Is the Washington Post Suggesting a #No_Fiat_Zone?

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson.)



Maybe we'll all be on a #No_Fiat_List now, not just a #No_Fly_List.

Let me get this straight. In an act of insanity, some person concludes that killing random citizens somehow makes things better ... and the Washington Post's reporters, Josh Hicks and Martin Weil somehow pull a rabbit out of their hat, and jump directly to a revealing conclusion from that person's suicide-murder note. However, one has to ask whether the lone rabbit they choose to pull out reveals more about the Washington Post than it does the insane murderer.

As described to AP, the note appeared to contain terms and references often found in messages from antigovernment fringe groups [words supplied by reporters]. One of the terms was “fiat currency,” AP said.

Is the Washington Post jumping on a chance to get in some propaganda for someone, from day one? Have they borrowed something from the NRA? If they had to pull ONE useful thing from the murderers note to tell the public, that is what they'd present, and how they'd present it? Seems like a bizarre - and very unfortunate choice to make.

If you'd like to find out more about the reasoning used by these 2 reporters, you'll have to ask them directly. Please be polite, and discrete if you do contact them. They may simply be doing their jobs, clueless about the implications of what they say, for whom, at whose request.

You might ask who suggested the focus of their particularly curious wording. Themselves, their editors, or an outside contact.

If you'd like to make absolutely sure you get on that #No_Fiat_List, lets schedule a large conference at the Center of the Universe. Or, at the Marriner Eccles building itself, that bastion of antigovernment fiat currency.

If you are REALLY clever, like Washington Post, you can outdo their propaganda, by ingeniously associating anti-democracy innuendos with their clumsy efforts, in a pre-loaded statement that suggests, say, that paid employees of corporate media are often indirect employees of the Peter J. Peterson Foundation, and also members of centrally-fringe, anti-democracy groups such as the Central Planners Guild. All without them noticing on the 1st read through.

In fact, lets make this a national competition, open to all intelligent citizens willing to be placed on a #No_Fiat_List. I'm declaring a year-long project called the #Anti_FUDeralist_Papers. At the end of the year, those contributors who have most ingeniously advanced the cause of advancing democracy by running circles around, over, under and through our corporate propagandists and their demeaning, circular logic, will be awarded the yearly prize - the #Propagandists_Pup, along with a pile of the corporate-owned newspapers it (and our democracy) uses for potty training. Maybe the Propagandists_Pup will rival the America's Cup someday, as well as counter the corporate propaganda which has run amok in the USA.

Gentleintellects, start your thinking.

The unending race to keep scaling up "a more perfect union" with appropriately emerging methods, not just stale ones, has again been noted. As always, that requires liberty and fiat for all, not just for those who consider themselves elite, and therefore more qualified to Centrally Plan for a the supposedly general welfare of all. Every few generations, we see how that so-called elitist thinking turns out. The so-called elites are never as smart as all of us fringe groups making up the diverse Middle Class. #Fringe fiat forever? That may be our only hope.