1 - MONEY IS THE MEDIUM
DISTORTION IS THE MESSAGE
'Dial 999 for Caroline' is both an extrapolation and an amplified version of our own previously published original research, and it is underpinned by Marshall McLuhan's now famous statement that 'The Medium is the Message'. His oft-quoted slogan first appeared in print during 1964 when it served as the title to the first chapter of his book 'Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man'. Now it becomes the foundational premise of 'Dial 999 for Caroline', where fiction evaporates, and reality becomes more exciting than make believe. For the first time, here is an unfolding storyline about the so-called 'Swinging Sixties' - which was but a mere media slogan designated to obfuscate actual and factual details of lives lived by the people and events that resulted in the advent of 'Radio Caroline'.
Forget the music, let's talk about the money!
It took a massive world war defeat to reveal the horrors behind the scenes in Hitler's life in order for most Nazi true believers to shake their faith in the Fuhrer. In the instance of Billy Graham, after he launched his international operation with a major campaign in London, his operating evangelistic partner Charles Bradley Templeton deserted Billy Graham in 1957 and became an agnostic. Templeton came to the realization that Graham did not know what he was talking about. Graham had no training as a theologian and he therefore lacked the basis for the process of critical thinking regarding theology. He was not qualified to deliver the combined messages of warning and solution to millions of especially young and impressionable people.
Billy Graham also fooled Queen Elizabeth II. In fact, he became one of her favorite preachers and delivered sermons to her at Balmoral. Yet, this is the same Billy Graham who angered the UK Labour Party when he went on a rant about USSR Communism being "Satan's Religion!" which he linked to Labour Party socialism, just before he arrived in the UK!
From Billy Graham to the Beatles, fan adulation, especially by young women is all the same. Even Adolph Hitler had girls swooning. This spirit of fan adoration reaches down to include now aging anoraks, and most of them are males! They worship a music box that was once known in Britain as a 'tranny' (or 'trannie') during the 1960s. It was a cheap means of tuning into the now fast disappearing medium called radio. They worship the medium, not the message.
What is "Free Radio"?
The anoraks have their own deceased messiah known as Ronan O'Rahilly. He pretended that he was not another Hitler, because he claimed that did not want to cause physical harm to those who opposed him, he just wanted to steal from everyone, and to help his boss sell illegal drugs to kids. What was that slogan? Oh yes! "Sex, drugs and rock and roll." Ronan said that he was a Roman Catholic anarchist!
Ronan didn't care who he harmed or who he stole from, so long as he got what he wanted. It would be funny if it was not seriously true. But some people who are currently trading by using the name of 'Radio Caroline' to build a brand new business for themselves, have denounced O'Rahilly as an individual representing the worst characteristics of human nature, while at the same time using his image and his name to build their own brand new business!
What a sick joke that is!
To them, Ronan O'Rahilly is merely their godfather who explained how to obtain money from anoraks (and anyone else), under false pretenses. In this aspect they are remaining true to the pattern of behavior manifest by their Messiah during his own lifetime.
What a sick joke that is!
To them, Ronan O'Rahilly is merely their godfather who explained how to obtain money from anoraks (and anyone else), under false pretenses. In this aspect they are remaining true to the pattern of behavior manifest by their Messiah during his own lifetime.
The advent of 'Radio Caroline' on March 27, 1964 did not open the doors to freedom of expression, in fact that was never the idea of the real people behind that venture. They wanted freedom to manufacture and sell equipment, and without an expanded marketplace beyond the BBC and ITA, that was not possible.
The initial business plan for 'Radio Caroline' died on October 15, 1964 when the Conservative Party lost the 1964 UK General Election, because the incoming Labour Party government made it clear from the start that it would not license independent broadcasting stations. Even the name of the ITA as the Independent Television Authority was yet another sick joke. It was in fact a British Crown created authority to match the British Crown created authority of the BBC!
We will explain how and why the ITA was nothing more and nothing less than the first failed attempt to overturn Crown censorship which was first installed in 1660 in the newly created Kingdom of England under its King Charles II. It was not a continuation of a monarchy "interrupted" by a united republic governing England and Scotland. After 1660, that period was laughingly branded as the 'Interregnum'.
The initial business plan for 'Radio Caroline' died on October 15, 1964 when the Conservative Party lost the 1964 UK General Election, because the incoming Labour Party government made it clear from the start that it would not license independent broadcasting stations. Even the name of the ITA as the Independent Television Authority was yet another sick joke. It was in fact a British Crown created authority to match the British Crown created authority of the BBC!
We will explain how and why the ITA was nothing more and nothing less than the first failed attempt to overturn Crown censorship which was first installed in 1660 in the newly created Kingdom of England under its King Charles II. It was not a continuation of a monarchy "interrupted" by a united republic governing England and Scotland. After 1660, that period was laughingly branded as the 'Interregnum'.
The intention of the people wanting to make money was political in overtone, and this meant in their minds that they could never be open and straightforward about what they were trying to do, or even how they were trying to do it. Yet, their reasoning was simple and straightforward. Some believed that the government should control everything, including the means of travel and manufacturing. But these private manufacturers intended to expand their own financial base, and in order to do that, they had to overcome censorship regulations put in place during 1660 under the imprimatur of King Charles II.
Don Pierson: doyen of unintended consequences
But to know any of that is to know why 'Radio Caroline' failed in reaching its objective when the British General Election results became known on October 15, 1964. It then took a Texan named Don Pierson to unknowingly become the person who kicked down the door of British Crown censorship with 'Wonderful Radio London'. What Pierson introduced was paid (sponsored) political-religious broadcasting that could be heard morning, noon and night on the British airwaves, along with pop music.
'Radio Luxembourg' had done the same thing with the introduction of its initial twin services ('Radio Luxembourg 1' and later 'Radio Luxembourg 2') in the late 1940s, by selling airtime to religious broadcasters. The people behind those 'Luxembourg' broadcasts were the same people who were members of the organization which teamed-up with the manufacturers and set their sights on expanding the number of licensed British broadcasting. stations.
Their first attempt was soon narrowed to television only, and when that plan failed they returned to look again at radio broadcasting. Their first glance was the Republic of Ireland, and then on the Isle of Man. Both were considered as locations for a high-powered transmitter capable of covering Great Britain during daylight hours.
When those plans also failed, they then looked at offshore broadcasting. This idea had been proposed in the 1920s, and then again just after World War II in the 1940s, but the technology of that day did not lend itself to fulfillment of that proposal. That is when their focus was reduced to land based, independent television broadcasting.
But today, anoraks so-called, know nothing about any of this. Instead, for some silly reason they think that free radio is about freedom to play specific musical sounds on the air. That was never the issue and it certainly is not today, because the recorded spectrum of musical sounds can now be heard morning, noon and night in the UK. In 1964, the issue was not about the lack of broadcast music, and it is certainly not about broadcast music today.
This story was always about the medium of money, and that story was always buried under a distorted message which was then printed for all to read and believe in mass media newspapers and magazines. It is the story of censorship in the UK and its origin as applied to mass media.
'Radio Luxembourg' had done the same thing with the introduction of its initial twin services ('Radio Luxembourg 1' and later 'Radio Luxembourg 2') in the late 1940s, by selling airtime to religious broadcasters. The people behind those 'Luxembourg' broadcasts were the same people who were members of the organization which teamed-up with the manufacturers and set their sights on expanding the number of licensed British broadcasting. stations.
Their first attempt was soon narrowed to television only, and when that plan failed they returned to look again at radio broadcasting. Their first glance was the Republic of Ireland, and then on the Isle of Man. Both were considered as locations for a high-powered transmitter capable of covering Great Britain during daylight hours.
When those plans also failed, they then looked at offshore broadcasting. This idea had been proposed in the 1920s, and then again just after World War II in the 1940s, but the technology of that day did not lend itself to fulfillment of that proposal. That is when their focus was reduced to land based, independent television broadcasting.
But today, anoraks so-called, know nothing about any of this. Instead, for some silly reason they think that free radio is about freedom to play specific musical sounds on the air. That was never the issue and it certainly is not today, because the recorded spectrum of musical sounds can now be heard morning, noon and night in the UK. In 1964, the issue was not about the lack of broadcast music, and it is certainly not about broadcast music today.
This story was always about the medium of money, and that story was always buried under a distorted message which was then printed for all to read and believe in mass media newspapers and magazines. It is the story of censorship in the UK and its origin as applied to mass media.
There are some who believe in a structure of human society which is ruled from the top down by a few people. On the island of Great Britain, power has always been held by a few, and they merely follow a viewpoint that has existed throughout the time that human beings have lived on Planet Earth.
Sometimes it is administered visibly by the difference of skin color, sometimes by the sound of speech, and sometimes by the profession of a religious creed, and the people at the top wear crowns in order to let the ignorant masses know who is in control of their lives. In the so-called United Kingdom, the Crown is the law. It may seem comical that Charles Windsor is going around in 2023 with robes and a crown on his head, but it fact this farce is merely symbolic. The crown that he wears on his head is merely a representation of the Crown institution that still controls life in the British Isles and beyond. Charles Windsor is not the Crown, he is the spokesman for the Crown institution.
Sometimes it is administered visibly by the difference of skin color, sometimes by the sound of speech, and sometimes by the profession of a religious creed, and the people at the top wear crowns in order to let the ignorant masses know who is in control of their lives. In the so-called United Kingdom, the Crown is the law. It may seem comical that Charles Windsor is going around in 2023 with robes and a crown on his head, but it fact this farce is merely symbolic. The crown that he wears on his head is merely a representation of the Crown institution that still controls life in the British Isles and beyond. Charles Windsor is not the Crown, he is the spokesman for the Crown institution.
Control of mass media became necessary ever since the invention of the printing press. Before that, the control of knowledge was managed by educating the few and keeping the majority in the darkness of ignorance, and that was not bliss.
The deceit and deception factor regarding the ownership of mass media opened the doors wide to others who were aware of the objective, but who could see a way to feather their own nests by using the cover of darkness to achieve their own goals of making money. The basic plan could be viewed as economically and socially helpful, because it would create more jobs. Pay from those jobs would in turn benefit everyone who was employed, and the communities in which they lived.
But there was a faction within this master plan who did not seek to further the cause of freedom, but to shackle the masses to the slavery of drug addiction. Ronan O'Rahilly was part of that crowd! He did not believe in law, in fact, he openly called himself an anarchist.
The manufacturers' mass media plan would have resulted in extending freedom of speech and religion to everyone, but not everyone agreed that such a freedom should be extended to everyone. That is where slave mentality, class bigotry, and religious discrimination come into the story. So under cover of the need for stealth slipped Ronan O'Rahilly' who used this same blanket of misdirection to financially line his own pockets by any means available.
Ronan O'Rahilly was merely a paid lackey who represented the silly notion that 'free radio' means freedom to play music on the airwaves, but to him it meant making as much money that he could get personally, under the pretense that he was a spokesperson for the manufacturers. They thought that they were employing him, but in fact, he was was using them for his own personal gain.
The deceit and deception factor regarding the ownership of mass media opened the doors wide to others who were aware of the objective, but who could see a way to feather their own nests by using the cover of darkness to achieve their own goals of making money. The basic plan could be viewed as economically and socially helpful, because it would create more jobs. Pay from those jobs would in turn benefit everyone who was employed, and the communities in which they lived.
But there was a faction within this master plan who did not seek to further the cause of freedom, but to shackle the masses to the slavery of drug addiction. Ronan O'Rahilly was part of that crowd! He did not believe in law, in fact, he openly called himself an anarchist.
The manufacturers' mass media plan would have resulted in extending freedom of speech and religion to everyone, but not everyone agreed that such a freedom should be extended to everyone. That is where slave mentality, class bigotry, and religious discrimination come into the story. So under cover of the need for stealth slipped Ronan O'Rahilly' who used this same blanket of misdirection to financially line his own pockets by any means available.
Ronan O'Rahilly was merely a paid lackey who represented the silly notion that 'free radio' means freedom to play music on the airwaves, but to him it meant making as much money that he could get personally, under the pretense that he was a spokesperson for the manufacturers. They thought that they were employing him, but in fact, he was was using them for his own personal gain.
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