Killing the Hundredth Monkey

The Battle for Control and Censorship of Canada’s Internet by the B’nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish Congress

"the Internet is a clear and present danger to their past power and glory and they do not want that power and glory challenged and will use any means at their disposal to kill that Hundredth Monkey and keep the “new awareness” from reaching the people" The Battle for Control and Censorship of Canada’s Internet by the B’nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish Congress “Up among the firs where it smells so sweet or down in the valley where the river used to be i got my mind on eternity some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me and i’m wondering where the lions are… i’m wondering where the lions are…” Wandering Where the Lions Are ~ Bruce Cockburn, Musician & Songwriter “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” ~ Jimi Hendrix ‘How shall a man judge what to do in such times? ‘As he ever has judged,’ said Aragorn, ‘Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear.’ ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers “What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.” ~ Abraham Lincoln “By Way of Deception Thou Shalt Make War.” ~ Motto of the Israeli Mossad Back in 1981 during the heyday of the Anti-nuclear Movement, Ken Keyes, Jr., a well-known writer of the time, published a classic book entitled The Hundredth Monkey. In a nutshell the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon was the result of scientific investigation of a Japanese monkey, Macaca fuscata, which had been observed in the wild for over 30 years. In 1952 the scientists were giving the monkeys sweet potatoes that they dropped in the sand along a river. At one point an 18-month-old female named Imo, tired of eating sweet potatoes covered with sand, decided to wash hers off in the nearby stream. She then taught this technique to her mother and her playmates. From 1952 to 1958 scientists noted that all the young monkeys learned this trick but the older monkeys who didn’t imitate the younger ones continued eating the sand-covered spuds. Then, in the fall of 1958, something truly amazing happened. The monkeys on Koshima Island where this was all occurring reached a threshold in numbers one day and (using the figure of 99 monkeys) suddenly the 100th monkey also learned the new trick and by that same evening almost all the monkeys in the tribe were washing their sweet potatoes off. As Ken Keyes, Jr. wrote, “The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough!” But, as he goes on to further explain, that wasn’t all. Spontaneously the habit of washing sweet potatoes “jumped over the sea” and “colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys on Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes!” Based on these events Keyes, Jr. concluded, “Thus, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind. Although the exact number may vary, the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the consciousness property of these people. But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes-in to a new awareness, a field is strengthened so that this awareness reaches almost everyone!” This story, as both fact and metaphor, aptly and succinctly describes what has been happening to the Internet over its past thirty year evolvment. In this regard one might also reflect on the words of a speech “The Internet vs. the State” given by Eric Garris, an activist in the USA, to a group of Libertarians back in 2005 where he said: “At the 1977 Libertarian Party Convention, mind-expansion advocate and LSD guru Timothy Leary gave a speech that few of us took very seriously. He spoke of something called the Internet, a network that would connect computers worldwide, allowing participants from around the globe to sign on and retrieve text, photographs, audio and video instantaneously, and to communicate in real time with anyone in the whole world who also had a computer and a connection. He said that it would be the new revolution against the current social order and stifling status quo. He predicted it would be much, much bigger than drugs in its ability to overthrow the establishment. Whereas tuning in, turning on and dropping out had been of great interest to a somewhat narrow subset of the population, everyone would be able to use the Internet, in his own way, and thus the new revolution against the old order would transcend class, age, nationality and all other demographics. The bourgeois would have just as much interest and use for it as the so-called counterculture. And nothing would ever again be the same. As I said, no one at the time really believed it. We figured Leary had just done a little too much acid and his imagination had gotten the best of him. The network of information he described seemed totally impossible – and yet it exists, precisely as he predicted it, right now.” There is no longer any doubt in 2008 that Timothy Leary was, in this sense, a prophet in his time. The number of Internet users is so vast and the information so quantitatively and qualitatively expansive that it has become the most stupendous, liberating, truly democratic and open communications system our world has ever known. But, these positive aspects of the Internet do not bode well for everyone or for every institution that existed prior to its advent. The old, centralized state mentality, along with its controlled and complicit media system and its influence, are now being left behind in the digital dust so to speak as Internet users turn more and more to the Net and to alternate news sources and blogs to find a much greater and broader expanse of opinion and analysis when it comes to the presentation and understanding of current events and their underlying root causes. This new situation thus creates for those old-paradigm groups not only a challenge in terms of their diminishing effectiveness in maintaining their agendas but also a major public relations problem in terms of their ability to continue to portray their reality and history in the same light that they were accustomed to in the past. Hidden knowledge about the skeletons within their closets is now being revealed en masse to millions of Internet users and this power of persuasion which they once held firmly within their grasp has now been virtually torn from their hands and the flaming torch of freedom of thought has been let loose and is lighting millions of other torch/minds around the globe. It is a threat that the old order is being forced to respond to as it faces losing its pseudo-credibility and the prospect of sinking into the Cyberian sunset never to arise again with the power it once wielded over public opinion. I have stated on numerous occasions over the years that the Internet is the Achilles Heel for those who cling to maintaining the old political/financial/social order; one that has brutalized and terrorized and held humanity in bondage for centuries. Nowhere are Canadians now seeing this looming struggle between the forces of the old and the new than in the present attempts by the Zionist-controlled League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada and the Canadian Jewish Congress to silence critics of both the state of Israel and Israel’s propaganda arms in this country of which they are the two main proponents. To these organizations the Internet is a clear and present danger to their past power and glory and they do not want that power and glory challenged and will use any means at their disposal to kill that Hundredth Monkey and keep the “new awareness” from reaching the people. Whether this means subverting Canada’s judicial system and perverting its processes for their own purposes and doing all in their power to put into jail cells anyone who would resist their fascist, totalitarian designs, these false front organizations are out to fight tooth and nail to protect their traditional racket and its territory. The following lengthy “Response” to the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) and to the charges which Harry Abrams and the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada have brought against both myself and my website form the opening chapter in my personal encounter with these groups that I now wish to share with the cyber public. It is basically my analysis of how I perceive this looming battle, its various strategies and why it is now occurring. I hope that others can learn from my experiences and join with the numbers of growing individuals and groups and organizations from across the Canadian Internet community who are waking up to this imminent and challenging danger to our basic human right to open access to information. On November 20th, 2007 I received an envelope via Canada Post addressed to me and my website http://www.radicalpress.com. The envelope had no return address on it nor was it registered. Upon opening it I learned that it contained a number of photocopied letters from the CHRC that had been sent to me earlier but had the wrong address on them and were returned. Also included in the envelope were copies of a “Complaint” sent to the Commission by Harry Abrams and the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada. Harry Abrams is the B.C. representative for said organization. The complaint was identical to one previously sent to another website owner in the spring of 2007, Al Rycroft of http://www.PEJ.org. The nature of the complaint thus worded contends that I and my website RadicalPress.com are contriving “…to promote ongoing hatred affecting persons identifiable as Jews and/or as citizens of Israel”. As is the case in matters of this nature, when the CHRC consents to investigate such charges they ask the person or organization accused to reply to the charges. This reply is known as the “Response”. Below, please find my Response to these spurious charges. -###- January 19, 2008 By Arthur Topham Pub/Ed of The Radical Press, Canada’s Radical News Network- radical@radicalpress.com http://www.radicalpress.com