This is a teaser intro for an article i wrote on Examiner.com:

"With our initial introduction of our Cultural and Political Movement to the world accomplished, Critical Thinking is the very next highest priority principle that we would like to address.

WE THE PEOPLE TAR is now going to say something to you that no American Politician would ever dare say, "Don't believe anything we tell you... Don't believe anything we tell you until you can verify it for yourself with other sources that you trust and are able to defend it to anyone who would be critical of that position...

In other words, Think Critically! It is important that you take ownership of your own perception of reality. http://exm.nr/lwWQof One way to do this is through critical thinking. http://bit.ly/9veW8 (simpler) http://bit.ly/ycYLJ (complex) Critical Thinking is not about telling you what to think, it is about telling you how to think.  http://bit.ly/iGGoVc 

"Television images lull us into thinking that they are real, that they aren't iconic signs at all but realities. Since we see them, we trust them, often failing to realize that, like all signs, they have been constructed with a certain interest behind them." http://bit.ly/iIBsBA To take ownership of your perspective of reality, It is important that you recognize how to detect bias and propaganda in the Major media http://amzn.to/kMqz1i  and http://bit.ly/iSwx1a .

The Censorship, Propaganda and Indoctrination of Major Corporate Media and the Government is much less effective when you defend your perspective of reality by Thinking Critically.

To protect yourself even further, you should also...."

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I write this article with the same intentions as Thomas Paine http://ushistory.org/paine. I seek no leadership role. I seek only to help the American People find their own way using their own “Common Sense” http://amzn.to/kbRuar

Those were my thoughts.

Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking to read and reflect upon what I have written.

I mutually pledge my life, my fortune and my sacred honor to our mutual endeavors of restoring liberty and economic opportunity to WE THE PEOPLE as our Founding Fathers envisioned and intended.

TellMyPolitician

In Liberty,

Don Mashak

The Cynical Patriot

http://twitter.com/dmashak

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