Everyone's A Shill

I have to admit it to you. I am not to be trusted! Perhaps I have Zionist backers. Or maybe I am a Mason. Or perhaps I am a Communist subversive? A Jesuit?

Shill - "a critic who appears either all-too-eager to heap glowing praise upon mediocre offerings, or who acts as an apologist for glaring flaws"

Anyone who has studied the wide array of 'conspiracy' (read: anything different to the false reality fed to us by the corporate world) viewpoints 'out there' on the web will have come across the COINTELPRO talking points, that we must shun person X or Y, because - they are working against us! Oh, if only people could see that the researcher they listen to is keeping them from the truth!

The most common targets for this criticism are obviously the biggest fish in the pond, Alex Jones and David Icke. Especially Jones. And we are supposed to get into some superficial personality debate over all this. Oh boy, it's very scary...but could it be true that this person or that person is misleading us? Terrifying.

First of all, to those who (as is the primary criticism) say Jones is a Zionist gatekeeper, let me say that on one level you are more than correct. He doesn't discuss Israel or Zionism frequently, although here is a 2006 show on such subject matter. But you're missing a key point - his audience are primarily Christians, many of whom blindly believe that modern Israel is God's will and somehow related to Biblical Israel - despite the reality that the Palestinians have more blood ties to ancient Israelites than the Eastern European ethnic Ashkenazim modern Israelis, as if that matters (because I'm not racist, but 'chosen people' Zionists are). They would basically tune out from Mr Jones immediately if he mentioned that, thinking he was an anti-Semite! (another linguistic manipulation - most Israelis are not Semites, whereas many Palestinians are)

So to reach people you need lots of different perspectives, and it is arrogant of us to assume our own unique point of view is right and anyone with a different opinion is automatically an operative of some kind. For example, I don't agree with some of what Webster Tarpley says, but he attracts people of a more socialist point of view and gets them to understand the true nature of the financial and military manipulation.

So everyone is a shill. I am not an unbiased or reliable source of information, and neither is anyone else. Remember, trusting others over ourselves was what got us into this mess to begin with. Just don't get caught in the mil-intel game, assess the information presented rather than the personalities who present it, realise there is no absolute truth or 'correct' doctrine, always be open to new points of view, and keep your wits about you.