Dear friends, You may be a bit puzzled by all the postings I've been sending out subsequent to announcing a list holiday! (;>) The point is that I've abdicated myself temporarily from the responsibility of _worrying about my lists -- I don't take time each morning to `attend' to them, and conscientously review reader submissions. But in my preparations for travel, as I clean out my files and unsub from all my incoming lists, I keep coming across gems to share. C'est la vie. Hope you're enjoying. I've found little on the "American Patriot Friends Network" appropriate for reposting to this audience, and I have _zero interest in the _content of x-files type conspiraces and UFO abductions. But I am very interested in the _process of such conspiracy memes. Those who _succumb to them become part of a cult, so to speak, and exit themselves from sensible society. And those who _scoff at them, without appropriate discrimination, become blind to the fact that the entire world is operated via layers upon layers of conspiratorial institutions, each fooled by the one above. (Eg, the _staff at CNN (eg) probably believe, in their naivete, that they really are reporting news, although they are aware they snip out important bits for `justifiable' reasons. And those who make the X-Files series probably believe the only reason they're on the air is because they're popular.) The piece below, from the Patriot Network, is, I believe, spot on. I adopted the same hypothesis upon seeing "Independence Day" -- subsequently nothing has crossed my desk to make me doubt it, and I've seen additional confirming signs. But, in my mind, it is still only an hypothesis. rkm btw> Thanks to all those who responded to "rkm on East Coast". I'm now planning on spending the entire week of July 6-10 in the Boston area and will be meeting with as many people and groups as possible. I'll try to set up an open party some evening as a general exercise in group "simultaneous beaming down" from cyberspace to terra. I guess that's how all meetings will work in 2121, under possible-future "version 2.04, the Star Trek variation". btw-2> I consider this on-topic for the rn list because these kinds of shenanigans are designed to factionalize the population and prevent political solidarity against our depraved rulers. We must appreciate the tactics of our opponents if we are to overcome them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 02:26:48 -0700 From: Kenneth Vardon <•••@••.•••> Reply-To: •••@••.••• Organization: American Patriot Friends Network MIME-Version: 1.0 To: AFPN <•••@••.•••> Subject: ALIEN CONSPIRACY http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1998/Jun-07-Sun-1998/news/7636477.html [Las Vegas Review-Journal][Donrey Newspapers] [Review-Journal Online] Sunday, June 07, 1998 ALIEN CONSPIRACY Believers of an American plot to unite the world against UFOs say such a concept is being generated at Area 51 and the result will be a fascist rule similar to Germany under Adolf Hitler. By Joe Schoenmann Review-Journal RACHEL- For the 150 people gathered at sunrise Saturday near one of the most talked about classified military facilities in the world, "Area 51" is home not to alien UFOs but to a good old American conspiracy. The alien-UFO story, most of them now say, is government-concocted propaganda designed to throw people off the real story behind Groom Lake, as the military prefers to call Area 51. If they doubted themselves before they got to this roadstop 150 miles north of Las Vegas, they likely left more-convinced as the nearby rally fell under the steady gaze of federal park rangers, security guards on distant hills and unmanned cameras and microphones behind unmarked boundaries. ---<snip>--- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- a political discussion forum - •••@••.••• To subscribe, send any message to •••@••.••• A public service of Citizens for a Democratic Renaissance (cadre) (mailto:•••@••.••• http://cyberjournal.org) ---------------------------------------------------------- Non-commercial reposting is hereby approved, but please include the sig up through this line and retain any internal credits and copyright notices. .--------------------------------------------------------- To see the index of the ppi archives, send any message to: •••@••.••• To subscribe to our activists list, send any message to: •••@••.••• ---------------------------------------------- A community will evolve only when the people control their means of communication. -- Frantz Fanon
