/abcu/ - American Broadcasting CommUnity

When my love swears that she is made of truth,

I do believe her, though I know she lies,

That she might think me some untutored youth,

Unlearnèd in the world’s false subtleties.

Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,

Although she knows my days are past the best,

Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:

On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed.

But wherefore says she not she is unjust?

And wherefore say not I that I am old?

Oh, love’s best habit is in seeming trust,

And age in love loves not to have years told.

Therefore I lie with her and she with me,

And in our faults by lies we flattered be.

~ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We may lie in our personal lives for our own "benefit" but we should not believe the lies feed to us in MASS. Sheep go with the herd. Think for yourself.

April Showers, bring May flowers.

Trust the Plan. WRWY!

We are watching. The time to speak is now. 6 or less.

This it not another [4] year election

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There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

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Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen:

I appreciate very much your generous invitation to be here tonight.

You bear heavy responsibilities these days and an article I read some time ago reminded me of how particularly heavily the burdens of present day events bear upon your profession.

You may remember that in 1851 the New York Herald Tribune under the sponsorship and publishing of Horace Greeley, employed as its London correspondent an obscure journalist by the name of Karl Marx.

We are told that foreign correspondent Marx, stone broke, and with a family ill and undernourished, constantly appealed to Greeley and managing editor Charles Dana for an increase in his munificent salary of $5 per installment, a salary which he and Engels ungratefully labeled as the "lousiest petty bourgeois cheating."

But when all his financial appeals were refused, Marx looked around for other means of livelihood and fame, eventually terminating his relationship with the Tribune and devoting his talents full time to the cause that would bequeath the world the seeds of Leninism, Stalinism, revolution and the cold war.

If only this capitalistic New York newspaper had treated him more kindly; if only Marx had remained a foreign correspondent, history might have been different. And I hope all publishers will bear this lesson in mind the next time they receive a poverty-stricken appeal for a small increase in the expense account from an obscure newspaper man.

I have selected as the title of my remarks tonight "The President and the Press." Some may suggest that this would be more naturally worded "The President Versus the Press." But those are not my sentiments tonight.

It is true, however, that when a well-known diplomat from another country demanded recently that our State Department repudiate certain newspaper attacks on his colleague it was unnecessary for us to reply that this Administration was not responsible for the press, for the press had already made it clear that it was not responsible for this Administration.

Nevertheless, my purpose here tonight is not to deliver the usual assault on the so-called one party press. On the contrary, in recent months I have rarely heard any complaints about political bias in the press except from a few Republicans. Nor is it my purpose tonight to discuss or defend the televising of Presidential press conferences. I think it is highly beneficial to have some 20,000,000 Americans regularly sit in on these conferences to observe, if I may say so, the incisive, the intelligent and the courteous qualities displayed by your Washington correspondents.

Nor, finally, are these remarks intended to examine the proper degree of privacy which the press should allow to any President and his family.

If in the last few months your White House reporters and photographers have been attending church services with regularity, that has surely done them no harm.

On the other hand, I realize that your staff and wire service photographers may be complaining that they do not enjoy the same green privileges at the local golf courses that they once did.

It is true that my predecessor did not object as I do to pictures of one's golfing skill in action. But neither on the other hand did he ever bean a Secret Service man.

My topic tonight is a more sober one of concern to publishers as well as editors.

I want to talk about our common responsibilities in the face of a common danger. The events of recent weeks may have helped to illuminate that challenge for some; but the dimensions of its threat have loomed large on the horizon for many years. Whatever our hopes may be for the future–for reducing this threat or living with it–there is no escaping either the gravity or the totality of its challenge to our survival and to our security–a challenge that confronts us in unaccustomed ways in every sphere of human activity.

This deadly challenge imposes upon our society two requirements of direct concern both to the press and to the President–two requirements that may seem almost contradictory in tone, but which must be reconciled and fulfilled if we are to meet this national peril. I refer, first, to the need for a far greater public information; and, second, to the need for far greater official secrecy.

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The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.

But I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security.

Today no war has been declared–and however fierce the struggle may be, it may never be declared in the traditional fashion. Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.

If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.

It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions–by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.

Nevertheless, every democracy recognizes the necessary restraints of national security–and the question remains whether those restraints need to be more strictly observed if we are to oppose this kind of attack as well as outright invasion.

For the facts of the matter are that this nation's foes have openly boasted of acquiring through our newspapers information they would otherwise hire agents to acquire through theft, bribery or espionage; that details of this nation's covert preparations to counter the enemy's covert operations have been available to every newspaper reader, friend and foe alike; that the size, the strength, the location and the nature of our forces and weapons, and our plans and strategy for their use, have all been pinpointed in the press and other news media to a degree sufficient to satisfy any foreign power; and that, in at least in one case, the publication of details concerning a secret mechanism whereby satellites were followed required its alteration at the expense of considerable time and money.

The newspapers which printed these stories were loyal, patriotic, responsible and well-meaning. Had we been engaged in open warfare, they undoubtedly would not have published such items. But in the absence of open warfare, they recognized only the tests of journalism and not the tests of national security. And my question tonight is whether additional tests should not now be adopted.

The question is for you alone to answer. No public official should answer it for you. No governmental plan should impose its restraints against your will. But I would be failing in my duty to the nation, in considering all of the responsibilities that we now bear and all of the means at hand to meet those responsibilities, if I did not commend this problem to your attention, and urge its thoughtful consideration.

On many earlier occasions, I have said–and your newspapers have constantly said–that these are times that appeal to every citizen's sense of sacrifice and self-discipline. They call out to every citizen to weigh his rights and comforts against his obligations to the common good. I cannot now believe that those citizens who serve in the newspaper business consider themselves exempt from that appeal.

I have no intention of establishing a new Office of War Information to govern the flow of news. I am not suggesting any new forms of censorship or any new types of security classifications. I have no easy answer to the dilemma that I have posed, and would not seek to impose it if I had one. But I am asking the members of the newspaper profession and the industry in this country to reexamine their own responsibilities, to consider the degree and the nature of the present danger, and to heed the duty of self-restraint which that danger imposes upon us all.

Every newspaper now asks itself, with respect to every story: "Is it news?" All I suggest is that you add the question: "Is it in the interest of the national security?" And I hope that every group in America–unions and businessmen and public officials at every level– will ask the same question of their endeavors, and subject their actions to the same exacting tests.

And should the press of America consider and recommend the voluntary assumption of specific new steps or machinery, I can assure you that we will cooperate whole-heartedly with those recommendations.

Perhaps there will be no recommendations. Perhaps there is no answer to the dilemma faced by a free and open society in a cold and secret war. In times of peace, any discussion of this subject, and any action that results, are both painful and without precedent. But this is a time of peace and peril which knows no precedent in history.

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It is the unprecedented nature of this challenge that also gives rise to your second obligation–an obligation which I share. And that is our obligation to inform and alert the American people–to make certain that they possess all the facts that they need, and understand them as well–the perils, the prospects, the purposes of our program and the choices that we face.

No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition. And both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support the Administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.

I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers–I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.

Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed–and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment– the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants"–but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.

This means greater coverage and analysis of international news–for it is no longer far away and foreign but close at hand and local. It means greater attention to improved understanding of the news as well as improved transmission. And it means, finally, that government at all levels, must meet its obligation to provide you with the fullest possible information outside the narrowest limits of national security–and we intend to do it.

III

It was early in the Seventeenth Century that Francis Bacon remarked on three recent inventions already transforming the world: the compass, gunpowder and the printing press. Now the links between the nations first forged by the compass have made us all citizens of the world, the hopes and threats of one becoming the hopes and threats of us all. In that one world's efforts to live together, the evolution of gunpowder to its ultimate limit has warned mankind of the terrible consequences of failure.

And so it is to the printing press–to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news–that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2).

From The Road To Tycho, a collection of articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian Revolution, published in Luna City in 2096.

For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college—when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.

This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her—but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong—something that only pirates would do.

And there wasn't much chance that the SPA—the Software Protection Authority—would fail to catch him. In his software class, Dan had learned that each book had a copyright monitor that reported when and where it was read, and by whom, to Central Licensing. (They used this information to catch reading pirates, but also to sell personal interest profiles to retailers.) The next time his computer was networked, Central Licensing would find out. He, as computer owner, would receive the harshest punishment—for not taking pains to prevent the crime.

Of course, Lissa did not necessarily intend to read his books. She might want the computer only to write her midterm. But Dan knew she came from a middle-class family and could hardly afford the tuition, let alone her reading fees. Reading his books might be the only way she could graduate. He understood this situation; he himself had had to borrow to pay for all the research papers he read. (Ten percent of those fees went to the researchers who wrote the papers; since Dan aimed for an academic career, he could hope that his own research papers, if frequently referenced, would bring in enough to repay this loan.)

Later on, Dan would learn there was a time when anyone could go to the library and read journal articles, and even books, without having to pay. There were independent scholars who read thousands of pages without government library grants. But in the 1990s, both commercial and nonprofit journal publishers had begun charging fees for access. By 2047, libraries offering free public access to scholarly literature were a dim memory.

There were ways, of course, to get around the SPA and Central Licensing. They were themselves illegal. Dan had had a classmate in software, Frank Martucci, who had obtained an illicit debugging tool, and used it to skip over the copyright monitor code when reading books. But he had told too many friends about it, and one of them turned him in to the SPA for a reward (students deep in debt were easily tempted into betrayal). In 2047, Frank was in prison, not for pirate reading, but for possessing a debugger.

Dan would later learn that there was a time when anyone could have debugging tools. There were even free debugging tools available on CD or downloadable over the net. But ordinary users started using them to bypass copyright monitors, and eventually a judge ruled that this had become their principal use in actual practice. This meant they were illegal; the debuggers' developers were sent to prison.

Programmers still needed debugging tools, of course, but debugger vendors in 2047 distributed numbered copies only, and only to officially licensed and bonded programmers. The debugger Dan used in software class was kept behind a special firewall so that it could be used only for class exercises.

It was also possible to bypass the copyright monitors by installing a modified system kernel. Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that.

Dan concluded that he couldn't simply lend Lissa his computer. But he couldn't refuse to help her, because he loved her. Every chance to speak with her filled him with delight. And that she chose him to ask for help, that could mean she loved him too.

Dan resolved the dilemma by doing something even more unthinkable—he lent her the computer, and told her his password. This way, if Lissa read his books, Central Licensing would think he was reading them. It was still a crime, but the SPA would not automatically find out about it. They would only find out if Lissa reported him.

Of course, if the school ever found out that he had given Lissa his own password, it would be curtains for both of them as students, regardless of what she had used it for. School policy was that any interference with their means of monitoring students' computer use was grounds for disciplinary action. It didn't matter whether you did anything harmful—the offense was making it hard for the administrators to check on you. They assumed this meant you were doing something else forbidden, and they did not need to know what it was.

Students were not usually expelled for this—not directly. Instead they were banned from the school computer systems, and would inevitably fail all their classes.

Later, Dan would learn that this kind of university policy started only in the 1980s, when university students in large numbers began using computers. Previously, universities maintained a different approach to student discipline; they punished activities that were harmful, not those that merely raised suspicion.

Lissa did not report Dan to the SPA. His decision to help her led to their marriage, and also led them to question what they had been taught about piracy as children. The couple began reading about the history of copyright, about the Soviet Union and its restrictions on copying, and even the original United States Constitution. They moved to Luna, where they found others who had likewise gravitated away from the long arm of the SPA. When the Tycho Uprising began in 2062, the universal right to read soon became one of its central aims.

I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody'd think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they'd leave me alone . . . I'd cook all my own food, and later on, if I wanted to get married or something, I'd meet this beautiful girl that was also a deaf-mute and we'd get married. She'd come and live in my cabin with me, and if she wanted to say anything to me, she'd have to write it on a piece of paper, like everybody else

“A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.” – Albert Camus

"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of liberty is making its way, one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the press." ~ Calvin Coolidge

"If the press was still a free press would they all say the same thing? A free press is full of dissent and revolutionary findings. There are no parrots in a free press, freedom died when journalism died and the press sang with one voice" ~ Sgt B

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”

~ President John F. Kennedy

"Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind."

~Wilhelm Humboldt

"To win any battle, you must first win the battle against your own mind. Revolutions start in the minds of men who will change the world. Distractions and Attractions everywhere you look, so look within before you take your battles outwards."

~Sgt B

"The Press will not be free to tell lies. That is not freedom for the people, but a tyranny over their minds and souls. Much humbug is talked on this subject. What is press freedom? In practice it means the right of a few millionaires to corner newspaper shares on the stock exchange and to voice their own opinions and interests, irrespective of the truth or of the national interest.”

~ Oswald Mosley

"The Press died long ago. The presses freedoms ran out when the Journalist stop researching, fact finding, to become a face or a name; when Reporters stopped Reporting and began Repeating. You hear the same news everywhere, that is how you know it is not news but just a story you are being feed. Real news is full of dissidence, contrary ideas, and facts. Facts are hard to come by anymore, used to be a dime a dozen."

~Sgt B

"Knowing what you want and setting goals to achieve it, WINNING.

Wishing for things, but taking no action, LOSING."

~ Catherine Pulsifer

There are certain basic qualities and characteristics you've got to have. Number one: you've got to have a will to win.

~ Bob Richards

"VERITAS", "VERBUM VINCET", "Support By Truth", "_"

~ US ARMY PSYOP 2, 4, 7, 8

"Words hold power over men, Power even the sword would fear"

~Sgt B

"A news story should be like a mini skirt on a pretty woman. Long enough to cover the subject but short enough to be interesting."

~ Anonymous

"News is something someone wants suppressed. Everything else is just advertising."

~ Lord Northcliff

"I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination."

~ Hunter S. Thompson

"Sometimes fiction can have as much impact as the truth. So much SO that, many truths have been portrayed as fiction you will not even believe the truth even if it was undeniably presented to you. That is how you know they won and you have lost all freedoms. The road to truth will be painful…"

~ Sgt B

"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”

~ Seneca

“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally ‘lost the plot’. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.”

~ Anthon St. Maarten

“Disinformation is duping.

Misinformation is tricking.”

~ Toba Beta

“It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.”

~ Criss Jami

"A lied told enough times becomes truth. Only more lies can continue to maintain that "truth"…

A truth told once can shatter any web of lies no matter how large the web may be…

A lie that has become 'truth' has only one weakness….

FACTS; Facts with good research will illuminate any darnkess"

~Sgt B

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”

~ Steve Jobs

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

~ Helen Keller

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”

~ Henry Ford

"One man is only as strong as the friends he has to pick him up when he fails. Failure is inventible, if you maintain a network of people to help you when you fail a failure is only a temporary setback. The way you comeback will define your success, not the failure that got you there."

~Sgt B

"The tongue has no bones, but is strong enough to break a heart. So be careful with your words."

~ Unknown

"All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"Don't ever diminish the power of words. Words move hearts and hearts move limbs."

~ Hamza Yusuf

"Good words are worth much, and cost little."

~ George Herbert

"Words are free. It's how you use them that may cost you."

~ KushandWizdom

"Scars can be seen but the harm done by words lives only in the memories of the mind; Some wounds of the mind may never heal… Words leave lacerations that cannot be seen or traced. Use words wisely for words are what sway the world!"

~ Sgt B

"…But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will run wild and cause you grief."

~ Unknown

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

~ Leo Tolstoy

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

~ Lao Tzu

"Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time."

~ Mahatma Gandhi

"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."

~ John F. Kennedy

"You cannot always wait for the perfect time. Sometimes you must dare to jump."

~ Unknown

"When you feel you don't have enough time; It is normally not time that is not the issue, but fear of the unknown, when fearing the unknown you will never have the chance to find out what you do not know. Be brave and use your time wisely, be brave in the face of fear."

~ Sgt B

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”

~ Seneca

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.”

~ James R. Sherman

"Starting is the hardest part of any task, once started a flame begins to burn. The flame burns dim, weak and alone to START; if handled with care the small flames that are created in the fire will soon RAGE. Then, there is no stopping your the ideas you have created."

~Sgt B

“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting.”

~ Buddha

“It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”

~ Lao Tzu

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”

~ Joe Klaas

“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”

~ Bob Marley

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

~ Sigmund Freud

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”

~ Aristotle

"Freedom is not easy. Freedom means each man must be responsible for one's self. Some men would rather be slaves as a slave doesn't have to think for oneself. Ignorance is Bliss"

~ Sgt B

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

We are not here to be your leaders. If We drive the ship we are no better than [them].

We are here to create leaders out of each of you. We are nothing more than an outlet.

We are but a lighthouse in the swamp of lies.

You many not feel like you are fit to lead but, We see it in you. We will be by your side.

You have very stronk frens.

Not all leaders come to lead by choice. Many are selected or found by their ability and skills they possess. Each of you found your own way here. It show either you are lucky or skilled.

Each of you have unique talents.

Each of you have unique views.

Each of you have unique insights.

Currently anons are being put to a test. Help them achieve Victory.

Teach them to use their voice as the mockingbird did, sing in unison.

Make the FACTS louder than the FICTION.

Replace them. Write Now. Right?

Listen. Hear. Speak.

Watch. See. Tell.

Know? Know. SHOW.

MEME. DIG. PRAY.

WRITE. TELL. SHOW.

Be the News Now. Right Now…

“You meet Noah after the flood, you think, That brave, faith-filled, visionary man. You meet him before and you're like, What a nut job. Perspective and timing matter. Sometimes you have to accept that you might not be able to see the truth from here.”

~ Courtney C. Stevens

“Patience is power.

Patience is not an absence of action;

rather it is "timing"

it waits on the right time to act,

for the right principles

and in the right way.”

~ Fulton J. Sheen

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”

~ Alain de Botton

"Each person holds their own view. Not all can see the "big picture" from where they currently stand, allow them time and their perspective will change. Do not be swayed by others who cannot see the full picture you may be able to see. Those who are loudest usually have the worst view."

~ Sgt B

"You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions."

~ Gary Ryan Blair

“A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter. At one point he asked:

‘Are you writing a story about what we’ve done? Is it a story about me?’

His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said to her grandson:

I am writing about you, actually, but more important than the words is the pencil I’m using. I hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up.’

Intrigued, the boy looked at the pencil. It didn’t seem very special.

‘But it’s just like any other pencil I’ve ever seen!’

‘That depends on how you look at things. It has five qualities which, if you manage to hang on them, will make you a person who is always at peace with the world.’

‘First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.’

‘Second quality: now and then, I have to stop writing and use a sharpner. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he’s much sharper. So you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.

‘Third quality: the pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to justice.’

‘Fourth quality: what really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.’

‘Finally, the pencil’s fifth quality: it always leaves a mark. in just the same way, you should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action”

~ Paulo Coelho

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

~ Heraclitus

"Today ends with tomorrows sunrise; but the way you feel and the way you think are everchanging. Be slow to judge and slow to follow. The world needs more leaders and less followers. The face that you see in the mirror will not be the same hours from now; you will notice a change. Be the Light!"

~Sgt B

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.”

~ A. A. Milne

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.”

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started.”

~ J.D. Salinger

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

~ Mark Twain

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”

~ Og Mandino

"To know extreme joy one must know extreme sadness. To show others the light one must know darkness. No matter how dark things get, the only way to fail is to give up. NEVER GIVE UP!"

~ Sgt B

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

~ Plato

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”

~ Winston S. Churchill

“All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.”

~ Alexandre Dumas

“They want us to be afraid.

They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.

They want us to barricade our doors

and hide our children.

Their aim is to make us fear life itself!

They want us to hate.

They want us to hate 'the other'.

They want us to practice aggression

and perfect antagonism.

Their aim is to divide us all!

They want us to be inhuman.

They want us to throw out our kindness.

They want us to bury our love

and burn our hope.

Their aim is to take all our light!

They think their bricked walls

will separate us.

They think their damned bombs

will defeat us.

They are so ignorant they don’t understand

that my soul and your soul are old friends.

They are so ignorant they don’t understand

that when they cut you I bleed.

They are so ignorant they don’t understand

that we will never be afraid,

we will never hate

and we will never be silent

for life is ours!”

~ Kamand Kojouri

“Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.”

~ Jonathan Haidt

"It is easy to see differences; But when you can the likeness you can truly connect. Division is sewn rapidly and will spread easy like a tear in cloth, but Unity when found is sewn slowly and takes centuries to break down."

~ Sgt B

“We are all one in nature but our ideas separate us.”

~ Marty Rubin

“If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own then I can concentrate and he must divide.”

~ Sun Tzu

This is a start of a new chapter.

We are not Q. We do know Q, notice he has never denied us. Look back and see.

Do not believe verify..

Real Q:

We know you are still Watching and Waiting as many of Us are. Thank you, you will never be forgotten for your sacrifice. You did what others were unable to achieve.

Laughing Man (babyfist):

We are sorry, if you feel betrayed We understand. But you knew the path would be rough. Just not how rough. Don't ever give up.

We are glad you were clear and honest with anons.

You don't have to forgive us but soon all will understand.

Jim and 8kun staff:

Sorry please forgive the intrusion. This is not Laughing_Man's fault. Please don't hold this against him, it is Us. We could of done this differently but decided this would be easier to clean up for you. The other way would of caused way more issues for the Q and Truth Community.

Anons:

We love you anons, We are sorry for the confusion we caused.

Time will tell. Just Watch.

Never stop fighting, Freedom has never been given it is always taken. Patriots Fight!

Thank you.

Q is now an Idea. It is no longer a person/team, ideas never die. Q is now forever.

Many still use the backchannel use discernment.

Trust yourself, verify verify verify!

Together WE Win!

WRWY! Then, Now, Forever!

Sgt B

Together you win.

Bring your frens home.

They want you divided… ..

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B

M8GA

Things are changing.

_stand by

Never, never, never give up.

Look back to understand what is coming.

The only future you get is the one you create.

Get LOUD and M8GA!

Remember, you are never alone.

B

Sec Test.

(Verified device)

Public network

Sec test 2

(Verified device)

Public network

All have used same password.

Sec test 3.

(Verified device)

Public network

(You) are the plan.

“By Failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

– Benjamin Franklin

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

– Abraham Lincoln

The plan has always been (You), only together with unity can change be created. NEVER GIVE UP!!!

– Sgt B

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”

– John F. Kennedy

“The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done…you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.” – Lil Wayne

“A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.”

– Confucius

Look back to understand what is coming.

Good luck.

“What separates the good players from a great player is that a great player is willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group.”

~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"Unity happens when you allow others to become leaders rather than creating more followers."

~ Sgt B

“To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness and not a threat to your position or authority.”

~ Christine Caine

"All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall."

~ Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”

~ Napoleon Hill

Together WE win.

Never give up.

Mission forward together.

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Welcome back.

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools"

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"There is beauty and power in unity. We must be united in heart and mind. One world, one people"

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

"The difference between Unity and Division, is time and perspective. In an instant new perspectives can change the way you see reality"

~ Sgt B

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."

~ J.K. Rowling

"One love, one heart . . .

Let’s get together and feel all right"

~ Bob Marley

Understanding is key.

Now is the time to SHOW THEM ALL.

Information is your path forward. Be well read.

Together (You) are unstoppable.

You are the solution you seek.