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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 8 Num. 47
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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THE TRUTH MATTERS
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Months back I was down-in-the-dumps and discouraged. It must
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have shown because I got an avalanche of e-mail from readers,
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offering encouragement. One reader in particular wrote, "Hang in
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there. The truth matters."
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Contrary to the opinion of certain persons who are not as smart
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as they think they are, there is such a thing as "the truth".
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Lucky for us, our quaint old-fashioned predecessors knew this.
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If they had been "Harvard trained" or "Yale trained" like certain
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puffed-up potentates you see nowadays on television, then our
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current predicaments would have been that much the worse.
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Thankfully, Charles Dickens believed that lampooning 19th-century
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societal hypocrisy might possibly do some good; he did not put
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aside his pen, deciding it was "all relative." Good thing that
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Abraham Lincoln and the populist abolition movement did not get
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the "bright idea" that slavery was "just a matter of
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perspective."
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After the recent fuss over black churches being burned, now that
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the hysteria-mongerers and their parade have passed by, it is
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left to the street sweepers to sort it all out. (Same with the
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Oklahoma City tragedy of April 19, 1995: in case anyone actually
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cares, an unaided fertilizer bomb did *not* bring down the Murrah
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Building. Charges were placed on key support columns. There is
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an ongoing cover up.)
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Our local newspaper, the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, carried
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an article in its July 13, 1996 edition: "Looking Beneath the
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Hype" by Jim Dey "sweeps up after the parade." Mr. Dey, with
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whom I often disagree, somehow got stuck with the unglamorous
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task of sifting through the "elephant droppings" left by the big
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boys of "journalism". So he gets to (yawn) go after the truth,
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long after the jet-setters have moved along to frolic someplace
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else.
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Quoting an article by Champaign native and U of I law graduate
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Mike Fumento, which appeared in the Wall Street Journal's op-ed
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page apparently on July 8th, Dey shows that the black church
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burnings story, as reported, was "a deliberate hoax." According
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to Fumento, "There is no good evidence of any increase in black
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church burnings in the south."
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According to Fumento, as reported by Dey, the genesis of the
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black church burnings story is as follows: The Atlanta-based
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Center for Democratic Renewal (CDR) released flawed statistics
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which indicated racially-motivated church burnings in the South.
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The mass media jumped on the story and before you know it, there
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is Bill Clinton, staring into the camera: "We will find you. We
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will hunt you down."
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Not only are the church burnings not confined to black churches,
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but furthermore, according to Fumento -- using statistics
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provided by the National Fire Protection Association -- church
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arsons have actually gone *down* since 1980. Not just down, but
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*way* *down*.
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("Ring, ring." Is that my phone? Could that be the Washington
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Post calling?)
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The final irony is that the mass media's having gone bananas over
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this non-story has led to "copycat crimes." Says Fumento, as
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quoted by Dey, "Here lies the ultimate irony of what the [CDR]
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has started and the media have continued. By claiming there has
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been an epidemic of black church burnings, it appears that in
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recent months they have actually caused one. They have also
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fomented tremendous racial division and caused great fear among
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Southern black churchgoers."
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Gee. Aren't "professional journalists" something? I won't go
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into other examples of their selective perception now, because
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I'd rather take a moment to thank all the "non-professional
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journalists" who have greatly helped the work of Conspiracy
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Nation. My apologies if I forget to thank you; the "non elite"
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helpers who have contributed to this "e-zine" are many.
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My thanks to:
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** Many readers who keep sending me material and leads. I save
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anything that looks good and "one of these days" I hope to pass
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along what you have sent.
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** Sherman Skolnick, a consistently helpful source, never too
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busy or too proud to lend a hand.
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** Joseph Andreuccetti, thanks for your "street smarts" and
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insights.
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** "Mr. Mercedes", an anonymous light burning somewhere on the
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east coast.
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** Kenn Thomas, for consistent encouragement.
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** Orlin Grabbe, who really gets some people mad.
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** John DiNardo, whom I consider the "spiritual godfather" of
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Conspiracy Nation.
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** Richard Ginn, who did the most rare thing of offering to
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help.
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** John, a.k.a. http://www.europa.com/~johnlf/cn.html, for his
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help.
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** The many web sites with links to Conspiracy Nation.
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** The many who have helped my efforts by subscribing to my
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newsletter.
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** The many who have phoned to chat.
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** All others, in big and small ways, who have helped "spread the
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word."
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Alternative news in general has made a major dent in the plans of
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elitists, would-be oligarchs, snobs, fascists, and other finks.
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Against tremendous odds, we whom they disdainfully call
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"populists" -- a.k.a. the common people -- have surprised the
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overfed and overly proud dictators of thought by hitting them
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HARD with our best weapon: the truth.
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Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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