12/23/08: Ed said:

Hi Wes: I got to your website, to read the above titled article, from rense.com.

I don't know who you address your article to but it sure isn't me. I'm 70 and have always been my own boss, being an atheist, logical, and enjoying common sense in an era where few exhibit these traits. Not inherited but developed since I was in my early 20s. As long as there is one black sheep that means that all sheep are not white. I'm a black sheep. Only I influence myself, nothing touches me from without. I'm aware that the U.S. Government is not my government although I have to live under it, it doesn't touch me either. My great, happy, peaceful life is 100% my own.

I have been enjoying music since I was a kid in Puerto Rico and enjoyed all forms of it from classical to '80s "new wave" since that's when I stopped listening to the radio and buying LPs. The CDs that I enjoy are mostly compilations of Top 40 hits. I tell you this because some of the artists I have enjoyed are mentioned in your article (The Doors, The Mamas and the Papas, C.S.N.Y., Jimi Hendryx, Elvis, etc.) and you make them sound as if they have or had some kind of control over their listeners. Far from it. If their songs are not enjoyable to my standards, they don't get listened to. Whatever they spout, outside of their music, has no interest to me. The only person who affected me emotionally was John Lennon until I read a book by his former lover, May Pang, which turned me off to him publicly, except for his popular hits. So I'm not swayed.

We are under the control of the illuminati? Show me how my life is affected by such. I get up and until I go back to bed, all of my decisions are based entirely by the way I think and the things I like and no one convinces me against my thinking for I'm very aware of what's right and what's wrong and I prefer to act only on what's right, as long as no one is affected negatively by my actions.

You and David Icke, and I'm sure others, have a strange way of thinking especially if you espouse religious thinking. Perhaps you mean that the people affected are those who are nonthinkers, mental sheep if you will. I'm not and I know what side of my bread it's buttered on. Don't make waves, live a happy and uneventful life and you can get through it without the kind of hassles and control you say others are suffering from, especially from music.

Music is music. If it's harmonious and melodic, it's enjoyed by me. If it's discordant, I don't. I've lived my 70 years exposed to music and it's always just for my pure enjoyment. Nothing in music affects me except emotionally and my emotions are under my control. Perhaps you ought to consider changing your lifestyle and enjoying life instead of dealing with conspiracies, etc., that do not affect you unless you prefer to let them.

I don't believe there's any substance in the title of your article. I do not see any influence on music (up to mid-1980s and I don't care about today's) by the CIA or Military. Is hip-hop, rap, etc., really their creation? I don't think so. There will always be those who control and those who are controlled. And also, those who can see both sides and remain neutral. Such is me.

Cordially,
Ed