Boycott Television – Turn Off Your TV
By Alan Mercer
Following up on the idea of economic boycott to effect change, taxfree15.com targets a few days each month with April 15-18 coming up. That’s an excellent idea, but there may also be some actions appropriate for ongoing boycotts.
One idea is getting rid of your television. Since we are coming up to “TV Turn Off Week”, April 19-25 which some Americans observe, let’s take advantage of that to go all the way.
Cancel your cable service or satellite TV subscription.
First of all, many people out there won’t believe there is any problem that requires a boycott. They are OK with all the lies that are funneled through the politicians, “reporters” and TV anchors on television day after day to justify the Iraq war for example, and the next war after that, and the next war after that…. That’s OK with them.
They’re OK. They’re watching all the sports. They’re watching all the porn the cable industry has been pushing on families for years. They’re watching all the soaps and they’re watching all the action shows where the “good guys” torture people (indoctrination). And they’re watching all the politically correct and intentionally degrading sitcoms – you know, like the one where the hero’s ex-girlfriend has a sex change and sleeps with his mother. Seriously. Does that lower their opinion of their fellow human beings and weaken the bonds between people? Probably does. But everything’s fine! It’s all right.
Which is a perfect reason why we should boycott television.
Because people actually believe everything’s all right. Try telling them otherwise. They just won’t listen. Because their brains are mush. It happens to everyone watching TV. I’ve been there.
Federal, provincial and local governments and their private partners are taking away more rights and freedoms. They have expanded the “green belt” control of private lands for years, they have expanded controls on speech. They have expanded surveillance of homes through the excuse of the drug war. They have ratcheted up the laws for police RIDE checkpoints, who stop and interrogate innocent people. They have made throwing away your garbage an onerous task. They have implemented “Smart Growth” plans in Ontario, and the public-private-partnership system is going to implement “smart meters” for monitoring and control of your home appliances (read!). They have expanded government monitoring of our financial transactions.
You didn’t know about that? The TV news anchorman didn’t tell you?!
Governments – and their corporate and UN-connected bosses – have beefed up their powers to interfere with property owners through the Ontario “Clean Water” Act and anti-smoking laws. And so on. They are involved in the constant ongoing destruction of national sovereignty. They never stop. They have stepped up violations of our privacy with body scanners. Other unbelievable devices are about to be unleashed. They never stop threatening foreign countries and coming up with excuses to threaten them. And so on. And so on. Worse and worse.
But everything’s OK with some people. They’re fine. Living well enough, not worried about anything. The world is OK, our government’s NATO gang are dropping bombs on innocent people in Pakistan and Afghanistan. People are being arrested and detained without trial (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35011370/) for years [related link: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna35011370].
“So what? They’re different. Everything’s fine! I’m going to watch my favorite TV show. Business as usual.”
I think much of their problem is that they leave the TV plugged in. Do you know how many decades we have lived with TV? Yes, regulated, licensed and often funded by governments. How much of what you think you know is just a pack of lies?
Global government and currency is on the horizon. Climate change propaganda and the resulting carbon tax policy proposals (https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/us/politics/07carbon.html) threaten our ability to heat our homes, drive to work, pay our bills and survive. Independence, freedom and rights are being destroyed. But the TV news hosts are smiling at you every night, and telling you about the latest movies and celebrity gossip.
Some of us don’t think everything’s fine.
So it’s hard at first, I know, but I don’t have cable, or satellite TV. Try it. It takes some effort though. But it helps you wake up. To tell you the truth, you’ll find it’s absolutely necessary to do this if you want a clear head.
So that’s my suggestion for those of you out there who know there is a problem. Try it. Boycott the establishment television media and its propaganda. Stop letting your children be indoctrinated. Get them outdoors. Get them reading. Read more yourself. Wake yourself up by switching it off.
There is a lot more to say about the boycott idea. Partly it cuts off tax income to the government. Partly it gets the attention of corporations who go along with government policies and the policies of private groups who advise governments.
The party political system is for show – it’s fake – and government red tape and restrictions are onerous to wrestle with, so it’s essential to go far beyond conventional politics even if something could be done that way at all.
Because people seem to have so much dividing them, but I wonder if maybe there is common ground to be discovered among regular Canadians if they stopped listening to the people “at the top”, who are put on pedestals, if they stopped listening to mainstream media, if they stop letting themselves be brainwashed by the hypnotic effect of TV. Maybe many would wake up and they would drop the false “left”-“right” paradigm, and they’d realize a lot of what they think they believe is just downloaded into them from some guy in a suit and tie on TV.
It’s no longer just the third world under the gun. Look at what has happened to Greece where they are being pressured to give up their islands. And the people of Iceland have been pushing back, having identified the real problem.
Where did our tax money go to during the lending crisis (which just happened suddenly out of the blue supposedly)? The banks. And this is on top of the regular interest payments each taxpayer pays to lending institutions. According to debtclock.ca, that’s 14 cents of every tax dollar on interest, or $84 million a day (http://www.debtclock.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43&Itemid=40 accessed Mar 28/2010) [another site: https://commodity.com/debt-clock/canada/]. Why do you think nations like Canada maintain national debts in the first place? It’s intentional. It’s an outrage. The borrower is servant to the lender. The politicians aren’t working for the people. The system is all myth, built on fiction.
It’s clearer to more of us now what the purpose is of the carbon dioxide propaganda, and the “war on terrorism”, and the “anti-terrorism” civil liberties violations and attacks on property rights that have gone along in parallel for years. The purpose is to bring us down economically, to make us helpless, put us into complete debt, so that Canadians are forced to give up all their real assets eventually – both private and public – to international banks and corporations who take control of world resources on behalf of a new system of total world governance.
People who don’t want to live under a police state will not be listened to at all unless they take this kind of boycott action or other effective peaceful protest. Exercise your economic power while you still have some. Getting rid of your TV benefits you and your family directly, and if there are enough participants, it gives a jolt to the politicians and big media corporations, to make them reflect upon the need to respect the freedoms, rights and dignity of those they pretend to serve.
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The boycott is a great idea. I was planning to remove my TV because of th vulgarity. I am paying $50. a month to watch commercials, shocking comedy shows, TEA POTS, and CRACK POTS. I feel like peeping around the TV screen to see if it is X-Rated before I look. They should send me money to watch.
p.s. I am 75 yr old
I think a boycott in any terms does not accomplish much, what happens is that only the people that are offended by the system, turn off the system, and those that are the “They”, will continue to watch and continue to view the information that has been corrupted by people who are, in your words, indoctrinating the general public. I found your article interesting and I can see the passion in the words, but, I believe by just turning off the TV and boycotting it just plays into the hands of the people indoctrinating. To me it just seems that your solution is to ignore “Them” and they will go away, when historically this has been proven wrong. These people don’t care if you stop watching, because, for the most part, you are not the audience they are trying to reach anyway. The problem that exists is something that has been innate in our system since the creation of this country. Our governments has always had power over the people and that even our first constitution “BNA Act” clearly states that we, as Canadians, have always been subservient to a foreign state and collectivism, as illustrated in the Act “And whereas such a Union would conduce to the Welfare of the Provinces and PROMOTE THE INTERESTS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE”. Our loyalty was to a Queen, not to our Country or Canadians as a people, or a Nation. So it is easy to understand when our own official Constitution Act in 1982 came out, which gave us freedoms, it, in itself created by a government that was already well entrenched into the Canadian society, it was implemented without fanfare or disruption to old system of Government, which was what was intended by the government.
As indicated above, I only believe a boycott, or inaction, does not serve to change anything. What is needed is action, and that action has to come from within the system, the very system you want to boycott, not outside it. Instead of ignoring what we see on TV we need to take more aggressive action in providing a different perspective to the people, and by doing this, it does not help this cause by ignoring the opposition and hoping they will be effected inaction or us ignoring them (its worked well in our history with other oppressive governments – Hitler and Stalin in recent history – not to say our country has reached this state), but by representing our own arguments in a calm and constructive format within the system. I believe most people believe in liberty and would like to have more control over their own destiny, but like most of us, they have been in the system for so long that radical and aggressive expressions cause resistance and even fear.
It is not something that is going to happen overnight, it is not something that is going come without people being committed to the fight. We do not have to use the force of power (which the establish controls anyway), but by the means provided by the system to peaceably fight for our liberty. In our own Constitution which are “founded upon the principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law… Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion, (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other means of communication, (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d) freedom of association. From these can be a stepping stone to gaining the freedoms, we have them, let us use them.
With enough people, having the same goal, changes can be made, but, it is only my opinion, these things cannot be changed by turning off the TV, and by not challenging there words, but by finding the like minded Canadians, turning on the light of Liberty, and pushing forward the fight in Canada!! I have sat on the sidelines too long myself and have decided to now start taking on the task personally instead of waiting for someone else to do it for me.
Thanks for all the comments.
To be clear about the boycott TV idea, it’s not inaction, because it means cancelling cable or satellite subscription, at least temporarily. If you wanted to change something on TV, for example, there was some news propaganda, this would be a way to apply pressure. The fact that you may not get many others to agree with you is no big news to me – but it’s a start to show others how serious you are about your beliefs. Inaction – or inertia – would be leaving the TV service plugged in – “business” or lack of business as usual. For other types of strategies, this action would benefit you completely, because it would free up your mind, lots and lots of your time and your family’s time, and your energy, because freedom activists would need lots of time and energy to try other peaceful strategies. I’ve tried the political system myself as a candidate. There are drawbacks. There is always lack of agreement when it comes to groups. People should try whatever works for them. I think Catherine Austin Fitz was saying in an interview that freedom activists should do what gives them energy. TV drains people of their will. They are “asleep” so to speak and they need to wake up.
i think its a great idea i dont like tv that much and im only 11 year old girl in middle school. thank you very much.
A media boycott has positive personal results. I myself am finding that truth and media are coincidental at best. This corruption affects much more than our attitudes of a people we’ve never met. It is a poison to our personal relationships. I myself ended a decade long subscription with Dish Network not because their service was bad, but rather their programming was. When we are taught to hate a people, this hatred propagates into our personal lives, breeding apathy towards each other, and allows us to be used to hate others and justify wars.
As for Canada’s involvement in the Libya air strikes against the civilian population. I salute you in not firing a shot. You properly recognized that there were no military targets, and acted in good conscience. I pray that there is a conscience in each and every one of our own military when they come home and realize American citizens will be the next targets.
If only Hitler had state-run TV. It is mostly propaganda. I unplugged over two years ago.
Excellent initiative! This is when democracy flourishes: when people come together and unite for a common cause, rather than passively allow themselves to be molded and controlled (which is so often the case in these times). TV is mostly garbage, trash, filth, and should be boycotted by intelligent, sensitive beings. Please, let’s do this.