Journal - Vol. The following is reproduced here with the express permission of the author, Jeff Jacoby. Permission is given to reproduce and redistribute, for non-commercial purposes only, provided this information and the copy remain intact and unedited. It serves to distort the truth, and to control the attitudes of society. The following author presents here an excellent example of how double standards can be promoted by the press, and used to condition an unwitting public.
Propaganda is the most effective form of mind control.
That perfect silence you hear is the environmental movement not being blamed for the crimes of the Unabomber. It is President Clinton not calling a press conference to denounce the purveyors of hate and division on the ecological fringe. It is the Sunday-morning Beltway pundits not accusing environmental activists of inflaming an unstable creep like Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber suspect. There's no disputing the pull of militant environmentalism on the mind of the Unabomber. Kaczynski attended that meeting.