http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1308/S00150.htm The Morning I Woke Up and it Was 1942 AGAIN! Friday, 9 August 2013, 3:51 pm Opinion: David Croucher The Morning I Woke Up and it Was 1942 AGAIN! My story is not about the GCSB, this simply motivated me into writing. The mechanisms being used here to gain peoples ‘buy in’ (being untruths) clearly work, but is this the best way forward? Who is protected? I wrote regarding the GCSB not only because it is topical, but because I think it is potentially dangerous, and I’m not just referring to the ‘tidying up of the legislation’. Most people regard democracy as the best structure delivering freedom of thought, choice, speech, providing all with the opportunity to follow their own dreams, goals, within the bounds of the law of course. That same democratic structure or system requires checks and balances to protect the system itself because we are all Humans. Protecting the system allows it to continue to deliver those lofty Human ideals most believe to be their right. Most but not all that is, some people believe however they a better than others and perhaps the ‘Mass’ have more rights than they deserve or should have. This would never be explicitly stated of course (as with all hidden agendas) for people would recognize it for what it is. They would reject it outright. Accordingly these people opt for a more subtle approach they know works, they seek to create an illusion, a plausible untruth, repeated over and over until people ‘buy it’, they might use fear (which is a self generative emotion) as a mechanism, division is yet another. Another tactic often employed is a deliberate lack of information or misinformation, they attempt to hide the overall picture from us, each piece of legislation designed to erode your rights when considered in isolation is far more palatable, or less objectionable, in reality though it’s just another pernicious untruth. They seek and most often succeed in gaining your willing consent for their hidden agenda, in this case eroding our democracy is that pernicious agenda. These methods today are used extensively against the public, to influence and coerce us, in the pursuit of others ‘ideals’ being placed upon us, often to our own detriment. [....]