WNYpulse.com

"The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence."

Gandhi

I am enthused with wnypulse.com since it gives the people another potential tool to reign in a government now running totally amok. Yes, pulse has the potential to be used as a freedom tool. The next election season may prove the worth of my statement. Now, of course, my perspective is not mainstream: I believe government can never operate honestly as along as it forcibly taxes people, since "stolen money never fructifies."

And I am opposed to "monopoly government" which is, by my definition, "any government that forces membership or citizenship on any person."It appears, however, from the state of the world, and the large number of violent people in it, that we may not yet be ready to give up coercive and violent government.

Therefore, the next best thing is not to let government operate in secret, as it often does now.

Enter (hopefully) Pulse and"no spin" news.

Now, admittedly, the site may appeal to that pro government type- the kind that think that the system is good, but just needs a little tweaking, and that is good too.

But I am excited by the hope that pulse may appeal to the reverse - the radical, the type of person who is embittered by government- and disenchanted by the all spin, all the time mainstream news.

Pulse stands ready to expose the negative, coercive side of politics, just as well as present the good and the public spritied. No spin. That's the mantra isn't it?

So people who have entered government, not to serve the public, but, rather, as a way of life, as a living, as a road to wealth, as a means of power, and control, to exert violence in organized form, are, perhaps, more likely to have their motives revealed in the pages of pulse than in the mainstream media.

Mainstream media has little incentive to do this work, since, by its nature, it has an inherent pro- government bias. The reasons are threefold:

One: a large segment of the general public, is bred to obey authority blindly, and, believe in the inherent depravity of man, and, thus, clamor for more government. They trust government more than their fellow man. And since the majority of citizens, seem to feel this way, the media cannot afford to offend their sensibilities.

Two: the media has an innate dependence on government officials for a disproportionately large share of its daily news and cannot afford to offend its major news source.

Three: its advertisers are in general very much dependent on government approval, and its good graces, since the government heavily regulates commerce in this country and has many tools of retaliation. And, since media advertisers are predominantly corporate in structure, and stockholders benefit by the status quo, in general, corporations do not favor any real challenge to, or wish change of, the pro-government bias in media since it might be likely to disrupt their profit agenda, may earn them disfavor in the eyes of government, and, worse, disrupt the populace, many of whom are now to be found in a general and deep intellectual sleep. A disruption of the (pro-government bias) status quo, might perhaps prod the apathetic public to question more than the efficacy of their current government - but also the need for many of the products advertised and consumed.

It is a lie then to think that advertiser-paid media will seek to uncover and oppose real corruption, unwarranted and self serving exansion of power, and incursions against liberty by government.

That is up to the people themselves.

Therefore, as government represents violence - the ability to force citizens to do something, I see the antidote to government violence in the web, and sites like pulse.com.

And just as the printing press made every man his own priest - since every man could then own a Bible, the web makes practically any citizen who desires to be so, a truly informed and educated voter, and potentially free of the all-spin news.

( I especially look forward to election time when pulse has information on all the candidates and the public can log on and read in depth about each. How that could potentially change the way politicians campaign, if voters shake off their apathy, is truly exciting.)

The web, (and I don't think I am intending hyperbole) with sites like wnypulse, and others like it, may be, in time, the greatest boon to human freedom since the bill of rights.

We may yet see world where self government becomes the rule, and monopoly government is looked back at as a part of our inglorious, barbaric, and, frankly, dark ages past ...

In the meantime they ought to teach wnypulse in schools and college civics courses and other cities (and countries) should take a look at it .... it is only the beginning...