THE INTERNET AND CONTROL OVER IT aka THOUGHT CONTROL

            CONTROL OF THE INTERNET AND THOUGHT CONTROL

                                                       by 

                                                 JC Sullivan

Every so often I read about “Experts” saying more must be done to get people online. I have to ask why? Oh sure, a world where EVERYBODY is connected is ideal. But then I always have to ask, WHO PAYS?

Some have the gift of sight and write about the dangers of government intrusion into the Internet! How wonderful, they say, it would be if we all had free Internet.

There is definitely a move for communities to have “free” Internet for residents. Crack the door open now…..kick it open later…..just like Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Plain Dealer columnist Kevin O'Brien wrote about the same topic. He didn’t mention government thought control. The blogosphere is where folks get alternate opinion. 

Pop thought has been force-fed to we, the people, formed by major publications and broadcast media. Eliminate sources of free thought and you eliminate expression of free thought. Just like Mullahs worldwide.

The majority of people in our nation don’t know about Radio Free Europe and the “jamming” of the radio waves by Communist governments. People who thought freely were arrested and sent to concentration camps, gulags, or just disappeared. Just like Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany.

Is our nation going to have to go through the same hoops? I have great hope that the ongoing revolution in America, being expressed by our opposition to involvement in Syria's Civil War, will extend through the next election cycle.

Before both WWI and WWII the majority of the American people opposed our involvement in the wars and politics of Europe. Charles A. Lindbergh, an American hero, was vilified for his opposition to involvement. Unfortunately, the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese military changed all that. 

I'd like to be singing "Here Comes Santa Claus" at this Christmastide, 2013. Instead I will be singing "Here Comes Uncle Sam". Ole St. Nick used to be jolly. But I, like so many other Americans, no longer trust him....we've seen too much. 

And when he controls what can be said on the Internet and what can’t be said he will have achieved total thought control over we, the people. Just like Mullahs.