The Biggest Scam in History

The Biggest Scam in History
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Oh and one other thing: that Commanding Heights documentary periodically cut to Milton Freidman or Von Hayek winning the Nobel Prize, as if that were some sort of honor. Well I actually attended the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm last December. It was random luck that I went: out of the few thousand international students at Uppsala University, four were randomly picked to go. I got one of the tickets, making it the first time I've ever won something in a drawing. So a Danish girl, Japanese girl, Australian guy and I all put on our Sunday best and headed out to the Stockholm concert hall. We got our seats in the bleachers just above where the King and royal family would be sitting. Approximately eight to ten prizes are handed out, right? Well I figured with my impeccable dressing and several of the papers I had just written, papers that had received a B+ or even better, that I had a chance to win at least one prize.
Not a goddamm thing. Not only did I not win a single thing, all of the people who did win were conveniently seated right next to the king, and did not look the least bit surprised when they did win. I'm not that big of a conspiracy nut so I'm not willing to go so far as to say that a mysterious board of people rigs the winners beforehand, but it sure seemed that way. I swear that everytime Karl XVI Gustaf gave one of the prizes out, he winked at the winner as if to say "let's just let this be our little secret." Sleaziest thing I've ever seen, yet Commanding Heights just parades it around as if that prize confers some legitimacy upon Freidman and Von Hayek.