Some wonder why there aren’t more news articles describing taxpayers being looted by various scams. Yesterday, for instance, the “Pigford Settlement” gave 2.3 billion dollars to people who’d said they were black farmers who’d been “discriminated against by the U.S. Department of Agriculture”. Thousands of them claimed that they were “farmers”, and all got juicy parts of the settlement, though no one got as much as the lawyers. The number of people who claimed to be mistreated black farmers was far in excess of the total number of black farmers in America.
That sort of story isn’t allowed to be investigated. The “news”, on the other hand, just loves to cover stories like “Is Pluto a Planet?” The following quotes are from the man who first said Pluto wasn’t a planet:
“I went back to the house and called the people at media relations at Caltech and told them where to find me. I hung up the phone and waited for two minutes before it rang.
“I spent most of the next twelve hours, and indeed most of the next week, on the phone talking to the press about the solar system, planets, and why the IAU’s proposed definition (of planets) was fatally flawed, and explaining why Pluto — and Xena — should really not be considered planets.
“At first the reporters were shocked. They were calling to get quotes from the most newly minted planet discoverer about how fabulous all of this was. Instead I was telling them that everything they had heard from the IAU the day before made no sense. Suddenly there was a controversy. My phone kept ringing.”
“Reporters were shocked.”! “My phone kept ringing.”!, Mike Brown wrote in his book. When we read that “shocked reporters . . . kept calling”, we have to be utterly stunned at how intellectually and morally vacuous the state-run media is and how callous we’ve become to the underlying bubble-headed venality that is its nature.
Employees of the state-run media worked with incredible diligence to take the name/definition-change of something light years away, something that makes absolutely no discernible difference in a single person’s life, and magnify it into front page “news”. Then, a book is written about it, and the book is reviewed!
The very same editors and reporters who labored so mightily to magnify trivia worked just as hard to ignore investigating the Pigford Settlement, in which thousands of people fraudulently claimed to be farmers to get 2.3 billion dollars from taxpayers.
How anyone can participate in this process, either as a producer or a consumer, while ignoring abounding evil, defies not only rational analysis, but, in the end, the possibility of salvation.
