Climate change scientists have earned Washington D.C.’s highest compliment—being treated like political threats to those abusing government power. That makes them whistleblowers, however involuntary, and a bureaucratic endangered species. That also triggered the two related responses to any serious dissent—shift the spotlight from the message to the messenger by smearing the latter, and engage in strategic retreats through rhetorical reforms with as little substance as possible. These cynical tactics have polluted the increasingly heated debate on global warming the last few months. The good news is that these early attacks often are the first signs of necessary changes to come.Character assassination has been the essential core message of AIPAC since its beginnings, hiding behind the name FLAME. If anyone dared criticize the zionist terrorists for attacking and killing Palestinians during the middle part of the 20th century, they were immediately labeled as anti-Semetic and reminded of the Holocaust. The dysphemic branding of all of those who criticize, regardless of the veracity of the criticism, was seen as a most efficient and effective tool to thwart public awareness, and destroy the credibility of those who in many cases, truthfully presented the facts. Jewish zionism quickly turned guilt into a weapon of convenience, used unmercilessly, much like the Israelis behaviors in expanding their 17% holdings of land in Palestine in 1946 to the 77% they control today. That was done with violence and terror, accomplished with the financial support of US interests, kept in line by the threat of brand labelling.
So effective has this simple psychological abuse been, that the power elites in the US quickly became adherents of it. The SwiftBoat liars and their associates, beginning with the personal attacks on Clinton and others, lying and branding their enemies with not one whim whether what they said was true, since that never mattered. All that mattered, from the lessons of anti-semetism, was to get the public to repeat the brand link and dissassociate them from the mainstream. Few in the US can tolerate being labelled anti-semetic even though the label is for the most part meaningless and in no way represents what is in most cases truthful about the person labelled. Likewise the SwiftBoaters and their predecessors have been strikingly successful at coopting the tactic and castigating those they want demeaned. The minds of the victims are piling up.
Now we have bushco using the same tactic against any and all perceived to be at odds with their views. Truth is no longer relevant in any way whatsoever. All that matters to them is their faith in constructing a faux reality that an apathetic majority will find tolerable, and then branding and labelling those who are opposed or dissent with dysphemisms. That has moved now unto the factual realms. Fact is bad; facts are indeed becoming the anti-semetic guilt. If you are a scientist, trained in facts you are the enemy, and all that you say is wrong. If you are a reporter and you report factual truths you are evil and part of a cabal of enemies, even anti-semetic and anti-christian. NASA is the enemy of the state. Biologists are the enemy of the state. We have moved from anti-semetism to anti-christian guilt associations. Teachers who insist on teaching facts are liberal anti-christians; pharmacology researchers insisting that medicines be properly tested and available if safe to everyone are anti-christian; military leadership who demand that their orders represent the realities of the battlefield are anti-christian; and so far forth.
How easy it is to forget the playground rhyme, sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. Call me anti-semetic, liberal, anti-christian, radical, communist, anti-capitalist, hippy freak, etc., etc., et al. It won't change the facts, it won't stop the truth.
