This revolution is far vaster and more urgent than any that has gone on before. It is waged with arms in the more unfortunate corners of the earth in wars more vicious than ever imagined in our once apparently civilized world.. Otherwise, the revolution manifests itself more or less peacefully in opposition to Power everywhere.
The revolution, like perhaps all modern revolutions, is primarily a battle for the hearts and minds of the people; hence, the importance to Power of maintaining a mainstream culture virtually ignorant of the issues at stake.
A snapshot, a skirmish in the revolution, is illustrated by the exchanges below.
From The Palm Beach Post:
Letters: Why James Tracy, FAU’s conspiracy theorist, should resign.
In each instance, he claimed that the events as we know them may not have happened and were perhaps staged using crisis actors. Despite the suffering that he has caused to victims’ families, the poor example he has set for his students and the damage that he has done to the university’s reputation, Mr. Tracy continues to blog unabated.
He and his supporters quickly reference his First Amendment right to express his ideas. Ideas, they proclaim, lie at the heart of the academic pursuit. What James Tracy does not understand is that ideas represent the end product of the intellectual process. Before they can be publicly espoused, ideas must be subjected to rigorous and intensive examination. Academics test ideas to prove their worth; commentators simply state them. Academics expose their theories to other academics; conspiracy theorists blog them to each other. Academics build on a rich intellectual tradition, people like James Tracy spin tall tales out of nothing.
James Tracy should not resign from FAU because he has upset people or brought shame to the university. He should resign because he is not an academic.
JEFFREY S. MORTON
PATRICIA KOLLANDER
THOMAS WILSON
Boca Raton
Editor’s note: Jeffrey S. Morton is a professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University. Patricia Kollander is chairwoman and professor of history at Florida Atlantic University. Thomas Wilson is a professor of sociology at Florida Atlantic University.
From the blog of Professor James Tracy:
Memory Hole
Reflections on Media and Politics | © James F. Tracy 2012-2013, Republication Under Fair Use Permitted
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In addition to blithely accepting official
narratives they have not seriously interrogated, these would-be
thoughtful and meticulous academics carelessly adopt and wield the
“conspiracy theorist” pejorative without deeper consideration of its
etymological meaning and cultural significance. In this way they
awkwardly violate the exact professional code and etiquette to which
they claim an academic should adhere while contradictorily upholding a
popular perspective they might otherwise–following their own
criteria–see fit to reject.[1]
Disparaging labels draw on and reflect the cultural
and political beliefs of the given historical era. They may be used as
disciplinary devices that at once legitimate certain worldviews and
their attendant assumptions while designating others as dangerous and
verboten. As the histories of many religions and political regimes
suggest, concerted and vocal alarm directed toward unorthodox thought
has typically been the focus of the state-sanctioned intellectual,
reflecting the prevailing interests and beliefs of the given time.
With this in mind, the text of the colleagues’
letter is presented with various discursive trappings of particular
periods in American history.
Revolutionary Era
“Why James Tracy, FAU’s Yankee Doodle, Should Resign”
Florida Atlantic University associate professor of communications James Tracy infuriated the public with his diatribes against the Crown and Parliament of Great Britain.
In many instances, he claims that the King and Parliament do not have the right to quarter royal troops in colonists’ homes, tax (“enslave”) their foreign subjects, or blockade colonial ports. Despite the suffering that he has caused King George III and the Ministry of Prime Minster Lord North, the poor example he has set for his students and the damage that he has done to the university’s reputation, Mr. Tracy continues his pamphleteering unabated.
He and his supporters quickly reference his inalienable right as a sovereign being to express his ideas. Ideas, they proclaim, lie at the heart of the human pursuit. What James Tracy does not understand is that ideas represent the end product of an intellectual process beholden to our glorious King and Parliament. Before they can be publicly espoused, ideas must be considered in terms of their value to His Majesty’s will and design. In this regard the King’s ideologues test ideas to prove their merit; revolutionaries simply state them. The King’s thinkers expose their theories to other English noblemen and clergy; pamphleteers scribble them to each other and thereby foment disloyalty. The King’s brain trust builds on the royal intellectual tradition, people like James Tracy court misfortune by speaking treason toward King George III.
James Tracy should not resign from FAU because he has upset people or brought shame to his fellows. He should resign because of his odious predilection toward “freedom and liberty.”
______________________________Antebellum Era
“Why James Tracy, FAU’s Abolitionist, Should Resign”
Florida Atlantic University associate professor of communications James Tracy infuriated the public with his talk of why he believes enslaved Negroes should be emancipated from their servitude and enjoy equality with White folk.
In almost every pronouncement he maintains that the black savage is equal in his mental and emotional faculties to White people and should therefore no longer be regarded as the rightful property of his master and owner. Despite the suffering that he has caused to self-respecting Whites and those whose wealth rightly springs from Negro labor, the poor example he has set for his students and the damage that he has done to the university’s reputation, Mr. Tracy continues to keep company with Negroes and speak at “abolitionist” meetings.
He and his supporters quickly reference his First Amendment right to express his ideas. Ideas, they proclaim, lie at the heart of their pursuit of equality. What James Tracy does not understand is that ideas represent the end product of God’s just and prevailing will embodied in the peculiar institution. Before they can be publicly espoused, ideas must defend the sanctity of White womanhood. The fairer race tests ideas to prove their worth; agitators simply state them. The properly-bred gentry expose their notions to other gentry; abolitionists blurt them out to each other and put dangerous thoughts of freedom in Negroes’ minds. Our race builds on a rich Anglo tradition, people like James Tracy want to magically make men out of beasts.
James Tracy should not resign from FAU because he has upset people or brought shame to the Southern gentry. He should resign because he seeks to unleash heathen hordes upon White Christendom and upset the God-given harmony of the races.
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“Why James Tracy, FAU’s Socialist Agitator, Should Resign”Cold War Era
Florida Atlantic University associate professor of communications James Tracy infuriated the public with his denunciations of free market capitalism and the noble American effort to thwart the Red menace in Europe, Asia and elsewhere throughout the world.
At every turn he claims that the Communist plot to overthrow this great country is exaggerated. Despite the suffering that he has caused all truly patriotic Americans, the poor example he has set for his students and the damage that he has done to the university’s reputation, Mr. Tracy proceeds to speak to industrial workers while cavorting with New Deal intellectuals and other fellow travelers.
He and his supporters quickly reference the Wagner Act and the workers’ right of free association to communicate their ideas. Ideas, they proclaim, lie at the heart of their collective interests. What James Tracy does not understand is that ideas are only possible to the extent that they abet American free enterprise and do not pose a national security risk. Before they can be publicly espoused, ideas must overall recognize the genius of American ingenuity and entrepreneurship. American-minded thinkers test concepts to prove their worth; rabble rousers simply state them. True Americans remain cognizant of the ideas they espouse in light of their loyalty oaths; subversives perch themselves upon their soapboxes, yelling at passersby. The genuine American reflects on and is enriched by his national heritage of technological and industrial innovation, people like James Tracy seek to kill the golden goose.
James Tracy should not resign from FAU because he has upset people or brought shame to the university. He should resign because he is an enemy of progress.
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“Why James Tracy, FAU’s Conspiracy Theorist, Should Resign”“War on Terror” Era
Florida Atlantic University associate professor of communications James Tracy infuriated the public with his conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook massacre and is doing the same with the Boston Marathon bombing.
In each instance, he claimed that the events as we know them may not have happened and were perhaps staged using crisis actors. Despite the suffering that he has caused to victims’ families, the poor example he has set for his students and the damage that he has done to the university’s reputation, Mr. Tracy continues to blog unabated.
He and his supporters quickly reference his First Amendment right to express his ideas. Ideas, they proclaim, lie at the heart of the academic pursuit. What James Tracy does not understand is that ideas represent the end product of the intellectual process. Before they can be publicly espoused, ideas must be subjected to rigorous and intensive examination. Academics test ideas to prove their worth; commentators simply state them. Academics expose their theories to other academics; conspiracy theorists blog them to each other. Academics build on a rich intellectual tradition, people like James Tracy spin tall tales out of nothing.
James Tracy should not resign from FAU because he has upset people or brought shame to the university. He should resign because he is not an academic.
Notes
[1] The Western notion that knowledge should be the
province of a learned few has obvious political implications, for it
has been a principal claim over the [often divine or hereditary] power
to develop and impose customs and beliefs. “Since Plato’s day,”
political philosopher J. S. McClelland observes,
knowledge claims had also been claims to moral and political power. Knowing, really knowing, had always in the past been the privilege of the Few, and the claims that the true kn0wledge of the Few was superior to the ordinary opinions of the Many had been the most important part of the Few’s claim to rule the Many. J. S. McClelland, A History of Western Political Thought. New York: Routledge, 1996, 406.
The continuing phenomenon has impeded the
university from making more meaningful contributions to public
discourse. This is at least partially the result of an attitude among
scholars who steadfastly believe they are right–even on topics or
subjects of which they know very little. The social and cultural
insularity of the modern university tends to cultivate this condition.
As sociologist Diana C. Mutz has found, those with the highest degree of
education have the lowest exposure to those with opposing points of
view, while those with much less formal education have a far greater
variety of potential interlocutors. Diana C. Mutz, Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative Versus Participatory Democracy, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
This dynamic is reflected in a 2010 study by
American Association of Colleges and Universities, which discovered that
less than 20% of 9,000 faculty surveyed believe it is safe to hold
“unpopular views” on campus. Along these lines, the research also
suggested how the longer students are enrolled at university the less
open-minded they become. Of 25,000 students polled, only 40% of freshmen
feel safe expressing unpopular positions versus 31% of seniors. Eric L.
Dey, Molly C. Ott, Mary Antonaros, and Matthew A. Holsapple, Engaging Diverse Viewpoints: What is the Campus Climate for Perspective Taking? (pdf), Washington DC: American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2010, 7.
No online discussion is complete without comments posted by partisans which offer revealing dispatches from the front lines:
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- Very witty and truthful, Professor. FAU should applaud you for putting them on the map. Without you no one outside of Florida would have heard of them. What is happening in this society is that the media are making anyone who investigates unpopular events and government corruption a social outcast. That way the public feels uncomfortable and also becomes ostracized from society if they follow said critic.
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WHITE ROSE
Source: Wikipedia
The White Rose (German: die Weiße Rose) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor. The group became known for an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign, lasting from June 1942 until February 1943, that called for active opposition to dictator Adolf Hitler’s regime.
The six most recognized members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo and beheaded in 1943. The text of their sixth leaflet was smuggled by Helmuth James Graf von Moltke out of Germany through Scandinavia to the United Kingdom, and in July 1943 copies of it were dropped over Germany by Allied planes, retitled “The Manifesto of the Students of Munich.”[1]
Another member, Hans Conrad Leipelt, who helped distribute Leaflet 6 in Hamburg, was executed on January 29, 1945, for his participation.
Today, the members of the White Rose are honoured in Germany amongst its greatest heroes, since they opposed the Third Reich in the face of almost certain death.
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Our freedoms are at stake here, people. Keep up the good work Tracy.
Lori
P.S. Again, there are no victims and no victims’ families in these events (Sandy Hook and Boston) – do some research for heaven’s sake. -
“Mr. Tracy, your efforts are most appreciated by truth-seekers!
Ignore those despicable, venal trolls at FAU. Yours is the true academic
Shining Light. The scientific evidence proves that “authorities” engage
in false flag/ frame-up/inside job Atrocities habitually in their pursuit of
Fascism, perpetual military slaughters, PoliceState repression.”
Stephen freer, I agree.
However I respectfully disagree with the following you wrote:
“Of course, nazi-type stooges in academia want to silence voices of
reason, just as their mentors did during the previous REICH!”
Statements like this only help to perpetuate lies of those who are responsible for many past and present atrocities. It is important to expose the truth about past events to prevent history from repeating itself.
“Hitler and WW2 history is probably the most “tainted” and false history since time began. Please do more study! Read the works of Veronica Clark. Deanna Spingola has done remarkable work in this regard as well. Carolyn Yeager as well.”
Jeff is correct here.
Rick Adams, Brother Nathanael Kapner, David Erving, Ernst Zundel, David Cole, M. T. Goodrich are just few others who have provided valuable sources of information that tell the world the truth about various aspects of Hitler and WW 11
Professor James Tracy is better off joining others who are exposing Sandy hook and Boston Marathon by way of allowing them to post links here to their sites as well as posting links on their sites to his research.
Professor Tracy has not done any wrong to lose his job.
This is what people in the truth movement ought to do instead of trying to fight their battle alone.
I applaud Professor Tracy for staying on the path of truth which is not easy but the right thing to do.
Ignore those despicable, venal trolls at FAU. Yours is the true academic
Shining Light. The scientific evidence proves that “authorities” engage
in false flag/ frame-up/inside job Atrocities habitually in their pursuit of
Fascism, perpetual military slaughters, PoliceState repression.
Of course, nazi-type stooges in academia want to silence voices of
reason, just as their mentors did during the previous REICH!
Continue your brave work, sir, we’ve got your back.
reason, just as their mentors did during the previous REICH!……”
Stephen Freer…………….you are on this site because you have taken the Red Pill. But perhaps your Red Pill still had some blue in it because your mind is still being held captive by the propaganda of the power elite.
Hitler and WW2 history is probably the most “tainted” and false history since time began. Please do more study!
Read the works of Veronica Clark. Deanna Spingola has done remarkable work in this regard as well. Carolyn Yeager as well.
Please……….stop helping the power elite.
It’s real easy to call somebody nuts, to say they need to see a mental health professional, preferably somebody who can kill them fast.
Let’s go back and look at some events in American history.
Woodrow Wilson was severely compromised by an extra marital affair and this was used to influence our policy toward WW1. Wilson buckled when the concept of the Federal Reserve came up, ditto the income tax. Have these events proved out to be beneficial to this nation, especially now?
FDR wanted WW2, he got his war when he colluded to get the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor. His contact in Honolulu collaborated with FDR and did not relay critical information about Japanese plans to invade. What happened next?
JFK was murdered, partially because he wanted to rid the nation of the Federal Reserve. He wanted to go after organized crime. What happened when he printed silver certificates? That’s right, he was murdered.
Waco? Oklahoma City? Ruby Ridge?
James Tracy has ruffled feathers, why? Why has he whipped some people into murderous rages? Do these people fight against the laws of physics, mathematics, biology? Why not? Because experts in the field have tested and cross-tested these theories and proven them solid.
Have all people done due diligence and exhausted all evidence regarding the Boston incident and Sandy Hook? Do people find it OK to “feel” that the government is giving us the truth, whether or not these theories are fully tested by all who have strong opinions?
I was recently attacked by someone who insisted, vehemently, that there was NO dust at the WTC site. Everybody was lying, even those 500 people interviewed by the NY Times as first responders, said this man. It’s impossible to create dust from steel girders. All reporters are liars. All firemen were liars. All medical personnel were liars.
Are you aware that Dubya Bush stonewalled against having a thorough investigation of the destruction site? Are you aware that Mayor Bloomberg had to be coerced by the Federal Government to allow information to be obtained from ground personnel by investigatory people? Are you aware that firemen were strapped with gag orders? Are you aware that thousands of engineers and architects ruled against the government analysis of the event? Are you aware, and do you even care, that nukes were used to destroy the buildings?
I’m only aware that you want Tracy’s neck and it appears many of you are total slackers who refuse to give good effort into studying this event so we can all benefit. Tell us why, please.
INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS.
James Tracy analyzes institutions.
Reading what Tracy shared here bought back bad memories of academia. Stomach turning stuff.
The late Michael Dertouzos, of MIT, wrote that something very bad happened in the Renaissance while all the good stuff was happening: the scientific mind (techne, he called it) split off from the humanities mind. The scientific zoomed ahead, with minor setbacks, while the humanities were regarded as the province of random thinking and a kind of expensive diversion. You had people of talent and intelligence who hid out in the technical fields and turned politics and humanities over to the less capable minds.
I think that being a Greek, he was looking at Europe (and all its wars), but in America we were fortunate to have revolutionaries who combined all the disciplines in people like Franklin and Jefferson. We don’t have that kind of world anymore. It really is in a pair of mutually exclusive boxes.
The technical people are now dependent on a government which acts arbitrarily and without integrity, claiming the field of human endeavor for itself. They shrug and go back to the lab, hoping the axe won’t fall on them. Meanwhile, the vetting of intellectuals goes on apace in the humanities, always trying to please authority.
But their minds are desperately needed in these recent crises.
Michael thou shouldst be living in this time, America hath need of thee.
Basically we live in a closed money system where everything has to be ‘vetted’ by the top level technocrats (who make and decide the money, the ‘worth’ of things, the goals, the agendas) or you lose your little pile of money and your other personal precious items and/or relationships and your overall human ‘worth’. Hardly anyone dares act against this ‘vetting’ protocol, this receiving ‘permission’ from the top of the technocrat and totalitarian evil pyramid. Most don’t even see it.
So it works like a charm. And it is. A spell, a life and death spell, decided by evil and where a certain kind of currency only, applies,. Jesus called it: mammon.
Might want to think this over and decide for yourself how valuable your life is and to whom it is valuable, and for what reason(s).
Maybe getting out of here (this evil place), by dying, isn’t such a bad idea.
And any gains you made through mammon are no gains at all–not in the next world–the very opposite in fact.
Might want to think that through, too.
Death has not the same result for everyone.
Ned Lud
I encourage everyone to read anything on Quantum Physics because it is the lack of profoundly life altering information, such as this, that has led us to this dark place again and again and again.
It has been said there is no religion higher than truth. There is also no political system, no academic luster, or personal distaste higher than truth, either.
I read recently that the tipping point for fundamental change in any pool of humans was 10% of the population being whole-hearted believers. At that level, the paradigm flips and we are in a new world.
I believe we are approaching that level in our collective ability to understand the massive deception, corruption and violence that has been perpetrated on the common man around the world by the controllers.
I would urge everyone who reads these words to understand we are ALL Tom Paine now. We can–each of us–take the time to speak out, blog, submit comments to news sources that make our points clearly and with as little inflammatory tone as we can muster. WE ARE WINNING. Yes, we are winning. Do not let the mass media convince you that most folks don’t get it, are lazy and indifferent. There is a sense afoot that we are seeing, waking up and now reacting.
What James has done in a very high profile and courageous way, each one of us must do in our own circle of friends, acquaintances and other contacts.
Do you have the courage of your convictions to stand up for the Truth? We know James did and does. It’s our turn to at least take the time and trouble to add our voices of reason to the conversation and overwhelm the superstitious fear of STANDING UP when others cower.
Today is the day to begin.
Of course, those who feel most threatened by the challenge are the guardians of the orthodoxy who make sumptuous livings supported by that very orthodoxy. There is no surprise: the money is just too good to countenance any other way of looking at things.
Flushing them out in public is the only way to expose the fallacies of their untenable position. Conspiracy theories are indeed theories, theories purportedly based on fact. Most theories are, by nature, false and rejected when tested against a growing body of fact. Things get tense when those facts reveal that the orthodoxy itself is false.
In short, the authorities charged with laws and law enforcement have utterly failed to adequately explain what occurred at Sandy Hook and Boston. They have not explained what has been observed regarding the alleged crimes but worse, they have not explained their own actions. This has given rise to serious questions that are unanswered except by vilifying the questioners.
It is not the theories that matter, it is the facts themselves and the disturbing dereliction of authorities in explaining them. Those who seek to vilify Professor Tracy are emperors with no clothes because they avert their eyes from facts, thus undermining the academic precepts on which they rely.
Thank you James Tracy for your courage in challenging a dangerous orthodoxy.
Today, many sip the Koolade of floridated water and flushed pharmaceuticals (just as corrosive as hemlock).
They further ignore the signs of impending disaster, believing government knows best. Other institutions mirror and mimic that tried, tested system of heirarchical and vertical power. Universities are no exception. But no human is infallible, no system free of corruption.
Ah, there is the rub.
And unfortunately he accepted the rule of Athens, the popular will, and drank the hemlock.
Sophocles (according to Wikipedia) lived to be 91. He wrote Antigone. I like that girl very much.
Given the lack of serious investigation the authors of the letter have given to the subjects about which Professor Tracy has written, I can not comprehend how they could include the following statement with any sense of honor, “…He should resign because he is not an academic.”
As a human, and professional researcher, I can attest that it would not require a serious academic any more than a few keystrokes in Google to discover something is amiss in America.
http://www.fau.edu/strategicplan/values.php