MICKEY Z.: The Numbers Just Don't Add Up (And "They" Still Have The Guns)

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

In the Vietnam War protest song, "Five to One," Jim Morrison of The Doors sings:

The old get old
And the young get stronger
May take a week
And it may take longer
They got the guns
But we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeah/
We're takin' over

In my youth, I took solace in the whole "we got the numbers" thing. The very idea filled with me hope... but little did I know, the ones with the guns have had it all figured out for a very, very long time. Philosopher David Hume -- in 1758 -- explained it this way:

"As force is always on side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments as well as to the most free and most popular."

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world," says Gore Vidal. "No first World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent." This potent combination of muscle and misinformation manifested itself in the events leading up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

On Feb. 15 of that year, tens of millions of earthlings marched and carried signs to declare their unambiguous disapproval of America's plan to drastically ratchet up what had essentially been a 12-plus year war against the people of Iraq. The massive global protests were barely noticed. The shock-and-awe invasion went on as planned. The repulsive occupation continues to this day. Doesn't say a whole lot for "having the numbers," huh?


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