From  a face-book link, The Shill World Order: Pushers of the False Left-Right Paradigm

“Now with the election of Obama, we see the friends that joined us under Bush, retreat to their liberal corner and take on the role the neo-cons did, in order to shield Obama from criticism. Therefore under Obama, government dissent equates to fascist extremist who hate blacks. This is the standard program that the corporate left uses in order to quell government dissent by hyping militia groups and racists. Just think back to all the subterfuge associated with groups on the right, who were against government corruption under Clinton. An unbiased look at the political environment back in the 90’s would show that they were not all extremist, and the events hyped up in the media had the fingerprints of COINTELPRO all over it.

Just recently in Philadelphia, 2 undercover officers organized a KKK rally and they were the only ones who showed up. Several people showed up to protest these racist who were actually cops. The anti-racist activists smashed the car of the posing skinheads, after they antagonized the protesters. An excerpt of witness testimony to the court is below.”

My Comment

Well, this has been my experience too. When you step outside the box and tell it like it is (and since I am a true outsider it’s been easier for me to do), you’ll get trouble.

First, you’ll be ignored.

This will be enough to get most novice writers to shut up and move to some safer ground. Maybe give up writing anything except what fits the mold of the alternative press (they have a mold too).

If by chance you survive that and still manage to get heard, you won’t get attributed. You may be read, but you’ll be subtly tarnished as a possible kook, racist (it doesn’t matter that you’ve never written anything remotely racist) or whack-job. Expect to be called a “wing-nut” if you’re anything other than a socialist.  Criticize any of the following: Israel, the Israeli lobby, the media, the financial industry, the banksters.  the Federal Reserve, drug and money laundering through the stock market, and also be a believing Christian or sympathetic to Christians and you can  expect to be called anti-Semitic. (And if you’re also an immigrant from a developing/third-world/less developed (take your pick of the label, I can’t keep track) country, you’re obviously even less welcome as a critic – I mean, don’t you have enough to criticize in your own country?)

Expect everyone to nonetheless take your work and leads and run right on ahead without a blush of shame. They will, because they can. Those are the kind of people who are in charge. Shame isn’t in their vocabulary. They would have all resigned and taken up jobs in the post office if it was.

No matter what your credentials or your credibility, you will be ignored and tacitly coerced into shutting up and conforming.

If that also doesn’t work, expect other kinds of pressure…. to steer you in ways different from what you would want.

Next comes provocation. You’ll get blatantly racist or antisemitic emails that seem to contain news-worthy items.  The idea is to bait you into replying so that it looks as if you’re in close contact with or pick up your ideas from unworthy material or sources.

Then come attacks. Emails calling you various nasty epithets from mild (moron) to severe (crack-pot bitch) will land up in your mailbox. Your mail will vanish or get deleted or moved around in your mailbox. Blog posts will show up on forums. Old articles go missing or get subtly vandalized.

(Correction: I’m now told that wordpress blogs aren’t easy to hack at all. So I might be okay there …)

You may get death threats – real or simply malicious foolery (last week’s episode).

I don’t expect any sympathy for this. Journalists have had their heads blown off for doing nothing much different. I only mention it to keep people’s eyes focused where they should be  – on the government, not on all the divisions – class, race, color, religion – that the media keeps bringing up…