ASHA on the First Amendment

ASHA on the First Amendment Our founding fathers considered it self-evident that speech was any person trying to express, to the best of his knowledge, what he believes to be the truth. They believed this right to be the most important right. They believed this right must be protected in order to protect one’s right to participate in our democracy. Isn’t it just common sense that every person has the right to say how things should be? Yes, but like the proverbial tree that fell in the forest, if he says something and nobody can hear him, did he really say it? We have to remember that speech is not just speaking, but being heard. Speech is communication and, by definition, it has to go two ways. What has happened is that there have been capitalist forces who care not for the country or the Constitution, but only of their own riches and their power over others. People attracted to politics often have strong psychopathic tendencies, so guards need to be set in place to help expose them for exactly what they are. A controlled media works hard to make sure that their political workers are not exposed. In a democracy, the secret of control over the government is to have control over the media. Whoever controls the media controls the mind. Not known to many people is something called Operation Paperclip. It was a government program to bring over knowledgeable people from the fallen German NAZI government and give them jobs in the American government. People who had worked directly with Goebbels creating the NAZI propaganda essential to Hitler’s rise and retention of power were given jobs in the U.S. Govt for the purpose of teaching the CIA how to use the media to control the democracy. In 1976, CIA Director William Colby was quoted, “The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” It goes without saying that this is a dangerous situation. This unconstitutional aggregation of power to the CIA must not be allowed to continue and must be publicly addressed. Again and again, the country has been lied into war. The lie is necessary for our leaders’ military goals to be achieved because our military leaders are not allowed to fight war unless the country is attacked first. What we have with the media today are the results of a long and continuous effort to monopolize the media in order to control the public and, from there, the operations of government. Truth is censored when it reveals their corruption. People’s voices are silenced. It is long past time for people to make the connection that anybody who intends to monopolize the media is not doing it for profit. They are not doing it because of the mandate in corporate law which instructs corporations to make as much money as possible because, again and again, the most popular stories and the most popular programs that make the most money for the media are consistently pulled from anyone’s purview as if they never existed. It becomes self-evident that when profitable stories and programs are silenced that the real point of monopolizing the media is to control the right of freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is not only speaking, but it is the right to be heard and it is the right to hear others whom the owners want silenced. The connection must be made clear in people’s minds that there can be no other reason for anyone to attempt to monopolize the media other than to control our first amendment rights. We must realize that monopolization of the media is nothing less than an act of treason against the United States, which is defined by its constitution. The people who control the media defend themselves by saying that they get to say whatever they want and get to censor anyone that they want in their publications because they are privately owned. This is not true. The government has its influence in every single part of the major media. ASHA maintains that private publications do not get to say whatever they want or to censor anybody they want. A careful reading of the First Amendment says nothing about private ownership as a legal reason to censor or a reason to commit fraud. They have managed to avoid legal trouble from participating in the obstruction of justice of serious war crimes committed by our government by saying they have the right to free speech or that they were mistaken years later, like NY Times did in their apology about the invasion of Iraq. The power of the media should never be underestimated because it is the power to create perceptions and it is the power to herd the masses over cliffs or to feed on their own. The power of the media can convince people to turn away from Jesus, Mohammed, or the Buddha, and even turn them into demons in the minds of the people. People are whatever people think of them and the media can turn any figure into an inaccurate presentation that suits their purposes. We should know better by now having been lied into Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. We should know that freedom of speech does not mean that anything can be said without consequences that people should take responsibility for. Even before they wrote the Constitution, there were laws against defamation and fraud, and those laws did not change when the Bill of Rights were amended to the Constitution. No person should be allowed to use speech for harm or unjust gain whether it be for fraud, slander, the covering up of crimes, the incitement of violence, or for the psychological abuse of propaganda—the repeated and deliberate dispersal of misleading information. Our media, daily, is guilty of practicing all these forms of harm. These are crimes against freedom of speech. The owners of the media do it in order to deny communication to the people. No candidate without access to the media will ever be elected. The people have the right to hear others and to be heard. The control of the media chooses elections by only allowing candidates to run that have their complete approval. The controlled media allows hate groups and hateful people to speak more often than other opinions because in order to keep power, the elite must divide the public in order to keep them from realizing that their best interests are shared and how important it is to organize together. Many may think that the people saying hateful things are their enemies, but it is a media that does not show other points of view, especially ones that promote unity and understanding. We must begin to question why we would let the CIA, an arm of the Military Industrial Complex that has done so many bad things, control our media. The fact that the media so consistently promotes more and more war shows that William Colby’s words were true. People need to remember that it was the monopolized control of the airwaves that spread the propaganda of untruth and fear that incited the violence in Rwanda, ignited the civil war in the Balkans, the war crimes of WW2, and were behind our recent invasions of countries based on false reasons that took the lives of over a million people, people whose blood, sweat, and tears we must remember are just as real as our own.