U.S. "Has No Functioning Democracy"


July 18, 2013 "Information Clearing House - Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter is so concerned about the NSA spying scandal that he thinks it has essentially resulted in a suspension of American democracy.

“America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy,” he said at an event in Atlanta on Tuesday sponsored by the Atlantik Bruecke, a private non-profit association working to further the German-U.S. relationship (its name is German for “Atlantic bridge.”)

Carter’s remarks did not appear in the American mainstream press, but were reported from Atlanta by the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, whose Washington correspondent Gregor Peter Schmitz said on Twitter he was present at the event. The story does not appear in the English-language section of the Spiegel website, but is available only in German.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35582.htm

How about our servile corporate media, a former president calls it like it is and gets no press. What a fraud our media has become

Our servants are stealing from us, lying to us, robbing us, spying on us, depriving us of our rights and destroying our home.

What does it take to waken sleeping home owners anyway?

Perhaps another war or martial law should do the trick....

Yeah right!

I would love to see a rise in tar and feather stocks.....

In other words, people who use the terms “conspiracy theory” and “conspiracy theorist” as an insult are doing so as the result of a well-documented, undisputed, historically-real conspiracy by the CIA to cover up the JFK assassination.

That campaign, by the way, was completely illegal, and the CIA officers involved were criminals; the CIA is barred from all domestic activities, yet routinely breaks the law to conduct domestic operations ranging from propaganda to assassinations.

I watched all night last night this subject being discussed on television live.

There were some great points raised, and people are becoming more informed about it.

None of this would have taken place had it not been for the whistle blower who now is hold up in Russia.

...not the best place to be either. Russia and Obama are partners in crime...

Your allegation escapes me completely. When did I call you a name, and what did i call you?

Let's try to catalog these listed items so i can fit them into my theory.

Item one is one man's opinion. Whether or not he is delusional is hard to say owing to a lack of supportive evidence for his hypothesis. Considering that nothing is really impossible, we have to consider the "Chicken Little" hypothesis, wherein Chicken Little's "prophesy" serves to prevent the sky from falling by making people aware of the Sky's possible intention to fall. This of course identifies Chicken Little as an overly paranoid CT'er to the public at large (which may in fact be the case), but the possibility must be considered that Chicken Little only considered that the sky intentionally falling was only a possibility, but even that possibility, however small, was too horrific to imagine, and so, by willingly making himself a "prophet" of doom who would be laughed at later, he may have "exposed" the sky's plan to fall to the extent that the sky could not now fall without taking full blame for doing so intentionally. The sky, not being an idiot, may have been forced to abort it's planned fall. At any rate, we don't know the circumstances or the reality of the situation, so we can't categorically say the man was out of his mind, or that his CT did not have some valid basis. We can only assess for ourselves what may or may not have been the case, thus only a conventionalist idiot or propagandist would vilify or ridicule him.

Item 2 is only a bit of hype to make the youtube vid more popular, or to find out what he was seeing, as obviously what he saw was an annular solar eclipse. This puts it into the "Man bites Dog" news category, as "dog bites man" as we all know, is hardly news. Item 2, doesn't even fall into the category of a conspiracy theory and must therefore be rejected as one. Only a conventionalist idiot or anti-CT propagandist would vilify or ridicule the promoter of the story as a CT.

Item 3 required no verification as Alex Jones is a well-known idiot & money-loving, fear-promoting shill for the ruling elite. If it is a conspiracy theory of his, one can be almost certain that it is a legitimate conspiracy, but that Alex is using misdirection/disinformation to create provably false hypotheses to discredit the worthwhile theories regerding the conspiracy. Since the theory is being promoted by AJ, it is almost a foregone conclusion that the theory as expressed is a false one. Only a conventionalist idiot or anti-CT propagandist would cite an AJ presentation of a CT as representative of the CT mindset. Quite obviously, any rational CT'er wouldn't fall for such BS.

Item 4 isn't even a CT, but merely some blogger's speculation. It therefore can't qualify as a CT. Only a conventionalist idiot or anti-CT propagandist would vilify or ridicule the promoter of the story as a CT.

This compels me to ask which one you are...a conventionalist idiot, or an anti-CT propagandist? Is there a third possibility I haven't considered? If so, please let me know what it is, as I'd not want to confine your answer to a fallacious false dichotomy.

Funny you should say that...I'm developing a theory about the irrational conventionalist zealots conspiring in a desperate attempt (pathetically by use of trite logical fallacies, evasions & misdirections) to somehow try to discredit the more intelligent skeptical minds of the more normal CT types.

In this Psychology Today article, Conspiracy Theories are explained
as the brains natural response to excessive and faulty repeated
stimulation due to an overabundance of irrelevant or extraneous
data which is viewed as threatening. In other words a mental disorder.

Interesting reading.



http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200501/conspiracy-theories-explained