Hi, Folks -

NOTE: Any RMN links below probably will not work because of September's hack and file deletions.

Posted in early June 2014, saved from a Google cached copy:

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(repost) Yo Youngsters: THE ESTABLISHMENT RUNS THE REVOLUTION

Posted By: hobie
Date: Tuesday, 3-Jun-2014 01:53:16

In Response To: 'White Privilege' is Being Used as a Red Herring (hobie)

Hi, Folks -

This was written in 2006, at a time when much of our attention periodically turned to Southern California and folks there who were expressing an idea that California rightly belongs to Mexico. But it's applicable to most any "divide and conquer" situation we might think of. As David Wilcock recently pointed out, even the two-party system has been a way of pitting the city folks against the country folks. And so it goes.

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http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi/read/87145

Yo Youngsters: THE ESTABLISHMENT RUNS THE REVOLUTION

Posted By: hobie [Send E-Mail]
Date: Saturday, 1-Apr-2006 01:53:20

Yo, All Youngsters (Mexican Youngsters included) -

I'm one of the "aging Gringos" - an American Baby Boomer; a "former Flower Child". :) Jose Angel Gutierrez is about five years older than me. I was awake and on the planet at the time he started La Raza Unida and MAYO.

I was "there". I was in the atmosphere of the day and of the times. We were a Tribe. We were against war, and The War. We were for "civil rights" and "equality". We stayed up all night, and talked about Important Things. We were Sincere and Earnest. We were Passionate and Active. We would be heard. We would change the world for the better.

Or...so we believed.

Opening lines from The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" (about 1971):

We'll be fighting in the streets

With our children at our feet

And the morals that they worship will be gone

And the men who spurred us on

Sit in judgement of all wrong

They decide and the shotgun sings the song

Huh...? Who's he mean, "the men who spurred us on"...?

In April 1968 (fifteen months before Woodstock, two years before Kent State - Google 'em if you don't know what I'm talking about), Dean Deane - not kidding, that really was his name :) - at Columbia University made an unfortunate remark that sparked days of protesting, demonstrating, sit-ins and taking over of the Dean's office.

His remark became known as "The Strawberry Statement". That phrase became the title of a book by James Simon Kunen (a student at Columbia at the time) and an MGM movie that soon followed.

What Dean Deane had said was:

"A university is definitely not a democratic institution. When decisions begin to be made democratically around here, I will not be here any longer. Whether students vote yes or no on an issue is like telling me they like strawberries."

Police were eventually called in. Tear gas filled the air. Clubs thumped upon flesh. There was much gnashing of teeth.

And yet, somehow, the war in Vietnam continued.

In 1996, someone connected with the John Birch Society happened to spot something in Kunen's book and wrote briefly about it:

In The Strawberry Statement Kunen made this interesting admission of the powers behind the scenes that bankroll the pressure from below:

In the evening, I went up to the U. to check out a strategy meeting. A kid was giving a report on the SDS [Students for A Democratic Society] convention. He said that ... at the convention, men from Business International Round Tables, the meeting sponsored by Business International for their client groups and heads of government, tried to buy up a few radicals.

These men are the world's leading industrialists and they convene to decide how our lives are going to go. These are the guys who wrote the Alliance for Progress. They are the left wing of the ruling class.

They offered to finance our demonstrations in Chicago. We were also offered ESSO (Rockefeller) money. They want us to make a lot of radical commotion so they can look more in the center as they move to the left.

Jerry Kirk, while a student at the University of Chicago, became active in the SDS, the DuBois Club, the Black Panthers, and the Communist Party. Not only did he observe the support provided by the Establishment during his revolutionary activities, but he was able to detect the strategy of pressure from above and pressure from below at work. Kirk broke from the Party in 1969. The following year, he testified before the House and Senate Internal Security panels:

Young people have no conception of the conspiracy's strategy of pressure from above and pressure from below.... They have no idea that they are playing into the hands of the Establishment they claim to hate. The radicals think they're fighting the forces of the super rich, like Rockefeller and Ford, and they don't realize that it is precisely such forces which are behind their own revolution, financing it, and using it for their own purposes....

That brief article can be found, here:

jbs.org/artman/publish/article_342.shtml

[Brief article is gone now; full, longer article at this link:]

http://www.jbs.org/jbs-commentary/who-is-paying-for-the-student-revolutionary-movement

Conclusion of The Who's song:

Then I'll get on my knees and pray

We don't get fooled again

Don't get fooled again

No, no!

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Meet the new boss

Same as the old boss

(Wake up, Mexican kids and aging Gringos - they're doing it to us again. :)

--hobie

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