Anyone who spends any amount of time on the internet has seen them.
They are the moonbats, the wingnuts, the whackjobs, the
Conspiratorialists. They are America’s new Lunatic Fringe, and their
numbers are growing.
While the rise of the internet fed a segment of society that has
always existed, when the cyberworld became an increasingly important
source both of entertainment and information, an entirely new
demographic joined what was already amongst us.
Who are they and what do they believe? The Lunatic Fringe is not
uniform in either its background or beliefs. Some clearly seem to be
emotionally disturbed. Some are racist and hateful. Others are simply
naïve and gullible, or uninformed. Still more are frustrated by an
economy and a government that are behaving out of whack with what most
people expected from life and from leadership. They want to believe
America stands for something noble, but it is increasingly felt by them
that it does not. They are confused, frustrated, and disappointed.
They feel violated and betrayed. They grow angrier by the day. Some
harbor a diffuse rage which could blow at any time. Others have
figuratively thrown in the towel and have joined the ranks of what are
called Preppers and Survivalists.
Collectively, though individually they differ, the beliefs of the
Fringe conspiracies behind the JFK assassination, the lunar landing, and
911. The collective also includes the Birthers, and believers in
everything from FEMA Camps to chemtrails to that retro old favorite of
Colonel Jack Ripper, fluoridation. The Fringe holds beliefs that have
the world controlled variously by the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the
Bilderbergers, Bohemian Grove, Skull and Bones, the Council on Foreign
Relations, 33rd Degree Freemasons, the Vatican, the Queen of England, or
just The Illuminati. Every event and every incident in the world is
affected by some Master Plan carried out by whomever the believer
chooses from the aforementioned gallery of rogues. For many, al Qaeda
is really al CIAda, and the prime directive of that organization, along
with all the other USG alphabet agencies, is to further the goals of the
elite, usually through some “false flag” operation or “psy-op”, and
funded through illicit drug sales.
Believers can “prove” each and every one of their claims via a series
of cross-referenced and circular internet links, the source of many
undoubtedly just someone’s fertile imagination, but very real to the
believers.
To the uninitiated this all seems rather humorous, albeit slightly
unsettling. It would be both wrong and unwise, however, just to slough
it off as the ramblings of the insane. The reason such beliefs are
gaining favor is because many Americans have lost faith and lost trust
in the government and America’s elected leadership. Given what has
happened over the last decade, this is not only understandable, it is
even, in an odd way, reasonable. A continual drift to the fringe can be
expected because of the many very real things that make the foolish
things suddenly more believable.
Why have the people lost faith and trust? There is a host of
reasons, perhaps beginning with the war of choice in Iraq and the
vociferous and passionate claims of WMD that turned out to be false.
That war cost lives, cost sympathy and diplomatic capital, and cost
trillions even when America was told by former Deputy Defense Secretary
Paul Wolfowitz that the war “would pay for itself from oil sales” and
that “Americans would be welcomed with garlands”. Neither was anything
close to accurate. Instead the US has war dead, war wounded, a huge
bill, fewer friends, and many more enemies.
What truly exacerbated the rush to the fringe were the Financial
Crisis and the subsequent railroaded bailouts, which “democratic”
America
opposed to the tune of 97%, and which were, and still are viewed as
rewarding the very people who caused the collapse. The oft-spoken
official claims that “the taxpayer made a profit on the bailouts” just
adds salt to the taxpayers’ wounds, as it conveniently fails to take
into account the host of programs---from TALF to ZIRP to QEI, II, and
III and Twist---that virtually handed the banks the money with which
they could “pay back” the bailout cash.
America sees backroom deals and favors to insiders every step of the
way, and rightfully so they see this, because that is exactly how the
bailout was affected. No one had to pay for his mistakes, and equally
significant, no one has been prosecuted despite overwhelming evidence of
fraud, malfeasance, and corruption. Americans cannot help but
subscribe to the cynical quip, “everyone is equal under the law, except
for those who are above it”. Fines don't count, especially when the
money to pay them comes right back through another door.
America's prisons are filled with people who did little more than use
a banned substance. It's time some bankers and officials faced the
possibility of similar accommodations, as their crimes are greater and
victims substantially more.
The belief that all is not fair is further cemented when the
Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer can be taped (PBS, “Frontline”)
saying, "Well, I think I am pursuing justice. And I think the entire
responsibility of the department is to pursue justice. But in any given
case, I think I and prosecutors around the country, being responsible,
should speak to regulators, should speak to experts, because if I bring a
case against institution A, and as a result of bringing that case,
there’s some huge economic effect — if it creates a ripple effect so
that suddenly, counterparties and other financial institutions or other
companies that had nothing to do with this are affected badly — it’s a
factor we need to know and understand."
No matter how one parses that quote it still says the same thing: some are above the law.
The American people are well aware they have been lied to by the
leadership. They know that a lobbyist has an infinitely greater chance
of getting his way than an entire nation of voters. They know who pays
the bills---the taxpayer---as well as who pays the politicians---the
lobbyists. They see the Federal Debt ballooning to Greek-like
proportions, and the best Congress can do, other than take vacation or
kick the can, is to tell Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to “get
to work, Mr. Chairman”, which means print more money, monetize the
deficit, and further dilute the value of the dollar.
Even some people within the government are undoubtedly growing
frustrated. Imagine someone in DEA, FBI, CIA, or the military, who sees
the slap on the wrist fine handed to a certain non-US bank for a decade
or more of drug money laundering and laundering money for Iran, some of
which might well have found its way to Hezbollah or to parties aiding
the Iraqi insurgency. There are people in Waziristan who face the wrath
of a drone-fired Hellfire missile with less evidence to back up the
attack. This bank, incidentally, received a $3.5 billion
payment-in-full upon the US taxpayer bailout of insurer AIG.
When trust is gone, everything becomes an affront, a conspiracy, a
power grab by the elite. The recently passed National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA), which gives the President incredibly broad
powers, seems to obviate both habeas corpus and the entire Bill of
Rights. When the trust is gone, people are less willing to believe that
such a bill would never be used recklessly, or vindictively to put down
vocal opponents of whatever Administration happens to be in power at
the time. When trust is gone, the people question new efforts to alter
the Second Amendment, even if many are personally outraged at the rash
of gun violence that has come to epitomize the United States, so they
rush to guns rather than run from them. When the trust is gone, the
message of the Lunatic Fringe is afforded greater reception. When the
trust is gone the Fringe grows into the mainstream. When trust is gone
in some aspects of governance, all governance is questioned.
The government can no longer afford to ignore the Lunatic Fringe,
because it is becoming less loon and more understandably and righteously
indignant every day. The government did not create the Fringe, but
through callous disregard, incompetence, blatant self-interest,
cronyism, selective enforcement, and pandering to its financial support
base, the government has fertilized the fringe until it has grown to
redwood-like size. The nation's leadership is viewed not with respect,
but with distrust. It is not the solution, but the problem. It has
morphed from friend to enemy, at least for a not insignificant portion
of the citizenry. The fringe is not going to go away, but instead it
will grow. Its wounds will fester. It will continue to hammer away at
an already fragile society. It may well lead to significant social
unrest, even violence, and that violence is likely to be directed at
those seen as responsible for the fiscal, financial and moral decay,
which means the elite and the government that is seen as catering to
it. New records in the Dow will not alter the focus, nor ameliorate the
bubbling rage, even if the financial media or the Federal Reserve
thinks it will. This growing demographic of citizens must have its
concerns addressed before it is too late.
Woe to those who ignore it, because they will become the targets, rightfully or not.
To paraphrase a certain career New York Senator, “Mr. Government, get to work!” Or better yet, get out of the way.
It is rare for those who commit evil acts to acknowledge that their
actions are evil, even to themselves. Very often the evil-doer will
justify his actions to himself and others by claiming some over-riding
superior purpose or moral imperative which supposedly outweighs the
'disadvantages' of the evil act, or by altering his perception of his
target, or both. Historically, when action against a particular
group is envisioned, (for the greater good of course,) that group is
often depersonalized or demonized prior to action being taken.
After all, if the subjects of your depredations aren't human, then
whatever happens to them is their own fault, isn't it? (Well, NO, but
that is a subject for another time.) In any case, such moral inversions
are common among those who commit evil acts.
Some of those who wield authority in these presently united States
have engaged in exactly this sort of psychopathic behavior.
Characterization of those who respect the Constitution and the rights of
the individual as 'bitter clingers,' 'extremists' or even 'terrrorists'
are an effort to depersonalize those who oppose the present stampede
towards collectivist totalitarianism. But those who presently wield
authority have a problem. Not only are most of those who oppose them
armed, and resolutely intent on retaining their arms, but the
government does not know who they are or what weapons they possess. Not
only that, but most of those who support the push towards victim
disarmament are unarmed, and an unknown number of police and military
members would probably fight on the side of the Constitutionalists.
Opposing
the totalitarian thugs are over 100 million gun owners in the various
united States, owning hundreds of millions of guns, including up to as
many as half a million or more 'illegal' unregistered machine guns. Of
those people, at least half appear utterly determined to retain their
arms, and their rights, whatever the cost. It is impossible for those
presently in authority to clamp down hard enough quickly enough on
enough of these people to be certain that they could prevail in a civil
war. Unless they knew who owned the guns, and especially who owned arms
of military utility. That allows all sorts of incremental pressure to
be put onto such persons, one by one, rather like the way a pack of
hyenas extracts their prey from the herd. Over time, if they knew who
the gun-owners were, the authorities could marginalize, harrass and
penalize gun owners for their 'unacceptable individualism,' just as the
Mayor of Chicago is attempting to do with firearms manufacturers.
This is where the insidious evil of registration comes in. The present
Feinstein bill, if passed, will ignite an extremely bloody civil war
which would likely end with the Constitutionalists winning the day, and
the Marxists losing most if not all of the 'progress' that they have
made during the last 100 years. Rather than start a fight that they
know they are probably going to lose, it appears that the approach may
be to try to establish 'back-door' registration of both guns and owners
by requiring universal background checks for ALL sales of firearms,
including all private sales.
The honeyed voice of the
tyrant will ask "Well, what is wrong with that? Do we want deranged
individuals buying weapons from 'private dealers?' Why won't you people
be reasonable?"
The answer is simple- "NO! We
have tolerated too many infringements already. It is utterly
unreasonable for you to ask me to surrender any more of my rights
because of the utterly predictable result of your insane policy of
disarming the victims." What is wrong with this completely unreasonable
idea is that criminals will not obey the law, and those who we most
wish to disarm will not be disarmed. The insanity of expecting the
deranged or the criminal to play by the rules has been repeatedly
demonstrated, and the dangers of allowing the government to know who has
the guns has as well.
One of my inlaws who has
since passed on, not Jewish but married to a Jew, some years ago became
extremely upset by her discovery of the information available on the
Internet. She had apparently found out that there are various
publishers who sell books on all sorts of topics, including explosives
manufacture, how to make machine guns and flamethrowers, and all
sorts of other topics involving applied violence. She fumed, "It's
absurd! Nobody needs that sort of information! That simply shouldn't
be allowed!" I calmly said "Really? Why don't you tell the Jews in
Warsaw that?" "Warsaw?" she replied, puzzled, "I've been to Warsaw, and
there aren't any Jews in Warsaw!" At that point, her Jewish husband
leaned over towards her and very quietly said, "Dear, you had better
quit while you are behind."
(Warsaw in 1939 had
the largest Jewish community in Europe, about 375,000 Jews out of 1.3
million or 30% of the population. There are in fact a few hundred
registered Jews in Warsaw today. Virtually all of the former
inhabitants were murdered by the Nazis during WW2 or emigrated to Israel
or the United States afterwards. Warsaw was the site of one of the most
famous episodes of Jewish resistance to the Nazis during the Holocaust,
the Warsaw Uprising. Fewer than a hundred Jews resisted the Wehrmacht,
SS and Gestapo for over a month.)
The point of this little vignette is that the German weapons control laws did not disarm the Jews on Kristalnacht
(November 9th and 10th, 1938, which was the start of the Nazi attempt
to exterminate European Jewry.) The disarmament of the Jews began many
years before, with 'reasonable' registration and licensing laws, which
got less and less reasonable over time. Once disarmed, it became safe
to blame the Jews, for the Germans knew that they had no arms. They had
the records, the registration, and they took the Jew's guns. The rest,
as they say, is history.
Time after time, history
tells us that registration is followed by confiscation, and once
disarmed, by extermination. It has happened dozens of times in the last
century alone. THIS is the calculus of genocide, and it is pretty simple.
Registration=>confiscation=>extermination.
Even a six year old can integrate that calculus problem, and it
is to protect our persons and our rights, and those of all such six
year olds and all the rest of us out there, that the gun owners of these
united States remain opposed to ANY further infringements on our
individual rights. When the honeyed voice of the tyrant asks us to 'be
reasonable!' we remember the calculus of genocide and we say NO.
NO private sale 'background check' AKA Federal gun registration. NO enabling of confiscation. NO complicity in atrocity.
We
remember the calculus of genocide and we say that not only will we not
give up our weapons, we will NOT register them, or ourselves. Anyone
who stands for the insidious evil of registration stands for mass murder, for that is what history and the calculus of genocide teach us.
Georgia's Slavery Act of 1765, for example, explained itself on the rather blatant theory of legalistic oppression that
"Slavery has been introduced and allowed in His Majesty's Colonies in
America and * * * Power over such Slaves ought to be settled and limited
by positive Laws, so that the Slaves may be kept in due Subjection and
Obedience * * * [.][5]"
The Act went on to provide
"[t]hat it shall not be lawful for any Slave unless in the presence of
some White Person to carry and make use of Fire Arms or any offensive
Weapon whatsoever Unless such Slave shall have a Tickett or Licence in
Writing from his Master, Mistress
or Overseer to hunt * * * and that such Licence be renewed once every
Month, or unless there be some White Person of the Age of sixteen years
or upwards in the Company of such Slave when he is hunting or Shooting,
or that such Slave be actually carrying his Master's Arms to or from his
Master's Plantation by a special Tickett for that purpose, or unless
such Slave be found in the Day time actually keeping off Birds within
the Plantation to which such Slave belongs lodging the same Gun at Night
within the dwelling-House of his Master, Mistress, or white Overseer.
PROVIDED ALSO That no Slave shall have Liberty to carry any Gun,
Cutlass, Pistol or other Offensive Weapon abroad at any Time, between
Saturday Evening after Sun-set and Monday Morning before Sun rise
Notwithstanding a Licence or Tickett for so doing, and in Case any
Person shall find any Slave using or carrying fire-Arms or other
Offensive Weapon contrary to * * * this Act, such Person may lawfully
seize and take away such Offensive Weapon or fire-Arms * * *"
Georgia
was hardly alone in this, and the pre-colonial powers were fully aware
of the need to disarm slaves. The French Black Code of 1751 banned the
possession of weapons by slaves in Louisiana, for instance, authorizing
the offending slave be shot on sight.In Virginia Nat Turner's Rebellion
of 1831 led to strict gun control laws for slaves and even for free
blacks. Tennessee changed its constitution in 1834 limiting the right to
keep and bear arms to whites only.In fact, gun control began in 1644 for freed blacks.A 1680 law reads;
"...it
shall not be lawfull for any negroe or other slave to carry or arme
himselfe with any club, staffe, gunn, sword or any other weapon of
defence or offence, nor to goe or depart from of his masters ground
without a certificate
from his master, mistris or overseer, and such permission not to be
granted but upon perticuler and necessary occasions; and every negroe or
slave soe offending not haveing a certificate as aforesaid shalbe sent
to the next constable, who is hereby enjoyned and required to give the
said negroe twenty lashes on his bare back well layd on, and soe sent
home to his said master, mistris or overseer. And it is further enacted
by the authority aforesaid that if any negroe or other slave shall
presume or lift up his hand in opposition against any christian, shall
for every such offence, upon due proofe made thereof by the oath of the
party before a magistrate, have and receive thirty lashed on his bare
back well laid on. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority
aforesaid that if any negroe or other slave shall absent himself from
his masters service and lye hid and lurking in obscure places, comitting
injuries to the inhabitants, and shall resist any person or persons
that shalby any lawfull authority be imployed to apprehend and take the
said negroe, that then in case of such resistance, it shalbe lawfull for
such person or persons to kill the said negroe or slave soe lying out
and resisting, and that this law be once every six months published at
the respective county courts and parish churches within this colony."
Similar restrictions were put in place over both slave and freedman in Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas, and elsewhere.
So why did slavery flourish in the United States? One reason undoubtedly is because the slaves were denied the tools to resist.
And
life as a freedman was perilous, thanks in no small part to the ban on
gun ownership by free blacks in many states. Often freedmen were seized
by bounty hunters or unscrupulous slaveholders as runaways, and without a
means to resist, the free blacks were powerless to stop it.
It
is no coincidence that the places with the strictest gun laws today are
often the places with the highest crime rates in America -- and with
high African-American populations; the vestiges of slavery leads "the
Man" to try to disarm the African-American population, and the law is
ignored by the criminal element -- just as the law was ignored by
criminals in the 18th and 19th centuries.
There
were prohibitions against selling firearms to the Indian tribes, too,
and yet the Indians were always well armed. They weren't making their
own guns, either, but were purchasing them illegally. But the Indians
were free to roam while the slaves were kept within a mile or so of the
plantation, and the laws restricting guns were quite effective in that
instance.
Now
the Progressive will argue that this proves that "reasonable
restrictions" were always part of the American historical context of gun
ownership and so makes their case. Nothing could be further from the
truth; slaves and Native Americans were not citizens, and the black
freedmen were dismissed on the same basis. After the Civil War the
Southern states enacted a series of punitive laws known as the Black Codes.
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 made it clear that freed blacks were in
fact citizens who enjoyed the same Second Amendment protections as
whites.
To
get around this -- especially after the adoption of the 14th Amendment
in 1867 -- the gun control advocates created carry permits and fees.
Virginia's Law Review championed a "prohibitive tax" on handgun sales to blacks because the:
"...cowardly
practice of 'toting' guns has been one of the most fruitful sources of
crime ... .Let a negro board a railroad train with a quart of mean
whiskey and a pistol in his grip and the chances are that there will be a
murder, or at least a row, before he alights." [Comment, Carrying
Concealed Weapons, 15 Va L. Reg. 391, 391-92 (1909); George Mason
University Civil Rights Law Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, "Gun Control and
Racism," Stefan Tahmassebi, 1991, p. 75]
What does this tell us? The experiment with gun control has been conducted, and it has largely failed.
But if all guns were banned, then even the criminals would not have guns, right?
I
tested that. I found dozens of websites that told me how to make all
manner of firearms from easily obtainable materials. These weapons
include fully automatic submachine guns, even flamethrowers! Explosives
are easy, of course; just a few simple things like ammonia or aluminum
and sulfur or iron oxide and you've got yourself a deadly IED. Even
poison gas recipes can be found online. (Now for that knock on my
door...)
American Thinker's own Jack Kemp had this to say;
"I learned the following while living on Kibbutz Givat Haiim Ichud in the early 1970s.
Jews
living in the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s made
some of their own firearms before gaining independence as the State of
Israel. They would bury them alongside the agricultural sprinkler pipes
so it would make it hard for the British to find them during a search
with mine (metal) detectors. The weapons were marked as "Made in U.S.A."
to further confuse the British, should any of them fall into British
hands. The joke was, however, "U.S.A." stood for the Yiddish term "Unser
Selber Arbeit" which translates into English as "Our Own Work."
The
point is, weapons can be obtained when desired. The slave uprising in
Haiti that kicked off the successful Haitian revolution against France
was won in no small part because of firearms despite a heavy prohibition
against slaves possessing such weapons. The IRA always had a dandy
store of them despite the best legal efforts of the British. When I was
on my honeymoon in Jamaica many years ago the big story was a raid by
police on an illicit firearms factory. (Jamaica, despite one of the strictest gun control laws in the world has some of the highest gun crime rates).
What
will start as a "reasonable restriction" will lead to guns in the hands
of criminals alone, and will lead to the citizenry giving ever more
power to law enforcement, and to legislators who will draft ever more
restrictive laws. Eventually laws will be made against disseminating
information to make firearms, and the government will get into the
business of censoring such information. Also, after the Oklahoma City
bombin,g there was talk about restrictions on purchases of materials
that could be made into weapons or explosives, and that will be
implemented. What is the endgame? Anything that could potentially be
used as a weapon will be strictly controlled -- and that means just
about everything. Where will that lead? A cashless society? A bar code
laser-tattooed on your hand or forehead? Human beings are what we are
because our ancestors took a bone and whacked another guy with it; the
impulse to do bodily harm is not going to go away because weapons are
restricted.
In
the end, the Founding Fathers understood the importance of arming the
citizenry as both a deterrent to crime and a deterrent to tyranny. The
citizens should be able to run a political system that has turned
monstrous out by force. The Left instinctively understands this, and so
want to disarm the citizenry, figuring that at best weapons that
citizens will get will be homemade or none at all. They hope to place us
in the position of the slaves and black freedmen, who simply were not
capable of resisting.
Considering that the Department of Homeland Security has over 1.2 billion rounds
of hollow point bullets depriving Americans of a few Saturday Night
Specials seems a bit unfair. But then, nobody ever accused the Left of
playing nice.
Tim is a St. Louis based writer. Read more from Tim and friends at www.tbirdnow.mee.nu
On Saturday, the editors at the New York Timesdecided to print Alan Feuer’s story
of his odyssey into the fringes of society — the “preppers,” those
people who are preparing for some type of national collapse, often the
insolvency of the U.S. financial system.
Feuer, a reporter for the Times who has determined for
himself that the U.S. economic system is set for a major shakeup,
including high levels of price inflation, said he became concerned about
his financial future somewhere “between the fall of Lehman Brothers [in 2008] and the corresponding rise of quantitative easing when
it occurred to me … that the financial system was appallingly unstable
and that the realm of the possible now included a disruptive reduction
in the value of our money.”
With only occasional barbs thrown at “preppers,” such as derisively
commenting about people who believe that “bug out bags” — kits or
backpacks filled emergency supplies — were somehow sufficient to see
people “through the collapse of civilization,” Feuer reported on a vast
network of people and corresponding websites devoted to the idea of
“preparing for the worst,” or The End of the World as We Know It, each
with differing views of the coming cataclysm.
What he found was vastly different from what he expected:
To the unprepared, the very word
“prepper” is likely to summon images of armed zealots hunkered down in
bunkers awaiting the End of Days, but the reality, at least here in New
York, is less dramatic.
Local Preppers are doctors, doormen,
charter school executives, subway conductors, advertising writers and
happily married couples from the Bronx. They are no doubt people that
you know — your acquaintances and neighbors. People, I’ll admit, like
myself.
Of course, as is fitting with "The Newspaper of Record," a leftist
lean was clearly evident. Feuer showed his disdain for people who
believe that many of the world's wealthiest people work in a concerted
fashion to influence the direction of international politics — even
though the wealthy often admit to doing that very thing: “Prepping” to
the uninitiated or deliberately misinformed, he said, “continues to be
thought of as a marginal and unseemly business, something on par with
believing that the Bilderberg Group controls world events.”
But he determined that, for the most part, prepping was a very
rationale endeavor, even participating himself. He started his journey
by purchasing some silver coins as recommended by a friend, and then
some freeze-dried food (in both the standard and vegetarian options),
and then “began the conversation about acquiring a gun.”
He found intelligent people of sound mind to help him along his
journey to understanding not only how to prepare but to also understand
the mindset of those further along the same journey. He interviewed Aton Edwards, a prepper with credibility and a membership of 30,000 people belonging to his International Preparedness Network. Edwards is also the author of Preparedness Now which
is into its second revision, and a frequent guest on radio and
television in New York City. Edwards disabused Feuer of any idea that
“preppers” were aliens from another planet. The prepper “movement,” as
he now calls it, is simply a "mishmash of people you could ... find —
black, white, men, women, everyone. It looks like America.”
Feuer went further, interviewing Dr. Irwin Redlener, a
professor at Columbia University and an expert in “disaster
preparedness”, the PC alternative to “prepping.” Redlener said such
thinking was “rational” and he recommended that Feuer, along with
everyone else, “have a three-day supply of food and water, a working
flashlight, a first-aid kit, a portable radio, and a plan.... A prepared
citizen is someone who understands how to take care of himself, who has
amassed the necessary items, who has a plan.”
The main point, according to Redlener, was not to go overboard:
There’s a spectrum. On one end is
mindless complacency. On the other is paranoia. The challenge is to find
that place in the middle where you understand that bad things can
happen, but it doesn't consume your life.
A brief scan of his website lists dozens of prepper topics such as
“Emerging Threats” with 943 links, “First Aid/Medical” with 687 links,
“G.O.O.D.” [Get Out of Dodge] with 591 links, “Retreat Security” with
664 links, and “Survival Mindset” with 1,083 links.
What’s missing is any mention whatsoever of links to websites devoted
to keeping the impending disaster of martial law and totalitarianism
from happening in the first place. There is nothing under “Education” or
“Constitution” or “Political Action.” There are no links to
organizations attempting to influence legislators, or raise young people
in the principles of Americanism. There is nothing about homeschooling
or petitions. There are no links to activist groups such as The John Birch Society.
Instead, all energy is being directed into prepping, preparing for
the worst, bugging out, hiding out, retreating from civilization as it
breaks down.
Famed author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who wrote about the atrocities
in Communist Russia, had some harsh words for those who directed their
attention away from restoring freedom and concentrated instead on trying
to save themselves. In his book The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn decried the people who thought they could avoid coming holocaust:
During an arrest, you think since you are
not guilty, how can they arrest you? Why should you run away? And how
can you resist right then? After all, you’ll only make your situation
worse....
And how we burned in the camps later,
thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative,
when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether
he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as
for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire
city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror
at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the
staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had
boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people
with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
The Organs would very quickly have
suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all
of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
We did not love freedom enough. Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
That is the meme that the Times is apparently promoting now
with the publishing of Feuer’s article: Prepping is now politically
correct as it draws time, energy, and resources away from real effective
resistance to tyranny.
...but their are multiple gaggles of bureaucratic nut case parasites with a lot to answer for.
So here you are.
One day, you wake up to find yourself living in the U S S Amerika
- when for your whole life, you have been taught 'the big lie' -
IE: you were living in the "Land of the Free and the home of the Brave".
No wonder so, so many, are in denial, and choose to stay asleep.
They can't wrap their heads around such deep rooted madness.
In a recent conversation, I listened to someone tell me - "I
don't want to believe it. I can't believe it - so I won't. It gives me a
headache."
However, if you are one who is able to see, have broad enough
shoulders to know better, and are NOT blinded by the idiocy of it all -
you have a right to be indignant.
Better yet, if you are worth your salt as a human being, it is your duty to be aware and righteously angered.
Because, you have a responsibility to other human beings - not just yourself.
No one ever said you were put on this Earth ONLY to smell the roses in your garden and sing chum-by-ah.
There are times when it is your responsibility to pull the weeds out of your garden, and nurture the roses.
Evil prevails when good men do nothing. Evil prevails when good men are prevented from doing anything - via a dictator's edict.
In this mad and depraved world the controllers have created, the
controllers want you to believe that darkness is light, and light is
darkness.
If you use common sense, and maintain the notion that Light is
Light - you are not doing anything wrong - it's the controllers who are
demented psychopaths.
If you would simply like to live free from the heel-snipping
control parasites who have slithered out from stinking depths of the
bureaucratic cesspool to infest humanity - you are not doing anything
wrong, no matter how much the MINDLESS talking heads try to lay their
guilt trip on you.
If you are fed up with maniacs making war on humanity in YOUR
name - you are not doing anything wrong, but it's the maniacs who thrive
on killing who are the pitiful examples for humanity.
If you believe that you are entitled to the fruits of YOUR labor - because YOU did the work - you are not doing anything wrong.
The tax and spend parasites of the public sector who produce nothing are not only wrong - they are sadistic, sick, and evil.
If you choose not to participate in a societal system of
depravity and wickedness, you are not doing anything wrong, even if the
psychotic controllers demand that you participate.
If you understand it is every persons duty to protect their self
and their families from depraved despots, you are not doing anything
wrong.
If you choose not to endorse or obey idiotic policy touted as
'law' from self-serving, lunatic whack jobs in the public sector - you
are not doing anything wrong, simply because the only bigger fool than a
self-serving whack job in the public sector - is the one who perceives
the lunatic whack job as lawful authority.
If you believe the only lawfully authorized duty of a 'peace
officer' is to protect and serve the community - you are not doing
anything wrong.
It is only the demented control freak/testosterone junky's who
put on a uniform and give their self unearned authority because the
carry a weapon that can kill you - who are way out of the protecting and
serving humanity line.
If you see through the corrupt doublespeak of the so - called
'judicial' system, where every rule laid down therein - is designed to
usurp the rights of the individual - serve only the state - and give
every opportunity for more control by the state over the individual -
you are not doing anything wrong.
It is the entirety of the insane legal system, which is purposely
built on fraud, deception, and doublespeak - a system designed to serve
ONLY the corrupt legal system - that is THE pox on justice and
humanity.
If you understand the love of money, greed, power, and control - is the root of all evil - you are not doing anything wrong.
It is those who try to instill in your mind that love of money,
greed, power, and control - should be your guiding principles - and you
should emulate their outlook - are, in reality the sickest, most
degenerate members of society.
I feel a tremendous responsibility to write this article though I am a
little apprehensive. Thinking about the possibility of rising up
against our own government is a frightening thing for many of us. I am
not Johnny Rambo and I will be the first to admit that I do not want to
die. The reason I feel compelled to write this, however, is simply
because I don’t think the average American is equipped with the facts.
I feel that a lot of American citizens feel like they have no choice
but to surrender their guns if the government comes for them. I blame
traditional media sources for this mass brainwash and I carry the
responsibility of all small independent bloggers to tell the truth. So
my focus today is to lay out your constitutional rights as an American,
and let you decide what to do with those rights.
About a month ago I let the “democracy” word slip in a discussion
with a fellow blogger. I know better. Americans have been conditioned to
use this term. It’s not an accurate term and it never has been a
correct term to describe our form of government. The truth is that the United States of America is a constitutional republic. This is similar to a democracy because our representatives are selected by democratic elections, but ultimately our representatives are required to work within the framework of our constitution.
In other words, even if 90% of Americans want something that goes
against our founding principles, they have no right to call for a
violation of constitutional rights.
If you are religious you might choose to think of it this way… Say
that members of your congregation decide that mass fornication is a good
thing. Do they have the right to change the teachings of your God? The truth is the truth.
It doesn’t matter how many people try to stray from it. Did I just
compare our founders to God? In a way I did, but please note that I am
not trying to insult anyone. For the purpose of the American Government
our constitution and founders who wrote it are much like God is to
believers. It is the law. It is indisputable.
Our founders did not want a “democracy” for they feared a true democracy was just as dangerous as a monarchy.
The founders were highly educated people who were experienced in
defending themselves against tyranny. They understood that the
constitution could protect the people by limiting the power of anyone to
work outside of it much better than a pure system of popularity. A
system of checks and balances was set up to help limit corruption of
government and also the potential for an “immoral majority” developing within the American People. We have forgotten in this country that we are ultimately ruled by a constitution.
Why is a democracy potentially just as dangerous as a monarchy? Let’s
look at something that Benjamin Franklin said because it answers that
question more fully and succinctly than I can.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have
for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -Benjamin
Franklin
Even 230+ years ago our founders were perceptive enough to realize
that democracy was a dangerous form of government. How so? Because the citizens of a country can become just as corrupt as any government. We
have seen evidence of this throughout history. Ask Native Americans and
African-Americans if this population can become corrupt.
I think in 2012 we are seeing evidence of what Franklin was trying to
tell us. Just because a majority of people may support certain ideas it
does not mean that those ideas are just. In simple terms, just because
most Americans love our president and voted for him, it does not mean
that he has the power to go against our constitutional rights.
Next I’d like to review the text of the second amendment. It is very clear. This is the law of this land. So when Senator Feinstein or President Obama talk about taking your guns, you need to think about something. Are they honoring their sworn oath to uphold the constitution?
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security
of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall
not be infringed.
This
is a pretty clear statement. The fact is that it took 232 years for the
Supreme Court to even rule on this amendment because it has never been
successfully challenged. In 2008 a case of Columbia v. Heller the Supreme Court ruled that a handgun ban in Washington D.C. was unconstitutional.
One also has to take this into consideration. The Supreme Court
supports your right to own guns. If you want to research this decision
further you can start here.
For those who try to debate the spirit of the 2nd amendment, they are
truly no different from people who will try to take Biblical quotes out
of context to try to support their immoral decisions. The founders were
very clear on the intent of the 2nd amendment. Let me share a few quick
quotes here:
The strongest reason for people to retain the right to
keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against
tyranny in government. -Thomas Jefferson
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They
are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence …
From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events,
occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and
happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable . . . the very
atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference – they
deserve a place of honor with all that is good. -George Washington
The Constitution shall never be construed….to prevent the people of
the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own
arms. -Samuel Adams
I could find hundreds of quotes like these. This country was built on the right to bear arms.
It was built on the rights of an individual to bear arms, regardless of
what his government or neighbor happened to think. This is crystal
clear. Ironically the people who voice their opinions against this right
have their free speech protected by your guns. Without guns in
this country, all other amendments become null and void, simply because
“We the People” will lose our power of enforcement.
We need to keep this in mind as our “representatives” try to push gun bans. I
don’t care if 99% of people are in support of gun bans (which is far
from the case), it is a violation of our constitutional rights, plain
and simple.
A constitutional republic protects the rights of the individual even
when their ideas are very much in the minority. If I were the only
person in America who believed in the 2nd amendment, I would still be
within my rights to call upon it. You would all think I was insane and
possibly celebrate if I was gunned down, but in the end I would be the
only true American among us.
Our framers were very clear on this. If my government comes to take
my guns, they are violating one of my constitutional rights that is
covered by the 2nd amendment.
It is not my right, at that point, but my responsibility to respond in the name of liberty.
What I am telling you is something that many are trying to soft sell,
and many others have tried to avoid putting into print, but I am going
to say it. The time for speaking in code is over.
If they come for our guns then it is our constitutional right to put them six feet under. You
have the right to kill any representative of this government who tries
to tread on your liberty. I am thinking about self-defense and not
talking about inciting a revolution. Re-read Jefferson’s quote. He talks
about a “last resort.” I am not trying to start a Revolt, I am talking
about self-defense. If the day for Revolution comes, when no peaceful
options exist, we may have to talk about that as well. None of us wants
to think about that, but please understand that a majority can not take
away your rights as an American citizen. Only you can choose to give up
your rights.
Congress could pass gun ban legislation by a 90%+ margin and it just
would not matter. I think some people are very unclear on this. This is
the reason we have a Supreme Court, and though I do not doubt that the
Supreme Court can also become corrupt, in 2008 they got it right. They
supported the constitution. It does not matter what the majority supports because America is not a democracy. A constitutional republic protects the rights of every single citizen, no matter what their “elected servants” say. A majority in America only matters when the constitution is not in play.
I just wrote what every believer in the constitution wants to say,
and what every constitutional blogger needs to write. The truth of the
matter is that this type of speech is viewed as dangerous and radical or
subversive, and it could gain me a world of trouble that I do not want.
It is also the truth. To make myself clear I will tell you again. If
they come for your guns it is your right to use those guns against them
and to kill them. You are protected by our constitution.
Most of the articles I am reading on the subject are trying to give
you clues without just coming out and saying it. I understand that
because certain things in this country will get you on a list that you
don’t want to be on. I may well be on that list. This blog is small and
growing so I may not be there yet, but I have dreams. I also have my own
list of subversives and anyone who attempts to deny my constitutional
rights is on that list.
I am not the “subversive” here, it is the political representatives
who are threatening to take away my inalienable rights. If they come to
take my guns and I leave a few of them wounded or dead, and I somehow
survive, I have zero doubt that I will spend a long time in prison and
may face an execution. But I would much rather be a political prisoner than a slave.
If I go down fighting then I was not fighting to harm these human
beings. I was simply defending my liberty and yours. It is self-defense
and it is what our country was built on. We won our freedom in
self-defense. We would not be ruled by a tyrannical government
in the 1770′s and we will not be ruled in 2012 by a tyrannical
government. There is no difference.
This is a case of right and wrong. As of now the 2nd amendment stands. It has never been repealed. If Feinstein or Barack have a problem with the constitution then they should be removed from office.
They are not defending the constitution which they have sworn an oath
to protect. It is treasonous to say the least. They would likely say the
same about me, but I have the constitution, the founders, and the
supreme court on my side. They only have their inflated egos.
I am not writing this to incite people. I am writing this in hopes
that somehow I can make a tiny difference. I have no idea how many of my
neighbors have the will to defend their constitutional rights. 2%? 20%?
I am afraid that 20% is a high number, unfortunately. When push comes to shove many people may give up and submit to being ruled. I believe that our government is banking on this.
What I do know is that this country was founded by people who
had balls the size of Texas and Patriotic Americans take shit off of no
one, especially our own government. For evidence of that, you might research the Revolutionary War. My question is how many Patriots are left?
I would hope that our officials come to realize that, regardless of
our numbers, we still exist because they are calling Patriotic Americans
to action. They are making us decide if we want to die free or submit
to their rule. I can not tell you where you should stand on that. I do
know that it may make the difference between living a life of freedom or
slavery. You
must start thinking about this because I believe that the day is coming
soon and I personally believe it has already been planned. Not all
conspiracy theories are hogwash. They may throw down the gauntlet soon
and my suggestion is that you prepare yourself to react.
I mean no disrespect to our elected officials but they need to
understand that “We the People” will not be disarmed. If they proceed
then it is they that are provoking us and we will act accordingly. We
are within our rights to do so.
For those who are in support of taking the guns, you need to ask
yourself a very important question, and I am not just talking about the
politicians, because if you support them, you have chosen your side.
All battles, all wars, all fistfights and bar brawls, all conflicts in
every place and in every time (except those conflicts in which both
sides answer to the same puppeteer) begin and end as battles of the
mind. No struggle is determined on strength of arms alone. In fact, the
technologically advanced adversary with all his fancy firepower is
often more vulnerable than his low-tech counterparts.
This fact is, of course, counterintuitive to our Western manner of
thinking, which teaches us to believe that the man with the bigger gun
(or the bigger predator drone) always wins. Sadly, we have had to suffer
through multiple defeats and overdrawn occupations in Asia to learn
otherwise. One of the great unspoken truths of our era is the reality
that the modernization of warfare has changed little the manner in which
wars are won. Since the beginning of history, intelligence, force of
will, and guiding principles are the dominant factors in any campaign.
Therefore, it only stands to reason that the most vital battle any of us
will ever face is the psychological battle, the battle within; for
success in the mind will determine success in all other endeavors.
Unfortunately, very few people ever consider the importance of the mind
war, let alone know how to defend themselves against psychological
attack. As with any method of self-defense, constant training is
required.
For the past century, at least in the United States, a subversive and
secret cold war has been waged against the people in the form of
psychological subjugation. This cold war is designed to weaken our
resolve, our heritage, our self-belief, our confidence and our integrity
in preparation for a “hot war” against our time-honored Constitutional
rights. The power elite know well that the most effective strategy for
victory in any battle is to convince your enemy to surrender before the
fight even begins. Today, the American populace is being conditioned to
lie down and die a mental death, to give up the inner war, so that when
the outer war comes, they will already be defeated.
Corrupt governments rely heavily on what they call “psyops,” which are
primarily propaganda initiatives meant to demoralize their target
(usually the citizenry). In the case of a despotic regime, psyops
involves the insinuation of lies, half-truths, threats and brutality
that is choreographed to elicit a very specific reaction. It is used to
instigate strong emotional responses en masse that will work in favor of
the oligarchy. The following guidelines can shield you from the arrows
of deceit, allowing you to maintain control and avoid being
unconsciously influenced to labor against your own cause...
Do Not Fear Hypothetical Dangers
Fear is the weapon of choice when it comes to totalitarian proponents.
Conquering armies and bureaucracies are notorious for exaggerating their
strength and numbers in order to squelch the fighting spirit of those
they intend to rule. Genghis Kahn, for instance, used the tactic of
exaggerated numbers, along with vicious genocide, to strike terror in
regions he had not yet attempted to overtake. Upon his arrival, the
Mongol hordes had received such a reputation (some of it fabricated)
that many regions surrendered immediately without question.
When
becoming an activist against a criminal establishment, it is very
common to be the target of fear campaigns. Today, those of us in the
liberty movement hear warnings from “random” concerned parties
constantly telling us that our efforts are “all for nothing,” that we
are “making ourselves targets.” That the globalist system is far too
strong and far too advanced to be defeated. That they have predator
drones and NSA databases and soldiers without empathy etc, etc.
Their hope is to make us afraid of hypothetical situations which can
neither be confirmed nor denied. To make us obsess over the "odds"
rather than the objective. In other words, they hope to encourage a
state of mass cowardice. To undo this tactic, you must remain focused
on your goal regardless of the possible danger. That is to say, the
strength of the enemy, whether real or fantasy, is irrelevant. It is
meaningless. Goliath is nothing but an obstacle, and all obstacles can
be dealt with. Move forward toward the objective and never stop.
Do Not Be Distracted By Minor Inconveniences And Personal Problems
At the height of communist power in East Germany, the Stasi secret
police deployed a tactic which they called “Zersetzung,” which means to
“corrode” or “undermine.” The Zersetzung policy involved the use of
subtle manipulations of a particular person’s life in order to interfere
with his ability to function normally and participate fully in
dissenting activities. The Stasi would send agents to a person’s home to
rearrange items or fake a break-in. Often, they would attempt to create
emotional conflicts between the dissident and his wife, family and
friends and to damage business relationships. The purpose was to force
the target to divert his attention from his political and social work
over to more minor inconveniences.
Personal firestorms, whether engineered by Stasi or by natural conflict,
are destructive only when you give them too much credence and
attention. Some people become utterly fixated with their own private
soap operas, and this weakness is often exploited by government
elements.
The truth is, our home lives and the tensions in them are secondary when
it comes to defending our principles and our culture against
enslavement and oblivion. Woman troubles, family arguments and invasions
into our private lives are not important. Only the mission is
important; and in the Liberty Movement, our mission is to awaken the
public, disrupt the indoctrination of the masses and, if necessary,
physically remove the elites from power. Family and friends who get in
the way or are manipulated into getting in the way should be ignored.
Do Not Be Seduced By Gifts
Tyrants love to offer gifts to the populace, especially at the onset of
their rise to dominance. It may be the promise of new jobs, better
infrastructure, free healthcare, more food, more safety or even free
cellphones. They may offer payment for provocateuring or snitching. The
point is to entice citizens with something for nothing, or at least the
lie of something for nothing. If a government official (or anyone else
for that matter) is pouring gifts into your lap, it is time to become
suspicious.
Governments do not “pay” for the gifts you receive. You pay for the
gifts you receive either through taxation or inflation. Free goodies
should never influence the mind warrior to endear himself to any
bureaucratic or corporate entity. Never allow yourself to be bought.
The only treasures worth anything are our individualism and self
respect.
Never Trust The Media Machine - Always Verify Information
There is no such thing as “objective journalism” in the mainstream media
anymore. What you see and hear is not the truth but a facsimile of the
truth, twisted to benefit the establishment alone. Media outlets today
do not investigate events. Instead, they obstruct investigation by
promoting only one side of every story and attacking anyone who
questions their asserted narrative. The “official version” of any news
story is almost always a convoluted fabrication that protects the
oligarchy from harm.
No one who considers himself an intelligent human being should accept
the official narrative at face value. It is important to question always
that which we are told and to investigate using independent or original
sources. Never allow yourself to be “taught.” Always examine the facts
on your own. Demand that the establishment mouthpieces provide source
information, instead of acting as if we should accept everything they
say on blind faith.
Do Not Concern Yourself With Ridicule
Fighting
disinformation is vital, but our personal pride is not important.
Safeguarding our egos is not important. Trying to please everyone all
the time is impossible and also not important. Ridicule is used not only
to discredit activists; it is also used to make them question their own
resolve. If you cannot be embarrassed or browbeaten, then you cannot be
made afraid and you cannot be defeated by mere words.
Require your opponents to answer your legitimate questions. Move past
their distractions and push the issue of tangibility. Make them produce
a legitimate argument. When they cannot, and continue to revert to Ad
Hominem attacks, they expose the frailty of their position, and you have
won.
Accept The Risk Before Confronting The Enemy
I am still amazed by those dissenters and freedom fighters who act as
though they are surprised when the potential wrath of the system is
directed at them. Did they not understand the risk when entering into
the battle? Did they really believe it wouldn’t be all that bad?
In any conflict against a larger, ruthless, and immoral opponent, always
assume that you will have to go through hell to accomplish anything.
Accept that your life will no longer be peaceful or comfortable. Know
that you may not survive to see the fruits of your efforts. Realize that
you may have to walk through fire and embrace pain. Otherwise, you will
remain a pathetic and laughably inadequate soldier in the mind war.
Personal risk is not important. Only the truth and the future are
important. Being effective means being "on the radar". If you are
making a difference, and you are a concrete threat, then you should
expect to have a target painted on your chest.
Understand Your Own Weaknesses
Pretending as if you have no weaknesses is the best way to help your
enemy. If you are prideful, your overconfidence will be used against
you. If you are spiteful, your jealousy will be exploited to distract
you. If you are easily angered, your rage will be used to lure you into
destroying yourself. Examine yourself as deeply and as thoroughly as you
would the enemy. Though it might sound like a cliché, you actually can
become far worse an enemy to your own cause than any army your opponent
can muster.
Ironically, by identifying our own limitations, we also can become adept
at seeing the weaknesses in others. Unblinded by our own biases, the
biases of the opponent become starkly visible.
Do Not Buy Into Petty Authority
Perhaps it is in our tribal nature, but many people seem to suffer from
an insatiable desire for hierarchy and leadership — even if that
leadership is based on falsehoods. The ultimate protection against
corruption is to become one’s own leader, rather than waiting around for
a miraculously infallible overseer (or a talented conman) to guide the
way for you. Relying on others to choose your path for you opens the
door to having your right to choose removed from the picture completely.
Petty authority is authority derived from false pretenses, rather than
earned respect and recognition. No man, regardless of title, is above
the truth; and he is certainly not more worthwhile than you. Like a
title, a uniform is a symbol of an ideal, but the man inside the uniform
may not embrace that ideal. Do not focus on the uniform. Focus on the
man, and question whether or not he lives up to the uniform.
If anyone wants to determine whether you go left or right, he should be
put to the most stringent tests imaginable. He should have to prove that
he has your best interests at heart, and that he has the wisdom to
handle your future with care.
Acknowledge The Power Of Symbolism And Myth
Oligarchs use theater and pageantry to influence the collective
unconscious because the human mind gravitates toward rituals that feed
our inherent need for myth and symbol. Psychologist Carl Jung often
referred to the inborn symbolic processes of the psyche as “archetypes,”
which exist in the art, dreams and spiritualism of every society
regardless of time, place, religion or culture. Knowing these universal
symbols and how we react to them emotionally allows a person to prevent
himself from being conditioned or influenced by them.
Not
all fantastic events in history are spontaneous. Some are staged as a
means to appeal to a particular side of a nation’s collective psyche.
These “false flag” actions very often revolve around a symbol that is
culturally valued. The construction or destruction of this symbolic
edifice, famous person, social mechanism or loved representation of the
future leaves a lasting and deep-rooted impression on thousands, if not
millions, of people. They become emotionally invested in the event —
frantic, fearful or furious — without having the slightest inkling why.
In the end, they can be conned into acting in disastrous ways just to
appease the inner imbalance. They can be led to war, to enslavement and
to death — all on the promise of preventing a myth from appearing or
disappearing.
The secret is to explore our inner life with more vigor than we waste on
outer fantasy. By discovering our own internal myth and, thus, our own
individuality, we make ourselves impervious to false-flag conditioning.
Our emotions remain within our control, our biases become non-existent
and our fears become irrelevant. We do not become overly attached to
images, to superficial expectations, or to the collective. The theater
of the mind loses its power; and from that point on, we choose our own
destinies.
Never Forget Your Individualism
Collectivists consistently promote the idea that human beings are empty
vessels; blank slates to be molded by the environment, or mere
biological machines with rudimentary animal instincts that we "mistake
for a soul". As I pointed out above, Carl Jung's work on inborn
psychological archetypes proves that we are in fact NOT empty vessels.
Each of us is born with common qualities, like conscience and insight,
as well as distinctive qualities that make us unique. We are born with
dual concepts of good and evil. Right and wrong. Because of this
duality, we are given the power to choose. To ignore conscience, or
embrace it.
Collectivists pander their blank slate propaganda because they want us
to believe that we have no inherent qualities, and therefore, no
conscience. They want us to ignore our intuition and adopt moral
relativism. For if every man is empty, then there is no right or wrong,
and nothing the elites do can be qualified as "criminal". If every man
is convinced that he is purely a product of his environment, then he
can also be convinced to turn over his free will to those who appear to
have the most control over the environment. If he believes he is not in
possession of individual determination, then he may assume the role of a
robot, waiting to be programmed by the outside world.
This is the ultimate collectivist dream: to become the "great providers
and makers" of the masses. To feed us what they like, clothe us in
what they like, teach us what they like, and to tell us what we are to
think and when we are to think it. They wish to see themselves as the
painters, and us as the canvas. Only then, in their minds, will our
society reach "perfection".
If mankind loses track of his individuality and accepts the blank slate
ideology, he will surrender the mind war, perhaps without even knowing
it.
Mind Over Matter
Facing down an adversary with firearms or with fists is an easy thing to
grasp. Facing down a lie, or an idea meant to destroy one’s mental
capacity for resistance, is incredibly complex. When an opponent
attempts to play mind games, though, it is a sure sign that he does not
have the capacity to thwart you with physical strength alone. The fact
that our government and the power structure behind it has so desperately
relied on such strategies for so many years shows that they believe
they cannot enact centralized authority over our nation and undo our
free imperative simply by the momentum of military might. No gun, no
matter how big, will get them what they want. So they continue to play
the game until our resolve is broken and our ability to fight
diminished.
In order to prevail, we must make ourselves immune to the game. We must
walk away, separating ourselves from it completely. We must relinquish
all unnecessary fear, doubt, and hatred, and do what we know needs to be
done. We must ignore the rhetoric of defeat and nihilism. We must take
that long solemn step beyond the veil of doubt, knowing that all great
men before us fought their own battles despite the so called "certainty
of death".
If we cannot take lordship of our own psychological world, we are doomed
to failure in every other fight that envelops us. Without impervious
will, we cannot overcome, and we cannot find peace.
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Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb? Mother, do you think they’ll like this song? Mother, do you think they’ll try to break my balls? Ooh ah, Mother, should I build the wall?
Mother, should I run for president? Mother, should I trust the government? Mother, will they put me in the firing line? Ooh ah, Is it just a waste of time?
The lyrics to Mother had both a literal and figurative meaning for
Roger Waters. He was literally describing his overprotective single
mother (his father was killed in World War II) building walls to protect
him from the outside world. The figurative meaning is Big Mother
sending its boys off to war and using fear to control and manipulate the
masses. At the time he wrote this song in 1979, the Soviet Union was
thought to be at its peak of power and the Berlin Wall represented a
boundary between good and evil. Nuclear war was still a looming fear.
Waters has always had a dim view of totalitarian states and institutions
(English schools). Having seen his Wall Tour performance this past
summer at Citizens Bank Park with a diverse crowd of 40,000, ranging in
age from senior citizens to teenagers, it seems this song has gained new
meaning. He sang a duet with himself from 1980 projected on the Wall
and when he sang the lyric, “Mother, should I trust the government?” the
entire stadium responded in unison – NO!!! This revealed a truth that
is not permitted to be discussed by the corporate mainstream media
acting as a mouthpiece for the ruling class. A growing legion of
citizens in this country does not trust the government. This is very
perceptive on their part.
In part one of this two part series – Hey You – I examined how an invisible government of wealthy, power hungry men have utilized the propaganda techniques of Edward Bernays
and lured the American people into a narcissistic, techno-gadget, debt
based servitude. Over the last one hundred years they have created a
totalitarian state built upon egotism, material goods, and fulfilling
our desires through Wall Street peddled debt and mass consumerism. It
has been an incredibly effective form of control that has convinced the
masses to love their servitude. The ruling oligarchs correctly chose the
painless, amusement saturated, soft totalitarianism of Huxley’s Brave New World over the fearful, pain inflicting, surveillance state, house of horrors detailed in Orwell’s 1984.
“A really efficient totalitarian
state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political
bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do
not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” – Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
The nefarious establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913, launch of
welfare programs in the 1930s, expansion of the entitlement state in
the 1960s, creation of the credit card in 1970, mass media marketing
propaganda, and the formation of an empire of debt laid the foundation
for a society based on triviality, egotism, irrelevance and mass
delusion. The conscious manipulation of the habits and opinions of the
masses by an invisible government of powerful men using media propaganda
and easy to access consumer credit has reached its mathematical limit.
The oligarchs built a society dependent upon exponential growth. This
unsustainable prototype began to show signs of strain in the 1990s. The
powerful interests have been growing ever more desperate and blatantly
obvious in their looting and pillaging of the debt bloated carcass of a
country. They used their control of the political system to repeal
Glass-Steagall, allowing the Wall Street banking cabal to become Too Big
to Control. The oligarch puppets at the Wall Street controlled Federal
Reserve did the bidding of their masters by reducing interest rates and
expanding the money supply to create two epic bubbles.
The Dot.com bubble was created by Wall Street utilizing hype and
misinformation to fleece millions into believing we had entered a new
paradigm. The only people who got rich were the Wall Street hucksters,
shysters and shills.
When the Dot.com bubble burst, Alan Greenspan came to the rescue, at
the urging of Nobel prize winner Paul Krugman, by creating the largest
banker made bubble in the history of the world. The combination of
excessively low mortgage rates, complete lack of regulatory oversight by
the Federal Reserve, control fraud committed by the Wall Street banks,
and buying frenzy stirred up by the corporate MSM and NAR, led to the
biggest financial collapse since 1929.
The white collared psychopathic criminals on Wall Street reaped
billions in profits, paid themselves millions in bonuses, and cost
taxpayers trillions when it all blew up in 2008. The ruling elite have
added $6 trillion to our national debt and their central banker has
added another $2 trillion to our ultimate tab, while providing free
money to their Wall Street bank owners. They realize their efforts to
restart the exponential growth engine have failed. They gutted our
productive manufacturing based economic system by shipping the blue
collar jobs overseas to Chinese slave labor facilities, replaced workers
with machines, stimulated consumption with unlimited distribution of
high interest debt, and allowed conglomerates to drive small business
owners out of business with their cheap foreign sourced goods, all in
the name of capitalism. The plan worked so well that real wages haven’t
risen in 40 years, inflation has destroyed the purchasing power of the
middle class, 47.7 million people are dependent on food stamps to
survive, and the masses can’t even afford the cheap slave labor produced
trinkets anymore. There is too little cash, too few jobs, too much
debt, too many takers, too few makers, too many bankers, too much
delusion, and too few resources to sustain the unsustainable. We have
entered the end stages of a ravenous locust swarm. The fields have been
stripped barren.
When the men in smoke filled rooms realized their soft
totalitarianism was losing its grip on the oblivious, submissive,
egoistical, distracted masses, they began phase two of their effort to
retain their wealth, power and control. They began to institute
Orwellian measures to strike fear into the populace. Their illusion of
control is dissipating and they are resorting to force in order to
maintain hegemony. It began with the immediate passage of the Orwellian
Patriot Act one month after 9/11. Did the corporate media question how a
363 page all-encompassing expansion of police state power was written
in a few weeks after 9/11 and passed by October 26? They did not. The
bill was pre-written and ready for instant implementation when the time
was right. The Orwellian version of America was launched.
“If the ideology had been a lie, then
they are not heroes and gods on earth, but monsters and criminals, and
their life has been self-serving and meaningless, without significance
and honor. And that is the credibility trap. It is the impulse for the
leaders to keep doubling down in the hope of a win, until exhaustion and
collapse.” – Jesse
Obedience to Authority
“Ordinary people, simply doing their
jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become
agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the
destructive effects of their work become patently clear and they are
asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of
morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist
authority.” - Stanley Milgram – Obediance to Authority
Just as Edward Bernays
knew the unruly masses could be manipulated by propaganda and molded to
believe whatever the small group of intellectually superior men wanted
them to believe, conditioning using fear and authoritarian methods have
also been perfected by the ruling class. Doctor Stanley Milgram
unwittingly provided the oligarchs with confirmation the average citizen
could be ordered to do anything by invoking expertise and authority
over their subjects. Milgram started his experiments in 1961, shortly
after the trial of the World War II criminal Adolph Eichmann had begun.
Eichmann’s defense that he was simply following orders when he
exterminated millions of Jews roused Milgram’s interest. How could
millions of Germans participate and condone such genocide? Milgram’s
testing suggested that it could have been that the millions of
accomplices were merely following orders, despite violating their
deepest moral beliefs.
Writer Kendra Cherry describes the experiment:
The participants in the Milgram
experiment were 40 men recruited using newspaper ads. Milgram developed
an intimidating shock generator, with shock levels starting at 30 volts
and increasing in 15-volt increments all the way up to 450 volts. The
many switches were labeled with terms including “slight shock,”
“moderate shock” and “danger: severe shock.” The final two switches were
labeled simply with an ominous “XXX.”
Each participant took the role of a
“teacher” who would then deliver a shock to the “student” every time an
incorrect answer was produced. While the participant believed that he
was delivering real shocks to the student, the student was actually a
confederate in the experiment who was simply pretending to be shocked.
As the experiment progressed, the
participant would hear the learner plead to be released or even complain
about a heart condition. Once the 300-volt level had been reached, the
learner banged on the wall and demanded to be released. Beyond this
point, the learner became completely silent and refused to answer any
more questions. The experimenter then instructed the participant to
treat this silence as an incorrect response and deliver a further shock.
Most participants asked the
experimenter whether they should continue. The experimenter issued a
series of commands to prod the participant along:
“Please continue.”
“The experiment requires that you continue.”
“It is absolutely essential that you continue.”
“You have no other choice, you must go on.”
The level of shock that the
participant was willing to deliver was used as the measure of obedience.
How far do you think that most participants were willing to go? When
Milgram posed this question to a group of Yale University students, it
was predicted that no more than 3 out of 100 participants would deliver
the maximum shock. In reality, 65% of the participants in Milgram’s
study delivered the maximum shocks.
Of the 40 participants in the study,
26 delivered the maximum shocks while 14 stopped before reaching the
highest levels. It is important to note that many of the subjects became
extremely agitated, distraught and angry at the experimenter. Yet they
continued to follow orders all the way to the end. Why did so many of
the participants in this experiment perform a seemingly sadistic act on
the instruction of an authority figure? According to Milgram, there are a
number of situational factors that can explain such high levels of
obedience:
The physical presence of an authority figure dramatically increased compliance.
The fact that the study was
sponsored by Yale (a trusted and authoritative academic institution) led
many participants to believe that the experiment must be safe.
The selection of teacher and learner status seemed random.
Participants assumed that the experimenter was a competent expert.
The shocks were said to be painful, not dangerous.
The American people have been participants in their very own Milgram
experiment being conducted by their government since 9/11. Since the
passage of the Patriot Act, the government continues to demand that its
citizens increase the voltage in the name of security. Since 2001, the
Orwellian measures have included:
Warrantless domestic surveillance.
The ability to search telephone calls, emails, financial matters
especially involving foreign individuals, and medical records for people
who are “suspected” of endangering the country.
Color coded risk levels designed to keep citizens fearful of non-existent terrorists.
Pre-emptive invasion of foreign countries.
Committing U.S. forces to war without a declaration of war by Congress as mandated in the U.S. Constitution.
Assassination of people on presidential kill lists.
Extermination of “suspected” enemies by predator drones.
Camera systems monitoring the movements of Americans in cites and streets across the United States.
Torture of detainees in camps outside of the United States.
The authority to indefinitely detain America citizens without trial.
Executive orders giving the President the ability to unilaterally
disregard the U.S. Constitution and take control of private industries.
Use of drones to monitor the activities of American citizens.
Allowing the very bankers that destroyed the worldwide economic
system to blackmail the American taxpayers into handing them $700
billion.
Not prosecuting one Wall Street criminal after the largest Ponzi control fraud in the history of the world.
Cameras and listening devices on public transit and other public locations.
Military exercises conducted in U.S. cities in order to condition the masses.
Attempts to control and censor the internet through the introduction of the SOPA bill.
The use of tragic mass murders by mentally defective young men on psychotropic drugs to disregard the 2nd Amendment and disarm American citizens.
TSA thugs molesting little old ladies and young children to
desensitize citizens to gestapo like tactics and treat them like
criminals.
Government partnering with Facebook, Apple and other corporate
entities to monitor, censor, and report the activities of citizens to
the authorities.
The use of public schools to teach children what to think rather
than how to think. Thought control is vital to an agenda of keeping the
masses fearful and pliable.
Government agencies (FBI, ATF) creating terrorist plots, luring
young dupes into the plots, providing fake explosives, and then
announcing with great fanfare they have foiled a terrorist plot.
“See something, Say something” government media campaign designed to make citizens paranoid and fearful.
Just as Milgram pondered how the German people could follow the
orders of those in authority to slaughter millions, one must ponder how
the American people have allowed those in power to strip us of our
Constitutional freedoms and liberties in the name of safety and
security. They have conditioned the masses to passively accept their
fate by utilizing fear, authoritarian measures, thought control, and
propaganda. Human beings never change. They have been driven by emotions
throughout history – fear, greed, love and hate. There will always be
psychopathic men who seek wealth, power, glory and control. It happened
during the decline of the Roman Empire and it is happening today during
the decline of the American Empire.
“A shocking crime was committed on
the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of
more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.” – Tacitus
Big Brother is Watching You
“Now I will tell you the answer to my
question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.
We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in
power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently.
We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what
we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were
cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came
very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to
recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed,
that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that
just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be
free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes
power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it
is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a
revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the
dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of
torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to
understand me.” – George Orwell – 1984
What the average person can’t seem to process through their
government public school educated non-critical thinking brains is that
there are actually a small group of bankers, politicians, corporate
executives, media magnets, and shadowy billionaires who call the shots
in this country. They constitute Bernays’ invisible government, run the
show, mold the minds, form the opinions, suggest the ideas, and create
the reality for the masses because they believe they are intellectually
superior. The left/right and Democrat/Republican discord is a planned
diversion for the masses. The country has devolved into a corporate
fascist warfare/welfare state. We are clearly moving in the direction of
Orwell’s state in which government monitors and controls every aspect
of human life to the extent that even having a disloyal thought will be
against the law. The longer this is allowed to progress the more likely
any effort to resist like Winston Smith will be met with brutal
measures.
The parallels to Orwell dystopian nightmare state grow by the day.
Those in control use technology to bombard Americans with psychological
inducements designed to overwhelm the mind’s capability for autonomous
thought. In Orwell’s 1984
the giant telescreen in every citizen’s room blasts a constant stream
of propaganda designed to make the failures and shortcomings of the
Party appear to be triumphant successes. In Obama’s 2013 the 72 inch
Chinese made HDTVs in every McMansion blasts a constant stream of
propaganda designed to make the zombie-like occupants buy trinkets and
gadgets with a thin piece of plastic and makes the failures in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Egypt and Libya appear to be triumphant successes. Our
corporate/fascist party uses their control over the media message to
indoctrinate and control the public mind through propaganda and
repetitive messaging. In Orwell’s world, the Party undermines family
structure by inducting children into an organization called the Junior
Spies, which brainwashes and encourages them to spy on their parents and
report any instance of disloyalty to the Party. In our world children
are indoctrinated in government run public schools that fill their
brains with government manufactured history, social engineering claptrap
and what they should think, rather than how to think. The Orwellian
Department of Homeland Security (Thought Police) instructs them to
report anyone they think is suspicious with their “See something, Say
something” campaign. Children are “encouraged” to re-educate their
parents about green energy and global warming. Corporations fund schools
to advertise their products within the hallways of learning. The
outputs of this corporate/fascist partnership are non-critical thinking,
functionally illiterate, willfully ignorant Proles who obey the Party
and consume products as instructed.
In Orwell’s 1984
the Party keeps the population in a general state of exhaustion by
making them work long grueling hours at government run agencies. This
was designed to keep them from thinking or having the energy to resist.
About one in six workers work for the government in the United States,
with a substantial portion of private jobs dependent upon government
largesse. The true distinction in our society can be seen in the income
levels over decades of our own Inner Party, Outer Party and Proles.
The government educated masses were purposely not taught about the
impact of Federal Reserve created inflation on their lives. Even using
the government manipulated CPI, the real household incomes of the masses
have barely risen in the last forty five years. Using a true measure of
inflation, the real household incomes of the average family have
fallen. In addition, prior to the 1980s those household incomes were
predominantly provided with one parent working and the other raising the
children. Today the vast majority of households require both parents to
work in order to just tread water. Child rearing was delegated to the
state and parents have been kept in a constant state of exhaustion, like
hamsters in a cage on a spinning wheel. Household income was replaced
by credit card debt, mortgage debt, auto debt, and student loan debt
peddled by our very own Inner Party (Wall Street bankers). The Inner
Party members have seen their incomes soar over the last four decades.
This was not an accident.
As those at the top accumulate an ever increasing percentage of the
national wealth, while consolidating their power through ever more
sophisticated use of technology for surveillance, warfare, and financial
theft; urban decay and blight spreads across the land. Totalitarian
regimes are ferociously effective at augmenting their own power and
wretchedly incompetent at providing for their citizens. Just as the
London in Orwell’s dystopian world was a decrepit, rundown city in which
buildings were crumbling, amenities such as elevators never worked, and
basics such as electricity and plumbing were exceedingly undependable,
the urban killing fields that are home to tens of millions in the United
States are dangerous, disintegrating, hallowed out carcasses of once
thriving metropolises. Hunger, poverty, crumbling infrastructure, and
violence are the earmarks of society for the Proles. True unemployment
exceeds 20%, with youth and minority unemployment exceeding 40%. There
are 47.7 million Americans subsisting on food stamps (program
administered by JP Morgan), accounting for 20% of all the households in
the country.
The incompetency and mismanagement by our totalitarian governing body
is evident for all to see, as bridges collapse, water mains burst, gas
lines explode, mass transit shuts down and structures deteriorate due to
decades of neglect. The priorities of those in power are clearly
visible as they spend trillions on weapons used to attack sovereign
countries, distribute billions in “aid” to foreign dictators, provide
trillions to the criminal banking cabal on Wall Street, and devote
billions to technology designed to monitor and control their citizens.
Our entire rotting, fetid, bloated, corrupt society has about reached
its limits. It is only a matter of time until it implodes like the
former Soviet Union.
“Diminishing returns of
ever-increasing complexity addressed with ever-more layers of
complexity, larded with systematic lying based on mystifying, opaque
jargon, sanctioned statistical misreporting, felonious cronyism, and
scuttling of the rule of law. In short, the markets have been taken over
in effect by a criminal racketeering syndicate. In doing this, so much
resilience has been removed from these market structures that they are
riddled with rot, like a mansion infested with carpenter ants.” – Jim Kunstler
We Have Always Been at War with Eastasia
Hush now baby, baby, don’t you cry. Mamma’s gonna make all of your nightmares come true, Mamma’s gonna put all of her fears into you, Mamma’s gonna keep you right here, under her wing.
She won’t let you fly, but she might let you sing, Mamma’s gonna keep baby cozy and warm. Oooh babe, Oooh babe, Oooh babe, Of course Mamma’s gonna help build the wall.
The concepts of Doublethink and Newspeak are alive and well in our
increasingly Orwellian society. The massive long-term campaign of
large-scale psychological manipulation, described in detail by Edward Bernays
in 1928, has succeeded in breaking down the capacity for independent
thought by the masses. Those in control of the media have molded the
minds of millions to believe anything the government tells them, even
while possessing information that runs counter to what they are being
told. On the eve of the invasion of Iraq, the government and their media
propaganda mouthpieces had convinced 69% of the American public that
Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks, even though there
wasn’t a shred of evidence to support that claim. The storyline of Iraqi
soldiers murdering Kuwaiti babies in their incubators during the first
Gulf War was another example of propaganda designed to manipulate public
opinion. By controlling the media message, those in power control the
present and can manipulate the past. The government controls the
curriculum in public schools and writes our history to conform to
whatever storyline that supports their agenda. With 20% of the adult
population in this country functionally illiterate, the formulation of
ideas or critical thought is virtually impossible for these people. This
is exactly what is desired by the ruling class.
The outrageous example of Doublethink in Orwell’s 1984
occurs during the Hate Week rally. The Party shifts its diplomatic
allegiance, so the nation it has been at war with suddenly becomes its
ally (Eurasia), and its former ally becomes its new enemy (Eastasia).
When the Party speaker suddenly changes the nation he refers to as an
enemy in the middle of his speech, the crowd accepts his words
immediately, and is ashamed to find that it has made the wrong signs for
the event. The American people have been programmed to accept the same
logic from our leaders. Saddam Hussein was our ally when he was fighting
our enemy Iran, who had been our ally ever since we had overthrown
their democratically elected leader in the 1950s. Then he became our
enemy for using weapons of mass destruction, provided to him by the
U.S., on his own people and threatening our control over Middle Eastern
oil. Osama bin Laden was our ally when he was fighting our mortal enemy,
the Soviet Union. Then he became our mortal enemy because we refused to
leave Saudi Arabia after the first Gulf War. Ghadafi was our sworn
enemy after blowing up an airliner filled with Americans, until he
helped us after 9/11 and became an ally. Then he became an enemy again
for fighting to maintain his dictatorship. Mubarak was an ally for
decades as we provided him billions in military hardware so he could
brutally maintain control. Then he became an enemy when we decided he
was no longer of use. Do you get the picture?
Do you see any parallels between Orwell’s Ministry of Plenty
(oversees economic shortages); the Ministry of Peace (wages war); the
Ministry of Truth (conducts propaganda and historical revisionism); and
the Ministry of Love (the center of the Party’s operations of torture
and punishment) and our Department of Agriculture, Department of
Defense, Department of Education, and Department of Homeland Security?
“In our age there is no such thing as
‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and
politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and
schizophrenia. The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the
world. Lies will pass into history.” – George Orwell
Should I Trust the Government?
So the oligarchs have utilized all the plays in Huxley’s
playbook and are half way through Orwell’s playbook, but they are
rapidly losing their credibility as a small minority of critical
thinking people is using the internet to spread the truth and form
phyles with like-minded citizens with similar values based on liberty
and freedom. The political system is broken beyond repair as $2 billion
was spent during this last “election” to maintain the status quo. The
looting and pillaging of the middle class continues, while the poor are
kept controlled, sedated and enslaved by entitlements, debt, drugs and
prisons. The financial system is succumbing to the mountains of debt
that have been accumulated trying to keep the game going. In the last
ten years worldwide total credit market debt, on balance sheets,
sovereign obligations, corporate debt, household debt – has grown from
$80 trillion to just over $200 trillion. U.S. unfunded liabilities
committed to by the politician parasites that pass for our
representatives surpass $200 trillion. There are $1.2 quadrillion of
interconnected derivatives outstanding in the world today, 20 times the
size of the worldwide economy. The accumulation of worldwide debt, aging
developed country populations, depletion of resources, perpetual war,
financial fraud and rampant corruption are going to lead to a collapse
of epic proportions. It may not happen in 2013, but it will happen
within the next five years. Jesse explains why the status quo will never relinquish their power, illegally acquired wealth and control without a fight:
“A credibility trap is a condition
wherein the financial, political and informational functions of a
society have been compromised by corruption and fraud, so that the
leadership cannot effectively reform, or even honestly address, the
problems of that system without impairing and implicating, at least
incidentally, a broad swath of the power structure, including them. The
status quo tolerates the corruption and the fraud because they have
profited at least indirectly from it, and would like to continue to do
so. Even the impulse to reform within the power structure is susceptible
to various forms of soft blackmail and coercion by the system that
maintains and rewards.
And so a failed policy and its
support system become self-sustaining, long after it is seen by
objective observers to have failed. In its failure it is
counterproductive, and an impediment to recovery in the real economy.
Admitting failure is not an option for the thought leaders who receive
their power from that system. The continuity of the structural
hierarchy must therefore be maintained at all costs, even to the point
of becoming a painfully obvious hypocrisy.”
The people of this country must regain a sense of responsibility for
their lives and the lives of future generations. Enough people need to
perceive they are being manipulated, controlled and used by the thought
leaders and awaken from their narcissistic materialistic debt financed
lives. Our culture has failed. The animosity and anger in the country is
beginning to bubble over. The masses are beginning to realize they have
been screwed. They haven’t figured out who to blame because they are
still trapped in the Republican/Democrat false dogma. There is one Party
putting on a show, as displayed this week with the fiscal cliff farce,
as the government controlled media proclaimed victory because the status
quo was maintained, nothing was cut, and $4 trillion was added to the
National Debt. More people need to question and challenge the
authorities. We must cast aside our willful ignorance of facts and
accept the consequences of decades of bad decisions and delusions of
grandeur. More government is not the answer. We must break free of the
conditioning and mind control used to make us love our servitude and
trust those in power.
Kyle Bass recently revealed a fact about our government leaders:
“They’re not going to tell you that a
collapse is coming. You’re going to have to see it for yourself. The
government’s never going to tell you that it’s going to happen.These
guys are never going to tell you the truth, because they can’t tell you
the truth. Their job is to promote confidence, not to tell you the
truth.”
We need more people to respond to Roger Waters’ question, “Mother,
should I trust the government?” with this answer before we can begin to
tear down the wall that seemed too high.
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell
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