CONSTITUTIONAL CONVERSATIONS
The Strange Case of Michael Avenatti
by
M.E. Boyd, Esq., “Miss Constitution”
For the last two weeks Miss Constitution has introduced you to a propaganda technique called Snow is Black. It is the same technique that was introduced to radio listeners in 1938 as “War of the Worlds” with Orson Welles. Many Americans were convinced we had been invaded by Martians. It is the same technique proposed by Willie Munzenberg to get the American public to accept the Russian Revolution and become a Marxist nation. The technique would be used to “organize the intellectuals and use them to make Western Civilization stink. Only then, after we have corrupted all its values and make life impossible, can we impose the dictatorship of the proletariat.” (Munzenberg was later assassinated by Joseph Stalin as a rival Marxist.) It is the same technique used by Hitler propogandists regarding the demonization of the Jewish people.
But this seems like a long time ago. Surely it is not being used now. America won WWII and the Soviet Union collapsed. Need we worry now about Snow is Black? Yes, we need worry. One interesting example of what is happening is the strange case of Michael Avenatti. Emerging as the legal representative for a porn star’s suit against then private citizen Donald Trump, Avenatti fixed up his face, bought some very expensive suits, ties, and shirts, and instantly became the darling of major television networks because he espoused a hatred for the President shared by those same networks. None vetted him; he was put on air hundreds of times; he was acknowledged as a possible Presidential candidate for 2020; and Chris Matthews told us all breathlessly that Avenatti was not out for money. In other words, he was packaged and delivered to tell us all that Snow is Black. The idea is that if a statement is repeated often enough it can become true to most people even though their common sense and experience tell them something different. The notion that Michael Avenatti is Presidential material is the nes plus ultra of the Snow is Black theory. Nike, thank goodness, seems not to have been impressed whatsoever, especially by attempted extortion.
How are the American people protected from this sophisticated technique by the United States Constitution?
One of the greatest inventions of statecraft adopted by our Founders in 1787 is the concept of “a marketplace of ideas” that opens up all ideations to examination without censorship within the framework of the 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution and specifically the “free speech” clause. It is this open airing of viewpoint, then countered by other viewpoint, that protects the nation from the repetition of unchallenged propaganda. We have seen in the last several decades a weakening of this greatest of protections and at the very present time we are witnessing distortions of our structural systems as evidenced by the latest unconstitutional impeachment proceedings; a refusal to honor the concept of a peaceful transfer of power; the misuse of a questionably constitutional secret court; corruption in the State Department; in the Department of Justice; in the Intelligence agencies; in the Pentagon; betrayals of confidence in the White House itself; media conversion from journalism and fact-finding to wholesale partisan ideology portrayed as journalism; and to a near black-out of diverse opinion in our colleges and universities. In other words, Willie Munzenberg’s stated methodology to destroy the United States begins and ends with the development of propaganda techniques such as Snow is Black and ends with corrupting our values and making life impossible. We know these techniques are working because without shame the following is occurring:
- A leading candidate for President declares himself an outright Socialist/ Communist a system developed originally by Karl Marx that is unconstitutional on its face as a violation of the Liberty ethic that is our country’s main and universal value
- Resistance to a duly elected President of the United States that amounts to sedition (overthrow of the government by unlawful means) and a rejection of peaceful transfer
- A self-loathing of the country so great that elected leaders in states and cities are releasing violent criminals into our midst deliberately causing violence and death to innocent people (see the news about the 92 year-old victim from a loving family brutally raped and murdered); note public safety officers relentlessly attacked
Our Founders anticipated all manner of corrupt human practice and all manner of wickedness in the bosoms of people and in the bosoms of elected and appointed persons of power. It lays out the rules for those holding governmental power so that there is a check on the corruption that inevitably oozes from such persons. All we need to do is know what it says and follow its guidance. Until we can get a handle on how to stop the resonance now shaking the foundations of the bridge we all live on, Miss Constitution suggests:
- Research and read for a “marketplace” of viewpoint and fact until you can draw as accurate a picture as possible on any issue. Opinion alone is insufficient citizenship; the 1st Amendment protects ALL points of view on public policy. Read diversely.
- Take an active role in unseating those in power who wish us harm
- Understand that the movement to end the existence of the United States would not be as bold as it is unless it thinks it has now corrupted the majority of people
Miss Constitution worries that you might think her an alarmist. Miss Constitution is, in fact, a realist. We are not teaching our Founding documents and philosophies. We are not teaching our economic system. We are not teaching the uniqueness of our individual rights against government power and because we are not teaching these things we are subject to Snow is Black propaganda and the prospect, pushed on us at one time, of Michael Avenatti as President of the United States.
Copyright©2020 M.E. Boyd, Esq., “Miss Constitution”
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