In September 2006, a State Department statement said: “A U.S. consular officer has denied Dr. Tariq Ramadan’s visa application. The consular officer concluded that Dr. Ramadan was inadmissible based solely on his actions, which constituted providing material support to a terrorist organization.”[13][14] Between December 1998 and July 2002, Ramadan had given donations totalling $940 to two charity organizations, the Comité de Bienfaisance et de Secours aux Palestiniens and the Association de Secours Palestinien.[15] The United States Treasury designated both the CBSP and ASP terrorist fundraising organizations for their alleged links to Hamas on August 22, 2003.[16] The U.S. Embassy told Ramadan that he “reasonably should have known” that the charities provided money to Hamas. In an article in The Washington Post, Ramadan asked: “How should I reasonably have known of their activities before the U.S. government itself knew ?”[15][17][18][19]

1. Worship the State, in any or all of its flavors.

2. Pick an ideology that resonates with a large segment of the consumer public, cling to it as if it were a Siamese twin with which you have symbiotic relationship, and paint everything you comment or report on in thick shades of it. It doesn’t matter whether or not said ideology is sustainable or whether it has succeeded or failed miserably (think: neoconservatism or socialism, both of which, while demonstrably miserable failures, still have whole nations full of adherents). If a sizable enough percentage of the media-consuming population believes in your pet ideology with all of their souls and you can sustain their belief in it, you’re guaranteed permanent employment with one of the major statist propaganda outlets, no matter what your actual track record.

3. Related to number 1 above, ingratiate yourself with one or more members of the ruling elite who hold key positions of power. Sing their praises incessantly, no matter how incompetently or criminally they behave. As long as they continue to hold power and provide you with access to it and the perquisites it brings, they can do no wrong, and you’ll have no trouble convincing huge segments of the public of the same.

4. Last but not least, buy stock or ownership in a state-capitalist organization (any “corporation” that’s part of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex will do perfectly). Bank your profits therefrom somewhere off-shore, so that when the day comes when you’re finally exposed as the criminal fraud that you’ve been all along, you’ll have something to fall back on while living in exile.

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