O bacilo de Koch

Numa coisa tem o Pacheco razão. Este país é pequeno e medíocre para gente com visões grandiosas como ele. Falta aqui o elemento fundamental que alimenta na luta contra o "pensamento único" e o socialismo imposto subreptíciamente, a génese de movimentos "genuínos" ou "de base".

O cacau. (1)

Com gente a financiar-lhe "manifestações espontâneas", o Pacheco seria BIG.

Veja-se o que acontece actualmente nos Estados Unidos com a oposição a essa tenebrosa tentativa do Presidente Obama de instalar o comunismo soviético na américa criando um sistema de segurança social digno desse nome.

" While President Bush was trying to promote Social Security privatization, a woman in Iowa who identified herself as a "single mom" won a coveted spot on the stage from which she praised Bush's plan. It was later revealed that she was FreedomWorks's Iowa state director. She had spent the previous two years as spokeswoman for something called For Our Grandchildren, a pro-privatization group that is itself, according to SourceWatch, the nonprofit monitoring Web site, an offshoot of another group, the American Institute for Full Employment (an outfit advocating reform of welfare that was funded initially by a multimillionaire in Klamath Falls, Oregon, who made his fortune in doors, windows, and millwork).
I mention all this because it suggests how astroturfing (2) works. An existing nonprofit group sets up an ad hoc one devoted to a particular cause or idea. It is given an otherwise good-sounding name, and is presented as having sprung up spontaneously. But always, there is corporate money behind it, donated by rich conservatives who have the sense to see that an image of broad populist anger will be more convincing to the unpersuaded (and to the press) than an image of a corporate titan pursuing a narrow and naked interest.
With respect to the Tea Parties and especially the summer's town-hall meetings, a key corporate titan appears to be Koch Industries of Wichita, Kansas. Fred Koch (pronounced "coke") founded the company in 1940 as an oil business but it has expanded into natural gas, pharmaceuticals, fertilizer, and many other areas. He helped create the John Birch Society in the late 1950s and died in 1967. His two sons who run the business now, David and Charles, have foundations that donate millions to conservative and libertarian causes and groups, including notably the Cato Institute. One Koch-funded group used to be called Citizens for a Sound Economy. It became Americans for Prosperity (AFP) in 2003, a group that has advocated limited government and opposed climate change legislation. Earlier this year, Americans for Prosperity launched a Web site called Patients United Now, which ran frightening television ads opposing health care reform"

notas:

(1) AHIP é a America's Health Insurance Plans

(2) a expressão "astroturfing" teve origem num tipo de relva artificial que era publicitada como parecendo genuinamente natural e foi introduzida no vocabulário político designando movimentos que aparecem disfarçados de "genuínos" e "espontâneos" e que na realidade são campanhas pagas. É o caso da generalidade das campanhas de desinformação da ultra direita americana. Para os pachecos e seita afim são exemplos recomendáveis de luta contra o "politicamente correcto".

Talvez o Pacheco devesse ir ao Bush ou à central financeira dos neocons pedir fundos para uma "revolução laranja" como as que os gajos fizeram na Ucrânia ou na Geórgia. Ocupavam as escadas de S. Bento com umas tias com t-shirts laranja-schock, e o sócrates fugia para a União Soviética... O Pacheco é tão, tão inteligente que deve ter lá na marmeleira uma máquina do tempo que lhe permitiria livrar-se assim do nosso perigoso e esquerdérrimo 1º ministro

Posted by ACN | 1:24 da tarde