OWS - A Peek Behind the Curtain

[Ian Livingston]

> You guys believe the masses are dumb enough to be manipulated and lied to?

Ask Eddy Bernays and his cronies and followers.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 11/21/2011 1:46 PM, Michael F wrote:
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> The masses dont always represent and speak for what is "best"?
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> It would be nice to think Lincoln was right: you can fool some of the people
> all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of
> the people all of the time.
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> But manipulation of the masses is an important fact of life, in the face of
> which societies aspiring to be democratic just have to muddle along somehow.
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> It's amazing things work even as well as they do.
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> On Nov 21, 2011 10:42 AM, "Joseph Tracy" <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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>> Considering what we are all up against it doesn't surprise. Very telling
>> story.
>> On Nov 21, 2011, at 12:35 PM, rich wrote:
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>> Considering what elizabeth warren is up against in Massachusetts I'm not
>> surprised.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> On Monday, November 21, 2011, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_11/a_peek_behind_the_curtain033610.php
>> >
>> > Chris and his team obtained a strategy memo from the D.C. corporate
>> > lobbying firm Clark Lytle Geduldig Cranford (CLGC), led in part by
>> > former aides to House Speaker John Boehner. The document, prepared for
>> > the American Bankers Association, a firm client, outlines the kind of
>> > coordinated pushback industry lobbyists have in mind in response to
>> > the Occupy movement.
>> >
>> > It’s an amazing peek behind the curtain. The bank lobbyists make clear
>> > that they fear the Occupy protests, believe Democratic gains in 2012
>> > would undermine financial industry power, and would like to invest
>> > heavily in a media/opposition-research offensive that would try to
>> > discredit both Occupy activists and any Democratic officials who
>> > express any sympathy for the movement’s goals.
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > Indeed, the memo talks openly about aggressive warning shots at
>> > progressive Dems — most notably, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) — as a
>> > way of intimidating other Democratic lawmakers from aligning
>> > themselves in any way with Occupy priorities.
>> >
>> > Perhaps most amusingly, the CLGC memo alludes to the fact that the
>> > bankers would rely on allied surrogates to launch attacks, since no
>> > one likes the bankers themselves.
>> >
>> > Chris explained towards the end of the segment:
>> >
>> > “What’s contained in this short memo are all the most craven, corrupt,
>> > and insidious forces of the status quo coming together to squash
>> > Occupy. In fact, the document represents just about everything wrong
>> > with America in four short pages.
>> >
>> > “We have a lobbying firm whose web page glowingly advertises that Sam
>> > Geduldig, a former Boehner staffer, ‘knows how to kill legislative
>> > threats to his clients.’ Drawing up a battle plan for the financial
>> > and its 1% members to use their deep pockets to attack the occupy
>> > movement and protect the banks’ financial interests by creating
>> > ‘political cover’ for bank-friendly policies.
>> >
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"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant