Superman’s Partnership with the Feds
As we all know, as part of the U.S. government’s much-vaunted war-on-terrorism racket, some big technology firms have chosen to partner with the government in an effort to win the war on terrorism. In the process, they have aided the government, sometimes illegally, in the destruction of people’s privacy. The firms engage in such wrongdoing either because of some warped interpretation of “patriotism” or for money or both.
When I was a kid growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, the same thing was going on with respect to the Cold War racket. Back then, the big scary thing was communists rather than terrorists. The federal government’s Cold War propaganda convinced most everyone that the Reds were coming to get us, either from Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam, East Germany, Eastern Europe, and even from here in the United States in Hollywood or the civil-rights movement.
And just like today, there were private companies that bought into the Cold War propaganda by partnering with the U.S. government to prevent a communist takeover of the United States.
One of favorite comic books when I was a kid was Superman. Every week, I would use my allowance money to purchase the newest Superman comic book at a newsstand in my hometown of Laredo, Texas. I felt like Lois Lane, Jimmy Olson, and Clark Kent were my best friends. I also loved watching the Superman television series that starred George Reeves.
I recently came across one of the televised Superman episodes named “Stamp Day for Superman.” You can watch it here. It’s a classic example of how the U.S. government was as successful in garnering the support from pr
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