well before Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech on June 12 1987
YouTube - "Tear Down This Wall" Reagan speech June 12 1987
Now, think about what you would have thought if you found out in the 1980's that the American establishment was planning to merge the US & Soviet systems? Tell me how confused you would have been to hear that right in the middle of Reagan pounding his fists regarding the threat of communism.
Just take a look at this Los Angeles Times article by Eleanor Clift from 1986,
Reagan Asks for Support for Defense Plan,
President Says Soviet Threat Requires Buildup. The article reports, "In a nationally televised address from the Oval office, Reagan said continued high levels of defense spending were essential if he is to forestall the Soviet threat around the world and win concessions from Soviet Leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev." Hence, Dodd was basically telling the world that the he was told that the Soviet system was to be merged with the US System around the same time Reagan is prosecuting a war in Central American “communists” and calling-on the American people to spend massive amounts of money to build-up our defenses This is huge!
How can anyone say that this information was not important at the time, or that there would have been no interest. It would have changed everything and showed Reagan's call for a buildup to be nothing more than a scam on the American people. Anyone who is the least bit interested in truth and the plight of the American public would have worked around the clock to distribute such information.
I just don't get how anyone can merely scoff at someone who expresses concern over this 20+ year delay in releasing this key interview. Further, I don't see how anyone who promotes themselves as an activist would tell others not to listen to someone who is expressing such concern.
In Summary, releasing Dodd's information in the 1980's, especially prior to 1989 (7 years after the interview), could have made a major difference in how American's perceived events around them. I simply don't know anyone can argue this point, and I don't know how anyone can sleep at night knowing that they possessed such information but did not release it!
