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Certain parties don't want you to know certain facts.
For example, if Bayer were proud that it
introduced heroin to the world, wouldn't that fact be on the company's Website? After all, it was
one of the most popular drugs of the twentieth century. The official corporate history mentions
the release of aspirin in 1899 but not heroin during the previous year.
Do you think the Catholic Church wants you to know that Pope Pius II wrote an erotic book?
True, the canonical Catholic Encyclopedia does mention the title in passing, but it demurely
neglects to say anything about it.
Historians don't seem too happy about the fact that Winston Churchill decried an alleged
worldwide Jewish conspiracy, so you won't read that very often. Likewise, the cannibalistic
tendencies of the Virginia colonists and our close call with World War III I are just too
discomforting to be widely admitted.
My lady-love was an active feminist in the 1970s, yet she had never heard that the founding
mothers of feminism opposed abortion. Small wonder, since their prolife views are almost never
mentioned in biographies or documentaries. I was surprised when Richard Metzger,
Disinformation's creative director, told me that Carl Sagan loved reefer. I guess the Drug
Warriors won't be using the famous scientist as a poster child for the "evils" of pot. |