For Your Own Good

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This paper examines how it has always been a primary role of governments to spread information within their borders and how, as the ruling elite, they have always gathered and distributed what the simpletons they direct either want or ought to know. The United States, like many other countries, - if not all - is notorious for using this tactic. In particular, it looks at how the second world war was a huge project and how more recently the War on Drugs has escalated into another major propaganda mission. It examines the administrative, psychological and financial methods used in both operations and shows that not much has been changed in the propaganda playbook over the past 60 years.

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"The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy fulfills a similar role. The ONDCP was started in 1986 with media time donated to the cause, but in 1997 Congress passed a bill setting aside $200 million a year for five years intended for ad time on the country's five major networks spouting their anti-drug prophecy. The idea was to set up a half-price deal where the government would barter down the cost of an ad to 50 per cent of what any other company would have to pay by buying time and expecting two ads for the price of one. Warner Brothers, NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX all laughed in Uncle Sam's face at such an idea (Forbes, Jan. 13, 2000, online)."

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