GOVERNMENT MIND CONTROL

There were two interesting stories reported today on the Reuters news service. Bloggers in China and Television in the United States. How are these two stories related, they are both attempts by big government to control the masses. China’s bloggers now number 34 million and write about a myriad of topics, some of which upset the “General Administration of Press and Publication” which is trying to extend the rules for “licensed news outlets” to blogs.

Meanwhile in the United States, where we prize our freedom of speech, television broadcasts, the opiate of the masses, are required to go digital by 2009 eliminating free over the air broadcasts and making analog televisions obsolete. The Commerce Department has announced a $1.5 billion dollar plan to keep Americans watching television with subsidies to purchase converters for analog televisions. Did we get a rebate when records were replaced by compact disks, or when DVDs replaced tape media? Television is far too important to keeping the masses occupied and feeding them propaganda. Don’t be a mindless automaton, get rid of your television now, and learn to think for yourself.