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Some Guy Named John Elway Narrates Some Propaganda

http://rawstory.com/2009/10/john-elway-narrates-paranoid-terrorism-watch...

This story is over at 911blogger, where commenters are focusing on the narrator, who is someone many of them seem to know. It's a video describing the imminent terrorist threat from innocent-looking white people, who evidently hate our freedoms very much.

What's more interesting, however, is the organization behind the video this Elway guy appears in. It's the "Center for Empowered Living and Learning" (CELL). In fact, the video is part of a much larger CELL exhibit at the Mizel Museum in Denver (formerly the Mizel Museum Judaica), which was funded to the tune of $7 mil by a Colorado real estate developer named Larry Mizel. (The video itself was funded by the Department of Homeland Security.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Mizel. Mizel, according to Wikipedia, was also a founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and in 2003 was elected the group's Chairman of the Board.

What's the significance here? I'd say file it along with the other material that suggests that one purpose of the "War on Terror" and related propaganda is to obscure the nature of violent resistance in occupied Arab/Muslim countries. The people of Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan are not fighting occupiers -- they're terrorists, doing terrorism. The lives of the occupiers are seriously disrupted by the terrorists, whose motivation is irrational hate, or something. That could happen here, too. I mean, wait, that did happen here, on 9/11/2001. It's just a matter of time before it happens again, and this time it could even be white people doing it! The related intention of this kind of attempt to influence public perceptions is to "normalize" terrorism -- to get people to accept that those crazy terrorists will always be with us, and thus it would be prudent of us to accept all sorts of Police State-esque violations of our civil liberties and to embrace an East Germany-esque willingness to spy and report on our neighbors.

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