	id AA21199; Sun, 13 Nov 94 07:45:04 CST
Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2 Num. 79


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2  Num. 79
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
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DAVE EMORY -- JULY 5, 1992
Observations on America's 216th Birthday
 
[...continued...]
 
DAVE EMORY [continues]:
Well indeed, that is all that is gonna be required of most people 
to allow the things that are overtaking this country *now* to 
continue. And that is to "go along with the program", keep up 
with your neighbors, conform, don't protest. After all, things 
are basically, on the surface at least, they appear the same -- 
if you can ignore all the homeless people and other obvious signs 
of social disintegration. But the forms are all there, all re- 
assuring.
 
And one of the things that the Nazis used very effectively was 
the human inclination to conform. One of the things that made it 
easy for them to round up entire ghetto areas of Jews and ship 
them to the concentration camps was that they rounded up the 
entire neighborhood at once. And people who had spent their 
entire lives "keeping up with the Joneses" so to speak, doing 
what their neighbors did, doing what their compatriots did, 
simply went along. Everybody was going onto the train, so they 
went too. And it was also, it's also worth noting, that in areas, 
Jewish areas of cities, the social conditions were allowed to 
deteriorate to an enormous extent: there was starvation, there 
was typhus. The situation got so bad that many of the ultimate 
victims of the Holocaust said to themselves, "Well..." (when they 
were told that they were being "relocated", perhaps to an area in 
the Ukraine or someplace else) they said, "Well... What can be 
worse than this?" So they got on the trains. Well, they found out 
soon enough.
 
But conformity is an absolutely deadly thing in the face of 
Fascism. And ultimately, those of us here in the United States 
are gonna have to *stop* conforming. Even though things may look 
O.K. on the surface -- all the forms are there. All very re- 
assuring. The houses, the cinemas...
 
I personally don't like the summertime. The country is silly 
enough from September through May. But June, July, and August, 
this country gets really, really "out to lunch". There's an 
enormous amount of "silly power" loose in the United States 
during the summertime, and this summer is no exception. People 
who perhaps weren't all that serious year round, begin paying 
attention to recreational activities exclusively. Certainly it's 
nice to enjoy the outdoors. Everyone needs a vacation. But things 
get seriously stupid in the United States during the summertime. 
And they're stupid enough all year round: we've got all the jive 
movies, you know, "Batman, Part 6" or "Nightmare on Elm Street, 
Part 27: Freddie does it in the road". And people really go "out 
to lunch" from June through the end of August. It is my fear that 
if, *if* George Bush counters his very, very sorry position in 
the polls by precipitating an incident which could result in 
partial or complete martial law, it will happen in the summertime 
when everybody is "out to lunch". {1}. And it is time, I think, 
for those of us who take our lives and this country seriously to 
*stop* conforming, to stop "going along with the Joneses". 
Because as I said, the only "Jones" you're gonna wind up keeping 
up with is the late "Reverend Jim" of the Peoples' Temple.
 
One of my personal role models, an individual who I admire a 
great deal both as an artist, as a human being, and also as a 
political animal, was the very famous playwright, George Bernard 
Shaw. I would note, incidentally, that George Bernard Shaw was 
*very* active as an anti-Fascist, one of the very first critics 
of the Mussolini regime in Italy. And his is an example that I 
think we could all profit by.
 
As I mentioned at the top of the broadcast, when people ask me to 
characterize myself politically, I refer to myself as an anti- 
Fascist. The vast majority of my political views would be seen as 
liberal/progressive. Some of them, such as my opposition to gun 
control or my support for the P.O.W./M.I.A. situation with Harry 
Martin, would be seen as traditionally conservative. Although 
actually, if you took a look at the CIA connection to the gun 
control movement, the contingency plans to establish martial law, 
and if you took a look at the apparent involvement of some covert 
operators in Southeast Asia, in the drug traffic there -- and it 
was as we've seen, as we *have* seen with the Kerry 
subcommittee's report, covert operations specialists *were* left 
behind in Viet Nam and Laos and Cambodia, and the government has 
*deceived* with this regard. So actually, I think if one were to 
examine my political views, they would all be seen as 
progressive.
 
But I take a lot of heat, both from the "right" *and* the "left". 
I have tremendous admiration for the struggle put up by the 
Soviet Union and the various partisan movements, such as the 
partisan movement in Yugoslavia. I have tremendous admiration for 
their resistance to Fascism -- that gets me in a lot of trouble 
with more conservative listeners. On the other hand, I've always 
viewed Marxism as unworkable, a 19th-century idealist system, and 
like all idealist systems, whether it's supply-side economics or 
Marxism, it was destined always, in my opinion, to fail. That 
alienates a lot of people on the "left".
 
The listenership to this program goes from the far "left" to the 
far "right". Organizations like the Revolutionary Communist Party 
on the "left", to the John Birch Society on the "right", all tune 
in. And I don't take any truck with either of those two extremes. 
But they all tune in. I guess, to me at least, that's a certain 
amount of indication for the hard documentary format that I use 
here. People want information and they will get it, they know, on 
this program. The *constructions* that the "right" and "left" put 
on what I have to say... The far "right" and the far "left" of 
course differ. But they all tune in.
 
But I take a lot of heat from people who are doctrinaire of the 
"right" or "left", because I am *not* an ideologue. I have always 
seen political ideology as a secularized form of religious dogma. 
And there is nothing more inimical to human understanding, in my 
opinion, than religious dogma.
 
And that is not something which a lot of people are willing to 
give up. There's an awful lot of ideologues around. And again, I 
take a lot of heat from the "right" or the "left"... "right" 
*and* "left", I should say. Harry Martin, who I think is arguably 
the most important journalist in this country right now, is a 
political conservative. We disagree strongly about many, many 
things. But we agree about the rule of law and the need for 
Constitutional authority. Plus, Harry has some excellent contacts 
within the national security establishment and is quite obviously 
working with elements that are opposed to George Bush and some of 
the martial law plans that are going down right now.
 
But I take a lot of heat over my alliance with Harry Martin. And 
Harry Martin, in turn, catches a lot of heat about his alliance 
with me. He works in Napa [, California], the driving force 
behind the *Napa Sentinel*. Napa's an *extremely* reactionary 
community. Harry is now running for Napa County Supervisor. He's 
being called a "card carrying, leftist liberal" because of his 
criticisms of the national security establishment.
 
So, if you're gonna be a free-thinker, if you're gonna do what 
you feel is right, then you're gonna catch a lot of hell from the 
ideologues of both the "right" and the "left". But I feel it's 
*essential* for people to break the pattern of conformity, if 
they are going to stem the rush towards Fascism which is going on 
in this country.
 
As I said, one of my role models has long been George Bernard 
Shaw, an anti-Fascist as well as a great artist. George Bernard 
Shaw had an interesting observation. He said that, "Reasonable 
people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt 
to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, 
depends on unreasonable people."
 
Well, I think that is an accurate statement. And an awful lot of 
us, I think, are gonna have to become "unreasonable people" in 
the not-too-distant future if we are going to survive.
 
And by way of underscoring George Bernard Shaw's political 
philosophy -- a very important political philosophy -- I'm going 
to play a section of a tape. I played this a few years ago, and I 
think there's some very, very profound insights into political, 
social, and intellectual reality, and I think those insights are 
vital for us to assimilate and to evaluate if we're going to 
survive personally as well as politically.
 
                   [...to be continued...]
 
-------------------------<< Notes >>-----------------------------
{1} Another time to be wary is around holidays, as William Cooper 
has noted. Clinton will be bringing back a Democratic, lame-duck 
Congress in December with the purpose of getting GATT through. 
Watch out for, "Hurry up, let's pass this thing so we can go home 
to our families for Christmas." (1) There will be pressure for 
these people to hurry up and pass GATT because many are about to 
be replaced by the newly-elected members, and added to that 
pressure will be the pressure of passing GATT so that Congress 
can adjourn in time for Christmas; (2) The public will itself be 
distracted by the Christmas holiday, and may therefore be less 
politically aware and active.
 
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