So Nightline has their typical subliminal, brain washing propaganda program on last night.

[Uncle Joe]

Their final question of the evening was "Should Marijuana be legalized?" and you can go to their website and respond.

With that kind of question, one would think part of the program would be relevant to enlightening the American People to that issue and of course you would be disappointed if you assumed such a thing.

They didn't discuss the pros; if there any and cons of the insane, War on Drugs and/or how many lives and families have been destroyed by that dysfunctional policy.

They never mentioned the United States breaking the world record by having the largest number of it's own citizens in prison, with hundreds of thousands of them in for non-violent possession offenses.

They never discussed the issue from an educational, medical, personal privacy or Constitutional point of view.

They didn't have any knowledgeable people on to discuss or even debate among them selves the pros and cons of legalizing Marijuana from an economic or social justice point of view.

They didn't cover the Netherlands; experience or explain how they have a lower of percentage of their citizens to smoke Marijuana than other nations of Europe where it's illegal.

Instead Nightline chose to use the first segment of their program to cover the devastated nation of Afghanistan; having suffered from near 30 years of warfare, where they openly smoke opium in huts or caves and how children have tested positive from second hand smoke, if this seems vaguely deja vu, just remember 9/11/Saddam Hussein. That's called a memory stack by emotionally tying one irrelevant issue to another as a means to either remember a script or in this case to cynically manipulate the American Peoples' deliberative process.

The next time you watch ABC “News” or Nightline count the number of times legal drugs are pushed on the people for every ailment under the sun to truly appreciate their hypocrisy.

And finally if you want to know why the U.S. is "#1" on so many critical issues or measurements, you can thank corporate media propaganda programs like Nightline for consistently selling the American Peoples' best interests down the river.

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[Occulus]

1. "Memory stack"?

I've never heard that term before. I'll be sure to remember it.

[Uncle Joe]

2. They teach it in sales or memory classes, emotion is the glue of memory so the more ludicrous

the stack, the easier it is to remember your script.

That's why after 9/11 during the run up to the war with Iraq every other sentence and/or paragraph uttered by Republicans and their corporate media propaganda machine included the words 9/11 and Saddam Hussein.

Even if they didn't overtly claim Saddam was behind 9/11, continually linking the two together, emotionally planted that subconscious tie in to the American Peoples' psyche, it was brainwashing.

[SocialistLez]

3. Yep. Reminds me of "Orwell Rolls in his Grave"

where they mentioned some 30 something percent of Americans thought/think Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11 despite the terrorists being from Saudi Arabia and Egypt mainly.

[Uncle Joe]

5. I've read estimates of 40-70+% depending on the most viewed propaganda outlet, but

when checking out some of the links on these old threads, I noticed there has been some scrubbing or erasing of old articles and columns as well.

I suppose there are many institutions that would like to forget their role in this mass brainwashing endeavor.

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[asdjrocky]

4. Thanks Uncle Joe, good points all. nt

[Uncle Joe]

6. Thank you asdjrocky. n/t

[Gold Metal Flake]

7. More of that liberal media bias.

[Uncle Joe]

8. After being a dedicated news-hound for more than 30 years, the only way I can view

them today is as coming from the dominant corporate perspective.

Liberal, conservative, moderate, Independent, Green, Libertarian, Socialist or Populist are only words to be used for divide and conquer purposes to them.

If Paul Wellstone were alive today and openly proposed corporate supremacy over the people as a new Amendment to the Constitution, the corporate media would push for his birthday to be declared a new national holiday, whether he was liberal on everything else or not.

They've sold out the American Peoples' best interests too many times for me to believe anything else.