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Recently, I was genuinely privileged to have Radio Caroline’s Peter Moore write a couple of contributions to England’s England. Ah, now, I’ve deliberately mentioned “Radio Caroline” ahead of Peter’s name because it’s relevant to what I’m about to say, although his contributions were not about Radio Caroline. Instead, they were him as an intelligent and highly articulate person sounding off about stuff like the Climate Change religion and later about how we could maybe provide a radio service for the population that, unlike conventional media, allowed for debate and mental stimulation without toeing the Government line.
Peter and I have a love hate relationship that is irrelevant to the far more important and greater vision that we both seem to share about what is really going on and how, as humanity, our minds are being manipulated and indoctrinated by those who want us to believe things that just aren’t true. I suspect that in the back of Peter’s mind, and definitely in mine, there is a frustration with what is going on and the lies that are being told by mainstream media, the Government, and those in authority.
I also suspect that both he and I are restricted by time and syntax. I write my random rants as a hobby to keep my mind stimulated and to expand on thoughts I have about ‘stuff’, quite often using it as a wind down from the day at work. I’m not working on writing stuff for here full time, nor am I paid for it (I deliberately don’t have adverts running on my sites). So, when I do write things they tend to spew out of my head through the keyboard and onto the screen ‘as is’. I don’t know if Peter is the same. I try to re-read and check my articles grammatically at least, even reading them to see if they actually make any sense, but usually I queue them to be published without being completely satisfied, maybe even feeling frustrated that I couldn’t express myself properly in words. Quite often I read an article after it’s published and think how terrible it was that I used 50 meandering words when a swift stinging phrase of 3 or 4 words would have been better.
I don’t know if what I’ve just described applies to Peter Moore’s self analysis of his word-smithery, but I have always admired his writings and have lamented that they tend to be few and far between. I truly believe he should be providing regular snippets of his wit and wisdom for the rest of us to bask in, via a ‘Peter Moore Thinks…’ type blog. Sensibly, he seems to resist this idea, maybe because of his time restraints, or maybe because he knows he would get bored or wouldn’t be able to spout a regular missive, or whatever. Possibly he doesn’t need to have his ego stroked in the way people like I do.
This sad loss to the collective knowledge available via the internet was temporarily lifted when he published his concise and extremely well written articles via my site.
Then it all went horribly wrong.
I deliberately didn’t comment on his last article (here) but a fair number did. However, I think I was quite shocked by the divide of the nay-sayers into their two camps.
Firstly, and least embarrassingly, there was the reaction to his plucked from thin air list of ‘alternative’ orators that could bless a radio station designed to stimulate real thinking. The list had most probably been picked quickly and without great thought, and was just to give examples of those with forthright anti-establishment views, and was intended to illustrate the far greater point. But in the eyes of the gentlemen from the press and media who’d stepped by to read Peter’s article, the list were all evil right wingers. This may have been true, but the reason why the leanings of the list of orators just happened to be to the right, was very probably due to Peter suffering from the time and syntax restraints I described earlier relating to my own missives.
Immediately, these reactionaries boxed and catalogued the proposed radio station as being a ‘right wing propaganda’ station. They love their labels and they’d found one that fitted, and grunted and said how it wouldn’t be for them, dismissing the entire concept, or even missing the major point of the need for a radio station that challenged the indoctrinated values.
Sadly, these people on the left tend to control media at the moment, and this was a classic example of them dismissing ideas that might threaten their pre-programmed thoughts on what the population must be fed about the world. These people are not to be trusted with providing us truth via the news media. I really dislike these people!
The second and most embarrassing collective of nay-sayers were those who considered the article an opportunity to attack Peter Moore about Radio Caroline. Attacking Peter Moore about Radio Caroline is of course something I have done in public for a large portion of my life. However, Radio Caroline was not an element of the article he’d kindly penned for me, and so these people had no right to hijack the article and spew their anti-ness in this way. I’d have had no problem with them dealing with and constructively dismantling the actual points he was making, but they completely ignored those. I don’t know if that was because they are basically stupid and unable to discuss such concepts as those being raised or are just malicious people looking to cause trouble.
What I also noticed about them was that they cowardly hid behind made-up names in order to take their swipes. If I was to look into it, I’d probably also find they were so cowardly that they even logged into the comment system via proxy servers.
It was this second lot of nay-sayers that annoyed me far more that the loony lefties (who, by the way, will be first against the wall when my revolution comes). Just like the lefties, they were far too busy attempting to score points, rather than giving serious thought and response to the concept that Peter was articulating. Because I’d been proud to have the thoughts of Peter Moore published via my site, I found the comments embarrassing, demoralising and a great let down.
I was particularly annoyed because I feared that Peter might feel put off from penning further articles, considering it to generate far more grief than reward.
When I say this of course, I’m not trying to keep him interested in making contributions via this site, but trying to keep him interested in writing his non-Radio Caroline thoughts anywhere. I believe we need people like Peter contributing to our collective thought and knowledge.
OK. Here’s the bottom line. Separately, Peter Moore and I can see what’s really going on, and it needs to be communicated. It needs to be put ‘out there’ for others to consider and hopefully agree with, learn from and start murmurings of discontent about. Yes, scary as it might be, we are talking about there being a need for a revolution. Maybe not a bloody revolution, but at least a revolution against the media that manipulates us.
We as a society are being manipulated and controlled and lied to and the propaganda they are feeding into our heads has never been stronger. Yes, during the Second World War the Ministry of Information put out films and rhymes and people were fodder to the propaganda, which they knew was propaganda, but there was a war on. Today, we are supposed to be free and at peace. Yet, this is far from the truth. The battle to control our minds is being won in a far more subtle way than during the war. The vast majority don’t even realise they are being manipulated. They never ask themselves why they think or believe certain things. They don’t look for the bigger picture, or try to work out whose thoughts they are thinking or how they’ve been drip-fed a programming of their mind.
This is something that has to be battled against. I hope those who have issues relating to Radio Caroline will respect this and try to see the far bigger picture should Peter Moore be kind enough to publish articles here in the future.
Ideally, I’d like people to encourage him to return soon and give us ‘More from Moore’.
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