#1 2009-07-25 18:15:55
A little history lesson may be in order. Dr. Joseph Goebbels was head of propaganda in Nazi Germany. According to the web site http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk, Goebbels set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933. This organization dealt with literature, art, music, radio, film, newspapers etc. To produce anything that was in these groups, you had to be a member of the Reich Chamber. The Nazi Party decided if you had the right credentials to be a member. Any person who was not admitted was not allowed to have any work published or performed.
Is this anything like bobo posting at the S-T boards when you disagree with him or the board? How about when he does it at the Wareham Courier site. How about when he bashes articles in the Courier and the S-T. Sounds like he's trying to silence them to me. Unsuccessful, but you get the point.
Disobedience brought with it severe punishments. As a result of this policy, Nazi Germany introduced a system of censorship. You could only read, see and hear what the Nazis wanted you to read, see and hear. In this way, if you believed what you were told, the Nazi leaders logically assumed that opposition to their rule would be very small and practiced only by those on the very extreme who would be easy to catch.
Hence, trying to "catch the hate-bloggers." Hence "I'm thinking of a policy that all press releases go through my office" --- ITA Butt Monkey Hence all the careers and lives the BOS and Slager has ruined.
Thanks for the lesson Bobo. I think the people hear you loud and clear now.
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#2 2009-07-25 18:24:44
I assume Bobo's liberal use of google and other websites to report is another topic altogether.
Always funny when Herr Slagoebbels accuses other people of trying to squash dissent.
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#3 2009-07-25 18:29:08
As long as we're talking historical analogies here, accusing everyone who voices disagreement with him or the selectmen of being an evil power elitist would make Sen. McCarthy proud.
Herr Slagoebels/Bobo McCarthy take your pick.
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#4 2009-07-25 20:54:01
both goebbels/nazis and Sen. McCarthy came to mind, for sure. but the one that seems to fit a little better is the old Soviet Union, and its propagandaachine, Pravda. In a similar vein, the BoS feeds its propaganda to its house organ, which in turn attacks the BoS opposition, and strongly defends any & all actions of the BoS. Wareham's own little, pathetic version of Pravda.
Case in point: wareham-pravda made a lot of noise about the famous executive session and the recorded six minutes. But - only the apparatchik named Bobo was 'allowed' to listen to BoS tape of the ENTIRE MEETING. thus, the dissemination of information is controlled, limited and tailored to the slant of the BoS. Just like the Soviets & Pravda? Da!
Lenin, Stalin, Krushchev, Breznev et al would be so proud of their local progeny. See you at the May Day parade!
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#5 2009-07-25 21:00:06
Great comparison.
And if I'm not mistaken--Pravda means Truth. Talk about irony.
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#6 2009-07-26 00:44:52
JOE MCCARTHY SAID - "Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down — they are truly down."
BOBO THE HOBO SAID - "The Wareham Civil War has officially begun. I use the word “civil” lightly. There is nothing civil about what has transpired over the past few weeks. And it’s only going to get worse. This isn’t rhetoric or hyperbole. This is as real as it will ever be in Wareham. The future of this community now lies in the balance."
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#7 2009-07-26 00:47:58
HERR GOEBBELS' STRATEGY - “The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over”
HERR SLAGOEBBELS' STRATEGY - The power elite are bad! The power elite are bad! If you don't like the BOS, then you're in the power elite and you are bad!
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#8 2009-07-26 02:57:17
notalawyer wrote:
both goebbels/nazis and Sen. McCarthy came to mind, for sure. but the one that seems to fit a little better is the old Soviet Union, and its propagandaachine, Pravda.
"When democracy granted democratic methods to us in times of opposition, this was bound to happen in a democratic system. However, we National Socialists never asserted that we represented a democratic point of view, but we have declared openly that we used the democratic methods only in order to gain power and that, after assuming the power, we would deny to our adversaries without any consideration the means which were granted to us in times of our opposition."
--Josef Goebbels
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#9 2009-07-26 06:44:21
This may be important.
Everyone agrees (I think) that Slager is a side issue, a symptom if you will) but this is the first I heard of this:
Case in point: wareham-pravda made a lot of noise about the famous executive session and the recorded six minutes. But - only the apparatchik named Bobo was 'allowed' to listen to BoS tape of the ENTIRE MEETING. thus, the dissemination of information is controlled, limited and tailored to the slant of the BoS. Just like the Soviets & Pravda? Da!
If this is true I think he also is a witness to the BOS's breaking their own protocol if not town rules. Is there precedent for anyone not on the board hearing a tape of an executive session? Of a reporter hearing it? Of an out-of-town resident hearing it?
Comparing Slager to Goebels makes for nicely nasty comments here. If literally he is being fed exclusive and confidential information by the BOS he's the only the gun, they are the gunmen. The guns go into the evidence locker. Where do the gunmen end up?
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#10 2009-07-26 07:12:35
READING SLAGERS LATEST RANTS SEEMS TO ME THAT HE SHOULD BE COMMITED TO AN INSANE ASIULMN, HE IS A CERTIFIABLE NUT,IS HIS JOB TO REPORT THE NEWS , OR TO SLANT THE NEWS IN THE SELECTMANS FAVOR, WHAT IS AFRAID OF LOSSING HIS SOURCES?
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#11 2009-07-26 07:26:38
Neighbor,
They let him listen to the whole executive session? Where did you hear that?
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#12 2009-07-26 07:44:17
Just from here:
notalawyer wrote:
both goebbels/nazis and Sen. McCarthy came to mind, for sure. but the one that seems to fit a little better is the old Soviet Union, and its propagandaachine, Pravda. In a similar vein, the BoS feeds its propaganda to its house organ, which in turn attacks the BoS opposition, and strongly defends any & all actions of the BoS. Wareham's own little, pathetic version of Pravda.
Case in point: wareham-pravda made a lot of noise about the famous executive session and the recorded six minutes. But - only the apparatchik named Bobo was 'allowed' to listen to BoS tape of the ENTIRE MEETING. thus, the dissemination of information is controlled, limited and tailored to the slant of the BoS. Just like the Soviets & Pravda? Da!
Lenin, Stalin, Krushchev, Breznev et al would be so proud of their local progeny. See you at the May Day parade!
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#13 2009-07-26 12:07:53
urneighbor & Hamatron5000
I have no access to the BoS or Bobo. Bobo himself said that he had listened to the recording of the entire meeting in an article written shortly after the discovery of the taping of the ex. session. He even mentioned the length of the tape he was allowed to listen to, which (if memory serves) was in the range of 60-70 minutes. The length of the tape struck me, since it exceeded one hour. but, what really struck me was the simple fact that a recording of an executive session was listened to by him, even before the minutes of the meeting were made public. (Have the minutes of that meeting been made public?)
The article was an attempt to spin the obvious negative stuff that had made its way onto the famous six minutes; or to refute them entirely. I read it online, and did not keep a copy of it. Then again, who would? It belongs right there with the daily onslaught of junk mail, both physical and electronic.
Hopefully, someone else saw the article.
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#14 2009-07-26 13:26:36
ihateliz wrote:
READING SLAGERS LATEST RANTS SEEMS TO ME THAT HE SHOULD BE COMMITED TO AN INSANE ASIULMN, HE IS A CERTIFIABLE NUT
The BOS meatpuppet has come unglued.
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#15 2009-07-26 13:29:38
notalawyer,
I don't doubt your memory. This isn't the sort of thing you'd misremember.
If Slager heard this and if there is an investigation, one, I doubt he'd lie under oath and two, if it was online it can be retrieved even if he deleted it from his server and hard drive it probably can be retrieved from the Internet Archive (aka The Wayback Machine) HERE.
This is an independent massive database that archives most websites that have a registered URL.
What will be the final nail, the final straw etc. of BOS wrongdoing that will force those who are culpable to resign or make them decide not to run again, or have the majority of voters abandon them for trustworthy candidates?
Who knows.
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#16 2009-07-27 06:35:55
I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT BRUCE HAS LIED ABOUT THE FACT S IN HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH SWIFTS BEACH FIASCO AND HIS VOTES TO THE DA AND LIED UNDER OATH THAT IS A FACT AND I WILL SWEAR IT ON MY LIFE , SLAGER LIES SO MUCH I DONT BELEAVE HE KNOWS WHAT THE TRUTH IS HALF THE TIME.
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