VL-IV (15): This Is Not A Test, pages 339/240

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Sun Apr 12 00:22:19 CDT 2009


two things:


only did the fed perfect that in the 1980s--that why the CIA imported
all that coke into south central knowing that the crack epidemic was a
perfect bugaboo to the fear of john and judy mainstreet, one that
almost too good--the shit was too toxic

second, not sure how much goring was involved in the TOTW project
beyond trying to fuck Leni Riefienstal (which apparently wasn't hard
to do--she even claimed that Hitler made a pass at her once--if u
fucked Hitler would you admit it?)

rich

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>        Liddy foresaw that the heroin issue could be the very instrument
>        that the White House group needed to consolidate power within
>        the bureaucracy, and thereby extend its police power. To
>        demonstrate how a few determined men could manipulate the
>        emotions of an entire nation by invoking a few highly visual
>        symbols of fear,

The cycle of films was climaxed on June 13 by the showing of
       Triumph of the Will, a Nazi propaganda film made under the
       auspices of Hitler and Goering which graphically depicted the
       way a "national will" could be inculcated into the masses
       through the agency of controlled fear and frenzied outrage.




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