The Politics of Language: Propaganda, Truth & Justice – A Quesnel Cariboo Sentinel Special 3-Part Series (Part 2)

The Politics of Language: Propaganda, Truth & Justice  

A Quesnel Cariboo Sentinel Special 3-Part Series (Part 2)

By

Arthur Topham

Pub/Ed

The Quesnel Cariboo Sentinel

May 18th, 2021 

[Editor’s Note: Some years back, prior to my former website RadicalPress.com being removed from the internet in March of 2017, I had published a series of images taken from a book published by Ian Verner Macdonald a former Canadian Trade Commissioner who had served successfully in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and North America following his war service in the RCAF. Mr. Macdonald’s interest in world history inspired him to investigate and research the causes behind WW2 and in the process he put together a rather large collection of images that were used in Canada’s msm during WW2 for propaganda purposes. His book, published in 2009 was titled, “Star Weekly at War”. I became acquainted with Mr. Macdonald and communicated with him via email for a number of years. The following visual images that will be presented to the reader in Part 2 of this 3-Part series are all taken from the Toronto Star Weekly and will illustrate how, during the war, the anti-German propaganda was presented to the Canadian public. 

Following the visual presentation I’ve published excerpts from Mr. Macdonald’s Epilogue which will summarize and complete the 2nd part of this Series.

In Part 3 I shall present the other side of the picture that our Canadian forefathers and foremothers were never privileged to have witnessed and which might have given them cause to pause before venturing into a second world war.]

Part 2

STAR WEEKLY AT WAR

Masks, mask, masks! No getting around them it seems.
Ah yes, let’s help them poor peasants in the Soviet Union. You know the one’s that Stalin didn’t cart off to the Gulag Archipelago by the millions from Ukraine and elsewhere to be worked to death in the concentration camps.
Looks so romantic eh as these Bolshevik Communists go riding into a wave of machine gun fire. Takes one back to WW1.
“We fight for freedom” Freedom for whom one might ask? Is Britain free today? Is Canada free today? Is China free today?
I include the following Front Page Covers where the “Japs” are on the receiving end of the propaganda. Strange isn’t it how we never see any references to the “Japs” in the National Post or any of the other corporate-controlled media in Canada these days.
A “Jap Trap”. What a nifty idea eh? Only in Canada you say? It should be noted that this particular image isn’t a part of the Star Weekly collection.
Let’s not forget good old British Columbia and the Vancouver Harbour with the plane cruising over famous Lion’s Gate Bridge.

EPILOGUE

~ from “Star Weekly at War”

By 

Ian Verner Macdonald

“…As an active combatant, Canada was seen by all men of goodwill as making a significant contribution to the defence of Western Christian civilization. Conforming with the English-language media world wide, the Star accepted without question the thesis that Hitler and the Nazis had to be stopped lest ‘we all end up in concentration camps’ or worse, under the heel of a ferocious dictator and his sinister Gestapo. Such was the temper of the times.

There was no hint in the Star Weekly that there could be a much more menacing evil afoot, even though some coverage was given to the Soviet invasion of Finland and the Nazi-Soviet pact that expanded Stalin’s bloodthirsty rule into Poland and the Baltic countries where thousands died at the hands of anti-Christian Kommissars, many tortured to death and their families sent to Siberia in sealed box cars. Even less attention was paid to the devilish mischief wrought by the vengeful, punitive Treaty of Versailles. It was the festering resentment of the misery caused by the unfair terms of this treaty that set the stage for the emergence in the ’twenties of an inspiring populist Fuehrer, promising to restore German honour and dignity, and the German economy, by the retrieval of its conquered territories. 

Once Canada was committed by Prime Minister Mackenzie King to enter the war against Germany on Britain’s side on September 9, 1939 (no doubt with mixed feelings since he had written an adulatory letter to Hitler shortly before suggesting that history would remember him as the “Statesman of the 20th Century” for  his accomplishments), the Star put the best face on the inevitable death and destruction, shielding readers from the disconcerting reality. Like most other media, the Star Weekly glamourized the war, helping to persuade hundreds of thousands of young men, including this writer, to lust for the opportunity to get into action, preferably in the RCAF even when, for a time, the chance of survival in Bomber Command was slim, at best. 

…The Star Weekly has passed from the scene, as have most participants in the war it so vividly and optimistically portrayed, leaving survivors to wonder how a Good War and Total Victory could have brought such calamity and so tragically betrayed the trusting patriots who had dedicated, and often lost, their lives in rallying to the defence of Freedom.

It is now clear that the celebrated Allied Victory did not save Western Christian Civilization as promised, but precipitated its demise. There is even good reason to doubt that the case for making war was ever sufficiently plausible and compelling to justify the inevitable horrendous sacrifice, especially coming on the heels of the Great War (“to end all war”) that already had stripped both the Allied nations and Germany of many of their best and brightest, and, in most cases, of the victim’s priceless progeny.

…In retrospect, the Star Weekly, with the best of intentions and in tune with the times, appears to have accepted the Hollywood version of German intentions, and along with the entire country, acceded to the most monstrous contrived miscalculation in history, carried out against the best interests of the British Commonwealth and Western democracies. Britons and Canadians were led to believe that their German kinfolk, who held no animosity toward them, were the enemy who threatened their freedom when in fact the enemy was the atheistic Soviet regime whose bloodthirsty Kommissars had liquidated, by 1939, at least 20 million Christians and was intent on subjugating Europe at the earliest opportunity. Germany offered the sole effective defence against such a fearful prospect.

Germany, astutely and persistently but with increased frustration, sought peace with Britain in order to concentrate on eliminating the imminent Soviet threat but, on Churchill’s orders, the generous “peace with honour” proposals were rejected out of hand, sounding the death knell for tens of millions, including 45 thousand young Canadians. The same Churchill, when shortly after the destruction of Germany the Soviet threat quickly re-emerged, quipped flippantly to an Aide “It looks like we slaughtered the wrong pig!” Britain and Canada were soon in a military alliance with Germany, but it was a decade too late. The hostile Soviet Union had already enslaved Eastern and Central Europe and the Baltic countries. Poland, the country whose independence Britain had ostensibly gone to war for to defend from Hitler, was cynically delivered into the bloodstained clutches of a far more sinister and malevolent dictator.

Other newsworthy issues and anomalies even more studiously ignored by the Star Weekly were the identities of the sinister forces behind the inexplicable decision to declare war on on Germany alone when both Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in September, 1939 (no less illogical than the subsequent refusal of the Churchill government to accept an honourable peace). The rationale for making war was not widely debated at the time, partly because of censorship and self-censorship by the media….

In the dangerous realignments of the immediate post-war era, the miscalculations of Allied “statesmen” became clear; the most calamitous being the designation of our Christian European ethnic and cultural German kin-folk as the “enemy.” In fact, Germany was our natural ally, just as the atheistic, genocidal anti-Christian Stalin dictatorship was our natural enemy. Making war on Germany ensured that Communism (and [edited for legal reasons. Ed.]) would triumph, and that Britain and European importance in world affairs would decline accordingly.

…Could there have been a more palatable outcome than the Pyrrhic victory? “What if Hitler had won?” – a rhetorical question asked usually to evoke shivers of horror among listeners. But if Germany had won, arguably the world would by now be in a much better and safer place. And the “what if” is not nearly as far-fetched as Allied propagandists would have us believe. Germany certainly would have won if Britain and France, and eventually America, had acted in their own obvious best interests and remained neutral or entered the war on Germany’s side….

Had Britain not been deceived and betrayed into war with Germany, with whom she had no authentic quarrel, there would have been no Second World War, tens of millions of lives would have been spared, priceless European architecture would not have been destroyed, Europe would have been united under German leadership, international communism would have become a footnote in history, trillions of dollars could have been used for the betterment of mankind, the environment could have been protected, the Cold War would have been forstalled, (along with the Korean and Vietnmese wars and communist sponsored revolutions elsewhere), negotiations for the resettlement of Six Million or more [edited for legal reasons. Ed.] to Uganda or Madagascar would have reached fruition, there would have been peace and justice in the Middle East, China would have evolved along Taiwanese lines under capitalism, sharing with Japan and the Colonial Powers influence over S.E. Asia, there would have been no UN meddling, no Third World turmoil, no “refugee” migrations, no deprivation of freedom in the name of “human rights,” no Affirmative Action, no asinine Political Correctness and, above all, no subversion and corruption of Western society and the democratic political process by a cunning, avaricious alien minority. 

It does not speak well of Establishment historians and journalists that they refuse to address squarely what is probably the most crucial and perplexing enigma of our time, namely, the real purpose of WWII and why politicians, notably Churchill and Roosevelt, knowingly acted against their countries’ best interests. Honest, unbiased, patriotic scholars who have attempted to stimulate discussion of this intriguing issue have been viciously denounced as historical revisionists (or worse), and their findings have been viciously suppressed. [Editor’s note: this, I would add, has been my own fate with respect to the past 14 years of enforced litigation, arrests, jail, trials, home invasions, msm vilification, etc. and is still ongoing as I type these words.]

The Toronto Star Weekly did its wartime duty in boosting morale and enthusiasm for the seemingly worthy cause – the preservation of freedom and justice and protection from purportedly-looming world-wide dictatorship. Ironically, the fundamental freedoms, especially freedom of expression, have been steadily eroded throughout the world – not least in Canada – largely because of the war, and the dictatorship of the New World Order could well be at hand….”

~ Ian Verner Macdonald

2009

(End of Part 2)

The Politics of Language: Propaganda, Truth & Justice – A Quesnel Cariboo Sentinel Special 3-Part Series (Part 1)

[Editor’s Note: At no time in my tenure here on Planet Earth as a publisher, editor and journalist has the issue of Propaganda become more important than today. With the sudden onslaught in 2020 of the specious Covid -19 attack upon Humanity the wheels of this gigantic, psycho-technic juggernaut have increased to such an intensity that the average human being is now faced with such a staggering quantity of psychic/mental and visual data that their capacity to discern what is truth and what is falsehood (i.e. propaganda) is at a critical stage of being overwhelmed.

The expression “Information overload” has been with us since the 1960s but its application in the past tended to apply to specific instances but never has this relatively recent phenomenon assumed such a paramount, wide-spread degree of influence upon the general public as what we’re now witnessing with the plethora of information surrounding the Covid debate.

The year 1962 (here in Canada no less!) brought to the world Marshall McLuhan’s paradigm-breaking book “The Gutenberg Galaxy” followed by his next best-seller “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man” in 1964 to be then topped off in 1967 with his and Quentin Fiore’s visual presentation “The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects.” All these books, plus other productions that sprang forth in response to them, changed the world in ways that most people still have yet to fathom. For the younger generations that followed any analysis of these thought-provoking texts has likely never occurred yet the effects of the new media which formed the basis of the texts can now be seen in the outward growth and expression of resistance and protest currently manifesting around the globe.

Part 1 of this series will analyze how the old media paradigm, aka the establishment media or the mainstream media (msm) or the corporate media, is presenting the Covid narrative to the world in what can only described as a fierce, fervent, unrelenting attempt to persuade the general public to acquiesce to the demands of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in as quick a manner as humanly possible.

Using mind-control techniques that were invented back in the first half of the 20th century – a period of our world history pock marked by two major world wars – the msm, in its pursuit of actualizing the One World Government agenda, continues to employ all of its ancient arsenal of weaponized language that proved effective in days gone by. The majority of the accompanying graphic images used to illustrate my thesis in Parts 2 & 3 will be, for some, both shocking and provocative. I make no apology for their use. 

The Western world, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st (graphically reinforced by 911), has been continuously ruled by deception and false flag events, all of which, thanks to not being addressed and rectified earlier, have finally devolved into the global crisis that mankind is now facing. To understand it all (rather than to be overwhelmed to the point of being numbed and disabled by it and ultimately deceived into resigning oneself into a state of suspended apathy) is to see both sides of the narrative and to then judge via reason, logic, common sense and one’s intuitive heart-felt sense, what is Truth and what isn’t.

Part 1 will therefore focus on the mechanics of how immediate generations after WW2 were subjected to the same continuous assault upon their minds as what the adult populations were subjected to throughout the 1930s and 1940s when it came to the causes of the war and ultimately who was responsible for  precipitating it.

Part 2 will focus on the role that the Canadian media performed during WW2. To illustrate the wartime propaganda I will be utilizing a number of graphic images taken from the Toronto Star Weekly’s Front Pages plus a commentary by the editor of the book STAR WEEKLY AT WAR Mr. Ian Verner Macdonald. 

Part 3 will be, as Paul Harvey, former American radio broadcaster for ABC News Radio used to comment “the rest of the story”; the part the world in general has still not been fully appraised of even though many writers have produced the evidence to show what the Western media purposely has left out in order to meet their own sinister agenda.] 

The Politics of Language:

Propaganda, Truth & Justice  

A Quesnel Cariboo Sentinel Special 3-Part Series

By

Arthur Topham

Pub/Ed

The Quesnel Cariboo Sentinel

May 18th, 2021 

“For nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest; 
Neither anything hid, that shall not be known and come abroad”.
– Luke 8:17.

Part 1

One could hear the screams of Street Pastor Artur Pawlowski as the Calgary police manhandled him to the his knees on the pavement, forcing his arms to fold behind his back as they clamped their handcuffs around his wrists: “Nazis!”, “Gestapo!” he cried out as the traffic sped by along the freeway.

It was all too reminiscent of past days; days that stretch back through recorded history to the time when Jesus Christ and his Apostles were given similar and worse treatment by the powers of the Priesthood and Pagan Rome. 

And for what did these injustices take place? Were these individuals thieves and murderers? Were they corrupt politicians who had sold out their country to alien forces? Were they traitors who, under cover of night, for silver or gold, raised the heavy oak timbers that held fast the security gates of their countrymen’s sanctuary allowing access to their enemies? No. They were simply God’s children working for their Heavenly Father in the Spirit of Love and Peace, labouring to awaken the slumbering masses and bringing tidings of great joy to their hungry hearts, minds and souls. 

In the case of Pastor Artur Pawlowski we see once again Christianity itself epitomized in one individual, symbolizing the ever-recurring dilemma that faces those willing to speak Truth to power. But there is a missing factor in the majority of Christians today; one that was ever present when the Lord walked upon the desert sands in days of yore. That is the substance of this essay.

As the article title states, we are concerned about not only Truth and Justice but also the “politics of language” which, of necessity, requires immediate address and concerns not only the courageous, righteous Pastor Artur Pawlowski but anyone, be they Christian or otherwise, who is honestly concerned about the principles of Truth and Justice in a world now fraught with an inestimable preponderance of outright lies and massive deception; all of which emanate from the hidden force now controlling the major news sources around the world.

It must, of course, also be categorically emphasized from the start that this force manipulating the established media is one that didn’t just suddenly appear back in January of 2020 along with the advent of Covid-19. The facts, given proper exposure, will show that it has been with us now in its present form for at least the last 100 years and throughout that period has played a paramount role in manipulating and affecting every significant event that has occurred on the earthly stage. As preposterous as that might sound at first mention I must leave it as such and continue on with my stated thesis. 

Recorded history, as we’ve come to know it throughout the 20th Century and now in the nascent beginnings of the 21 Century, is for the most part a fabricated, manufactured, illusionary reality. Yet, even though I assert such a viewpoint my arguments in favour of such a position don’t deny actual events that manifested in real life only the manner in which they have been interpreted for the masses and projected to them through highly contentious lenses; ones which the average person had absolutely no control over.

When I use the term ‘politics of language’ I’m speaking of how the controlled media furnishes its audience with weaponized language – be it single words, idiomatic expressions or phrases – which it then repeats again and again across all of its platforms, be they the print media (newspapers, magazines, books), the televised new media, tv generally, the Hollywood movie industry and the Internet. Whenever a single word or phrase is coined by those behind the media curtain it becomes promoted subliminally and overtly to the general public with such repetitive impact and power of persuasion that within a generation or two the masses of listeners and readers will by then have assimilated it into their minds and will begin regurgitating whatever mental morsels they’ve figuratively swallowed without ever realizing that it might have originally been a calculated, fabricated lie dispensed for purely propaganda purposes. 

That, in essence, is what this writer sees occurring today when we witness good (or bad) people, be they Christian or otherwise, shouting out words loaded to the hilt with false meaning and connotation; words which, when heard by others, tend to automatically become associated with particular individuals or ethnic groups or nation states regardless of whether or not the meaning is correct.  

This phenomenon of manipulating words, that began in earnest around the 20th century, might best be categorized (on an intellectual level at least) under a heading such as “Psycho-Linguistics” but on a deeper, more occult level, it borders on or actually finds its origins within that psychic sphere generally labeled the “black arts” under the sub-title “Sorcery.” 

The godfather of these highly infused words or phrases is, undoubtedly the term “anti-semite” which came to prominence around the first two generations of the 20th century when the actions or deeds of a particular group (for various reasons), began to appear in newspapers and periodicals in Great Britain, the European Continent and North America. The group in question, being exceedingly small but at the same time also powerful beyond most people’s comprehension due to their financial position, began to counter the bad press they were starting to receive by colluding and using their “power of the purse” to start purchasing the very publishing houses and newspapers that were, in their estimation, committing the very foul deed which the group alleged was being perpetrated upon themselves. It was likely the first overt act on the part of any group or organization to change the thinking patterns of the general public. Some might even go so far as to suggest that it was the actual beginning of what we now tend to call the “Big Brother” news media as it was coined back in the late 1940s by British journalist and author George Orwell.

I’ll give readers one poignant example of the influential effect that this method of empowering words and expressions has had on the publishing industry, journalism in general, and global politics. 

The following quote [edited for legal reasons. Ed.] comes from one of the 20th century’s great journalists and researchers the late Douglas Reed in a book that was completed in 1956 but didn’t see the light of day until after his death in 1978:

“A private organization which can produce such results [i.e, weaponize a term. Ed.] is obviously powerful; there is nothing comparable in the world. Mr. Vincent Sheehan wrote in 1949, “There is scarcely a voice in the United States that dares raise itself for the rights, any rights, of the Arabs; any slight criticism of the [censored. Ed.] high command is immediately labelled as anti-semitic”. . . [Again, recent events in the Middle East prove the validity & the poignancy of Sheehan’s words.A.T.]

“How is the oracle worked? By what means has America (and the entire West) been brought to the state that no public man aspires to office, or editor feels secure at his desk, until he has brought out his prayer-mat and prostrated himself to [censored. Ed.]? How have presidents and prime ministers been led to compete for the approval of this faction like bridesmaids for the bride’s bouquet? Why do leading men suffer themselves to be paraded at hundred-dollar-a-plate banquets for [censored. Ed.], or to be herded on to[censored. Ed.] platforms to receive “plaques” for services rendered?

“The power of money and the prospect of votes have demonstrably been potent lures, but in my judgment by far the strongest weapon is this power to control published information; to lay stress on what a faction wants and to exclude from it all that the faction dislikes, and so to be able to give any selected person a “good” or a “bad” press. [emphasis added. Ed.] This is in fact control of “the mob”. In today’s language it is “the technique of propaganda and the approach to the masses”, as [censored. Ed.] said, but it is an ancient, Asiatic art and was described, on a famous occasion, by Saint Matthew and Saint Mark: “The chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude . . . The chief priests moved the people . . .”

Let that suffice for the moment in terms of spotlighting the issue at hand. I’ll now cut to the chase and identify the currently abused terms and explain why they were concocted in the first place and what the real intent of their misuse was meant to create in the minds of those still being indoctrinated with these false terminologies. 

The second weaponized word or term that’s been manipulated by the Big Brother controlled media since its early prominence in the 1930’s, is the offensive pejorative epithet “Nazi”; a word that was intentionally attached not only to the National Socialist German Worker’s Party of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich but, by extension and through extrapolation, to the German people generally as an ethnic group. 

This is one of the primary politicized terms which Pastor Artur Pawlowski tends to employ whenever he wishes to describe those who are trying to shut down his church services and control his life’s work. The misuse or misapplication of this derogatory sobriquet to describe the Calgary police is therefore only apparent to those who know the real history of the 20th century and who have, through self-effort, been able to debrief themselves of the conditioning they were subjected to throughout their lifetime. Of course it must also be understood that Pastor Pawlowski is not the only person who has fallen prey to the sorcerer’s spell. Most people have, myself included.

My own life experience is a good example of what I’m talking about. I, like the bulk of Canadians born and raised in Canada, was ingrained with the negative connotations connected with the term “Nazi” from the time I first began reading comic books around the mid-1950s. War comics were the rage during WW2  and running through the 1940’s and 50’s and into the 60’s mainly. They were also one of the predominant methods by which the hidden force behind the publishing industry was able to permeate and impress up the young minds of future generations the subliminal message that Adolf Hitler was the most evil person on the planet and that the “Nazis” were the acme of blood-thirsty, violent, sadistic savagery, to be hated and avoided at all costs. While this might at first sound like I’m stretching it a bit one only need note that even today many of Canada’s mainstream newspapers ( the National Post being the best example), rarely issue an edition that doesn’t somewhere include the term “Nazi” or “neo-Nazi” or some other similar disparaging term such as “holocaust denier” or “hate monger” or “white supremacist” or “racist”: terms that that the mind automatically associates with Germany in one way or another. 

This mindset continued well into my adult life, extending into the period when I began publishing my own newspaper back in June of 1998 at the age of 51. Two years later, it was still firmly entrenched in my subconscious mind and occasionally found expression within the pages of my monthly tabloid The Radical as illustrated below in the Front Page of the September, 1999 edition where I headlined an article “NATO NAZIS”. 

Fortunately, for me, at one point an elderly German-Canadian reader who later became a subscriber to the paper, a person who had lived through the period of the 1930s and 1940s in National Socialist Germany was able to persuade me, through reason, common sense and example, that my views were not in keeping with the reality of the time period and was thus able to set me straight upon a path that eventually corrected all the erroneous lies that I had assimilated throughout my lifetime. The truth set me free and opened my eyes so that I was able to then see the propaganda being presented to the public by the msm for what it really was.

(End of Part 1)