The definition of propaganda, according to the Marriam-Webster dictionary, is ”ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage an opposing cause” [Source].
To get a better understanding of a word, the dictionary gives sentences that the word is used in. I like to give examples:
Will Ron Paul Kill the Iowa Caucus?
Iowa GOP Worry about Hacker threat to Caucus [Link removed, but linked to a story on the potential threat of hackers to the caucus]
[Had to go to RT, who I commend, to show the bias in our media, although the media here claims to be a Free Press]
Even though the Iowan people are choosing their candidate, which seems to be Ron Paul (according to the latest polls all putting him in-front), the Governor of Iowa, had the audacity to say this, in response to the rise of Ron Paul in Iowa:
“People are going to look at who comes in second and who comes in third,” Governor Terry Branstad told Politico. “If [Mitt] Romney comes in a strong second, it definitely helps him going into New Hampshire and the other states.” [Source 1] [Source 2]
This is the Governor of Iowa saying that his people’s votes don’t matter. I wonder how his opinion would change if Ron Paul were to come in second, instead of first? Would he say people should be focusing on first and third place, and ignore the vote of hundreds of thousands of Iowans?
What is going on here? What is going on when the State Governments bend to the will of the Federal Government, and the allegedly free press institute campaigns of propaganda that only perpetuate more Government control?
What happens when the voice of businesses and corporations disappear, and certain corporations realize the only demand they need to meet in the absence of a free market economy (which is the case in America) is that of the Government’s?
What happens when the people’s voice no longer matters, or more specifically, when the people decide their voice does not matter?
It was the people who through their states, granted specific priveleges to Government, which are different than rights. We mutually agreed to allow the Government certain powers and obligations, while simultaneously commanding them to respect and take an oath to protect the people’s rights. That is a privilege.
The Iowan people are a free people. The state of Iowa is a member of the United States of America, and by itself, an independent free state. It is the free people of Iowa who should be deciding who their free state chooses as a candidate for 2012.
The people have the right to vote, the right to free speech, the right to petition their Government, the right to protest, the right to gather, the right to their property, the right to keep and bear arms, the right against unreasonable punishment, unreasonable search, and unreasonable seizure. This is just a small list of the rights the people were born with.
The Government has the privilege to protect our liberty, not seize or limit it, not censor or eliminate it, but to protect it. And the Government, and its Government controlled press, should realize that the people of Iowa are free, and that screwing with their votes, and screwing with their freedom, only motivates them to learn about freedom more, and to speak about freedom more.
The people of Iowa should realize that our rights do not exist if we ourselves do not acknowledge them.
Learn about your rights, read the Constitution, and realize that regardless of what a poll says, what a vote says, or what a propaganda perpetuating press says, the spread and growth of liberty in the minds of people is not something that can be tallied nor does it need to be tallied. And regardless of the outcome of the Iowa 2012 caucus, the message of liberty has already started to spread.
I stand with the people of Iowa and their dedication to the Constitution and freedom.
“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men” -Samuel Adams
Ahmed Serag
